Search Results: Titles starting with J from Wadard Books PBFA

New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1986 J.P.Donleavy was what Brendan Behan called a "narrowback" one of the first generation of Irish born in America of parents whose backs were broad in the old country. In 1946 he went to Ireland to study at Trinity College, taking his degree in drinking and harlotry in the clubs and pubs of dirty Dublin. 223pp illustrated in black and white.

London: Michael Joseph, 1949 Escaping from Burma as the Japanese invade. 223pp. Blue cloth a little edegworn and marked. Bottom corners rubbed.

London: Humphrey Milford OUP, 1933 Originally issued under the title of "Brown of Moukden." 370 pages with colour frontis plate. Biege cloth covers with art deco design to cover and spine. Light marking to covers, and foxing to end papers. Prize label to front end paper.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884 A story Grey Goose, Jackanapes and the people of Goose Green set in Napoleonic times. 47 pages illustrated throughout the text. Printed boards, well rubbed and spine rather dry.

Le Sentier, Switzerland: Jaeger-Le-Coultre, 2002 Beautifully produced manufacturers catalogue 259pp illustrated throughout in high fidelity colour. Casebound with blind embossed boards. Includes sterling price list with some eye watering prices.

Yeovil, Somerset: Haynes, 1982 A complete history of SS and Jaguar in motorsport until 1953. The research produced so much material that a second book was required covering the period from 1954. The definitive work on its subject.
415pp

Jaguar Cars Ltd, 1980 Publication part No. AKM9005. 72pp plus covers. Contained in a green Jaguar plastic wallet.

London: Sidwick & Jackson Ltd, 1987 David Daltons text addresses the mystery of Dean's enduring myth and offers radical reassessmenrts of East of Eden, Rebel without a Cause and Giant. Photo editor Ron Cayen has yielded over 300 colour and black and white photos. 285 pages.

London: John Murray, 2009 Remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England's greatest architectural treasures, and for the vivid and entertaining diaries which have earned him a reputation as 'the twentieth century Pepys.' xvi, 400pp with black and white plates.

London: Studio Vista, 1978 Appraises the whole range of Whistler's oeuvre, from decorative schemes to large scale oil paintings. One of the most controversial figures in the London art world of the 1870s, Whistler was accused in print by the influential art critic John Ruskin of 'flinging a pot of paint in the public's face'; a remark which led to a notorious law suit. 192pp illustrated in colour and b/w.

London: Guardian Books & Faber & Faber, 2015 Jane Bown worked as a photographer for the Observer from 1949 to 2009. Her assignments ranged fom the Greenham Common evictions to a cat show in Olympia. She dealt with the hostility of Samuel Beckett and the steeliness of Margaret Thatcher. In over sixty years she never returned to the office without the shot. 281pp plus index.

Sevenoaks Society, 1983 Reproduction of the manuscript book kept by Jane Edwards and originallt entitled 'Recollections and Conversations about Old Sevenoaks between Mary and her Aunt, by an old inhabitant'. Produced by the Sevenoaks Society with added pictorial material. 172pp.

London: Jane's Fighting Ships Publishing Co., 1954 60pp advertising, xxiii, 470pp. One advertisement sheet creased otherwise very good throughout.

London: Janes Information Group, 1985 Merchant ship identification using the Talbot-Booth system. 787pp Closed tear and nominal edgewear to dustjacket.

London: McGraw Hill, 1970 Everything you ever wanted to know about... 333 pages plus index.

London: A&C Black, 1902 xiv, 207pp gilt top edge. 100 full page illustrations in colour with captions to tissues. Light ageing to end papers otherwise very good.

London: Eskenazi, 1982 Exhibition catalogue of November 1982 with much from the collection of Mr and Mrs Victor Topper. 52pp plus covers. Illustrated in colour and monotone.

London: Sotheby's, 2000 Sale catalogue of November 2000 of Japanese works of art, paintings and prints including the George & Verna Lazarnick collection of netsuke. 204pp in colour.

London: Eskenazi, 1976 Exhibition catalogue from June/July 1976. 48pp plus covers. Illustrated in black and white.

London: Sotheby's, 2000 Sale catalogue for June 2000. 111pp well illustrated in colour.