Search Results: Authors starting with J from Austin's Antiquarian Books

Worcester: Putnam, Davis and Company, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Very light wear. Front endpaper is starting to tear near the hinge. Rear cover has some soil. Former owner's gift inscription. overall a good or better copy. Octavo (6" x 8.25"), 331pp. with index and appendix A. Flora of Worcester County and B. Wild Trees and Shrubs. Illustrated. Frontispiece and 8 photographic plates with titled tissue-guards. A lovely privately printed book limited to 500 copies after an edition of 35 numbered & signed copies were issued.

New York: New York Graphic Society & Little Brown & Co, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Square quarto; pp; 240, index; profusely illustrated with one hundred eighty color photographs; green cloth, patterned endpapers, spine lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. This book complements one of the largest exhibitions ever mounted at The National Gallery of Art, Washington: "The Treasure Houses of Britain: 500 Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting".

New York: Vanguard Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/jacket is chipped at extremities else a very good unclipped. Octavo; pp; 150; illustrated by Shane Miller; decorated tan cloth in a pictorial dust jacket;. First American publication of these "Gotham town" stories.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1910. gilt-stamped cloth. Very good. Warwick Gobel. Quarto (7" x 10"), navy gilt-stamped pictorial cloth. All edges dyed blue.280, (1)pp plus publisher's ad leaf. Forty stunning illustrations by Warwick Gobel tipped onto heavy brown stock illustrate the 38 tales. The plates are unpaginated. Slight wear at the extremities. Small dampstain on the back cover, lower left which can be seen as faint in the pictures. Endpapers toned. "These tales and legends have been collected from many sources. Some of them have been selected from the Ko-ji-ki, or Record of Ancient Matters, which contains the mythology of Japan. Many are told from memory, being relics of childish days, originally heard from the lips of a school fellow or a nurse. Certain of them, again, form favorite subjects for representation upon the Japanese stage." A lovely copy of this beautiful book.

Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1945. First reprint edition. Hardcover. Very good/a good or better dust jacket, rear panel lightly soiled, chip at bottom left,, two closed tears. Octavo; pp; xiv, (ii), 251, (i); illustrated by the cowboy/author/artist with sixty five plates, line drawings; red cloth lettered in gilt, top edge stained red, in a pictorial dust jacket; This work originally appeared in 1933 in a Scribner's imprint;. Will James like Charles M. Russell speaks with authority, he lived the life. The Open Range of the Dakotas, Montana & Wyoming.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (6" x 9"), ryal blue cloth with cameo dog's head at center. 211pp. Charming illustrations by dog illustrator Diana Thorne. Very good but for a faint area of discoloration on the back cover. Foreword by Richard E. Byrd. A story of the dog who accompanied Byrd's party to the polar regions.

Detroit: Saturday Night Press, 1920. First edition, limited. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, blue cloth, gilt. (viii), 151pp. Illustrated. Frontispiece portrait plus twenty-two plates including seven in color of French War Posters. Uncommon. Covers faded; the frront cover in a striped pattern. The back coverirregularly with some dampstain and spotting. Minor edgewear.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Duodecimo; pp. 264; Numerous black and white text illustrations and a full page initial plate and an illustrtated title page; brown cloth, stamped in blind, gilt spine lettering, yellow coated endpapers; spine faded, werar at spine ends;. James Jackson Jarves (1818-1888) was an American newspaper editor, and art critic who is remembered above all as the first American art collector to buy Italian primitives and Old Masters.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1911. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Seventh impression. Octavo, terra-cotta cloth in a dust jacket. (iv), 248pp. Illustrated. Frontispiece plus sixteen plates by J. Charlton and H. Tunaly. Very good in a good jacket. Jacket worn at extremities. This is a volume of Longmans' Silver Library. Reprints of better writer's works. Well made and nicely printed.

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1903. Hardcover. Very good. (1903). Duodecimo (5.5" x 7.5"). grey pictorial cloth with cover illustration in whitepink and blue. 128pp. plus2pp. publisher's ads. With 4 black and white illustrations by R. L. Mason. Very nice with one slightly bumped corner. Former owner's name. A fatherless young man is encouraged by his friend the blacksmith to follow his talent in art.

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1992. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. Very good. 16mo; pp; lxvii, (i), 355, with index and a list of the Lakeside Classics; frontispiece portrait and forty-three additional illustrations including a map; brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Tough Hombres!

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1866. First American Edition, English Sheets. Hardcover. moderate wear to the extremities, spine ends, corners bumped;. Octavo; pp; xx, 190, (10), ads; Illustrated with a chromo-lithographed frontispiece and black and white cuts by Charles Keene; decorated terra-cotta beveled cloth covered boards, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers;. Another account of the eternal battleground of the war between the sexes; the marriage theatre.

Guilford: The Lyons Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. (2002). Octavo (6" x 9.25"), tan and brown boards in pictorial jacket. 268pp. Thirty essays by one of the finest outdoor writers in America.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1941. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Quarto; pp; 80-102, summary, bibliography; Illustrated, map, chart, plates; original printed green paper wrappers; Ex-Reading Museum with just a call number upper right of wrapper, no other markings what-so-ever. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries Volume 50, bulletin 36.

Lincoln: University Of Nebraska Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto; pp; xii, (2), 3-292, index; Illustrated, fifty six figures, twenty-eight distribution maps, thirty-two color plates, thirty-eight tables; blue cloth, gilt in a dust jacket;. A beautifully produced serious study.

Louisville: Baldwin Law Books Company, 1916. First & Only Edition. Hardcover. A good or better copy, shaken but sound.. Octavo; pp. (viii), 336; blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt;. Monaghan 2149; Chapters include: The Assassination of Francis Baker by Isaac B. Desha, in 1824; The Assassination of Solomon P. Sharp by Jeroboam O. Beauchamp; The Richardson-Waring Tragedy; The Wilkinson Trial; The Trial of Matt F. Ward; The Execution of Sue Mundy; Thompson-Daviess Tragedy; Assassination of Judge John M. Elliott; Judge Richard Reid, Cowhided by J.J. Corneilison; The Tolliver-Martin or Logan Feud; The Goebel-Sanford Killing; Swope-Goodloe Tragedy; The Colson-Scott Tragedy; The Goebel Assassination; The Hargis-Cockrell Feud and the Death of Judge James Hargis. Very scarce.

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp. (viii), 288; Illustrated, frontispiece plus nineteen photogravure plates; decorated blue cloth, gilt, top edge gilt; a bright substantial copy;. A book you would want to read before you embarked on the "Grand Tour"

(New York): Publisher's Weekly, 1922. Wraps. Near fine. Octavo; pp; 3; Self wrappers;. The output of our most proligic President as writer.

New York: A James H. Silberman Book, Harcourt, Inc, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; x, (iv), 610, index; red cloth and yellow paper covered boards lettered in gilt, in a dust jacket;. A political, social, economic and technological overview of the Clinton years.

(Proctor Vt): Privately Printed, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Duodecimo; pp; 181; pebbled blue cloth lettered in gilt. Events of the Political Campaigns of 1906 in Vermont.