Search Results: Authors starting with J from Charles Lewis Best Booksellers

Spokane, Washington: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. VG Very Good/VG Very Good. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed cordovan-coloured cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 217, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... As well as Captain of the Phantom Presidio, Fay Jackson Smith co-authored the book Father Kino in Arizona (Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966) with John Kessell and Frances J. Fox. . Smith has spent many years working with the Spanish documents dealing with the Spanish Borderlands, including the translation of archaic Spanish manuscripts. Her papers are located in Special Collections of the University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson. The collection contains research notes and a manuscript for Father Kino in Arizona. The research notes include 3x5 cards, as well as notes written in Spanish. Additionally this collection contains materials… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1927. Second Impression.. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [22cm/8.75inches] full pictorial cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 332. Fully Illustrated with four colour plates by Harriet Roosevelt Richards. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional snapshots. ... Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske (October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885), was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881). Her novel Ramona (1884) dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and attracted considerable attention to her cause. Commercially popular, it was estimated to have been reprinted 300 times and most readers liked its romantic and picturesque qualities rather than its… Read More

London: Channel 4 Books, 1999. Hardcover. in exceptionally good conditioni/In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full chrome-embossed dove-grey cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 192, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Manchester Guardian (Sept. 4,1999),noted: "As Tabitha Jackson explains in her informative book, The Boer War, published to accompany the forthcoming Channel 4 series of the same name, "the wave of virulent anti-British sentiment in the German and French press" prompted a sharp reaction from their British equivalents. The Birmingham Mail declared: "Stalwart Englishmen armed with good horsewhips should go to France and administer a severe castigation to the vulgar crowds . . . The Parisian, like a dog, barks loudest in his own kennel."

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Hardcover. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed cloth sans dust jacket, pp. , indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed cloth sans dust jacket, pp. , indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc. Ramona is an 1884 American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. Set in Southern California after the Mexican-American War, it portrays the life of a mixed-race Scots–Native American orphan girl, who suffers racial discrimination and hardship. Originally serialized in the Christian Union on a weekly basis, the novel became immensely popular. It has had more than 300 printings, and been adapted four times as a film. A play adaptation has been performed annually outdoors since 1923.The novel's influence on the culture and image of Southern California was considerable. Its sentimental portrayal of Mexican colonial life… Read More

Vanvouver, British Columbia: Jackson, Talbot & Associates, No date 1960s. Comb-bound. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [9 by 14 inches], comb-bound with pictorial covers, pp. 53. Fully illustrated with schematic drawings. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n. d. c1934. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/in quite good condition. Octavo, [21.25cm/8,5inches], full ebony-embossed gucamole-green cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 424. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Ramona is an 1884 American novel set in Southern California after the Mexican–American War, it portrays the life of a mixed-race Scottish–Native American orphan girl, who suffers racial discrimination and hardship. Originally serialized in the Christian Union on a weekly basis,[ the novel became immensely popular. It has had more than 300 printings, and been adapted five times as a film. A play adaptation has been performed annually outdoors since 1923. The novel's influence on the culture and image of Southern California was considerable. Its sentimental portrayal of Mexican colonial life contributed to establishing a unique cultural identity for the region. As its publication coincided with… Read More

Washington D. C. & New Haven: National Gallery of Art & Yale University Press, 1985. First Edition. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition. JumboDemy folio, [20.15cm/11.25inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 680, indexed. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The NG's blurb notes: "The English country house was the background for political life, agriculture, sport, social interactions, and, above all, for collecting. The peace at home that Britain has enjoyed for the majority of the past 500 years and the rule of primogeniture has meant the survival of family art collections to a degree unequaled anywhere else in Europe. In many ways the country houses of Britain can be seen as some of the oldest and longest-running museums in the world. The works included come directly from country houses; only in a very few rare cases were objects included which were intimately connected with a house but were no… Read More

Topeka, Kansas: National Pigeon Association, 2010. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 49. Fully illustrated with sketches by Diane Jacky. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

México, D F: Editorial Planeta Mexicana , 2001. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Hardback, library binding Páginas 580 pages. In Spanish; en Español. Ex-library, with the usual stamps and stickers. Otherwise, clean & crisp, with no marks, tears, or turned corners; tight binding. Appears to be an unread copy. 

Santa Monica : Norton R. Stern, 1974. Hardcover. In quite good condition./No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [20cm/8inches], full gilt-embossed lavender cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 75, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Victoria was born in 1838 to Marks and Hannah Jacobs in Manchester, England. The family settled in San Diego in 1851 following a stopover in Baltimore. From June 13, 1856 through Feb. 20, 1857, Victoria, then 18, kept a diary relating day-to-day events in the city that today we refer to as Old Town San Diego. On March 31, 1857, she was married to Maurice Franklin, with whom she resided briefly in San Diego at the three-story Franklin House, co-owned by his brother Lewis Franklin, before the couple moved to San Bernardino, where Victoria died in 1861. Victoria Avenue in San Bernardino subsequently was named for her.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, c, 1970. First Edition. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. . Fully illustrated with coloured half-tones . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Beethoven was a lover of nature who spent a great deal of his time on walks in the country. He frequently left Vienna to work in rural locations. The composer said that the Sixth Symphony is "more the expression of feeling than painting",[5] a point underlined by the title of the first movement. The first sketches of the Pastoral Symphony appeared in 1802. It was composed simultaneously with Beethoven's more famous—and more fiery—Fifth Symphony. Both symphonies were premiered in a long and under-rehearsed concert in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 22 December 1808. 

New York: Christie's, 1990. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Royal octavo [27.5cm/10.75inches], paperbound auction catalogue with pictorial covers, unpaginated; 226 lots Fully illustrated with color plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional snapshots. 

Boston: D. Lothrop & Company,, 1886. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt and ebony -embossed orchre-colouredcloth sans dust jacket, pp. 38. Illustrated with frontis and 5 photogravures of relivent Old Master Paintings. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Stabat Mater Dolorosa is thought to originate from Franciscan sources in the 13th century. The reason for this conclusion is found in the striking parallels to the mysticism of St.Francis of Assisi, which has as one of the central points the immersion of the believer in the sufferings of the Lord. In the Stabat Mater, the believer rests together with Mary before the crucified Jesus. The monk Jacopone da Todi (ca. 1228-1306), Pope Innocentius III (ca. 1160-1216), and the saint Bonaventura (died 1274) are named as the most probable poet, but also the Popes Gregorius and John XII and Bernhard of Clairveaux (died 1135) are… Read More

National City, California: City of National City, 1981. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, unpaginated. Fully illustrated with b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Often characterized by its rich historic past, National City is in fact the second oldest city in San Diego County. Incorporated on September 17, 1887, National City was originally part of the 26,000-acre El Rancho de la Nacion, which was purchased in 1868 by Frank Kimball and his brothers Warren and Levi. The Kimballs cleared lands, built roads, constructed the City's first wharf and brought the railroad to the City.

El Cajon, California: Sun Belt Publications, 2005. First Impression. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [22.5cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 144. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Agusta, Montana: George P. Jahke, 1988. First Edition. Paperbound. NEW/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [2cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 114, indexed. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Onereviewer noted: "I just read this book in one afternoon. I couldn’t put it down. George Jahnke’s story was lent to me by my grandfather. His step-father had been a gunner in a B-17 as well, was shot down and taken prisoner in Germany as well, and returned home where he met my great grandmother. He almost never spoke of what happened to him, so our family has enjoyed learning from Mr. Jahnke’s story about what the war might have been like for my great-grandpa. You don’t have to have personal interest in the story to enjoy this book, though. This is a fascinating, true, first-hand account of one of most interesting periods of history. His story has plenty of action and is easy to read and can help us all to understand courage and gratitude as it… Read More

Rutland and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1971. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed ebony-coloured cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 488, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Inro ('seal-basket’) are small decorative containers that hang from the waist. They originated at the end of the sixteenth century and were worn by men to hold seals and herbal and other medicines. They were considered a particularly good way of keeping the contents sealed and fresh. By the eighteenth century they had become decorative accessories and were commissioned by the merchant class, provincial rulers and their samurai, and those that could afford them.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1998. Collector's Edition. Full Calf. As new. Smaller octavo, [18.75cm/7.5inches], full gilt-embossed natural calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. 92. Illustrations by Gustave Nebel. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The novella Daisy Miller first appeared in The Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1878, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates when they meet in Switzerland and Italy.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1978. Collector's Edition. Full Calf. VG Very Good. Royal octavo, [26.5cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed ox=blood-coloured calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. xi, 516. Illustrations by Colleen Browning. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Portrait of a Lady was first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular novels and is regarded by critics as one of his finest.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. Hardcover. Poor. Demy octavo, [15cm/6inches], full full gilt-embossed calf sans dust jacket, pp. 245. Binding is blind stamped with Ohio School Library on front cover. IN NEED OF RE-BACKING. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.