Search Results: Titles starting with J from Eastleach Books

Pemberton Publishing, 1987. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. 270pp, index, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Series of essays about the life & work of John Mackinnon Robertson [ 1856 - 1933 ]. Best know today for his Jesus is Myth theories Robertson was also a Liberal MP & advocate of Freethought.

Pemberton Publishing, 1987. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. 270pp, index, SIGNED by several of the contributors, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Series of essays about the life & work of John Mackinnon Robertson [ 1856 - 1933 ]. Best know today for his Jesus is Myth theories Robertson was also a Liberal MP & advocate of Freethought.

Headline, 2001. 5th impression.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/VG. 479pp, 16pp b/w plates, index, fine copy in a near fine slightly creased dustjacket. Biography of the CEO of General Electric who diversified & took his company from a market value of $13bn to $550bn. We can't help wonder if there was supposed to be a pun in the title of the book - did hea really learn Jack...

Gollancz, 1997. 1st edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, F/VG+. 222pp, a fine copy in a near fine dustjacket that is just a little bumped at the head of the spine. The true story of a Muslim Yorkshire girl from a Pakistani family who fell in love with a Yorkshire lad. Instead of accepting her arranged marriage fate, she eloped with her true love, prompting her family to hire contract killers to murder them both.

T Neslon & Sons, 1899. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, VG+. 105pp+6pp publishers adverts, b/w frontis, 15 b/w vignettes, musical staves, a nice copy, occasional smudge & gruby mark to the pages, prize bookplate to the pastedown ( awarded to Arthur Pill at Shillingford School in 1904 ), a nice copy. Moral story, dedicated to 'everyone under four' with several original musical pieces.

Chapman & Hall, 1857. reprint.. Hardback. Cloth, G+. xiii+404pp, b/w frontis, 7 b/w plates by Hablot K Browne, cloth faded & grubby, mane torn from fep, a fair copy. Victorian fiction by Lever, an Irish novelsit, now largely forgotton.

SPCK - Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1890. reprint.. Hardback. Cloth VG. x47+88+82+72+52+96pp, frontis to each work including one in colour, b/w illustrations, some yellowing to the text, binding a little rubbed. Each work is bound without the original covers & half titles. A collection of popular works by the children's author, Juliana Horatia Ewing [ 1841 - 1885 ] which includes a critical assessment & celebration of her work by her sister, Horatia Gatty.

Tonson Publishing House, Auckland, 1968. 1st edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, VG/VG. xii+231pp, 16pp b/w plates index, fore edges foxed, edges of the dustjacket a little rubbed. A biography of Jacob Tonson [ 1655 - 1736 ] English bookseller and publisher. He published editions of John Dryden and John Milton, and obtained a copyright on the plays of William Shakespeare. He was also the founder of the famous Kit-Cat Club.

Sutton Publishing, 1999. 1st edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, F/VG+. xviii+269pp, 16pp b/w plates, index, a fine copy in a very slightly edge worn dustjacket. An account of the Jacobite espionage ring that hunted for information to help the cause of Scotland for almosta century.

Instituto Poligrafico Dello Stato, Rome, 1958. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/P. 79pp, 86 colur plates, 19 b/w text illustrations, only the upper panel of the dustjacket remainsattached to a large sheet of white paper, the book itself in fine condition. Well illustrated overview of the work of Jacopo Bassano [ c. 1510 - 1592 ] also known also as Jacopo dal Ponte, who painted mostly religious paintings including landscape and genre scenes.

Junius Press, New York, 1972. 2nd edition.. Hardback. Cloth, G+. xxx+355+[2]pp, 94pp b/w plates showing 153 images, index, Ex Library copy with library bookplate & occasional ink stamp, a nice copy despite the provenance. The life & work of Jacopo Carucci [ 1494 - 1557 ] known as Jacopo da Pontormo, the Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist of the Florentine School. Contains a Catalogue Raisonné. Much of his work has been either lost or damaged. This edition is a facsimile of the 1916 first edition, with new photographs of the paintings.

'Je Sers', Paris, nd c 1924. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, G+. 273pp, 12 tipped in plates in colour & b/w by Labarthe, bookplate, lightly foxed throughout, covers worn. A fair copy. Crossed out on the half title is the signature of a Jean Farelly. Armes D'Après Guerre. A novel set in the years after the First World War, which sees Jacques Duteuil returning injured after the war to his village home & turning to God to cope with the suffering he endured.

Bloomsbury, 2000. 2nd impression.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, VG+/VG. xx+201pp, 24pp b/w plates, fore edges a little foxed, dustjacket bumped to the head of the spine. Account of the lives of the French vice admiral Jacques Trolley de Prévaux & his wife the Amercian born model Charottle Leitner who were leading resistance fighters in the South of France, executed only days before allied troops freed the area.

Tate Gallery, 1988. 1st edition.. Paperback. Large format paperback, VG. 285pp, 77 colour & numerous b/w illustrations, index, page margins a little yellowed, otherwise a fine copy. A catalogue of an exhibition of the paintings & drawings of the Swiss artist Jacques Laurent Agasse [ 1767 - 1849 ], noted for his paintings of racehorses & greyhounds.

Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2006. 4th impression.. Paperback. Large format paperback, F. 128pp, colour & b/w illustrations, index, a nice fine copy. Osprey Aviation Elite Units Series vol 1. An overview of the most famous fighter unit in the history of aerial combat, focusing on the Second World War.

Images Publishing, Mulgrave, 2006. 1st edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, F/F. 124pp, colour illustrations throughout, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. A survey of the various modernist projects undertaken by the French firm of Jakob + Macfarlane, which include several theatres.

Boxtree, 1999. 2nd edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, F/F. 130pp, colour & b/w illustrations throughout, a fine copy. Details of all the 'Bond Girls' who have appeared in the Bond films, from 'Dr No' to 'The World is Not Enough'. Covers the leading lady as well as the supporting roles.

Autolycus Publications, 1980. 1st edition.. Paperback. Card wrappers, VG. 63pp, rear cover a little marked, otherwise a fine copy. A selection of 33 poems by James Elroy Flecker [ 1884 - 1915 ] with an essay by Parry.

Longman, 1991. 12th impression.. Paperback. Paperback, VG. viii+142pp, index, spine faded otherwise a fine copy. Seminar Studies in History series. Outline history of the reign & influence of James I.

Akademisk Forlag, Oslo - Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1955. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, VG. viii+106pp, cloth a little rubbed, SIGNED by the author to the endpaper to a fellow academic, a nice copy. Oslo Studies in English vol 4. A study of the works of James Joyce which looks at the relationship between the art of literature and the needs & purposes of the creative mind.