Search Results: Titles starting with J from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Compton, CA: Bell Industries, J. W. Miller Division, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Stapled through fold in blue printed paper wraps, five-hole punched, 96 pp. Dated 10-79 in pen on front cover, slight shelf wear, else fine. Contains price list, specifications, schematics, and illustrations of RF coils, chokes, and other inductors, variable capacitors, band-pass filters, relays, transformers, and associated parts for electronic equipment. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Wraps. Near Fine/No dj. 27½ X 21½ cm.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth with blue paper-covered boards, copper foil titles, copper foil publisher's device and ISBN on rear board, xi, 288 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. This is the tenth in Grafton's series of Kinsey Millhone mystery novels. From the DJ: "'J' is for Jaffe: Wendell Jaffe, dead these past five years. Or so it seemed until his former insurance agent spotted him in the bar of a dusty little resort halfway between Cabo San Lucas and La Paz." The insurance company hires Kinsey Millhone to investigate the fraud. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth with blue paper-covered boards, copper foil titles, copper foil publisher's device and ISBN on rear board, xi, 288 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. This is the tenth in Grafton's series of Kinsey Millhone mystery novels. From the DJ: "'J' is for Jaffe: Wendell Jaffe, dead these past five years. Or so it seemed until his former insurance agent spotted him in the bar of a dusty little resort halfway between Cabo San Lucas and La Paz." The insurance company hires Kinsey Millhone to investigate the fraud. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). 3rd ptg. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Ballantine Books (Del Rey), 1984 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Remainder. Brown boards, yellow cloth spine with copper titles, [vi], 376, [1] pp. Remainder mark is a small red spot on bottom edge. DJ slightly sunned near spine, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1932 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full orange-red pebble-grained cloth with top edge dyed to match, black titles on front board & spine, dec. endpapers, frontispiece, 309 pp, [3] pp ads for other girls' mysteries from the same publisher. Covers somewhat bumped & rubbed, tiny spots on top edge. Has been read a few times but not abused. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Good/No dj. 20 X 14 cm.

New York: Exeter Books (Simon & Schuster), 1983 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Yellow boards, white title on front board, yellow endpapers, [48] pp, no title page but colophon printed on recto of rfep. Boards slightly warped, a little browning to edges. All-color photo history with minimal text begins with the first Jaguar manufactured in 1936 by the Swallow Sidecar Company, through the XJ12 and XJS of the late 1970s/early 1980s. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . VG+/No dj. 22 X 28½ cm (oblong).

Stuttgart: Jan Thorbecke, 2000 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Yellow covers with black titles, [viii], 297 pp, index. Twelve articles related to Silesian church history by Peter Merx, Adolf Laminski, Herbert Patzelt, Dietrich Meyer, Alfred Schwarzer, Heinz Quester, Reinhard Leue, Dietlinde Cunow, Carl Friedrich & Anna-Dorothea Gerschwitz, Christian-Erdmann Schott, Hans Roch, and Georg Schoeller, plus book reviews (Buchbesprechungen), announcements, and addresses of directors and contributors.. Trade Paperback. Fine/No dj. 21 X 15 cm.

Les Éditions du Temps, 1961 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Perfect-bound in textured and laminated pictorial boards, 104, [1] pp, 6 plates, many illustrations in text. The perfect (i.e. glued) binding is brittle, otherwise fine. DJ shows a little rubbing at extremities; in Brodart archival cover. This French-language book on the launch of the France was issued about six months before the planned maiden voyage of that ship, billed as "the world's longest passenger liner." A smokestack-shaped bookmark is laid in. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). . Near Fine/Near Fine. 18½ X 16 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Remainder. Pale yellow & green boards with brown titles & decorations, x, 465, [2] pp, illustrated throughout with line drawings, index. Remainder mark is a rubber-stamped Random House device on bottom edge. DJ rear panel & flap creased; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "From the time you first sit down to browse through this book--even before you make any of the more than 300 delicious recipes and variations--you will feel that you are on the way to becoming a more knowing, more sensitive cook. James Beard's incomparable flair for transmitting his knowledge, for showing us how and why, shines through these pages...." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 6th ptg. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1957 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author. With a foreword by his son, DeWitt Wallace, editor of Reader's Digest. Black cloth with gilt titles on spine, 255 pp, color frontispiece and 5 ff b & w photo plates not in pagination. Very light wear to corners and spine ends, paper lightly browned, faint offsetting from frontispiece to title page. DJ spine faded, extremities slighlty rubbed, a few small (under 4 mm) chips and tears; in Brodart archival cover. Inscription in blue ink on recto of ffep is dated Macalester College, September 18, 1957. Wallace started at Macalester in 1887 as professor of Greek, at a time when the college was unable to afford salaries for faculty, and eventually became President. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/VG+. 21 X 14 cm.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1998 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pale grey cloth, foil titles on spine & facsimile signature on front board, 240 pp. DJ has crease & slight wear at bottom edge of front panel; in Brodart archival cover. Only two pages of text accompany Brown's brilliantly colored and impressionistic paintings. Fits in flat-rate box. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. . Fine/Fine. 26 X 29 cm (oblong).

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1998 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pale grey cloth, foil titles on spine & facsimile signature on front board, 240 pp. DJ has tiny tear at bottom of front panel; in Brodart archival cover. Only two pages of text accompany Brown's brilliantly colored and impressionistic paintings. Fits in flat-rate box. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. . Fine/Near Fine. 26 X 29 cm (oblong).

New York: Times Books, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Remainder. Red cloth, gilt titles on spine, 223 pp, 4 full-page cartoons. Head of spine beginning to fray, bottom edge bumped, otherwise clean & bright, remainder mark is a red dot on top edge. DJ has 2 tears under 2 cm, slight edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. Jargon-to-English translations for business, politics, bureaucracy, espionage, law enforcement, media, computers, military, self-help, and the streets. If you read it straight through, you could use it as an English-to-Jargon translator (circa 1978). Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . G-/VG. Illus. by Stan Mack. 24 X 16 cm.

Sebastopol, CA et al.: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 2001 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black, white, & purple covers, xxix, 850, [8] pp, index. Contains sample code for performing hundreds of tasks using Java; the introduction contains permission to copy the code for use in your own programs. Intended as a second book in Java instruction, although if you already know how to program in another language, it is probably good as a first book. Among other topics, it shows how to interact with the hardware and operating system, developing client/server applications, Web programming, building email into your applications, database access, XML, graphical user interfaces, internationalization. Programs were tested on four different Java 2 platforms (including JDK 1.3 for Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows 95/98/NT and OpenBSD (using both JDK and Kaffe)). Shipping weight 4 lbs.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine/No dj. 23½ X 18 cm.

Sebastopol, CA et al.: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 2000 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Primarily white pictorial covers, yellow & black titles, xxvi, 731, [1] pp, index. Crease near bottom edge of front cover, else fine. Contents: basic network & web concepts; Java I/O; threads; looking up internet addresses; retrieving data with URLs; HTML in Swing; network methods of java.applet.Applet; sockets for clients & servers; secure sockets; UDP datagrams & sockets; multicast sockets; the URLConnection class; protocol handlers; content handlers; remote methods invocation; the JavaMail API. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 2nd ed. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. 23½ X 18 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full black cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, [x], 229 pp. Slight shelf wear, one small spot each on top and bottom edges. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Trade. . Near Fine/Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Berlin: Jüdische Buchvereinigung, 1937 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Beige cloth, black titles on front board & spine, 272 pp. Cloth somewhat soiled and wearing through at spine ends, else VG. A selection of stories from Yisroel: The First Jewish Omnibus, translated into German. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). . G/No dj. 18½ X 12 cm.

Eau Claire, WI: E. M. Hale and Company WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue cloth with blind stamped monogram on front board, 374 pp. Corners rather heavily bumped, as is fore-edge of rear board, boards faded near edges, as is spine, and lettering on spine also faded. Selections from the private and political correspondence of Thomas Jefferson, telling the story of American independence and the founding of the American government. There is no academic apparatus in this book--just the letters. Not dated, but evidently mid-20th century. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). . G/No dj. 20 X 14½ cm.

Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth, beige paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, xvii, 478 pp, notes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Contains essays about Thomas Jefferson, on the occasion of his 250th birthday, written by Paul K. Conkin; Douglas L. Wilson; Rhys Isaac; Jan Lewis; Lucia C. Stanton; Paul Finkelman; Jack P. Greene; Stephen A. Conrad; Herbert Sloan; Michael Lienesch; John Lauritz Larson; Walter LaFeber; Gordon S. Wood; and Scott A. French & Edward L. Ayers. Introduction by Joyce Appleby & afterword by Merrill D. Peterson. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1970 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown cloth, titles in gold ink on spine, 120 pp, frontis. portrait, footnotes, bibliographical note, index. A rather heavy bump to top edge of front board, else fine. From the Introduction: "Jefferson's letters to his physician, Dr. Robley Dunglison, extending from May 27th 1825 to April 7th 1826, are among the last letters he wrote to anyone. They are published here in full for the first time." Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). 2nd ptg. . VG/No dj. 24 X 16 cm.