Search Results: Authors starting with J from Beacon Books

Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal. Pressumed First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 367 pages. Silver lettering on the spine. Dust jacket is protected in Brodart. A fine copy of this complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy from the Fifteenth Century to the present. This is a heavy book and will require additional shipping charges (at cost).

Mantle. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 386 pages. White lettering on the spine. Dust jacket is protected in Brodart. A fine, unread, copy of this novel set on the tundra. Signed by the author on the title page in black ink.

John Murray, 1908. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. 420 pages. 1908. Faded gold lettering on the spine. Gold lettering with a design on the front cover. Cover is shelf worn, edges and corners are worn. Top foredge is gilded, side and lower foredges are untrimmed. Back inner hinge is cracked. Previous owner's book plate on the inside cover, inscription on the front free endpaper. A very good copy of this travel/history book, illustrated throughout with b/w drawings and photographs. This is a heavy book and will require additional shipping charges (at cost).

Orbit, January 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 327 [1] pages. Silver lettering on the spine. Dust jacket is protected in Brodart. A fine copy of this mystery, subtitled 'Nobody can cheat death'. Signed on the title page in black ink.

BookSurge Publishing, July 2009. First Edition.. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 250 pages. Yellow white and green lettering on the spine and on the pictorial front cover. The lower corner of the book is bumped, otherwise this is a fine copy of this architectural study with a foreword by Chase W. Rynd. Illustrated throughout with full colour photographs. Size: 8 x 10

Kluwer Academic Publishers. Pressumed First Edition.. Trade Paperback. Fine/No Dust Jacket. viii, 183 pages. White lettering on the spine and front cover. A fine copy of this text studying corruption and its effects on society. Size: 6 x 9.5

Unwin Hyman. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. xi, 255 pages. White lettering on the spine and front cover. Cover spine is faded. Previous owner's name stamped on the front endpapers and on the foredges. A very good copy of this text studying the flow of groundwater, mathematics, integral equations and boundary value problems.

Phelps Publishing Company. Not Stated Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good+. 150 pages. Gold lettering on the spine. Previous owner's inscription on the front free endpaper. Dust jacket is protected with Brodart, has very minor wear along the edges. A very good copy of the story of the first Hamilton Water Works system built about 120 years ago (at time of printing) to supply the citizens of an ambitious city with sufficient clean water. Illustrated with b/w photographs.

St. Martins Press, January 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. 342 pages. Yellow lettering on the spine. Cover is lightly shelf worn. Dust jacket is protected in Brodart, is chipped along the edges, with a crease along the bottom edge of the back cover. A very good copy of this first edition, first printing of this author's first book.

Morehouse-Gorham Co.. Presumed First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good +/Very Good-. xvi, 340 pages. White lettering on the spine and on the front cover. Dust jacket is protected in Brodart, is badly chipped along the edges and price clipped. A very good copy of this biography of the first American Bishop of Alaska, illustrated with a few b/w photographs and a coloured frontis. The book is inscribed by Rose Fullerton Rowe.

Mit Pr, August 1974. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xxii, 383 pages. Gold lettering on the spine. Top and tail of the spine are lightly faded. There are a few annotations throughout the text and on the last page, in pencil. Dust jacket is protected in Brodart. A very good copy of this text studying the science and technology of Korea. Illustrated with a few b/w photographs and line drawings. This is a heavy book and may require additional shipping charges.

North Holland, January 1981. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 342 pages. Black lettering on a faded spine and on the front cover. Previous owner's stamp on the foredges and on the front endpapers. A very good copy of this study of elastic and elastico-plastic bodies. This is Volume 3 of the Studies in Applied Mechanics series.

Baxter Publishing. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 206 pages, Gold lettering on the spine and front cover. A fine copy of this book, with a very good slip case. Illustrated with drawings, partly from Dr. Cheadle's own sketches, and by Redfern. Volume 5 in Baxter's 'The Canadian Heritage Series' Limited Edition #42, signed by the publisher and the editor.

Alexander Murray, 1870. Presumed First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. 280 pages. 1870. Gold lettering on the spine, blind embossed lettering on the front cover. Cover is very faded and worn, with the spine cloth cracked and missing part of the lower edge. Front inner hinge is cracked. Previous owners' names and dated on the front free endpaper. Some unobtrusive pencil marks in the text. The interesting thing about this book is a pasted-in autograph of Lord Viscount Bolingbrooke, dated 7th Junny 1713/14. Size: 5 x 7.5

Lancashire Parish Register Society, 2001. Not Stated Presumed First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Gold lettering on the spine and gold crest on the front cover. Burnley - 151 pages. Newton in Makerfield184 pages. The label on the spine is coming unglued at the tail of the spine. Corners are lightly bumped. A very good copy of this Parish Register with Baptisms, Marriages and Burials. This is volume no. 151 of the Lancashire parish Register Society series. Useful for genealogical research. Size: 5.5 x 8.75

Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Not Stated Presumed First Edition.. Trade Paperback. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. xii, 212 pages. Black lettering on the spine; black lettering on the pictorial front cover. Previous owner's name on the top of the front free endpaper. Cover is lightly soiled. Spine is creased. A very good copy of this historical publication based on the collections of the Departement des Estampes et de la Photographie Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Illustrated with b/w reproductions throughout. Size: 9 x 11

Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Not Stated Presumed First Edition.. Trade Paperback. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. xii, 212 pages. Black lettering on the spine; black lettering on the pictorial front cover. Cover is lightly soiled/faded from age. Spine is creased. A very good copy of this historical publication based on the collections of the Departement des Estampes et de la Photographie Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Illustrated with b/w reproductions throughout. Size: 9 x 11

Textype Publishing. Presumed First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 270 pages. Black lettering on a white background on the spine, white lettering on a pictorial front cover. Very minimal wear to the corners, otherwise this is a fine copy of these memoirs. Illustrated with b/w photographs in the text. This is a heavy book and may require additional shipping charges (at cost).

International Association of Hydrological Sciences, IAHS, 1991. Not Stated Presumed First Edition.. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. xiv, 690 pages. Black lettering on a faded pictorial spine. White lettering on a red, pictorial front and back cover. Minor wear to the edges of the cover. A very good copy of these Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Land Subsidence held at Houston, Texas, 12-17 May 1991. The symposium was convened by The International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), as part of the International Hydrological Program (IHP). with sponsorship by the United nations Environment Program , US Geological Survey, US Bureau of Mines, Harris-Galveston Coastal Subsidence District, US National Committee for Scientific Hydrology. This is the IAHS Publication No. 200. This is a heavy book and will require additional shipping charges (at cost). Size: 6 x 9

CRC Press. First Edition.. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. xiv, 293 pages. White lettering on the spine and front cover. A fine copy of this book in the CRC Series of Contemporary Food Science titles. Size: 6 x 9.5