Search Results: Authors starting with J from Irving Book Company

Dublin: James Duffy, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Covers lightly worn and soiled. Front free endpaper excised. Binding square & tight; endpapers very lightly soiled, otherwise text clean & bright.. 8vo. 5 x 7.25 in. [6], 438 pp. Full dark green cloth, titled in gilt on spine, all edges sprinkled red. Three volumes bound together: Books I-VI, VII-IX, and X-XII. A poem in heroic couplets, complete in twelve books, about St. Francis of Assisi by the Irish Franciscan Rev. John A. Jackman. Dedicated 'in memory of the Irish Franciscans who ever loved their country and their faith; who shed their blood to preserve their Master's heritage; and who, in time of cruel and savage persecution, by untiring zeal and labour, saved the history of our native land from oblivion.'. A rather scarce title, especially complete.

New York: American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1960. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Good. Ex-library (University of Pennsylvania), with usual markings.. Crown 8vo. 284 pp. Original burgundy cloth, titles in gilt. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; with his 1973 ownership signature to front flyleaf.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1960. Mixed Printings. Hardcover. Near fine in good to very good dust jackets. Jackets price-clipped and heavily rubbed with moderate edgewear. Some soiling and heavier toning to spine panels. A very serviceable set overall.. Complete in three volumes. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. 510; 442; 374 pp. Original blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, in blue dust jackets printed in brown. Translated from the Second German Edition by GILBERT HIGHET. Mixed Printings. Volume I: 1960 Third Printing. Vol. II: 1960 Fifth Printing. Vol. III: 1944 Printing. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with a few pencil annotations to endpapers.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Good in good jacket.. Large 8vo. 239 pp. Original cream quarter-cloth over grey paper, in glossy green dust jacket. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; with several verses written and re-written in pencil on rear blanks.

New York: W.W. Norton, 2008. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very good. Demy 8vo. 876 pp. Original black wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; unmarked.

(Zürich): Diogenes, 1986. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine in good dust jacket. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, with smaller closed tears & some worming at edges.. 4to. 9 x 10.875 in. 115 pp. Full cranberry red cloth, titled in gilt on spine, and illustrated dust jacket. Fully illustrated with reproductions of color drawings by Janosch. Text in German.

London: Faber and Faber, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Very near fine in very good, unclipped jacket. Very light spotting to top edge. Light edgewear to jacket, with small, closed tear at top of front panel and moderate toning to spine panel. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. Thin 8vo. 5.375 x 8.125 in. 124 pp. Grey linen cloth; in plain illustrated dust jacket, titled in red. Illustrated with several reproductions of Mervyn Peake's 'gorgeously comic' black & white line drawings.

London: J. Buckland, J. Rivington, et al., 1790. Second Edition. Hardcover. Moderate edgewear; heavy toning, chipping & wear to spines; heavy rubbing to fragile joints. Hinges sound, contents generally very clean & tight. Missing spine labels, though some fragments remain. Board detached from Vol. 19; Vol. 46 in poor condition, with large strip from spine. A good antiquarian set overall.. Complete in 75 volumes. 8vo. 4 x 6.5 in. Contemporary tree calf, ornamented in gilt, beautifully marbled endpapers. This second edition is augmented with works from an additional fourteen poets. Illustrated with several engraved plates. Johnson's last major work, first published 1779-81.

New York: Harper and Row, 1968. Second Printing. Hardcover. Good. Binding remains sound.. 8vo. 5.375 x 8 in. 344 pp. Second Printing of the First Paperback Edition. Pictorial wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his March 1971 ownership signature in pencil to half-title, a few annotations.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Early Printing. Paperback. Good only. Binding secure.. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.25 in. 610 pp. Original stiff pictorial wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his occasional annotations in pencil.

[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1986. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine in fine original slipcase.. 4to. 9.25 x 11.75 in. xviii, 289 pp. Handsewn & bound at Jovanis Bindery in green quarter-leather, Nigerian Oasis Goat, over 'Irish handkerchief' linen; and presented in publisher's beige buckram slipcase with dark green 'Ultra-Suede' interior. Printed on moldmade paper by Wild Carrot Letterpress and Heritage Printers. Illustrated with 6 tissue-guarded photogravures by Robert Ballagh, including frontispiece, printed on handmade paper from Cartiere Enrico Magnani. Introduction by Thomas Flanagan. Folded LEC newsletter laid in. Limited edition, numbered 783 of 1000 copies and signed by editor Flanagan and artist Ballagh at colophon.

New York: Modern Library, 1936. Early Modern Library Printing. Hardcover. Very good indeed in very good, lightly worn jacket. Contemp. 'Amherst College' POS in ink to front flyleaf. Heavy sun-fading restricted to spine panel and top of front panel of jacket; small open tear to bottom of rear panel. Binding square and tight; text otherwise clean, and bright. Binding remains quite fresh, gilt bright, pages crisp.. 16mo. 4.5 x 6.75 in. Toledano Binding Style No. 7, in olive green balloon cloth, Kent's flying torchbearer device in golt to upper cover, gilt title and gilt ML device to spine; orange Kent endpapers; in orange-banded typographic 95-cent dust jacket, with 245 titles advertised on verso. Introduction by HERBERT GORMAN, James Joyce's first biographer. First published by Modern Library in 1928, this is an impression from 1936. Andes 145.1.1G. Toledano 145.1.