Search Results: Authors starting with J from Cox and Budge Books

London & New York: Transatlantic Review, 1962. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. First edition. Paperback. 23 × 15cm, 144pp. Issue No 9 of the Transatlantic Review, this copy containing Jack Kerouac's Joan Rawshanks in the Fog, Muriel Spark's Ladies and Gentlemen, and poems by Alan Sillitoe, amongst others. Condition: There is some wear to the spine but otherwise this copy remains in good readable condition.

London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1966. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14.5cm, 338pp. L J Macfarlane traces the formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain, from its confusing and conflicting reformism, syndicalism, and anti-parliamentarianism in the years after the Great War, through its chequered career of alternately supporting and opposing the Labour Party, sometimes both at the same time, its work with the trade unions and relationship with the unemployed, its part on the General Strike of 1926, through to 1929 when "the Party was in a bad state, its membership was falling away and those who remained were engaged in bitter dissension and dispute." Condition: There is heavy foxing to the pages' top edge, and a little to the fore-edge and margins. This was a review copy from the publishers who laid a slip in with a staple which has rusted and marked the front pastedown and ffep a little. However, the… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1938. First Edition. . Hardback. Good. First edition. Hardback, bound in green cloth with printed titling to spine and upper board. 18 × 12cm, 132pp + ads. An unusual school language book centred in the Spanish Civil War. Both authors were masters at Marlborough College. The preface states "The story deals with an imaginary incident in the civil war now taking place in Spain; this has enabled us not only to pack the story with adventure, but also to introduce into the text words and phrases which are in constant use in the France of to-day". The first part of the book is a story, in French, about a boy Jean / John who is worried about his Father, a journalist who has been sent to Spain to report on the Civil War. Each chapter has questions in French to test understanding. The second part is a series of paragraphs in English describing the story which are to be translated into French, and finally there is a glossary of French words, including those the authors'… Read More

London: The Geological Society, 2013. First Edition. . Hardback. Very Good. First edition. Hardback in laminate boards. 25.5 × 18cm, vi [2], 373pp. This volume provides an overview of current research on fossil and modern dinoflagellates, as well as highlighting research areas for future collaboration, following the DINO9 International Conference in Liverpool. The volume is organized into four themes, with a review paper for each theme written by the key-note speaker. Each theme also includes a future research foci note following discussion during the conference. The contributions are organized into the following sections: environmental change, ecology/palaeoecology, life cycles and diversity, and stratigraphy and evolution. Also included are notes from two workshops: culture experiments and dinocysts as palaeoceanographic tracers. This volume will be of interest to both the biological and micropalaeontological communities. Condition: This copy is ex-library but in otherwise very good… Read More

New York: Rinehart & Co, 1946. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good Plus/Good. First US edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 19.5 × 13.5cm, 310pp. The Fall of Valor was arguably the first major American novel to deal openly with the theme of homosexuality. The novel is an unflinching portrayal of a marriage that has faded to a mere duty. John and Ethel Grandin take a summer vacation to Nantucket with the hope of recapturing the happiness they felt in the early days of their relationship. But instead the holiday blasts their marriage wider apart than ever when John falls hopelessly in love with a handsome marine captain. Condition: The book itself is in very good condition, with occasional and light spotted foxing but in strong readable condition. The dustwrapper is faded to the spine and edgeworn but has not been price-clipped and is now within a protective sleeve.

London: HarperCollins, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good / Fair. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 26.5 × 20cm, 168pp. In his first non-fiction work, James Herbert explores the eerie landscapes and buildings that have either influenced his novels - that is to say, are the real places behind the locations in his fiction - or are places which fascinate him due to their mysterious past. Condition: The book itself is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is a little bumped and scratched and has a closed tear to the rear panel at the joint but remains attractive and has not been price-clipped.

Dublin: Arlen House, 2018. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First edition. Paperback. 21.5 × 14cm, 128pp. Initialled, dated and dedicated by Stephen James Smith to the title page. Poet Stephen James Smith's sympathies lie with the addicted and the convicted, often responding to what he finds on life's margins. His sharp-edged forceful language derives from his gifts as a performance poet and his fearlessness in looking into the eye of his subject matter. His poems get their charge, as well as their shape and substance, from his use of demotic rhythms, the vividness of his vernacular and his emotional directness. Condition: This copy is in very good condition, with a little light wear to the edges.

London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1842. First Thus. . Hardcover. Fair / Good. First thus. Hardback. Full leather binding, with gilt titling and decoration to spine and boards. All edges gilt. Silk endpapers. 21 × 14.5cm, xlviii + 320pp. The Seasons is a series of four poems written by the Scottish author James Thomson. The first part, Winter, was published in 1726. Illustrated throughout. Condition: A fair copy. The leather is heavily faded to the spine and the board's edges, and rubbed to the edges. The contents are in good condition, with some pencil underlining, and a some spotted foxing to the prelims. A good reading copy. Previous owner's bookplate to the ffep.

Paris: Mercure De France, 1926. Reprint. . Hardcover. Good. Here are three books by Francis Jammes, a French poet and novelist who spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country. All three books are hardback, rebound in plain red cloth and with title label to spine. French text. 1. Le Rosaire au Soleil, published by Mercure de France, Paris, 1926. 2. Le Roman du Lievre, published by Mercure de France, Paris, 1926. 3. Janot-Poete, published by Mercure de France, Paris, 1928. Condition: All three are in strong readable condition, but with tanning to the pages.

Paris: Mercure De France, 1919. Reprint. . Hardcover. Good. Here are three books of French by Francis Jammes, a French poet and novelist who spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country. All three books are hardback, rebound in plain green cloth and with title label to spine. French text. La Vierge et les Sonnets (Mercure de France, Paris, 1919). First edition, very good condition. De L'Angelus de L'Aube a l'Angelus du Soir (Mercure de France, Paris, 1921). Reprint. Good condition with some tanning to the pages. Les Nuits Qui Me Chantent... (Flammarion, Paris, 1928). First edition, very good condition. Condition: All books are in strong readable condition.

London: Heinemann, 1972. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good Plus. First edition. Paperback. 18.5 × 12cm, 202pp. "These Swahili songs of love and passion make their first appearance in English translation [by Jan Knappert], printed parallel to their Swahili originals. Previously most attention has been paid to the narrative and epic poems written in difficult literary 'high' Swahili. Ordinary speech is here being used to convey the delicate, erotic and sensuous feelings of the people of the East African Coast over the last few hundred years. This is a rare insight into another culture. Swahili, like English, is a mixed language; it readily takes words from Arabic and the other languages round the Indian Ocean and uses them for its own alluring purposes. Jan Knappert has provided an introduction and notes to help with the densely-strewn allusions." Condition: This copy is in good plus condition. There is some rubbing and chipping to the covers but the contents are in very good order.

London: Evans Brothers, 1980. First Edition. . Hardback. Very Good/Good. First edition, first edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 21.5 × 15cm, 64pp. A collection of 36 fables from all over Africa. These moral tales are mostly populated by animals taking the place of humans. Some are of Muslim origin and have a religious lesson. The book is illustrated by Jeroo Roy, an Indian artist. Condition: A good copy. The book itself is in very good condition with a neat previous owner's name to the ffep. The dustwrapper is sun-faded to the spine and a little rubbed but otherwise sound.

London: The Observer, 2007. First Edition. . Card Covers. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Card covers. 24 × 24cm, 100pp [10]. "The Observer" published its first Jane Bown photograph in December 1949, beginning a romance between Britain's oldest Sunday paper and the country's most loved photographer that still flourishes. By 1980, she was renowned enough for the National Portrait Gallery to hold a one-person exhibition of her work and there have been no fewer than seven published collections of her photographs. This first ever collection of Bown's non-portraiture stretches back to her student days and includes many previously unpublished and some previously unseen images. It stands as a fascinating insight into Bown's development as an artist, and reveals a breadth to her talents that will surprise and energise all lovers of her work. The many set pieces capture history in the making with their instinctive drama. Condition: Very good condition, with a little… Read More

Madrid: Ediciones Siruela, 2005. First Spanish Edition. . Hardback. Very Good. First Spanish edition. Hardback in laminate boards. 22 × 14.5cm, 108pp. Spanish text. Signed and dedicated by Clara Janes to the title page, as well as having a loose signed note by Clara Janes to the same recipient. Clara Janes's book is autobiographic in nature, written in poetic prose, and recounts her return to writing following a six-year hiatus, after discovering the Czech poet Vladimir Holan and his A Night with Hamlet. Janes finds her poetic voice again in her vision of Ophelia, in response to Holan, and how this exchange will affect her subsequent work. Clara Janes is a Spanish poet and translator, and member of the Real Academia Española (the Royal Spanish Academy). Condition: This copy is in very good condition.

London: Duckworth, 1932. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. First UK edition, first printing. Hardback, bound in the original yellow cloth with printed titling to spine. 19 × 12.5cm, 240pp. The author's first novel, published in France in 1930 as La Femme de Pilate is described in the biographical note at the start of the book as a modern version of the story of Jesus Christ, "his aim being to show the influence of religious disputes on the French 'Pilates' of our own time and so to increase our understanding of Rome's similar difficulties in the administration of Palestine and of British difficulties in Jerusalem". Condition: A good copy. There is some darkening to the boards' edges and some tanning to the page edges but the book remains in strong readable condition. This book is part of an archive of books from Duckworth & Co, and was in the possession of Alice Thomas Ellis, the author, who was fiction editor. Duckworth & Co was run by her… Read More

Paris: Libraire Gallimard / NRF, 1997. First Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Full leather binding, glassine wrap and slipcase. Gilt linear design to spine. 17.5 × 11cm, 474pp. French text. Published in Gallimard's Bibliothèque De La Pléiade series, this is a collection of images and writings of Louis Aragon, the French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. Condition: This copy is in very good condition.

London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2011. First Edition. . Card Covers. Very Good. First edition. Card covers. 28.5 × 24cm, 272pp. This fascinating book charts the dazzling trajectory of Russian avant-garde architecture during the brief but intense period of design and construction that took place from c.1922 to 1935. Fired by the radical new language of Constructivist artists, such architects as Konstantin Melnikov, Moisei Ginzburg, and the Vesnin brothers produced designs whose innovative style embodied the energy and optimism of the new Soviet Socialist state. Streamlined, flat-roofed, and white-walled, their extraordinarily novel buildings must have seemed like alien forms. Architectural photographer Richard Pare has spent the last 15 years documenting the remains and ruins of these structures. Here, his spectacular photographs are juxtaposed with vintage images, ephemera, and drawings and paintings by artists such as Malevich, Tatlin, Popova, and Lissitzky. Condition: A very good copy, with… Read More

London: Verso, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good Plus/Very Good. First UK edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 14cm, 365pp. During the phony war that preceded the invasion of France, between late 1939 and the summer of 1940, the young Jean-Paul Sartre was stationed in his native Alsace as part of a meteorological unit. He used his considerable periods of spare time, between mundane duties like watching weather balloons, to make a series of notes on philosophy, literature, politics, history and autobiography that anticipate the themes of his later masterpieces, and often surpass them in literary verve and directness. These War Diaries form a portrait of Sartre in his most intense and brilliant phase. With them the twentieth century's most remarkable and public philosopher has provided us with a fitting posthumous monument to his honest and creativity. Condition: The book itself is in very good condition, but with some foxing to the pages' top edge and a few specks… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1904. Reprint. . Hardback. Good Plus. Reprint. Fine paper edition. Hardback, bound in blue cloth with gilt decoration and titling to spine. Blindstamped pattern to boards. Top edge gilt. 16.5 × 10.5cm, 224pp. A collection of essays by Richard Jefferies on nature and country life, including The Pageant of Summer, Bits of Oak Bark, Meadow Thoughts, and January in the Sussex Woods. Condition: An attractive pocket edition. There is a slight lean to the spine and some minor foxing but otherwise remaining in perfectly good readable condition.

London: Penguin Books, 1985. Soft cover. Good. Reprint. Paperback. 19.5 × 13cm, 223pp + ads. Signed and dedicated by Robin Jenkins to the half-title. In the shadow of a war that rages through Europe, brothers Calum and Neil work to gather pine cones in the grounds of a Scottish estate. When Calum releases two mutilated rabbits from a snare, he comes face to face with Duror, the gamekeeper. In retaliation, in the depths of the wood, Duror lays a trap for the cone-gatherers. Neil prophesises that forces of evil will encroach upon the harmony of their lives. It is a prophesy that comes true when Duror commits an act so brutal it destroys all sense of humanity in the once thriving wood. Powerful and unforgettable, Robin Jenkins' masterpiece is a haunting story of love and violence, and an investigation of class-conflict, war and envy. Condition: Good condition. There is light creasing to the spine and the pages' top edge is tanned with a slight bump and marking. The pages are a little… Read More