Search Results: Titles starting with J from Itchen Books

First edition, first printing paperback original, with correct numberline "1" to copyright page. Signed and dated (15/10/11) by CAROL BIRCH to the title page, with opening quote from the book "I was born twice.". No other inscriptions.Shortlisted for the 2011 MAN Booker Prize.

UK 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2009. Handsigned by the poet to the title page "To Will thank-you for your interest in my poetry. All the best for your on writing, love, Pam, 29th January 2009". No other inscriptions. Very Good condition, with minor marks to the covers.

Very good. No inscriptions. I. Blind Beginnings II. Brackets III. Grounds IV. A Work Predicated on the Inevitably of Loss V. A Time To Dance. Text and plates by Joel Fisher. Edition limited to 1000 copies

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing of this translation by Andrew Hurley with complete numberline 1-10 to copyright page. Very Good. tight condition with no inscriptions in Very Good original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (Published price £20.00). For the first time in English all of Borges's fiction appears in a single volume.

4x issues of the Literary Journal 'Encounter' containing significant Jorge Luis Borges contributions in the English language. Very Good condition. January 1963 includes the poem "A Patio" (Pg 27), March 1963 includes the poem "The Card-Trick" translated by Alastair Reid (Pg 33), July 1964 includes the short story "Man of the Red Corner" translated by J.M Cohen (Pg 11-15) and the September 1965 special 'Rediscovering Latin America' issue includes 'The Modesty of History' (Pg 85-87). These issues of Encounter also include many other literary pieces and advertisements. This listing is for all 4 issues together.Encounter was a literary magazine founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and journalist Irving Kristol. It was a largely Anglo-American intellectual and cultural journal, originally associated with the anti-Stalinist left. The magazine received covert funding from the Central Intelligence Agency, after the CIA and MI6 discussed the founding of an "Anglo-American left-of-centre publication"… Read More

Very Good + condition with no inscriptions, in Very Good + original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped.1st English language edition of his Nobel Prize Winner's book (Previously published in Arabic in 1983). The scarcer Cairo edition, rather than the Doubleday US Edition.

Scarce original oversize Pictorial Souvenir for the 1929 Theatre Production of R.C Sherriff's World War 1 play "Journey's End". 1st Edition, March 1929. Black/White photographs of the cast and scenes from the play. Very Good condition, with just a little dusting to the covers. No inscriptions.
Journey's End opened as a semi-staged production running for two nights at the Apollo Theatre. Under a new producer, Maurice Browne, the play soon transferred to the Savoy Theatre where it ran for three weeks starting on 21 January 1929.

8pp + loosely inserted Photomezzotype portrait of the candidate. Illustrated covers including Paddington Town Hall (now demolished), portraits of Mr Gladstone, Lord Rosebery, Sir G.O Trevelyan, Sir W.V Harcourt, Sir C. Russell and Mr J. Morley to the front and Map of North Paddington with Polling Stations to the rear cover. Very Good condition, with some splitting to head/tail of spine. A scarce survival.