Search Results: Authors starting with J from Great Expectations Rare Books

Alexandra, VA: Time Life Books, 1982. Hardcover, dark blue leatherette [faux-leather] covers with pictorial paste-down on front board. 176 pages. Bibliography, Index. Extensively illustrated with monochrome photographs and color art-work. First edition, first printing. An overview of the strategic, technological and combat history of the Army Air Force in all theatre's of the Second World War. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. near new. Fine. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Not Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1979. Large format trade paperback. 317pp., Extensively illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. The Great War in text and pictures, many of the photos seen here for the first time. No previous ownership marks. Book shows light wear from age and reading, albeit a clean, tight, square copy with no faults. Good+.. Third Printing. Soft Cover. Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Knopf, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 395 pages. Bibliographic References, Index. Illustrated with 39 black and with drawings, photographs and paintings. Stated first American edition, no additional printings listed. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Near fine in a very good dust-jacket. .

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963 First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, blue cloth in dustjacket. Fine in fine dustjacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, red cloth lettered in black on spine. in publisher's dust-jacket. 174 pages. Index. Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis. Book Club edition. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, unmarked copy, like new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1931. Cloth. Covers age soiled, else a sound, clean copy. Good.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Near Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Londion: Butterworths, 1965. Hardcover, red cloth, no dust-jacket. 537 pages. Index. Illustrated with tables, charts and several photographs. First edition. Previous owner's name and small label inside front cover. Cloth protected by handsomely crafted home-made acetate covers. The proceedings of an advanced study institute organized under the auspices of N.A.T.O. , St Andrews, 15-25 June 1964. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Near fine. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Brown Books, 1999. Hardcover, laminated pictorial boards with images repeated on dust-jacket. Dust-jacket price clipped. 160 pages. Index. Extensively illustrated with color and black and white photographs and color artwork. First edition, first printing. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers that have been pasted to inside of front and rear boards. Not an ex-library copy, from a private collection. An excellent single volume reference covering the various classes of naval vessels that made up the Kriegsmarine: commerce raiders; battleships, battlecruisers; cruisers; destroyers; torpedo boats, S-boats; and U-boats. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy Near fine in a fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London:: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, , 1967. First edition. Cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated. A collection of true crime tales told by the former Assiatant Commissioner of the New Scotland Yard and a past president of Interpol. Very good in near very good dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886. Mustard colored cloth lettered in gold. Illustrated title page and several vignette drawings. Floral patterned endpapers. Moderate wear to cloth, spine cloth mottled and stained, and first several leaves, including title show old dampstain, though it is almost imperceptible on many pages. Owner's inscription dated 1886 on prelim. A good solid copy, quite clean internally, of this scarce book of poems. BAL 10470. First Edition. Cloth. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: St. Martins Press, 1980. Hardcover, red buckram in dust-jacket. Examines the planes and tactics used in the Civil War in Spain during the 1930's, Polland and France in 1939, the American AVG in China in 1941-42, Soviet fighters during thje war and the advent of jets over Germany. No name, no book-plate, etc. Fine in very good+ dust-jacket.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Buckram. Fair/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bath, UK: Parragon Inc, 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, large quarto bound in pictorial laminated covers, with dust-jacket repeating the same art. 320 pages. Index. Illustrated with photographs, mostly color. First edition. Includes photographs and descriptive text of over 240 armored vehicles from the early twentieth century to 2007. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, books as new, dust-jacket very good+ with no tears or chips. A large, oversize volume, Priority and International orders will require additional postage calculated as close to actual cost as possible. .

New York: Bonanza, 1969. Hardcover, blue cloth in dust-jacket. 224pp. Illustrated with photographs and maps. No price on dust-jacket flap, though not price clipped, three letter code BJH at lower corner of inner flap. No previous ownership marks other than a small gold label, approximately one square inch, affixed to upper corner of front free endpaper. A clean, square, tight copy. Very good in a very good dust-jacket.. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1962. Hardcover, red cloth in dust-jacket. 432 pages. Chronology, Bibliography, Further Reading List [by genre], Index. Third printing. Previous owner's name on front free end-paper. Cloth covers stained and dust-jacket tattered, albeit interior clean and unmarked. A sound, tightly bound working copy of a book which examines the principle genres of medieval literature: the romance. the chanson de geste, the Germanic epic, the beast epic, lyric poetry and the drama. A good reading copy in a porr dust-jacket. . Third Printing. Hardcover. Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1996. Trade paperback. 563 pages. Bibliography. New edition, first thus. Concise and comprehensive guide to 83 major operas by forty-one composers. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. Very good+ or better.. First Thus. Softcover. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: Running Press , 2015. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Large format hardcover, folio size volume bound in red cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 272 pages. Illustrated throughout by Jack Davis, Mort Drucker and the other members of "The Usual Gang of Idiots", in black and white, with a few pages in color. Foreword by "Weird AL" Yankovic. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. No remainder mark. Book is clean, fresh and unmarked. Dust-jacket clean with no chips or tears, just shy of new. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket. .

New York: Artabras, 1994. Large oversize hardcover, lamionated boards in glossy pictorial dust-jacket. 144pp., Illustrated with over 275 color photographs. Stated first edition. "Organized by catagory, this stylish volume presents a rich and varied visual history of fashion, and of Barbie herself, and is sure to delight the follwers of fashion, as well as Barbie doll fans of all generations". No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, unmarked fresh copy, near as new. A very fine copy in a very fine dust-jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Waltham, MA: Xerox College Publishing, 1971. Trade paperback. 140 pages. First edition. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. Mild wear from age. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Near very good. . First Edition. Softcover. Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie, 1915. Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, beige cloth spine over dark brown paper covered boards. 337 pages. Illustrated with drawings. Reprint edition, no date but generally acknowledged to be 1915. Best remembered for his macabre tale "The Monkeys Paw", Jacobs also wrote numerous novels and short stories which featured dockside and rural Essex characters involved in farcical situations. The present novel is of the later ilk, a humorous nautical and travel tale, first published in 1904. No previous ownership marks. Paper covered boards are quite rubbed and show edge-wear, albeit the book is otherwise square, tight and sound. Good. .

Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 1970. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Reprint. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, red cloth decorated and lettered in gold, in publisher's clipped dust-jacket. 479 pages. profusely illustrated with black and white photographs in text and maps; with a portfolio of 194 monochrome and color photographs at rear. Tenth printing, 1970. No p[previous ownership marks. A comprehensive guide to Oriental Rugs. Book is clean, square, and unmarked. Dust-jacket shows original price but is clipped at bottom of inner flap. A very good+ copy in a near very good dust-jacket. Media mail only. .