Search Results: Authors starting with J from Inklings & Yarnspinners

London: John Mason, 1837/1838. 1st. h/b. Fair, half calf binding, marbled covers, gilt on black titling on 4-ribbed spines (some chipping on vol 3); all 3 front boards detached and feps with damage; ex-library (Latimer Trust); text blocks firm, pages unmarked.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). The Lives of Early Methodist Preachers chiefly written by themselves from Christopher Hopper to John Pritchard

London: Bloomsbury, 2010. 1st (6th printing). h/b. Very good, 1st edition (6th printing), blue boards good (spine slightly creased), rose gold spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked, sunning on edges.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik, a Czech always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower, they dine at Libor's grand, central London apartment. It's a sweetly… Read More

London: Biteback, 2013. 1. h/b. Fine, 1st edition.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). After a period following the Iraq War, when the reputation of Britain's spooks has hit an all-time low, John le CarrŽ s intellectual hero George Smiley has come to be seen as the perfect spy, a man who would never allow secret intelligence to be misused for political purposes. Le CarrŽ revealed shortly before the Iraq War that the model for Smiley was the author and MI5 officer John Bingham, the 7th Baron Clanmorris. Michael Jago's brilliant account of Bingham s life is not just the story of a perfect spy, it is also of a writer whose thrillers transcended the genre, exploring the emotions behind the darkest human behaviour. As an intelligence officer the bespectacled Bingham had a deep influence on Le CarrŽ, then a junior colleague in MI5. Like Smiley, Bingham was an expert interrogator. His understanding of the human psyche, demonstrated so brilliantly in his seventeen novels, persuaded his subjects to give up the… Read More

London: Picador, 2015. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition 1st printing; unclipped d/j (v.g. but small rip on front); otherwise as new; owner's inscription on endpaper. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). In his insightful collection of poems Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are regrets, but no trace of self-pity in these verses, which - for all their open dealings with death and illness - are primarily a celebration of what is treasurable and memorable in our time here.Again and again, James reminds us that he is not only a poet of effortless wit and lyric accomplishment: he is also an immensely wise one, who delights in using poetic form to bring a razor-sharp focus to his thought. Miraculously, these poems see James writing with his insight and energy not only undiminished but positively charged by his situation: Sentenced to Life represents a career high point from one of the greatest literary intelligences of the age.

New York: Liveright, 2016. 1st USA. h/b. Fine, as New. . 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). The poetry of Clive James has been delighting readers and winning awards for decades. His recent poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life have brought him an even wider readership; some, such as ""Japanese Maple"" (first published in The New Yorker), became global news events upon their publication. In this first collected volume of poetry, James makes his own selection from over fifty years' work in verse: from his early satires to his late poems of valediction, he proves himself to be as well-suited to the intense demands of the short lyric as to those of the comic excursion. Collected Poems places James's effortless fluency, his breath-taking thematic range, and his emotional power on full display--and will burnish his reputation as one of the most accomplished of our contemporary poets.

New York & London: Liveright, 2016. 1st thus. p/b. Near fine, crease on front cover.. C (216 x 135). Clive James was one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He was also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first enthralled by the mysterious power of poetry, he has been a dedicated student. In fact, for him, poetry was nothing less than the occupation of a lifetime, and in this book Poetry Notebook, he presents a distillation of everything he learned about the art form that matters to him most.

London: Faber & Faber, 1994. 1st. hardback. Signed and dated to title, 1st edition, Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket; mildly tanned to top text block edge, d/j In protective sleeve . 4to (300 x 240 / 12"" x 9_). Set in a long-established publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The Peverell Press, founded in 1792, is ripe for change. The chairman, Henry Peverell, has just died; his French partner, Jean-Philippe Etienne, has retired and Etienne's ruthless son Gerard has taken over as chairman. Gerard Etienne has made enemies: his discarded mistress, a rejected and humiliated author, his colleagues and threatened members of the Peverell staff. When he is found dead on the premises, his body bizarrely desecrated, there is no shortage of suspects. Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary ingenuity and complexity, and a murderer who is prepared to kill again.

London: BCA (by arr. Faber & Faber), 1992. 1st thus. hardback. Good, 1st thus edition (same year as Faber original), unclipped d/j, black boards, white spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked but significant browning and some foxing on edges.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman leads him into contact with a group of dissenters. Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind.

London: Faber & Faber, 2003. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition (1st printing), unclipped d/j (v.g.), maroon boards (slightly cocked spine), white spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked. Owner's inscription on 2nd fep. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). When Commander Dalgliesh is persuaded by an old friend to visit the Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, he can have no idea that he will return to it one week later under very different circumstances. One of the family trustees has been horribly murdered and Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a death which, from the first, is fraught with complications. Even before the murder, the museum was in tumult. A new lease is due to be signed and two of the trustees are determined to keep the museum open, the third passionately determined on its closure.The museum is dedicated to the years 1919-1939 and one of the galleries, the Murder Room, displays exhibits from the most notorious cases of those inter-war… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 2008. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition (1st printing), unclipped d/j (v.g.), black boards, silver spine titling; text block firm, pages unmarked. Owner's inscription on 2nd fep. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). When the notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, a week's peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset's most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life. She was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive. Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate the murder, and later a second death, which are to raise even more complicated problems than the question of innocence or guilt?A chilling and atmospheric work of detective fiction, The Private Patient is the fourteenth novel to feature the inspector protagonist Adam Dalgliesh, from the award-winning… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 2011. 1st (5th imp). h/b. Fine, as new.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A wonderful treat.' Melvyn Bragg 'A sparkling curio that will appeal to both Janeites and Jamesites.' Daily Telegraph The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. In their six years of marriage, Elizabeth and Darcy have forged a peaceful, happy life for their family at Pemberley, Darcy's impressive estate. But on the eve of their annual autumn ball, chaos descends. A chaise appears, rocking down the path from Pemberley's wild woodland. As it pulls up, Lydia Wickham - Elizabeth Bennet's younger, unreliable sister - stumbles out screaming that her husband has been murdered. Plunged into frightening mystery and a lurid murder trial, the lives of Pemberley's owners and servants alike may never be the same . . .

London: Faber & Faber, 2001. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j, text block firm, pages unmarked but a little browned on edges. Signed on title without inscription.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Commander Adam Dalgliesh, P. D. James's formidable and fascinating detective, returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and mystery -- and in love.

London: Faber & Faber, 1997. 1st. hardback. V ery good, 1st edition (1st printing), with unclipped d/j; black boards and gilt spine titling good; text block firm, pages unmarked, but some browning and foxing on edges.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk.Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients Venetia has defended, her professional colleagues, her family - even her lover. As Dalgliesh narrows the field of suspects, a second brutal murder draws them into greater complexities of intrigue and evil . . .

London: Faber & Faber, 2005. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition (1st printing), with unclipped d/j; blue boards and gilt spine titling good; text block firm, pages unmarked. Owner's inscription front pastedown. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered.Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and his depleted team. Dalgliesh is uncertain about his future with Emma Lavenham, the woman he loves, Detective Inspector Kate Miskin has her own emotional problems and the ambitious Anglo-Indian Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith is worried about working under Kate. Hardly have the team begun to unravel the complicated motives of the… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 1994. 1st. hardback. Very Good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (vg); mildly tanned to top text block edge, Signed to title without inscription.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Set in a long-established publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The Peverell Press, founded in 1792, is ripe for change. The chairman, Henry Peverell, has just died; his French partner, Jean-Philippe Etienne, has retired and Etienne's ruthless son Gerard has taken over as chairman. Gerard Etienne has made enemies: his discarded mistress, a rejected and humiliated author, his colleagues and threatened members of the Peverell staff. When he is found dead on the premises, his body bizarrely desecrated, there is no shortage of suspects. Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary ingenuity and complexity, and a murderer who is prepared to kill again.

London: Faber & Faber, 1997. 1st. h/b. Fine, as new, with unclipped d/j.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk.Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients Venetia has defended, her professional colleagues, her family - even her lover. As Dalgliesh narrows the field of suspects, a second brutal murder draws them into greater complexities of intrigue and evil . . .

London: Faber & Faber, 1997. 1st. hardback. Near Fine, 1st edition (1st printing), with unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve); black boards and gilt spine titling good; text block firm, pages unmarked, but some browning and foxing on edges.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk.Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients Venetia has defended, her professional colleagues, her family - even her lover. As Dalgliesh narrows the field of suspects, a second brutal murder draws them into greater complexities of intrigue and evil . . .

London: Faber & Faber, 1997. 1st. hardback. very good, 1st edition (1st printing), with unclipped d/j; black boards and gilt spine titling good; text block firm, pages unmarked, but some browning and foxing on edges.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk.Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients Venetia has defended, her professional colleagues, her family - even her lover. As Dalgliesh narrows the field of suspects, a second brutal murder draws them into greater complexities of intrigue and evil . . .

London: Faber & Faber, 1994. 1st. h/b. Near Fine, as new, with unclipped d/j. Pages slightly yellowed.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Set in a long-established publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The Peverell Press, founded in 1792, is ripe for change. The chairman, Henry Peverell, has just died; his French partner, Jean-Philippe Etienne, has retired and Etienne's ruthless son Gerard has taken over as chairman. Gerard Etienne has made enemies: his discarded mistress, a rejected and humiliated author, his colleagues and threatened members of the Peverell staff. When he is found dead on the premises, his body bizarrely desecrated, there is no shortage of suspects. Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary ingenuity and complexity, and a murderer who is prepared to kill again.

London: Faber & Faber, 1999. 1st. h/b. Near fine, signed to title; some bumping to unclipped d/j and boards.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Part diary and part memoir, this is the author's account of the 12 months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays. In writing it she simultaneously remembers her long and remarkable career, from 1920s Cambridge schoolgirl to Governor of the BBC to best-selling author.