Search Results: Titles starting with J from Type Punch Matrix

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1993. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed fourth printing of the 10th Alphabet Mystery, in which PI Kinsey Millhone uncovers her own family history while on the trail of a Ponzi schemer who faked his own suicide. The success of the Kinsey Millhone books inspired a generation of writers to create their own casually badass heroines, to the delight of millions of readers. 9'' x 5.75''. Original cloth-backed boards. Original unclipped ($21.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 288 pages. Signed by Grafton to title page. Jacket with a touch of edgewear. Binding with a hint of bumping to spine ends. Clean.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this vibrant and slightly surreal reinterpretation of the classic nursery rhyme. Daniel Kirk's pop art-y, retro-flavored illustrations are a delight for readers of all ages. He has written over 40 children's books, on topics ranging from classic nursery rhymes to science. 10'' x 8''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($15.99) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. Unpaginated. Signed by Kirk to front flyleaf. Jacket with a hint of edgewear. Sharp and bright.

Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Pub. Co, 1910. Very good.. Great picture book of the classic fairy tale with captivating colorful illustrations, in a larger format for easy use by young children. 14'' x 10''. Original flexible pictorial card wrappers. All leaves illustrated with bright chromolithograph illustrations by Frances Brundage. Text printed in large, easy to read blue font. [12] pages. Minor soil and spotting to wrappers, some edgewear.

Boston: Jordan, Marsh and Company, 1888. Very good plus.. First edition of this classic American "boy book," dramatizing the everyday life of boys in Gilded Age Boston. A popular example of the "slice of life" books with boy heroes that enjoyed a growing success on the American market in the late 19th century, the most famous example of which being Twain's TOM SAWYER and HUCKLEBERRY FINN. While Twain's books take place in rural Missouri, JACK HALL explores adventures in the city life of Boston. 7.25'' x 4.75''. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in black with numerous vignettes of a boy's life, gilt lettering. Yellow endpapers. Illustrated by Attwood with full-page and in-text black-and-white images. vi, 394 pages. Rear hinge expertly repaired, front hinge cracked but firm. Faint toning to spine and a bit of just visible soiling to front board, else a fresh, bright copy.

[New York]: Scholastic Magazines, Inc, 1973. Near fine.. Signed miniature panorama, illustrated with orange highlights by Gorey. 3.5'' x 2.5''. Single sheet folded accordion-style to produce 12 panels (including covers), printed rectos only except at first and last folds. Illustrated by Gorey on every panel in black and white with orange highlights. Signed by Gorey on front panel, crossing out his printed name. Sheet uniformly and faintly toned, else fine.

Philadelphia: Hubbard, 1897. Very good.. A scarce toy book using Cox's illustrations without his approval, illustrating the title story plus three other fairy tales. 9.25'' x 6.25''. Original color pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with many detailed black-and-white images. Some creases. A few small mends.

(San Francisco): (The Porpoise Bookshop), 1956. Near fine.. First edition of this comparative history and guide to the game of jacks and its several international variants and predecessors. 5.5'' x 4.25''. Original saddle-stapled wrappers. Black and white illustrations. 31 pages. Light edgewear, minor corner creasing.

London: Andersen Press, 1998. First edition. Fine.. First printing of this fantastic story of how a young boy draws on his sailor grandfather's expertise to build a "ship" for the town's boat race. THE GUARDIAN identifies Michael Foreman as "one of the best-known British writer-illustrators," in part thanks to his remarkable output: since he began his career in 1961, he has published over 300 books for children and adults. He has earned two Kate Greenaway Medals, and has twice been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. 11.75'' x 8.75''. Original color pictorial boards. No dust jacket (as issued). Illustrated in color. [16] leaves. Small price sticker to rear board. Sharp and bright.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1980. First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing of this Newbery Medal-winning novel, in the first issue jacket (without the award sticker), a coming of age tale set on Maryland's Eastern Shore. A story of sibling rivalry and self-fulfillment, JACOB I HAVE LOVED earned Katherine Paterson her second Newbery Medal. 8'' x 5.25''. Original red cloth backed boards. Original unclipped ($8.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Dark blue endpapers. 216 pages. Jacket with mild edgewear, lower corner of flap clipped. Tiny spot of soil to binding. Shows nicely.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1980. Near fine in very good dust jacket.. First printing of this Newbery Medal-winning novel, warmly inscribed to fellow author Barbara Elleman. A story of sibling rivalry and self-fulfillment, JACOB I HAVE LOVED earned Katherine Paterson her second Newbery Medal. This attractive copy is warmly inscribed by Paterson to Barbara Elleman, fellow author and Distinguished Scholar of Children's Literature at Marquette University, in the year of Paterson's Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing. 8'' x 5.25''. Original red cloth backed boards. Original unclipped ($8.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Dark blue endpapers. 216 pages. Inscribed by Paterson to title page, "To barbara Elleman - it was / wonderful to be with you at / Marquette - / With love - / Katherine Paterson / 10/16/98." Promotional card of books by Paterson loosely laid in. Jacket with light edgewear, a couple tiny closed tears; tiny scuff to front. Binding spine ends with a hint of bumping. Clean and bright.

Richmond: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1922. First printing. Very good.. First edition of this early novel grappling with the personal traumas of World War I, Woolf's first to experiment with modernist techniques that would become central to her style. A novel of grief that weaves complex inner lives for its characters, based in part on the death of Woolf's brother. The life of the title character, who died in World War I, is described in fragmentary sequences "so that the reader experiences the same problem faced by Jacob's survivors - how to piece together his life" (Lewis 112). Woolf's short story collection MONDAY OR TUESDAY (1919) also toys with stream of consciousness and other modernist techniques, but JACOB'S ROOM was the first novel in which she began working through these innovations. One of only 1200 copies printed, this in its unrestored original state. Octavo. 7.5'' x 5''. Original orange cloth, printed paper spine label. Fore-edge and bottom edge uncut.… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982. Fine in fine jacket.. Inscribed first printing of this picture book that "has drawn freely on the themes of black American folklore," famously objected to in a letter to the publisher signed by 14 children's librarians for its depiction of African American stereotypes. This title garnered a number of positive reviews before librarians across the country banded together to object the book. In the letter sent to the publisher, Elizabeth Huntoon said that they "felt that the book's interpretation of a Black heaven would offend many people and that it reinforced many stereotypes which are not offset by a wealth of children's literature portraying the Black experience" (quoted in Bridgman; by 1982 only two books by Black authors had received a Newbery Medal). The decision of many librarians not to purchase the book for their systems upset the publisher, who felt the choice was "arbitrary"; these librarians and others countered that curation was a critical aspect… Read More

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1993. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this Bush's first book, the story of a boy's visit to a very unusual house - with original drawing of the Mouse King. Timothy Bush's dynamic, cartoony art style lends itself to picture books, and has also tempted animators: his stories have been optioned by Disney and Nickelodeon. 8.25'' x 10.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($13.00) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Signed by Bush to verso of front flyleaf with original drawing of a mouse with a crown.

n.p.: [The Baker Street Irregulars], 1950. Fine in very good album.. Rare original recording by midcentury Sherlockian scholar and entertainer James Montgomery, a wonderful oral archive of the songs that have traditionally been a significant part of Sherlockian societies. Recorded on these three discs are: The Adventure of the Irene Adler Recording (Parts I, II, and II); An Irregular Song (With apologies to Thomas Moore and A. Conan Doyle), a "traditional old Irish air" with words by Montgomery; I'm Sitting on the Stile, Mary (As sung by Birdy Edwards at Lodge 341 Vermissa, U.S.A.), and On the Banks of Allan Water (As sung by Birdy Edwards of Lodge 341 Vermissa, U.S.A.). All vocals by Montgomery, whose live performance of a "medley of songs" at the 1951 BSI Dinner is noted in BSI archival histories. Later reissued in 1960 by the BSI together with Harvey Castle's Baker Street Suite; rare in any version. 10.5'' x 12''. Three 78'' discs in original sleeves, in pictorial record album by Bruce… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. Fine in fine jacket.. First printing of Blunk's biography of the acclaimed American poet. 9'' x 6''. Original black boards. In original unclipped ($40.00) dust jacket. 496 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Minor edgewear and bumping.

New York: Bantam Books, 1999. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of the fourth entry in Stephanie Barron's Jane Austen mystery series, in which the beloved author must track down the murderer of a flamboyant French woman. 9'' x 5.75''. Original two-tone boards. Original unclipped ($22.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 290 pages. Signed by Barron to title page. Jacket with a hint of warping. Bright.

London: Enitharmon Editions, 2003. About fine.. Signed limited edition of Rego's intense and brutal suite of lithographs in dialogue with Brontë's JANE EYRE. Rego's JANE EYRE series is narrower in emotional range than its source inspiration, but fully its equal in depth. Her lithographs thrash with the furious, tortured physicality of women weighed down by pain and humiliation and confinement, the element of fire nearly smothered in wet wool and cold earth. The Portuguese-born artist reported reading JANE EYRE for the first time as an adult, and no childhood nostalgia tempers her vision. Jane Eyre herself appears as she is, not as she seems: a massive presence, rather than the fey fairy elf of Rochester's pick-up lines or the meek mouse of conventional illustration. "I don't believe in the existence of little mice," Rego affirmed to The Observer in 2002. "Every mouse has intestines and teeth and they are terrifying, those little mice. Jane Eyre is actually a bit of a rat." 14.5'' x 10''. Original… Read More

Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1915. Overall fear fine.. Beautifully intact set, scarce complete with original case and rice paper sleeves, with vivid color illustrations on fresh, crinkling crepe paper. Included are the following titles (all large paper copies): "The Boy Who Drew Cats"; "The Goblin Spider"; "The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling"; "The Fountain of Youth"; and "Chin-Chin Kobakama." 5 volumes measuring 7.75'' x 5.5'' each. Original pictorial crepe paper wrappers with silk ties bound fukuro-toji style. Housed in publisher's folding cloth case with pictorial lining and original clasps. Illustrated in color throughout. Pages range [16] - [22], including printed versos of wrappers. Spine of slipcase faded; the two joints on either side of the backstrip neatly reinforced. Books with some light waves to text blocks, else bright. All ties intact.

Tokyo: Hakubunsha, 1888. Near fine.. Trilingual publication (Japanese, English, French) of elaborately produced color woodblock prints on the theme of traditional Japanese children's games. Gorgeous multi-color woodblock prints capture traditional games based on famous paintings created hundreds of years earlier. The laid-in English description includes (in part): "Hane-tsuki: 'Battledore and Shuttlecock,' a game played principally during the first ten days of the New Year"; "Koma Asobi: 'Playing with Tops,' and Tamaya: 'Blowing Soap-bubbles"; "Sugoroku, a sort of backgammon"; "Hotaru-gari: 'Hunting Fireflies"; and more, including descriptions of holidays like Obon and making "snowmen" of Daruma, the iconographic image of the monk who brought Zen to Japan. The skill of late-era ukiyo-e and nihonga artist Kobayashi Eitaku is evident in this collection, which showcases traditional subjects and aesthetics - very much in response to the Western styles enjoying a growing vogue in the Meiji era.… Read More

New York: Scribner, 2001. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of Hamilton's first crime novel, introducing investigator Eve Diamond, a journalist (like the author) at the Los Angeles Times. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter blue cloth with orange boards. In original unclipped ($24.00) dust jacket.