Search Results: Authors starting with J from Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1924. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. 244pp., illustrated with 8 full page color illustrations and numerous black and white illustrations. Bound in blue cloth lettered and ruled in orange. A very bright, fine copy in color pictorial dust jacket.

New York: Rinehart & Co, 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good+. Octavo. SIGNED AND WARMLY INSCRIBED TO HUSBAND AND WIFE ACTORS KATHARINE CORNELL AND GUTHRIE MCCLINTIC AND DATED BY CHARLES JACKSON. Jackson mentions their role in "The Green Hat" a play in Chicago, in 1925. Notably, McClintic directed the classic movie "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" and Ms. Cornell portrayed Elizabeth Barrett. Bound in original black cloth, decorated in red and white, with small dull spot on rear cover. In a very good+ dust jacket, with minimal edge wear and small stain rear panel of dust jacket.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. SIGNED, WARMLY INSCRIBED TO FELLOW AUTHOR ERLE STANLEY GARDNER AND DATED BY HENRY JOSEPH JACKSON ON FEP. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. xx, 346 pp.

London: Faber & Faber, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY P. D. JAMES ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 371 pp.

New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 2001. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY P. D. JAMES without personalization. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery. 415 pp.

New York: Scribner, 1975. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. SIGNED AND DATED ON TITLE PAGE BY P. D. JAMES without personalization. Near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket with minimal chips. Owner bookplate front pastedown. An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery. 271 pp.

New York: Scribner, 1982. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED, AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY P. D. JAMES. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The first American edition was published simultaneously with the Canadian first, and preceded by the British first. 328 pp. Nice, tight copy.

London: Faber and Faber, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY P. D. JAMES ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 265 pp.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1986. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY P. D. JAMES ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Nice, tight, unread copy. 234 pp.

New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 1986. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED ON FFEP BY P. D. JAMES. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 459 pp. Price of $18.95 on front flap of dust jacket; first American edition stated.

London: Faber & Faber, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY P. D. JAMES ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. Near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 216 pp.

London: Faber & Faber, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION ON TITLE PAGE BY P. D. JAMES without personalization. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 387 pp.

New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 1995. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY P. D. JAMES ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery. 416 pp.

Pasadena: The Radiant Life Press, 1917. Hard Cover. Very Good. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY GEORGE WHARTON JAMES ON HALF TITLE PAGE. 12mo; Bound in original light blue cloth; a very good, clean copy. xiii, 291 pp.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 12mo. 177pp., (6)pp. catalog at rear. Edited by John Morley as part of the English Men of Letters series. Bound in brown cloth lettered in red; a straight, tight, near fine copy.

Boston: The Ball Publishing Co, 1908. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. A series of literary essays written in his earlier style. 214pp. Introduction by Le Roy Phillips. Bound in green cloth, board edges ruled in gilt, spine lettering and top edge gilt. Publisher's list of publications listing this title laid in; a fine copy. From the library of Julius Wangenheim with his bookplate. Wangenheim was a banker, civic leader and bibliophile. He became interested, during the last twenty years of his life, in developing a collection that would show the history of the book.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1879. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. First edition, second issue, with p. 44, last line "blue..." and p. 45, first line "beth..." 4pp. front ads, 136pp., (8)pp. rear ads; 16mo (3 1/8" x 4 11/16"). Bound in contemporary 1/4 calf over marbled boards, paper label to front board. Harper's Half Hour Series, No. 91. Minor wear to covers; a very good, clean copy, internally clean and bright. Now scarce on the market. [BAL 10539].

Boston: James R. Osgood & Co, 1884. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. Published prior to the British edition; 359pp. Bound in the scarce blue S-cloth, spine lettering gilt with publisher's gilt monogram at foot. One of 1500 copies printed in the true first edition. A superior copy, with mild spotting spine and minor edge wear; a very good+ copy, internally clean and bright. [BAL 10569].

London: Macmillan and Co, 1879. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. From the English Men of Letters series edited by John Morley, 183pp, (4)pp ads listing Hawthorne as "in preparation", bound in beige cloth, paper spine label rubbed, minor light chipping of cloth to spine tips, covers mild foxing, internally clean and bright. A very good copy.

New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 2009. First North American Edition. Fine/Fine. first impression, 12mo, 198 pages; pictorial dust jacket; a fine unread copy, internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.