Search Results: Authors starting with J from Boojum and Snark Books

Jonathan David Publishers; Middle Village, New York, 1979 A fine copy of the first edition/first printing, with a good dustcover. Brown boards, gilt spine lettering, 9 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches, 199 pp, numerous b/w photo illustrations. Book fine (binding tight and square, pages clean). Dustcover good (moderate edgewear; 1/4 inch closed tear, rear panel; price-clipped, with new price in ink, top of front fold). (K059). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good.

XIIIth International Dermatological Congress, Munchen, 1967 Black cloth-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering, 9 7/8 x 6 5/8 inches, 173 pp., numerous color photo illustrations. Fine. (1722RO120). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket.

Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1990 First edition. Blue cloth-covered boards, 12 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches, about 328 pp. plus suggested reading and index. Numerous color illustrations. Ex-library, with usual markings, else good. Wear to upper spine end and corners. Binding tight and pages clean. (1722RO121). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

Parkin Printing Co.; Little Rock, Arkansas, 1976 Second edition, signed by the author above frontispiece color photo illustration. Hardcover (eight ring binder), front cover and spine printing, 9 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches, 294 pp., index, color photo illustrations. Book near fine. Color photo-illustrated dustcover, very good. Rare. From the dustcover: "Full range of tasty surprises featuring real Southern Cookery and 453 fabulous recipes. Twenty-five choice "Golden Recipes." Ingredients listed in sequence for ease of preparation. Glear and concise." "The intention of every other piece of prose may be discussed and even mistrusted; but the purpose of a cookery book is one and unmistakable. Its object can conceivably be no other than to increase the happiness of manking." (Joseph Conrad) (1722RO069). Signed by Author(s). 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Jaroslav Jiranek, Zelezny Brod, 1945 This is the first Czech translation of the Bhagavad Gita, SIGNED by Janicek on the title page. The title translates as: "God is you! : Link of Ancient Indian Advocates". Rare, especially signed. Rose-colored cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering (faded), gilt front board decoration (bright), 8 1/4 x 5 7/8 inches, 65 pp., frontispiece illustration. Good (edgewear; splits in cloth at spine; pages clean; binding mildly shaken but intact). Machine translation of the Czech Wikipedia entry on Janicek: "Prof. Ing. Rudolf Janicek (April 16, 1904, Jevicko, Austria-Hungary - October 6, 1988, Zelezny Brod, Czechoslovakia) was a secondary school professor of the railway and glass industry in the Czech Republic, an indologist, writer and translator from English, German, Italian, French, and Buddhist works. In his youth he worked in Paris and Milan as a French-Italian journalist. (La Franc Parleur Parisien, La Rivista Italiana delle Calzature). About his… Read More

Wm. C. Brown; Dubuque, Iowa, 1958 Very good first edition, not ex-library. Metal spiral bound, stiff card covers, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 174 pp., index, numerous b/w illustrations. The author was a professor emeritus of biology at Iowa Wesleyan College. "An illustrated key for identifying the plants used by man for food and in other personal ways, with some essential facts about each plant." In the "Pictured Key nature Series". Including hemp (Cannabis sativa). (1722RO119). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good.

Macmillan, New York, 1964 An exceptional copy of the first edition/first printing: book fine and dustcover as new. The book has a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown and the previous owner's name in neat script on the front free endpaper --- otherwise it is flawless, clean, crisp and tight. The dustcover has the first edition points (price $2.75 and 74762 on the front flap). The dustcover is as new. Light brown cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, blind-stamped front board, 9 1/8 x 6 1/2 inches, 42 pp., Sendak's wonderful illustrations, and Jarrell's great poetry and prose. An outstanding copy of a fantastic children's book. (1722RO006). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/As New.

Dial Press, New York, 1980 A beautiful hardcopy of the first edition (first printing), book fine, dustcover very near fine (now with mylar cover). Great full color illustrations by Susan Jeffers. Maroon cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering (bright), 12 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches, unpaginated. "Susan Jeffers has reinterpreted this dark, thrilling tale, adding new depth and dimension in a series of hauntingly beautiful illustrations that celebrate the triumph of Hansel and Gretel's strength and spirit over the malevolence of the world around them. Never has the cake house seemed so tempting; never have the woods seemed so bewitched and mysterious; never has the witch seemed so frighteningly evil. And never has an artist captured the purity and innocence of childhood with such breath-taking radiance." (1722RO121). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine.

Franz Deuticke; Leipzig und Wien; 1927. First edition. Rare. Rebound in maroon cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 10 x 7 inches, 101 pp., index, photo illustrations (152 b/w figures, one color plate). Ex-library, with usual markings, else good. (3214003). F. Hardcover.

Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America; New York; 1982. Stiff tan wraps, stapled, printed front cover, 9 x 5 15/16 inches, unpaginated. Very good plus. Laid in is a "Dear Collegue" form letter (photocopy) from Jenkins on ABAA letterhead. (3214044). F. Soft cover.

Ventilating & Air Conditioning Contractors Association of Chicago; Chicago; 1957., 1957 First edition. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering (moderately faded), 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, various pagination (about 296 pp.), figures, tables. Very good. Scarce. Contents: Preface; Hazardous Materials and Their Physiological Action; Principles of Supply and Exhaust Ventilation; Threshold Limit Values; Characteristics of Individual Gases, Vapors and Dusts; Conversion Factors; Index. (3214023). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

HarperSanFrancisco, 1990 First edition with dustcover. Tan paper-covered boards, blue cloth-covered spine, gilt spine lettering (bright), 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, 212 pp., map, b/w photo illustrations. Book fine. Dustcover very good plus-near fine (modest wear to superior aspect of spine). "As a boy, Elias Chacour witnessed the destruction of his village by Israeli soldiers. Today, this world-renowned Palestinian priest in the Melkite Catholic church works to achieve peace and reconciliation among Israeli Jews, Christians, and Moslems." (1722RO118). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good.

Pat. Wogan, Dublin, 1771 Sewn wraps, printed front cover, 8 1/4 x 5 inches, 39 pp. About good (moderate soiling/browning, covers; ruffling, corners; pages mostly clean). Scarce. "The Sixth Edition, with considerable Additions." Satire in verse. "A mock correspondence in verse between Howard and Faulkner, the printer, imitating "the alderman's mode of literary composition." Per the Dictionary of Irish Biography, "Among his other publications from the period were An epistle to Gorges Edmond Howard, esq. (1771), a satirical poem with Notes Explanatory, Critical, and Historical, which parodied the style of the notoriously pedantic and self-important printer George Faulkner." "In 1771 appeared Jephson's satiric epistle, purporting to have been written by Gorges Edmond Howard, a dull legal compiler and unsuccessful dramatist, to George Faulkner (16991775), a Dublin publisher, noted for his pompous and pedantic verbosity." (1722RO002). Soft cover. Good.

China Books & Periodicals, San Francisco, 1986 A very nice copy of the first edition/first printing, book fine, dustcover very good plus. Dark blue cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 9 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches, 207 pp. Dustcover with mylar jacket. (1722RO082). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good.

(Privately published; circa 1954). Inscribed and signed by the author on the verso of the title page: signed "Dr. Herman" and dated Dec. 12, 1955. Stiff green card covers, printed in yellow on the front cover, yellow spiral binding, 7 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches, 47 pp., portrait of Dr. Johnson. Very good (chip to upper front cover at/near spine, 1 x 3/8 inch in greatest dimensions; mild edgewear; pages clean and binding tight). Herman W. Johnson was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, Texas. Entertaining. Scarce. (3214006). Signed by Author(s). F. Soft cover.

Butterworth & Nodal, Manchester, 1885., 1885 Rare anti-Mormon pamphlet (one OCLC holding: Princeton). "The detestable and immoral system of Polygamy exposed, and the horrible Mormon doctrine of 'Blood Atonement' explained." 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches, 31 pp. Near fine. Bound in with other scarce to rare English pamphlets (listed below), blue cloth covered boards. The other pamphlets: 1) By a Special Commission. Squalid Liverpool. Reprinted from the Liverpool Daily Post. Daily Post and Echo Offices, Liverpool, 1883. 91 pp.; 2) The Political Summary, Containing the Chief Interesting Events and a List of The Principal Bills Passed in Each Year of The Present Reign, with Tables Shewing Income & Expenditure in Each Year, &c. List of Administrations From 1837 to 1882, and Index. Second edition. E.W. Allen, London. 56 pp.; 3) Fielding, Thomas. Radical Hypocrisy, or War, Waste, and Corruption! Being an Eye-Opener for Working Men and a Plea for Political Honesty. Fourth edition. John… Read More

Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1970 First edition with dustcover. Red cloth-covered boards, 9 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches, 201 pp., index, illustrations. Book near fine. Not ex-library. Dustcover fair to good (staining, rear panel; moderate edgewear, with a small chip at the head of the spine). (K073). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair.

National Grange; Washington, D.C.; (January 17, 1931)., 1931 Stapled wraps, 7 7/8 x 4 inches, 12 pp. Good. A radio broadcast under the auspices of the National Grange, on January 17, 1931. Pyke Johnson represented the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Alfred P. Thom, General Counsel of the Association of Railway Executives, represented the railroads. A rare pamphlet (no OCLC library holdings). (3214006). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket.

Trepper & Katz Impact Books, Division of Punto Press; New York, 2013 New condition. Revised and expanded edition. Review copy, signed on the front endpaper by the publisher of Punto Press and editor of the Greanville Post, Patrice Greanville. Softcover, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 529 pp. (K070). Soft cover. New/No Jacket.

University of Witwatersrand Press, Johannesburg. Reprinted from Bantu Studies, Vol. VII Nos. 3 and 4, and Vol. VIII, Nos. 1 and 2. Printed wraps, 9 3/4 x 6 inches, various pagination. Good-. (3214010). F. Soft cover.