Search Results: Authors starting with J from Conover Books

New York: Drake Publishers, Inc., 1975. MINOR EDGE AND CORNER WEAR TO THE DJ, CORNERS ARE LIGHTLY BUMPED AND RUBBED, DJ IS LIGHTLY SOILED ALONG WITH A TEAR (1") AT THE BASE OF THE SPINE, OVERALL A VERY CRISP AND CLEAN, RARE, COLLECTIBLE, OUT-OF-PRINT, FIRST EDITION! DJ IS NICELY PRESERVED IN A BRAND NEW PROTECTIVE MYLAR PLASTIC COVER! 81 PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED PAGES!. First Edition. Red Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very crisp and clean used copy; almost new and unread condition; gift quality! Color illustrated wrapper with white and black lettering. 246 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! "In Yuchi Indian Histories Before the Removal Era, folklorist and anthropologist Jason Baird Jackson and nine scholars of Yuchi (Euchee) Indian culture and history offer a revisionist and in-depth portrait of Yuchi community and society. This first interdisciplinary history of the Yuchi people corrects the historical record, which often submerges the Yuchi within the Creek Confederacy instead of acknowledging the Yuchi as a separate tribe. By looking at the oral, historical, ethnographic, linguistic, and archaeological record, contributors illuminate Yuchi political circumstances and… Read More

U.S.A.: Self-published, 1959. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; spine is gently creased; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a very crisp and clean signed first edition! inscribed and dated by the author on the ffep! Red wrapper with black lettering. 15 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and poetic pages! "One of the many debts which I owe to my British sojourn is my appreciation of poetry. Life in everyday America is often too hasty and over-full to savour the delights of verse. it requires the unscheduled freedom of leisure, the opportunity to sit before a slowly burning fire and muse. Aside from a few silly attempts during University Mission days, which were endured by Bill Cohea and Neill Hamilton, the possibility of writing verses never occured to me..........." ---- from the Preface.. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition / First Printing. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More

U.S.A.: Dover Publications Inc., 1977. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used 2 VOLUME SET! Green cloth with silver lettering on the spine. 1085 informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! "As explained in the preface to English Goldsmiths and their Marks, this History of English Plate was begun more than a quarter of a century ago, but, after I had worked at it for some time, it was laid aside in order that i might first complete my work on marks, which was ublished in June, 1905. Since that date, I have been engaged without interruption, except for an occasional short holiday, in the compilation of this history..............." ----- from the Preface.. Reprint (1911). Green Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very crisp and clean used copy; almost new and unread condition; gift quality! Color illustrated wrapper with white and black lettering. 281 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! "In countless ways, the Yuchi (Euchee) people are unique among their fellow Oklahomans and Native peoples of North America. Inheritors of a language unrelated to any other, the Yuchi preserve a strong cultural identity. In part because they have not yet won federal recognition as a tribe, the Yuchi are largely unknown among their non-Native neighbors and often misunderstood in scholarship. Jason Baird Jackson's Yuchi Folklore, the result of twenty years of collaboration with Yuchi people and one of just a handful of works considering their experience, brings Yuchi cultural… Read More

U.S.A.: Jackson Publishing, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Very hard-to-find title! Full-color pictorial wrapper with red lettering. 24 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by full-color photographs and illustrations! Extremely scarce and out-of-print FIRST EDITION! "Many of the words in this book are in the Cherokee language. This is so you can begin to learn this beautiful language. The Cherokee pronounce and spell a bit differently than we do. 'TS' is pronounced 'cha', almost sounding like 'ja'. The letter 'v' is pronounced 'uh'. the letter 'g' almost sounds like a 'k'. Everything you need to know is at the bottom of each page. If a word is repeated on another page, its meaning and pronunciation… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, 1973. Minor edge and corner wear to the dj, price-clipped, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, lightly shelf worn, ex-library with the usual library markings, overall a nice used first edition (stated)! Black cloth with an illustration of Woodrow Wilson and blue and red lettering on the front board and blue and red lettering on the spine. 176 historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs! "September, 1919. In the midst of the toughest political battle of his life, President Woodrow Wilson began to break. His face pale and gaunt, his eyes dark-rimmed, still he pushed ahead on his cross-country tour. His mission: to arouse the common people of America on behalf of world peace.". First Edition. Black Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York: Warner Books, 1973. Minor edge and corner wear; scuffed and scratched; spine is creased as well as the upper corner of the front of the wrapper; light liquid stain on the front and rear of the wrapper (does not affect interior pages); some shelf wear; small tear in the upper portion of the rear of the wrapper; overall a nice used copy! Full-color illustrated wrapper with purple and red lettering. Unpaginated, wonderfully illustrated in black and white. . First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 2002. Black remainder mark on the outer page edges. Brand new and unread first edition! Very fresh and crisp! Gift Quality! 226 new and unread pages! Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! Signed by the author on the title page! "Iris Biddle would like to experience the Perfect Day. She'd like to wake up one morning with all errands done and deadlines met, her posh custom-lampshade business for once ahead of schedule----and have absolutely nothing to regret or worry about. Forty years old and determined to take it gracefully, Iris is experiencing the fallout from her painful divorce.". Signed by Author(s). First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Brand New/Brand New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 2002. Black remainder mark on the outer page edges. Brand new and unread first edition! Very fresh and crisp! Gift Quality! 226 new and unread pages! Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! Signed by the author on the title page! "Iris Biddle would like to experience the Perfect Day. She'd like to wake up one morning with all errands done and deadlines met, her posh custom-lampshade business for once ahead of schedule----and have absolutely nothing to regret or worry about. Forty years old and determined to take it gracefully, Iris is experiencing the fallout from her painful divorce.". Signed by Author(s). First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Brand New/Brand New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: The Commodore Press, 1937. Dj is edge and corner worn, chipping, portions missing at the top of the spine, along the base in the rear and at the top corner, spine of the dj is also discolored, pastedown on the front is intact and wonderfully well-preserved, corners are bumped and rubbed, some light outer page edge soil, overall a very well-preserved and collectible used first edition! Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! 117 unmarked and uncreased, historical pages nicely enhanced with many color-pastedowns! Foreword: "In this collection we are presenting to the admirers of Raphael sixteen facsimiles of the Great Master chosen from those most suitable for accurate colour reproduction. Our main endeavour has been to render the colours with all possible accuracy so as to give a true idea of the original to all those who are unable to travel all over the world in order to visit the various museums of the Old and of the New Continents. We also flatter… Read More

New York, New York: Belmont Books, 1960. Edge and corner wear, scuffed and scratched, spine is creased as well as the corners of the rear covers, pages are toning, stain on the outer page edges, overall a nice vintage first Belmont paperback edition! "They called him the private eye ---- with a difference!". First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

U.S.A.: C&R Press, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Brand new and unread copy; very fresh and bright condition; gift quality! Color illustrated wrapper with black and white lettering. 280 new and unread imaginative and humorous pages! "Her 70-year-old, cancer-stricken mother kills snakes with a broom. Her best friend believes in psychics and the Virgin Mary. Her new neighbor steals her CDs and her aunt sneaks cheese curls into the house. After seven years in New York, Lori Jakiela gives up her job as an international flight attendant and her dreams of becoming a writer, and returns home to Pittsburgh to take care of her dying mother. Always the loving, befuddled daughter, Jakiela stumbles to find her new life while sleeping in her childhood bed and teaching writing to students who hate to read. Unexpected love, expected loss, the struggle to find our own families, The Bridge to Take When Things Get Serious is the story of mothers… Read More

Warsaw, Poland : Arkady , 1975. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; some shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! White cloth with black lettering on the spine. 206 historical and artistic pages nicely enhanced by black and white and full-color illustrations! "Polish graphic art since the war, with its diversity of trends and abundance of individual talents, has traversed a multitude of fascinating if often challenging problems analogous with those which have been absorbing art in general throughout the world in recent years. To this field's specific, multi-faceted and even contrasting modes of existence and operation new situations have continually been added, bringing with them all the contradictions in which the present age is unsparing...........". First Edition. White Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Ex-Library.

New York, New York: Belmont Tower Books, 1977. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; spine is gently creased; some light shelf wear; pages are beginning to tone; overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Full-color pictorial wrapper with red and black lettering. 224 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and entertaining pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! "Still king of rock 'n' roll. For twenty-two years, Elvis ruled as the King of Rock 'n' Roll, the comet out of the South who burst on the world with a new sound, swivel hips, a baby face with a sneer that made him the sex symbol of his era. Elvis changed our lives, gave us long hair, tight pants and a new look. And despite the conspiracy to stop him cold ---- he became the biggest money-making entertainer ever. In death as in life, Elvis remains ---- the Entertainer of the Century!..........". First Edition / First Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very… Read More

Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1995. A very crisp and clean inscribed first American edition, almost new and unread condition! Inscribed by the author on the title page! Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! 416 very fine, unmarked and uncreased suspense-filled pages! "With Original Sin, P.D. James returns to the genre she has made so distinctively her own, the classic detective story that is at the same time a fully fledged novel marked by imagination and emotional subtlety.". Inscribed By the Author. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Johnson City, Tennessee, U.S.A.: Overmountain Pr, 2000. Minor edge and corner wear to the dj, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, overall a very cisp and clean signed first edition! Signed by the author on the title page! Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! 202 very fine, unmarked and uncreased suspense-filled pages! "Maggie McLendon should be at home in Houston, studying for her Ph.D. qualifying exams, but a letter from hre great aunt arrives, bearing bad news. Maggie's grandfather, Henry McLendon, whom she has never met, is seriously ill in Jackson, Mississippi. Maggie's father, English professor Gerard McLendon, has been estranged from his family since Maggie was an infant, but now there is perhaps one last chance for the McLendons to be reunited.". Signed by Author(s). First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Berkley Pub Group, 1994. Hint of edge and corner wear, pages are beginning to tone, overall a very crisp and clean signed first edition! Inscribed by the authors on the title page! Gift Quality! 254 very fine, unmarked and uncreased suspense-filled pages! "By a Woman's Hand is the only book of its kind----an informative guide to today's women writers of mystery and suspense fiction. The growing popularity of women mystery writers is truly a literary phenomenon; their vast talents and varied styles have made their mark and earned scores of fans. Mystery readers will turn to this reference for its clear, concise profiles of women writers and their BEST-KNOWN BOOKS.MYSTERY HEROINES AND LEADING CHARACTERS.PEN NAMES.WRITING STYLES and more.". Inscribed By the Author. First Edition / First Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Johnson City, Tennessee, U.S.A.: Silver Dagger, 2001. A very crisp and clean signed first edition, almost new and unread condition! Gift Quality! Signed by the author on the title page! Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! 202 very fine, unmarked and uncreased suspense-filled pages! "Recently retired from teaching high school English for nearly forty years, Ernestine Carpenter freely admits that she's more than a bit nosy. She is also good at solving problems, and she's let it be known, amongst her many friends and relatives, that she's willing to take on interesting jobs. Mary Tucker McElroy, well known as a patron of the arts in Southern literary circles, hires Ernie (as she is called by her nearest and dearest) to help her figure out which of her circle might have murdered one of their own.". First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1965. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used 2 VOLUME SET! Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 906 historical and informative pages! "Although the collective title of these two volumes is John Rae, Political Economist, this should not be taken to mean that they are exclusively concerned with economics. The appellation is, in part, meant to make it clear that the John Rae (1796-1872) who is concerned here should not be confused with three of his contemporaries with the same name........" ------ from the Preface to Volume I. (2 VOLUME SET).. First Edition. Green Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.