Search Results: Authors starting with J from Capricorn Books

Toronto: Doubleday, 1989. 346 pp, 9 1/4" H. "(C)ontinues the well-established tradition for humour and adventure as Bartholomew Bandy pursues his mad destiny in India. It's 1925 and Bandy is working for the Maharajah of Jhamjarh, trying to set up and operate a new air force while sidestepping the short-sighted protests of the British government in India. The new air force certainly comes in handy when the nefarious neighboring state of Khaliwar decides to attack. But they haven't counted on Jhamjarh's secret weapon - the unorthodox methods and outrageous behavior of Bartholomew Bandy. Despite these distractions, the mystical visions of India have their effect on Bandy, leaving him a changed man. The underlying element of anger which has always been a part of his humor is finally resolved - which makes for a very satisfactory ending to the story of Bartholomew Bandy." Light edge wear at top/bottom of spine, very small scuff on front board near spine. Dust jacket has… Read More

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1973. 300 pp, 8 3/8" H. "Here are the further misadventures of Bartholomew Bandy, World War I Ace extraordinaire introduced in 'Three Cheers for Me'. Bandy is once again lending his peculiar talents to the war effort. Fate has smiled (perhaps leered) on him and he is now a Lt. Colonel and liaison officer in London for the Secretary of State for Air. Most of Bandy's liaisons leave something to be desired. A penniless Bolshevik spy bullies him into buying a gaudy painting by an upstart named Matisse, a buxom widow makes forward advances at him under his fiancee's nose, and he's almost lynched when the Prime Minister, Lloyd George, picks him to make a speech denouncing the British Chief of Staff. Instead he's sent off to the trenches of France - to join a freewheeling bicycle brigade with unorthodox methods of killing Germans and staying in high spirits. Bandy is also subjected to a number of other horrors: an evening in a Dublin pub… Read More

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1996. 351 pp, lg 8vo (9 1/4" H ). "A new war - and (forty-five-year-old Flight-Lieutenant) Bandy wants to get in the thick of it" Volume 8 of The Bandy Papers. Very tiny stain on top of text block, slight fading to bottom edge of spine. Dust jacket has very light edge wear/wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, very light rubbing, many faint indentation lines on rear panel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. Illus. by Greg Banning Cover Art..

Peguis, Winnipeg, MB, 1990, 2nd edition. 195 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H), hard cover (pictorial boards) - no dust jacket. B&w drawings, diagrams. ISBN 092054925 "This book focuses on the environmental textiles, those essential fabrics and coverings which provide not only visual color and textur e to an interior, but also meet the human needs for warmth, privacy, comfort and quiet. Basically, it will take the reader from fiber to finished goods and through the process of intelligent selection of particular textiles for specific applicat i o n s." Previous owner's name/date on free front endpaper, light edge wear, light rubbing, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Very Good.

London: Arthur Barker, 1970. 234 pp, 8vo 8 3/4" H. B&w photographs. "On 19 July 1918, six Sopwith Camels took off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier 'Furious' off the Schleswig coast. Their mission - to bomb the German Zeppelin sheds at Tondern. It was the first time in history that a force of aircraft had been launched against an enemy objective from an aircraft carrier: the first ever strike from the sea. In the half century that has elapsed since that historic day, the Royal Navy's airmen have carved out a reputation of courage and skill that is second to none. This is their story - a story of men and courage, of crews, aircraft and ships often hurled into battle against hopeless odds. The author has covered every major operation involving the Fleet Air Arm and its predecessor, the RNAS, including Korea, Suez, Malaya and forgotten 'backyard wars' such as the British naval operations against the Bolsheviks in the Baltic in 1919, when the Navy's airmen… Read More

New York: Walker (Originally published: A. Barker, London, 1978)., 1984. 144 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). "To Sergeant George Yeoman, cruising high above France in his Hurricane fighter, about to join his first operational squadron, the prospect of battle seems distant and unreal. Each side has been gingerly reconnoitering the other for weeks in what has become known as the 'phony war'. But Yeoman is flying into a fire storm. At that moment, the deadly formations of the Luftwaffe are winging toward the allied airfields. The Blitzkrieg has begun. You are in the cockpit as Yeoman wheels and dives over the green fields of France. The dual machine guns and the hammering cannon of the Messerschmitt 109 can chew apart the canvas-covered Hurricanes, and Hitler's pilots have four years experience from the Spanish civil war. At first the British aviators are locked into textbook echelons that the enemy easily picks apart. As the British Expeditionary Force fights its way to Dunkirk, the men of… Read More

Belleville, Ontario: Mika, 1978. 239 pp, 4to (11 5/16" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions, maps. Chapter headings: Introduction: The Callenge of Railways; The Great Western Railway; North-South Railway Routes; Railways in the South of the Peninsula; The Foundation of Inter-Urban Railways; Railway Bridges at the International Border; The Urban Impact of Railways; The Overall Impact and Significance of Railways. Minor browning to pages, light browning to edges of text block, light cigarette odour, wrinkling at bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light to moderate edgewear, a few tiny closed tears - some with creases, light edge wrinkling, very light rubbing - now protected in removable mylar sleeve.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Very Good-.

London: Brown, 2000. 144 pp, 4to (11 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated with colour and b&w photographs, reproductions, profiles, cutaways. "Beginning with the age of sail and the Battle of Trafalgar, the book describes the development of the first primitive ironclads with traversing turrets, the battles of the American Civil War, and the heyday of the battleship in the decades before the outbreak of World War I. (It) shows how new technologies helped shape naval tactics and the advances in ship design during the nineteenth century, culminating in two new classes of ship, the dreadnought and the battlecruiser, that saw much action at the Battle of Jutland and the other naval encounters of World War I, and which are also discussed in depth here. By World War II the battleship, threatened by the submarine and difficult to protect from either underwater or aerial attack, had been usurped by the aircraft carrier from its position as prime naval weapon - as was dramatically demonstrated at Pearl… Read More

London: Ian Allan, 1986. 48 pp, 11 1/4" H. B&w and colour photographs, drawings/diagrams, maps, profiles. Contents: Introduction; Background and History; Function; Organisation; Weaponry; Operations. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - soft crease on front cover. . Stapled in Wraps. Very Good+.

London: Ian Allan, 1988. 56 pp, 11 3/16" H. B&w photographs, drawings, diagrams, map, colour photographs, profiles. Contents: Preface, Multi-Role Combat Aircraft; A Tale of Two Tornados; Weapons System; Tornado Production; RAF Tornado Histories; Tornado Squadrons; Tornado in Service. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - clean and bright.. Reprint.. Stapled in Wraps. Near Fine.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1972. 160 pp, 8vo (8" H). B&w illustrations. "The usual pattern of Katy's summer holiday on the island of Hrossay is disrupted by more than the invasion of her cousins Varen, Barney and Randy MacGillan, or even the last-minute arrival of the Ellis family. Strange forces enter the household with the spinning-wheel which Varen brings home: 'bewitched', Peter Harcus has said of it, but nothing of the wheel's potential, no word of warning against those who share its secret. R.E. Jackson set her most imaginative novel yet on a legend-steeped island in Orkney, where a trick of light on the sea can reveal the dark shape of human being beneath its surface, and can transform an ordinary girl in the street into a mermaid in her prime; where the powerful influence of an old wooden spinning-wheel becomes increasingly evident, and the dividing-line between fact and fancy ever harder to perceive." Very minor edge wear. Dust jacket is price clipped,… Read More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. 170 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "The war in North Africa is over, and the Allies are poised to strike at the soft underbelly of Europe - Sicily and Italy. Like other officers of the Special Air Service - the elite fighting force that made its mark in the desert battles of 1942 - Lieutenant Callum Douglas, veteran of the Tunisian campaign, expects to take part in the invasion of southern Europe. Instead, he and his team of commandos find themselves locked in a bloody, brutal war amid the rivers and mountains of Yugoslavia, where 120,000 Axis troops are fighting vainly to stamp out a growing faction of dedicated patriots - the Partisans. To his dismay, Douglas learns that the British have been parachuting supplies to the Cetniks - a group of so-called freedom fighters, who are, in fact, in league with the Germans. They are in direct conflict with the Partisans and their shadowy, almost mystical leader, a man called Tito. Douglas's original orders are to… Read More

London: Thomas Nelson 159 pp, 10 1/4" H, cream cloth spine with b&w lettering/decoration, paper-covered boards, front board with illustration of two boys sharing a picnic with spaniel lying in front of them. No date, but Christmas gift message on front free endpaper is dated 1941. 6 colour plates (including frontispiece) - one each by Frank Hart (sledding), Studdy (motorcycle/motorcyclist), Warwick Reynolds (football/soccer game) & 3 others - all present. Additional b&w illustrations throughout text. Contents: The Secret of Mundy Island: A Scouting Story; When School House Rebelled: The Tale of a Barring-out; Ellison's Elephant: The Tale of a Terrible Pet; The Lame Duck: A Tale of Luging in Switzerland; An Adventure with Dingoes, by Charles T. Jackson; "And Some There Be", by A. Harcourt Burrage; The Secret of the School, by Wallis Grey; Born in the Blood, by C. Bernard Rutley; Ginger for Pluck, by Reg. G. Thomas; Grizzly Bears. Patchy light browning on the endpapers,… Read More

Shepperton: Ian Allan, 1992. 96 pp, 7 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated in b&w with photographs, maps, drawings. Contents: Introduction; Stations; Flying Units; Aircraft and Missiles; Aircraft Identity Markings; The RAF in Action; RAF Regiment, Reserves and Auxiliaries; Radars for Control and Defence; Names, Ranks and Numbers; Addenda. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edgewear, minor rubbing.. Soft Cover. Very Good+.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. 175 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "It is the autumn of 1942. At El Alamein, General Montgomery's Eighth Army is preparing for the big push that will drive Rommel's Afrika Korps back through the Libyan Desert. But a vital initial task has to be undertaken: the destruction of Rommel's communications and supply dumps far behind the enemy lines. The mission is entrusted to two elite forces, the Long Range Desert Group and the Special Air Service. The exploits of the SAS, less than two years old, have already become legendary. Lieutenant Callum Douglas, fresh from the desert battles as a tank commander with the 20th Hussars, counts himself fortunate to be selected to join this tough band of fighters - and soon proves himself in action. Beaten in Libya, the Germans plan to make a formidable last stand in Tunisia, and Douglas finds that the work of the SAS is only just beginning. By boat, the SAS commandos infiltrate into enemy territory to strike hard at… Read More

London: Arthur Barker, 1978. 141 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "It was the fateful summer of 1940, and for the battle-weary pilots of Number 505 Squadron there had been little respite after the hectic air fighting over France. France, and the nightmare of Dunkirk, had turned George Yeoman into a veteran - an ace with several victories to his credit. Now he found himself fighting once more as the Luftwaffe hurled its might across the English Channel and the RAF's Spitfires and Hurricanes carved out the greatest air victory of all time over the harvest fields of southern England. But Yeoman had to face a different kind of battle too, a battle with his inner self, as he saw his friends go to their deaths one by one in the cauldron of that summer sky of 1940." Faint cigarette odour, very light browning to edges of text block, slight fading to top/bottom edges of boards, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light edgewear at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, 1" closed… Read More

London: Amber, 2008. 112 pp, small 4to (10 1/4" H). B&w and colour photographs, profiles. "In World War I, the battleship still ruled the seas, but the launch of HMS Furious, the first aircraft carrier, and the activities of the German U-boat fleet showed how sea warfare would change. From early vessels such as the Dreadnought and Invincible, through World War II legends like the Bismarck and Formidable to modern-day leviathans including the Nimitz and Ohio classes, (this book) covers the key naval vessels of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Containing developmental history, full specifications giving details of the vessel's dimensions, weight, range, speed, armament, crew and country of origin and a photograph and profile artwork, (it) showcases the great naval vessels of the last 100 years." Previous owner's place, date and signature along with liquid paper over small notation on half-title page; book very slightly cocked. Dust jacket has one tiny chip, some… Read More

London: National Trust / Apollo Magazine , 1995. 80 pp, 12" H. Profusely illustrated in colour. J. Carter Brown, Nicholas Baring, Mark Girouard, Simon Jervis, Lucinda Lambton, James Lees-Milne, Jonathan Miller, Richard Baker, Lord Menuhin, Christopher Hogwood, Sir Hugh Casson, Lord Rothschild, Lady Emma Tennant, John Julius Norwich, David Gentleman, Bamber Gascoigne, Lady Mary Keen, Auberon Waugh, Sir Roy Strong, et al. describe their favourite furniture, rooms, portraits, landscapes, sculpture, follies, etc. from the National Trust's collection. Interior - several very small printing ink smudges on page 44, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - some very light edge wrinkling, small sticker residue mark on front cover, minor curling at corners, minor rubbing.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Gallimard, 1983. 136 pp, 8vo (8 7/8" H). Interior - previous owner's chop (stamp) on first page with slight ink offset on inside of front cover, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - minor browning.. Soft Cover. Very Good+.

Gallimard, 1985. 272 pp, 8vo (8 7/8" H). Avec notes et bibliographie. Interior - previous owner's chop (stamp) on first page, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edgewear.. Soft Cover. Very Good+.