Search Results: Authors starting with J from Cleveland Book Company

[Washington, DC?]: J. E. Greiner Company, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio, 38pp., plus 49 exhibits (diagrams, mostly folding). A fine copy in the publisher's buckram, with internal comb spine. A scarce, visuals-driven proposal for ameliorating the problems in the transportation systems in Washington, DC, including hte creating of a metro system. We found about a dozen copies in worldwide libraries, and none in commerce at the time of listing. An important volume; very clean, to boot.

Missoula, MT: J. E. Power, 1910. Fair to good. One folding trade card, printed on textured cardstock. In fair to good condition; sound, but quite heavily creased and a bit rubbed, with some residue on the verso. The front cover appears to show a well-dressed man standing behind a nude woman, and groping her chest. However, upon opening the cover, it reveals fully-clad woman, happily holding a tray of refreshments. A gag trade card that falls a little awkwardly on the modern viewer. On the verso is some very brief information about J. E. Power's products.

Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio: J. S. Wright, 1857. Very good. Receipt printed on blue paper, measuring about 7 3/4" x 3 5/8". Numerous old flattened folds, and some isolated toning, but clean and legible, generally very good. An informative piece of ephemera from this Chardon, OH publisher and printer. On the left of the receipt is an advertisement for job printing, executed in eleven (our count) different type faces. The receipt was issued to one William T. Rexford, for a year's subscription to "The Jeffersonian Democrat" (whole numbers 339-391, volumes 7-8), for the sum of $1.50. The newspaper was founded in 1849 as the "Free Democrat," and its name changed perhaps a dozen times over the following decades. Despite its name, it was actually a Temperance-oriented Republican newspaper. Its direct descendant is still published today, as the Geauga Times Leader. The American Antiquarian Society holds a number of issues from 1859 onward, but just three (two damaged) from before that year. This a nice,… Read More

New York: Harper and Row, 1958. Later printing. Hardcover. Near fine. Octavo, 152pp. Presumed later printing, with no "first edition" statement to the copyright page. A crisp, clean copy, near fine, in the publisher's printed boards. Issued without a dust jacket. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Jackson on the half-title page "To Jason, from Jesse Jackson." A few faint scuffs to the same page, nowhere near the inscription. Jackson was an African-American novelist form Columbus, Ohio. He mostly wrote young adult novels touching on racial themes.

Protea Publishing, 2003. First Edition - Revised. Hardcover. FIne/near fine. Octavo, 140pp. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with one small close tear at the top front corner.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1893. First Edition (?). Hardcover. Good +. 12mo, 394pp. Ex-school library with minimal markings; mostly restricted to endpapers. Spine cocked. A sturdy, internally clean copy in the publisher's maroon cloth; good or better.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Octavo, 30pp., illustrated. A fine, unread copy in the publisher's orange wraps. Comes in the original publisher's brown paper envelope, about fine with the slightest corner wear. Includes two other essays: "Did Shakespeare translate The Decameron," by Carter Meredith, and "Mr. Grahame, Mr. Roosevelt, and I," by A. A. Milne.

New York: Doubleday, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo, 283pp., illustrated. A fine copy in like dust jacket, bright and clean. This seems to be some sort of unstated limited issue, with an autopen signature in blue ink on a blank leaf preceding the half-title. Following the half-title is a leaf with a facsimile drawing by MJ and, and then his facsimile signature appears on the title page. We were unable to locate any other copies with this same autopen signature described as such offered in commerce at present.

New York: Kensington Publishing Corp, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/near fine. Octavo, 404pp. A very good copy in the publisher's blue boards with blue cloth spine. Edges age-toned and slightly foxed, and the cheap paper stock is generally age-toned. In a near fine dust jacket, just a tinge curled. SIGNED by Jackson on the title page, and uncommon thus.

Chicago: Goldsmith, 1930. Hardcover. Very good/good +. Octavo, 251pp. A very good copy with a crease to the front free endpaper and normal age-toning to the cheap paper stock. Spine gently cocked. Dust jacket chipped and with some closed tears along the extremities, but complete and with no major pieces missing, overall good or slightly better.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Limited Edition. Folio, 6pp., followed by 24 engravings with attached printed tissue guards. Housed in a patterened silk portfolio with paper chemise. Portfolio with some minor wear to extremities, the chemise flaps with long rips and tears, but present. Prints, tissue guards, and text leaves in fine condition; overall a near fine example. A simply charming example of this suite of sepia-toned prints, matted to heavy paper leaves, each of which is SIGNED in varying inks by the respective authors. The portraits include some major writers of the day, such as Ida M. Tarbell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Thompson, Walter Lippmann, Alexander Woollcott, Edna Ferber, and many others. This suite of signed portraits is a kind of companion to the published book "Portraits of Thirty Authors," which included smaller versions of these same prints, and without any autographs. This suite of 24 portraits represents all of the authors featured in the book… Read More

(Lexington, KY): The University Press of Kentucky, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo, 325pp., illustrated. A crisp, clean copy, about fine, in like dust jacket. SIGNED and warmly INSCRIBED by Jacobs on the title page to a friend: "To Richard, with the deepest respect and afection. God's blessings always. Philip.

(New York): Dutton, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/fine. Octavo, 506pp. Spine slightly cocked, thus near fine. In a fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Jakes on the title page.

New York: The Shakespeare Press, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. Octavo, 284pp., illustrated. A very good or better copy in the publisher's green cloth. Some mild internal foxing, but a crisp, square example. A volume of poetry, with many photographic illustrations of notable locations in Western North Carolina. SIGNED by Jarrett on the front free endpaper and dated in 1931. Previous owner's name on the front paste-down. The author, who is white, spends a great deal of time waxing poetically (and patronozingly) about the quickly-declining Cherokee population. Thornton 6858.

NewYork: Derby and Jackson, 1861. First Edition (?). Hardcover. Near fine. Octavo, 504pp., with copperplate illustrations. A near fine copy in brown blind-stamped publisher's leather, slightly rubbed along some edges of the boards. All edges gilt. Front board slightly warped, but contents are tight, bright, and very clean.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo, 473pp., illustrated. Ex-library with the usual markings. Still an otherwise crisp, clean copy, with the spine gently cocked; very good, possibly lacking a dust jacket.

1937. Hardcover. Very good. One diary/journal, about 4.5" x 7.25", bound in 3.4 red cloth and tartan-patterned cloth. Many leaves blank, but there are 26 leaves which have attributed and clearly-written poems, quotations, and other snippets that the diarist wanted to keep. A bit shaken, but rather clean overall - very good. There are also a dozen or so news clippings, handwritten notes, and other items, including what is perhaps the most interesting item in the whole lot: one leaf, about 5.5" x 9", with double-sided text, being a handwritten "Prayer for our Boys" [Under "Boys" is the crossed out word, "Children," suggesting that the author realized she had wanted to address boys and men rather than the whole of humanity]. Most notable is a hope that boys would "hate whiskey and vice of every kind," and "respect womankind." It's a feminist prayer of its time. The text of the prayer: "Dear Lord - Thou knowest we consecrated… Read More

New York: Weston Associates, 1960. Staplebound. Very good. Quarto, unpaginated [24pp.], illustrated. Very good in the publisher's stapled wraps, with a thin area of dust-soiling to the top of the front wrap, and some gentle creasing to the spine. Staples gently rusted, but sound. A fantastically designed concert program for the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival Concert Tour. Within are profiles of Anita O'Day, Thelonious Monk, George Shearing, and others. We could find very little material written about this concert tour, though Newport Jazz Festival producer George Wein is known to have organized some tours involving some of the major performers at the storied festivals during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The actual Newport festival in 1960 was one of the most memorable - there were several riots, mostly involving frustrated would-be concertgoers who were unable to secure tickets, and fought with police in the small, ritzy town of Newport. OCLC records no holdings of this program, nor any other from a… Read More

Potoprins [Port-au-Prince]: La Phalange / Bon Nouvel, 1978. First Edition (?). Staplebound. Near fine. Octavo, 71pp., illustrated. Near fine in the publisher's pink stapled wrappers; a tinge faded at the extremities. Scarce volume in Kreyol (Hatian Creole) whose title translates in English to: "Tea is our Umbilical Cord: Correct your Tea" (lit.; our translation). Well-illustrated with diagrams and renderings to demonstrate best practices for farming in Haiti. The author was honored in 2005 with the Goldman Environmental Prize for his efforts to develop sustainable agriculture in his home country. Scarce in commerce; we note about half a dozen copies in worldwide library holdings; presumably more in Haiti.

Cleveland: Frank Jenkins, 1900. Very good. Undated photograph, measuring about 7.5" x 9.5", and laid onto a larger cardstock mount. Two tears to the left side of the photograph, otherwise well-preserved; very good. Photograph partly curled. There is a faint pencil inscription at the lower right of the mount which reads "Frank Jenkins 8221 Cedar Ave. Cleve, O." This is certainly the photographer, about whom little information is readily available. Nevertheless a well-composed and high quality photograph of a typical middle-class Cleveland home around the turn of the century, before the Sears (and other kit) homes of the 1910s and 1920s became more emblematic of the city's housing stock.