Search Results: Authors starting with J from Glenn Books

London, New York: Frederick Warne and Company, 1928. Red cloth spine. Gift inscription front free endpaper dated 1929. Book is not dated but likely published in mid-to-late 1920's. One quire slightly loosened from binding but intact. Bottom edge of rear cover has a small worn area and triangle of glazed paper missing from the tip. See photos.Two coloured plates including the frontispiece with numerous black and whiote illustrations. Quite a nice copy, usually found in significant disrepair.. Early Reprint. Color Illustrated Boards.. Light General Wear/No Jacket. Small Quarto.

New York: The McBride Company, 1957. Illustrated throughout with photographs and 300+ touchmarks. 216pp.. First Edition. Two-tone Cloth.. Light Edge Wear./Minor Chipping.. Octavo.

Rutland, VT and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1971. Cardboard slipcase. This book is designed both for the novice in Japanese lacquer art and for the advanced collector. . First Edition.. Black Cloth. Fine/Price-clipped Dust Jacket. Quarto.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1978. AEG. Covers and spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Silk bookmark sewn-in. Text illustrations by Colleen Browning. Color frontispiece portrait of the author. From the Easton series "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written". First published in 1881. Henry James (1843-1916) was a renowned American author. 516pp.. Collector's Edition. Full Magenta Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Imperial Octavo.

Abilene, KS: Shadlinger-Wilson Printers, 1961. Inscribed to famous Kansas Citian Harry Darby by the author. Illustrated with copious photographic reproductions. 203pp.. First Edition. Tan Cloth. Nearly Fine/Price-clipped Dust Jacket. Octavo.

Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, et al, 1856. Top edge gilt. Front cover with gilt design. Gilt spine. Spine extremities and corner lightly worn. Undated but circa 1856. This is Volume XVIII in the set and Volume IV in the "Animal" series. Portrait frontispiece and illustrated title-page (uncolored). A total of THIRTY HAND-COLORED PLATES and four uncolored plates of various skulls. This is Volume 1 only of "Dogs". A memoir of Pallas follows the Contents. 267pp. See photos. . Later Edition. Red Cloth. Light Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket. Duodecimo.

Edinbuirgh: W.H. Lizars, 1856. Top edge gilt. Front cover design in gilt. Spine designs and lettering in gilt as well. Spine extremities frayed. Gilt front cover and spine. This is Volume XXII of the set and Volume VIII of the"Animals" series. Collated complete. Plate 2 is mis-labeled but present. Plate X is torn but complete. Plate XXIV uncolored. Remaining thirty plates are HAND-COLORED. Plates XXX and XXXI are also mis-labeled but present. Portrait frontispiece and illustrated title-page (title-page uncolored). "Memoir of John Hunter" follows the Contents. 264pp. See photos. Later Edition. Red Cloth. Moderate Wear and Soiling/No Dust Jacket. Duodecimo.

Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars et al, 1856. Top edge gilt. Gilt designs front cover and spine. Spine extremities are frayed. This is Volume XXV in the set and Volume XI in the "Animals" series. Thjere are thirty-three full-page plates in total counting the portrait frontispiece and illustrated title-page, collated complete. THIRTY HAND-COLORED PLATES, one in black and white. There are two plates titles Plate VII, each with a different picture. A memoir of M. Francois Peron follows the Contents. A beautiful set of color plates of seals and walruses. See photos. 336pp.. Later Edition. Red Cloth. Moderate Wear and Soiling/No Dust Jacket. Duodecimo.

London, Dublin: W.H. Lizars; Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown; W. Curry, 1833. Marbled paper-covered boards. Previous owner's name front free endpaper in old ink. TWO VOLUMES-IN-ONE. The volume is collated complete. Thirty-four hand-colored plates, engraved hand-colored title, and frontispiece portrait of Linnaeus in volume one. 147pp; thirty hand-colored plates, engraved hand-colored title-page and frontispiece portrait of Pennant in Volume 2. 166pp. Both half-titles are present. All plates are protected by a tissue-guard and are in excellent condition. A crisp and clean copy. All 64 plates are beautifully produced and colored. The title se3ldom comes up for sale and is usually missing several of the color plates. See photos.. First Edition. 1/2 Dark Green Morocco. Light Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket. 6 5/8" x 4 1/2".

Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1852. SIX VOLUMES UNIFORMLY-BOUND.Spines decorated and lettered in gilt.Top edges gilt. Yellow endpapers. Various dates from 1852-1854. Top of spines chipped, with 1/2 " piece missing top of spine Volume 3. Occasional old water-stains sparing plates. Collated complete with 197 full-page hand-colored plates with tissue guards, six portraits and six vignette title-pages. Several plates are loosened. Each volume has a biographical memoir at front with portrait frontispiece of the featured natural historian. Volumes 35-40 of the larger series. Volume 1, "Fishes", Volume 2, "British Fishes, Part 1", Volume 3, "British Fishes, Part 2"; Volume 4, "Fishes of the Perch Family"; Volume 5, "Fishes of British Guiana, Part 1"; and Volume 6, "Fishes of British Guiana, Part 2". See photos. . Later Bantam Reprint. Red Cloth. General Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jackets. Small Octavo.

Edinburgh, London: W.H. Lizars, Henry G. Bohn, 1858. Top edge gilt. Front cover gilt design, spine lettered in gilt. This is Volume XVII in the set and Volume III in the "Animal" group. Collated complete with thirty-four HAND-COLORED plates and frontispiece, illustrated title-page. Beautiful full-page plates of bats, shrews, carnivores, otters, seals, rodents, deer.309pp. Includes "Memoir of Ulysses Aldrovandi" following Contents. See photos. . Later Edition. Red Cloth. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. Duodecimo.

Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1856. Corner and spine extremities wirn. Top front corner of spine has an old repair. Front cover and spine gilt.Top edge gilt. Hand-colored title-page, frontispiece with tissue-guard. This is Volume XXIV in the set and Volume X in the "Animals" section. There are a total of thirty-seven plates, thirty-five of which are HAND-COLORED, each with a tissue-guard. Plate 2 is produced twice, each with a different image as noted in the Contents. Collated complete. A memoir of John Barclay follows the Contents. 323pp. Please see photos.. Later Edition. Red Cloth. Moderate General Wear/No Dust Jacket. Duodecimo.

Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1835. SIX VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. These are Volumes 1-6 of the Ichthyology series. They date from 1835-1843. Spines are lettered in gilt. Volumes 4 and 6 have 1 and II in ink on spine (The two volumes of the British Fishes). Volume 5 has been rebacked with the original spine laid-down. There are a total of 202 plates in the six volumes, including a frontispiece and vignette title-page in each volume. Title-page vignette in Volume 1 is hand-colored, others are not. We have collated the fish plates as complete, and ALL ARE HAND-COLOURED! Volume 1 is "The Perch Family" by William Jardine; Volume II is "Treating of the Nature, Structure, and Economical Uses of Fishes", byJ.S. Bushnan; Volumes III and V are "Fishes of Guiana" by Robert Schomburgk; Volumes IV and VI are"British Fishes" by Robert Hamilton. All have the previous owner's signature at top of front free endpaper. A complete set of the fishes. All plates are found at the end of… Read More

Austin: The Jenkins Company, 1987. Catalogue 200 from the Texas bookseller. 772 entries.. First Edition. Blue Wrappers. Minor Wear and Soiling.. Quarto.

Chicago, New York: Willett, Clark and Company, 1939. In a chipped, lightly soiled, but intact dust jacket. An autobiography by the minister of the Community Church in Kansas City. Owner's name in neat ink on front pastedown. 241pp.. First Edition. Red Cloth. Nearly Fine. Octavo.

Austin: The Jenkins Company, 1986. A catalogue of books from Howes' "U.S.iana". 113 listings. Ink date on front cover. . First Edition. White Wrappers. Minor Wear/No Jacket. Quarto.

Austin: The Jenkins Company, 1983. A collection of works printed in America between 1663 and 1800. This is catalogue #150 from the Texas bookseller. 1029 entries.. First Edition. Green Wrappers. Minor Cover Wear/No Jacket. Quarto.

Austin: The Jenkins Company, 1981. Minor crease top of front cover. 2953 listings. . First Edition. Brown Wrappers. Minor Wear. Quarto.

Austin: The Jenkins Company, 1988. Cataloge 208 from the famed Texas bookseller. 1285 entries. Date in ink top of front cover.. First Edition. Blue Wrappers. Minor Wear and Soiling.. Quarto.

Birmingham, Alabama: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1978. All edges gilt. Covers and spine with elaborate decoration and lettering in gilt. Silk sewn-in book mark. This is a fine facsimile copy of the classic work by Jenner, printed in London by Sampson Low, 1798. Included are the four full-page color plates with tissue-guards. Edward Jenner (1749-1823) was an English physician who did pioneer work in the study and treatment of small pox..The terms "vaccine" and "vaccination" are derived from the name he devised for cow pox, Variolae vaccinae. 75pp.. Special Edition. Full Black Topgrain Cowhide. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Demy Quarto.