Jack B. Yeats (Art Work).

Broadside Characters: Drawings by Jack B. Yeats. ‘Broadside Characters by Jack B. Yeats’ with an Introduction by Anne Yeats is printed on Irish Paper at the Cuala Press, 116 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, Ireland. Alistair Carwood was the press-man, The Edition consists of three hundred hand coloured copies. December 1971. This is Number 175.

First and Limited Edition in this Form. Dublin, Cuala Press, 1971. 28 x 19 cm. Top edges uncut. Original blue cloth. Hard cover with paper label on front board. Fine. Very minor shelf wear and dust dulling.

Jackson-Stops, Gervase.

The Country House Garden – A Grand Tour. Photographs by James Pipkin.

London, Pavilion Books Limited, 1995. 25.4cm x 25.8cm. 223 pages. With beautiful scenic photographs. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Jackson, G.S.

Operations of the Eighth Corps. Normandy to the Rhine. Field-Marshal Alanbrooke’s Copy. Account of Operations from Normany to the River Rhine.

First Edition. London, St. Clements Press, [1948] 24 x 15 cm. (4), 171 pages. With a frontispiece, few illustrations in text and threee coloured folding maps in rear pocket. Original grey cloth with red title on front board and spine. In original decorated dust jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear.Edges and end papers age darkened. Occassional mild foxing. Dust jacket with some edge wear and mild fraying to spine ends. Short closed tear to the back of the DJ. Now in archival jacket. With a tipped in printed card to ‘Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke… with the Compliments of the Members of the Officer’ Association H.Q.8-Corps’.

Jacobi, Mary Putnam.

Physiological Notes on Primary Education and the Study of Languages.

[First Edition]. New York and London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons The Knickerbocker Press, 1889. 19 x 13 cm. (2), 120 pages plus two pages publishers list. Few B&W Illustrations. Decorated end papers. Marroon cloth with gilt title on spine. Good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Small bookseller stamp (Hodges, Figgis, Dublin) on front free end paper (both sides). Half title pages missing. Half of rear free end paper missing. Internally age dulled and mildly foxed. A few dog ears. Text block clean.

James Lane Allen.

Flute and Violin and other Kentucky Tales and Romances.

New York and London, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1898. 18 x 12 cm. (10), 308 pages. Illustrated in B&W. Original cloth with gilt title and decorations. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Faint stains to front board. Edges and end papers dust dulled and mildly foxed. Internally clean.

James, G.P.R.

The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants / Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold. Two Books bound in one volume.

A New Edition. London, Routledge and Sons / Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1865 / 1863. 17 x 10 cm. 448 and 392 pages. Brown half leather over textured cloth. Raised bands and two spine labels. Gilt title on spine. Dark end papers. Good condition. Rubbed and bumped, some material losses to edges. Age darkened. Front and rear hinge open, but boards still attached. Paper label with two signatured on fron paste down. Occassional mild foxing.

James, William.

Military Occurrences of the Late War between Great Britain and the USA & The Naval History of Great Britain. Full Titles: A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of the Late War between Great Britain and the United States of America; with an Appendix and Plates. / The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France, in February 1793, to the Accesssion of George IV. in January 1820.

First Edition / A New Edition with considerable Additions & Improvements. Two Volumes and Six Volumes – Two complete sets. London, Printed for the Author / Printed for Harding, Lepard, and Co., 1818 & 1826. 21 x 13 cm. Military Occurrences: Vol.1: xxxii, 476 pages / Vol.2: 582 pages, (14) [Index]. With three folding Maps (of four). / Naval History: Vol.1: l, 567 / vi, 568 / iv, 533 / v, 539 / vi, 581 / vi, 585 pages. Complete with all ‘Diagrams’ and the 28 folded ‘Half Sheet Annual Abstracts’, as listed. Uniform dark green polished calf. Gilt and blind decorations. Black spine labels with gilt titles and volume numbers. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Various degrees of foxing / age darkening. Name of previous owner (see notes below) inscribed in volume 1 of the ‘Naval History’ on front free end paper and title page. No other annotations. Overall a very nice set in sturdy attractive bindings.

Jamieson, Robert.

Political Economy for Business People.

First Edition. London, Edinburgh & Belfast, Effingham Wilson, Bell & Bradfute & Marcus Ward & Co., 1880. 18 x 12 cm. 320 pages. Original cloth. Hard cover. Gilt title. Blind decorations. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. First and last few pages foxed. Internally clean. A nice copy.

Jamieson, Wendell.

Father Knows Less or “Can I Cook My Sister?”: One Dad’s Quest to Answer his Son’s Most Baffling Questions.

First edition. New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2007. 14.5 x 24cm. 258 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition, like new.

Jan K Coetzee, Lynda Gilfillan, Otakar Hulec.

Fallen Walls. Voices from the Cells that held Mandela and Havel. With a Foreword by Vaclav Havel.

First Edition. Robben Island, Lidove Noviny Publishing & Robben Island Museum, 2002. 14 x 21 cm, 194 pages with numerous B&W photographs. Original illustrated hardcover. Illustration based on an etching by William Kentridge. Excellend condition. Some shelfwear. Corners and spine a little bumped.