Search Results: Titles starting with J from Books of the World

New York: Simon & Schuster, September 2007. Trade Paperback. First Trade Paperback Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine. Dog-ear to rear cover, otherwise As New. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 323 pages.

Turkeyen, Guyana: University of Guyana History Society, July 1991. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. 12 pages.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books. September 1989. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Bottom edge poorly cut as issued. 96 pages.Easy, step-by-step procedures for making the perfect pie crust, along with thirty-five recipes for tantalizing pie fillings. Among the delicious pies are Bourbon Pecan, Coffee Crunch, Classic Lemon Meringue, Papaya Paradise, Apple Orchard, and Summer Peach, each beautifully photographed.

New York: Penguin Random House / Kathy Dawson Books, September 2017. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Fine book in a Very Good Jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Quarter inch tear to clean and bright jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 453 pages.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1947. Hardcover. First Edition (No additional printings listed). Grey cloth over boards. Map endpapers. Near Fine book / no jacket. Unmarked. Pages lightly tanned. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Covers clean. Not from a library. No remainder mark. ix + 398 pages. : plate, ports. ; 23 cm.

New York: Bantam Books, November 1993. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends lightly bumped. Jacket clean, but clipped. and light edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 424 pages. 24 cm. It is 1784, and Jefferson, the newly appointed United States Ambassador to the court of Louis XVI had just arrived in Paris-a city adrift in intrigue, upheaval, and temptation that will challenge his principles, incite his passions, and change Thomas Jefferson forever. Through the eyes of his young secretary, William Short, we watch as the future president builds his dream of an America with fellow patriots John Adams and Ben Franklin, and as he struggles between political ambition and an unexpected crisis of the heart with a woman who has the power to destroy him. And we discover--behind the face the complex Virginian show the world--an enigmatic statesman who fights for individual liberty even as he… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, March 1974. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, tail slightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright, but clipped and chipped at spine ends. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xxxii + 704 pages. Covering the climax of Jefferson's forty-year career, this fifth and penultimate volume follows Jefferson through his demanding second term as president, when he famously sponsors the Lewis and Clark expedition, confronts the trial of Aaron Burr, and concludes the naval "war" with the Barbary pirates.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1962. Two-volume Hardcover set in slipcase. Very Good books in Very Good jackets. "First Edition" stated on copyright pages. "Book of the Month Club Selection" stated on unpriced jackets. Prior owner's name inked to front pastedowns. Reading and edge wear including large chips to jackets. Two volumes. xx + 1170 total pages. Vol. 1. 1735-1784; Vol. 2. 1784-1826. Two volume hardcover set, with slipcase and dust jackets. Winner of the Bancroft Prize and The Kenneth Roberts Memorial Award. At the time of publication, this was the first comprehensive biography of the second President of the United States.

New York: Scholastic, 1955. Paperback. T-32. 20th printing, April 1974. Very Good+. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light wear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. No tears, folds, or creases. vi + 122 pages. "Better than a double dose of laughing gas"....122 pages of zany puns, tall stories, cartoons and wisecracks. You'll relish every daffynition, crazy poem and "perfect squelch". In all, here are 439 sure ways to be quick with a comeback and the life of the party.

Guyana: Rock View and St. Ignatius Mission, 1994. Large staple-bound paperback. Good. Ex-library, otherwise clean and unmarked. 62 pages. Illustrated with B&W photographs and drawings.

New York: Doubleday, September 1992. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition, Near Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Dust stains to edges. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 148 pages. Translation of: Riḥlat Ibn Faṭṭūmah.

London: Penguin, 1980. Trade Paperback. Ninth printing. Very Good+. Interior unmarked, but lightly tanned. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Crease to rear cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 250 pages. Map.A travelogue by Graham Greene, about a 350-mile, four-week walk through the interior of Liberia in 1935. It was Greene's first trip outside of Europe. He hoped to leave civilization and find Africa's "heart of darkness" in the as-yet unmapped interior of Liberia. Relying on local guides and a chain of porters, Greene and his cousin set off from Kailahun, Sierra Leone and travelled south-easterly through the jungle highlands and across the headwaters of several rivers. He crossed through a section of French Guinea, going between the Liberian towns of Zorzor and Ganta, before turning south-west and arriving at the coast at Grand Bassa from where he traveled by sea to Monrovia.

Twenty-four 30-minute lectures on four Fine DVDs in a Fine original case along with an As New 173-page paperback Course Guidebook. No shrink-wrap, otherwise As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Suitable for gifting. Ready to exercise those brain cells? Humans have been having fun with mathematics for thousands of years. Along the way, they've discovered the amazing utility of this field—in science, engineering, finance, games of chance, and many other aspects of life. This course of 24 half-hour lectures celebrates the sheer joy of mathematics, taught by a mathematician who is literally a magician with numbers. Although racing a calculator to solve a difficult problem may seem like a superhuman achievement, Professor Benjamin shows that there are simple tricks that allow anyone to look like a math magician. Professor Benjamin has another goal in this course: throughout these lectures, he shows how everything in mathematics is connected—how the beautiful and often imposing edifice… Read More

London: Hakluyt Society. 1996. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, Second Series, vol. 184. Hardcover. First Edition. Blue cloth over boards with gilt titles to spine and vignette of the sailing ship Victoria on front board. As New book in a Near Fine jacket. Mild rubbing/edgewear to jacket with an eighth-inch tear at the spine head. Not from a library. No remainder mark. cvii + 392 pages, 15 illustrations, 4 maps (2 in color). Juan Maria Schuver was born to a wealthy Amsterdam business family in the mid-19th century. Established at a young age as a travel writer and reporter, he decided to embark on scientific exploration. Leaving Cairo at the turn of 1880-1881 he proceeded up the Blue Nile, intending to find a new route through to the East African coast. This ambition was frustrated, mainly because of local political turbulence following the Mahdist challenge to the Sudanese government and internal stirrings in Abyssinia. As a result, Schuver remained for the better part of two years in the hills… Read More

New York: Welcome Rain, January 2000. Trade Paperback. First U.S. Edition / full number line. New. No remainder mark. Not damaged. xiii + 332 pages

New York: Crown, May 2016. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Jacket clean and bright with light wear at spine ends. No tears or creases. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 386 pages. A novel of suspense and passion about a terrible mistake made sixty years ago that threatens to change a modern family forever.

New York: Tor Classics, August 1995. Mass Market Paperback. First Thus / full number line. Near Fine. Tanned, otherwise pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 180 pages.
Jungle Book II tells of the further adventures of Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves in the jungle. Through his cunning and fearlessness, Mowgli earns the respect of the animals of the jungle. He leads his wolf-brothers into battle against a threatening pack of red dogs. And when Mowgli's human parents are persecuted by a violent group of villagers, he comes to their aid. This is the story of how Mowgli must come face-to-face with himself as a man and decide whether he will leave his jungle kingdom to join the society of man.

New Delhi: Rupa & Co, 1999. Paperback. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 277 pages. With illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling and W. H. Drake.

Georgetown, Guyana: Fr. Andrew Morrison, SJ, June 1998. Trade Paperback. First Edition (stated). Very Good. Unmarked. Spine heavily creased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. 419 pages.
The only book to date that can be read to understand the period of Forbes Burnham's control of Guyana is this superb work by Jesuit priest, Father Andrew Morrison, the former editor of the Catholic Standard, the official paper of the Catholic Church in Guyana. It is essential reading to get a glimpse of how an unelected government can destroy a country.