Search Results: Authors starting with J from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

The University of North Carolina Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 436 pages, cloth; dj laminated

New York: Macmillan, 1982. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. 8vo, 292 pages, clothbacked boards; dj nicked Well-known Investigative reporter spent 3 years sifting the truth from the bunkum to learn what the Big Oil companies were doing to the American economy and the American consumer. A sequel, of sorts, to his prior expose of the great electrical price-fixing conspiracy in the 60s.

Ktav Pub Inc, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good. 8vo, 177 pages, brown cloth, some inked glossing Issued in the Library of Jewish Law and Ethics series. Inscribed by the author on the endpaper in 1976. Rosenbaum was a rabbi at Chicago's Loop Synagogue. "This book is a study of the determined effort of the Jews of Europe to conform to the patterns and norms of Halakhic Judaism during the Holocaust period. ... Included are rabbinic rulings from the ghettos, labor camps and death camps of the Holocaust."

Shirley Heinze Environmental Fund, 1997. Revised edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo, wrappers Illustrated.

Shirley Heinze Environmental Fund, 1997. Revised edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo, wrappers Illustrated.

Austin, TX: Jenkins Publishing, 1974. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. 8vo; xiv, 344 pages, cloth; short tears in dj, spine toned Out-of-print for 20 years, this was reprinted with some new matter, and is again O.P. Folding map, illustrated. Covers its colonization and industrialization 1518 - 1953.

Philadelphia: Hubbard Publishing, ( 1882 ). Early printing. Hardcover. Fair. Tall octavo, 516 pages, bevelled brown cloth, extremities worn, large chips from lower right corner of endpaper and blank leaf, front hinge started, lacks rear free endpaper, water spot on bottom edge of some pages, leaf 35/36 has a horizontal tear.. "Carefully prepared after a ripe experience of twenty-five years in stock-raising and an extensive practice in veterinary surgery." Extensively illustrated. Includes copious advice, including how to buy a horse, or how to treat one for a cold. ( Hint: it involves a nose-bag).

Grosset & Dunlap, 1978. First American edition. Paperback. Fine. 4to, 208 pages, pictorial wrappers Compiled by Sweden's foremost champion of science fiction. Greatly illustrated.

New York & Cincinnati: Phillips & Hunt / Cranston & Stowe, 1884. Paperback. Fine. 24mo, 68 pages, pictorial series cover, rear cover lists Chautauqua books from no. 22 through no. 40. Issued as Chautauqua Texxt-book no. 5.

Warner Books, ( 1986 ). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Folio, unpaginated, blue cloth, remainder mark on foreedge, bookplate, front hinge loosening ( a book of heavy plate paper); short tear to dj Forward by Roger Staubach. Full-color illustrations.

Arkady, ( 1968 ). First English language edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 4to, 476+ pages, cloth; inked inscription in Polish in 1968 on title-page (non-authorial); some discoloration on flap of rear dj 521 photographs - some tipped-in in color.

Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park, no date. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Fine. 4to, stapled self-wrappers, 38 pages UNCLE. Unknown. No. Copy. Located. Elsewhere.

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, ( 1997 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo, 207 pages, brown cloth More than 1000 American soldiers were killed on 26 November 1943 when the British troopship ROHNA was hit by a German guided bomb in the Mediterranean - the greatest single loss of American lives at sea in WWII. At the time, the disaster was kept secret for security purposes. This is the first full treatment.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890. New Edition. Hardcover. Good. 18mo, 191 pages, tawny cloth, edgeworn. Ex libris Alma D. Brent, 1890; Claude J. Eaton.

Doubleday, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, 283 pages Autobiography by the Prince of Pop. Many photographs

No place: Limited Editions Club, ( 1937 ). 1st Separate edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Frederic Warde. 8vo, 29 pages, clothbacked pastepaper boards, tips worn Limited to 1500 copies. Excerpted from THE ANATOMY OF BIBLIOMANIA.

Boston: Little, Brown And Company, 1900. Edition De Luxe. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavos; xxxv, 310, 308 pages, quarter morocco, suede boards with elaborate floral art nouveau design, heads of spines worn, top joint started on vol. 2. Copy 186 of 500 copies. Classic California fiction [ Zamorano 80]. "Ramona Ortegna, a maiden having (unknown to herself) Indian ancestry, is reared as a member of the patriarchal Moreno family, who are trying to hold their estate in spite of American conquests. ... A passionate defense of the Indian, this novel is often compared with the plea for the Negro in UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. It enjoyed an almost equally spectacular popularity. The Los Angeles locale of RAMONA, which its enthusiasts claim to be a completely historical account, has become a Mecca for tourists - BOOK DIGESTS". Canadian artist, Sandham, investigated the situation of the Mission Indians in California with Helen Hunt Jackson. That trip resulted in her novel in 1884 (Jackson died in 1885), but Sandham's… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Revised & Enlarged edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 304 pages, very good clothbacked decorative boards; yellow dj spine faded and chipped affecting the title. American issue: British sheets with a Knopf title-page. Illustrated with 26 plates [ 2 new to this edition] by such as Aubrey Beardsley, William Nicholson, William Rothenstein, Max Beerbohm, Walter Crane, S. H. Sime, Phil May. "The decade began with a dash for life and ended with a tretreat - but not defeat. It was the old battle between heterodoxy and orthodoxy, materialist and mystic, Christian and Pagan, but fought from a great variety of positions - Introduction."

New York: White,Stokes & Allen, 1886. First edition. Stiff Wrappers. Fair. four bird chromolithographs. Square 8vo, chromolithographed covers, no longer tied together. Scarce. See BAL vol..5, p.113, where described with variant celluloid cover with pictorial label. With four bird chromolithographs by Fidelia Bridges. Other poems by Phoebe Cary, Ralph Waldo Emerson [ not in Myerson's bibliography of R.W.E.], Leigh Hunt Edmund C. Stedman, Nora Perry, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Margaret E. Sangster.

St. Paul, MN: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1988. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo, 320 pages, wrappers, soft crease to lower corner of rear wrapper Presentation Copy, inscribed by the author: " ... sorry you had to miss / the big party, but I hope / you enjoy this book none- / theless - light reading ". First novel by this poet. "The author is not a Vietnam veteran, yet he effectively describes the tour of duty of Trent Jones in all its ghastliness. Jones lives in Chicago, and his narration jumps from past to present like the flashbacks to the war that the character experiences. Attention is given to the reception returning veterans received - WRITING ABOUT VIETNAM, no. 233." A first novel.