Titles starting with J from Amanda Willis Rare Books

Frederick Muller, London, 1976. First edition; 191pp; blue boards, gilt title, dust wrapper; the biography of a man "who could be said to have changed the face of printing" and who worked for both the Doves and the Cranach Press;4to.... more information

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London, the Bodley Head, 1982. Paperback with grey card wraps as issued, 69pp., first edition, VG, dent on lower cover, text in French and English, a vivid pen portrait of a criminal in his 'milieu'.... more information

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Grossman, Viking, New York, 1974. First US edition. Book very good, pale grey boards, dust wrapper; 126 black and white plates; edited by Nicolas Ducrot; 4to.... more information

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Alan Ross, London, 1966. First edition. Black boards, gilt title to spine, illustrated dust wrapper; several full page drawings; large dedication inscription signed by the author and a drawing of him by the illustrator captioned "a very unlikeness, love from Nic"; to the blurb on the rear inner flap the author has corrected the punctuation; a very nice presentation copy; the "Jane" series are due to be reprinted for the first time later in the year; 8vo.... more information

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Alan Ross, London, 1968. First edition; black boards, gilt tile to spine, slightly weary dust wrapper, SIGNED by the author on title page and inscribed by him on front endpaper; Janes's adventures set in Aldeburgh continue on from the author's first book "Jane's Adventures in and out of the Book"; illustrated with enchanting drawings and a map of Peeg; 8vo.... more information

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London, Victor Gollancz, 1975. First edition, 223pp; blue cloth, gilt lettering, spine edges knocked, top corner knocked, 2 marks on endpapers where something has been glued, small library stamp on TP and p.101, illustrated with 7 half page and 7 full page drawings;8vo.... more information

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Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1959. First edition. Pink boards, gilt title to black cloth spine, decorated dust wrapper, black and white photographs, text on blue paper, mildly foxed prelims, otherwise a very nice copy; 4to.... more information

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Hexham, Flambard Paperback Original, 2003. Paperback as issued, glossy wraps, fine, first edition, 261pp., long-listed for the 2003 Booker Prize.... more information

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Colnaghi, London, 1968. First edition. 149pp. Printed boards, no dust wrapper, letters and writings of Jim Byam Shaw, art historian; 94 plates; 8vo.... more information

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Museum of Modern Art, New York, distributed by Harry Abrams, 1993. First edition. 484pp; 739 illustrations of which 254 in colour; gold cloth with the artist's name stamped onto front cover, dust wrapper slightly sunned at edges; published in conjunction with the exhibition "Joan Miro" at MOMA Oct. 1993- Jan. 1994; catalogue compiled by Lilian Tone, chronology by Anne Umland, foreword by Richard E. Oldenburg; paintings from all periods of the artist's life are represented, the "Det... more information

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William Jackson, London, 1930. First trade edition; 26pp; including a hand-list of Austen's illustrated works; brown boards, title label and woodcut pasted onto upper board; foreword and decorations by John Austen; 6 woodcut illustrations; 12mo.... more information

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London, Geoffrey Bles, 1968. First edition, book VG, ex library copy, cream boards, blue cloth spine, gilt lettering on red ground, sellotape marks along edge of covers, green EPs with library stamps and mess left by removal of lending form, ow. a clean, reading copy, B&W photographs.... more information

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J. M. Dent, The Aldine Press, 1956. Paperback proof copy. Book very good, paper wraps over card, illustrated DW near fine; frontispiece wood engraving, title, thirty eight further illustrations by the author; 8vo.... more information

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Printed in association with Five Owls Press, Cambridge, 1976. First edition; 185pp; pink printed wraps sun-faded at edges; illustrated; small 4to.... more information

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The Nonesuch Press, 1931. First thus; xvii; 146pp; brown buckram, gilt title to spine, pages uncut and unopened; printed dust wrapper; publisher'd device to title; demy 8vo.... more information

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William Heinemann, London, 1991997. In three volumes; vol 1 reprint, 2 and 3 first editions;. books near fine, black boards, gilt title, dust wrappers; photographs; 8vo.... more information

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William Heinemann, London, 1991997. First editions; in three volumes; books near fine, black boards, gilt title, dust wrappers; photographs; 8vo.... more information

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London, Geoffrey Bles, 1964. Book VG, 200pp., green boards,sunned on edges, black lettering, DW G., owner's name on FFEP., the account of a nine month journey to Peru and Bolivia by a four man BBC crew, frontispiece B&W photograph, many further photographs, 1 map... more information

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Sherborne, Coombe Springs Press, 1976. First edition, paperback, NF,orange cards, pictorial DW, VG., 123pp., owner's name on FFEP, frontispiece B&W photograph of Bennett, double page map of the Near East on end papers, this posthumous volume by the biographer and disciple of Gurdjieff is the account of a journey from Konya through Syria to the Holy Land, three full page drawings.... more information

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Hutchinson, London, 1903. First UK edition. 365pp; bluey-green boards with gilt title within decorative blue and gilt roundel to upper board, gilt title to spine, t.e. gilt, others uncut; red and black title page, red titles; frontispiece with titled tissue guard, illustrated with a further twenty six full-page photogravures; translated from the French by Daniel B. Vermilye; 8vo.... more information

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