Search Results: Titles starting with J from Florida Mountain Book Co.

Elgin, IL: Jack Knight Air Mail Society and the Aerophilatelic Federation of the Americas, 1994. Softcover, 100 pages. Very Good+ condition. Size 10.75"x8.25". Please see accompanying photo for contents. Light handling/shelfwear, else Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Very Good+. Magazines & Periodicals.

Elgin, IL: Jack Knight Air Mail Society and the Aerophilatelic Federation of the Americas, 1994. Softcover, 100 pages. Very Good condition. Size 10.75"x8.25". Please see accompanying photo for contents. Front wrapper has notation and light shelfwear, else Near Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Very Good. Magazines & Periodicals.

Elgin, IL: Jack Knight Air Mail Society and the Aerophilatelic Federation of the Americas, 1994. Softcover, 100 pages. Very Good condition. Size 10.75"x8.25". Please see accompanying photo for contents. Front wrapper has notations and moderate soiling/shelfwear. Bid by Mail form has been cut out, interior text else Near Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Very Good. Magazines & Periodicals.

Elgin, IL: Jack Knight Air Mail Society and the Aerophilatelic Federation of the Americas, 1994. Softcover, 100 pages. Very Good condition. Size 10.75"x8.25". Please see accompanying photo for contents. Front wrapper has notations and light shelfwear. Bid by Mail form has been cut out, interior text else Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Very Good. Magazines & Periodicals.

NY: George Munro, Publisher, 1889. Softcover, 139 pages, plus 21 pages of ads & publisher's catalog. Fair- (minus) condition. Size 7.5"x5.125". Wrappers are chipped around edges, with much loss on spine. Wrappers and adjoining front & back leaves are detached from the text block, hinged with magic tape. Condition of the text block is Good: paper browning, small marginal chips & closed tears, else clean and unmarked.. Fair-.

Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris Corporation, 1999. Softcover, 483 pages. Very Good condition. Size 8.25"x5.25". A fictionalized portrayal of "the society and spirituality of the Apache from the first encounter with Europeans until the end of the American Civil War." Moderate wear to wraps (scratches & creasing), interior text clean & unmarked.. Very Good.

Singapore: National Archives, Federal Publications, 1992. Hardcover, 137 pages. Good condition. Reprint of the 1985 edition. Size 12"x8.375". A pictorial history of "how Singapore was captured by the Japanese on 15 Feb 1942, and what life was like during the ensuing 3 years and 8 months ending 12 September 1945." Book has exterior shelfwear. Interior text VG+, clean and unmarked.. Good.

Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984. Hardcover, [xi], 419 pages. Fine condition in a Good dust jacket. Size 9.25"x6.375". "This collection of seminal essays, now made available in one volume, highlights one scholar's engagement with the encounter of the two faiths and further promotes stimulating dialogue between Judaism and Christianity." Book is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has moderate wear (shelfwear & soiling).. Fine.

NY: Barnes & Noble Books, 1995. Hardcover, 96 pages. Very Good condition in a Good dust jacket. Size 8.875"x7.25". Reprint of the 1994 publication by Benedikt Taschen Verlag (the German art publisher). "In this lovely book, you'll find more than 70 birds in plates remarkably true to the colors and detail of the originals." Book has moderate handling/shelfwear and is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has shelfwear, creases, and scuffs on extremities.. Very Good/Good.

Munich: Hanser Publishers, 2004. Hardcover, [xxxii], 565 pages. Fine condition. Second edition. Size 9.625"x6.875". "The second edition of this comprehensive handbook emphasizes the relationship between the assembly methods, the materials, and the plastics manufacturing processes, thus enabling the reader to identify the best design/assembly method for a given application. The book has been completely updated and a new chapter on laser welding of plastics was added. The book describes all principal fastening and joining methods used to assemble plastic parts today, with their particular advantages and disadvantages. Assembly method limitations for a given material and/or a given molding process are discussed in great detail. This is very much a "how-to" book, offering a wealth of hard-to-find detailed information." Book is clean and unmarked. Fine.

San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1978. Hardcover, [xi], 351 pages. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket. Size 9.25"x6.25". "The subject of this book is the rhetoric of Ben Jonson's comedies, approached from various directions to show the diversity of some of his accomplishments within an Elizabethan and early seventeenth-century setting." Includes notes and index. Book and dust jacket have moderate shelfwear. Minor bracketing or underline on four pages, text else clean and unmarked.. Very Good.

NY: Quality Paperback Book Club / Rutgers University Press, 1992. Softcover, [xxi], 647 pages. Near Fine condition. Size 8.5"x5.5". "Zdzislaw Najder's meticulously documented biography first appeared in English in 1983, garnering high praise as the best, most complete biography of Conrad. Najder's command of English, French, Polish, and Russian allowed him access to a greater variety of sources than any other biographer, and his Polish background and his own experience as an exile have afforded him a unique affinity for Conrad and his milieu." Includes b&w photo illustrations, notes, bibliography, and indexes. Book has very light exterior shelfwear, else As New, clean and unmarked. . Near Fine.

Washington, D. C.: Fellowship of U. S.- British Comrades, 1948. Includes the first four issues of the Fellowship's quarterly journal (approx 250 total pages), plus a 51-page Directory of members (dtd January 1, 1948), and the report of the first annual assembly (held in Washington on January 23, 1948, chaired by the Fellowship's President Gen. James H. Doolittle). The condition is Good+: moderate exterior shelfwear; indentations and creasing of some the leaves due to handling, else VG, clean and unmarked.. Good+.

College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1985. Hardcover, [xviii], 158 pages. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket. First edition. Size 9.25"x6.25". "A decade before the celebrated mountain men entered the Northern Plains and Rockies, some dozen little-known trading forays were launched into the plains of the Southwest. Anthony Glass led one of the most important. In 1808-1809, with a party of twelve hunter-traders, he acted as semi-official emissary of the U.S. government in the practically uncharted lands of the Taovaya-Wichita and Comanche Indians . . . . Alone among the early southwestern traders, Glass kept a lively journal detailing his route and experiences. Forgotten for nearly two centuries, this journal appears here in its entirety with rich annotation and interpretation by editor Dan L. Flores." Book and dust jacket have moderate handling/shelfwear, and are clean and unmarked.. Very Good.

Albuquerque,NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. Hardcover, [vii], 304 pages. As New condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Size 9.25"x6.25". "Patterson draws from ancient Mayan mythology, weaving the tale of Hunahpu and Xbalanque, the Hero Twins, and their voyage to Xibabla, the underworld, into his own story in order to provide an analogy of the journey through life and the daily challenges and pitfalls one must overcome. Each of the book's eight chapters are named after the houses of testing in Xibalba and reflect the people, environments, financing, and politics of the different archaeological projects Patterson worked on throughout his career. The resulting story is part Indiana Jones and part analysis of the problems facing modern Mesoamerica between globalization and national patrimony." Book is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light shelfwear.. 1st Edition. As New/Near Fine.

NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. Hardcover, [xxxviii], 329 pages. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. Size 8.5"x5.75". "Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's search for his personal identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as a nation. Set in the early 1800s, this remarkable novel is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa. He commits his memories to paper in order to pass on that uniquely personal understanding of the past "with which serious historians never busy themselves."" Book and dust jacket have light handling/shelfwear, else Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Near Fine.

Mystic, CT: The Marine Historical Association Inc., 1941. Softcover, 48 pages. Good+ condition. First edition Size 9.875"x7". Marine Historical Association Publication Vol. II, No.2; March 31, 1941. Includes 5 b&w plates. Moderate exterior wear (sunning & shelfwear). Moderately bumped & creased on top front. Interior text clean and unmarked.. 1st Edition. Good+.