Search Results: Authors starting with K from Andrew James Books

Tokyo: The Jiji Press Ltd, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Without dust jacket, owners name to half title, blank ffep missing and front hinge cracked, binding remains secure and otherwise excellent clean condition. Overseas buyers please note an additional postal charge will apply

W H Allen, 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. James Thurber. Without dust jacket, ink stain to front board, dulled gilt titles to spine, no inscription clean throughout. A collection of misogynistic literary pieces from some of the greats of literature including Chaucer, Nietzsche, Francis Beaumont, Shakespeare, Kipling, Aristotle, Swift, Samuel Butler, Mencken, Tolstoy, Hardy, and Saki amongst others.

UK: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1st printing. As new with near fine unclipped dust jacket with very small nick to top of jacket spine otherwise fine. Very clean throughout. 272pp 28cm x 24cm approx. This profusely illustrated book (both in colour and black and white) converys what it was like for British and american pilots, aircrew and groundcrew, during their wartime service based in Britain during World War II. It is a vivid and powerful human expression of the bomber airmen's wartime experience.

Dialogue, Biteback, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears. Price on inside flap has been neatly blacked out however. No inscription and very clean throughout. Kawczynski has brought his characteristic tenacity, passion and energy to the task of seeking the truth about Gaddafi. The result is a fascinating portrait of a land and its leader, with illuminating detail on every page, and telling insights from his own work on international development and human rights

Mayfield Publishing, 1993. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. second edition, Virtually as new. Covers and spine crease free, very clean throughout without highlights markings etc. Includes the text of 'Awakening' by Kate Chopin. The theory of literary criticism covers the major critical theories: historical, formal, reader-response, mimetic, intertextual, poststructural, and new historical. It uses the text of Hamlet, The Awakening, and Keat's Ode on a Grecian Urn as its texts.

John Wiley & Sons, 2002. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. virtually as new other than slight bump to lower front fore edge corner. Immaculate throughout.

Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.: J P Tarcher, 2008. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st US edition, unclipped dust jacket, no inscription very clean throughout. Superbly produced biography of Casanova illustrated with colour and black and white plates.

U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket, no inscription, immaculate throughout. A collection of 35 short stories from the acclaimed Booker Prize winner

Bridget Williams Books, 1993. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed and dedicated by the author to the half title page. Covers and spine crease free, and otherwise very clean throughout. An analysis of the sweeping changes that affected New Zealand ? Aotearoa in 1984 that saw the privatisation of power and the centrilisation of the residual state.

1907. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In good to very good condition. Leather boards with gilt titles to the front, rubbed to edges in places and 4cm (1.5") approx repaired split to top front spine edge. Binding secure. Internally very clean throughout with authors and authors father's dedication to front end papers. A privately published copy of the authors thesis accepted for the Degree of Doctor of Letters at Rennes University which considers the influence the works of Moliere had on his English contemporary writers from 1600 to the death of Queen Anne (1714).

Herbert Jenkins, 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing with unclipped dust jacket, small repaired tear to lower rear edge otherwise only light shelf wear, jacket lightly soiled in places, internally clean with light foxing to edges of text block only.

Goodword Books, 2002. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Light creasing to laminate to front lower corner (appears to be fault in production) Covers and spine otherwise crease free. No inscription clean throughout.

Australian Academic Press, 2006. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Virtually as new other than heavy crease to top front corner of cover. Otherwise covers and spine crease free and very clean throughout. Appears unused. Unemployment and Health provides a rare insight into ground breaking research from Europe Australia Asia and the United States on the health impact of unemployment and underemployment on the individual and the community.

Samuel French, 1949. Soft cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. French's acting edition no. 1118, paper covers with some light handling wear.

1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket with very small closed tear to top front edge. Signed by author to title page. No further inscriptions of markings very clean throughout. A history of health care and disease in Malawi from 1859 to 1992

Book Club, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. With unclipped dust jacket with small repaired tear to front fold and light shelf wear to edges. Superbly illustrated throughout including michelin maps. Please note additional postal charges apply

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Tor Books, 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With unclipped dust jacket. Blank fep has been cut diagonally across top corner apparently to remove name. Slight lean to spine. Very clean throughout. King's second novel of the Arthurian Epic that began with 'Mad Merlin'. Drawing on the mythological studies of Joseph Campbell, and on sources both historical and literary this is a new take on the story of Camelot's most famous Knight.

Random House - Postscript Books, 2015. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st thus. In immaculate throughout, appears unread.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Undated, Birthday dedication to blank fep dated 1917. No jacket, blue pictorial boards with embossed gilt titles to spine. Very minor shelf wear. Some foxing to early and latter pages, prelims, title page and majority of the text clear. Seafaring adventure story for children with an undertone of christian morals illustrated with three black and white engravings.

Hurd & Houghton, 1873. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Very scarce. In very good condition, green buckram boards with gilt titles and decoration to front and spine. Lightly rubbed to corners and spine slightly darkened with one or two small marks to the boards. Internally clean other than a couple of labels of The British Drama League to the front end papers and the very occasional age blemish to the pages. A very scarce copy of this play by Elizabeth Kinney about the famous 16th century Italian Noblewoman who was Mistress and later the second wife of Francesco de Medici the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Mrs Kinney wrote this and other works of a Florentine nature during the time spent in Italy with her husband during the 1850's and 60's where she met and no was doubt influenced by Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Tennyson, and Anthony Trollope. A number of plays and works of fiction appeared in the latter half of the 19th century about the life of Bianca Cappello,… Read More