Search Results: Authors starting with J from The Book Shed

Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Company, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good -/good +. some wear to tips and corners of book and more so to jacket, spotting to page edges; jacket price-clipped. Covers the battles at Lynchburg, Monocacy, Washington, Winchester (Opequon), Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek. Maps by Col. Wilbur S. Nye, U.S.A., Ret. First printing, no others noted. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Trident Reference Publishing, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. About As New, clean and unmarked. Volume 6 of a 10 volume series. June, 1942-May, 1943. First printing, no others noted. "... richly illustrated with nearly twenty thousand photographs and informative drawings and maps, which create a memorable and vivid portrait of war." Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. 

New York: Viking Press, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/fair. spine and bit of cover edges sunned and stained; jacket worn showing some chipping and staining. From Wikipedia: "Laski was Britain's most influential intellectual spokesman for Socialism in the interwar years. Particularly, his teaching greatly influenced men such as Jawaharlal Nehru who later become leaders of new nations in Asia and Africa as the British Empire was dissolved." In 1945, while he was serving as its Chairman, the Labour Party disavowed Laski due to attacks by Winston Churchill in the election at the end of WWII. Churchill lost that election. First printing/edition as indicated by Viking, no others noted. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: Harper & Row, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/no jacket. No dust jacket, else about As New, clean and unmarked. First printing, full number line. A revision of Schonfield's The Authentic New Testament. Schonfield a British born Hebrew Christian aimed to show without idealised interpretation the meaning intended by the writers of the New Testament while maintaining the original structures. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. Hardcover. Good/good. edge wear, corners bumped, staining to spine and covers,, previous owner's name to front endpaper; jacket spine sunned, tips, corners and eedges worn, soiling to covers. Top edge gilt, deckled edges. Solon Justus Buck (1884 – 1962) was the Second Archivist of the United States. His varied academic career, mainly at the Universities of Minnesota and Pittsburgh, never strayed very far from his interest in the history of agricultural communities. When the U. S. National Archives were established in 1935 he was tapped to be Assistant Director, then in 1941 the second Archivist of the United States. In 1948, he joined the Library of Congress as chief of the Manuscript Division, then as Assistant Librarian until his retirement in 1954. He also served as the seventh president of the Society of American Archivists, from 1949-1951. An earlier book on the subject, The Granger Movement, Travel and Description 1765-1865, Harvard, 1911),… Read More

Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Light shelf wear to the book and jacket which shows some light soiling and a closed tear to the front panel. First printing, no others noted. The Pidriks Saga was based on legends about Theoderic the Great that spread after his death. The Gothic king Theoderic became known as Dietrich von Bern, a king ruling from Verona (Bern) who was forced into exile with the Huns. The differences between the known life of Theoderic and the picture of Dietrich in the surviving legends are usually attributed to a long-standing oral tradition that continued into the sixteenth century. The majority of legendary material about Dietrich/Theoderic comes from high and late medieval Germany and is composed in Middle High German or Early New High German. Another important source for legends about Dietrich is the Old Norse Thidrekssaga, which was written using German sources. In addition to the legends detailing events that may… Read More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. s. Hardcover. Very Good/good. light wear to the book, with more wear to tips, corners and edges of jacket, rubbed, a couple of short closed tears; page edges soiled otherwise clean and unmarked. First printing, no others noted. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

New York: Gramercy Books, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Page notations to the front endpaper, two lines in a recipe introduction underlined, else clean and unmarked. Firemen are known for eating well. 150 recipes. Firehouse chefs from around America have contributed what they consider their best recipes. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Epic, 1987. lp_record. Very Good. Original LP (12" album, 33 rpm), Gatefold sleeve, inner lyric sleeve. Some wear to the outer sleeve edges, top and side. Vinyl very fresh and clean. All lp's cleaned and played. Release date Aug. 31, 1987.Epic – E 40600, Epic – OE 40600 Vinyl, LP, Album, Carrollton Pressing, Gatefold. From Wikipedia: "Bad is the seventh studio album by American singer and songwriter Michael Jackson. It was released on August 31, 1987 in the United States by Epic Records and internationally by CBS Records, nearly five years after Jackson's previous album, Thriller. Bad was written and recorded over more than three and a half years, and was the final collaboration between Jackson and producer Quincy Jones. The lyrical themes include media bias, paranoia, racial profiling, romance, self-improvement and world peace.---Jackson co-produced the album and composed all but three tracks. Nine songs were released as singles, including one promotional single.… Read More

Vermont: Upper Valley Arts, 2014. DVD. New. New in shrink wrap."Several dozen Vermont Filmmakers have collaborated in their efforts to create a new and interesting portrayal of the state of Vermont from the 1600s to today." From the film's website. “Civility tends to rule the day [in Vermont], and it is this quality perhaps above all others that endears our small republic to me, precisely, above all others, a quality that could also greatly benefit our greatly vexed national dialogue, which usually seems no dialogue at all. I am no sociologist, but I suspect this habit of mind derives from the commonwealth’s earliest days, when neighbor treated neighbor with decency because he or she knew that one day that neighbor might be a crucial friend in need.” — Sydney Lea, Poet Laureate of Vermont Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when… Read More

London: Blackburn , 1800. Hardcover. good-. Disbound, no covers, edge worn, some staining to preliminaries and page edges, previous owner's inscription of 1841. Thirteen sermons plus Gabriel Dumont's Essay on the Conduct of David at the Court of Achish, King of Gath. Dumont was also a 17th century Huguenot minister. Saurin was the pastor of the French Protestant Church at the Hague. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1923. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, previous owner's name else clean and unmarked; no jacket. A cook book ostensibly from a French cook who entered domestic service at 8 years of age and had cooked for 51 years at the time she set down her recipes with Marie Jacques who describes the style as "French 'cuisine de famille'; and that---like most other very good things and very good folks--is simplicity itself."--page 3. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

London: Tyndale Press, 1951. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good +/good. Third printing of 1956. Previous owner's inscription to the front endpaper, wear to tips, corners and edges of book and jacket, which also shows soiling to spine and panels. First published in 1903. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1887. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of book, leather is scuffed in places, penciled previous owner's inscription, else clean and unmarked, no cracking of hinges or looseness of binding. Brown and gilt decorated three quarter leather with, flower device repeated four times, five raised ribs and marbled foredges and endpapers. The inscription is that of Barton Hoopes(1827-1895) partner in Hoopes & Townsend an important manufacturer of nuts and bolts in Philadelphia. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: McBride Nast & Co., 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. Second printing of January, 1914. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, previous owner's penciled inscription; no jacket. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. Later printing. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. cover sunned, tips and corners worn, rear hinges starting, previous owners name and date to front free endpaper with small hole due to erasure, poem inked to first blank page and rear endpapers. Later printing of January, 1928 by the Harper's code letters. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors if applicable. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Shelf wear to covers, spine spotted, two inches torn off the bottom of the front free endpaper across the hinge with some surface loss to front end paper, a previous owner's name and date. Posthumously published in book form, this novella had previously appeared in a magazine. Uncommon. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

Racine WI: Whitman Publishing. Hardcover. Good. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, corner crease to front endpaper. Clean and unmarked, family record pages blank. No date. Folio size, No. 5550, print larger than typically found. Indexed. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

New York: Macmillan, 1895. First Thus. Hardcover. Good. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, some pages dog-eared, 1915 gift inscription in French. First printing, no others noted. The WorldCat lists no copies of this edition except e-books or microfilm. Morier was a Syrian born English trader and diplomat. His familiarity with Iran, the Levant and the "Orient" led to his humorous Hajji Baba novels of which this was the first. The book was first published in England in 1824. A two volume edition without illustrations was published in Philadephia by Abraham Small that same year. The introduction by Curzon places the novel within the context of 19th century Middle Eastern geo-politics. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

San Francisco: The James H Barry Co, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Good/no jacket, as issued. wear to spine tips and corners, covers rubbed, previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Octavo. Hard Cover. The diamond hoax of 1872 was a swindle in which a pair of prospectors sold a false American diamond deposit to prominent businessmen in San Francisco and New York City. It also triggered a brief diamond prospecting craze in the western USA, in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado.Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.