Search Results: Titles starting with D from Books of the World

New York: Doubleday, April 2003. Hardcover. First Edition, later printing. Quarter bound in black cloth over black boards, gilt lettering on spine. As New book in an As New jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Not damages. 454 pages.

London: Collins / Grafton Books, July 1986. Mass Market Paperback. First Paperback Edition. Interior tanned but unmarked. Spine straight, very tight and uncreased. Edgewear. Not from a library. No tears or creases. 132 pages. In Hemingway's firsthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights he captures the exhausting pace and pressure of the season, the camaraderie and pride of the matadors, and the mortal drama as in fight after fight the rival matadors try to outdo each other with ever more daring performances. At the same time Hemingway offers a complex and deeply personal self-portrait.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Hardcover. 2006. First Edition (stated). Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped. Edgewear to jacket. 527 pages.A major reevaluation of America's place in the world from the colonial era to the turn of the twentieth century. Kagan strips away the myth of America's isolationist tradition and reveals a more complicated reality: that Americans have been increasing their global power and influence steadily for the past four centuries. Even from the time of the Puritans, America was no shining "city up on a hill" but an engine of commercial and territorial expansion that drove Native Americans, as well as French, Spanish, Russian, and ultimately even British power, from the North American continent. Even before the birth of the nation, Americans believed they were destined for global leadership. Underlying their ambitions was a set of ideas and ideals about the world and human nature. Kagan focuses… Read more

New York: Penguin, 2015. Paperback. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Small tear to front cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 270 pages + 16 page reader's guide. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction. Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Uniting fact and fiction into an original romantic vision, The Danish Girl eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines every marriage and the remarkable story of Lili Elbe, a pioneer in transgender history, and the woman torn between loyalty to her marriage and her own ambitions and desires. The Danish Girl's lush prose and generous emotional insight make it, after the last page is turned, a deeply moving first novel about one of the most… Read more

New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, n.d. [copyright 1958]. 1960s reprint. No SBN/ISBN. Hardcover pictorial covers / no jacket. Sky blue rear board. Very Good+. Prior owner's name to FFEP and spine ends bumped. Text and covers pristine. Not from a library. Not a Weekly Reader edition. No remainder mark. 64 pages. The first Danny and the Dinosaur book was the second I CAN READ book after the "Little Bear" publication in 1957. Story: A little boy, Danny, visits the museum and finds a living dinosaur. Together, Danny and the dinosaur leave the museum and go on an adventure. They watch a ball game, go for a swim, play hide and seek, and even go to the zoo. At the end of the day, they must both return to their own homes, the dinosaur to the museum and Danny to his house. [Note: If you are looking for a First Edition, keep in mind that when Danny and the Dinosaurs was published in 1958, the name of the publisher was Harper & Brothers. Only when Harper & Brothers merged with Row, Peterson & Company… Read more

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company. DVD. 2001. Fine. Twenty-four 30-minute lectures on four Fine DVDs in Fine original case along with a Fine 102-page paperback Course Guidebook. No shrink-wrap, otherwise As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Suitable for gifting. One of the most profound and satisfying of all poems, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri is a book for life. In a brilliantly constructed narrative of his imaginary guided pilgrimage through the three realms of the Christian afterlife, Dante accomplished a literary task of astonishing complexity. But the full achievement of the Commedia goes beyond anything merely literary. In these twenty-four lectures, as you follow Dante on his journey, you'll learn how medieval literature offers insights into fundamental questions: What is the quality of our moral actions? How does spiritual transformation come about? What is the nature of good and evil, virtue and vice, sin and sanctity? Why is the world so full of strife? How do we… Read more

Boston: Little Brown & Company, November 1997. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Unmarked. Spine tail bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. x + 498 pages.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota: Tessera Publishing, 1989. Trade Paperback. First Edition / First printing (stated). Near Fine. Gift inscription by author facing title page, otherwise interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light foxing to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. vi + 191 pages.

New York: Random House, June 2020. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine Book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean. Corners bumped. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 461 pages. 1957, Clayton Valley, Ohio. Ellie has the best grades in her class. Her dream is to go to nursing school and marry Brick McGinty. A basketball star, Brick has the chance to escape his abusive father and become the first person in his blue-collar family to attend college. But when Ellie learns that she is pregnant, everything changes. Just as Brick and Ellie revise their plans and build a family, a knock on the front door threatens to destroy their lives. The evolution of women's lives spanning the second half of the twentieth century is at the center of this beautiful novel that richly portrays how much people know--and pretend not to know--about the secrets at the heart of a town, and a family.

Evanston, Illinois: Row, Peterson and Company, n.d. [copyright 1936]. Hardcover. First Edition, no additional printings listed. First-grade reader in the Alice and Jerry basal reader educational series. Red cloth over boards with blue & yellow titles and illustration of a dog and duckling. Good+. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown, a few penciled notes. Sewn binding is straight and tight. Corners and spine ends bumped. Covers clean and bright. Not from a school or library. See photos. 156 pages with color illustrations on every page. Word list.

Guilford, Connecticut: GPP Travel, June 2010. Trade Paperback. First Edition / full number line. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light rubbing to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xvi + 184 pages. This is your guide to hundreds of exciting things to do, see, and discover within a short drive from Washington, D.C. With full trip-planning information and tips on where to eat, shop, and stop along the way, you can make the most of your time off and rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip. Explore places you never knew existed, many free of charge, and most within a two-hour drive of America's capital.

New York: Viking, August 1971. Hardcover. Half-bound in grey cloth over boards with pink sides, pink endpapers and pink dyed-top edge; title and graphic stamped in bright metallic pink. Sewn binding. Deckle edge. Near Fine book in a Good jacket. Spine straight and tight; ends lightly bumped. Interior unmarked. Brittle sun-worn jacket with tears, large missing chips, and rubbing. See photos. Not from a library. 380 pages. The electrifying story of an anonymous Englishman who, in the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief of the O.A.S., to assassinate General de Gaulle.

New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, October 1982. First Trade Paperback Edition (no additional printings listed). Very Good. Prior owner's name penciled to half-title page. Personal note penciled to dedication page. Text block unmarked. Spine faded, but straight, tight and uncreased. Dust stains to edges. No tears, creases or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xvi+240 pages. A chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence involving novelists, painters, Haiti and neutron bombs.

Richmond, Virginia: Valancourt Books, May 2016. Trade Paperback. Good+. Ex-library. Text unmarked. Spine lightly creased. x+233 pages. When the Dowager Arabella, Lady Engleton announces to her relatives her jolly scheme to restore the family's fortunes by insuring their lives in favor of her grandson and heir, the young Lord Henry, they laugh at her and think her mad. But they won't be laughing for long. Soon she begins to kill them off one by one with sinister mirth and gruesome inventiveness.... Forgotten today, Edwin Greenwood (1895-1937) was the author of several clever and darkly humorous crime novels that were highly acclaimed by critics. This edition features a new introduction by Mark Valentine, who argues that although Greenwood's "novels have been largely lost to view, it is high time they delighted a fresh readership," and a reproduction of the original dust jacket art.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi, 2012. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition (stated). Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, head slightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 319 pages. A brilliant collection of stories.

New York: Random House / Vintage Books, June 1990. Vintage Classics Edition. Near Fine. Light dust soiling to top edge, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 297 pages. Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, November 1989. First Edition. Trade Paperback. As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xx + 251 pages.From the beginning of European trade and conquest overseas, Europeans have known they died from the effect of the strange "climate." Later, they came to understand that it was disease, not climate, that killed, but the fact remained that every trading voyage, every military expedition beyond Europe, had its price in European lives lost. For European soldiers in the tropics at the beginning of the nineteenth century, this added cost in deaths from disease--the "relocation cost"--meant a death rate at least twice that of soldiers who stayed home. This book is partly a statistical exposition of the changing death rates of European Algeria, the British West Indies, and southern India--by cause of death from disease--set against the comparable figures for those who stayed at home in France or Great Britain. About two-thirds of the book is devoted… Read more

Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Classics, 1971. Paperback. 1982 reprint. Very Good. Interior unmarked, but tanned. Spine straight and tight. Dust stains to top edge. Rubbing to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. No tears, no creases, no folds. 237 pages. Recounting the final days of Arthur, this thirteenth-century French version of the Camelot legend is set in a world of fading chivalric glory. It depicts the Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail, and with its integrity threatened by the weakness of Arthur's own knights. Whispers of Queen Guinevere's infidelity with his beloved comrade-at-arms Sir Lancelot profoundly distress the trusting King, leaving him no match for the machinations of the treacherous Sir Mordred. The human tragedy of The Death of King Arthur so impressed Malory that he built his own Arthurian legend on this view of the court - a view that profoundly influenced the English conception of the 'great' King. Authors: Unknown,… Read more

New York: Street & Smith Publications, January, February, March 1960. Digest-size Magazine. Very Good-. Jan has "-20" inked to front cover. Feb has notes inked to table of contents, otherwise interiors tanned but unmarked. Rubbing, edgewear, and creasing. Spine ends chipped. Tears at hinge ends. Not from a library. 540 pages. Harry Harrison's novel Deathworld is the first book in his Deathworld series and was a finalist for the 1961 Hugo Award. It first appeared in print when it was serialized in the January, February, and March 1960 issues of Astounding Science Fact & Fiction magazine with cover art (Jan) and 15 interior illustrations by H. R. Van Dongen. Deathworld centers on Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler who uses his somewhat erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor. He is challenged by a man named Kerk Pyrrus (who turns out to be the ambassador from the planet Pyrrus) to turn a large amount of money into an immense sum by gambling at a government-run casino. He succeeds and… Read more

New York: Bantam. October 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior is pristine. Spine is straight and tight. Light rubbing to jacket. Not from a library. No tears, no folds, no creases. 480 pages.