Search Results: Authors starting with J from Twin City Antiquarian Books

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth, white & red titles on spine, [xii], 211 pp, 38 b & w illustrations, notes, chronology, bibliography, index. A few faint spots on boards & edges, else fine. Price-clipped DJ has 2 tears (with creasing) to bottom edge, slight wear to bottom edge; in Brodart archival cover. Jacker surveys anarchism in America both as a political philosopy and as a political (or anti-political) movement. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/VG+. 23½ X 16 cm.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1970 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-School. Blue, tan, & red cloth, xix, 420 pp, index. Slight rubbing to extremities, initials in marker on top edge, owner's signature on ffep, card pocket on preliminary blank. A faculty copy, clean & solid. Contents: nature of mathematics; elementary set theory; methods of proof; number systems (natural numbers; integers; rational, real, & complex numbers); numeration systems; geometry; [geometrical] theorems; coordinate geometry; mensuration; relations & functions. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/No dj. 24 X 17 cm.

New York: Random House, 1955 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full green cloth, black & brown titles & decorations, top edge dyed green, decorative endpapers, [vii], 182, [2], 17 chapter headpieces, 21 two-color illustrations, index, two-page list of books in the Landmark and World Landmark Series. Boards bowed, spine a bit cocked. This volume is Landmark No. 59. This history of San Francisco to just after the 1906 earthquake is aimed at readers up to about junior high school age. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 3rd ptg. . VG/No dj. Illus. by Kurt Werth. 21½ X 14½ cm.

London, Toronto, Wellington & Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1959 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth, gilt titles on spine, frontis., 349 pp, index. Titles partly rubbed off spine, paper browning, owner's name dated Christmas 1959 on fpd. Before being named Lord Chief Justice, Hewart was a newspaper reporter, barrister, member of parliament, and cabinet minister. Jackson treats these phases of Hewart's life relatively briefly, devoting the bulk of the book to his Chief Justiceship. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . VG/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Random House, 1984 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full red cloth, gilt titles on spine, ix, 257 pp, notes, index. Two lines underlined on p. 42. DJ has a 6 cm tear at head of rear joint; in Brodart archival cover. Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, "shows how economic life expands and develops, on the one hand, as cities replace their imports with goods of their own production and improvise innovations on that foundation, and how they, and all the wide-ranging economic life they influence, decline and decay when these vital city processes falter and halt." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/VG. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1903 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue ribbed cloth, gilt titles & decorations, printed illustration tipped on to front board, vi, 8 ff color plates inc. frontis., 22 ff b & w plates, 12 illustrations in text & title page. Gift inscription and later owner's name on ffep, looks VG at first glance, but closer examination turns up small marginal tears on two pages, 1 cm stain to top edge, and some interior spotting. Collection of 21 nautical short stories. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . G+/No dj. Illus. by E. W. Kemble. 19 X 13 cm.

London & New York: Focal Press, 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green boards, gilt titles on spine, 528 pp, 16 ff b & w photo plates, many b & w illustrations in text, index. A few spots on fore-edge. DJ spine sunned, previous owner's name on front panel; in Brodart archival cover. Comprehensive manual on photographic enlarging; includes formulas for developers and other photographic chemicals. Contents: the function of enlarging; quality of the negative; printing papers; the enlarger; darkroom organisation & equipment; enlarging practice; aids to enlarging; enlarging exposure meters; colour enlarging; developing black-and-white prints; fixing, washing, and drying; processing colour prints; finer points of enlarging & processing; retouching, trimming, mounting; special processes & techniques; document copying; special processes. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 22nd Ed. . VG/VG. 21½ X 13 cm.

Chicago: Packard & Company, 1946 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full beige cloth, brown titles on front board & spine, 197 pp, Slight soil to boards. Blurbs clipped from DJ flaps are tipped on to front endpapers; the rest of the DJ is missing. Beginning textbook in the Russian language for English speakers. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). 2nd ed. . VG+/Poor. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Kent Publishing Company, 1958 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue boards, gilt titles on spine, 102, [25] pp. Spine ends & corners slightly rubbed. DJ has some small tears (under 1 cm) and creases, head of spine rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, the authors "have found that all successful speculations have several things in common and that these ingredients for success can be spotted by the astute speculator before he invests...if he know what to look for!" Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). . Near Fine/VG. 21 X 14 cm.

n. p.: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1976 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red pictorial covers with black titles, 84 pp followed by 61 ff plates carrying gravure reproductions of 125 drawings. Spine slightly faded, minimal edge wear. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. 25½ X 19 cm.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full black cloth, black titles on wraparound foil band, xxvi, 547, [3] pp, 16 ff b & w photo plates, 33 figures, bibliography, index. A bit of soil to bottom edge near fore-edge, where pages drag on shelf, otherwise looks nearly new, owner's name on fpd. Jaffe presents an overview of the state of science in the mid-1930s. Contents, showing chapter title, main topic where not obvious, and main scientist discussed: genetics (fruit flies, Thomas Hunt Morgan); anthropology (prehistory, Ales Hrdlicka); physical disease (William H. Welch); cancer (Maud Slye); glands (John Jacob Abel); mental diseases (Adolf Meyer); vitamins (Elmer V. McCollum); insects (Leland O. Howard); matter (quantum mechanics, Robert A. Millikan); radiation (cosmic rays, Millikan & Arthur H. Compton); astrophysics (George Ellery Hale); weather (long-range forecasting, Charles G. Abbot & Andrew E.… Read More

New York, London & Paris: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Yellow cloth, blue titles on spine, xli, 996 pp. Moderate soil to cloth, owner's name on front board & front paste-down, corners bumped. Proceedings of the Third Technical Conference sponsored by the Refractory Metals Committee, Institute of Metals Division, The Metallurgical Society with the cooperation of the Southern California Section, AIME, Los Angeles, California, December 9-10, 1963. Contains 78 papers by 146 authors grouped under the following general headings: extrusion, forging & forming operations (7 papers); tubing technology (7 papers); brazing-alloy development & techniques (9 papers); consolidation into shapes by powder metallurgy & other techniques (5 papers); welding technology & evaluation (6 papers); shear spinning & metal removal (7 papers); corrosion by liquid metals (6 papers); nuclear, liquid metal… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green boards with blue spine, gilt titles on spine, xvii, 297, [2] pp, map, 5 b & w photos, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. This is the story of Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland's expeditions above the Arctic circle in 1899-1903 to discover the cause of the Aurora Borealis--the Northern Lights. According to the DJ, "He traveled across some of the most forbidding landscapes on Earth, from the ice mountains of Norway to the deserts of Africa, against a backdrop of war and political upheaval. Along the way, Birkeland made some remarkable discoveries and inventions, such as the idea of hearing aids for deaf patients; of making caviar from cod roe; and of using the force of cathode rays to propel rockets." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Fine/Fine. 22 X 15 cm.

Ithaca, NY: ISAAA (The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications), 2008 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mustard-yellow & white covers with chart & map on front cover, black titles on spine, [2], xxvii, 243 pp including 6 fold-out tables, bibliography. Minor bumps to edges, else fine. Gives distribution of biotech crops by country, crop, and trait, status of regulation, and some commentary. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No dj. 28 X 22 cm.

Ithaca, NY: ISAAA (The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications), 2010 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mustard-yellow & white covers with chart & map on front cover, black titles on spine, [2], viii, 280 pp including 6 fold-out tables, bibliography. Minor bump to head of spine, else fine. Gives distribution of biotech crops by country, crop, and trait, status of regulation, and some commentary. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No dj. 28 X 22 cm.

Ithaca, NY: ISAAA (The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications), 2007 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mustard-yellow & white covers with chart & map on front cover, black titles on spine, [2], xvii, 143 pp including 6 fold-out tables, bibliography. Crease near bottom corner of back cover, else fine. Gives distribution of biotech crops by country, crop, and trait, status of regulation, and some commentary. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No dj. 28 X 22 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Burnt-orange boards with black spine, [xi], 415, [2] pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First US Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24½ X 16½ cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Burnt-orange boards with black spine, [xi], 415, [2] pp. One corner bumped, one leaf dog-eared, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 24½ X 16½ cm.

Cambridge, MA & London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Three volumes, rebound by library in black cloth, with original front covers tipped onto front boards. Vol. 1: li, 687 pp. Vol. 2: [v], 659 pp. Vol. 3: [v], 729 pp, classified list of biographies. This is a lightly used branch library reference copy, with usual library markings including "Withdrawn" stamp. Shipping weight 10 lbs.. Later printing. . VG/No dj. 25½ X 18 cm.

New York: Paragon House, 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. This American edition contains a new preface and an appendix not in the original British edition. Brown boards, black cloth spine with copper foil titles, xiii, 406 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, 2 maps, notes, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart cover. From the DJ: "T. E. Lawrence was a true scholar, a man of irresistible charm who genuinely cared for the Arabs. He was also a shocking fabricator who invented, embellished, and used his own legend. ... Using previously unavailable sources as well as published material, Lawrence James reconstructs T. E. Lawrence's wartime career, examining how it was translated into legend during the 1920s and '30s." Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). First US Edition. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.