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

Hoogezand The Netherlands: Simon Marrink, 2017. A Limited edition. harde kaft. Als Nieuw. Demy-folio, [28,75 cm / 11,5 inch], volledig picturale stof zonder stofomslag, pp. 278. Geïllustreerd met b-w halftonen, kleurenplaten & tc. Vraag gerust naar bijzonderheden en / of extra foto's. ... Vanaf vrijdag 3 maart 2017 is het boek over de voormalige Scheepswerf Westerbroek J.G. Bröerken beschikbaar. In het boek wordt behalve de historie van de werf ook de levensloop van alle door de werf gebouwde schepen beschreven. De beschrijving van de historie van de werfgebouwen gaat terug naar het jaar 1902. Het jaar waarin voor de firma Wortelboer & Co. aan het Winschoterdiep in Westerbroek, daar waar later de werf van Bröerken zou worden gevestigd, de eerste werfgebouwen werden gebouwd. Ook de historie van deze werf komt in het boek uitgebreid aan de orde. Tegenwoordig zijn de nog aanwezige gebouwen, die nu als jachtwerf worden gebruikt, en de kielbalk door de gemeente… Read More

Blue Ash, Ohio: The J. Peterman Company , 2014. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 94. Fully illustrated with watercolours. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Blue Ash, Ohio: The J. Peterman Company , 2014. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 74. Fully illustrated with water colours. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Blue Ash, Ohio: The J. Peterman Company , 2014. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 74. Fully illustrated with water colours. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Preston, U. K.: Ships in Focus, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket. Demy folio, [30cm/12inches], full pictorial cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 104, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc.. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The brothers John and Charles Harrison started a business in London in 1888 by buying two old steamers for the coal trade. In 1889 and 1890 another two colliers were purchased. In 1891 the first new built, the HARLYN (1), joined the fleet, she was followed by four new colliers between 1893 and 1895. In 1896 an amalgamation of four collier owning fleets including the fleet of J. & C. Harrison took place and several colliers went to Wm. Cory & Sons Ltd including new ships which had been ordered by J. & C. Harrison during 1896 and 1897, but not yet delivered. Several steamers were ordered for delivery during 1897 and 1898 and they were all sold by the turn of the century and the fleet was then dormant for five years… Read More

Leiden, Netherlands : E.J. Brill, 1948. Paperbound. Good /no. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], gebonden met geïllustreerde omslagen, pp. 574. Volledig geïllustreerd met zwart-wit halftonen, schetsen, kaarten &tc. Informeer gerust naar bijzonderheden en/of extra foto's. ... Voornamelijk in het Nederlands, Duits, Frans en Engels Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 574. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones, sketches, maps &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Primarily in Dutch, German, French and English

Leiden, Netherlands: E.J. Brill,, 1950. Paperbound. VG Very Good/no. . Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], gebonden met geïllustreerde omslagen, pp. 119. Volledig geïllustreerd met zwart-wit halftonen, schetsen, kaarten &tc. Informeer gerust naar bijzonderheden en/of extra foto's. ... Voornamelijk in het Nederlands, Duits, Frans en Engels Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 119. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones, sketches, maps &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Primarily in Dutch, German, French and English.

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Motorbooks, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11.25inches], full gilt-embossed moss-green cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 253, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc... Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Sir John Arthur Brabham, AO, OBE (1926 – 2014) was an Australian racing driver who was Formula One World Champion in 1959, 1960, and 1966. He was a founder of the Brabham racing team and race car constructor that bore his name. Brabham was a Royal Australian Air Force flight mechanic and ran a small engineering workshop before he started racing midget cars in 1948. His successes with midgets in Australian and New Zealand road racing events led to his going to Britain to further his racing career. There he became part of the Cooper Car Company's racing team, building as well as racing cars. He contributed to the design of the… Read More

New York: Benziger Brothers, 1899. First American Edition. Hardcover. Well read/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [18.75cm/7.5inches], full ebony-embossed brown cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 246. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Karl Friedrich May ( 1842 – 1912) was a German author. He is best known for his 19th century novels of fictitious travels and adventures, set in the American Old West and in the Orient and Middle East. The Karl May Museum is in the Villa Shatterhand in Radebeul and contains artifacts from May's life as well as from life on the American frontier and Native American life of that era. It was founded in 1928 by May's widow. After World War II, the original museum remained in East Germany and a replica was built in Bamberg in West Germany. From 1956 to 1984, the museum in Radebeul was called the "Indianer Museum", because May's books were suppressed by the East German government; its original name was restored in 1986

Woodbridge, Suffolk UK: Antique Collector's Club, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed cerulean-blue cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp.289, indexed . Illustrated exclusively with colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1910. Uniform Edition. Hardcover. VG Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Duodecimo, (17.5cm/7.5inches), full gilt and ebony-embossed walnut-coloured cloth, sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. 325 + advertisments. Illustrated w/ photogravatured frontis and plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Summation: "Jack Minot and Janey Pecq are best friends who live next door to each other. They are always seen together, so Janey gets the nickname of Jill, to mimic the old rhyme. The two do go up a hill one winter day— and then suffer a terrible accident. Seriously injured in a sledding accident, they recover from their physical injuries, while learning life lessons along with their many friends. They are helped along their journey to recovery by various activities created by their mothers. In the end they are all the better for it and have learned many valuable lessons."

Santa Monica, CA: Santa Monica Press , 2003. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [2cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 212, indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Jackson Pollock: Memories Arrested in Space is Martin Gray’s remarkable biographical poem on the life of the dynamic and controversial American painter. The narrative chronicles the reckless, adventurous, and often desperate life of the twentieth century’s most pivotal American artist, from his beginnings in the American northwest through his pioneering of a revolutionary new painting technique that came to be known as Abstract Expressionism to his death at the wheel of a car on Long Island when he was only 44 years old. Written entirely in iambic trimeter, Gray’s biographical poem runs more than 3,000 lines. In Jackson Pollock: Memories Arrested in Space, Gray captures the essence of the… Read More

New York: Abbeville Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed Delft-brown cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 271. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Jacob van Ruisdael was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He is generally considered the pre-eminent landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, a period of great wealth and cultural achievement when Dutch painting became world renowned.

London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full ebony-embossed granite-blue cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 178, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Fugitive Ink noted: "‘Landscape’ is an English misspelling of the Dutch landschap, a fact which goes some way towards suggesting how significant Dutch painting has been to a particularly English tradition of depicting nature — even, perhaps, to a certain way of seeing the world around us. And when it came to influencing English taste, especially during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there were few Dutch landscape painters who mattered more than Jacob van Ruisdael, the Haarlem-born artist who died in Amsterdam in 1682.

Boston: Bulfinch, 1999. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Demy table, [28.25cm/11.5inches], full yellow-embossed gray flannel cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. xi, 125. Illustrated with 125 b-w halftone plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894 – 1986) was a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and Parisian fashion female models. ... Although best known as a photographer, Lartigue was also a good painter. He often showed up in the official salons in Paris and in the south of France from 1922. He was friends with a wide selection of literary and artistic celebrities including the playwright Sacha Guitry, the singer Yvonne Printemps, the painters Kees van Dongen, Pablo Picasso and the artist-playwright-filmmaker Jean Cocteau. He also worked on the sets of the film-makers Jacques Feyder, Abel Gance,… Read More

London: Titan Books Ltd., 2005. First Edition. Paperbound. New/No Dust Jacket. Demy folio, [29.5cm/11.75inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, unpaginated . Fully illustrated with caricatures arranged in comic strips. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... John McLusky (1923 – 2006) was a comics artist best known as the original artist of the comic strip featuring Ian Fleming's James Bond. ... Henry Francis Gammidge (1915–1981), was a writer of the James Bond comic strip that appeared in Daily Express newspaper and syndicated worldwide. Gammidge adapted Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, which were then drawn by illustrator John McLusky. Gammidge worked on eleven stories, which were published from 15 December 1958. Gammidge's last story was published on 8 January 1966.

Fairfield, Maine: James D. Julia Company, 2005. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition/No dust jacket. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 207; 1475 lots, indexed. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... A recent newsarticle noted: "For the past half century, auctioneer Jim Julia has been a purveyor of memories. From the rifle that first shot Bonnie and Clyde before police riddled their car with bullets, to artifacts from Custer’s Last Stand, sharpshooter Annie Oakley’s gun collection and George Washington’s 1781 map of the Battle of Yorktown, Julia’s appraisal and auction house on U.S. Route 201 in Fairfield has opened a window onto history, generating an estimated $600 million to $700 million in auction sales over the years". 

Oceanside, California: Oceanside Museum of Art, 1998. First Impression. Paperbound. As New. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, unpaginated . Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Wiki notes: "Jim Hubbell is a visual artist, architect, sculptor, stained-glass designer and founder of the Ilan-Lael Foundation living in Santa Ysabel, California. He is best known for designing and building organic-style structures that have been referred to as Hobbit houses.

Milwaukee: Amadeus, 2011. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [28cm/11.25inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 229, indexed. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

new York and London: Abbeville and Artus, 1985 and 1986. Hardcovers. As new/as new. Demy folios, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed cloth with mylar-protected dust jackets, Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.