Search Results: Authors starting with J from Island Books

Hodder & Stoughton,, [?1910]. 8vo., Trade Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), title-vignette, 23 fine coloured plates (all original captioned tissue guards present) and endpaper maps on green stock, fore-edge very lightly dust-soiled; original green buckram, upper board blocked in gilt and pink, gilt back, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, firm copy. This copy is something of a curiosity, for it seems to match no recorded edition. Following Riall as closely as possible It is clearly a variant of the second issue of the Trade Edition: (a) gilt backstrip; (b) 24 plates; (c) no gilt top. BUT (a) upper board blocked in gilt and pink; (b) front and rear endpaper maps; (c) list of contents; (d) list of illustrations; (e) 'Little White Bird' on title verso. A VERY SCARCE UNRECORDED VARIANT. Latimore & Haskell makes no mention of this all; see Riall, pp.105-6;

[Sanctuary Press],, 1987. 8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE.

Longman Green Longman & Roberts,, 1861. 8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard present), engraved title vignette, 10 engraved plates and very numerous woodcut illustrations in the text; original green cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip gilt laid down, brown endpapers, uncut, a most attractive, bright, clean copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Scarce, especially in this condition.

University Press, Cambridge,, 1939. 8vo., First Edition, with diagrams in the text; printed wrappers, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy.

[Profile Publications, Windsor],, [1972]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. [AFV Weapons Profile 47].

Seaforth, [Barnsley],, [2009]. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs throughout; dark green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Ian Allan, [Shepperton,, 1968]. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled at edges. Enser, p.21; Law 0014.

Batsford,, [1960]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text; original blue cloth gilt, gilt back, blue top, backstrip faded and joints lightly rubbed else a good, sound, clean copy.

Burt Franklin, New York NY,, n.d.. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with a frontispiece and illustrations in the text, neat annotation on front free endpapers; red cloth, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set. Resource and Source Work Series, No.123. High quality reissue of the scarce original edition of 1839. NOW VERY SCARCE IN ITS OWN RIGHT.

Hodder & Stoughton,, 1906. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece, and title in red and black, free endpapers very lightly browned; publisher's maroon buckram, backstrip with printed paper label, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Hodder & Stoughton,, 1903. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece, and title in red and black, free endpapers very lightly browned; publisher's maroon buckram, backstrip with printed paper label, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Greenhill,, [2003]. 8vo., black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Colledge's famous index was first published in 1970 and serially revised and updated.

David & Charles, Newton Abbot,, [1969-1970]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition; navy cloth, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper (one wrapper price-clipped). The set comprises: Vol. I: Major Ships (some 13,000 vessels; 1969); Vol. II: Navy-built Trawlers, Drifters, Tugs and Requisitioned Ships (some 11,000 vessels; 1970). Bright set of the standard reference.

Longman Brown Green Longmans & Roberts,, 1857. 2 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, WANTING ALL PLATES; original red cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, gilt backs, uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED, expertly recased with new hand-made endpapers, a very good, bright, sound working copy. With the bookplate of 1st Lanarkshire Volunteers, Royal Engineers, Officers Library on front paste-downs. Wanting the seventeen plates coloured plates of uniform, but textually complete. THE FIRST PUBLICLY PUBLISHED HISTORY OF THE CORPS. SCARCE. White p.36.

Partridge,, [1892]. 8vo., with a frontispiece, title-vignette and numerous head- and tail-pieces in the text, wanting front free endpaper; original pictorial cloth blocked in colours, backstrip lettered and blocked in silver and black, a little light general browning else a very good, bright, firm copy in typical period binding. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Jessie Goldsmith Cooper's popular tale was first published by Elliot Stock in 1888.

Profile Publications, Windsor,, [1982]. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Student Christian Movement,, 1923. 8vo., First Edition; cloth, backstrip with printed paper label, a very good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its stamp on paste-downs, and panel from dustwrapper mounted on front paste-down.. Uncommon

Methuen,, [1923]. 8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, plates, front free endpaper map and large folding coloured map at end, neat signature on blank preliminary; original series binding of red cloth, upper board framed in white and blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 4pp series catalogue at end.

Epworth Press,, [1923]. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured double-page plate as frontispiece and numerous monochrome photographs in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, coloured illustration (repeated from frontispiece) mounted in frame on upper board, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly age-soiled and with short closed tear. Published as no. 17 in the 'How to Identify' series. Scarce in anything like this condition.

Pen & Sword, [Barnsley,, 2012]. 8vo., Second Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1976; now scarce in its own right.