Search Results: Authors starting with J from Crane's Bill Books

Charlotte, NC: Jerald Melberg Gallery, 1988. Wrappers. Good. Oblong 8vo. Inscribed and signed by Herb Jackson. 40 pp., fifteen color plates, b&w photo of the artist. Head and heel of spine and corners lightly bumped, wrappers handled and edgeworn, back cover creased. Exhibition catalog.

Paris: Gallimard, 1964. 1st Edition . Self-Wrappers. Good. 8vo. Nouvelle Edition. 299 pp. Spine creased and scuffed; wrappers edgeworn and foxed, heavily in places; wrapper and page corners bumped, page edges foxed. First printing of this edition, after the limited first edition of 1919. In French.

Oklahoma City, OK: National Cowboy Hall of Fame & Western Heritage Center, 1972. Wrappers. Good. Oblong 8vo. 107 pp., primarily illus., including color plates, with brief introductory notes by the artist and Dean Krakel. Paintings and drawings of Western subjects. Wrappers handled, with faint soiling and stains; chip at heel of spine, corners bumped, a few tiny stains inside front cover.

New York: Henry Malkan, 1902. 2nd Edition . Cloth. Good. 8vo. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Tall 8vo, 274 pp., 360 figs. (drawings, photos). A Good reading copy only, with about 1" loss at head of spine, wear and light fraying at heel and edges of spine, corners of boards bumped and split, covers rubbed, page edges tanned, hinges cracked, previous owner name and note on front free endpaper. Text unmarked.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First Edition. . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 102 pp. Poetry and light verse. Warburg was better known as a banker and advisor to F.D.R.; his other accomplishments include the lyrics to the 1929 Broadway musical Fine and Dandy. Signed on front free endpaper, "Merry Christmas 1931, Paul James," with no recipient named. Covers sunned and rubbed with some loss at extremities; foxing to page edges, endpapers, first and last few leaves, and scattered throughout. Size: 12mo

Paris: A l'Art Catholique, 1921. 1st Edition . Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo. Wide 8v, 47 pp. Poems. No. 849 of 1100 numbered copies. Edges of wrappers and page edges sunned, wrappers bumped at edges and corners, page corners bumped, book plate inside front cover. In clear glassine protective jacket as issued, which is chipped, bumped, missing small pieces at edges; the rear flap is affixed inside back cover.

Riga: Zinatne, 2008. Boards. Very Good. 16mo. Illustrated boards, oblong 16mo, 128 pp., color photos throughout, bound-in ribbon marker. In Latvian and English on facing pages. Covers bound upside-down. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped.

Santa Fe, NM: La Villa Real (dist.), 1976. Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo. 166 pp. A popular history, primarily of New Mexico, from the Spanish Conquest to the end of the 19th century. Corners bumped and gently creased.

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1889. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. Two separately bound offprints from the Journal, New Series Vol. xxi, 649-687, 811-880. Wrappers unevenly sunned, bumped at overhanging edges and corners with short tear at top edge of front cover (Part II), small stains to wrapper interior (Part I), previous owner name inside front cover and note in bottom margin of first page.

Stuttgart: Roman Zenner, 1998. Boards. Very Good/Very Good. Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, and Morat Institut fur Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg. [80] pp., color plates. Essay in English and German. Spine slightly cocked, light wear to edges of boards with scuffing to bottom edge of front board. Interior Fine. Jacket edgeworn, lightly bumped at head and heel of spine and folds, with two tiny closed tears at front top edge and a couple of tiny chips. In clear protective jacket. Size: 8vo

Prague: National Museum. Self-Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). n.d. [ca. 1967]. 34 pp. + 37 b&w plates. In French. Wrappers handled, lightly sunned and dustsoiled, edgeworn, bumped at corners. Size: Square 8vo

(San Antonio, TX): Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, 1969. Stapled Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket (Paperback). Pages unnumbered, catalog of 55 works with many b/w plates. Spine sunned, light soiling and a few specks to wrappers, corners bumped. Size: Wide 8vo

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1986. Wrappers. Near Fine. 8vo. Inscribed and signed by the author on halftitle page with a sketch of a crane inside front cover. Small 8vo, 116 pp., line illus. Wrappers are mildly shelfworn only. First Bison Books printing.

Bloomington, IN: Lilly Library, Indiana University, 1981. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. 4to. 60 pp., illus. Catalog of 81 items. Small nick at head of spine, spine lightly bumped, wrappers lightly dustoiled.

Albuquerque, NM: San Marcos Press, 1985. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. Pages unnumbered. Chapbook of poetry and prose by a longtime University of New Mexico professor. Inscribed and signed "David." Spine and wrapper edges lightly sunned, corners bumped.

Baltimore, MD: Hispanic American Historical Review, 1922. Wrappers. Good. 4to. Small 4to, 200 pp., frontispiece portrait of J. T. Medina. 1281 items listed. Wrappers smudged and dusty, bumped and chipped at edges and corners; page edges and roughly opened and tanned.

[Newcastle], 1964. No Binding. Fine. Folio. Printed in two columns on recto of single sheet, 12"x18", folded twice. Nimrod Pamphlet No. 1. Inscribed by Jones to Leon Howard "with good memories and best wishes" and signed "Harri." In original mailing envelope addressed to Howard at UCLA and postmarked Tighes Hill, NSW.

Chicago, IL: Open Court Publishing, 1916. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo. 129 pp. German text and Jones's English translation on facing pages, with a lengthy critical introduction. Spine and edges of boards sunned, head and heel of spine and corners of boards lightly bumped, page edges tanned. In original plain glassine jacket, which is browned, chipped, torn, missing pieces.

Wichita, KS: McCormick-Armstrong Co., 1929. 2nd Edition . Cloth. Good. 8vo. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper. 182 pp., b&w plates (mostly photos), map. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards lightly bumped, faint stains on covers, page edges tanned, erased but faintly visible pencil marks on a few pages only, rippling and a few stains from moisture affecting upper margins of last few pages. Second edition.

Sombor: Ravangrad, 1977. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. xvi, 109 pp., illus. Golub (The Pigeon): memorial number, 1879-1913. In Serbo-Croation. Boards a bit splayed and bumped at corners, top edge of rear board lightly bumped, covers dull with a bit of dustsoiling at edges, page edges tanned, upper page corners bumped. Size: Small 4to