Search Results: Titles starting with J from Dividing Line Books

NY: E. P. Dutton, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.5"); 222pp.; mustard boards backed with matching cloth, in dust jacket. Top front board corner shows light bumping/swelling, while remaining firm and relatively sharp. Else fine in a near fine jacket with light crumpling to the top tips. The first American edition of one of Pym's most beloved novels.

NY: E.P. Dutton Company, 1927. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo. 159pp. First edition. Blue cloth with paper labels on spine and front board. Dust soiling to textblock edges. A few spots of discoloration to cloth. Rear board lightly creased, resulting in an area of minor cloth bubbling. Unclipped (unpriced) jacket shows moderate amounts of soiling and darkening, especially to the spine and along panel fore-edges. A fiercely felt work of pacifism arguing for the abolishment of all war. McDougall, a note-worthy British psychologist who played an important role in the development of social psychology, also pursued more controversial interests in parapsychology, animism, and the Lamarckian inheritance of behavioral traits. One of over 150 speculative essays in the influential "To-day and To-morrow" series, as published in Britain by Kegan Paul and in the U.S. by E.P. Dutton.

NY: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Presentation copy of this monograph of the American painter Jennifer Bartlett (1941-2022), published for an exhibition of her work at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Signed & inscribed on the half-title to New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022): "For Kenward love Jennifer Christmas 1985." NY: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1985. 168pp; illus. Square 4to. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt on front board and spine; dust jacket. Near fine in like jacket. With texts by Marge Goldwater, Roberta Smith, and Calvin Tompkins. Kenward Elmslie's play City Junket premiered at Eye and Ear Theater in 1980 where Bartlett was on the advisory board. She also provided art for the cover of Elmslie's Three Sisters (Z Press, 1986). A nice association.

NY: Gordon Press, 1974. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. 26pp. Limited edition of 200 copies. Red leatherette, gilt titles. Without dust jacket, as issued. A fine copy of this reprint of Crowley's 1898 verse play about the Israelite leader whose careless vow forces him to sacrifice his daughter.

NY: Pantheon Books, 1999. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Inscribed first paperback printing of this graphic novel by the American cartoonist and recipient of both Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships. First paperback edition. Signed, dated, and inscribed with a doodle by Katchor on front free endpaper recto. Perfect-bound in printed matte wraps, 8-3/8 x 8-1/8 in. 97pp. Moderate edge and corner wear, with some small areas of surface loss to spine ends. Very good.

NY: Gordon Press, 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. 7pp. Red leatherette, gilt titles. First thus. Limited edition of 200 copies. Some minor bubbling to leatherette, else very near fine. Reprint of Crowley's slim 1899 collection of poems written under the pseudonym Count Vladimir Svareff, though "edited with an introduction and epilogue by Aleister Crowley.

NY: New Directions, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.; x, 310pp.; teal cloth, in dust jacket. First edition. Translated by various hands and edited with commentary by John D. Yohannan. A hint of shelfwear, a few tiny specks of soiling to fore-edge, else fine in a fine jacket, lightly toned along top edges of flaps. Selections of the "Joseph-Phaedra Legend" spanning from ancient Egypt to modern Europe, by way of pagan, Judaic, Christian, Moslem and Buddhist civilizations.

NY: George Braziller, 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Attractive first edition copy of this selection of entries from the French writer's journals; a title reissued in 2008 by Tin House Books. Edited and translated by Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget. First edition. Octavo, 9.5 x 6.5 in. 254pp., with index. Black cloth boards, stamped in gold and gray on spine, with small gold decorative motif on front board; in dust jacket. Cloth lightly bumped at spine ends, else a fine copy, particularly sharp and clean. In a very good (+) jacket, unclipped ("$6.00"), with a 2" abrasion along rear panel hinge, a few short closed tears, and mild wear along hinges and at spine ends.

NY: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1939. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First American edition of this medical memoir in which the Hungarian author describes with vivid equanimity the symptoms caused by a brain tumor, as well as its ultimate removal via surgery. Translated from the Hungarian by Vernon Duckworth Barker. First edition. Octavo, 8 1/8 x 5 5/8 in. 288pp. Blue cloth boards; blue and gold paper spine label; in dust jacket. Front free end paper excised (stub remains). A few spots of internal foxing to prelims, three tiny spots to textblock edges. Unclipped ("$2.50") jacket with ~1/4" bands of loss at spine ends, chips at tips, creases and edge-tears. A very good copy, sturdy and clean in a good (+), mostly complete jacket.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A nice copy of this study of the gradual "disintegration of form and content in Beckett's work," by the French-American writer known for his own experiments in novelistic form. Octavo (5.75 x 8.75 in.); 243pp., with index; green cloth boards, in dust jacket. One small spot of soiling to title page, else fine in a very good, price-clipped jacket with light edgewear and rubbing, and some tiny portions of loss at top tips.

NY: Carlton Press, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. NY: Carlton Press, 1985. First edition. Octavo, 8-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. Blue cloth; black spine titles; dust jacket. 144pp. Errata slip stapled to fore-edge of page 55/56. Light soiling to board bottoms. Mild toning to textblock. Near fine in a very good (-), unclipped ("$8.75") jacket which several small chips to edges of rear panel, light rubbing and toning. A sort of pan-religious spiritual biography/how-to manual on what Poe refers to as "soul projection," a process by which one's soul transcends the body and enters the "light filled Lands of Eternity."

NY: Harper & Row, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition of the debut book by American writer Carol Emshwiller (1921-2019), a collection of short fiction blending formal experimentation with science-fiction and feminist themes. NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974. First edition (stated). Octavo, 8-1/4 x 5-3/4 in. Tan textured-paper boards backed with olive cloth; publisher's motif stamped in metallic red on front board; gilt and red-metallic spine lettering; dust jacket. Mild bumping to spine ends. Else fine in a very near fine, unclipped ("$6.95") jacket with mild crumpling at spine ends. Jacket design by Leo Manso.

Tokyo: Keibunsha, 1988. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Tokyo: Keibunsha, 1988. First edition. Small 4to. Signature-bound in wraps; dust jacket. [78]pp.; illus. Mild edgewear; light soiling to edges of wraps. Very good or better, lacking the original obi. Photobook featuring stylized portraits in black-and-white and color of influential Japanese avant-pop musician Jun Togawa (b. 1961). Text in Japanese. Reprinted in Japan in 2005 under the title Jun Togawa as Only a Lump of Meat.

NY: The Century Co., 1925. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 294pp. Presumed first edition (no statement of printing). Brown cloth with black titles. VG/no jacket. Shelfwear at spine ends and board tips, light toning to textblock edges, else very good. Illustrated by Mary Sherwood Wright.

NY: Vehicle Editions, 1978. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. NY: Vehicle Editions, 1978. Edition of 1,000. [92] pp. 8vo. Perfect-bound in printed blue wraps. Light wear and rubbing to corners and spine ends. Spine a trifle toned. Very good or better. Inscribed by Lally on the title page to Joe [Brainard]: "Joe - Love, Michael." Though unstated, this copy from the library of poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022), Brainard's partner of three decades.