Search Results: Titles starting with J from Bluebird Books

Malibu, California,: The J. Paul Getty Museum. Very Good. 1986. Softcover. 0892360844 . A guide to the fabulous collections of the Getty. With views of the artworks in color, accompanied by written descriptions of each. Also includes brief biographical sketch of J. Paul Getty and history of the museum. With a foreword by John Walsh, Jr., director of the museum. --- In stiff black wraps with color reproduction of a representative work to front panel. --- With some rubbing and scratches to covers, as well as a little soiling here and there, but overall a bright and tightly-bound copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; ix, 216 pages .

London: A & J Speelman. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. A deluxe catalogue of exquisite Chinese ceramics, sculpture, porcelain, furniture and other works of art; as well as Japanese screens and assorted artworks. The catalogue was issued by London's A & J Speelman gallery prior to an exhibition at the Paris Biennale Internationale de Antiquaires, held in September & October, 1990. 62 individual art works are pictured in color , with accompanying descriptions. Includes an introduction by Jules Speelman. Notice of the Paris exhibition laid in. --- A hardcover in grey paper-covered boards with titling in black to cover and spine, sewn-in black ribbon bookmark. Volume wrapped in jacket with image of a statue of Buddha to front panel. Unpaginated, perhaps c.125 pp. --- An excellent copy: clean, bright and tightly-bound. Jacket with wrinkling to top 1/4, otherwise in great shape and lacking damages; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Quarto - 11 to… Read More

New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1979. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. 0440054494 . Stated first Delacorte printing (following a privately-printed limited first edition). Kurt Vonnegut's novel touches on the Watergate affair, big corporations and labor movement themes. --- In full black cloth covers with gilt-stamped author facsimile signature to cover; titling in glit and silver to spine; orange topstain. Jacket with Jill Krementz photographic portrait of the author on the back cover. --- An about Near Fine copy: clean, bright and lacking damages worthy of mention. Bright, unclipped ($9.95) dust jacket a couple of small tears to edges, an with insignificant soiling; in removable mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xxxviii, (4), 246 pages .

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. Charlotte Brontë's cherished novel was first published in 1847 under her pen name of Currer Bell. This Harper & Brothers reprint edition includes an introduction by Alice Green Fredman. Illustrations are not included in this edition. An entry in publisher's Harpers Modern Classics series. --- In full red cloth-covered boards with gilt spine titling & on black spine block. The publisher's passed-torch logo appears on cover and on red endpapers.Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- An about-Very Good copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked but with indentations to both cover fore-edges.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xx, 451, [2] pages .

Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company. Poor with no dust jacket. 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. With illustrations by Ada C. Williamson. One in a series of early-20th century novels featuring author's Jane Stuart character. --- In green cloth-covered boards with titling in white on cover & spine; color illustration on oval pasted to front cover. --- Covers have detached from textblock but carefully re-pasted by bookseller but looseness remains; also with soiling to top of textblock & on covers.; Small 8vo 7-1/2" - 8" tall; 354 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0684127075 . Advance Review Copy. In full blue cloth-covered boards with bright copper-toned titling, spine. Interior clean, bright and unmarked. Jacket bears orig. $15 flap price. Very slight chafing to covers and jacket edges; slight rounding of corners. --- A comprehensive history of Japan, presented chronologically, with 9 maps and numerous illustrations. With extensive bibliography and index at rear of volume, as well as other information. ; 8vo 8" - 10" tall; 650 pages .

New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc.. Very Good. 1975. Softcover. Sale catalog of fine and important works of art from Japan and other locations in Asia. Includes paintings, drawings, swords, illustrated books, screens, porcelain artifacts and sculptured pieces. Sotheby's auction conducted over four days in June, 1975. With numerous black & white photos (and a few in color) of the items included in the sale. Price list showing values realized laid in. --- A softcover in pictorial wraps. Unpaginated, perhaps c.200 pp. --- A sound copy: tightly-bound and lacking markings but with creasing to some leaves & covers.; Square Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; [c.200] pages .

New York: Christie's. Near Fine. 1990. Softcover. A pair of sale catalogs of fine and important works of art from Japan and Korea. One catalog describes a single item: the splendid Rakuchu-Rakugai Screen, measuring about 40 feet in length x 6 feet high and elaborately decorated in paint, color, gold and gold leaf. The second catalog describes hundreds of paintings, sculptures, pottery, painted objects and other works of art of Japan and Korea. Illustrated in black & white and color. Catalogs are for 2 Christie's auctions conducted on October 16 and 17, 1990 in New York. --- These 2 softcovers in gloss pictorial wraps. --- Both items tightly-bound and lacking markings but with creasing to back cover of the larger catalog.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; 19, 383 pages .

Buffalo, New York: Firefly Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 189556512X . Per the front flap: [the author and photographer] "spent close to four years meeting dozens of jazz musicians from the Unted States, Canada, Europe, Great Britain, Japan and Russia." From those interviews came this selection of profiles, both in words and black & white photos. The famous and not-so-famous musicians include such names as Dave Brubeck, Tony Bennett Doc Cheatham, and the Modern Jazz Quartet. --- In full textured black paper-covered boards with titling in silver to spine. Jacket with composite photographic portrait of three of these musicians. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy lacking apparent damages. Bright, unclipped jacket with a little rubbing and slight creasing, otherwise newish.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; (16), 216 pages .

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. [c.1957]. Hardcover. A Modern Library Giant reprint edition offering all ten of the novels which together comprise "Jean-Christophe" in a single hefty volume. Romain Rolland's work first appeared from 1904 through 1912 and was the basis for the author's Nobel Prize in Literature, bestowed in 1915. Translated from the French by Gilbert Cannan. The novels are grouped into three books in this volume. Dust jacket with color painting of a Seine-side Parisian scene. --- In Toledano spine G5 / red cloth / gilt titling on black cover & spine blocks / black topstain / blank GA style endpapers / jacket style Ge, verso advertises 379 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1957 (though 1941 date appears in book). ML #G38.1. --- With considerable chafing to cloth at spine ends, mild age-toning to leaves and a couple of small cover corner bumps, else a sound, sturdy, tightly-bound copy. Price-clipped… Read More

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1978. Full-Leather. A deluxe Franklin Library signed edition of five plays by France's Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980). The author was a noted existentialist who also wrote novels and was a political activist. Includes a special introductory note by the author. Signed by author on a leaf near front of volume. One of an unspecified number in a limited edition. --- Bound in full red bonded leather covers with four raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers. Tan silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon bookmark. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- With a hint of sunning to edges of moire endpapers and a faint scratch to gilding on textblock fore-edge, else a Fine copy: clean, tightly-bound, bright and almost certainly unread.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (18), 484… Read More

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Very Good-. 1964. Softcover. 0803251386 . A paperback edition of Dale L. Morgan's examination of the travels and explorations of Jedediah Smith. Smith traveled widely in the American West between 1822 and 1831 and is credited with discovering the critically-important South Pass, among many other things. With a fold-out map, and a handful of black & white illustrations; indexed. This work originally published by Bobbs-Merrill. --- In wraps with Frederic Remington's drawing "Jedediah Smith's Party Crossing the Mojave Desert in 1826" to front panel. --- With prior owner's signature and info. to half title and considerable rubbing to covers, otherwise a sound, tightly-bound copy.; Small Octavo - 7-1/2 to 8 in. tall; 458 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover. Stated First Edition, copyright page. In full pale blue cloth-covered boards with titling on spine in blue. Spine is sunned, interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket with some chipping and small tears along edges; darkened spine and in w/$3.00 flap price. Jacket in removable archival mylar protector. --- Offbeat novel features a man with a small manufacturing business who was transformed when his health took a turn for the worse. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages .

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition. A young boy who has lost his father gets to know the unusual new family that moves into his neighborhood. Illustrated by Robert MacLean. An entry in the Weekly Reader Children's Book Club. --- In yellow paper-covered boards with illustration to cover and titling to spine, both in blue. Volume wrapped in jacket with full color illustration to cover. --- A rather well-preserved copy, but with minor age-toning to leaves. Unclipped jacket also in great shape: remains bright and intact.; Small Octavo - 7-1/2 to 8 in. tall; 113 pages .

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. The one-time Dean of the Harvard Divinity School's four lectures on early Chrisianity as inspired by Jesus, its growth, and its state in the modern world. The four lectures, delivered at Northwestern University, are supplemented by two additional chapters. --- In navy cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. In unclipped dust jacket. --- With prior owners' signatures to front free endpaper & a little edgewear; else a clean, firm, bright copy. Dust jacket with chipping and small tears along edges, but mostly intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; Small Octavo (7-1/2 to 8 in. tall); 224 pages .

Pleasantville, New York,: Readers Digest. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0895772574 . Stated fourth printing, 1990. The world as it was when Jesus walked the earth is presented, with dozens of photos, drawings and maps. In pictorial paper-covered boards. Lacks a dust jacket. --- Prior owner's discreet inked signature, front paste-down; else a bright, firm, clean copy. Covers with faint scratches.; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 336 pages .

Middle Village, NY: Jonathan David Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0824602560 . Mysteries of Judaism explained in this well-preserved volume. Clean, bright, unmarked. ; 1.2 x 8.6 x 5.5 Inches; 336 pages .

London: Vintage Books. Very Good+. 2010. Softcover. 0099520389 . A softcover copy of Irène Némirovsky's novel which is centered around a beautiful woman who is no longer young and who is accused of murdering her younger lover. Translated from the French by Sandra Smith. This work first published in 1936. --- In wraps with color image of a fur-wrapped woman to cover. --- A clean, unmarked, tightly-bound copy but with slight curve to textblock & reading creases to spine.; Small Octavo - 7-1/2 to 8 in. tall; vi, 199 pages .

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Very Good+. 1980. Softcover. 0806115556 . Elinor Wilson's biography of Jim Beckwourth tells of his time as a trapper and fur trader and Western American adventurer. Born into slavery, the "half breed" Beckwourth lived among the Crow Indians for several years before making his way to California where the village of Beckwourth and Beckwourth Pass carry his name. Includes numerous black & white photos and illustrations, and three maps. --- In wraps with high contrast image of Beckwourth to front panel. --- A sound, tightly-bound copy, but with some fading to cover & spine titling, prior owner's signature to title page and a spot of soiling to back cover.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); xvi, 248 pages .

Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1971. Trade Paper. 0803257201 . Third softcover printing of work which was first written in 1946. In a clean copy but with prev. owner's inked name on title page. Textblock firm, covers rubbed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 333 pages .