Search Results: Authors starting with J from 20th Century Books

"Murder, Hitmen and the Making of L.A. Muckraker Jerry Schneiderman" 230 pages, Advance Reader's Copy, trade paperback format true crime (jc71612)

174 pages, hardcover with dustjacket, marked as a review copy (JC30114)

1512 pages, 9 x 13 x 3 inches, marked as a review copy.




A comprehensive reference guide that covers over 3,500 observances. Features both secular and religious events from many different cultures, countries, and ethnic groups. Includes contact information for events; multiple appendices with background information on world holidays; extensive bibliography; multiple indexes. Regular price $177. (jc22818-4)

104 page critical journal.

104 page critical journal. Special tribute issue for Arthur C. Clarke, corresponding to the author's 70th birthday.

"Chronicle of the Finch-Tregoff Case" 454 pages; trade paperback format, marked as a review copy (jc21312)

266 pages, trade paperback mystery novel, marked as a review copy (jc32612)

38 page saddle stapled 5 1/2 x 8 booklet, a souvenir from a meeting of the JASNA in Richmond, Virginia in 1996, where this play was first performed. 'Sir Charles Grandison or The Happy Man' was long thought to have been written by Jane's niece, Anna Austen, but Brian Southam maintained that Jane Austen wrote it when the manuscript was published in 1980. This version has addition material by Joyce and Kemp, which imagines the Austen family creating and performing the play.

376 pages, hardcover marked as a review copy. "The convergence of legacy telecommunications towards the Internet and Internet technologies is an ongoing process, resulting in converged Telecom and Internet worlds. Based on current and developing industry practice, this book focuses on the Internet technologies, in particular, on Internet principles, protocols, and services for fixed and mobile networks, including technologies, regulation, and business aspects. This timely resource provides readers with all-around coverage of standardized Internet technologies, Internet standardization regarding the Telecom sector, as well as the convergence of all services onto the Internet. This includes legacy telecommunication services, legacy Internet services, and emerging over-the-top services such as Skype, which appeared during the past decade on a global scale, driven by the penetration of fixed broadband and mobile broadband." (jc10-17)

Pocket 1296, 2nd printing mass market paperback. Packaged here to look like a murder mystery, this is actually an English language translation of a French science fiction novel. Originally titled (in English) You Shall Know Them (1953). A population of unusually intelligent apes is discovered, and there are disputes about whether they are human or not. It seems they can be impregnated by either humans or apes. A scientist kills a baby he has fathered, to force a court to determine if he has committed murder or animal cruelty. Also published as Borderline (1954), and adapted as the movie Skullduggery (1970).

262 pages, Advance Reader's Copy, trade paperback format novel (jc20414)

392 pages, Advance Reader's Copy, trade paperback novel (jc72913)

32 pages (plus covers) full color comic book

32 page full color comic book. I'm a small press comic book specialist. As you might imagine, it is going to take forever to list even a small part of my inventory on this site. Let me know what comics you'd like to find!

Signet Q 5338 first printing mass market paperback, movie tie-in

32 page black & white comic book. Part 15 of the Treasure Quest series. I'm a small press comic book specialist. As you might imagine, it is going to take forever to list even a small part of my inventory on this site. Let me know what comics you'd like to find!

32 page full color comic book, minor crease on cover. I'm a small press comic book specialist. As you might imagine, it is going to take forever to list even a small part of my inventory on this site. Let me know what comics you'd like to find!

32 page black & white comic book, part 6 of the Treasure Quest series. I am a small press comic book specialist; it would take me a long time to list even a small part of what I have in stock. Let me know what you would like to for sale here!

32 page full color comic book, minor crease on cover. I'm a small press comic book specialist. As you might imagine, it is going to take forever to list even a small part of my inventory on this site. Let me know what comics you'd like to find!

32 page full color comic book. I'm a small press comic book specialist. As you might imagine, it is going to take forever to list even a small part of my inventory on this site. Let me know what comics you'd like to find!