Search Results: Authors starting with D from Black Paw Books

Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Oversized French language work illustrated in black & white and color throughout. Large quarto, 194 pp. Light gray cloth. From private collection.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961. Softcover. Good. Work reviews India's caste system and includes a lengthy bibliography. Scarce in any condition. Quarto, 125 double-spaced mimeographed pages. In cardboard wraps. Deaccessioned library copy with usual stamps and markings. First and last pages are faded. Pages remain clean and unmarked.

Budapest: Adademiai Kiado/Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Tall octavo, 419 pp. Black cloth. From private collection. Pages remain clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows a little rubbing.

1979. Softcover. Very Good+. French language program. Quarto, 28 pp. Black & white illustrations. Stapled wraps.

Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Full length political biography of Indian revolutionary Madan Lal Dhingra. Octavo, 115 pp. Blue cloth. From the private collection of Frederick A. Hagar. No signatures or bookplates. Pages remain clean and unmarked. dust jacket shows a little rubbing from shelf wear. Scarce.

Paris: E.Plon, Nourrit et cie, 1897. Leatherbound. Very Good+. Handsome leatherbound copy of 1888 account of trip to Tunisia. Illustrated throughout with black & white plates. Octavo, 3 preliminary leaves, [vi]-vii, 258 pp. Rebound in handsome maroon leather binding. Pages are lightly age-toned. Name printed on half-title page.

Macmillan & Co, 1891. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. This two-volume set explores the life, career, and influence of Archibald Campbell Tait, who served as the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1868 to 1882. The work covers Tait's early life and education; his rise through the ranks of the Church of England, end his eventual tenure as Archbishop. 9 1/4" tall. Burgundy cloth. Cloth is creased and worn, and bindings are limp. Front hinge of Volume II is cracked. Title page of first volume shows some marks in pencil. Offered here as a serviceable reading copy.

Pont Books, Gordon Press, 2006. Softcover. Good+. Octavo, 31 pp. Illus. in color. In wraps. From private collection. Minor wear and waviness to upper corner of pages.

London: S.P.C.K., 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Scholarly biography of Henry Phillpotts, a prominent figure of the 19th-century Church, representing the conservative High Church wing of the Oxford Movement. Phillpotts was known for his emphasis on liturgical forms of worship, episcopal government, monastic life, and early Christian doctrine as normative of orthodoxy. Octavo, 415 pp. Gray cloth. Endpapers show some browning. Light discoloration to dust jacket along spine.

self published, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, pp. viii, 198. Original blue cloth binding. Minor ding to fore-edge of book block. Observations of two trade unionists on the deplorable condition of assistants in England's shopkeeping trade.

Cambridge University Press, 1994. Softcover. Good. This book brings together and makes available the results of the research on Soviet industrialization, using a vast amount of primary evidence, and the methods of quantitative economic analysis. Leading scholars in the field analyze the Soviet economy sector by sector, from agriculture to defense and technology, and look at the key indicators of economic health over the period: employment, national income, exports, and population trends. The book concludes with two chapters comparing the Russian economy at war under tsarism and communism. Octavo, 381 pp. In wraps (softcover). Text remains clean and unmarked. Wraps show some rubbing and creasing from shelf wear. We note an annotation in pen on a single page; text is otherwise clean and unmarked.

Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, 1998. Softcover. Very Good. Quarto, 63 pp. Lavishly illustrated. In wraps. Minor rubbing to edges.

London, Paris, and New York: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1879. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. Complete two-volume set. No date, but appears to have been printed ca. 1879. Octavo (8 3/4" tall). Brown cloth. From private collection. Hinges of first volume are cracked, back hinge of second volume is starting. Foxing to edges of book block and prelims. Offered here as a serviceable reading copy of an uncommon set.

Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co, 1879. Hardcover. Good. Set in Paris during the reign of King Louis XV, this book tells the story of Mother Michel and her cat. With black & white illustrations throughout by "Mr. Hopkins." Octavo (8" tall), 100 pp. Paper-covered boards. Binding soiled with wear to edges and corners. Slight spine slant. Front free endpaper missing. Faint dampstain tidelines on most pages.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, n.d.. Hardcover. Very Good. iacomo Girolamo Casanova April 1725 - 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. As was not uncommon at the time, Casanova often used pseudonyms, the most frequent being Chevalier de Seingalt. He also published abundantly in French under the name Jacques Casanova de Seingalt. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with "womanizer". He associated with European royalty, popes and cardinals, along with luminaries such as Voltaire, Goethe and Mozart. He spent his last years in Bohemia as a librarian in Count Waldstein's household, where he also wrote the story of his life." Six volume set. Octavo-sized volumes bound in green cloth. From private collection.… Read More

Boston: Pucker Gallery, 2015. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalogue. Quarto (11" tall). 35 pp. Stapled wraps. Minor rubbing to wraps from shelf wear. Pages remain clean and unmarked.

Deacon & Peterson Publishers, 1854. Very Good. Approximately 31" tall x 24" wide. 4 pages with nine columns of dense type. Pages are creased and show a little wear to edges and corners.

Vivliopoleion tes, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo, 166 pp. White paper-covered boards. From private collection. Dust jacket shows some soiling and edgewear.

ABC-CLIO, 2007. Hardcover. Good. At a time when historians are devoting more and more research to conflicts within nations, Civil Wars of the World: Major Conflicts since World War II is an invaluable addition to the available resources. In two volumes, it ranges around the globe to cover the most volatile and deadly civil wars of the past 60 years, including the bloody impasses in the Middle East; devastating tribal warfare in Africa; Cold War-fueled conflicts in Eastern Europe and Asia; the seemingly unbreakable cycle of rebellion and repression in some regions of Latin America; and more." Complete two-volume set. Deaccessioned library copy (non circulating) with usual stamps and markings; otherwise, a clean, unmarked copy.

St. Anthony's Press, 1973. Softcover. Very Good. Booklet in Borthwick Papers series. Octavo, 54 pp. Stapled wraps. Minor smudge on front wrap. Prev. owner's name inside. Pages remain clean and unmarked.