Search Results: Titles starting with A from Andrew James Books

Angus & Robertson, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Norman Lindsay, Hal Gye, Lionel Lindsay. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears. Small faded area to top front of jacket where price label has been removed and there are light water stains to top front edge of jacket (see photo). Boards and text block unaffected. No inscription internally clean. Superbly illustrated in colour. Overseas buyers please note additional postal charges will apply

Book Club, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. With unclipped dust jacket with small repaired tear to front fold and light shelf wear to edges. Superbly illustrated throughout including michelin maps. Please note additional postal charges apply

Policy Press, 2008. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Minimal handling wear and clean throughout other than owners name to front end paper. A study of the controversial 'New' Labour policy of the criminalisation of anti social behaviour.

Burgess & Sons, 1912. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. In very good condition. Green thin card covers in extremely good condition for age, slightly chipped to top and bottom of spine otherwise damage free. Internally clean throughout. James Townsend published a full history of Abingdon in 1910 and it is likely that this work forms the basis for this concise history of Abingdon which presumably was issued by the local authority as an information booklet for tourists. Illustrated with black and white photographs and with numerous advertisements by local traders.

MIT Press, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing. With unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears and now in protective sleeve. Label mark to blank front end paper otherwise very clean throughout. What is special about the face, and what happens when neurological conditions make expression or comprehension of the face unavailable? Through a mix of science, autobiography, case studies, and speculation, Jonathan Cole shows the importance not only of facial expressions for communication among individuals but also of facial embodiment for our sense of self. He presents, in his words, "a natural history of the face and an unnatural history of those who live without it." The heart of the book lies in the experiences of people with facial losses of various kinds. The case studies are of blind, autistic, and neurologically impaired persons; the most extreme case involves Mobius syndrome, in which individuals are born with a total inability to move… Read More

Oxford University Press, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Virtually as new other than occasional small light pencil annotations to one or two chapters, the majority of the text unaffected. Unclipped jacket free from nicks and tears.

Thomas Telford Publishing, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In immaculate condition other than sticky label residue mark to top of p. 143. Genuinely in stock and normally dispatched within 24 hours.

George Routledge & Sons, 1891. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With gilt titles to spine, light rubbing to head and bases of spine and to corners. Neat inscription to title page which has a small amount of foxing. The text itself is clean throughout. Front hinge cracked at title page though binding remains secure.

J H Parker, 1860. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A good well used copy. Original brown buckram boards faded to spine and edges, and bumped to corners. A few ownership details to end papers and some occasional light foxing, more notable to early pages. A few unobtrusive pencil lines to margins and occasional underlining. Binding secure.

Thomas Telford Publishing, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In immaculate condition throughout. Genuinely in stock.

Caxton Publishing Company. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. undated circa 1900. Complete in one volume. Half leather in good to very good condition with 13 illustrations including frontispiece. Leather to spine with gilt titles and decoration, leather chipped to top and light rubbing to edges in places. Boards slightly bowed with one or two small marks. Marbled end papers and edges of text block. Hinge cracked at title page. Some light foxing to a few early and latter pages otherwise clean.

USA: Nelson Books, 2006. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st impression. With unclipped dust jacket, no inscription immaculate throughout. The Summer of 1959 in New England recalled by an eleven year old blind boy. Confined by his blindness and the chain link fence of his backyard Sullivan decides to break out and find his freedom which sets in motion a chain of events that would change his life forever.

Gresham Publishing, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. undated circa 1900, quarter leather with gilt art nouveau decoration and titles to spine, rubbed to ends of spine. Internally clean other than some foxing to the early and latter pages of the book. A collection of short stories illustrated with 6 drawings by Gordon Browne

Jonathan Cape, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In unclipped dust jacket, no inscription. Fading to page edges otherwise fine. A psychological novel set in England during the Blitz which relates the terrors of warfare. Debut novel.

Seren, 2007. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Spine and covers crease free other than minor creasing to top and bottom front fore edge corners. No inscription or marking very clean throughout

1st printing signed and dated to the title page "The heart is here" without personal dedication. in immaculate condition with unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears. Aftermath is set in Hamburg 1946 at the beginning of the British rebuilding of the City after the devastating bombing raids carried out by the Allied Forces towards the end of the Second World War. Claire Messud described the book as "Arresting, unsettling, suffused with suffering and hope" which is a spot on summary.

Mansell, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Laminated pictorial boards without dust jacket as published in virtually as new condition. The book identifies the relationship between the development of agriculture, environmental conditions and the changing character of national economies.

Adams & Dart, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Reproduction of the original 1816 edition. Without dust jacket otherwise near fine, very clean throughout other than a couple of biro marks to front blank end paper. Overseas buyers please note additional postal charges may be required.

Bantam Press, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing with unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears with very light shelf wear to edges. Very clean throughout. London, the 1790s. Europe is in turmoil, and mysterious forces seem to be edging England into a disastrous war with France. Not quite at the center of the political maelstrom is James Tilly Matthews, a Welsh tea merchant and antiwar advocate who holds covert meetings with the leaders of both countries. But Matthews also believes his mind is being controlled by a gang of revolutionary "terrorists" and their diabolical secret machine called the Air Loom. The only man aware of the Air Loom's existence, Matthews is promptly declared mad and exiled to Bedlam, where he is held against his will for the rest of his life ¿ by order of England's home secretary, Lord Liverpool. At Bedlam his "delusions" are celebrated as the most complex and bizarre ever recorded, but the truth of his case is… Read More

Chatto & Windus, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing. Immaculate condition with near fine dust jacket free from nicks and tears. What does it mean to be English?, this dazzling book demonstrates that a quintessentially English quality can be discovered in all forms of English culture, not only in literature but also painting, music, architecture, philosophy and science. Overseas buyers please note additional shipping charges may be required.