Search Results: Authors starting with J from Quill & Brush

New York: Farrar, Straus and Co., 1948. First edition. Her first book. Loosely based on her childhood in an affluent California neighborhood. Good to very good with usual darkening of the pages, small tear near hinge of half-title page mended with archival tape on verso, hint of sticker shadow on front endpaper which is backed with old tape, two inconspicuous damp stains to page edges not extending to pages, pages 111-118 showing shallow chips along lower edges, and spine ends and corners rubbed. In about very good dust jacket with few tiny chips, internal archival-tape mends to two thumb-nail tears (spine and front flap fold), and spine a little toned. From the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his penciled notations on rear endpaper.

Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, (1953). First edition thus, one-act play based on the Shirley Jackson story of the same name. Near fine in stapled paperwraps. BASED ON JACKSON'S STORY

New York: Viking Press, (1968). First edition. Posthumous collection edited by her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman. From the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his penciled notations on rear endpaper and contents page and corresponding passages lightly marked in pencil in margins. Page edges moderately foxed otherwise fine. In very good to near fine dust jacket with light soiling, touch of rubbing and few tiny tears.

Dallas, TX: Kaleidograph Press, (1940). First edition. A Poet Laureate and prize-winning poet herself, Jacobsen's poetry was praised by Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky for its "reserve, stoic timbre, and its high precision." Near fine in very good to near fine dust jacket with shallow chipping to spine ends and corners and spine just slightly tanned. Still, a quite attractive copy of her SCARCE FIRST BOOK.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First edition. Short, offbeat stories illustrated with drawings by David Bromige. Number Number 24 of 200 numbered copies SIGNED BY JAFFE (of 226 total). Lower corners gently bumped still fine in original acetate.

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1894. Third edition. Gilt page edges, decorations and lettering. Very good to near fine with offset to endpapers (from binding materials) and trace evidence of old insect activity. Quite attractive.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1883. First edition, first issue in primary binding of blue-green smooth cloth with "JAMES" in uniform letters on spine. 1,000 copies. Precedes the American edition. Light scattered foxing, boards rubbed on corners and a few light spots, back hinge starting to crack, small thin strip of cloth tape on copyright page and front endpaper (covering something?), otherwise very good.

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1948. First edition. Edited and with an introduction by Allan Wade. Light rubbing to spine ends and tips, otherwise fine in dust jacket with slightly soiled spine and spine lettering faded (barely legible).

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. First U.S. edition of the novel James considered to be his best. Differs somewhat from the UK edition. Very good to near fine with corners lightly bumped, board visible at upper front corner (just a tiny spot), and first and last few leaves faintly foxed; in very good to near fine blue cloth-over-paper dust jacket with minor soiling to rear panel and just a touch of light edge rubbing. Still, quite attractive.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. First edition. An almost very good copy with spine and edges sunned, inscription on front endpaper, offset on endpapers and title page, light foxing and newspaper clippings affixed to back endpaper and pastedown.

Paddington Station, London: The Great Western Railway, 1925. First edition. Additional chapter on "Monastic Life and Buildings" by A. Hamilton Thompson. Illustrated. Great Western Railway map in pocket on back paste down. About very good with offset shadow on front board, corners rubbed, endpapers lightly foxed, name on front endpaper.

Conway, Arkansas: Seven Oaks Publ. Co., (1994). First edition. Early, or perhaps the first, poetry selection from the writer, author, singer/songwriter, and professional treasure hunter known for his "Buried Treasures of America" series. INSCRIBED TO LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY, "To L.D.--...one who know the words, the language, the joys, the pains of this kind of life. Best, WC Jameson." Cream-colored paperwraps printed in brown, teal, orange and black. Fine. TREASURE HUNTER'S BOOK OF POETRY, INSCRIBED TO FELLOW POET

New York: Knopf, 1954. First edition. SIGNED BY JARRELL on front endpaper. 8vo emerald-green boards with blind-stamped front and gilt-lettered spine, top edge pale orange, 277 pages. Spine slightly toned with gilt a bit dulled but readable, otherwise very good in about very good dust jacket with rubbing to edges and folds, small chips to spine ends, corners nicked, and orange spine blocking toned to gray but spine still bright. Relatively scarce signed.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First edition. His only novel. Uncorrected proof in blue, printed paperwraps labeled "Advance Copy" at top. About very good with covers somewhat soiled, spine slightly tanned and crease and tear to top edge rear cover. Newsclipping with notice of his death from the NY Times laid in noting his death to have been a presumed suicide and quoting him as saying, "The public has an unusual relationship to the poet, it doesn't even know that he is there.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. One of 3,000 copies [Boormfield A10a], 8vo pale purple paper boards; gilt-stamped black cloth spine; 129 pages. Fine in near fine dust jacket with only light wear.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1958. First edition. One of 200 copies privately printed for Ted Lilienthal and Carroll Harris for presentation to the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs, "In honor of the awarding of the 1958 Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets to Robinson Jeffers." Large format, 10 x 15 inches, 4 pages including covers. The first printing of this poem. Some spotting, aging and rumpling; rear cover tanned. Good to very good.

Los Angeles: Arundel Press, 1988. First edition. Previously unpublished early poetry edited from manuscripts by Brophy, with his notes at the end of the text. A copy of the Deluxe Edition printed on Gutenberg paper. #25/50. Printed letterpress by Patrick Reagh and bound by Bela Blau As issued, Mint/new. Letter from Arundel Press' Phillip Bevis on the editions, with samples of the two papers used for the two states of the book included. Fine, as issued without dust jacket.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1932. First edition, 2nd printing. "INSCRIBED for John Ciardi Sincerely Robinson Jeffers March 3, 1941." Also signed by Ciardi on both pastedowns. Ciardi was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. He also contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, and directed the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont. Very good with minor wear, lacking dust jacket.

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1976. First edition. Introduction by Glen Dawson. JEFFERS' FIRST POEM TO BE PUBLISHED IN MINIATURE FORMAT. First separate appearance and first appearance in book form of this poem which made its first appearance in Occidental Magazine in 1905. One of 192 copies; second state with "December" on 2 lines on p. viii [Broomfield A71b]. 2 x 2.75" rust buckram cloth boards with printed paper label on front surrounded by embossed black-dot decoration. Two miniature bookplates on front pastedown. Fine.

(Amador City: Quintessence Press, 1987). First edition. Illustrated with drawing of Hawk Tower by Beilke. Number 14 of 100 numbered copies signed by her. 13.5 x 20" broadside printed in black, gray-brown, burnt sienna, and blue on heavy cream paper with lower edge deckled. Marlan Beilke notes on the verso that "Many of the exotic stones affixed to Hawk Tower were gifts of [Blanche], so that it is minor hyperbole only to state that [together they] 'built the tower of the hawk'." Fine.