Search Results: Authors starting with J from Alembic Rare Books

Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1980. Perfect bound. Original light blue wrappers printed in black. Tables within the text. Binding lightly rubbed. upper cover creased. Very good condition. First edition, first printing of what at the time was considered the "most complete work on minority aging" ("Women in Duke Health" online exhibition, Duke University Medical Center Archives). Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the inside of the upper wrapper, "To Leslie, So that you will learn more and more each day about the graceful aging you do! Jackie". Author Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson (1932-2004) was inspired to study aging as an undergraduate when elderly friends of her family were forced to sell their home and enter public housing to afford medical care. She earned her master's degree in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and completed her PhD at Ohio State, then joined the faculties of a number of universities including Duke, Howard, and Jackson State. She held… Read More

London & Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1855. 2 volumes, octavo (178 x 113 mm). Contemporary brown half calf, spines gilt in compartments, red morocco labels, marbled sides, endpapers, and edges. Steel engravings throughout the text. H7 and 8 unopened. Lacking the ads normally present. Bindings rubbed, occasional light spotting to contents. A very good set. First complete edition of this popular Victorian work on the chemistry of the everyday, published in two volumes the year after the first volume appeared. Author James F. W. Johnston (1796-1855) was a chemist and lecturer, and together with David Brewster one of the founders of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. His association with J. J. Berzelius "brought him prestige and fuelled his interest in the way atoms might be arranged in compounds; though chemical atomic theory was still very hypothetical in the 1830s, some inferences could be made. In 1837 he wrote an important report for the British Association meeting at… Read More