Search Results: Titles starting with J from David Edward Hellawell

London: Penguin, 1988 0140107126. First trade paperback thus. VG. 7" by 9.5". 223 pages. No inscriptions. "J. P. Donleavy's Ireland is part autobiography, part cultural travelogue, an account of his own growth as a writer...there is nobody quite like him for creating a mood of unforced gaiety and blithe insouciance." Peter Ackroyd in The Times. Many other writers figure in these reminiscences including Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh and Edna O'Brien. .

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1955. First edition. Paperback. Covers protected but repaired and with torn front end paper with piece missing. Figure 158 in biro inside front cover and on front endpaper. Otherwise Good. 252 pages. .

London: Michael Joseph, 1949. Third hardback impression in year of publication. VG in tatty and repaired, but more or less intact and unclipped DW. .

New York: Random House, 1981 0517309807. Hardback Unabridged 0mnibus. VG/VG. 761 pages. 83 illustrations. DW is NOT price-clipped. No annotations or inscriptions. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen".London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, workers' rights, socialism, and eugenics. He wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam. .

Wellington N. Z.: Government Printing Office, 1970. The definitive New Zealand Government book on the three great voyages of Captain James Cook between the years 1768 and 1780. Published to celebrate the first landing of Cook on NZ two hundred years before. Hardback. VG. 171 pages. 8.5" by 10.5". Lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and B/W. Maps and charts galore. Some slight wear to spine and edges. No DW but splendid pictorial covers. No annotations or inscriptions. .

London: Headline, 2005 075531462X. Hardback first edition. First printing. Number 1. Fine/Fine. Not price clipped, no owner's name or other inscription, Dust jacket has no tears or nicks 309 pages, a very good clean copy, The author summarizes all the love stories in the Jane Austen books and introduces all the characters in an audacious 'how-to' guide. "Navigate the modern dating scene with the wit and wisdom of Jane Austen - inspired by Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion and her other beloved novels." .

London: Storyville Publications, 1969. Revised edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. Collectible. No DWs. Two hardcover volumes in maroon buckram with gilt lettered spines. Revised edition of 1969. Not ex-library.. Two crisp and unmarked volumes. No inscriptions or annotations. VOLUME ONE: Irving Aaronson to Gene Kardos, VOLUME TWO: Gene Kardos to Bob Zurke.. A sturdy, workmanlike set. 8vo. 1968 pp. in total for both volumes including extensive index. Both volumes are heavy and will require extra postage. .

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1947. First edition. Signified as such. Hardback. VG but badly inscribed with German poem on front end-paper. DW is torn in half on front and stained on back. 184 pages. .

London: MacMillan, 1909. First edition. Hardback.The fourth book and first novel by the early master of the supernatural. Half leather binding of blue cloth covers. Some rubbing and marks on leather but book is still intact. 5" by nearly 8". The gilt lettering on the spine is still VG. Top edge gilt. No DW. Foxing on front and rear endpages. Marbled inside front and end covers. Elegant book plate of Mill House school inside front cover. This records that the book was presented to the school by E. E. Pralle in November 1913. 258 pages. No other inscriptions. Decorative circular borders enclosing each chapter number were designed by Edith Richardson. "Jimbo is one of the best of Blackwood's studies of the peculiar horrors and ecstacies of childhood." Bleiler. .

London: Little, Brown, 1998 0316643831. First edition. Hardback. Inscribed by previous owner but otherwise VG/VG. 387 pp. 6" by 9.5" .

New York, Simon and Schuster, 2000 0684853914. First edition. Fine/Fine. Hardback. Complete numberline. Deckled edges. 548 pages with many B/W photos. No inscriptions. A fine in-depth study not only of the complexity of DiMaggio himself, and of baseball and celebrity, but also of the Italian-American community in the 20th century. .

Droitwich: Saltway Press, 1999 0951046306. Softcover. Fine. Signed by the first-named author. Reprint of book first published in 1985. No other signatures, annotations, highlighting etc. 162 glossy pages including bibliography. The spine remains undamaged. Many B/W illustrations throughout. Size = Octavo. The biography of an enlightened but unhappy Victorian entrepreneur and the story of the development of Droitwich Spa and environs from Roman times to more recent times.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984 014006415x. First edition. First King Penguin trade paperback publication in this translation. Some creases on front cover but otherwise Good. 267 pages. Kundera's first novel which reflects the experience of so many dissident Czechs under Communist rule. .

London: Constable,1993 0094719705. 1st Edition. Signed on title page by author. No other inscriptions or annotations. Hardcover. VG. No DW. 238 pages. 5" x 9". Shelley Weiner is an acclaimed novelist, short-story writer and journalist who, over the years, has established a reputation as an inspirational creative-writing tutor and nurturer of new talent. Her novels include A Sisters’ Tale, The Last Honeymoon, The Joker, Arnost and The Audacious Mendacity of Lily Green. Her short stories have appeared in various anthologies and on BBC Radio 4. .

London: Charles H. Kelly, 1897. First Edition. Hardback. No DW. Good copy internally apart from some tanning of pages with age. Covers (esp. back cover) discoloured. 125 pages. .

Guildford, Surrey: Lutterworth Press, 1981. First hardback edition thus. VG/VG. This volume comprises abridged versions of 'Zoo Quest to Madagascar', 'Quest in Paradise', and 'Quest under Capricorn'. 384 pages. Nearly 6.5" by 9.5". Lavishly illustrated in B/W and colour. .

London: Boxtree, 1998 9780752211992. Hardback. Like new. First edition. First printing. Complete number line. Fine/Fine. Like new. 264 pages. No annotations or inscriptions etc. 'I cried because I did not have an office with a door, until I met a man who had no cubicle.' - Dilbert. Following on from his previous bestselling business books, "The Dilbert Principle" and "The Dilbert Future", Scott Adams applies his acute wit to the workplace and delivers a deceptively perceptive take on the place that we all spend so much time in: the office. Using the same blend of essays and cartoons that kept the "Dilbert Principle" on the bestseller list for almost a year, this hilarious treatise on office life will have Dilbert fans rolling around with laughter in their ever smaller cubicles. .

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1958. First edition. Paperback. VG. 249 pages. .

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994 0241002184. First edition.. First printing of first hardback. VG/VG except for black line along bottom edge. Unclipped. 316 pages. Two adolescent sisters from New York meet two boys in England, and their subsequent paths through life diverge and converge in strange and unexpected ways. .