Search Results: Authors starting with J from Rickaro Books Ltd

London: Macdonald & Co, 1990. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy. 272pp..

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy of this biography of T. E. Lawrence. 406pp. This copy has a compliments slip to Malcolm Brown with a few notes to reverse)..

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy of this biography of T. E. Lawrence. 406pp..

London: Unbound, 2023. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy of the first ever general collection of M.R. James' correspondence. James was of course both antiquary and Provost of King's College and Eton. He is perhaps best known as the author of fine ghost stories. 256pp..

London: Longman, Green & Co., 1890. Book. Very Good+. Hardback. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near fine copy in full leather binding with gilt lining. Five raised bands to spine aeg. Marbled endpapers, illustrated with etchings and woodcuts. 344pp..

London: Cadell and Davis, 1806. Ex-Library. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A good clean copy, rebound in stout red cloth with red leather spine, library label to inside of front board and small shield stamp to first two pages. The first and indeed only edition of this elusive text on population written as a refutation of Malthus. Jarrold (1763-1809), a well-known physician, discusses in a series of chapters the checks to population adopted in various European and non-European societies, including North America. This is the earliest criticism of Malthus to achieve the scale of a full-length work: the more famous reply of Hazlitt did not appear until 1807, and Charles Hall's provocative work.An elusive first edition of this influential volume of 1806. 367pp printed by Northall and Dawson, Stockport..

Chicago: Privately Published, 1965. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A fine copy of this privately published 8 pages. Includes a fine facsimile printing of a document from the collection of Herbert R. Strauss, with an introduction by the then director of the Newberry Library. Produced in an unknown edition for friends of the Newberry Library. Reproduces a three-page holograph document of Jefferson's commentary on various wines. Printed wrappers, all in fine clean condition..

Honley: Honley Civic Society, 2013. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Landscape. A fine copy of this selection of watercolours of Honley by Andrew Jenkin. Colour throughout. 36pp.

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1878. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A good copy, some wear to spine and inner front hinge seperating. Reprint from the Encyclopedia Brittannica. pp,284-341 illustrated throughout + 2 plates..

London: Mills & Boon Limited, 1913. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A good copy, bound in original cloth with title in red to front board and gilt to spine. A portrait of Gerald du Maurier as Lupin to front board, du Maurier played Lupin on stage in 1909. Name of previous owner neatly to front paste down. Some browning to page edges and occasional browning to paper. The Mills and Boon 1913 catalogue to rear. 344pp + catalogue. The classic story of the gentleman thief which inspired a TV series by Netflix..

London: The Camden Society, 1842. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy in original green stamped cloth. 133pp. Previous owners name to fep..

Dublin: Thomas L.White, 1830. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A good copy bound in brown paper covered boards with green cloth spine. 120pp. Some scattered foxing and bookplate of previous owner to front paste-down. Bishop John Jewel, 1522-1571..

Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1903. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very good copies of these three volumes, in matching bindings, green cloth-covered boards, with brown cloth spines. teg. Part I 1580-1678, published 1903, Part II 1743-1812 published 1911, Part III, 1754-1812 + Flockton 1717-1812. From the library of the local historian George Redmonds with his decorative bookplate to fep of all three volumes which were originally from the YAS Library with their bookplate..

London: Eric Partridge, 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A very good copy of this limited edition just 500 copies Number 411. Contains a previously unpublished portrait frontispiece by Frederick Carter entitled "T.E.Shaw - Cecil Court, March 1934". Notes on twenty-three publications, plus extracts from thirty-eight letters. Brief prefatory note by 'G'. a bibliographical note by John Gawsworth. O'Brien E077..

London: Eric Partridge Ltd at the Scolartis Press, 1935. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A vg copy of this limited edition numbered of 500 copies, Number 276. O'Brien E077. Contains a previously unpublished portrait frontispiece by Frederick Carter entitled "T.E.Shaw - Cecil Court, March 1934". Notes on twenty-three publications, plus extracts from thirty-eight letters. Brief prefatory note by 'G'..

London: Eric Partridge Ltd at the Scolartis Press, 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A vg copy of this limited edition number 481 of 500 copies. O'Brien E077..

KNebworth: The Lytton Press, 1982. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Limited Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A fine copy, letter from author laid in..

London: Osprey Publishing, 2020. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lawrence of Arabia is one of the most iconic figures of the First World War, seen by many as a heroic and romantic guerrilla leader in a period of savage and deeply impersonal industrial warfare. A fine new copy. 368pp illustrated. Lawrence himself has been the subject of many biographies, and an award-winning film, the context of his war in the desert, and his ideas on war itself, are less well known. Lawrence of Arabia on War is a study of those ideas, and of his campaign of irregular warfare which has informed tactical theory and decision-making down to the present day..

London: F.C. And T. Rivington, 1820. Book. Good. Hardback. First Thus. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. A good copy in full decorative calf. Engraved frontispiece and title page. fep removed. 547pp..

London: London, 1979. Book. Illus. by Johnson, Audrey. Very Good. Soft cover. Reprint. A very good copy of the softcover edition. A guide for the doll collector. 128pp..