Search Results: Titles starting with J from Glenn Books

Kansas City: Alfred Fowler, 1921. Botton 1" of front board shows old water-stain, no evidence inside. Corners lightly worn. Crisp and clean throughout the text. Illustrated with six of Lankes" engravings; Portico, Three Ships, The Knoll, Toad, The Sleigh Ride, and Church in Winter. Small oval tail-piece at the end. . First Edition. Blue Paper-covered Boards. Moderate Soiling/No Jacket. Thin Octavo.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1880. Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Front cover vignette in black. Green floral endpapers. Frontispiece illustration of "Harmony Village" with tiissue-guard. Spine extremities are frayed. Internally very clean throughout. Book-plate on front pastedown. An inscription is a very neat old hand on a front preliminary page, dated "Christmas1881". 325pp. + six pages of adverts. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist, poet, best known for her "Little Women" and "Little Men" with their sequels. This children's story takes place in a small town in New England after the Civil War. See BAL 195. . First Edition. Green Cloth. Light Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.

London: Chappell and Company, 1893. Front cover is detached. Fore-edge chipped. Covers are faded but still readable. Internally quite clean and fresh throughout. 52pp. with advertisements (an issue point). This comedy operetta, a collaboration between two friends opened at the Savoy Theatre on 13 May 1893. It was not well-received and was considered a failure. Green and Gibson C2.. First Edition, Fourth Issue. Light Green Wrappers. Covers Faded/No Dust Jacket. Thin Octavo.

Tokyo: Japanese Govt Railways ., 1940. A Tourist Library Series, #7. Illustrated with photographs and two color plate woodblock reproductions. . Third Edition.. Wrappers.. Minor Wear and Soiling./No Jacket.. Thin Octavo.

Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, 1953. Circular spot on front cover. This is Volume 6 of the Tourist Library, first published in 1936. Color frontispiece and one additional plate in color, others in black and white. 139pp.. Reprint Edition.. Blue Cloth. Light Edge Wear./No Jacket.. Thick Octavo.

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1944. Color pictorial dust jacket showing American planes attacking a ship, presumably Japanese. Crisp and clean throughout. Contents include a map of Japan, basic principles of spoken Japanese, basic conversation, a large appendix, Japanese-English and English-Japanese dictionaries. 159pp.. First Edition.. Green Cloth. Light Edge Wear./Chipped Dust Jacket. Small Octavo.

Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, 1949. This is Volume 9 of the Tourist Library. Color frontispiece and several others. Numerous plates in black and white, one fold-out. Paper is toned at periphery, but quite clean throughout. 249pp.. First Edition.. Brown Cloth. Light Edge Wear./No Jacket.. Thin Octavo.

Rutland, VT and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1970. Printed cardboard slipcase. Chapters on background of Japanese law, jurisdiction, safeguards for individual rights, punishment, description of major crimes, Constitution of Japan, table of maximum punishments. Maps and charts. 396pp.. First Edition. Black Cloth. Nearly Fine/Price-clipped Dust Jacket. Octavo.

Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin Co ., 1910. Previous owner's name in a neat hand on front free endpaper. The dust jacket is chipped, tape-repaired with several pieces missing, BUT it is there, and it has protected the book quite well. Internally the book is pristine. Contents include: Letters to Basil Hall Chamberlain, Letters to W.B. Mason, Letters to Mrs. Hearn, and an index. Introduction by the editor. 468pp.. First Edition.. Brown Cloth. Minor Wear and Soiling./Chipped Dust Jacket. Octavo.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1904. Spine faded and chipped at extremities. Old catalogue listing glued onto front free endpaper. Gift inscription on a front preliminary page dated 1906. Copiously illustrated throughout. Eight color plates with captioned tissue-guards. 155pp. . Second Edition. Red Cloth. General Moderate Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.

Tokyo: Board of Tourist Industry, 1938. This is Tourist Library:2. 68pp. illustrated in color and black and white. Glassine with some tears, missing most of spine but still intact.Color onlay front cover.. Third Edition.. Tan Wrappers. Light Edge Wear./Glassine Protective Jacket.. Thin Octavo.

Paris: Plon-Nourrit and Company Minor edge and corner wear. Light soiling to covers. Small area of brown spotting fore=edge front cover. Text is in French. Illustrated in color throughout. This is a very clean and crisp copy. Not dated, but circa 1930. 47pp.. Crean Clo. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Oblong Demi Quarto.

New York: Hurst and Company Circa 1905. Front cover color pictorial onlay. Cover illustration depicts a young boy with gun and bird dog on point. Light ink inscription flyleaf. From the Alger Series For Boys. Remarkably clean, tight binding. Spine titled in gilt with vignette in black, very bright. A book generally found in quite shabby condition. 280pp.. Reprint Edition. Olive Green Cloth.. Modest Edge Wear/No Jacket.. Octavo.

(Des Moines, Iowa) (Henry J. Walker) (1961). Original orange cloth, fine. Volume one (all published). "Another of those ridiculous books filled with preposterous statements.". The author believed J. Frank Dalton was James. First edition..

Des Moines, Iowa: Henry J. Walker, 1961. Stated volume one (all published). "Another of those ridiculous books filled with preposterous statements.". The author believed J. Frank Dalton was James. See Six-Guns 2283 for citation. 283pp.. First Edition. Orange Cloth. Minor Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.

np Dragon Publishing Corp. (1988). Imitation red morocco over boards, fine in like dust wrapper. Written by Jesse's great grandson and with the aid of several other James family members. Newspaper review laid-in. First edition..

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1914. Spine lettered in white. Spine is rubbed with loss of a fews letters. Color onlay on front cover is rubbed and creased. The volume has been professionally restored with hinges repaired and re-inforced. . Numerous illustrations in full color and black and white. Free margin of the black and white plate, "Hot cross buns" has a 1" paper loss not extending to the illustration. Occasional soiling and spotting in text. Color plates are quite clean. Several plates have repaired closed tears without paper loss. Frontispiece has a crease and slight chipping at top near spine. All plates are present. Page 11-12 of "A List of the Rhymes" is missing. All first issue points noted in Nudelman A39 are present. But the missing page by necessity lowers the price significantly. . First Edition. Color-illustrated Boards. General Moderate Wear/No Jacket. Oblong Quarto.

Einsiedeln, New-York, and Cincinnati: Eberle, Kalin, and Company, 1890. Title is roughly translated as "Jesus my Salvation, a Selection of Excellent Devotions Especially For Pious Souls". Color title-page has old peripheral water-staining. Suggestion of old tape top of front free endpaper (since removed). All edges gilt. Brass cover edges and clasp, all in very nice condition. A charming small devotional, in Old German. Year of publication is not present. We have arbitrarily assigned 1890 as that was about the time that the hyphen was dropped from New-York. See photos. 416-96pp.. Later Edition. Full Embossed Brown Morocco. Gentle Edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. 4 1/2" x 3".

Boston: H.M. Caldwell, 1906. Cloth has navy blue background with colorful Japanese flower motifs. Kimono-clad lady is kneeling on the terrace of a pagoda. Open fan and a crane in graceful flight adorn the covers as well. This copy lacks the porcelain doll which should be attached to the front cover. Printed on one side only on folded paper. A beautiful, bright copy.. First Edition. Color Illustrated Cloth.. Nearly Fine/No Jacket.. Square Octavo.

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1918. Color pictorial front cover onlay. Beautiful color illustrations amplify the story of Ste. Joan. Small marginal tear of one page, occasional minor soiling of page peripheries. A pleasing copy. . First American Edition. Mauve Cloth. Light Edge Wear and Soiling/No Jacket. Oblong Octavo.