Search Results: Authors starting with J from Warwick Books

Racine, WI: Golden Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover in illustrated boards. No dust jacket. Near fine condition. Pages are clean, crisp, and unmarked. One corner is bumped. Koa Koala travels in a "marvelous" gas balloon. Map endpapers. 4to. 141 pp. including a foreign-language glossary.

New York: Viking Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Fine condition in fine, unclipped dust jacket. Pristine inside and out, with no mars, marks, dings, tears, or writing. Illustrated. 8vo. 498 pp. including bibliography and index. In protective Mylar.

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover in mustard cloth boards with picture and insect damage on front. Interior pages are intact except for light occasional chipping to the heavy, untrimmed paper. Front and rear hinges cracked. Beautifully illustrated with photos and color plates. Tissue guards intact. Two folding maps at rear. Small 4to. 356 pp. From the estate of Donald Skinner, Canadian military collector extraordinaire.

Berkeley: Ian Jackson, --Various dates. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Includes Egmont Lee, A Den of Book-Jackals; Antiquarian ABC, Parnasse Erotique des Libraires , The Akond of Swat by Edward Lear, The Imperfect Correspondent, La Repubblica delle cartoline tra Otto e Novecento, Cedules from a Berkeley Bookshop (six one-pagers), and more Imperfect Correspondent, unbound, presented to a fellow bookdealer with a lengthy handwritten letter. All are paperbacks and everything is in fine condition Some of the items are signed and inscribed, all were limited editions published for private circulation. Jackson was renowned for his erudite humor. Miscellany includes a broadsheet menu from Serendipity Books' Eleventh Biennial Open House in February 2009. Booklets are of varying sizes. Total weight of everything is a little more than four pounds.

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover with rice paper-covered boards. No dust jacket. First edition. Clean and crisp and very nicely designed. Short ink line on front cover from a ballpoint pen. 8vo. 50 pp.

Lublin: Kagero, 2005. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Softcover in glossy illustrated wraps. Fine, As New condition. Decals intact in their original plastic envelope. Text is in Polish and English. Illustrated throughout. Folio. 80 pp. plus unnumbered pages of technical drawings including a foldout.

Pasadena, CA: Norton Simon Museum, 1990. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Softcover in glossy illustrated wraps. As New condition. Catalogue of the paintings of Alexei Jawlensky at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. All plates in color. Essay by Sara Campbell Abdo. 8vo. 31 pp.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with photos of the friezes, with line drawings filling out the missing pieces of the fragments. Oblong 4to. 119 pp. including index.

New York: Atheneum, 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. Sixth printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright. A best-selling football novel. 8vo. 307 pp. In protective Mylar.

Chicago: Row, Peterson, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Hardcover in pictorial boards. No dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Illustrated by Marian Deborah Seiders. Small 8vo. 184 pp. including one page glossary. I.

New York: The New York Times, 1953. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. The February 1, 1953 (Section 6, Part 2) issue of the New York Times Sunday Magazine devoted to New York City, with contributions by writers and artists including John Steinbeck, Lewis Mumford, Robert Moses, John Lardner, Phyllis McGinley, Brooks Atkinson, and many others. Near fine condition. Stapled binding. Paper is tanned but not brittle, and there are just a few tiny closed tears on bottom edge. Color throughout including for many of the ads. Folio. 79 pp.

North Branch, MN: Specialty Press, 1998. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Softcover in glossy illustrated wraps. Fine, As New, gift-giving condition, crisp, clean, and unread. Illustrated throughout with drawings and diagrams. 4to. 100 pp.

London: Regimental Headquarters, Household Cavalry, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover in original blue and red cloth boards. No dust jacket. Crisp, clean, and tightly bound. Light wear to boards. Copy No. 33 (number is handwritten in). Issued by the authority of Major-General G.F. Johnson, Commanding the Household Brigade. 12mo. 132 pp. plus 28 pp. of diagrams showing the order of formal lineups. From the estate of Donald Skinner, Canadian military collector extraordinaire.

London: Oxford University Press, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in original beige boards with cloth at spine. No dust jacket. First edition. Pages are clean and unfoxed, binding is tight, spine has a very slight lean. Top edge gilt, side edge deckled. Facsimiles of decorative woodcut book borders produced in Germany between 1510 and 1535. 4to. Includes introduction, list of plates, index of printers, and 86 full-page plates. Bookplate from the library of Nellie Shackleford Smith, a teacher and member of a prominent Virginia family whose sister, Mattie T. Shackleford, was a nurse in the American Red Cross during W.W.II.

Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition. Book and jacket are As New, clean, crisp, unmarked; the only flaw is a small chip in the dust jacket at the top of the spine. The book reconstructs the viewing audiences of five major reform altarpieces commissioned between 1595 and 1625. Black-and-white and color plates throughout. Small 4to. 360 pp.

New York: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover catalogue in dust jacket published to accompany a 1999 exhibition of the artist's work at the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries in New York. Fine condition.. Beautiful full-page photographs by Paul Waldman. Includes essays, plates (including one foldong page), and chronology. Large, slim 4to. 76 pp.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright, with a touch of rubbing on side edge. A section at the back is devoted to showing F. Holland Day's photographs. Small 4to. 309 pp. including index. In protective Mylar.