Search Results: Titles starting with J from The Antique Map & Bookshop

The Bodley Head 1982 (1st.).. Slim.soft grey paper covers with bold black & grey lettering. In very good condition. Small mark lower corner front cover. Inside clean & tight. 4 ills.; 69pp.

London, Rivington et al., 1814 Second (and best) edition.. Three Volumes. Hardback, Tall, approx 8.75 x 5.5 inches. A handsome set in Georgian half 'Russia' calf with gilt and blind bands and centre tooling and gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers & edges. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to edges. A couple of minor handling marks else pages all very clean and tight throughout. 588 pp.; 518 pp.; 509 pp. Six folding plates. An 18th century engraving of 3 characters entitled 'Junius' is pasted onto the reverse of the 6th blank. Folding plates showing various letters.

London, The Religious Tract Society, ca 1913. Hardback, 8 x 5.5 inches. Light blue cloth with gilt decorative lettering and illustrated pictorial design to front and spine. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to corners and ends of spine. Prize label to front endpaper “Albert Gray, Edinburgh, 1913.” Some darkening to endpapers, and some mild foxing to pages and page edges. Plates clean and bright. Else a clean and tight copy. 279pp + 8pp cat. 3 coloured plates by Ernest Prater.

Herts, Pocket Essentials, 2006. Small hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Black paper covered boards with silver lettering to spine. Illustrated glossy dustwrapper. Map illustrations to endpapers. In very good near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper. As new. A very clean and tight copy. 160pp.

London, Boys Own Paper Office, RTS, n.d. ca1923. Hardback, 8 x 5.5 inches. Cream cloth, printed red lettering and pictorial designs to covers. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to edges and darkening to cloth. Some rubbing to design on front. A couple of very minor handling/thumb marks, else Inside pages very clean and tight. 301pp. With a frontispiece in colour and eight full-page illustrations by John De Walton.

Michael Joseph 1972 (1st.).. Hardback, 9 x 5.5 inches. Purple/brown cloth with gilt to spine. White glossy dustwrapper. In very good condition in very good dustwrapper (DW some minor rubbing to edges, with a few faint marks, price clipped.) Gift inscription on first blank page, Pages 16 to 31 have small round mark lower edge margin, & first 5 page fore edge has small ink mark. Else generally clean and tight copy. 144 pp. Maps to endpapers. 17 B&W photo plates. “Mr. Farson is able to dismiss all the previous fanciful theories and to establish the Ripper’s identity beyond reasonable doubt”.

London, Blackie & Son, Limited, 1909 New edition. Hardback, approx 7.5 x 5 inches. In deep blue full calf leather fine binding. With gilt panelled boards, raised banding to spine with gilt decorations, and gilt lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers and page edges. In good condition. Spine slightly sunned with some minor rubbing to ends. Else cover clean and smart. Prize bookplate to front endpaper “Hyme’s College, Kingston-upin-Hull 1911.” Some mild light foxing to prelims and a few inside pages. Else a good clean and tight copy. 352pp. With eight illustrations by Paul Hardy and a Map of Central Europe.

Profile Books. 2017 1st edition.. Size 5.5 x 8.0 inches. In red cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Black endpapers. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper. (d/w Not price clipped. In protective plastic wrap). Else a very clean and tight copy. 266pp. The author charts a year of her life through the books she has read.

London. Headline Book Publishing. 2005 1st edition.. 6.0 x 9.5 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper. (D/w Not price clipped. In protective plastic wrap). Author’s sognature to main title page. A very clean and tight copy. 406pp. Crime novel set in rural France.

W.H.McFarlane. ca1880.. Size 12.5 x 9.0 inches. Colour print of Jaffa. In good condition. Slight browning. Edges have a few small tears. Printed area 8.25 x 6.0 inches. View of the port of Jaffa. Photographed by J.Cramb, printed in colour by W.H.McFarlane, Engraved by E.Radclyffe. View shows the city from a beach with figures and a boat on beach.

London. James Misbet and Co., Limited. 1906.. 7.75 x 5.5 inches. I maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded and bumped at ends. Mild foxing to edges and early and late pages.Author’s signed bookplate to front endpaper. Relevant paper loose in front. Occasional foxing spots inside. Else a clean and tight copy. 268 pp. With b/w photographs. Biography of James Wright, who took over from George Muller, the task of caring for orphan children in Bristol in the late 19th century.

London, Macmillan & Co., 1909, 1906, 1904, 1908, 1909. 5 vols.; Hardbacks, 7.5 x 5 inches. Quarter-bound red polished calf leather to spines and corners, and red clothr to boards. Raised banding, gilt decorations to spines, with gilt lettering spine. Top page edges. Marbled endpapers. In good conditions. Spines a little faded and with rubbing on edges. Sense & Sensibility slight marked on front leather edge, Pride & Prejudice lightly sunned top half of front board. Some mild foxing endpapers fore edges. Else good clean and tight copies. 5 volumes. Each with a B&W frontis, and full-page illustrations by Hugh Thompson and Charles E. Brock.

London, The Arcadia Press, 1974 1st. Ltd Ed. 48/265.. Hardback, 10 x 8 inches. Bound in full Bison Calf leather fine binding by Orrin & Geer. With gilt lettering to spine and decorative gilt paneled front board with floral designs. Full gilt page edging, marbled endpapers. In brown cloth slip-case. In very good near fine condition with very good slip-case (Case has some slight fading to opening edge else clean and smart.) The book itself is very clean and bright, no marks to endpapers or pages. Title page is signed by the author and numbered on verso side. A very nice copy. 124pp. With B&W illustrations throughout text.

USA, Princeton University Press, 1961 1st. Hardback, 9.5 x 6 inches. Red cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW some fading to spine, some dark handling marks to rear, rubbing to edges and corners. Not price clipped, in protective sleeve.) Some minor fading to edges of cloth. Some minor fading to endpapers. Authors neat inscription to front endpaper “Desmond Donnelly, November 1961, who sustained me by buying my books and heartened me by reading them. Herbert Feis.” Inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 199pp.

Paris. E.Plon. N.d.(1896).. Oblong folio ( 9.5 x 12.5 inches). Yellow / beige pictorial cloth gt; In very good condition. Some minor rubbing on edges. Mostly very clean inside, just the occasional light finger-mark. Endpapers a little tanned, with name and dated inscription. 47 pages profusely illustrated in colour.

The Folio Society. 1996 1st thus.. Six vols. Size 5.5 x 8.75 inches. In pictorial hard card covers with gilt to spine. In cream and gilt illustrated hard card slipcase. In near fine condition in very good slip case (SC some very minor rubbing on edges.) Inside a very clean and tight set. Six volume set of Jeeves and Wooster stories. Six volumes. Illustrated by Paul Cox.

Paris, Librairie Gallimard, 1929 Ltd Ed. 510/650.. Tall hardback, 11.5 x 7.5 inches. Full brown calf leather binding, raised banding to spine, maroon leather spine label lettered in gilt. Textured endpapers. In very good condition. In later fine binding. Cover clean and smart. Some fading/tanning marks to endpapers from original wrapped paper binding. (Endpapers watermarked - Hollande Pannekoek) page edges rough, uncut. One small tear to top corner of page 13. Pages clean and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 212pp. With double-page colour drawings by Per Krohg. In French.

(n.d.).. 4to. Soft white / blue paper covers lettered in dark blue. Vg. 24 col. reproduction photographs mounted within thin border, with text underneath (including some fine painting of cross-channel steamers). Map.

Longmans, Green, and Co. 1895. 7.5 x 5.0 inches. In dark blue coloth covers with gilt to spine and front. Bevelled edges. Black endpapers. In very good condition. Spine darkened and bumped at ends. Slight lean. Neat pencil inscription to first blank page, dated 1942. Neat pencil and ink notes to last blank page. Occasional foxing spots inside. Else a clean and tight copy. 329 pp. 24 pp cat. With 12 b/w plate illustrations. An adventure story of Welsh pirates.

OUP. 1978 1st.. 6.0 x 9.5 inches. In green cloth covers with gilt to spimne. With illustrated dustwrapper. Maps to endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Spine slightly faded. Not price clipped.) A very clean and tight copy. 250 pp. With b/w frontis. A collection of Jim Corbett’s lesser known stories of his life in India as a hunter of man-eating tigers.