Search Results: Authors starting with I from JimsOldBooks

London: W H Allen, 1964. Unclipped dustwrapper has creasing and a couple of small tears to the edges. Minor shelf wear to bottom edge of blue boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim hard-cover book. The author's tales of the life and world travels of his cat Smokey. 120pp, b&w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Maidstone, Kent: Cranborne Publications, 1994. Creasing to outer corners of front cover and to adjacent pages, very slight scuffing to spine ends, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Deals with the Police in Britain during the Second World War. 392pp, b&w illustrations.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: The Book Club, 1955. Book Club edition from 1955. Some creasing to edges of dustwrapper, also some foxing to back panel, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover novel set in Morocco. 256pp.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Companion Book Club, 1968. Companion Book Club edition from 1968. Minor creasing to the edges of unclipped dustwrapper, slight bumping to corners of orange boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. The author's accounts of sailing in his yacht the ''Mary Deare'' in the Mediterranean, Aegean, and Adriatic seas, the waters round Scandinavia, off Brittany and the Western Isles of Scotland. 288pp, 26 illustrations, some in colour.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Dublin: Glendale Press, 1981. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper and some fading to spine of same, bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, a little bit of corrugation to top corner of text block caused by water spillage, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Looks at the sea fishing industry in Ireland from the middle ages, through the time of British rule to Independence and up to the 1970s. 184pp, b&w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Collins, 1923. No dustwrapper, wear to the spine ends and corners of blue cloth-covered boards, original owner's bookplate inside front board and on old bookseller's ink stamp on f/ep, binding just starting to loosen at title page, otherwise a not too bad copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with four cases of men wrongly convicted of various crimes in the nineteenth century. Nameley: Adolf Beck (wrongfully convicted of Fraud in the 1890s), Joseph Lesurques (executed for his part in a mail coach robbery in the 1790s, although it was later found he was nowhere near the scene), Emile de La Ronciere (convicted of Rape in 1835, although the ''victim'' was later known to have lied), and Pierre Vaux (convicted of Arson and sent to the penal colony in French Guiana in 1852). 281pp.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1950. Creasing and tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, mostly at spine ends and sides, an old price label on back panel. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of red boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in 1937, this is a later printing from 1950, part of the "Uniform Edition" of the author's historical novels. This one deals with the life of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, who is probably best-remembered as a Royalist cavalry commander fighting for his uncle Charles I during the English Civil war. 592pp, b&w frontispiece.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

San Diego: Plural Publishing Inc, 2008. A small crease to lower corner of back cover, otherwise a very good clean tight copy of this soft-cover book. A collection of fourteen pieces by different authors on aspects of vocal mediated emotions and the vocal expressions of affective states; also discusses what constitutes an emotion, the function of the emotions in our life, and what is vocally transmitted to comprehend these states. 238pp, a few b&w charts.. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.