Search Results: Authors starting with D from Byre Books

Edinburgh: National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, 1985 Power, prestige and status 3000 BC - 1200 BC. Published to accompany an exhibition in Edinburgh in 1985, with much back-ground research. Fully illustrated. Wear to edges of illustrative covers, no inscriptions, clean, tight, and sound, good. A heavy book.

Glasgow: Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1969 Reprint. Covers a little sunned, clean and sound, good.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991 Reprint. Short stories. Loosely laid in is a postcard, handwritten and signed by the author, to Scottish academic and author David Daiches, whose signature is on the half title page. Pages yellowed, good.

Ian Daff Cape Woolamai 1983 HB An exhaustive study of the breeding lines of horses run in harness in trotting races in Australia and New Zealand. VG in VG DJ. 351pp 0

London: Samuel French, 1937 A farce in one act. Small stamp to front cover, no inscriptions, good.

Granada London 1980 HB A basic book for stockmen and students explaining the scientific principles of successful stockbreeding. VG, no inscriptions, in lightly sunned, price-clipped, but o/w VG DJ. 162pp 0

London: Faber and Faber, 1952 'The transition from the Elizabethan to the Jacobean world . . .'. Green cloth very lightly worn, eps browned, neat name to ffep, no other inscriptions, generally VG in DJ worn, marked and chipped to the edges and spine, good.

Methuen London, 1986 ' - bitingly funny political plays'. Good 82pp

Pescara: Ediars, 1999 Signed by the author to the half title page, with an inscription to poet John Manson, dated 2000. Poetry in Italian with facing English translation. VG in lightly worn and marked wraps.

Pescara: Ediars, 1999 Poetry in Italian with facing English translation. VG, no inscriptions, in VG illustrative wraps.

Humphrey Milford London 1930 HB Reprint. Coloured frontis. A school story. Good - the boards are marked and sunned and the fore-edge of the boards have been nibbled in some way, prize label to ffep, grubby marks to edge of page-block and occasional grubby marks to pages, otherwise tight and sound, no DJ. 256pp 0

Quartet 1st 1979 pbk Biography and critical study authorised by Sir Terence, shortly before his death in 1977, with access to his private papers Front cover a little sunned, generally VG. 360pp 0

London: S W Partridge & Co, 1876 A single issue of this monthly anthology of religious verse and prose. Small sewn booklet, covers worn and marked, no inscriptions, sound, good.

Bournemouth / Douglas: Bournemouth University / Manx National Heritage, 2004 Large stapled booklet, light wear to covers, no inscriptions, VG.

London: B T Batsford, 1994 Reprint. VG, no inscriptions.

Stroud: Tempus, 2004 VG, no inscriptions.

John Murray London 1st 1952 HB His experiences as a young producer/manager. Good in DJ tattered round the edges. 162pp 0

Paris: Flammarion, 1946 In the series Albums du Pere Castor. A story from 'Lettres de mon Moulin'. Text in French. Stapled booklet, illustrative covers a little worn, marked and sunned, no inscriptions, clean and sound, good.

National Extension College Cambridge 1983 PB A companion volume to The Unemployment Handbook. Cover a little worn, inscription to title verso, generally VG. 84pp 0

London: Methuen & Co, 1929 Descriptions of rare and valuable books. 16 b/w illustrations, two tipped in plates in colour, one in monotone. Covers lightly worn and marked, paper title label to cloth spine, foxing to prelims and edge of page block, name to front paste-down, tight and sound, good in grubby, edge-worn, slightly chipped, good DJ, with remains of 1 shilling price sticker to front.