Search Results: Authors starting with D from Hessay Books

Chatto & Windus, 1961. 3rd impresion of the first edition. A heavy book of 351pp,purple cloth covered boards. The priceclipped dustjacket has a little loss and been heavily repaired with sellotape, and has been retained for the illustrations. Endpaper maps. B + w illustrations. Internally very clean and Near Fine. The first volume of an acclaimed biography, covering Proust's childhood up to the death of his father in 1903.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor.

Chancellor, 1990. Originally published in 1932. A heavy book of 895pp, with laminated illustrated hard covers. A clean copy. Great love stories from around the world, from ancient, medieval and modern times.. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket.

Jonathan Cape, 1997. First reprint of the first edition. 160pp, priceclipped dustjacket, illustrated by Quentin Blake, is otherwise complete and clean. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. Reminiscences of the great storyteller's own childhood.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Quentin Blake.

Paddington, 1979. 286pp, dustjacket faded to spine and with one short closed tear to the front. Many b + w illustrations. Internally clean. Maps and essays to show how places have coloured the imaginations of writers. woolf's London, Hardy's Wessex, Joyce's Dublin, Wuthering Heights, Bath, the Romantics etc.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Good.

Spring Books, 1963. Revised edition. 207pp, dustjacket torn to edges with a portion of loss to spine. Many b + w illustrations. Internally clean. A lively and authoritative account.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor.

Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. A heavy book of 463pp. The priceclippped dustjacket is otherwise complete. Colour and b + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The autobiography of Lord Dainton, who grew up in Sheffield and became Professor of Chemistry in Leeds and Oxford and Vice Chancellor of Nottingham. He served on many government committees and was the Chairman of the British Library Board who persuaded Mrs Thatcher to fund the building of the new library. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Fine.

Chivers Large Print, 1996. Large Print edition. 341pp, illustrated hardback covers in a removeable plastic sleeve. Ex library - flyleaf removed and one small stamp to back of title page, otherwise clean. Ryan is a surgeon whose past is about to come back to haunt him. Soft Cover. Very Good. Ex-Library.

Pan, 1998. 422pp, illustrated softback covers. A clean, tight copy. Set in the Great Plague in the times of Charles II. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Collingridge, 1960. 191pp. 176 colour illustrations. Complete dustjacket, a very little rubbed to ends of spine. Original owner's name in pencil on flyleaf, otherwise very clean. Very useful.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Cynthia Newsome-Taylor.

Macmillan, 1922. 638 pp, brown cloth covered boards with gilt roundel. Dustjacket is substantially complete, but now in two pieces. Some pencil underlining to the first essay, otherwise a clean copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair.

Greenwood, 1111. 596pp, yellow card boards, sunned to spine. B + w illustrations and 32 sepia ' Gravure Pictures'. Internally clean. Photographs and equipment etc. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Faber, 1993. 231pp, illustrated softback covers. Colour frontispiece and b + w illustrations. A very clean, tight, copy. Introduction and 13 essays on Ireland's pictorial tradition from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, and how it complements and challenges written representations of national identity. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

D Appleton-Century Company, 1938. 211pp, blue cloth covered boards with one mark to edge. B + w photographs and illustrations. Erratum slip. Original owner's name on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Hamlyn, 1969. 159pp, laminated illustrated softback covers, many colour illustrations. Internally very clean. A compact history of architecture.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Harry Green.

Alan Sutton, 1981. With a new Introduction by James Spencer. Large format. 256pp, illustrated laminated soft covers. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The text of the 1729 editon of Dampier's account of his voyage of 1699.. Soft Cover. Fine.

The Children's Press, 1967. 156 pp, browned with age, illustrated laminated boards, worn to edge of front spine. Gift inscription on inner board, otherwise a clean copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Heinemann, 1975. 235pp, complete dustjacket. A very clean copy. What happens when Sally's marriage plans go haywire, by the author of 'A Single Girl'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Knight Books, 1990. 92pp, the edges browning a little with age, illustrated softback covers. B + w illustrations. Really useful tips, even if you aren't stuck in a field with a bull, with chewing gum in your hair!. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Scoular Anderson.

Little, Brown, 1997. A large, heavy book of 392pp. Complete dustjacket. Endpaper maps and b + w illustrations. A very clean copy. David Selbourne has edited and translated the manuscript description of his travels written by the Jewish Italian merchant Jacob D' Ancona to the Chinese city of Zaitun, the City of Light, in 1271, and his description of life in the city in Sung Dynasty China.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Temple Press Limited, 1928. Large format magazine. Paper covers with an illustrated advertisment for Thornycroft Boats, with a couple of small portions of loss and with rusted staples. Internally, loss to two corners, not affecting the text, otherwise clean and tight. B + w photographs and plans of boats. Articles include A Thames Estuary Week End, A Motor Tug for South America and Boat Handling Methods at Hythe and A Notable Conversion of the ex ML Emmel. Attractive period advertisements. Vol 49 No 1263. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Good.