Search Results: Authors starting with J from C L Hawley

W. & R. Chambers. Hardback. 300pp. No date but gift inscription form 1916. with ten illustrations by Hilda Cowham. Pictorial cloth. Colour illustrated in red, blue and black with two girls to the front and one girl to the spine. Slightly bumped. Slightly worn to spine ends. Very clean. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy . Hardback.

Edinburgh University Press,. Hardback. 256pp. Grey cloth is very clean but slightly faded to top edges. Dust wrapper is clean with a hint of tanning. Not price clipped. Very good copy in good+ dust wrapper . Hardback. 1972.

Oxford University Press. Hardback. 308pp. An assessment of the major works of Robert Browning and the shape of his poetic career. Indexed.  Ex-library copy with shadow of label to dust wrapper spine stamps to fixed endpaper and ffep has been torn out. Book itself has no library numbers to its spine. Clean and sound. Good, sound, ex-library copy . Hardcover. 1973.

Oxford University Press. Paperback. x,163pp. Focusing particularly on John Dryden, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson. Pages are tanned. Lightly rubbed. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1978.

Granta. Paperback. Five issues of Granta magazine. From the library of John Cunliffe, writer of Postman Pat and Rosie and Jim, and several issues bear his signature or annotations and other ownership marks. The annotations are not always very complimentary. No 66 for instance is an' arid issue on the whole'. Clan and sound but thumbed to fore-edge and creased to spine. Cunliffe obviously read the issues thoroughly despite his rather damning notes. Very good copy . Paperback. 2003.

New York:: W. W. Norton and Company,. Hardback. 606pp. First edition. Biography of the novelist. Very clean and neat. Not price clipped. Very good copy in like dust wrapper . Hardback. First Edition. 2017.

The Orkney Press,. Paperback. 64pp. Stapled pamphlet binding. Black and white illustrations throughout. Maps. Lightly rubbed. Very clean and bright. Very good copy . Paperback. 1989.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,. Paperback. xiv, 342pp. Includes a filmography. Essays include: Shakespeare, films and the marketplace; From play-script to screenplay; Video and its paradoxes; Critical junctures in Shakespeare screen history : the case of Richard III; Shakespeare and movie genre : the case of Hamlet; Comedies on film; Filming Shakespeare's history : three films of Richard III; Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear on film; Tragedies of love on film; Shakespeare films of Laurence Olivier; Orson Welles and filmed Shakespeare; Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet and King Lear; Franco Zeffirelli and Shakespeare; Flamboyant realist : Kenneth Branagh; Looking at Shakespeare's women on film; National and racial stereotypes in Shakespeare films; Shakespeare the illusionist : filming the supernatural; Shakespeare's cinematic offshoots. Light reading wear. Very clean and sound. Very good copy . Paperback. 2000.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,. Paperback. 304pp. From John Newbery's first publications to Romanticism and the influence of William Blake and fantasy. A detailed and scholarly over-view. Lightly rubbed to edges. Very good copy. . Paperback. 1990.

London: Longman,. Paperback. viii, 279pp. A little faded to spine. Clean and neat. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1994.

London:: Grant Richards. Hardback. 312pp. Frontis engraving of Charles Dickens. 31 further portrait plates showing writers including: Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, William Makepeace Thackeray and George Meredith. The introduction Notes that the author would have liked 'to include Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot ... but the women novelists are to have a volume to themselves'. Red cloth with gilt titles and gilt decoration to both front and spine. Edges are uncut. A dated but unusually well illustrated volume of literary criticism. Lightly rubbed to edges. Spine is faded and tanned. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1908.

Arrow. Paperback. 256pp. Novel. First paperback edition. Tanned. Light reading wear. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. First Paperback Edition. 1966.

London:: Hutchinson,. Hardback. First edition. Novel set in Naomi Jacob's native Yorkshire. Attractive colour illustrated dust jacket by Peter Chadwick. Unusually, laid in is a contemporary promotional bookmark for the works of Naomi Jacob with a photograph and biography to one side and a list of her works on the other. Black cloth with gilt titles to spine is generally clean and neat though there is a faint mark to the spine. Dust jacket is clean and neat. Illustration is bright but the paler background areas of the dust jacket have some slight dustiness and tehre are four small rust marks to the back. Very good copy in good+ dust jacket . Hardback. First Edition. 1951.

Puffin. Paperback. 358pp. 12th book in the Redwall series. Sunned to spine. Very clean and sound. Very good copy . Paperback. 1998.

The Poetry Business. Paperback. Guest edited. 129 poems by 68 poets plus a small number of articles. Tiniest hint of rubbing to corners. Very clean and neat. Very good copy . Paperback. 2015.

Norwich: Hymns Ancient & Modern,. Hardback. 98pp. The Alcuin Club, formed in 1897, is dedicated to the Book of Common Prayer and orthodox liturgy and ceremony. Its scholarly publications cover liturgy and ceremony and haigiography. Green cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Minimal wear. Near fine, bright copy. . Hardcover. Second edition. 1986.

BCA. Hardback. 356pp. Maps to endpapers. Small number of black and white illustrations. Book club edition. Dust wrapper is rubbed to edges and faded to spine. Clean. Binding is sound. . 1976.

Dewsbury: Published by the Author and printed by Joseph Ward & Co. Hardback. 348pp. Indexed. Brown papers to boards with gilt titles to front and spine. Faint cup ring to front otheriwse clean. Text is clean. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1970.

Faber and Faber. Hardback. Signed by P. D. James to the title page. 408pp. A crime novel set in Norfolk. First edition. An Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Black boards with white tiles to spine are very clean and general neat but with a slight ding to the top edge. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed. Pages are tanned. Clean. Good+, sound copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. First Edition. 1989.

Faber and Faber. Hardback. Crime novel featuring Adam Dagliesh. First edition. Lightly reading wear. Lightly rubbed. Very clean and neat. Very good copy in like dust wrapper . Hardback. First Edition. 2005.