Search Results: Titles starting with J from The Sensible Magpie

Boston: David R. Godine, 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. NEAR FINE. Matching dustjacket is very good plus. Mild edge-tanning to jacket. Black calligraphy by Jacqueline Sakwa to edges and front of illustrated boards. Illustrated endpapers. Clean, tight, bright. Unpaginated. A puppy tries to decide on a job.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Hardcover. NEAR FINE in Near Fine Dustjacket. Near Fine. Dustjacket Near Fine. Very minimal shelfwear to both. Photo of 6-year old Jacqueline Lee Bouvier on frontispiece. Numerous black and white photographs. 177 pp with bibliography and photo credits. Clean, tight, bright. The life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in text with numerous photographs.

Zurich: Haus zum Rechberg, 1981. Paperback. Very Good. IN GERMAN AND ENGLISH. Slight wave to covers. Date written, in ink, to front cover. Sepia lettering to front of tan illustrated cover. With 77 illustrations. Clean, tight, bright. 83 pp. Drawings lent by the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California. Selected, introduced and catalogued by Seymour Howard. Jacob Merz was a Swiss painter and engraver. The majority of Merz's works are now in Sacramento, California. This is a selection of drawings now on exhibition in Zurich.

Berlin: Paul Parey, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. German edition of Roosevelt's classic on hunting game in the American wilderness. IN GERMAN. Sturdy, beige cloth cover with magnificent 6" x 3" moose on front board, embossed in brown with gilt background and highlights, and navy blue lettering. Fabulously hypnotically- patterned endpapers. Red stain to edge of front board, front free endpaper and last few pages. One corner nudged. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping. Buffalo, deer, moose, mountain lions, and cowboys -- it's all in this German edition of Teddy Roosevelt's classic hunting memoir. Loaded with illustrations. GERMAN TEXT.

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1970. Hardcover. As New. FOURTEENTH PRINTING. Japanese four-hole binding. Red cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering and Japanese Fortune Calendar on front board. Illustrations. 29 pp. Clean, bright, solid. The Japanese zodiac has a cycle of 12 years unlike people of the West who divide their zodiac in a cycle of 12 months. Each year of the cycle has its own particular animal symbol whose roots of meaning, origin, and influence stretch back to ancient India and China.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. SHARP CORNERS. NICE COPY! Dustjacket near fine. Mild shelfwear to jacket. Navy-blue lettering debossed to spine of neutral-color, cloth-covered boards. Clean, tight, bright. Thirty-seven photographs, 3 illustrations, 3 maps, picture credits. 398 pp with biographical notes, glossary, bibliography and index. "Dramatic, Authoritative, Comprehensive. A great biography of one of Asia's foremost statesmen and a history of India's struggle for independence. Jawaharlal Nehru achieved a national metamorphosis in some ways even more astonishing than that of another towering patriarch, Mao Tse-tung. Not only did he wrest from the British their most prized and dearly loved imperial possession and give his people indepencence, he brought his culturally rich yet economically impoverished nation into the twentieth century as a force to be reckoned with," (front flap).

Koln, Germany: Taschen, 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine in Fine DJ. Edited and designed by Armando Chitolina. Preface by Don Heckman. Fabulous photographs. What more can be said. Abby Lincoln, Art Pepper, and a bunch of others, known, known to some, lesser or better known, wailin'. Sunning to top of dust jacket front panel. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping.

New York: Walker, 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. NEAR FINE. Dustjacket very good plus. Jacket spine is sunned. Light scuffing to surfaces and extremities. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of small red, cloth-covered boards. Numerous illustrations, in color and black and white. Book measures 7.5 x 5 x .25". Clean, bright, tight. 64 pp with glossary and list of first fifteen volumes of this series to rear jacket. From the Collectors' Pieces Series. These books are intended for the reader who has limited knowledge of the subject, but who may be encouraged to start a collection of the less expensive pieces. Volume includes : The Early Victorian or Romantic Period (1837 - 60) ; The Mid-Victorian or Grand Period (1860 - 85) ; The Late Victorian or Aesthetic Period (1885 - 1901).

Scranton, NJ.: International Textbook Company, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Fair. Previous owner's names to front free endpaper. Mild shelf and edgewear. Corners rubbed and lightly nudged. Dustjacket fair. Moderate wear and creasing to jacket. Edges torn and chipped. Red lettering on spine and front of grey, cloth-covered boards. 1,117 items, designs, and steps in processes illustrated. Clean, tight, bright. 181 pp with classified bibliography, acknowledgments, sources of supply, classified index. A guide to creative contemporary work in jewelry for art and industrial arts students and teachers, occupational therapists, amateur and professional craftsmen, and hobby workers of every age and level.

London: Oxford University Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Occasional faint spots of foxing. Uncut pages. Black lettering debossed to tan cloth spine of grey boards. Clean, tight, bright. Unpaginated. From the edition of 1533. The Malone Society is a British-based text publication. Edmond Malone (1741 - 1812), was an English scholar dedicated to the study of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. It publishes editions of plays from manuscript, facsimile editions of printed and manuscript plays of the period, and editions of original documents relating to English theatre and drama.

London: Oxford University Press, 1983. Hardcover. Fine. FINE. Gilt lettering debossed to spine and front board, with the charming emblem of the Early English Text Society in gilt to front board as well. Lovely sort-of satiny fawn brown cloth-covered boards. With seven interesting plates, two fold-out. Very clean, bright, tight. No markings. Privately owned. 410 pp with commentary, select glossary, and glossarial index. Early English Text Society, no. 285. "John Capgrave's Abbreuiacion of Cronicles (completed c. 1462*1463) is a substantial contribution to Medieval English historical literature," (preface). It begins with Adam and Eve, follows the Bible, ancient classical history, the Holy Roman Empire and the kingdom of England, ending in 1417.

Perth, Australia: Allen T. Condie , 1984. Second Edition. Staplebound. Very Good Plus. SECOND EDITION. 6 x 8.25 x <.25" Notations by previous owner throughout. Illustration of vintage tractors to covers in Deere's trademark yellow and green. Fully illustrated volume. Lists of basic power train data and serial numbers. Ads to inside covers. Unpaginated. Bright, solid binding Vintage tractor & machinery publications. "John Deere to most conjures up the two cylinder concept which is evident in all of the machines covered in this book. The tractors themselves, known fondly as "Johnny Poppers" were developed from a simple, basic design which only the changes and chances of this fleeting world forced into oblivion -- to some the death of the two cylinder horizontals was even a matter of shedding a few tears," (preface).

New York: Harper and Row, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. SHARP CORNERS. Previous owner's name, in ink, to half-title page. Dustjacket very good. Lightly scuffed surfaces. Edges lightly creased and worn. 129 pp with notes and index. "In this book the author tries to reconcile some of the recent arguments about the aims and tone of the plays of John Marston (1576 -- 1634)," (front flap)

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1935. First Edition. HARDCOVER. VERY GOOD IN VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. "A bold and dauntless hero and a brave and beautiful heroine..." Edgewear to dustjacket, former owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Book itself is clean, with one very small stain at bottom of front. DJ is soiled. Red topstain (as per first edition). DJ not price-clipped -- original $2.50 price.

New York: Rebus, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine. Heavy volume. Small bump to front upper corner. Gilt lettering crisply debossed to spine and front of dark green, cloth-covered boards. Illustrated. Book measures 10.25 x 8 x 2". Clean, tight, bright. 638 pp with acknowledgements and index. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping. Resources for all aspects of preventitive health and treatment for those over 50 years of age. Topics cover cancer, the blood, the brain and nervous system, the endocrine system, the kidneys and urinary tract, health problems for both men and women, mental health and more.

Cuba: Imprenta Nacional De Cuba, 1962. Hardcover. Good Plus. Light soiling to spine, covers mildly scuffed. Front bottom edge has small dents and creases near spine. Cocked. Top rear and front bottom corners, bumped. Age-tanning to endpapers and text. Black and blue lettering to white spine. Black and white lettering to cadet-blue, cover. Illustration of Juan Marinello to frontispiece. Illustration of Jose Marti on front cover. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Clean, still solid. 331 pp with index. Title translation : Jose Marti, Writer and American Modernism. Jose Marti (1853 -- 1895) is a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature. He was a poet, essayist, journalist, revolutionary philosopher, translator, professor, publisher, and a political theorist.

University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. SHARP CORNERS. Dustjacket very good plus. Very light sunning to fold edges. Gilt lettering debossed to maroon, cloth-covered spine of ivory, cloth-covered boards. With 69 photographs and illustrations. Clean, tight, bright. 455 pp with notes and index. The son of "the" Joseph Pulitzer who established the Pulitzer Prize. The second Joseph Pulitzer was "a man of even temperment and measured administrative style", unlike his colorful father. This biography "shows him to have been one of America's most important newspapermen, ranking with Adolph Ochs, William Allen White, and Robert R. McCormick," (front flap).

San Francisco: Chronicle, 1915. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. FIRST EDITION. Lightly sunned, (darkened) spine. Moderately worn corners, spinecaps and edges. Boards lightly stained and scratched. Text age-tanned. Gilt lettering debossed to spine and front of blue-grey, cloth-covered boards. Plum-colored, marbled endpapers. With over 50 illustrations. List of illustrations follows Contents, ix. Clean and tightly bound. 362 pp with indices. This volume "was written to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the existence of the San Francisco Chronicle. Some of the chapters included are : The Period Before the Awakening of California ; Policies and Attitude of the Press During the Fifties ; Many Innovations by the Brothers, Charles and M. H. de Young ; Affairs on the Eve of San Francisco's Great Disaster ; The Latest Developments in the Field of Journalism and many more.

New York: Dial, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Roll to spine. Dustjacket very good. Mild edgewear to jacket. 370 pp with chronology and index. Clean, tight, bright. The diary of Sylvia Plath beginning in 1950 at Smith College thru England in 1962.

Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1966. Hardcover. FINE. FACSIMILE. FINE. Red top-stain. Gilt lettering and silver rules to spine and front of blue, cloth-covered boards. 203 pp with appendix. Clean, tight, bright. Original title : A Journal of a Missionary Tour through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wiskonsin and Michigan : Comprising a concise description of Different sections of country ; health of climate ; inducements for emigration with the embarrassments ; the religious condition of the people ; meetings connected with the mission ; and of the Great Western Prairies. Providence 1843.