Search Results: Authors starting with J from Old Saratoga Books

NY: Henry Holt. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Remainder mark on page bottoms.. 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. 0805040773 . Index, sources, appendices, photos. ; 406 pages .

NY: E. P. Dutton. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket toned and tattered with some minor . loss along top edge.. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 0525303553 . A West African folk tale translated and adapted by Jablow and dramatically illustrated by Caldecott medalists Leo and Diane Dillon. Glossary. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 48 pages .

NY: D. Appleton & Company. Good with no dust jacket; Insect holes at spine.. 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth spine with printed brown boards. Illustrated by the author and has sixteen collotype plates. Index. Preface by W. R. Lethaby. Discusses woodcarving tools, techniques, wood grain, imitation of natural forms, patterns, furniture, architectural carving, and other subjects. ; The Artistic Crafts Series of Tehnical Handbooks; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 270 pages .

NY: Fleming H. Revell. Good with no dust jacket; Penciled ticks in margins, boards rubbed, price . inked on title page.. N.D.. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Circa 1900s. Revised, with introduction by Robert Laws, MD. Green decorative cloth. Index, appendix, photos, large (14 x 20 inch) folding color map of Central Africa (parts of present day Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Zambia). Map detached and has several small tears. Account of the Scottish Presbyterian missionary settlement in Livingstonia, located in Malawi. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 371 pages .

Philadelphia: John Wanamaker. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn.. 1926. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Gilt decorated red cloth binding. Many black and white photos and other illustrations. Index. xvi, 368pp. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Hambledon Continuum. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket worn, page edges soiled.. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 1852854170 . Many photos. Notes, bibliography, index. xvii, 604pp. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Barnes and Noble. Very Good. 2002. Reprint. Softcover. 0760734178 . Photos, many illustrations and cutaways, index, appendix. Profile of the German battleship, The Bismarck, which was sunk by the British Royal Navy during World War II. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 96 pages .

NY: Simon and Schuster. Very Good with no dust jacket; Covers worn, fore-edges stained, owner . outline and writing on illustration of little fox on rear page of text.. 1950. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A printing. Little Golden Book 79. Charming illustrated vintage children's book. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Fort Washington, PA: Historical Society of Fort Washington. Very Good; Lightly soiled, price sticker residue on rear cover, owner . inscription on half title page.. 1985. Second Printing. Softcover. xiii, 61pp. Color photographs and illustrations, black and white illustrations and photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. A solid copy of this Revolutionary War study based on manuscripts and printed primary sources in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Chelsea Associates. Very Good; Covers worn and toned.. 1976. Softcover. Signed by Laura Riding Jackson on limitation page. Number 169 of 200 signed copies of this special issue devoted to selected works and criticism of the writings of Laura Riding Jackson. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 239 pages .

Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications. Very Good; Page tops foxed.. 1992. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0939631601 . xi, 331pp. Color frontispiece illustration, black and white photos and illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. Wherever possible I have permitted the participants involved in the narrative at the Valley Forge encampment to tell their own story, in their own way. Eighteenth century writers tended to write involved, and often detailed, flowery sentences; however, to cut up or change their sentiments would lose the life and color of their thoughts. (from the preface) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Boston: Little, Brown. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket toned.. 1979. Third Printing. Hardcover. 0316455016 . Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. A memoir by the Pennsylvania born actress about her rural childhood and teenage years in New York, where she roller skated her way into a Broadway career. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 212 pages .

London: The Boy's Own Paper Office. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn.. [1932]. Hardcover. Brown cloth binding. Many black and white photos of early automobiles, race cars, trucks, and motorcycles. School prize bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages .

NY: Beach Lane Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.. 2015. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1442408340 . Signed by illustrator Brendan Wenzel with rhino doodle on front free endpaper. Adorable children's rhyming picture book about baby animals and their moms. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Methuen & Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed, corners rounded, jacket . tattered, foxing to fore-edges and first and last several pages.. 1922. Second Edition. Hardcover. Illustrations by the author and many photos. Map on front endpapers. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 254 pages .

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co.. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, especially at spine, owner name on . front free endpaper.. Hardcover. Circa 1900s historical novel for children set during the English Civil War. Gray boards with color illustration affixed to front boards. Color plates throughout by Stewart Orr. .

NY: Simon & Schuster. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn.. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. A printing. Little Golden Book 68. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Lima, Peru and Hempstead, NY: Universidad Nacional Mayor De San Marcos and Hofstra University. Very Good. 2008. Softcover. 9972463893 . Softcover with French Flaps. Text in English. Articles by various scholars on various aspects of Russian history stemming from a 2003 conference held at Hofstra University. Topics include: Courtly Cuisine: 18th Century Gastronomy in 18th century St. Petersburg, Russian Style Churches, Conflict, Community and the Jews of the late 19th Century, Post Soviet Art, Development of the Banking System in Post-Soviet Russia and others. ; 204 pages .

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, endpapers and edges foxed, pages . toned.. 1928. Hardcover. Green cloth. Many black and white illustrations and photos. A history of the development of steam ships. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 262 pages .

Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed.. 1979. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0874131618 . Black cloth binding. Index, bibliography, references, maps. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 250 pages .