Search Results: Authors starting with J from Brigantine Books

Rockville Center: Paumanok Press, 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Blue cloth covers, light edge wear, spine lightly faded, signed by author on front endpaper, also a brief description of author written in red pencil with previous owner's name written in.

London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1958. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light foxing to end papers, chips and closed tears to dust jacket which is also price-clipped. End sheets in rear have extensive notes in what looks to me in Arabic, also doodle on rear flap.

Westvaco, 1974. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine in ivory cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine, the title in raised embossing on the front board and with illustrated end sheets. Without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book is housed in a fine cloth covered slip case with a gilt decoration on one panel. Laid-in is a presentation bookplate from Bradbury Thompson who designed the book and his wife Deen. Illustrated with reproductions of earlier works of art by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. 130 pages

Southold, New York: L. I. Travelers Print, 1932. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Jefferson on title page "with the compliments of Wayland Jefferson " 35 pages grey wraps with black title, slight yellowing aliong edges, small stain near head of spine not affecting text-block.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Abbeville Press, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Publisher,s review copy, light rubbing to dust jacket, oversize will require extra shipping. 288 pp., 300 illustrations, 150 in color.

London: Percival Marshall & Co.. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue pictorial cloth light edge wear, ring from someone using book for a coaster, light foxing to paste-downs.152 p.p., 85 illustrations.

Newbury, Berks., United Kingdom: Countryside Books, 2003. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback in new condition.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. dust jacket has small brown spot on front panel, small closed tear at lower rear corner, not price-clipped, cloth covers are bumped at lower rear corner, half-title page has woodcut by Agnes Miller Parker which is repoduced on front panel of dust jacket. " In making this book, my first desire has been to create a wider awareness of those creatures who share this earth with us; to prove at the same time the compassion of the noblest of our poets, and to proclaim, through choice of poem and phrase, their love and indeed, their awe before the beauty of nature's children." (Author-dust jacket), 252 pages including index

United Kingdom: Clydebank District Libraries & Museums Department, 1993. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. light edge wear to dust jacket,192 pages, illustratd throughout with black and white photos, " At the height of Clydeside's domination of the shipbuilding industry, William Beardmore laid-out the Naval Construction Works at Dalmuir equipped with the finest facilities to date at considerable cost." 9dust jacket ) this is the story of that shipyard.

Privately Printed for friends of Abbott Kimball, 1958 number 166 of an unknown limitation

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1946. Limited/Numbered . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. John Petts. Of a total edition of 500 copies, this is no. 436 of 400 copies on Arnold's mould-made paper and bound in green & cloth, gilt title and gilt cockerel on board. Covers have a trace of wear at tips.

London: Lanston Monotype Corporation, 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Slight darkening to cover, else Fine, in worn marble paper covered slip case. Mock vellum hardcover with yapp edges, folding plate.

Soft cover. Good. Monte-Carlo Andre Sauret. (1950). First edition. Illustrated lithographic wrappers. Folio. 101 pp. Frontispiece and 32 full-page color lithograph plates printed by Mourlot. Text in French. Top one inch of spine missing, chips at bottom edge, two small chips to glassine wrapper, internally two signatures of plates split in gutters but firmly attached. Small stamp of previous owner's last name on top corner of ffep.