Search Results: Authors starting with J from Mike's Library

Paris: Félix Alcan, Éditeur. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1895. Hardcover. French language. 30 text illustrations. "Je compris dès l'abord la nécessité de rechercher l'origine et la mode de formation de ces substances quo l'on désigne sous le nom general d'hydrocarbures, et qui jusqu'a cette époque n'avaient pas encore fixé, comme elles le méritaient, l'attention du monde scientifique." - Préface. Evaluates the varied theories for the presence of bitumens in the Jura mountains. ; Bibliotheque scientifique internationale; Ex-Library; xii, 292, 32ad pages .

New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0824095294 . Collection donation stamps and owner's signature, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Contains 562 annotated listings of literary criticism for Black authors from Latin America. ; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities; Vol. 194; 129 pages .

Devizes, Wiltshire: H F & E Bull, Printers. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1877. Hardcover. Library REBIND with clipped original paperback front cover laid down, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize hardcover.; "Reprinted from the Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine, vol. xvii, p. 47." Reverend Jackson details the historical circumstances surrounding the death of Amye Robsart, whose husband, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, was attempting to become the favorite, and husband, of Queen Elizabeth I. While discounting the historical accuracy of Sir Walter Scott's novel Kenilworth, and its plot of a deliberate murder of Amye Robsart to clear the way, Jackson lays out the motivations of those Elizabethans who birthed this account. An interesting piece of domestic Elizabethan history. ; Ex-Library; 49 pages .

Wantage: British Plant Growth Regulator Group. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0906673070 . Library REBIND in hardcover with original paperback covers laid down, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Proceedings of a meeting organized by the British Plant Growth Regulator Group and the Agriculture Group of the Society of Chemical Industry, the SCI Lecture Theatre, Belgrave Square, London on 15th March 1983.; British Plant Growth Regulator Group: Monograph; Ex-Library; Vol. 9; vii, 110 pages .

Paris: Penta / L'Harmattan. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2007. Trade Paperback. 2296020372 . Slight wear. Crisp trade paperback.; French language. Volume I only, per ISBN; does not include Vol II: De la morale à l'éthico-politique. ; Collection Philosophie/Sciences/Psychanalyse; 266 pages .

Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Trade Paperback. 3631318758 . Light bend, slight wear. Crisp trade paperback. ; German language. "Diese Arbeit untersucht den Besitzschutz am Reichskammergericht. Sie beschränkt sich auf das sechzehnte Jahrhundert, welches insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Friedenssicherung und die Abschaffung der Fehde durch die gerichtliche Instanz des Reichskammergerichts das bedeutsamste in der Geschichte dieses Gerichts war. Die Quelle dieser Arbeit sind die Werke der Kameralisten - systematisch gegliederte Fallsammlungen aus der Frühzeit der Buchdruckerkunst."; Rechtshistorische Reihe; Vol. 170; 191 pages .

Dusseldorf: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2007. Trade Paperback. 3865930751 . Spine rub, light sun, otherwise slight wear. Crisp trade paperback.; "Increasing signs seem to indicate that, in the areas of both politics and thought, the age of neoliberal supremacy is approaching its end. An ideology based exclusively on the free play of the market is bound, ultimately, to lose its attraction. Growing inequality and social exclusion, with new forms of underclass suffering new forms of insecurity, cause the neoliberal conceptions to forfeit all moral credibility. Increasing conviction is attaching to the notion of social embedding, according to which transnational political and economic areas - such as the European Union - require democratic governance in order to foster social cohesion and environmental sustainability. The change in political climate has also reached the trade unions, whose members are becoming increasingly vocal in their rejection of… Read More

Leipzig: Georg Thieme. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1902. 3rd Rev Ed. Hardcover. Tone, light wear, owner's signature on front free endpaper. Solid hardcover. ; Dritte Neu Bearbeitete Auflage (3rd revised ed). German language text.; 555 pages .

New York: Fowler and Wells. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1860. Hardcover. Tone, fraying to spine head and tail, light cock, contemporary owner's label, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Interesting compendium of reference material, largely taken from English sources and Americanized as needed. An early printing, with 1860 on title page and a copyright date of 1859. While attributed to "The Author of "How To Write", "How To Talk", etc", the compiler is Daniel Harrison Jacques. Nice Civil War era self help reference book.; Educational Hand-Books; 214, 1 ad pages .

Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0792335783 . Slight wear. Crisp copy.; This second volume of In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants is broadly concerned with special applications and phenomena uniquely associated with haploid plants and their derivation. The first section (18 chapters) covers such topics as genetic stability of microspore-derived doubled haploids, transformation of pollen and microspores, gametoclonal variation, bread-making quality of wheat doubled haploids, DNA amplification of doubled haploids, RFLP mapping with haploids, genetics of green plant regeneration from anther culture, combining mutation breeding with haploidy for the improvement of rapeseed, segregation distortion among anther-derived plants, chromosome engineering, self-incompatibility and pollen rejection, statistical models for the detection of quantitative trait loci, haploid protoplasts, gametosomatic hybrids, potential of using… Read More

Neuchatel: Éditions de la Baconnière. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. Library REBIND in hardcover with original stiff wraps bound in, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Crisp hardcover.; French language. "Ce livre se propose d'éclaircir cet épisode relativement mal connu de l'histoire européenne, et particulierement l'évolution de la situation internationale de la Finlande et de sa politique extérieure pendant la période qui va du 13 mars 1940, lendemain de la signature du traité de paix mettant fin à la guerre russo-finlandaise de 1939-1940, communément appelée la guerre d'hiver, au 26 juin 1941, date à laquelle commencera une seconde guerre entre la Finlande et l'URSS." - Introduction ; Histoire et société d'aujourd'hui; Ex-Library; 380 pages .

New York: Longmans, Green. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1958. First Edition; First Printing. Library Binding. Library stamps/marks/pocket peel, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid publisher's library hardcover binding. ; Juvenile historical fiction concerning New Amsterdam (Nieuw-Amsterdam) during the Dutch rule of New York, including relations with Native American Indians and British colonies in New England. ; Ex-Library; 215 pages .

Harrisburg PA: Printed by The Telegraph Press. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1946. Hardcover. Cocked, tone, owner's signature on front free endpaper, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket 2" spine tail chip detached and present, large tears with creasing and chipping, tone, light soil, wear. Solid hardcover. ; Gripping psychological novel of medical ethics, mental illness, and small town corruption. ; 211 pages .

Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie. Good with no dust jacket. 1980. Trade Paperback. 8308004431 . Spine creased, corner bumped, light tone, light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; Polish language. The underground press in Krakow during the Nazi occupation, 1939-1945.; 427 pages .

Oxford: Pergamon Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1967. First English Edition. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, toned, some cloth stains and rubbing, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; First English language edition. "Emphasizes the practical medical ecology of parasitism" - Max Celnick, Physician's Book Compendium. ; Ex-Library; xii, 235 pages .

Paris: Galerie Daniel Templon. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2016. Hardcover. 2917515201 . Slight wear. Crisp oversize hardcover.; Bilingual: English and French languages. Exhibition catalogue, Blue Skies, Galerie Templon, Paris (France), 2016. "Bulgarian artist Oda Jaune is returning to Galerie Templon for the first time in five years with a major exhibition of paintings. Blue Skies, featuring a series of brand new works, is dedicated to the idea of the possible and the imagination, the title chosen for the resolutely optimistic vision it conveys, a vision liberated from practical conventions. The exhibition reveals the artist's obsessions, which she subjects to a constant process of change and reinvention by means of unexpected associations and formulations. Her distinctive universe draws on poetry, film and media culture, the history of art and her own history and is drawn to ‘everything that should not be said about the inner and the outer world.' (A. Berland.)… Read More

Leipzig: Insel-Verlag. Good+ with no dust jacket. [1914?]. Hardcover. 1" head tear, front cover peel, rubbed, light tone. Solid stiff-card hardcover. ; Nach der metrischen Übersetzung Friedrich Rückerts neu herausgegeben von Herman Kreyenborg. Attractive German language translation of 12th century Bengali poet Jayadeva's classic epic.; Insel-Bücherei; Vol. 303; 79 pages .

New Carrollton MD: Siberian Husky Club of America. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1986. Brochure. Slight wear. Crisp single-fold oversize brochure. ; SIGNED by Jennings. Single sheet, single fold brochure, dedicated by Siberian Husky Club to the memory of Mrs Eva "Short" Seeley of Chinook Kennels. Illustrated front page "Chinook Wind" by Lynne Bentley-Kemp, blank 2nd page, poem "Night Wind" by Jennings on third page (SIGNED), and dedication by Siberian Husky Club of American on rear fourth page. Michael Jennings graduated from Penn as an English major and went to Syracuse University for graduate work in creative writing. Jennings' interest in animals began in southwestern Iran where he broke and trained horses, owned gazelles, a mongoose, and numerous dogs. He is an internationally recognized breeder of Siberian huskies. He teaches in upstate New York.; Signed by Author .

Rochester NY: Heliographis. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1980. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 0936716010 . Light cock, light soil, light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Nineteen poems inspired by Dorothea Lange photographs, with 20 tipped-in photos. #93 of 300, signed by Jennings. Book has pencil errata corrections. Laid in is hand-written letter by author, Michael Jennings, noting "Unfortunately there were printing errors, most of which I've corrected in pencil." Michael Jennings graduated from Penn as an English major and went to Syracuse University for graduate work in creative writing. Jennings' interest in animals began in southwestern Iran where he broke and trained horses, owned gazelles, a mongoose, and numerous dogs. He is an internationally recognized breeder of Siberian huskies. He teaches in upstate New York.; Unpaged pages; Signed by Author .

Landisburg PA: Pine Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Pamphlet. 0930502035 . Owner's signature, otherwise slight wear. Crisp paperback pamphlet. ; SIGNED by author on title page! Eleven poems, many influenced by Jennings' stay in Iran. Michael Jennings graduated from Penn as an English major and went to Syracuse University for graduate work in creative writing. Jennings' interest in animals began in southwestern Iran where he broke and trained horses, owned gazelles, a mongoose, and numerous dogs. He is an internationally recognized breeder of Siberian huskies.; 34 pages; Signed by Author .