Search Results: Authors starting with J from Quaker Hill Books

Camp Stephens Near Martinsburg, VACamp Stephens Near Martinsburg, VA: , 1861 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. One page, left margin reinforced with paper otherwise fine. An excellent early war-date letter, written less than a month before Jackson's valor at the First Battle of Manassas would earn him immortality. General Jackson was in command of a brigade of newly enlisted Virginia infantry recruits that would soon become known as The Stonewall Brigade. He writes to a neighbor in Lexington: "Mrs Jackson told me that you had the kindness to offer to take care of my wheat and oats, if I would but indicate how I desired it should be done. I don't know if it is worth gathering: but if so, please dispose of it as though it were your own." He also gives a brief but intimate portrait of the condition of his command: " I am at present in command of the 1st Brigade of the Army of the Shenandoah, and am on the road leading from Martinsburg to Williamsport.The Brigade is… Read More

London:: Andrew Strahan,, 1797. From Jacob's tenth edition Sir Thomas Edilyne Tomlins enlarged and re-edited this work and earned the following critique from Marvin: " ... volumous and prepared with skill and accuracy" and "Mr.Tomlins is the best". Two quarto sized unpagenated volumes, with the pages double columned.Hinges restored; bindings show moderate wear otherwise a very good copy of a classic 18th century legal classic.. 11th Edition. Full Contemporary Calf. Very Good. 4to.. 2 Volumes..

LondonLondon: William Heinemann, 1894 Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. London William Heinemann 1899; First edition. Light blue cloth, lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, four irises in blind on front cover. Some rubbing to joints and extremities, a bit of soiling to covers. A good copy,.

Philadelphia:Philadelphia:: Barclay, 1882 Pictorial Pink Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo. With seven full-page woodcut illustrations. Some small tears and minor stains and foxing throughout. Howes J47..

BostonBoston: , 1882 Fine. New Edition. Two Volumes. Extra illustrated with 70 portrait engravings of famous authors. Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in full green morocco with tripple gilt rules with inlaid red leather bloom in each corner. Spines decorated with four inlaid red blooms..

London:London:: Hurst and Blackett, 1867 Full Brown Morocco Gilt. Fine. First Edition. 2 Volumes. 8vo. Extra-illustrated. This deluxe edtion contains colored frontispieces and is profusely illustrated throughout both volumes with steel engravings, portraits etc. Beautifully bound by Bayntun in full brown morocco with gilt decorations on covers and spine in six compartments also designed and lettered in gold. A wonderful set on English law and barristers..

New York:: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Number 1360 of 1500 copies SIGNED BY LYND WARD. Hlaf blue cloth and marbled paper boards. Fine in moderately worn and soiled slipcase.. Fine. Illus. by Lynd Ward. 8vo..

New York:: The Williams & Cox Co., 1894. 554pp. Profusely illustrated throughout. With special contributions by Generals Morgan, Howard, Tanner, Connor, Mrs. L.C. Pickett. Magnificently bound in the original dark red morocco binding. The front cover elaborately embossed and stamped in gold lettering with a civil war solider standing at parade rest in gold in the center; a.e.g. In wonderful condition showing some light shelf wear to the edges, corners a bit bumped and frayed.. Excellent. Folio.

Austin, Texas:, 1952. A wonderful letter to an important Texas Supreme Court Judge assuring him of his friendship. In part: "Inever in my lie put my arm around anyone in preference to you..." An excellent example of the consumate politician in action..

Gov't Printin office. Washington, 1868. First Edition. orig. cloth. Minor chipping to covers - Excellent. 8vo., 2 volumes. First Edition Minor chipping to covers otherwise Excellent.

Washington, D.C.,, 1965. One page on White House stationery. President Johnson is responding to a letter he recieved from Curran in support of his Vietnam War policy and informing Johnson of his son's enlistment in the armry: President Johnson responds: "Besieged as we are by a whole complex of problems, I have no doubts about our prevailing so long as young Americans voluntarily take up the standards of freedom. Because they have always done so, we are free today; because they always will, we shall remain so. ". Fine. 8vo..

New London:: T. Green,, 1743. [1],[1], 31 pages, stitched self-wrappers, restitched at an early date; some foxing and minor soiling to the half-title and terminal leaf, else in very nice shape; early owner's signature and warning "not to steal the book." Samuel Johnson was a minister of the Church of England and the first President of King's College, "ranks with Jonathan Edwards as one of the two most important exponents of idealistic philosophy in colonial America" -DAB. His Introduction, first published in London in 1731, is one of the earliest American pedagogical works on the subject, preceding his more well-known Elementa Philosophica. Pages 27-31 list a "Catalogue of some of the most valualbe Authors, on each part of Philosophy, proper to be read by the Student" and is attributed to Thomas Clap. Evans 5220; Brinley Sale 8224; Sabin 34951.. First American Edition. Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo..

London, 1775. Pirated. Full morocco. Good - rubbed, moderately soiled and scuffed. 16to., 268pp., Full red morocco with raised bands on embossed spine with gold lettering, a.e.g. Very rare in this edition..

New York,: B. Appleton and Company,, 1874. Six maps; 15 plates. . (Howes J167) Brown publisher's boards with gilt lettering,depicting the Confederate flag and a cannon in gilt. Spine ornately decorated in gilt. Contents clean and very slightly toned in the margins. Was Joseph E. Johnston a genius or a marplot? This question almost splintered the Confederacy, and still intrigues students of the Civil War. His partisans regard him as a brilliant strategist and sound field commander whose talents were stifled by a rancorous Chief Executive.. First Edition. Pulisher's Cloth. Fine. 8vo..

Blelock. New Orleans, 1868. First Edition. 704 pp., text a bit age toned mostly at edges, first pages reinforced at edges. 6 maps, and 6 portraits. 8vo., Newly rebound in clorh with marbled edges.. Excellent.