Proctor Jones Editor (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Proctor Jones, Photographer (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 208 pages. 7.50x5.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Fine. Near Fine ; Near Fine Jacket. 1985 Proctor Jones Publishing Company. SIGNED by author on title page, with a personal inscription, dated 1987. First Edition. First printing. No additional printings listed. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Oblong hardcover, 11.25 x 8.75 inches, has red cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering and decorations. Color photographs. High-quality glossy paper. 144 pages. Research and translations by Andrew Wachtel. Introductions by Armand Hammer, Donald M. Kendall, Gerard Piel. Binding tight. Book is in excellent condition with only a hint of shelf wear at the spine ends. Pages clean and unmarked. Glossy illustrated dust jacket has very light edge and surface wear. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. signed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (1985) 144 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Binding very bright and clean. Faint sunning to bottom edges. Light foxing to half-title page. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY PROCTOR JONES ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. DJ has what appears to be text "faded" onto front panel. Illust. w/ many beautiful color photos. Contents nice. Signed by Editor/Photographer.

Hardcover. Condition: Book fine, Dust jacket fine. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. 1st. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. This book measure 11 x 11 inches (27.9 x 27.9 cm).

Hardcover. First. Cherry red cloth with gold lettering and decoration. Color-photographic dj with Finnish blue lettering. 144 pp. with color photos throughout. Nearly 70 color photos of all sorts of famous buildings and monuments in Russia - from old wooden churches to the manor house at Archangelskoe but mostly of the beauty of the Russian landscape and nature: snowfields at sunrise, winter forests, Repin's pine forests, wild flowers, The Caucasus and much more. Each photo includes a bit of text on the page opposite. VG, clean and tight but with ink inscription to former curator of Russian art. VG- with a bit of rubbing and light wrinkling to top edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, second impression with number line '9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2'. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed, slight yellowing to extremities of largely white jacket, not price clipped (no published price), gift inscription in green ink to title page, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 444pp, lavishly illustrated, map endpapers. A huge, visually stunning and luxurious book. A memoir of Napoleon, largely compiled from the diaries of two men who knew the Emperor very well - his secretary Baron Claude Francois de Meneval, and his valet Constant Wairy. They provide detailed accounts of Napoleon's acts of state and military campaigns, his home life and daily routines, his physical ailments and personal obsessions, his love affairs and his relationship with Josephine. Author, historian, collector and publisher Proctor Patterson Jones (1916-99), had a lifelong fascination with France and its history, in particular the life of Napoleon. This book subsequently received the 1992 Literary Award of the Napoleonic Society. A massively heavy book, extra postage will be required.

Cloth. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. Photo repros (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Square quarto (11" x 11"), rich red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected glossy dust jacket (unclipped) with color image of the youthful First Consul in his red uniform, profusely illustrated with glossy color and B&W images with detailed commentary, map endpapers (front) & autograph specimen endpapers (rear), xxxvi + 444 pages. Weight: 6 lbs. 12 oz. A SPLENDID LABOR of LOVE by Proctor Pateson Jones, the editor & producer of this EXTREMELY WELL-ILLUSTRATED and expertly annotated overview of Napoleon's "Supremacy" from 1800 through his defeat in 1814. Almost "As New" apart from a wee bit of rubbing to the dj. Tight, square, unblemished and magnificently illustrated volume.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 444 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Very bright and clean. DJ lightly soiled. Illust. w/ numerous color and b/w pictures. Contents very nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 11.25x11.25x1.75 inches. In Stock.