Search Results: Titles starting with J from Rulon-Miller Books

Amstelodami: Danielem Elzevirium, 1665. Small 8vo, pp. [22], 266, 238; title page printed in red and black; woodcut printer's device and initials; full contemporary calf (dampstained), gilt spine in 6 compartments, all edges speckled red; 18th- or early 19th-century owner's notes on recto and verso of front free endpaper, ownership signature "Caroli Honorii Sardon" (?) on title page; late 19th-century ownership signature "A. Boulange" on front pastedown with his or her rubber stamps on title page and *2; text block fine. First published in 1631, this "secured the fairly uniform teaching of Latin throughout the continent" (Printing and the Mind of Man, 139, citing Comenius's Orbis Sensualium Pictus, 1654), and appeared in various language combinations for the better part of two centuries, the last edition with which we are familiar being that of Paris, 1898. This is a reprint of the 1649 edition. Vancil, p. 57; Willems 1351.

[Columbus: Ohio Historical Society], 1951. Reprinted from the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 2, 8vo, pp. 111-125, [1]; very good offprint in original yellow wrappers lettered in black on front cover. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front wrapper. John Caspar Wild (1804-1846) was among the first to depict the early American west, then including what is now Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Ohio.

El Paso: Carl Herzog, 1967. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 75; illustrated endpapers, frontispiece portrait; fine in original tan cloth. Jeff Dykes personal copy, noted as such and signed by Dykes on the front free endpaper.

Morris, N.Y.: A.S. Avery, job printer, n.d., 1859. Broadside, approx. 48" x 17½" (61 x 45 cm.), a few small creases and short tears at extremities, but in all a very good example. NY Historical Soc., AAS, Library Co., Syracuse, and Huntington in OCLC.

London: Frederick Muller, 1976. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 192; photographic frontispiece portrait and 12 illustrations in text (2 reproducing historical documents); but for a red pencil (?) mark and 1/8" tear at front dustjacket, a fine copy. Mason, largely self-educated, worked at both the Doves Press and the Cranach Press and collaborated with Gordon Craig and Eric Gill, among others.

London: Frederick Muller, 1976. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 192; photographic frontispiece portrait and 12 illustrations in text (2 reproducing historical documents); but for two small spots of soiling to the jacket, a fine copy. Mason, largely self-educated, worked at both the Doves Press and the Cranach Press and collaborated with Gordon Craig and Eric Gill, among others.

[Leicester]: The Twelve by Eight Press, 1961. First edition, 8vo; full page illustrations by Rigby Graham; white cloth backed paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt; fine. Laid in is a small typed note "I produced a small edition of this book in 1961 at the request of friends. It has now become a 'collector's piece'. In 1973 a copy sold at Sotheby's for seventeen pounds."

[New York]: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, n.d.. 8vo, pp. 32; fine in original printed beige wrappers.

La Crosse: Sumac Press, 1967. Edition limited to 396 copies, slim 12mo, pp. [24]; 10 illustrations and facsimiles in the text plus a leaf from the original edition of 1824; fine copy in original ochre cloth. Press Preterite 112 noting that only half the edition was bound in cloth, the other half in wrappers; Disbound and Dispersed, 149, citing the wrapper edition; Rulon-Miller, Wulling, 112.

La Crosse, WI, 1967. Edition limited to 396 copies, slim 12mo, pp. [24]; 10 illus. and facsimiles in the text plus a leaf from the original edition of 1824; fine copy in orig. ochre cloth. Press Preterite 112 noting that only half the edition was bound in cloth, the other half in wrappers. Rulon-Miller, Wulling #112.

La Crosse, WI: Sumac Press, 1967. Edition limited to 396 copies, slim 12mo, pp. [24]; 10 illustrations and facsimiles in text plus a leaf from the original edition of 1824; fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. Press Preterite 112 noting that only half the edition was bound in wrappers, the other half in cloth.

New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1993. First edition, 8vo., fine in like jacket.

Cambridge University Press, 1970. 8vo, xii & 64pp., 4 illus. on 2 plates and 12 facsimiles; fine in orig. blue printed wrappers. Biographical and bibliographical study of the first printer at the University of Cambridge. Cambridge Bibliographical Society Monograph, no. 6.

Boston: Jordan, Marsh and Company, 1888. 8vo, pp. vi, 394; original brick-red cloth with blind-stamped pictoral vignettes; gilt lettering on front cover and spine; 6 wood-engraved plates, plus 8 other woodengravings in the text, illustrations by F. G. Attwood; spine extremities scuffed; otherwise very good. A work of middle-grade fiction following the daily life of a young American boy.

Boston: Jordan, Marsh and Company, 1888. First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, 394; original brown cloth with pictoral vignettes; gilt lettering on front cover and spine; 6 wood-engraved plates, plus 8 other wood engravings in the text, illustrations by F. G. Attwood; very good. A work of adolescent fiction following the daily life of a young American boy.

Phila., Pa: Posters, Inc, n.d., 1943. Large one-sheet movie poster approx. 41" x 27", previous folds in eighths, 2 very small breaks at the intersections, else very good. Jack London, also known as The Story of Jack London, was a 1943 American biographical film made by Samuel Bronston Productions and distributed by United Artists. In it, Susan Hayward portrayed Charmian London.

London: Mills & Boon Ltd, 1915. Second edition of this UK promotional brochure, issued as an advertisement primarily for the Mills & Boon edition of The Mutiny of the Elsinore, and reprinting London's essay "Some Early Recollections"; small 4to (approx. 8" x 6"), pp. [8]; printed on gray paper; 9 illus. of London et ux; self-wrappers; fine. See BAL 11948.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1967. First edition, square 8vo, pp. 148; illustrated throughout; very good in pictorial wrappers. Catalogue for the MOMA exhibition with bibliography and index.

[London]: Conway, 2011. 3rd edition revised and expanded, 8vo, pp. [12], 526, [4] (ads); numerous illustrations by cartoonist Tugg, fine in original grey cloth, decorated in black and red. A comprehensive guide to the slang and usage of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, including hte Submarine Service and Fleet Air Arm.

London: Oxford University Press, 1915. 8vo, pp. 12; Publications of the Philological Society VII; light wear and soiling to extremities, else a very good copy in original green printed wrappers.