Search Results: Authors starting with J from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic & Illustrations. Acknowledgements, list of abbreviations, references, selected bibliography and index. Colour photographic frontispiece, showing a stain glass monogram (taken from the Book of Kells), given as a gift to the Public Library of New South Wales, by various printing unions, to celebrate 500th anniversary of Gutenberg's invention of movable metal types. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photographs stop light blue coloured cloth covered boards with small gilt coloured embossed illustration to the lower right-hand corner of the front panel; and, gilt coloured titles to the back strip. As issued plain glassine dustwrapper. The title says it all. A little flecking across the top edge of the front panel with softening of the back strip rubbing of the book corners and back strip corners. Light age toning of the text… Read More

Haynes Publishing Group, Sparkford, Nr Yeovil, Somerset, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover (Laminated Illustrated Boards). Very Good Condition. Illustrator: photographs and cutaway drawings. second-hand copy with no damage to describe, no annotations. Illustrated into pages, and list of preserved Meteors in the United Kingdom along with technical descriptions. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 56 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: photographs and cutaway drawings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Aviation; Great Britain; WW II; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 0854294511. ISBN/EAN: 9780854294510. Inventory No: 0284618. . 9780854294510

Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1984. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Arthur Robins – drawings. a collection of jokes centred around the act of sex, and money. Clean copy no damage. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 122 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Arthur Robins – drawings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: humour; Contemporary Fiction; ISBN: 0207143714. ISBN/EAN: 9780207143717. Inventory No: 0260516. . 9780207143717

Oxford University Press, London . New York . Toronto, 1975. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. introduction by J.M. Reid and glossary. Navy blue coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed publisher's logo to the front panel and gilt titles to the backstrip. A little rubbing to the book corners and there is browning of the textblock edges and age toning of the internal text. A few foxing spots to the textblock edge. Plain text dustwrapper with white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. A little rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and dustwrapper panels. Clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. Scottish short stories, including input from Sir Walter Scott, John Buchan, Eric Linklater and Robert Louis Stevenson. Part of The World's Classics series – 595. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (5), VI-XIII, (2), 2-328, (8) pages,. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to… Read More

Time-Life Books, Alexandria, VA, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. 176 pages, illustrated end pages, text illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs, and with colour drawings. Indexed. There is pasted to the front textured blind stamped imitation leather cover a detail from the double page end page illustration. a clean copy with no damage to describe. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Aviation; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 0809433419. ISBN/EAN: 9780809433414. Inventory No: 0241389. . 9780809433414

Elsevier/Nelson Books, New York, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 256 pp; illustrated dustjacket. Science fiction tales by Brian W. Aldiss, Ray Bradbury, John Updike and others. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0525667040. ISBN/EAN: 9780525667049. Inventory No: 0205883. . 9780525667049

John Wiley & Sons, New South Wales, 2002. Reprint. Hardcover (Laminated Illustrated boards). As New/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: maps. there is no damage, because the book is still sealed in the original shrinkwrap. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 252 pages including a CD-ROM in original shrinkwrap. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: maps. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Geography & Maps; ISBN: 0701633824. ISBN/EAN: 9780701633820. Inventory No: 0258566. . 9780701633820

Mattoid 25, Not Stated, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. The text is illustrated with a small black-and-white photograph, of authors being interviewed, at the beginning of each interview. White coloured card covers with black illustration to the front panel. A little creasing to the book corners and browning and handling marks to the book panels. The staples of the book have started to rust. In this book are five interviews with authors that were guests of the Adelaide Festival of Arts in 1986. The authors are: – Graham Swift, Alain Robbe-Grillet, C. Cabrera Infante, Ian McEwan and Josef Skvorecky. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (1), 2-68 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; interviews; Inventory No: 0113099. .

Viking, Ringwood, Victoria, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illustrator: Jack Chalker. IV, 136 pages, last page blank, foreword by Sir Edward ( 'Weary' ] Dunlop and index. The text is illustrated with both colour and black-and-white drawings and sketches made by the author while a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II along the Burma-Siam Railway. Green coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Minor rubbing along the backstrip edges and book corners. Illustrated dustwrapper with ochre coloured titles to the front dustwrapper panel and ochre and black titles to the backstrip. Sepia toned photograph of the author to the rear dustwrapper panel. A little rubbing to the dustwrapper corners. After the fall of Singapore in 1942 the author became a prisoner of war of the Japanese. He spent that time in Singapore and in the Thailand-Burma railway camps. " during this time, in furtive secrecy, he made diary notes, sketches and paintings… Read More

Granta Books, London, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: photographs. apart from subtle signs of the book having been read, there is no damage. A collection of love stories with love and the temporary and permanent state of affairs – between strangers, within families, about the lack, the loss, and the need of it, – how does it happen, we does it go?. Includes a newly discovered story by Raymond Carver, and a short story by David Malouf. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 392 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0903141329. ISBN/EAN: 9780903141321. Inventory No: 0254219. . 9780903141321

Granta Books, London, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. introduction by editor. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photography. Colour illustrated card cover with black, white and purple coloured titles to the front panel and black-and-white coloured titles to the backstrip. "This special 352-page issue of Granta is devoted to Australia, as it was and is, in new fiction, reported, memoir and photography." -- from the rear panel blurb. Contributors include Murray Bail, Peter Carey, Kate Grenville, Howard Jacobson, Les Murray and Tim Winton. A little creasing to the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. A few marks to the book's panels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], 7-352 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Australia; ISBN: 0903141361. ISBN/EAN: 9780903141369. Inventory No: 0117639. .… Read More

Granta, London, 1997. Periodical. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: photographs. Published for the Golden Jubilee of India, this special edition includes reporting by James Buchan and William Dalrymple, new fiction by Anita Desai, Arunhati Roy and R.K Narayan, a gallery of memories from 1947 and public and private India photographed by Salgado and Singh Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 288 pages. No damage to describe. Clean tidy copy. please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Sociology & Culture; India; Literature & Literary. ISBN: 0903141043. ISBN/EAN: 9780903141048. Inventory No: 0272387. . 9780903141048

Lothian publishing Company Pty., Ltd, Melbourne, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Good. introduction by author. Illustrated paperback binding with green coloured titles to the front panel. In this book the author attempts to give the underlying philosophy of alternative therapies, for example acupuncture, herbs, zone therapy, meditation etc. Creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. There are some stains to the top right-hand corner of the front panel along with the remnants of a sticker. Sunning to the book panels along with handling. There is a hole to the lower edge of the front panel – please see photograph. Age toning of the text block edges and panels. Size: Trade Paperback. 92 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: New Age & Alternative; Healing; Inventory No: 0126952. .

An Aslan Lion Book, Tring, Britain, 1979. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Photographic card cover with red coloured titles to the front panel and black and red coloured titles to the backstrip. Set in Jerusalem in the first century C. E., But with 20th century technology. On 10 April, four days before Passover Jesus Barabbas and his Jewish Freedom Fighters launched a campaign to capture the Roman Governor-General, then proclaim Jesus Davidson king. ... Creasing the book corners with a crease that runs the full length to the front panel. Rubbing to the book edges and panels with a small burn mark to the middle part of the book. Browning and foxing to the textblock edges and browning of the pages. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 224 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0856481882. ISBN/EAN: 9780856481888. Inventory No: 0117989. . 9780856481888

Pelham Books, London, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 400 g; 88 pages, illustrated with 293 black-and-white photographs, with some commentary and footnoting. Photographic illustrated dustjacket reproduced in colour. The book and jacket appear to have no damage. This book, will, without doubt, serve to promote the best practices within judo and enable an increasing number of people to take enjoyment in what is currently regarded as Britain's most successful Olympic sport. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Sports & Pastimes; ISBN: 0720711436. ISBN/EAN: 9780720711431. Inventory No: 0231475. . 9780720711431

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1979. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Colour illustrated paperback binding with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. The author's evocation of rural England at the beginning of the 20th century, and, of the shepherd Snarly Bob. For, as the rear panel blurb states "Mad or sane, it is certain that Snarly, under a kinder Fate might have been something more splendid than was. Mystic, star-gazer, dabbler in black or blackish arts, he seemed in his lowly occupation of Shepherd to represent some strange miscarriage of Nature's designs." Rubbing of the book edges and panels with browning of the text block edges and pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 122 pages.. Previous bookseller's sticker to the rear panel.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Britain/UK; 1900-1920;… Read More

Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover (Imitation Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. 176 pages, indexed, with bibliography. Illustrated through with colour, and black-and-white photography. Blind stamped front board has a colour detail pasted, taken from the illustrated front end pages. A history of mail delivery, the 1st part of the book being American, with sections on Europe, and South America. The book does not appear to have been opened a clean copy with no damage to detail. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Aviation; Transport -- Aircraft; ISBN: 080943329X. ISBN/EAN: 9780809433292. Inventory No: 0241384. . 9780809433292

Picador, London, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. 268 pp, illustrated dustwrapper. The dustwrapper illustrated by Stephen Rawlings opens out from its initial 22.5 cm to 46 cm! The author's first novel. Mr Bird has just completed the network of tunnels beneath the Duke's estate ("sterling work"), a subterranean world of drives wide enough to take Grimshaw's coach and 4. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; First Novel; ISBN: 0330349554. ISBN/EAN: 9780330349550. Inventory No: 0203061. . 9780330349550

Dove Communications, North Blackburn, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Inscribed by Author. second-hand copy, no damage to describe, no annotations, illustrated with a black-and-white photograph of the author and her husband. Although very personal, joy's letters speak to a universal experience. Their combination of honesty, love, realism and faith makes the book 1 of the most helpful employment accounts and grieving since C. S. Lewis' A Grief Observed – Rear Panel Blurb previous owner's name sticker at the top of the first page, and an inscription from the author thanking the recipient to help with getting the book published. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 87 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Psychology & Psychiatry; Self Help & Motivation. Inscribed by Author. ISBN: 1863715932. ISBN/EAN: 9781863715935. Inventory No:… Read More

Time-Life Books, Alexandria, VA, 1981. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. 176 pages, illustrated end pages, text illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs, and with colour drawings. Indexed. There is pasted to the front textured blind stamped imitation leather cover a detail from the double page end page illustration. a clean copy with no damage to describe. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Aviation; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 0809432684. ISBN/EAN: 9780809432684. Inventory No: 0241397. . 9780809432684