Search Results: Titles starting with J from Antique Bookshop

Lond. Frederick Muller Ltd., 1976.. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 192pp. Frontispiece portrait and b/w ills. A Fine copy. 1st ed. Mason worked at the Doves Press in close collaboration with T.J.Cobden-Sanderson and Sir Emery walker. Also with Count Kessler at the Cranach Press, and he collaborated with other eminent figures such as Gordon Craig and Eric Gill. He later ran classes on printing at the Central Shool for Arts & Crafts.

Westport. Greenport Press., 2003.. Col.ill.bds. 141pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. The life of the woman behind the phenomenon of Harry Potter. An unofficial biographical study.

Lond. The Studio., 1928.. Folio. Or.bds. with paper titling label on front board.6pp. plus 8 tipped-in colour plates. Very good copy.

Bris. Jacaranda Press., 1971.. Or.dec.bds. 375pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. Analysis of the structure and composition of Melanesian Pidgin, also includes a selected dictionary.

Richmond,VIC. Hardie Gratn Books., 2021.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 373pp. col plates. Fine. 1st ed. Jacinda Ardern was swept into office in 2017 on a wave of popular aduation dubbed 'Jacindamania'. Her victory seemed heroic as she rose from deputy leader of the opposition to become Prime Minister.

Lond., n.d.. (c.1870's) Col.ill.wrapps. 251,166pp. One colour and other b/w plates. Bound in cloth covered boards, retaining the original wrappers. Pages tanned & some foxing on foredge else a very good copy. Scarce.

Syd. Jade Arts., 1973.. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 143pp. Colour ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Theo Schoon spent many years in New Zealand where he developed a widespread interest in the Maori art forms & the use of jade in carvings and crafting. He learned the craft & produced many fine pieces.

Syd. AGNSW., 1993.. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 149pp. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Fine. 1st ed. A book to accompany an exhibition of magnificent French photographs from the 1860s-1980s.

Lond. Her Majesty's Stationary Off., 1980.. (rep) Oblong 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 32pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. This publication by the National Maritme Museum at Greenwich, outlines the remarkable Naval career of James Cook, who rose from the lower decks of the Navy to become one of England's foremost navigators

Syd. Hachette., 2019.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 492pp. Slight wear to corners. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. The bandanna wearing author & historian, Peter Fitzsimons, explores how a Yorkshire farm boy went on to become one of the fremost mariner, navigator & cartographer of his era.

Syd., n.d.. (1970) Ill.wrapps. 44pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Signed by the author.

Wellington. A. R. Shearer., 1969.. 4to. Col.ill.bds. 156pp. (sl foxing) Bumps to corners. col & b/w ills. Good copy. 1st ed. A history of Captain Cook's three voyages to New Zealand between 1768 & 1780 in the Endeavour, the Resolution, & the Discovery.

Lond. Weidenfeld & Nicolson., 1999.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 182pp. Very good copy. 1st Eng. ed. Dublin born novelist James Joyce was a modernist avant-garde writer who emigrated to Paris & then Zurich in a self-imposed exile from the city that haunted his writing & reimagined in Finnegans Wake.

Lond. Phoenix., 2012.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 608pp. (a little foxing) Very good copy. 1st paperback ed.

N.Y. OUP., 1965.. Or.wrappers. 842pp. b/w ills. Sl.foxing on foredge else a Very good copy. 1st Oxford paperback ed. The standard biography of Joyce.

Lond. Kyle Cathie Ltd., 1992.. Ill.wrapps. 374pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. thus.

Lond. Thames & Hudson., 1988.. Ill.wrapps. 144pp. Profusely illustrated. Fine. Reprint of the 1st paperback ed.

Syd. Jane Walker Bicentennial Comm., 1996.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 32pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. Published in 1996 as a Commemorative edition limited to 1000 copies. Jane Walker was like hundreds of other women of her time, transported to Sydney Cove in 1796, & on the 11th of February 1996, thousands of her descendents gathered together for the 200th anniversary.

Lond. A & C Black Ltd., 1926.. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 237pp. (some foxing) Dj with portions missing. C32 full-page col. plates. Good copy. 1st ed. Walter Weston travelled to Japan as a missionary of the Church of England's Church Missionary Society in 1888 & served as a chaplain in Kobe. He climbed the Japanese Alps & penned a travel book in 1926

N.Y. Numismatic Review., 1972.. Col.ill.bds. 151pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. A catalogue of Japanese coins & coinage with prices listed at the market value of 1972. The Emperor Temmu began importing copper coins into Jaoan in 683AD & these were the first coins put in circulation