Search Results: Authors starting with J from Andrew James Books

Philip Lee Warner, 1913. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st edition with scarce dust jacket. Jacket chipped to top of spine area and faded to edges in places. Now in protective sleeve. Some light unobtrusive foxing. A brief study of life in Renaissance Italy using a philosophical analogy of catching a Pike

Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With good to very good unclipped dust jacket, faded to spine and edges with light shelf wear to edges. Boards very good and clean. Light foxing to end papers otherwise very clean throughout. Papers presented to the British Ecological Society in 1962 concerning the problems involved in the transformation of plant material into animal tissue in both terrestrial and marine environments.

Edinburgh University Press, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket, repaired small tear to top front edge otherwise free from nicks and tears. No inscription or notes very clean throughout

W W Norton, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. With unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear to head of spine but free from nicks and tears. Large owners inscription to ffep otherwise clean throughout. The lives, sounds and innermost feelings of the Women that sang the Blues, from Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith to Tina Turner and Janis Joplin

Cambridge University Press, 1923. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Poor. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. In good to very good condition with poor price clipped dust jacket. Jacket is chipped and torn to edges and missing to top of spine, split along front fore edge, now in protective sleeve. One or two small marks to front board and browned to top of spine. Edges of text block grubby. Internally clean other than owners name to front end paper. The third and final volume of a three part series on the Renaissance of Roman Architecture, the previous volumes being Italy and England. Profusely illustrated with colour and black and white plates and line drawings to the text. Overseas buyers please note additional postal charges will apply.

Pierre Seghers, 1953. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Limited edition stapled pamphlet signed and with a lovely dedication by the author to Arnold Saxton, the English translator of French Literature notably Balzac's Eugene Grandet. Very scarce item with 55 pages of poetry in FRENCH

W W Norton & Co Inc, 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing virtually as new, With unclipped dust jacket, no inscription clean throughout. The murky world of Harpur and Iles, where chaos is king and ambiguity its handmaiden. A cast composed of the undeniably amoral, but oh so colourfully drawn with dialogue as good as it gets. The Elmore Leonard of British Crime Writers.

Harper Collins, 2011. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket, very small repaired tear to lower front spine edge . Owners name to half title otherwise clean throughout. The history of the British Empire following the American War of Independence.

London: Collins Clear Type Press. Hardcover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Garth Jones. Undated circa 1930, Collins Kings' Way Classics Series. No dust jacket, minimal shelf wear, light brown boards with green and gilt title label to spine. Gilt top edge to text block. Decorations to end papers, title page and to the text by Garth Jones. Publishers advertisements to rear

National Library of Wales, 2002. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The National Library of Wales was one of a number of Welsh institutions brought into being by the upsurge in national feeling in Wales in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The story here told is of the struggle to gain recognition, the unrelenting persistence of the founders and the dogged determination of the Librarian and his staff to create a National Institution worthy of the name.

University of Wales Press, 1980. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine in very good unclipped dust jacket, jacket is free from nicks and tears but has a crease to lower rear edge and to inside rear flap otherwise near fine,

Hurst and Blackett, 1905. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. [1905] undated reprint. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to front and spine, Spine faded with some light shelf wear to edges. Internally clean with some foxing to edges of text block only. We have not always been able properly to appreciate Mr. Jerome's fun, but Idle Ideas we have found distinctly amusing. They are, in the first place, "Ideas in 1905," for they are about things of the day, and they are always put with good humour and without any straining at effect. There is, for instance, "What Mrs. Wilkins Thought about It,"-"It" being the Fiscal question. The matter is very neatly put to her by a Chamber- lainite : "Unless we, as a country, insist upon paying at least twenty per cent, more for everything that we want, it is calculated that in a very few years England won't have a penny left." And Mrs. Wilkins sums up the argument admirably when she remarks that it "sounds a bit topsy-turvy." Then there is the practice now… Read More

W H Allen & Co, 1884. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New Edition. In very good condition, green buckram boards with black and gilt decoration and titles to front and spine. Spine dulled and discoloured. Some light wear to spine ends and lightly rubbed to fore edge corners. Hinges have cracked and spine is a little shaky although binding remains secure. With lightly foxed tissue guard to frontispiece, otherwise the book is free from foxing throughout. The author in this work has attempted to popularise the subjects it contains so as not to make them 'too dry' for his readers and to shake off the 'stuffiness' associated with archaeology and antiquities, the result being a number of 'half hour' essays presented in an interesting manner and profusely illustrated throughout with over 320 engravings. The subjects covered include: Barrows, Stone Circles and Cromlechs etc, Implements of Flint and Stone, Early Bronze Instruments, Roman roads and villas, Ancient Pottery, Arms and Armour,… Read More

Castle Books, 2001. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In unclipped dust jacket in immaculate condition throughout. Overseas buyers please note additional postal charges will apply

Greencroft Books, 2006. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed Limited First Edition (1022 of 2500). With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears, no further markings immaculate throughout. Fascinating background study of the 'Angel Mountain' saga series

Chapman and Hall, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Almost As New. Hardback 1st ed with laminated boards. Very clean throughout. The book summarizes the current knowledge of the illness and details some of the latest developments. Includes contributions from some of the leading academics in the field and integrates their chapters into a comprehensive picture of the disorder. 464pp

Edgewood, 1889. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. including all the fearful record, the breaking of the South Fork Dam, The sweeping out of the Conemaugh Valley, The Overthrow of Johntown, The massing of the wreck at the Railroad Bridge, Escapes, Rescues, Searches, for survivors and the dead, relief organisations, stupendous charities, etc etc. with full accounts also of the destruction of the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek. Just about good. 1st printing. hardback original. In just about good condition. Brown buckram boards which are rubbed to edges and bumped to corners. Boards are marked, and black tooled titles have faded. Front and rear hinges cracked and are a little shaky but binding remains secure. Owners name to front paste down. Pages faded with occasional marks. A good reading copy only. 518pp 19cm x 13cm approx. Illustrated with black and white photographs. A history of the devastating floods of the Summer of 1889 when the South Fork… Read More

Royal Horticultural Society, 1993. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears now in protective sleeve, no inscription very clean throughout. An anthology of the best of 'Tradescent's Diary' written by Hugh Johnson for 'The Garden' magazine

Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears and immaculate throughout.

Blackwell, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Covers and spine crease free, no inscription or markings, light soiling to edges of text block otherwise very clean throughout. Overseas buyers please note additional postal charges will apply