Search Results: Titles starting with J from Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc.

London: George Redway, n.d. [1887]. First Edition; second issue of the second volume of Dreamland and Ghostland. The economical Redway used the unsold sheets by issuing the three volumes separately with new title pages. There are nine stories in this volume apart from Doyle’s. Publisher’s blue cloth; only minor wear; rare in the original binding.

London: Elkin Mathews, 1911. First Edition of this promotional booklet, which contains a large folding map by the artist. Very good.

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1932. First Edition of this illustrated publication; complete with four working pop-ups; gift inscription on the half-title; a bit shaken; very good in dust jacket.

New York: A.S. Barnes, 1950. First Edition. Cloth spotted; very good in dust jacket.

New York: Viking, 1944. First American Edition. Very good in a dust jacket with a faded spine.

New York: Meridian Books, 1959. First Edition. Wrappers; very good.

New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1924. First Edition. Slocum B6. A near fine copy in a dust jacket with some small chips and tears and some staining; about very good overall. Contains a number of first American appearances of quotations from Ulysses.

New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1924. First Edition. Slocum B6. A near fine copy in a dust jacket with some chips and tears and soiling; a very good example overall. Contains a number of first American appearances of quotations from Ulysses.

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1935. First Edition. Publisher’s wrappers; tiny Oxford bookshop label on the upper cover, else very good. With the corrigendum slip tipped in at page 19.

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1935. First Edition. Publisher’s wrappers; spotting and chipping; good to very good. With the corrigendum slip tipped in at page 19.

London: Smith, Elder, 1847. First Edition; three volumes; publisher’s cloth; the fly-title of the publisher’s catalogue is dated June, 1847 and the catalogue itself is dated October, 1847. This set has the very uncommon “Calcutta Review” ad inserted (while copies lacking it are not considered incomplete, it is preferable to include it); complete with the half-titles in each volume. This set is in what might be termed, for a book so seldom seen in its original binding, in usual condition; in this instance, this standard is not a high one. Overall, this set is in the shabbier side of good condition. Unlike many of the few sets that have surfaced in cloth, it has not been rebacked, but it has undergone modest cloth mending; there is cloth staining and numerous, but generally minor, paper repairs to small chips and tears. However, the title page of the first volume has been rehinged. For all that, Jane Eyre is nearly always seen rebound, and these defects aside, a better copy is seldom seen. In a… Read More

Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1909. First Edition. Spine lettering flaked; fine in a good dust jacket with chipping and splits in the spine. Southern recipes compiled by the grand-niece of Ms. Hamilton, whose home (”Forest Hill”) near Fredericksburg, Virginia, was burned in the Civil War.

Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1912. First Edition. Bookplate; some foxing; nearly fine.

London: Smith, Elder, 1848. First Edition. Publisher’s orange cloth; edge of front free endpaper chipped; front hinge starting; some soiling; very good. Illustrated by Richard Doyle.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1935. First Edition. Edges a trifle faded, else fine in a very good or better dust jacket with a tiny chip at the top of the front panel.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1935. First Edition. Edges a trifle faded, else fine in dust jacket.

Publisher’s wrappers; good. The story was collected in Carry on, Jeeves!

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First American Edition. Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket with some small tears.

London: Jenkins, 1960. First English Edition; presumed first printing with the incorrect half-title. Spine a little faded, else fine in a very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1925. First American Edition. Very good in a good dust jacket with a split along part of the front fold.