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

London and New York Frederick Warne & Co Ltd., No date circa 1950. Hardback, 8.5 x 6.5 inches. In light yellow cloth covers cloth, red titles and fairy vignette to front cover. With illustrated dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. Green pictorial endpapers. Full-page colour illustrations of flower fairies and b/w text illustrations. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; Some minor darkening, faint water mark rear corner, Price clipped. in protective sleeve.). Inscription on second blank page, else a clean and tight copy. 60pp. with 16 colour plates & B&W decorations and illustrations. Joan is a little girl who believes in fairies and when the gardener tells her that the best place to find them is among the wild flowers, she goes in search of them. Tinkler the elf acts as guide, and Joan makes some wonderful discoveries.

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, Collins’ Clear-Type Press, n.d. ca1920 1st. Paperback, approx 6 x 3 inches. 12mo. Illustrated paper cover with colour illustration to front and illustrated endpapers by Jessie M. King. In very good condition. Cover with some minor tanning and handling marks, slightly darkened on rear. No penned inscriptions. One or two minor handling marks else pages clean and tight. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 32pp. Cover design, endpapers and B&W illustrated title page and text illustrations by Jessie M. King.

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.

A Montagu Motor Book. New Series. Cassell 1962 (2nd.).. 8.5 x 5.5inches. In red cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine and front. In good condition with good dustwrapper. (DW’s some minor handling marks. Not price clipped. Some scratches on the illustration on back cover of DW). Sellotape off setting onto end paper. Markings throughout and slight foxing on edges. A signed copy (blue ink). Inside most pages very clean and tight throughout. 275 pp. From the library of W. M. B. Kile.

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, Macmillan & Co., 1900/01 repr. 5 vols.; Hardbacks, 7.5 x 5 inches. Quarter-bound red polished calf leather to spines and corners, and marbled paper to boards. Raised banding, gilt floral decorations to spines, with gilt lettering to green/blue leather spine labels. All edges & endpapers Marbled. In good conditions. Spines a little faded and with light rubbing, scuffed head of Mansfield Park. Some mild foxing to blank prelims, A couple of minor handling marks to pages, Mansfied Park & Sense & Sensibility have a few slight gaps between gatherings. 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. Folio Society. 2003. Size 6 x 9.5 inches. In full art silk printed with a Regency fabric design with gilt spine title, deep red endpapers. In red card slipcase. In very good condition. Very clean and tight in slipcase. Slight shelfwear to slipcase and cloth boards. 642pp; Collected and edited by Deirdre Le Faye

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.

London, Macmillan and Co., 1895. Hardback, approx 7 x 5 inches. In navy blue cloth covers with beautiful pictorial gilt decorations and lettering to front and spine. Peacock designs to endpapers. All page edges gilt. In very good condition. Some minor bumps to bottom corners. Gilt lightly rubbed away front front board boat. Endpapers are a bit darkened. Some minor darkening to tissue guard at front. Inscription on second blank page “ Christmas 1924 Wilfred from Grandma With Best Wishes” A few very minor foxing spots. Else a clean and tight copy. 401pp. With 32 B&W illustrations by Henry M. Brock, full page and within text.

Collins 1962. 5 x 7.5 inches in red cloth boards with black lettering to spine. in illustrated dustwrapper in good condition with good dustwrapper. ( faded on spine and rubbed on corners and edges, not price clipped) minor foxing on pages. Else a clean and tight copy. 6 illustrations, including 1 coloured frontis. 256 pp

Paisley, Alex Gardner, n.d. ca1902 1st. Hardback, approx 8 x 5 inches. In blue cloth with gilt lettering and design to front and spine. In very good condition. Cover with some minor fading to spine and minor rubbing/bumps to corners. Some tanning to free sides of endpapers, no penned inscriptions. Pages all very clean, crisp and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 130pp. Illustrated with 5 B&W plates and a decorative title page by Jessie M. King.