Search Results: Authors starting with J from Flamingo Books

The Kings Press. Very Good. 1980 first edition Norris-Causey Christian Publications / Landmark Publications (Moline, Illinois), 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches tall paperbound in white covers with design and lettering in black, [8], 342 pp. Slight rubbing and edgewear to covers, with mild creasing to tips. Mild soiling to bottom and fore page edges. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce Calvinism debate between a Missionary Baptist and a Calvinist Baptist. OCLC (No. 861106717, 227206289) locates only three copies at institutions worldwide. ~P~ [2.0P] A debate on Calvinism between Jesse R. Alexander (Missionary Baptist) and Lawrence Crawford (Calvinistic Baptist), over the course of four days - November 19-22, 1979. Contents: How the Debate Came About; First Day, Prop. 1: The Scriptures teach that some men are unconditionally elected to salvation and eternal glory. (4 affirmative by Crawford and 4 negative by Alexander); Second Day, Prop. 2: The Scriptures teach that the… Read More

Geological Survey of Canada, 1962-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 1962 first edition, Geological Survey of Canada/Department of Mines and Technical Surveys (Ottawa, Canada). Paperbound in green card covers with dark green lettering to front cover and spine, 6 x 9 inches tall, 122 pp., plus 8 full-page plates of fossils with facing page textual identification of the images, including index and fold-out chart. Edgewear and staining especially to spine. Prior owner's name to top of front covers. Otherwise, a very good+ copy - clean, bright and unmarked. [D1]~TT~

Allied Printing, 2006-01-01. hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x1. 2006 International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers (Washington, D.C.), 9 x 11 1/4 inches tall glossy pictorial hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), copiously illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs and drawings, vi, [2], 364 pp. Very slight rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~A~ [4.0P] A historical perspective of the ironworkers' union from its beginnings to 2006. The union was formed on February 4, 1896 at a meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with 16 delegates from the local unions in Boston, Massachusetts, Buffalo, New York, Chicago, Illinois, Cleveland, Ohio, New York City, New York, Detroit, Michigan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh. Those locals, and others established later, often… Read More

Amer Water Works Assn, 1992-06-01. Paperback. Very Good. 1992 AWWA Research Foundation and American Water Works Association (Denver, Colorado), 8 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches tall paperbound in glossy covers, illustrated with black-and-white diagrams, xviii, 109 pp. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Retired engineering products company copy, with company stamps to blank versos of front and rear covers, and an ink number and white label covering the remnants of a removed bookplate to the verso of the front cover, as the only indications of this. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this uncommon title. ~R~ [1.5P] Explores the feasibility of using nondestructive testing (NDT) to assess the physical condition of exposed and buried water mains. Describes NDT techniques used in the water, oil and gas industries, and discusses their advantages, limitations, methods of interpretation, and potential use by the water industry.

Wooden Boat Publications, 2005-12-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 2005 first edition WoodenBoat Books (Brooklin, Maine) 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches tall hardbound, laminated pictorial boards, no dust jacket (as issued), copiously illustrated, 87 pp. Minor bumping to upper tips. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP12~ Author and boat designer Glifford Jackson grew up with boats in his native New Zealand and developed an early interest in the design. In 1939 he set off by sea at the age of 17, to study naval architecture at Glasgow University in Scotland. Includes the full set of plans, and building commentary from the designer, for The Marisol, a rugged 12-foot, 6-inch daysailer, a v-bottomed dagger-boarder built in glue-lap-ply construction with sawn frames.

Leonard Lichfield, 1638-01-01. Leather Bound. Very Good. 1638 first edition Leonard Lichfield (Oxford, England), 5 7/8 x 7 3/4 inches tall black full leather bound, gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, woodcut headpiece and initials, [24], 355 pp., complete. Recently rebound, with paper repairs to title page and a number of other pages. Chipping, staining and light soiling to edges of title page. Creasing and soiling to several pages, and mild to moderate foxing throughout. Marginal contemporaneous notations and underlining to several pages and extensive contemporaneous notations (including an index to scriptural citations) filling rear endpapers. Otherwise, a very good copy, with a splendid shelf appearance. Scarce. References: STC (2nd ed.), 14317; ESTC No. S107491. ~TTT~ Thomas Jackson (1579-1640) was an English theologian, and served as president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford for the last decade of his life. Originally a Calvinist, he became in later life an Arminian. This was the… Read More

D. Jacobs. Very Good. 2001 first edition, D. Jacobs (West Columbia, South Carolina), 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall paperbound in blue covers, white lettering and design to front cover, [6], 140 pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce local history. OCLC (No. 48104764) locates only three copies at institutions worldwide. ~VVV~ [1.5P] An exploration of the controversial 1908 move of the Dallas County, Arkansas courthouse from Princeton to Fordyce, Arkansas. Dallas County, in southern Arkansas, includes three cities - Carthage, Fordyce (county seat) and Sparkman - and the following townships: Bunn, Chester (Carthage), Dry Run (part of Fordyce), Fordyce (most of Fordyce), Holly Springs, Jackson, Liberty, Manchester, Nix, Owen (Sparkman), Princeton, Smith, Southall, Willow.

Colombier, 1870. Hardcover. Good. Libretto in French. [1870] Colombier (Paris), 7 1/2 x 11 inches tall beige cloth hardcover (appears recently rebound) with refreshed marbled endpapers, [4], 371 pp. Intermittent light foxing throughout, especially to front and rear prelims. Moderate soiling and edge-chipping to front prelims, including title page, which has a blue Columbier publisher's stamp at the bottom. Moderate to heavy edge chipping to last 10 pages (especially lower tips), not impacting text. Otherwise, a very good copy of this scarce imprint, handsomely bound. ~SP39~ [4.0P] Les brigands (The Bandits) is an opera bouffe, or operetta, by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy. Meilhac and Halevy's libretto lampoons both serious drama (Schiller's play The Robbers) and opera comique (Fra Diavolo and Les diamants de la couronne by Auber). The plot is cheerfully amoral in its presentation of theft as a basic principle of society rather than as an… Read More

Glencannon Pr, 1998-04-30. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x0x11. 1998 Glencannon Press (Palo Alto, California), 8 3/4 x 11 3/8 inches tall white buckram cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, facsimile autograph endpapers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs and line drawings, xvii, index, 204 pp. Nicely inscribed and signed by the author on the blank front free-endpaper. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a like dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~ZZ~ [3.0P] She was built to chase rum-runners. But FDR liked her lines and the Potomac became the presidential yacht. Today, beautifully restored to her glorious era, she brings alive the historic Roosevelt years. This is her whole history. 200 photos of the ship, the… Read More

Sharon Bruneel, 1997-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1997 signed and inscribed first edition, S. Bruneel (Boise, Idaho), 5 3/4 x 8 5/8 inches tall green buckram cloth hardbound, no dust jacket (as issued), gilt lettering to front cover and spine, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, 177, [7] pp. Very slight rubbing to covers. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front pastedown. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce memoir and family history by a lifelong resident of Idaho and Mormon. ~EEE~

Sarob, 2011. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. 2011 first, limited and numbered (34/150 copies) edition, Sarob Press (Neuilly-le-Vendin, France), 6 x 8 1/2 inches tall black pictorial hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), white lettering to front cover and spine, illustrated with Paul Lowe's striking black-and-white drawings, [10], 105 pp. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP28~ [1.5P] Eight dark, terror-filled ghostly stories - some Jamesian, some not – all pleasingly traditional. The title is a quotation from 'The Relic' by John Donne. Jane Jakeman is the author of Death in the South of France, Death at Versailles and the Lord Ambrose Malfine historical crime novels. She lives in Oxford where some of the stories in A Bracelet of Bright Hair are set. Jane's ghostly fiction has been previously published in Ghosts & Scholars, All Hallows & Supernatural Tales. This is her first… Read More

Alba House, 1963. hardcover. Acceptable/Good. 0x0x0. 1963 second print, Alba House (Staten Island, New York), 5 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches tall orange cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, 320 pp. Slight rubbing and edgewear to covers. Abrasions to front and rear pastedowns. Prior owner address label to top margin of blank front free-endpaper. A couple of pages with underlining and marginalia. TAN Books stamp to blank rear free-endpaper. Otherwise, a very good copy in a mildly edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~SP11~ [2.0P] A complete and accurate presentation of Therese's 'little way.' In doing so, the author created a work, not for the initiated few, but for all Christians seriously interested in finding a sure and easy way to Christ.

James Osgood, 1883. 2nd. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. 1883 association copy (children's author/illustrator Maurice Sendak), second edition, James R. Osgood and Co. (Boston), green cloth hardcover, no dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, 294 pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with a small bit of red staining to the rear cover. Spine very slightly cocked. A couple of pencil bibliographic notations to the blank front and rear endpapers, possibly by former owner, author/illustrator Maurice Sendak (1928-2012). Otherwise, apart from very slight age toning, a very good copy - clean and unmarked. No Sendak bookplate, but a certificate of provenance is laid in from the auction house which establishes that the book was from the personal library of Sendak, and was sold on behalf of the famed Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia. Sendak was known to be an inveterate reader of nineteenth-century authors, including Henry James. His library included a large number of volumes by and about James,… Read More

The Riverside Press, Houghton Mifflin, 1892. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. 1892 Houghton Mifflin (Boston, Massachusetts), association copy (children's author/illustrator Maurice Sendak), green buckram cloth hardcover, no dust jacket, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, 347 pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. A couple of pencil bibliographic notations to the blank front and rear endpapers, possibly by former owner, author/illustrator Maurice Sendak (1928-2012). Otherwise, apart from very slight age toning, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. No Sendak bookplate, but a certificate of provenance is laid in from the auction house which establishes that the book was from the personal library of Sendak, and was sold on behalf of the famed Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia. Sendak was known to be an inveterate reader of nineteenth-century authors, including Henry James. His library included a large number of volumes by and about James, including this early reprint of… Read More

J.C. Smith, 1997-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. [1997] J.C. Smith (Chattanooga, Tennessee), 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall x 1 1/4 inches thick spiral bound (black plastic comb), index, [10], 518 pp. A near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this rare genealogy. Not in OCLC. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP37~ [3.5P] Traces the known descendants of William Parham (1753-1824) and his wife, Peggy (1750-1836), of Haywood County, North Carolina. In addition to hundreds and hundreds of Parhams, other surnames which receive extensive coverage (among many others) include: Andrews, Bailey, Black, Brackett, Bramlett, Brewer, Bridges, Brown, Buckner, Cable, Caldwell, Carson, Carter, Chastain, Clark, Cole, Cox, Davis, Dellinger, Fleming, Fore, Foster, Fuller, Henderson, Herod, Hoglen, Jones, King, Lee, Logan, Lowe, Manning, Martin, Massey, McCracken, McElrath / McElreath, Miller, Morgan, Parris, Phillips, Plemmons,… Read More

William Morrow, 2012-07-24. Hardcover. Very Good. 2012 signed and inscribed first edition, William Morrow / HarperCollinsPublishers (NY), 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall hardbound in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, white paper-covered boards over blue cloth spine, gilt lettering to spine, [8], 387 pp. Very slight bumping to tips of book, with very slight rubbing to covers. Signed and inscribed by the author in red ink on the title page. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a like dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival sleeve. ~SP34~ The New York Times bestselling master of mystery and suspense, J.A. Jance - whom the Chattanooga Times ranks 'among the best, if not the best' - brings back her enormously popular series protagonist, Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady. With Judgment Call, Jance achieves a new high in crime fiction, as Brady wrestles with her conflicting roles of law officer and mother when her daughter discovers the… Read More

Red Rose Publishing, 2009-01-13. Paperback. Very Good. 2009 Red Rose Publishing (Foresport, New York), 5 x 8 inches tall trade paperback, 144 pp. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP04~ [1.0P]

Coopers & Lybrand, 1973-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 1973 First edition, Coopers & Lybrand, 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall softbound, 142pp. Mild staining and edgewear to covers and page edges with a couple of small dings to the fore and bottom page edges. Minor fraying to front cover edges and top spine cap. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP06~

Bureau of National Affairs / Bloomberg BNA. Good. 2014 Bloomberg BNA / Bureau of National Affairs (Arlington, Virginia), 8 3/4 x 11 inches tall wire spiral bound paperback in tan covers, mixed pagination. Partly removed call number label to front cover - the only evidence that this portfolio was a former corporate or law library copy. Title page and a couple of other pages very slightly creased. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this useful legal practice guide. Bloomberg BNA Corporate Practice Series Portfolio No. 93. ~RRR~ Focuses primarily on the social impacts of business activities, beginning with an overview of specific roles and responsibilities of the board of directors in overseeing a company's approach to corporate social responsibility. The portfolio provides practical advice concerning emerging new business forms that represent a 'hybrid' between traditional for-profit corporate enterprises and nonprofit business entities established to pursue a… Read More

Harper & Brothers, 1954-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1954 first edition Rockliff Publishing (London), 5 5/8 x 8 3/4 inches tall blue cloth hardcover in publisher's dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, 203 pp. Slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Moderate age-toning from dust jacket to adjacent blank pastedowns and free-endpapers. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a moderately rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~QQ~ [1.5P] What effect does a writer's belief have on his art? The author, Fr. Martin Jarrett-Kerr, takes a contrasted set of writers - Calderon, Manzoni, Dostoevsky, Ramuz, Kafka and others - and shows how their passionate faith informs, reforms, or sometimes deforms their imaginative creations.