Search Results: Authors starting with J from James Arsenault & Company

Hamilton, Bermuda: The Rexall Store, [ca 1900.]. Color map, 9.5" x 25", folding into 18mo brown cloth covers, with pictorial color paper affixed on upper cover. CONDITION: Good, .5 cm x 3 cm loss on upper cover image, 2" closed tear center left edge map, 1" separation on top left fold of map, 6" separation at bottom left fold of map, two small chips on border of map. This charming map, with its appealing front cover illustration depicting cyclists on a road, shows all of Bermuda from Somerset Island to St. George's Island, and also includes an inset street map of Hamilton. A printed note in the lower left corner provides information on the condition and nature of the roads (including a designation for poor roads with a very steep grade considered "dangerous for wheeling"). Another note below the title indicates that the map was "specially compiled for the Rexall Store, Hamilton, Bermuda." The drugstore must have enjoyed a large tourist clientele and presumably had a ready market for such a map,which… Read More

Dayton, Ohio: J. W. Stoddard & Co.; Printed by Gies & Co., Buffalo N.Y., [ca. 1880]. 8vo brochure, 6.75" x 11.75" sheet printed on both sides, folded into 5.875" x 3.5", 1 pictorial b&w printed side with four panels, 1 full-sheet pictorial color lithograph on verso. A handsome brochure promoting the award-winning Tiger, King of Rakes, as the "Perfect Self-Discharging Sulky Rake," with a 3" x 5" engraving of the J. W. Stoddard Farm Machinery factory complex on one panel, a 2" x 3" engraving of a farmer perched on the rake being pulled by a horse on the title panel, two panels of text, and, most strikingly, a full page chromolithograph gracing the verso with Lady Liberty driving a chariot-rake through the sky, pulled by a flying tiger. The latter was printed by Gies & Co., a highly regarded Buffalo lithographer with nearly 75 artisans on staff.

Detroit Photographic Co., 1902. Hand-colored photograph (9" x 7"), titled in image at lower left, stamps of Detroit Photographic Company dated 1902 at lower right; mounted on original paperboard. A charming hand-colored photograph of two Laguna Pueblo women carrying decorative water pots, one on her head, and the other in her hand; with red scarves, one with floral designs; blue dresses; white blouses and leggings; standing in a shallow dry trench; blue sky, pueblo in background. Title at lower left reads "Water at Pueblo of Laguna, N. M." Illegible inventory number at bottom left. William Henry Jackson photographed the New Mexican Acoma and Laguna pueblos in 1899, and 1902-04 for the Detroit Photographic Co. The Laguna Pueblo, 45 miles from Albuquerque, consists of 6 tribal villages in residence since 1300 AD, (some evidence suggests longer, since 3000 B. C.). CONDITION: Very good.

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1863. 12mo (21.5 cm), self-wrappers. 8 pp. A pamphlet advocating for the enlistment of African-Americans in the Union army during the Civil War, citing historical precedent and addressing the bias against their service. This pamphlet opens urgently with the following pronouncement: "We are in the midst of a great war for the existence of free institutions. No one can be so blind as not to see that the triumph of the Confederacy would insure the overthrow of rational liberty." Note is made of the 4 million blacks currently holed up in the Rebel States, whom-it is argued here-"would gladly aid us in the war we are carrying on." Acknowledging the strong prejudice in the North against employing blacks as soldiers, the author presents various extracts from America's "wisest and best men"-such as Washington and Jackson-who "did not hesitate to solicit, to employ, and to reward the military services of Negroes in the War of the Revolution, and again, within the memory of… Read More

Denver, Colo.: W. H. Jackson Photograph and Publishing Company, [c. 1885]. 4.5" x 7.25" albumen print on 5" x 8" tan mount. View of the Hotel Ramona in Cascade (El Paso County), Colorado, with striking turrets and curved balconies. Vendor stamp reads "Beans & Keck Jewelers, Glenwood Springs, Colo."CONDITION: Good, chipped corners of mount with some loss, toning and light soiling, image with strong tonality.

London: Charles Knight & Co., 1839. Hardcover. 4to (10.25 x 8 x 2.75"), half black morocco over marbled boards, gilt raised bands, spine in 5 compartments, t.e.g., edges uncut. 749 pp., numerous b&w illus., early bookseller's description affixed to front paste-down, envelope with 1887 news clipping in it affixed to front pastedown. CONDITION: Good +, rubbing with loss at extremities, 1 detached plate, but an appealing copy. First edition. Includes the sometimes missing "Parsonage at Ovingham" plate tipped onto p. 713.

Augusta, Maine: Smith & Robinson, printers to the State, 1839. 8vo (8.5" x 5.5"), later blue paper spine and covers with original printed blue wrappers laid down, later endpapers. xiv, 276, lxiv pp. Front wrapper inscribed to "Richard W. Green, Providence R.I. with the respects of the author.". First edition. Inscribed by the author. This is the third of Jackson's three reports on the geology of Maine. Born in Plymouth, Mass., Charles T. Jackson (1805-1880) was a physician and pioneering geologist and mineralogist who played an important role in the emergent state geological survey movement of his day. While studying at Harvard Medical School he undertook a geological exploration of Nova Scotia, deepening his interest in geology. By 1836, he had abandoned medicine and was appointed state geologist of Maine. Jackson's three reports on the geology of the state were published in 1837, 1838, and 1839. Subsequently, he served as state geologist of Rhode Island and New Hampshire. In 1847, he was appointed… Read More

Philadelphia: Printed by Carr & Smith, 1801. 12mo (20 cm x 12 cm), disbound (removed from sammelband). [vii], 41 pp., 3 engravings in text, 1 loose tissue guard. Inscribed in ink by the author. An 1801 Doctor of Medicine inaugural essay for the University of Pennsylvania by William Stephen Jacob, whose experiments studied the effects of a variety of acids such as nitric, muriatic, oxalic, sulfuric on stones taken from a child, sheep and others. Includes the following engravings: Plate I, illustrating a urinary calculus taken from a woman; Plate II a stone taken from the intestines of a horse; Plate III two images of calculi taken out of the kidney of a cow. Inscribed by the author on the verso of the title-page: "To Mr. Spencer. From his friend the Author." REFERENCES: Shaw & Shoemaker, 708; Austin, R.B. Early American Medical Imprints, 1043. CONDITION: Stitching very loose, first signature detached, toning at edges, moderate soiling on pp. 20-21, minor damp-stains top center throughout.

Philadelphia, 1882. 4 albumen photographs, each 5" x 8", affixed to paperboard mount measuring 18" x 22". Each image with title and photographer's credit and date in image. A set of four dramatic images of Luray caverns, entitled (clockwise from upper left): Throne in Cathedral, Saracen's Tent; Campbell's Hall; and Brand's Cascade.Two of the cavern titles reflect their discovery and early exploration. Local tinsmith Andrew Campbell and nephew Billy discovered the draft of cool air leading to the 1878 exploration, illumination and public opening of the caves. Alexander Brand, Jr., a correspondent for the New York Herald, was the first travel writer to visit the Caverns. Along with Campbell and Dr. Horace Hovey, a noted author and authority on caves, Brand toured the cave and named formations, many of them still used today. CONDITION: Images fine with strong tonality; mount with 1 cm chip and 2 cm closed tear on right edge, 2 cm closed tear on left edge, light wear.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1878. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (7.5" x 5"), dark-blue cloth, gilt spine. 439 pp. Previous owner inscription in blue ink "Douglas Whyte, July 20, 1950" on ffep. CONDITION: Very good, covers slightly rubbed, offsetting on pastedowns and endpapers, rear inner hinge cracked but binding sound. First edition, first printing.

[Cincinnati], Bantu Creations, 1981. 12mo (8.5" x 5.5"), printed wrappers. viii, 50 pp., illus. First and only edition of the second collection of poetry by this African-American poet from Cincinnati, with illustrations of ancient African art and other African-American imagery throughout. Clay (also known as Kwame Mwanafunsi) dedicates this volume to several women including his daughter and mother, as well as "to all my other sisters and brothers of Pan-Afrikan Understanding." The contents include such works as "In Memory of Stephen Biko," "On Present Struggles," "A Revolutionary Love Poem," "To Future Pharoahs," "Brown Sugar," "Blues for an Out of Town Love," "On the Female Preference of Menfolk," "Down But Not Out," "To Would/Be Blues Singers," and "Boogie," the latter ending the collection on a characteristic upbeat note: "Love / is music / the / heart / can dance / to / and / Truth / is rhythm / of / the / mind/ so / c'mon now / EVERYBODY GET DOWN." The striking cover design is by Cincinnati… Read More

[Cincinnati], Bantu Creations, 1981. 12mo (8.5" x 5.5"), printed wrappers. 20 pp., illus. The first collection of poems by this African-American poet from Cincinnati, with illustrations of Angela Davis, Richard Nixon, scenes of violence, police, other black radicals, athletes, and more. Clay (also known as Kwame Mwanafunsi) begins this book with a dedication to his daughter Imani, and a feminist nod to all the "beautiful Black Women" "who with their Love help Black Men survive." Among the poems included here are "With Thanks to Malcolm," "Thoughts on a Queen of the Universe," "Writing Poems in amerika," "To Aretha," "Psalm for the Children," "Your Song (to midnight love)," "Poem for a True/Black/ Revolution," and "A Slight Prayer." This final poem reads in its entirety: "if / Black Love / is / Black Poetry / then / O Great Spirit / please / give Us more / poem." Born and raised in Cincinnati, Kwame left high school early for the "higher education of the Streets," but later came full… Read More

London: Samuel Clarke, 1846. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8" x 5.25"), later red cloth, gilt leather lettering piece at spine, deckled edges. viii, 259 pp., early inscription in ink on title reading "With the publisher's compts." CONDITION: Very good, occasional very light foxing, rubbing at fore-edge. First edition of a venomous critique of early 19th century American culture, written by a traveling English-born Australian. Writing the Rambles after traveling through New England, New York, the Great Lakes region, Western United States, and Eastern Canada, James was "very severe on the Americans" (Sabin), expressing his dislike of American culture as the "plain sentiments of a practical man" condemning Americans' "vulgarity, hypocrisy, ignorance, and dishonesty, along with their constant sordid...pursuit of dollars and cents." Despite his disdain of American manners, customs, and politics, the nation is redeemed through "her rivers, mountains, lakes, cataracts, forests...are all astounding and calculated to… Read More

New York, Evanston and London: Harper & Row, 1967. Hardcover in dj. 8vo (8.5 x 5.75"), pictorial baby-blue cloth. 176 pp.CONDITION: Fine, in very good dj with light wear at extremities.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. Hardcover in dj. 4to (12.25" x 9.5"), black cloth. Full-page color illus., embossed owner stamp on recto of back free endpaper, laid-in Life magazine article dated Dec. 8, '72. CONDITION: Fine in fine dj. Stated first edition.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1900. Hardcover. Green cloth, gilt spine title, pictorial yellow and black on upper cover. Frontis., vii, 301 pp., numerous b&w plates and other illus., owner inscription in ink on front pastedown. First American edition, in a very appealing publisher's binding. A humorous tale of a bicycle trip through the German Black Forest by English writer Jerome, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat. CONDITION: Very good, light wear to covers, slight loosening of binding.

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press,1889 [ca. 1895]. Hardcover. 24mo (6" x 4.75"), red cloth, gilt cover and spine, t.e.g., 287 pp. Inkstamp reading "Parental School, West Roxbury, Mass, July 8 1907" on front pastedown. CONDITION: Good +, spine sunned, white stain at edge of rear cover, cracked back inner hinge, remnants of a bookseller's ticket on ffep., clean interior. Later printing. Cover design by Sarah Wyman Whitman.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1890. Hardcover. 12mo (7 x 4.75"), half green leather, decorative white cloth. [7], [1]-279 pp., laid in bifold publisher ad. Previous ownership inscription in pencil on ffep. CONDITION: Good, soiling at covers, dampstain along edges of text-block. First edition. Cover design by Sarah Whitman. REFERENCE: BAL 10898.

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1894. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (7.75" x 5.5"), half tan cloth, with decorative green cloth over boards, t.e.g. Frontis., 305 pp. CONDITION: Fair, spine damp-stained and toned, light foxing, frontis. and table of contents page torn along inner edge but attached.

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1893, but later. Hardcover. 12mo (7" x 4.75"), green cloth, gilt front cover. 309 pp. Gift inscription in ink on ffep., dated 1922. Early bookseller's ticket on back pastedown. CONDITION: Good, spine faded, with complete loss to gilt in lettering, brown stain extending along front gutter, faint evidence of dampstaining along spine, light wear to extremities. Later printing.