Resultados da Pesquisa: Títulos que começam com D de The Sensible Magpie

Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Press, 1923. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Solid volume. Slight curve to front board. Lightly age tanned pages with light acid transfer to endpapers. Silver metallic lettering on spine and front of blue, cloth-covered boards. 106 pp. Clean and tight. Published in India the previous year (1922). Daily meditations arranged month by month.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. Paperback. VERY GOOD. FIRST EDITION. Light soiling to covers. Mild crease to back cover. Tiny closed tear to top of last page. Tan illustrated front cover, red lettering. 281 pp. Clean, tight, bright. The tournefortia is a large tropical tree, ideally suite to the Southern California climate, that produces small delicate flowers and a kind of fleshy fruit. Poems of women, gambling and booze. Poems full of wit, struggles, perception and simplicity.

New York: Liberty Press, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Minus. FIRST U. S. EDITION. Mild shelfwear to board edges. Dustjacket very good minus. Sunning to spine and extremities. Shallow chipping along spine edges with a .5" closed tear to bottom spine. 300 pp. Clean, bright, tight. Translated from the Chinese by Sha Po-li. "During the years of the anti-Japanese and civil wars few writers had time for such ambitious undertakings as novels ; [this] is one of the first . . .", (rear flap).

Eugene: University of Oregon Museum of Art, 1985. Paperback. VERY GOOD PLUS. Sunning to covers. Light shelfwear. A bit of scuffing to spine. Over 45 color and black and white illustrations. Clean, tight, bright. 56 pp with chronology. "David McCosh was a painter's painter who was not concerned with trends, fads or technical genius, but rather with the continuous development and creative exploration of his personal art form, (foreword). This volume contains close to 50 paintings beginning with the 1927 painting of The Prodigal Son, to 1972 and his last painting, Blackberries.

Boston: Faber and Faber, 1984. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. FINE. Dustjacket Fine. Blue Boards. Fascinating color illustrations. Unpaginated (27 pp). Clean, bright, tight. All his life Norm the fisherman has dreamed of hooking a muskie, but when he sees his own features on the face of the big fish at the end of his line, he sets his muskie free again.

Paris: Michel Levy Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, 1864. Fourth Edition. HARDCOVER. VERY GOOD . Original paper wraps, rebound in handsome dark brown full-leather, with one touch-up-able scuff to front board. Renan, a French philosopher and prolific writer, was both thought of as the embodiment of Modernism, and perpetrator/populizer of anti-semitic thought, believing that the Jews were "an incomplete race", etc. Five raised bands. Gilt lettering and bordering.

New York: Manor Books, 1975. Paperback. Very Good. Radicone, Nick. Light shelfwear to surfaces and extremities. Lightly age-tanned pages. Humorously illustrated. Yellow lettering to red spine, white lettering to illustrated red covers. Clean, solidly bound. 140 pp with advertisements to rear of book. Note: "Manor Books 95401" to front cover. Actual, sometimes unbelievable, letters written by pet owners to their veterinarians.

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1987. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine in Good DJ. Browning to DJ edges. Faint Pipe Aroma.

Sutton, NE : SELF-PUBLISHED (Spearman Publishing and Printing), 1986 . Paperback. Very Good Plus. Just a bit of shelfwear to front and rear panels. The documented story of transplanted Easterner-turned Idaho trapper and survivalist Claude Dallas, shot two game wardens and was the target of one of the largest manhunts in law-enforcement history. Dallas believed he was exempt from seasonal hunting, fishing and trapping regulations because he lived off the land full-time. Originally published serially in the periodical "The Trapper." Here, the author, a trapper himself, attempts to offer a balanced account of the conflict between trappers and game regulations, particularly as regards the moving of Bobcats to the Endangered Species list in 1978. 85 pp.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1947. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Plus. Owens, Charles Hamilton. SEVENTH PRINTING. SHARP CORNERS. Dustjacket very good plus. Deep red-orange jacket with dark plum letters and illustration. Third Edition printed on jacket spine. Cartograph showing the principal features of Death Valley printed on front and rear endpapers. 33 black and white photographs. Dark plum colored lettering on spine of straw colored cloth-covered boards. Plum colored illustration of Death Valley printed onto cloth of front board. 160 pp. with index. Clean, tight, bright. "This volume has been brought up to date including additional illustrations, and further interesting data. An absorbing account of every phase of the strange deep sink and its environs," (front flap).

Portland, OR: Self / Hansen Printing Co., 1942. Paperback. NEAR FINE. STAPLEBOUND. Previous owner's names on front endpapers. Purple lettering to front of dark aqua wraps. Sunning around edges. 62 pp. Clean and solidly bound. History of the Battleship Oregon.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1906. Hardcover. VERY GOOD PLUS. Gunn, Archie. RARE. Mild wear to boards. A bit of soiling. Spine lean. Hinges starting. Lightly age-tanned text. Six color illustrations including tissue guarded frontispiece. One detached rear endpaper, but present. 300 pp. Stories of adventure include : The Robe of the Duchess ; The Princess Wins ; Defence of Castle Dangerous ; The Pearl Necklace ; Dicey Langston ; The Maid of Zaragoza.

New York: Henry Holt, 1948. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Hesse's lovely classic about the coming of age and the development of consciousness. For me, it was one of the books which actually carried me from the selfishnesses of youth, to the higher selfishnesses of adulthood. I cherish how powerful an effect this little book of Hesse's had upon me. Black cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Bright, tight copy with slight spine lean.

Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine. Inscription by authors to half-title page. Fourth volume co-authored with Kay Phillips. Signed letter from Rejai laid in. Ever-so-slightly cocked. 155 pp. with appendices, bibliography and index. Clean, tight, bright. The American presidents are often glorified with their flaws glossed over. This books aim is to treat the presidents as human, fallible, human beings. [The authors] "seek to place the presidents in empirical, comparative, and historical perspectives and, in so doing, to demythologize understanding of an important group of political leaders. (taken from Introduction)

Weimar: Ulerander Dunder Berlag, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Good. FIRST EDITION. With dustjacket. Yellow topstain. Gilt lettering with green-blue cloth boards. Top and bottom edges very lightly cocked. Light foxing to edges of text. Acid transfer from materials laid-in to FFEP, half-title, RFEP. Small "printed in Germany" stamp to title page. Small ding to top spinecap. Light foxing to DJ surfaces. Quarter-sized chip to front DJ panel. Light creasing to spine and rear panel of DJ. Acid-transfer stain to rear DJ panel from materials pressed up against it.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 16mo. No dustjacket. Moderate wear to board surfaces and edges. Worn and bumped corners. Light water damage to age-tanned text. Black lettering to front of brown boards. Dark brown cloth spine. 43 pp. With an introduction by John T McCutcheon. "The theme is one in which he has unconsciously mirrored his own ideals of honorable obligation, as well as one which presents a wholesome lesson to young soldiers who have taken an oath to do faithful service to a nation," (Introduction).

LONDON: Pitman Press, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Good. FIRST EDITION. Part of Pitman's Craft-for-All Series. "The whole of the work in Arts and Crafts is based on drawing. (One draws with a chisel and needle as well as with a pencil.) ... Design as a subject can be described under two headings: (1) Structural and (2) Ornamental." 110 pp with 16 pp ads to rear of text. Very slight edgewear to book, tape ghost to DJ spine, some closed tears to DJ- 1.5" at lower spine, 0.5" at front flap seam, some tiny chips to edges, a 1 x 2" trianglular chip to DJ front panel lower edge. Book is tight, bright, clean and fresh, with color frontispiece and many clear diagrams.

London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1915. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Moderate scuffing to board surfaces and edges. Small bump to bottom front corner. Sunning to spine. Lightly age-tanned text. Acid transfer to endpapers. Front hinge started With sixteen full-page illustrations and twenty diagrams in the text. Frontispiece, with tissue guard, of the first pure cotton. No markings to text. 221 pp with appendices and index. Solid binding. The history of the development of cotton-lint.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. Spotting to top and fore-edge. Mild edgewear. 65 black and white illustrations by Will Owen. Brown lettering to printed gold-colored, cloth-covered boards. 337 pp. Advertisements to rear of book. William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short stories and novels. This novel focuses on the relationships between an imposing assembly of bizarre characters

Lello & Lello, 1962. Hardcover. VERY GOOD in Good Plus Dustjacket. PORTUGUESE DICTIONARY. Heavy 4 lb. volume. Interesting notation of p. 262 by previous owner to RFEP (recto). Wonderfully aged white cloth boards w/ red illustration. Title in brown lettering. Corners bumbed. Water marks mainly to DJ spine. Moderate shelfwear to DJ. DJ flaps worn at folds. Less than 10 open tears and chips. Age tanned cream DJ with rust colored lettering. 1966 pp. Tight. New Encyclopedic Dictionary Portuguese-Brazilian. 6,000 engravings, 128 color plates, 115 maps, 16 prints of famous Portuguese and Brazilians. 60 magnificant illustrations of monuments. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping.