Search Results: Authors starting with J from Reading Rat

Saint Boniface: Les Editions du Ble, 2003. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 123 p; paperback; short stories in French. "Douze nouvelles en prose poetique, a lire comme un album d'anciennes photos sepia aux contours un peu imprecis . . ." Author was born in the Czech Republic and came to Canada as a girl of 16, one year after the "Prague spring." She has lived in Winnipeg since 1995 and is a professor of language. SIGNED by author with gift inscription on title page.

Toronto, ON, Canada: James Lorimer & Company, 1992. Soft Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket. 158p. incl info on other publications. This book deals with the many issues surrounding training in the world. Very good condition.. Price sitcker on rear cover. Written from a labour perspective it concentrates on the human side of training. And questions the way, and subjects of training. Is training in the corporate eye a way of ensuring dependance on a certain employer? 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Bantam Books, 1948. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good. 275 P. PAPERBACK; good overall for its age; corners & edges rubbed, laminate peeling, age darkened. Ten notorious murders from 1870 -1936, By various authors

New York: Viking Press, 1968. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good- /fair. 243 p HC; VG- in fair Dj, Ex library with usual card pocket, stamps, etc, stain on Contents page, possibly coffee, otherwise clean. DJ clipped, considerable chipping & edgewear. Fourteen previously-uncollected stories plus theclassic "The Lottery"

London UK: The National Trust, 1975. Apparent First. Staplebound. Very Good. 28 p. staplebound guidebook to Hardwick Hall, including genealogy of the Cavendish family, bibliography, many photos, floor plans, etc. A brief introduction to one of England's best known stately homes.

Delaware, OH: Cooperative Song Service, 1964. Revised Edition. Pictorial Cover. Good+/No Jacket. First published 1959; revised 1964 by Arthur Leslie Jacobs. Small (6 5/8 x 3 3/4") 64 page booklet, lt. gray card covers, stapled. G+ or better; bottom corner creased, slightly dogeared pages, PO name inside FC. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Traditional hyms, rounds and anthems, words and music. Email for list of contents. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Toronto: Tundra Books , 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Laura Fernandez and Rick Jacobson. Unpaginated; slim large format HC in unclipped DJ. Pictorial boards. VG+/ VG+. Fictional story of a young boy apprenticed to the young artist Michelangelo Buonarroti. Beautiful colour illustrations. A lovely introduction to Florentine art and to Michelangelo.

Durham, NC, U.S.A.: Duke University Press, 2002. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 293p. incl index. some fairly minor corner wear. Spine straight and otherwise very good. " A must read for all who continue to grapple with the twin legacy of hatred and hope from sept 11..." form back cover. Price sticker on b cover.The author is president of the Paris-based International Observatory on Terrorism and is Straegic Expert and Consultant on Terrorism to the United Nations Security Council. Frequently quoted in Time Magazine and other important journals. -All from back cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Don Mills ON: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1973. Apparent First. Paperback. Very Good. 210 p.; PB; a collection of short stories by Canadian writers, most c. 1950-1973; several not previously published. Authors include Hugh Garner, Farley Mowat, George Clutesi, Markoosie, Phyllis Gotlieb and others. Complete list of authors/stories provided on request. Numerous B & W illustrations

Don Mills ON: Longmans, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 63 p. small HC; no DJ; illustrated with charcoal sketches by the author; a classic story of Arctic life. Very nice clean condition, no marks, NOT ex-lib. Unfortunately it no longer has its DJ.

Calgary: Historic Trails Society of Alberta, 1981. Reprint. Paperback. Fair. 143 p; Faair condition. Clean unmarked copy; text block from p. 91 detached from binding. All pages present. Original manuscript was presented to U. Calgary in 1952 toward Mr. Cousins' MA in history. Includes tables, biblio, B & W illus.

New York: Willie & Sam, 1987. First Thus. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Washington Square Press paperback; VG, slight edge/corner wear, inked price on cover, spine flat and uncreased, square and solid, interior clean."Meet the Slaves of New York: Eleanor, who designs James Bond-doll earrings; her boyfriend Stash, a chic graffiti artist; Fred, an unemployed musician who takes strange women shopping at Tiffany's; Bob, the pimp with a penchant for Kant . . . " 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Dutton Adult, 2005. First printing. Hardback. Very Good +/very good +. 274 p., incl. bibliography and index. Several pages of B & W photos. The story of Tim Treadwell, whose love for and fascination with Alaskan grizzlies led him to the fatal misjudgement that cost him and his friend Amie Hueguenard their lives. Excellent research and writing bring the story to life and reveals the tragedy of a man who loved bears too much to see them clearly.

Thompson MB: Boreal Publishing, 1996. First Thus. Paperback. VG+. Robert Doorenbos. 68 p. Slim paperback.. VG+. Poems inspired by years of canoeing on northern Manitoba rivers. Illustrated with B & W drawings.by Robert Doorenbos. SIGNED by author and illustrator.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperTrade, 2000. Soft Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket. 171p. incl afterword. As new. Memoirs of a Poet, Critic, and Teacher. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: Univ of Toronto Pr, 1995. Paperback. As New. 194 pp. incl. notes and index. B & W photographs. "... the most powerful unifying theme in Ontario tourism before the First World War was the tension and interplay between notions of civilization and wildness. If these ideas were the product of the European imagination, aided and abetted by the pervasive ideology of romanticism, they were nonetheless produced and perpetually recast for concrete social, political, and economic reasons. The nineteenth-century passion for wild things belongs to the history of ideas, but it belongs equally to the history of real people, real power, and real money." Excellent condition, unmarked, solid, very slight bumping of corners.

Vancouver: West Coast Review Publishing Society, 2013. First printing. Paperback. Very Good +. 144 p. small format literary journal; pictorial wraps; published at Simon Fraser University; formerly West Coast Line. A journal of poetry and critique. Issues 77 and 79 also available. See www.westcoastline.ca

Vancouver: West Coast Review Publishing Society, 2013. First printing. Paperback. Very Good +. 80 p. small format literary journal; pictorial wraps; published at Simon Fraser University; formerly West Coast Line. A journal of poetry and critique. Issues 76 and 77 also available. See www.westcoastline.ca

Vancouver: West Coast Review Publishing Society, 2013. First printing. Paperback. Very Good +. 144 p. small format literary journal; pictorial wraps; published at Simon Fraser University; formerly West Coast Line. A journal of poetry and critique. Issues 76 and 79 also available. See www.westcoastline.ca

Toronto: Macmillan, 1970. Apparent First. Hardcover. Very Good- /very good -. Jonathan Jenness. 116 p. (approx;; large format HC, ex-library, DJ in protective plastic cover. Aylette Jenness spent a year in the small Alaskan village she calls Makumiut and describes, in loving detail, the people and their way of life. Illustrated with many B & W photographs taken by Jonathan Jenness. Condition is overall good, with usual library markings including card pocket on ffep. Small tear at bottom of title page, along reading crease.