Search Results: Authors starting with J from Abbey Bookshop

Paris: Chez Vincent, 1766. First edition. Very Good. 8vo., original marbled wrappers, manuscript titling piece to spine. A lively history of the England from an 18th-century French perspective, finishing in 1760 with the death of George II. spine worn and cracked

London: George Newnes, n.d.. First edition. Very Good. Large 8vo., original cloth spine, brown boards, frontispiece and 56 black and white plates illustrating works by Pre-Raphaelite artists and their influences. spine browned, frontispiece foxed and browned

London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1857-1861. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 14 volumes. 8vo., original brown cloth decorated in blind. Rare complete set of the complete writings of Francis Bacon, collected and with a commentary by James Spedding. ex-library copies with cancellation stamps, most volumes in very good condition, extremities lightly worn, boards detached from first volume of the 'Works'

New York: Delacorte Press, 1981. First edition. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo., original blue and white boards, dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, "For Bill Haber - Best James. 26 5 81. dust jacket spine faded, "14/20" in pen to half-title

London: Alexander Gardner, 1884. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo., original green cloth decorated with a gilt portrait of Johnson. A life of Johnson drawn closely from the accounts of his contemporaries followed by a generous selection of his aphorisms. Scarce ex-library copy, with the remnants of their stickers to the spine and their stamps within, spine lightly faded, a few marks to the cloth

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1951. Second printing. Very Good +/very good. 4to., original red cloth, yellow dust jacket, richly illustrated with Thurber's line drawings. This collection of James Thurber fables was first published earlier in the same year. a few closed tears to the dust jacket edges,

London: Meridian Books Ltd, 1956. Fourth edition. Near Fine. 8vo., contemporary brown morocco, four raised bands to spine, original wrappers conserved. neat but long ownership inscription to half-title, occasional very small signs of rubbing to binding

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo., original blue cloth, with nineteen black and white plates. Edited by James Blanton Wharey, second edition by Roger Sharrock.

London: Doubleday and Co., [c. 1908]. First edition thus. Very Good +. Two volumes, 8vo., original green cloth, frontispiece portrait of the author in the first volume and five plates. A very nice reprint of the fourth (1706) edition of the famous diarist's work on trees. with some neat underlining and marginalia in pencil

Toronto: Toronto Public Library, 1971. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. Sm. 8vo., original wrappers, with reproductions in colour of the original illustrations. Reproduction of a version intended for children of a French medieval prose romance, a version first published in 1822 by John Harris. Extremities lightly worn

London: James Nisbet and Co., 1868. First edition thus. Good +. 8vo., original purple cloth richly decorated in gilt and blind-stamped, all edges gilt, numerous illustrations in the text. spine faded, some pages loose

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo., original purple cloth. A collection of Newman's eloquent lectures on Literature, Philosophy and Christianity given between 1854 and 1858. Scarce. spine faded, cloth a little soiled

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo., original blue cloth. Inscribed by the author: "For Gib and Dodo with affection and gratitude. Julian. 136 East 79th St, NY. June 7, 1929". extremities worn

Venice, CA: The Lapis Press, 1991. First edition thus. Fine. Large 8vo., original pictorial cloth, illustrated endpapers, occasional vignettes in the text and one folding landscape. The first edition with these illustrations; the translation from the French was first published in 1951.