Search Results: Authors starting with J from Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA]

Stuart, Florida: Gulfstream Printing, 1979. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. SIGNED by "Zack" Mosley with date 5-5-79 and a personal inscription on the rear cover. Cartoons used by permission: Chicago Tribune.  No flaws or blemishes but previous owner's embossed stamp on the corner of the cover. 11 inches tall; 104 pages.. This softcover reprints an episode of Smilin' Jack from 1938-1939 that introduced several of Jack's most important characters: the villainous, bug-eyed Head, hefty Fat Stuff, and Downwind, a pilot whose face was never shown. 'The Adventures of Smilin' Jack,' which ran in more than 300 newspapers from 1933 to 1973.

Virginia: Sprinkle Publications, 1995. Reprint. New/No Dust Jacket As Issued. With an appendix of 'Stonewall Jackson's Colored Sunday School' by Margaret L Preston. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. 8.75 inches tall; 479 [1] 7 pages illustrated with b/w photography.. A well-crafted reprint of Harper's 1892 edition. [Howes, J-25]

U.S.A.: Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The connection between speech and writing in human language has been a matter of philosophical debate since antiquity. By plumbing the depths of this complex relationship, Tony E. Jackson explains how the technology of alphabetic writing has determined the nature of the modern novel. Through striking new readings of works by Austen, Mary Shelley, Dickens, Forster, Woolf, Lessing, and McEwan, Jackson reveals how the phenomena of speech and storytelling interact with the technological characteristics of writing. He also explains how those interactions induced the generic changes in the novel from its eighteenth-century beginnings to postmodernism and beyond. His claims, grounded in a contemporary understanding of human cognitive capacities and constraints, offer a fresh interpretive approach to all written literature. Unused, no flaws or blemishes.

South Korea: Daewoo Publishing Company, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Tan linen with emerald-green gilt titles; 12 inches tall; 124 pages: color illustrations, map endpages; Text in Korean and English. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal handling; Still Gift Quality. Palin white titled dust jacket has a hint of shelf handling; fully illustrated. Only one copy held in an institution: California State University - Sacramento [OCLC]

New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. This book introduces readers to the almost unbelievable creativity of the Kashmir/Jammu/Ladakh region's crafts people in a sophisticated and splendidly illustrated book on the lives of its Hindu, Muslim, and Buddhist crafts people. 170 illustrations, all in full-color. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling to dust jacket; There is a small remainder mark on lower textblock. Dust Jacket in new clear protective Mylar sleeve.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Dark brown cloth with bright gilt spine titles, Pictorial dust jacket with the price; 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; 240 pages. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear with age-toning on the text block edges not affecting the interior. The dust jacket has light handling wear. First Edition, First Printing.. The autobiography of Hakim Jamal, a streetwise kid from Boston whose life was changed by Malcolm X. Having been a heroin junkie and alcoholic, Jamal would become the president of the Malcolm X Organization of Afroamerican Unity and a member of the Black Panthers. On May 1, 1973, Jamal was killed when four men burst into his apartment in Boston and shot him repeatedly. Police attributed the crime to a factional dispute, linked to Jamal's attacks on Elijah Muhammad.

London: Faber and Faber, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by P. D. James on the title page. Original full cloth; pictorial dust jacket with the price of UK5.95. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal handling; Text has evenly age-toned as is typical. 8vo; 8 inches tall; 276 pages. First Edition, First Printing. P. D. James first standalone novel. "P. D. James has burst the bounds of her territory . . . and written a novel that is subtle, rich, allusive, and most cunningly plotted. . . . We are held in tingling suspense." ― The New York Times Phyllis Dorothy James was an English novelist best known for creating the police detective Adam Dalgliesh. She worked in the National Health Service and the Home Office From 1949 to 1968, in both the Police Department and Criminal Policy Department. All that experience was used in her novels. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy, and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers… Read More

Chicago: Forbes and Company, 1908. A Good Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. James, George Wharton. Red publisher's cloth, title stamped gilt. 8vo; 9.5 inches tall; 269 pages, illustrated with numerous photographic plates throughout. Bindings are a bit shook. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with rubbed spine tips. Repair on rear spine edge. First Edition. . People learn from other people, and races have forever learned from other races. Herein we are treated to an in-depth understanding of categorized social characteristics of the Native American peoples, primarily those of the western U.S. as they existed at the time of book publication (1908). 'In dealing with [the Native Americans] as a race, a people, therefore, I do as I would with my own race, I take what to me seem to be racial characteristics, or in other words, the things that are manifested in the lives of the best men and women, and which seem to represent their habitual aims, ambitions, and desires.' [Author]… Read More

Boston: The Page Company, 1914. First Edition, First Printing. Good/No Dust Jacket. Art nouveau-style pictorial binding with decoration in gilt, yellow, and purple; 9.5 inches tall; 4to; 433 pages indexed & illus; illustrated endpapers; color captioned tissue-guarded frontispiece, 72 illustrations [8 in color]; Folded color map.. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean,  the text is evenly are-toned. Moderate shelf handling wear with rubbed edges; and heavy rubs along the spine edges with some openings that appear to have been glued back. Two gift inscriptions on the verso or the front free end page.. The initial statement of 'California, a land intertwined with Romance and Beauty,' sets the thematic tone for James' book. Rather than merely cataloging landmarks and itineraries, his travel guide aimed to encapsulate the essence of the entire state. James delved into diverse subjects such as history, geology, climate, flora and fauna, natural resources, education, and the arts. As elucidated… Read More

Modern Library - Random House, 1993. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality.. Of the three late masterpieces that crown the extraordinary literary achievement of Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902) is at once the most personal and the most elemental. A classic example of Henry James's morality tales that play off the naiveté of an American protagonist abroad.

New York: Vintage Books, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Good Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good. Black cloth; the bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Modest shelf handling wear. Rub with loss on last page on rear endpage on edge center. The dust jacket is price-clipped and has handling wear with loss on the lower spine and rubbed corners now in a new protective Mylar sleeve. 8vo; 8 inches tall; 348 pages. [enotes]. In the "The Art of Fiction," Henry James holds the view that fiction is an art that cannot be governed by a set of rules. According to the author, fiction is a genre that should not be confined by a set of guidelines since they will make it less of an art. Moreover, James argues that fiction cannot be limited by morals since it prevents the artist from exploring his or her creativity. A work of art is an expression of an artist's feelings, which should not be restricted by morality. Also, he notes that artists must be able to create… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1900. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illustrations by Joseph Pennel. Black cloth; stamped titles and decorations in gilt and two colors. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 8vo; 7.875 inches tall; 350 pages with index. First illustrated edition of James' classic account of his six-week tour to provincial France between 1883 and 1884. First Published by Houghton Mifflin in 1885. [Ref BAL 10570] Revised with a preface, -vii; Frontispiece and 43 illustrations tipped in, and 22 illustrations on text leaves, all by Joseph Pennell.. Originally published under the title En Provence as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, A Little Tour of France recounts James' six-week tour throughout the provincial towns of Provence between 1883 and 1884 including Tours, Bourge, Nantes, Toulouse and Arles and the surroundings. REF: BAL10570; 10642; Edel & Laurence A23b

Good. A name is written at the top; spine aged though bindings are good. Carefully handled. The cover was designed by Gyorgy Kepes.. First Printings of two Ernest Hemingway stories: A Man of the World and Get A Seeing Eye Dog both appearing under the heading 'Two Tales of Darkness'. [Ref Hanneman c398]

London: John Murray, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good+. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. 8.75 inches tall; 226 pages with 65 b/w photographic plates. The dust jacket has minimal handling wear. . The Red Barrel is the story of the Stag Brewery and of many other brewers in England. The book goes beyond brewing to consider the social habits of the people bring in the architecture, the arts, medicine, and other facets of public life

Paris: F. Contet, 1925. First Edition, First Printing. Portfolio of Loose Plates. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Full Title: LE FER a l'Exposition Internationale de Arts Decoratifs Modernes. Recueil de travaux de ferronnerie presentes dans le cadre architectural pour lequel ils ont ete concus et executes tels que: Appliques, Balcons, Balustrades, Cadres de glaces, Consoles Ecrans de feu, Ecrans de radiateurs, Grilles d'ascenseurs, Brilles d'interieurs, Lustres, Portes, Rampes, Steles, Tables, etc...et precedes d'une etude par Guillaume Janneau." [2ème Serie]. Translation of the title: The Iron at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Arts. Collection of ironwork works presented in the architectural context for which they were designed and executed such as: Wall lights, Balconies, Balustrades, Mirror frames, Consoles, Fire screens, Radiator screens, Elevator grilles, Interior shines, Chandeliers, Doors, Railings, Steles, Tables, etc...and preceded by a study by Guillaume… Read More

Paris: F. Contet, 1924. First Edition, First Printing. Folio Portfolio of Unbound Plates. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Etudes d'Art Décoratif Contemporain Full Title: Le Fer. Ouvrages de Ferronnerie et de Serrurerie le fer. Ouvrages de ferronnerie et de serrurerie dus à des artisans contemporains et comprenant tout ce qui a rapport à la décoration intérieure et extérieure de l'habitation comme : appliques, balcons, balustrades, boutons de portes, consoles, crémones, cache-radiateurs, cadres de glace, grilles, lampadaires, lustres, portes d'ascenceurs, rampes, tables etc.... Translation: The Iron. Works of ironwork and locksmithing due to contemporary craftsmen and including everything related to the interior and exterior decoration of the dwelling such as: sconces, balconies, balustrades, door knobs, consoles, cremone bolts, radiator covers, frames of mirror, grilles, lampposts, chandeliers, elevator doors, ramps, tables etc.... Publisher's portfolio of purple cloth backstrips over… Read More

Philadelphia: Dr. D. Jayne & Son, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. Stiff decorative wrappers. Very Good. Stiff decorative wrappers with typographic titles in two-color. The text block is stapled and glued to the wraps. 152 + [8] advert pages; 4.5 by 5.25 inches, (13.3 by 10.8 cm).  Occasional in-text drawings. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with minor hand-soiling.. An uncommon vintage post-prohibition pocket cocktail manual OCLC/WorldCat cites only 3 copies in institutional collections. Jayne's was a patent medicine manufacturer. There are adverts in this booklet for their various products, ranging from skin cream to laxatives and 'tonic pills' for gentlemen wishing to still be "frisky at sixty". Along with recipes for cocktails and mixed drinks, there are also formulations for making "lost" elements such as Stoughton's Bitter, Angostura Bitters, Orange Bitters, Usquebaugh Cordial, and other oddities. "...since the blending of… Read More

Paris: Chez Desaing & Saillant and Durand, 1759. Good. Engraved by Laurent Cars. Some staining and soil to margins, worming at lower right margin; mild toning. Image: 28.3 by 21 cm (11 by 8.25 inches); sheet: 35.5 by 27.5 cm (14x10.75 inches). The work was edited by C. P. de Monthenault d'Egly and published in Paris by Chez Desaing & Saillant and Durand between 1755 and 1759. The engravings were by Cochin, Tardieu, Prevost, Chedel, Lempereur and others after the original artwork of Jean-Baptiste Oudry. Copper-plate engraved by Laurent Cars after Jean-Baptiste Oudry. This illustration is from Jean de La Fontaine's Fables Choisies, mises en vers. Background Information: Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, and in French regional languages. Jean de La Fontaine collected… Read More

Paris: H. Floury, 1918. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Publisher's cloth binding with red and white stripes decorated with floral motifs with the title label attached laminated on the first plate. Full color decorated endpages; Fully illustrated with 8 chromolithographed plates and in-text headers. Illustrations by Hansi. All edges stained red; 12 inches tall; 40 pages. First Edition, First Printing. Text in French. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. . A patriotic story for children, abundantly illustrated in the text and 8 plates illuminated with garlands, coats of arms, cockades. This book was published for Christmas 1918 on the occasion of the return of French Alsace. The "tricolor paradise" presents the Alsatian architecture of towns and villages of the Haut-Rhin. Title Translation: The Tricolor Paradise: Small Towns and Villages of Alsace already Delivered A Little Text and Many Images.

Norfolk, VA: The Donning Co, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Soft cover. Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. 192 pages with index. Illustrated with historical photos. Dutchess County is part of the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown Metropolitan Statistical Area.