Search Results: Titles starting with J from Borg Antiquarian

Biemidji, MN: Focus Publishing, Inc, 1996. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. Paul Brent. DOUBLY SIGNED by the Author & Illustrator on the title page plus Paul Brent has added a darling small sketch of a manatee, oblong 8vo (11 3/8" x 8 7/8"), glossy pictorial cover with a pink manatee in water by Paul Brent, art reproduced as pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), profusely illustrated with full color pastels by Brent, colorful aquatic endpapers, N.P. [40] pages. SIGNED by Author and Artist who added a small sketch of a manatee. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally! No remainder marks. Paul Brent is a Florida artist whose watercolors and oils have portrayed the many aspects of Florida landscapes and the coastal area.

Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1900. Reprint of 1880 edition. Decorative cloth. Fine/None. 12mo (7" x 4 3/4" x 1 1/4") brown cloth with gilt spine & leafy sprigs on spine & front cover, illustrated by xxx with B&W lithographic frontispiece (with tissue guard) and 3 additional full-page plates, 325 pages + [7] Ads for Alcott & related books. Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868), and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised by transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she also grew up among the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.<br /> <br /> She worked to help support the family from an early age and began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1989. First Edition, Third Printing. Pictorial boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. James Warhola. ORIGINAL SKETCH by James Warhola of a Wizard on the half-title, quarto (10 3/4" x 8 3/4"), glossy pictorial boards, image repeated on dust jacket (price-clipped), illustrated by JAMES WARHOLA in full-color, blue endpapers, 32 pages. Includes Personal Autograph Letter SIGNED by James Warhola to a friend with comments on the scarcity of his book. A colored postcard with an illustration of the giant looking down on Jack is laid in. Susan Pearson (born 1946) is a distinguished children's book editor, and the author of more than thirty books for children, including Charles Darwin and the Mystery of Mysteries.<br /> <br /> James Warhola (born 1955) is an American artist who has illustrated more than two dozen children's picture books since 1987. He wrote and illustrated Uncle Andy's: A Faabbbulous Visit with Andy Warhol (Putnam,… Read More

San Francisco, California: Viking, 1973. First Printing [number line ends with 1]. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Near Fine. B&W photos. Small quarto (9 1/4" x 6 1/4" x 2"), black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over gray boards; archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with photo of handsome Jack Kerouac, xxvi + 629 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 1 oz. Ann Charters (born 1936) is a professor of American Literature at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. She is probably THE AUTHORITY on Kerouac. <br/> <br/> After completing her doctorate, she worked with Jack Kerouac to compile his bibliography. After his death, she wrote Kerouac: A Biography (1973). She was the only biographer who had access to Kerouac and interviewed him about the circumstances in which he wrote his books.<br/> <br/> VERY FINE condition: tight, bright, clean copy in a sharp dust jacket (unclipped) with slight corner wear.

New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, black cloth with gold lettering on spine over beige boards, Introduction by Michael Murray, archival mylar-protected finely lettered dust jacket (unclipped) with verso having a partial B&W photo of Barzun and roster of his areas of expertise, xxii + 615 pages. IMMACULATE COPY: Tight, bright, ultra clean in comparable sharp unclipped dj.<br /> <br /> No previous owner or remainder marks.<br /> <br /> Jacques Barzun (1907 - 2012) was a French-American historian known for his studies of the history of ideas and cultural history. He wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, mystery novels, and classical music, and was also known as a philosopher of education.

New York, N.Y.: Victory Games Inc. / Eon Productions Limited / Glidrose Publications Limited, 1983. First Edition. Wrappers. Near Fine. Greg Gordon. 4to, blue and gray wrappers with yellow "Q Manual" and blue print of oo7's Aston Martin on front cover, fully illustrated with over 150 illustrations and technical drawings, v + 137 pages. Wear to spine of wrappers.

New York: Bantam Books, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title pages, 8vos, quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) created by Carol Inouye; typical pagination ~ 280 numbered pages. The First FOUR Jane Austen Mysteries INSCRIBED to one astute fan by "Stephanie" Barron.<br /> <br /> Francine "Stephanie" Barron Mathews (born 1963) is an American writer of mystery and spy fiction who also writes well researched historical mysteries featuring the English novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817) as an amateur sleuth.<br /> <br /> VERY CLEAN BRIGHT INSCRIBED COPIES. No previous owner or remainder marks.

London New York Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co, 1899. Vellum and cloth. Very Good. Small 8vo (7 7/8" x 5 1/4"), quarter vellum with gilt embossed lettering on spine & gray cloth over boards, 124, [125] pages + [3] blanks + 40pp. of Ads for Longmans. SCARCE title relating to Jane Austen & those having some degree of connection to her or her works. Very Good copy:: tight, cloth with light-to-moderate soil and light wear to corners; clean pages with light uniform age-toning.

New York: Rizzoli, 1990. First Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. Colour & B&W photos. Quarto ( 10 1/2" x 7 3/8" x 1"), green buckram with gold lettering on spine and front cover, with 177 illustrations, 77 in colour & special photography by Hugh Palmer, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a Georgian bedroom in colour, light green endpapers, 224 glossy pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 5 oz. A great browsing book for those interested in Georgian England as well as a superb reference.<br/> <br/> Susan Watkins writes and lectures regularly on English social history and makes regular guest appearances on radio and television. She is also the author of the highly praised Jane Austen: In Style.<br/> <br/> SUPERIOR CONDITION: Tight and bright. Faint smudge at top of last page.

Chicago: The Chiron Press, 1983. First Edition: Limited to 500 Copies. Quarter cloth and boards. Near Mint/Near Mint. Anna Moffatt. 12mo, white quarter cloth backstrip and light blue boards, frontispiece drawing of Jane Austen by Alice Moulton after an original sketch by Cassadra Austen & 2 other illustrations, Introduction by Mary Gaither Marshall, powder blue dust jacket, xvi + 183 pages +[2] Colophon. Very Scarce Limited Edition of the continuation of Jane Austen's last novel Sanditon by her niece Anna Lefroy. <br/> <br/> SUPERB overall condition! Tight, bright, clean in comparable dust jacket (unclipped). No previous owner or other markings.<br/> <br/> Actually, several copies were lost, so the limitation stated as "500" is a good deal less.

Tokyo: Board of Tourist Industry / Japanese Government Railways, 1941. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Cloth. Very Good +/None. Folding engraved maps. 12mo, reddish cloth with black lettering on spine and cover, profusely illustrated with folding colored maps, 898 pages. All folding maps present in this Very Rare edition published just as Pearl Harbor was about to take place! Clean and tight binding, spine faded, slight rubbing to extremities.

Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1989. First Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Fine. Reproductions in color. Tall quarto (248 x 375mm), cinnamon cloth with gilt lettering on spine and floral symbol on front cover; profusely illustrated with detailed commentary on specific art and artifacts; 402 pages. Weight: ~ 3.5 lbs. FINE CONDITION! Tight, clean, & bright. Dust Jacket Is Not Price Clipped but has Light wear. Previous owner's name & address on upper right of front free endpaper. No remainder marks!<br/> <br/> SUPERBLY ILLUSTRATED & ANNOTATED REFERENCE to the art, artifacts, weapons, and culture of Japan over roughly 700 yesars!

New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi: Atria Books, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, green quarter cloth with gold lettering over green boards, pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) designed by Evan Gaffney, protected by a quality archival clear film cover, green endpapers, 321, [322] pages. Isabel Allende (born 1942) is a Chilean novelist well known for "magical realism." She became famous for The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002). Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. Allende's novels are often based upon her personal experience and historical events with an emphasis on the lives of women, while weaving together mythic… Read More

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo, brown quarter cloth with gold lettering over light blue boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a broken bowl with the same woman's face in three shards painted by Kinuko Craft, 241 pages. Bharati Mukherjee (1940 - 2017) was an Indian American-Canadian writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She was the author of several novels and short story collections, as well as works of nonfiction. <br/><br/>Jasmine was the author's fourth novel. Her previous book, Middleman and Other Stories, won the 1988 National Book Critics Award. Jasimine is set in the 1980s about a young Indian woman who struggles to adapt to the American way of life in order to survive and changes her identities several times.<br/><br/>EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! No marks by previous owners or remainder.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Reproductions of classical engravings. Small 4to (9 1/2" x 6 1/2"), beige cloth with light yellow labels on spine & front cover (which also has a small embossed rectangular Greek frieze, Mylar-protected dust jacket with red lettering (unclipped) reproducing Maxfield Parrish illustration of a w blue centaur with two Greek boys against a yellow background, B&W frontispiece & 24 full page in-text B&W antique illustrations for each of 24 chapters, publisher's light green protective dust stain on top edges of pages, [xii] + 354 deckled pages. Weight: 2+ lbs. John Gardner (1933 - 1982) was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic and university professor. He is best known for his 1971 novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view. A tour de force!<br /> <br /> Gardner's best-known novels include The Sunlight Dialogues, about a disaffected policeman… Read More

New York Toronto London Sydney Aukland: Bantam Books, 1993. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Very Good +/Good +. 8vo, black cloth with gold spine lettering over powder blue boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by Michael Dudash, 424 pages. Tight, bright, unmarked copy. Two scratches on the front of the dj and a couple of bubbles of waterstaining along the lower page margins from pp.411 to the end.

Stuttgart, Germany: Alfred Kröner Verlag Stuttgart, 1976. First Thus in Kroner Collected Works: GERMAN TEXT THROUGHOUT. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 12mo (7" x 4 1/2"), green cloth with black lettering on spine & front cover, Afterword by Alfred Baeumler ([413]-428pp.) Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped), 428 pages. -- GERMAN text. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and a Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy--especially Existentialism-- and modern intellectual history... Nietzsche's body of work touched a wide range of topics, including art, philology, history, religion, tragedy, culture and science.--Wikipedia Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft) is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that expands the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke… Read More

London: The Harvill Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Fine. Andrew McLean. 8vo, forest green cloth with gold lettering on spine, Illustrated with 11 B&W reproductions of pen-charcoal-watercolor plates and three section headings by Andrew McLean, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with jacket art of a fly fisherman by Andrew McLlean, publisher's faint yellow topstain, 117 pages. Fresh catch bespinkled with dashes of humor, experience, and bits of ecological salt. Author Robert Hughes' deep reflection on the delights and problems of fishing in fresh and salt water. <br /> <br /> Handsomely illustrated by prolific British artist Andrew McLean, who--often with his wife Janet--has greatly enhanced many children's books.<br /> <br /> Tight, bright, clean in comparable jacket (unclipped) with slight fold to top of rear dj flap. No previous owner or remainder marks.

Paris: Librairie Victor Lecoffre / J. Gabalda, Éditeur, 1926. First Edition (in French). 1/8th pigskin over boards. Good +. Quartos (11 1/4" H x 8 7/8" W); 5 Volumes (in "Fascicules") published over a 14-year period. These consist of "Jerusalem Antique" in Volume I & "Jerusalem Nouvelle" in Volumes II, III, & IV, plus Volume V, "Planches" [Plates] covering all volumes. 1/8th whitened pigskin over B&W textured boards; Preface by M. le Marquis de Vogüé; Profusely illustrated with B&W line drawings (with occasional red-delineation), schematics, and B&W photographs (especially in Vol. IV "Planches"): Vol. I, Part I. Topographie, xii + 196pp. ; Vol. II., Parts I & II. Aelia Capitolina, Le Saint-Sepulcre et Le Mont des Oliviers, xi + 419pp.; Vol. II, Part III. La Sainte-Sion et Les Sanctuaires de Second Ordre, 421-668pp.; Part IV. Sainte-Ane et Les Sanctuaires Hors de la Ville Histoire Monumentale de 31… Read More

New York: Derrydale, 1986. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Smith, Jessie Wilcox. Oblong quarto (270 x 230 mm), cloth, profusely illustrated with full color plates and B&W in-text imges; archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacked (unclipped),192 pages. A wonderfully illustrated edition of more than 600 Mother Goose nursery rhymes.<br/> <br/> Jessie Willcox Smith (1863 - 1935) was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators.<br/> <br/> Some wear to the dust jacket; cloth and illustrations are unsullied. A wonderfully evocative illustrated edition.