Search Results: Titles starting with D from Century Books

Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1966. Reprint. Hardback. VG+/G-. DJ is price-clipped, rubbed with several chips and tears. Spine is faded. Religious ceremonies of Pueblo, Zuni, Hopi, Navajo and Apacha tribes. Originally published in 1931.

New York: Random House, 1958. 1st Printing. Hardback. Good condition. Some wear on boards, some fading on spine. Pastedown picture on front cover is slightly scuffed. Previous owner name on first free endpaper, else contents are fine and bright. Considered by some to be Inge's finest play. Inge describes it as his 'first cautious attempt to look at the past, with an effort to find order and meaning in experiences that were once too close to see clearly.' Play was produced on Broadway in 1957 starring Eileen Heckart, Pat Hingle and Teresa Wright and directed by Elia Kazan. Contains three pictures from the Broadway production plus the pastedown on front. Was later (1960) made into a Hollywood film. Tennessee Williams was the first to recommend the play be produced in earlier (1947) and unpublished version titled 'Farther Off From Heaven.'

New York: Dial Press, 1995. 1st American Edition. Hardback. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. One tiny nick on dust jacket, else fine. Author photo and review materials laid in. From the author of the award-winning The Butcher Boy. This novel returns the reader to the same landscape of small-town Ireland,

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. 1st U.S. Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Faint remainder marks, light scratch on rear of dust jacket, else fine. First Kate Ivory mystery.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1989]. 1st American Edition. Hardback. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. SIGNED by author on title page. Spine very lightly sunned.

Bantam, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. SIGNED by Author. Fourth Merry Folger/Nantucket mystery. Mathews also writes Jane Austen mysteries under the pseudonym Stephanie Barron.

Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996. 1st US Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Remainder mark on bottom edge, one small dent on dust jacket, else fine. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Originally published as Lituma en los Andes. Part detective story and part political allegory, the novel offers a panoramic view of Peru today.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1994. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. SIGNED by author on title page. Author's first novel and first in the series featuring Nantucket Detective Merry Folger. Merry must prove to her police chief father that she can handle a murder investigation. Mathews also writes Jane Austen mysteries under the pseudonym Stephanie Barron.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. One very small tear on inside front flap of dust jacket, else fine. Author's first book, first Jacob Lomax mystery. Set in Denver, Colorado.

New York: Atheneum, 1988. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Lovely copy. Mystery featuring the redoubtable Amelia Peabody, her sexy, if irascible, Egyptologist husband Emerson and their catastrophically precocious son, Ramses. Set in London with intrigue in the British Museum.

New York: International Universities Press, 1971. Hardback. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.. Some edgewear, rubbing. The authors 'have set themselves to the task of tracing dependence and its vicissitudes through the life cycle, from the early mother-infant dyad, the triad of the oedipal period, through adolescence, maturity, and senescence.'

New York: St. Martin's, c. 1988. 1st U.S. edition. Hardback. Fine in Very Good dust jacket.. Dust jacket has one very small chip, some edgewear. Wit and humor and a brain-twisting 'locked-room' style puzzle.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1960. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps. All plates present.

New York: Atria Books, 2003. 1st printing, 1st edition. Hardback. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Author's first novel. Comic tale of a struggling young actress who gets involved with a new man and suddenly has everything going right, but she has to decide if she's met Mr. Right or the Devil himself.

Mysterious Press, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket. SIGNED by author on title page. Third CJ Floyd mystery. A retired black rodeo star has been murdered, and CJ hunts for the killer while trying to avoid the traps of a beautiful woman bent on revenge.

Little Brown, 2000. Advanced Reading Copy. Softcover. Near Fine.. Book has been very gently read, no marks or other signs of abuse. Author's first novel. Intense story of 17-year-old Neil, a good-looking, popular quarterback who is as cruel to his peers as his abusive father is to him. When he accidently commits a terrible crime, his father - the local sheriff in a Nevada town - covers it up for him. Nominated for the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award.

HarperCollins, 1997. Quality Paperback Book Club Ed. Trade Paperback. Near Fine condition.. From the author of What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew.

New York: Crown, 1979. Book Club Ed.. Hardback. F/VG. Lettering on spine of DJ is smudged and DJ is a little wrinkled, probably from getting damp.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1950. BCE. Hardback. Near Fine in Fair dust jacket. Dust jacket missing large chips both front and rear. A delightful dictionary filled with wit and commentary.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1956. Castle Books reprint. Hardback. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some shelfwear, spine is sunned. An A to Z listing of occult terms and personages throughout history, from Aaron's Rod to Zombie.