Search Results: Authors starting with J from Crow Hop Rare Books

[n.p.]: [n.p.], 1992. [ii] 94 pp. Includes illustrations and maps. Illustrated yellow wraps, about VG+ (1” tear to top edge of rear cover, light staining, ownership inscription on ffep). INSCRIBED by the author on ffep and dated 10-9-93, with an additional two-page letter affixed by clear tape to inside of rear cover, to Dr. Taalib Muhammad (same as inscription), an Imam at the Islamic Center of Memphis and dated October 9, 1993. The letter asks him to review his book and provide either a Foreword or any constructive criticism before he takes the book to a publisher. The author at the time was a prisoner at the Northwest Correctional Facility in Tiptonville, TN, and he notes that the prison has approximately “40 Brothers in it, many of us are from Memphis and most of us accepted Islam since incarceration.” Within the book, Jaami claims to offer a history of Islam “to tear down the walls of ignorance” (ii), acknowledging in his Conclusion that “I have only begun to scratch the spacious surface… Read More

New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1966. First Edition. 15 pp. approximately 5.5" x 8.5". Introduction by Henry Winston. Reprinted from the September 1966 issue of Political Affairs. VG+ in illustrated stapled wraps (small tear to upper front cover also affecting ffep, soiling).

Renton, WA: Jehlor, 1979. First Edition. 44 pp. VG+ stapled pictorial covers (scuffing, ghost of teddy bear pattern inside front cover). Traditional and cabaret patterns for creating your own costumes "for the belly dancer, folk dancer, musician--anyone who wants to wear Middle Eastern garments, to folk festivals, practice sessions and in the spotlight of center stage" (3), The authors acknowledge the Baladi Centre for Traditional Belly Dance in Seattle "for building the fire." An uncommon catalog.

San Francisco: Eye Gallery, 1983. Illustrated stapled softcover. 42 pp. Near Fine. An exhibition focusing on 29 photographers who have made primitive cameras central to their work. Photographers include Joan Ades, Susan Backman, Cindy Bansen, Jay Bender, Clarissa Carnell, Ramona Draeger, Barbara Esher, Andrew Garn, Werner Hammerstingl, Rupert Jenkins, Greg Kammer, Gary Kilb, Carole Lawton, Hallie Levine, Dan Marcolina, Dianna Marguleas, Nick Mathis, Mindy Miller, Mary Ruth Moore, Stephen Paternite, Linda Raskin, Wiley Sanderson, Julie Schachter, Amy Shapiro, Lauren Smith, Nancy Spencer, Joanne Tracey, Tom Upton, Willie Anne Wright.

London: Faber and Faber, 1992. Hardcover. 160 pp. Near fine in VG+ unclipped dustjacket. First UK Edition of Johnson’s acclaimed short story collection, narrated by a young man who is a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict. The book was made into a 1999 film of the same name. Johnson, a National Book Award winner, died in 2017.

Port Washington, NY: National University Publications/Kennikat Press, 1971. First Edition. Review Copy, with publisher's slip laid in. 186 pp. VG+ (soiling to endpapers) in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket (soiling and staining to upper edge and flaps, chip to corner). A central study that explores such questions as, "Why was the Negro so susceptible to de-racination, reduction, and caricature? Does the American black have a program for identity independent of crisis and confrontation? Why the extreme susceptibility to decline and fall when the African came in contact wiht the European, and what was there in the African's world view, in his esthetic and ethical symbols which allowed for this devastating experience?"

New York: Knopf, 1985. First Edition. 221 pp. SIGNED by Johnson on the half-title page. Near Fine (slight spine lean and ownership signature to ffep) in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket with signs of toning. Johnson’s second novel, published two years after his highly praised Angels.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1966. First Edition. 246 pp. VG in a VG price-clipped dustjacket (missing ffep, scrape on title page, offsetting from previous ffep on front board and title page).As Jones writes in his Introduction: "Let me repeat that I have not tried to produce a manual for instructors nor a guide for learners but rather a distillation of all that I have learned about the playing of golf during at least a half century of devotion to the game."

Lenaxa, Kansas: Cookbook Publishers, Inc., 1978. First Edition. 84 pp. VG illustrated covers ([food] staining to covers affecting first pages and scattered throughout) in comb binding. Interestingly contains only 3 sections: Appetizers and Beverages, Salads, and Desserts. Uncommon.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. Near Fine in VG+ unclipped dustjacket. Jones’s debut collection of stories, which received wide praise (Robert Stone and John Barth blurbs on back cover). Jones would later become a National Book Award Nominee.

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. First Edition. Softcover, 89 pp. Third collection by this African-American poet.

Louisville, KY: The Standard Printing Co., 1940. First Edition, one of 350 copies, this copy being unnumbered and formerly belonging to John A. Medley, one of the 5 Medley Brothers from Owensboro, KY who established Medley Distilling Company in 1937. SIGNED by John A. Medley on ffep with his ownership mailing label pasted to front board. The book contains underlining and markings in red pencil throughout. VG+ in an about VG slipcase with tape reinforcing spine.Contents include: Thomas Marshall, Inspector, Major Peyton Short, Washington's Proclamation, Carrington''s Statement of the Law, The Whisky Rebellion, Judge Harry Innes, First Kentucky Distillers, and Pioneer Distillers.