Search Results: Titles starting with J from Bytown Bookery

Houghton Mifflin, Sentry Edition. Very Good+. 1958. Paperback. Textured Trade paperback with a mulitcolored design to the front cover. Very Good++ with a solid binding and a bright, unmarked text. " Based on the story of Job, this drama in verse tells the story of a twentieth-century American banker and millionaire whom God commands be stripped of his family and wealth, but who refuses to turn his back on God." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 153 pages .

Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1943. Hardcover. Tan Hardcovers, green titles to the cover and spine. Green illustrated Peter Pan to the cover. Very Good++, the binding is tight with clean & unmarked pages. A colored frontispiece with colored plates by Arthur Rackham. The DJ is clipped and intact with spine sunning, cover fading and cover edgewear. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 123 pages .

Association for Jewish Studies. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2007. Trade paperback. Glossy /Trade Paper back with some creasing to the bottom edge of the cover and the corner. Bright. Well bound and a pristine interior. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 430 pages .

Dell. As New. 1998. Paperback. 0440226066 . Mass Market Paperback in As New condition with minor shelf wear, tightly bound with an uncreased spine. "The inimitable Elmore Leonard follows up his bestseller Maximum Bob with a punch--Rum Punch--where a gun dealer, a flight attendant, and a bail bondsman make interesting bedfellows. When Jackie gets caught smuggling her boss's gun money on the airline she works for, she hatches a plan with her bail bondsman to walk off with the money. "; cancel-do as Rum Punch; 6.80 X 4.20 X 1.10 inches; 352 pages .

Libre Expression. As New. 2020. Paperback. 2764813473 . French text. As New Paperback with an unmarked spine, bright & unmarked pages. "Subjects: Pères et filles -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Aide médicale à mourir -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Deuil -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. "; 8.9 X 5.9 X 0.8 inches; 288 pages .

Lancer Books, # 72-621. Very Good. 1962. Paperback. Masss Market Paperback in Very Good condition. A solid binding with an unmarked text with age yellowing. A small tear to the front foreedge. Discoloration to the spine area. "What Is it that sets apart one man from all others and destines him to be the leader of a great nation?"; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 143 pages .

Vintage. Very Good. 1990. Paperback. 0679732217 . A Very Good Trade Paperback with a solid binding, an unmarked text with age tanning to the page edges. Light cover edgewear with a note written on the half title page. "Fifteen-year-old Jack's confused feelings for his father, who left him and his mother four years earlier, are further complicated when he finds that his father is gay. "; 7.90 X 5.10 X 0.70 inches; 240 pages .

Toronto, Ont: Knopf Canada. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 0676971504 . Black hard boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Excellent condition, clean, bright, bound tightly. The DJ is unclipped with very minor edgewear. "Jack McClelland, the man who set out in the fifties to transform McClelland & Stewart into the country's most exciting publishing house, is renowned as a risk-taker and an entrepreneur, indefatigable, irascible, funny and humane, who did some things well and some things badly - both in extreme measures. He is credited with bringing Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen, Margaret Laurence, Farley Mowat, Pierre Berton, Roloff Beny and many others to centre stage in Canada and around the world. He is famous as the hard-drinking, chain-smoking publicity hound whose flamboyant stunts, calculated to bring attention to his books, made front-page news. But he was also an astute reader who denied his skill… Read More

Penguin, # PS318. Very Good. 1964. Paperback. A Very Good Mass Market Paperback with a tight binding and a clean, unmarked text. Cover scuffing and moderate spine creasing. "An action-packed pirate adventure, with bloodcurdling deaths and adventures galore on the high seas. Orphan Jack Holborn stows away on a ship, little guessing the dangers and excitement that lie on his journey ahead. Before long, he is caught in a mystery surrounding his long-lost mother." ; B&W Illustrations, B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 201 pages .

Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Near Fine. 1967. Paperback. A Near Fine Paperback, the binding is tight and the pages are clean & unmarked. French & english language. Some black & white photos through the book. "A painter, watercolourist, draughtsman and printmaker, Jack Humphrey brought a modernist approach to both figurative and abstract work inspired by his native Saint John. "; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 45 pages .

Garden City , New York: International Collectors Library. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1938. Hardcover. Red hard boards with gilt pannelling on the spine. Gilt border on the front cover. In very good++ condition. Red ribbon marker attached to the book. "Biography of Jack London, author of ''White Fang'', ''People of the Abyss'' and ''Martin Eden'', among others. Covers his early life at sea and as a hobo on the railways, his experiences in the Klondyke gold rush, and his later life as an author, socialist and rancher." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 337 pages .

Avon # S337. Good with no dust jacket. 1968. Mass Market Paperback. B002LRRWBK . Mass Market Paperback in good condition with scuffing, edgewear and creasing to the front covers. This copy is squared, well bound with an unmarked text. "Danny Caiden's on the run--from the FBI, the SEC, the Justice Department, and the Mob. Only recently, Danny had been an average New York copywriter, until he suddenly found he had ESP. His knowledge of the future is astonishing, and the rest of Danny's powers are just beginning. But someone else wants him too: an evil group of preternatural men bent on world domination. They'll stop at nothing until they capture Danny..or destroy him. Why? Becuase only Danny has the power to sabotage their diabolic tyranny. In the final, frenzied battle, Danny must summon all his powers, or sacrifice himself--and all mankind--to satanic slavery forever." ; Cover photo; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 176 pages .

McClelland&Stewart. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0771021542 . Blue hards boards with gult lettering on the spine, in very good condition with a wrinkle to the back cover. The DJ is unclippped with scuffing and edgewear, small crease to the back cover from moiture. "These are the memoirs of Clyne, a prominent West Coast figure since the 1930s, best know as a judge of the British Columbia Supreme Courts and CEO of MaMillan Bloedel." ; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 312 pages .

New York: Warner Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hard Cover. 0446528382 . Very Good / Very Good. First Printing. Grey hard boards with black spine, gilt lettering on spine. On the front free endpaper there are two business related notes neatly written. Very clean, tight copy. DJ unclipped, shiny, shows edgwear. Acknowledgements, Appendices, Epilogue, Index. As CEO of General Electric for the past twenty years, he has built its market cap by more than $450 billion and established himself as the most admired business leader in the world; B&W Photographs; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 479 pages .

Dutton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0525946284 . Burgundy / black hardcovers with silver titles to the cover and titles. In Fine condition with a small bump to the top spine end. The pages are tightly bound, bright & unmarked. The DJ is unclipped and in Fine condition. "A brand new thriller from the master storyteller set against the menacing backdrop of the Second World War and crackling with suspense and action. It is May, 1944 - a time of international tension where nothing is certain... Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attack a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications - but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously. Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as the 'Jackdaws' and they will penetrate the chateau in disguise. But, unknown to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant, ruthless… Read More

Grand Central Publishing. Very Good. 2000. Paperback. 0446609129 . Mass Market Paperback in Very Good condition. A solid binding with clean, unmarked pages. Wear to the spine ends and corners. Cover edgewear. "Jacqueline Bouvier. Ethel Skakel. Joan Bennett. Three women who married into America's royal family and became forever linked in legend. Set against the panorama of explosive American history, this unique story offers a rarely-seen look at the relationship shared among the three women -- during the Camelot years and beyond. Whether dealing with their husbands' blatant infidelities, stumping for their many political campaigns, touring the world to promote their family's legacy, raising their children, or confronting death, the Kennedy wives did it all with grace, style and dignity." ; 6.80 X 4.10 X 1.50 inches; 726 pages .

Pocket Books. Good. 1976. Paperback. 0671803832 . Mass Market Paperback in Good condition, tightly bound with an unmarked text. Staining to the back cover and light moisture damage to the back page foredges. Crease to the front cover. ; B&W Photographs; 7 X 3.80 X 1.20 inches; 190 pages .

London, England: Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 0340590181 . B; ue hard boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Book in good condition, the interior is unmarked with some browning around the page edges. A black remainder mark on the bottom text block. The DJ is price clipped with loght scuffing and edgewear. The cover has a gold sticker "Lastest bestseller from the author of Schindler's List" can be removed. "Jacko Emptor grew up in Australia's remote Northern Territory, five hundred miles from the nearest locked door. Now he is New York's most public trespasser, invading people's homes at random for a live television show." ; Remainder; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 316 pages .

Ronsdale Press. Fine. 2000. Paperback. 0921870728 . Trade Paperback in Fine condition. An introduction letter, from the publisher, inserted in the book. "This hard-hitting novel explores the gritty underbelly of contemporary urban life, revealing the shocking chasm between demonized media images and the everyday life of the uneducated poor. "; 9.04 X 6.08 X 1.03 inches; 438 pages .

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Near Fine. 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0374336628 . Black hard covers with yellow titles to the spine. In Near fine condition, tight, bright and unmarked with light spine end bumping. The DJ is unclipped and in Near fine condition. "Comic misadventures ensue when seventh-grader Jack tries to write the great American novel. "; B&W Illustrations; 8.30 X 5.60 X 0.90 inches; 165 pages .