Search Results: Authors starting with J from Books of the World

Princeton: Princeton University Press, July 1967. Trade Paperback. Third printing, 1972. Very Good. Interior unmarked. Spine faded, but straight, tight and uncreased. Dust stains to edges. Dog-ear, rubbing, and price label ghost to cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 578 pages. The history of the Second Republic and the Civil War as seen from within Spain.

New Line Home Entertainment, 2002-2004. Three DVD Boxed Sets. As New discs with As New inserts in As New boxes. From a private collection. Not from a library. Not a rental. Twelve DVDs. 11 hours and 21 minutes runtime. PG-13. No DVD Region Code listed. Three sets of four DVDs each are complete with inserts inside three faux-leather boxes with inserts and discs. [Platinum Series] [Special Extended Edition] [Widescreen].
These three Special Extended DVD Editions bring almost two hours of extra action to the many hours seen in the theatrical versions. In addition, there's a bevy of extra materials on the two extra DVDs found in each of the three Platinum Series Releases. Each box has four DVDs.
The Special Extended editions of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings present the greatest trilogy in film history in the most ambitious sets in DVD history. In bringing J.R.R. Tolkien's work to the screen, Jackson benefited from extraordinary special effects, evocative New Zealand locales, and an exceptionally… Read More

Chicago: Children's Press, 1991. Trade Paperback. First Edition / full number line. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with a dog-ear crease to upper front corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 45 pages. All about Laos--for children.

New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1982. Hardcover. Fourth AES Reprint, 2001. Fine book / no jacket as published. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Light shelfwear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xii + 169 pages. Facsimile of Madras: Diocesan Press, 1925 edition. Customs in the Hindu tradition are essentially religious, but several are based on morality and general utility. In the Hindu pantheon, animals and plants are eminently sacred and are placed on a high pedestal. Every custom is infused with the spirit of intense devotion.

New Delhi: Rupa & Co, 1998. Paperback. Second impression, 2002. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Very light reading wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xvi + 167 pages. Facsimile of Madras: Diocesan Press, 1925 edition. Customs in the Hindu tradition are essentially religious, but several are based on morality and general utility. In the Hindu pantheon, animals and plants are eminently sacred and are placed on a high pedestal. Every custom is infused with the spirit of intense devotion.

Berlin: Seven Seas, 1980. Paperback. no ISBN. Good. Damp stains, otherwise unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with wear to corners and edges. Not from a library. 463 pages.
Part autobiography, part anti-colonial history, originally published in 1966 Cheddi Jagan's The West on Trial : My Fight for Guyana's Freedom chronicles Dutch, French, and British rivalry for social, political, and economic control of Guyana, as well as the fight for self-determination and independence from colonial rule. Chronicled in these pages is life on the sugar plantations; the painful experience of caste hierarchy and racism; the devastation of World War; peace, colonialism, and the struggle for independence from imperialism. Subtly and concisely, Jagan outlines the corporate and economic interests involved in attempting to perpetuate colonial subjugation in British Guiana. The West on Trial provides important historical context that enables readers to grasp the pivotal post-World War II… Read More

Rare! Leeds, UK: Peepal Tree Press, 2000. Paperback. First Edition. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. 52 pages. A collection of short stories set mainly in Guyana which feature brave, ingenious, kindly, and sometimes mischievous animals and children.

New York: Tom Doherty Associates / Tor, November 2000. Paperback. First Tor edition (stated) / full number line. Interior lightly tanned, otherwise unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light shelfwear to covers. 634 pages. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery explores the tangle of interrelationships between a father and daughter and their respective spouses.

Cologne: Konemann, 1998. Hardcover. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Remainder dot on bottom edge, otherwise pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Not clipped. A beautiful volume, suitable for gifting. 463 pages. The collision of American innocence with European experience. Concerned that her son Chad may have become involved with a woman of dubious reputation, the formidable Mrs. Newsome sends her 'ambassador' Strether from Massachusetts to Paris to extricate him. Strether's mission, however, is gradually undermined as he falls under the spell of the city and finds Chad refined rather than corrupted by its influence and that of his charming companion, the comtesse de Vionnet. As the summer wears on, Mrs. Newsome comes to the conclusion that she must send another envoy to Paris to confront the errant Chad, and a Strether whose view of the world has changed profoundly. James' favorite novel and one of the greatest of his late works, "The Ambassadors" is a subtle and often witty exploration of… Read More

New York: Random House / Modern Library, 1946. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards with gilt torchbearer and gilt titles in black rectangle on front cover and spine. Gray Kent Modern Library endpapers. Good book / no jacket. Notes and underlining in pencil. Rear hinge cracked. Spine straight and sound. Corners and ends frayed and bumped. Small hole in rear hinge. Covers clean. Not from a library. xxx + 768 pages.

New York: St. Martin's Press. December 1998. Hardcover. Good book in a Very Good jacket. Interior is unmarked. Spine is lightly cracked at the front hinge. Some foxing on top closed edge. Cover is clean and bright but lightly worn along the top edge and slightly frayed at the top rear corner. Not from a library, not a remainder, not clipped. A nice reading copy. 722 pages.

Alexander, North Carolina: Alexander Books, August 2000. Trade Paperback. Expanded Second Edition. Signed by author on title page. Not personalized. Fine. Interior pristine other than autograph. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 445 pages.

New York: Warner, October 1987. Mass Market Paperback. 12th printing. Very Good. Interior unmarked, but lightly tanned. Spine creased. Reading wear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 256 pages. Hoping for a peaceful vacation in Suffolk, Adam Dalgliesh encounters instead the mystery of a famous crime writer's body found handless and floating in a local vicar's boat

Scarsdale, New York: UPD Publishing. Digest-size Ma. 1977. Very Good+. Very Good+. Spine straight and tight. Interior pristine, though slightly ta nned. Mailing label ghost to front cover, otherwise clean and bright. Light reading and edge wear. Not from a library. 160 pages. Edited by James Baen. Special All-Fabian Artwork Issue. Cover art illustrat ing "Exiles to Glory" (serial, part 1 of 2) by Jerry Pournelle. ALSO: Some Futures (science essay) by Jerry Pournelle; Gently Rapping (short story) by Charles L. Grant; Came the Revolution (novelette) by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.; Get Happy (novelette) by Thomas Wylde; Coming Home (short story) by Joseph Flower Authors: Jerry Pournelle; Charles L. Grant; L. E. Modesitt, Jr.; Thomas Wylde; Joseph Flower .

London: Hakluyt Society. 1996. Staple-bound pamphlet. 1st Edition. As New. Securely bound with two staples in heavy paper wraps. Not from a library. Contained within the Hakluyt Society Annual Report for 1995. Also includes "Obituary: Terence E. Armstrong." 32 pages, 1 map, 9 B&W photos.

New York: Bloomsbury, January 2016. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition / second printing per number line. Near Fine book in a Very Good+ jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Light edgewear and spine ends. Black remainder dot to top edge. Not from a library. Not clipped. 436 pages. So much of the literature on the First World War centers on the trench warfare of the Western Front, and these were essential battlegrounds. But the war was in fact truly a global conflict, and by focusing on a sequence of events in 1916 across many continents, historian Keith Jeffery's magisterial work casts new light on the Great War. Starting in January with the end of the catastrophic Gallipoli campaign, Jeffery recounts the massive struggle for Verdun over February and March; the Easter Rising in Ireland in April; dramatic events in Russia in June on the eastern front; the familiar story of the war in East Africa, where some 200,000 Africans may have died; and the… Read More

Freetown, Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Society, December 1954. Paperback. Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Covers clean with discoloration at staples. In remarkably good condition for a seventy year-old volume from West Africa. Not from a library. 192 pages.
Contents: A Museum for Sierra Leone by Robert de Zouch Hall; Remarks on the Early Monetary Position in Sierra Leone with a Description of the Coinage Adopted by E. J. Wright; The Haidara Rebellion of 1931 by B. M. Jusu; The Akun Eagle Owl by Marguerite Jellicoe; The Evolution of the Native Affairs Department by J. D. Hargreaves.

New York: Vintage International, September 2001. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / Full number line. Very Good+. Corner wear. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 240 pages. A collection of comical and deeply moving tales of contemporary China that are as warm and human as they are surprising, disturbing, and delightful. Contents: Saboteur, Alive, In the Kindergarten, A Tiger Fighter is Hard to Find, Broken, The Bridegroom, An Entrepreneur's Story, Flame, A Bad Joke, An Official Reply, The Woman from New York, After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town.

New York: Bantam Books, 1971. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light wear to cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 306 pages. Here, in a single volume, are four major plays by the first modern playwright, Henrick Ibsen: A Doll's House—The play that scandalized the Victorian world with its unsparing views of love and marriage, featuring one of the most controversial heroines—and one of the most famous exists—in the literature of the stage; The Wild Duck—A poignant drama of lost illusions; An Enemy Of The People—Ibsen's vigorous attack on public opinion; Ghosts—The startling portrayal of a family destroyed by disease and infidelity.

New York: Street & Smith Publications. June 1961. Digest-size Magazine. Good+.Edited by John W. Campbell. Cover art "Mutual indifference" by John Schoenherr. Includes "Prologue to an Analogue" (novelette) by Leigh Richmond; "Monument" (novelette, Hugo finalist) by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.; "Apollonios Enlists" by L. Sprague de Camp; "Fallen Angel" by Philip E. High; "The Fishermen" (aka "Time Is the Simplest Thing" Hugo finalist, serial, part 3 of 4) by Clifford D. Simak; "The Complex Problem of the Simple Weather Rocket" (Science Fact) by George Willard. Illustrated by Barberis, Douglas, Schoenherr, and Van Dongen.