Search Results: Titles starting with L from J.H. Gordon Books

Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys/Virago Modern Classics, 1979. VERY GOOD copy, some shelf wear, age discoloration, former owner signature on first page, otherwise a clean unmarked copy. Fryniwayd Tennyson Jesse, a great-niece of Alfred Lord Tennyson, began a career as a journalist in 1911 and was one of the few women to report from the front during World War I. "First published in 1929, this prodigious novel of adventure and romance matches the tales of Kipling and Stevenson, Buchan and Maugham. Based on a true historical incident, The Lacquer Lady is set in the 1880s in the gem of the city of Mandalay during the last years of the opulent, decaying kingdom of Burma."

Quebec: Atelier Pare, National Library of Canada, 1992. pp.71 Trade paperback. Used book. Slim volume, white cover with color illustrations, B/W illustrations throughout by Francoise Lavoie. NEAR Fine condition, a bright clean copy.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1967. Edited with an introduction and notes by Giles Constable. 2 volumes. Hardcover set in VERY GOOD condition - text is clean and unmarked - in GOOD dust jacket - some sunning to spine, small tears and chips along edges, price clipped. Dust jackets protected by new clear mylar covers.Introduction, notes, and index are presented in English, the letters are in Latin.

New Jersey: Associated University Presses, Inc./Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1967. pp.470. Hardcover. VERY GOOD copy, dark grey cloth boards, age discoloration, clean unmarked interior. GOOD dust jacket, creases, small tears, chipped edges esp. along upper spine), sunned spine, small stains, protected by a new mylar cover.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. pp. 427. Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD copy, minor shelf wear, bumped edges, interior is clean and unmarked. "Lions or Jellyfish is an interesting well-researched and through study of executive federalism and the relations between political leaders in Ottawa and St.John's since 1957. This is one of the best books I have read in Newfoundland history in many years." David Mackenzie, Department of History, Ryerson University.

Van Goreum/Fortress Press, 1987. pp.464. Compendia Rerum Judaicarum ad Novum Testamentum, First Part: Oral Tora, Halakha, Mishna, Tosefta, Talmud, External Tractates, Edited by Shmuel Safrai, Executive Edition Peter M. Tomson. Hardcover, VERY GOOD+ condition, minor shelf wear, small scuff to bottom edge of text block, otherwise clean unmarked copy. Dust jacket in VERY GOOD condition, protected by clear mylar cover.