Search Results: Titles starting with J from AJ Scruffles

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1913. Hardcover. Good. Biography of the Cambridge antiquarian, who grew up around the university and had a unique look at college life. Rubbing and marking to covers. Light foxing to page edge. Contents sound. Good.

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. , 1903. Hardcover. Good. New Century Library edition of Lever's 1843 novel. Top edge gilt. Tissue guarded frontispiece and decorative title page. Marking, rubbing and bumping to covers. Mild sunning to spine. previous owner's name to ffep. Contents sound. Good overall.

London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1900. Hardcover. Good. With b/w illustrations and colour frontispiece. Rubbing to edges, especially to top and tail of spine. Mild sunning to spine. Previous owner's name crossed out to front blank. Mild tanning to page edges. Contents sound. Good.

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1984. Hardcover. Good. Guide to the significant collection of Whistler's works held by the freer gallery. With numerous colour images. 4to. Some staining to page edges, not affecting text. Contents otherwise clean and tight. Good.

London: James Brodie, 1952. Soft cover. Very Good. Early edition of Brodie's notes on Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. With chapter breakdown, analysis of style etc. and questions. Card covers slightly marked and bumped and page edges lightly tanned but otherwise tight and clean. Interesting collectible. Very good.

Bath: James Brodie, 1954. Soft cover. Very Good. Early edition of Brodie's notes on Jane Austen's Persuasion. With chapter breakdown, analysis of style etc. and questions. Card covers slight marked and bumped but otherwise tight and clean. Very good.

London: Routledge, 1996. Soft cover. Good. An intriguing book on the failure of western academics to properly understand and credit the scope of Japan's political achievements. Working on the premise that Japan is the important political system of our time. Minor wear to cover, interior crisp and clean. Good condition.

London: The News Chronicle, 1930. Soft cover. Very Good. Collection of cartoons and strips on the subject of holidays. No date but c. 1930s Possibly 1936. Some tanning to page edge but clean and tight. Very good condition.

New York: Smithmark Pub, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint of Elroy's authoritative 1937 biography of Jefferson. Foxing to top edge and end-papers. Tanning to page edges but contents otherwise clean and tight. Very good.

London: Faber & Faber, 2001. Soft cover. Good. Ned Kelly's astonishing account of his persecution written in a rambling, idiosyncratic style. Edited and introduced by Alex McDermott. Some shelfwear but clean and tight. Good+

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1873. Hardcover. Good. Handsome, illustrated topographical account of Jerusalem and the Holy Land. Numerous engraved plates. Decorative cloth with tipped in colour illustration. 12mo. (170x120mm) Rubbing to edges with slight fraying to top and tail of spine. Previous owner's bookplates to end-papers. Mild foxing to page edges. Mild spotting within. Otherwise clean and sound. Good.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891. Hardcover. Good. Wide-ranging, engaging history of the jews from ancient times to the present day. With numerous b/w illustrations and fold out maps. Spine is slightly cocked. Edges rubbed and bumped with some fraying and loss. Tanning to page edges but contents clean and binding sound. Good overall.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1977. Soft cover. Very Good. A catalogue of Dine's work, with numerous images in colour and b/w. With a conversation with the artist. Some mild shelf-wear to edges. Contents clean and prim. Very good.

London: Neville Beeman Limited, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. Henrie Pitcher. Scarce novel by the inventor and philanthropist William Ford Robinson Stanley. Purporting to be the memoirs of one Bill Smith who worked on his Uncle Joe's traveling waxworks show in the mid-19th century. Despite being a fictionalized account, it contains a wealth of information about victorian era fairs and entertainments as well as child labour, an issue to which Stanley devoted much of his time and philanthropy. With numerous b/w illustrations by Henrie Pitcher and decorated initials and devices throughout. Pink cloth boards. 8vo. (190x135mm) [viii] 294pp. With advertisements to rear. Mild bumping to extremities. Light markings to covers. Foxing to end-papers but contents prim and clean. Binding tight. Very good.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1902. Hardcover. Fair. From the Temple Bible Series. Printed in red & black. Spine is rubbed with some tears. Page edges a triffle grubby but contents clean. Fair/good condition.

London: S. W. Patridge & Co., 1890. Hardcover. Good. Neat illustrated adventure novel. With six b/w illustrations. No date but c. 1890. Pictorial covers. Tanning to edges. General wear to covers but contents otherwise clean and binding sound. Good.

London: Collins, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. Pleasant collins blue faux leather edition of Craik's popular archetypal Victorian novel of 1856. With frontispiece. No date by c. 1950. Mild shelf-wear. Contents clean and tight. Very good.

Hunstanton: Norfolk Museums Service, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Account of the life and work of the Norfolk watercolourist. With descriptions of 188 paintings. Dust jacket has some mild bumping. Contents crisp and clean. very good.

London: John Murray, 1905. Hardcover. Good. Handsome edition of Smiles' biography of the Potter and early industrialist who later became a leading abolitionist. Decorative red cloth with gilt to spine. Fore-edge rough cut. Large John Murray catalogue to rear. Sunning to spine. Light foxing to end-papers but contents clean and binding sound. Good+

London: Cassell and Company , 1909. Hardcover. Good. Interesting edition of Defoe's Journal of the Plague year, a fictional account of the plague in london. With a facsimile of the title page of the first edition. Red cloth with decoration to spine. Toning to covers. Tanning to page edges. Cracking to front hinge. Contents clean and sound. Good.