Search Results: Authors starting with J from Grampy's Bookcase

532 pp. Clean and unmarked text in a square and tight binding. Top of text block is a faded blue. Slight wear to the top and bottom edges of the DJ. Black and white photos included.

642 pp. Book is clean, unmarked, and tight. Creases on the spine and very small scraped area on the front top edge.

368 pp. Previous owner's name is on the top outside corner of the half title page. Text is clean and unmarked. Covers are tight and bright. Bottom outside front cover corner has a very slight bend. Spine is not creased.

In "As New Condition." Full page color illustrations throughout. Signed by the author.

330 pp. Previous owner's name on the top front edge of half title page. Otherwise unmarked, clean in a tight and square cover. Very small crease at the bottom outside front cover. Appears unread.

Text is clean and unmarked in square, tight and intact covers. several small spots on the outside edges of the text block. Spine is not creased. Bookstore ID number penciled in the top outside corner of the front free end paper. From the back cover, "This book vividly describes and deeply analyzes the course of modern Philippine history. It traces the U.S. imperialist domination, evolving from colonial to neo-colonial strategy, that produced the Marcos dictatorship."

Text has several neatly underlined passages and a comment in a margin. Covers are tight and intact. Very light wear along the bottom of the back cover. Spine is not creased. Volume appears unused. From the Preface, "The life of Keats provides a unique opportunity for the study of literary greatness and of what permits or encourages its development. The interest is thus deeply human and moral, and in the most capacious sense of both of these words."

181 pp. Clean and unmarked text in a square and tight binding. Very slight shelf wear to the text block outer edges but the book appears unread.

119 pp. "This catalogue was published in connection with the exhibition "Ballerina in a Whirlpool...in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (September 30 - November 19, 2006). Full page color plates included. In as new condition.

279 pp. Clean, bright , and unmarked text in a square and tight binding. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front free end paper. Volume appears unread. DJ has minor and light smudging on the back. Numerous photos throughout.

210 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in square and tight covers. Covers have some smudging but are intact with minimal wear. Stated on the back cover, "James E. Jackson is the editor of 'The Worker' , the national newspaper which presents the Communist viewpoint on current events."

144 pp. Cover is very lightly faded. Part of the front DJ lettering has faintly faded on the front cover. Several penciled underlined passages. Otherwise book is clean in a tight and square binding. DJ is clean with very minor wear on the edges.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Illustrations by Will Owen. Illustrated throughout. Illustration page has a closed tear at the top. Lettering is bright on the spine. A bright and solid volume.

932 pp. Several previous owner's names on the top right corner of the front free end paper. Penciled underlining and notations in the margins throughout. Binding is tight and square. Written on the back outside corner cover are the numerals 7111.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Previous owner's name is on the top free end paper and on the top of title page. Several full-page illustrations. Back free end paper has a small area of glue residue. From the Preface, "Through literature...the stage of life is set before the pupil and his own experiences are deepened and broadened by a sympathetic re-living of the experiences of others. It is the right of every pupil to be acquainted with the best in literature."

Text is clean and unmarked in tight and intact covers. Only defect is light shelf wear smudging on the covers. Spine is not creased. Volume appears unused, From the back cover, " 'American Realism' is a cogent account of the turning of American literature from the sentimentality of the "Romance" to the reality which makes up the bulk of contemporary literature. It traces the growth and development of Realism in America..."

256 pp. Almost as new condition. Only defect is previous owner's name on the top of the front free end paper. Unsealed computer disc is included attached to the back cover.

Text is clean and unmarked in bright and tight covers. A volume in fine condition. From the Foreword, " I had no doubt about the reality of Nazi evil. But I could now be more clear that the purpose of my psychological project was to learn more about, rather than replace, precisely that evil. To avoid probing the sources of that evil seemed to me, in the end, a refusal to call forth our capacity to engage and combat it. Such avoidance contains not only fear of contagion but an assumption that Nazi or any other evil has no relationship whatsoever with the rest of us...While Nazi mass murder and brutality tempts one toward such an assumption, it is nonetheless false and even dangerous." p. xi-xii.

402 pp. Black and white photos included. As new condition.

493 pp Clean, bright, and unmarked text in square and tight covers. From the back cover, " 'Endgame, Volume I' builds on a series of simple but increasingly provocative premises: for example, 'The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of any economic system; and 'Love does not imply pacifism' "