Search Results: Titles starting with J from Uncharted Books

New York: Pocket, 1961. Paperback. Very good. 12mo. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback edition of Stone's biographical novel about Jack London. GC-64.

New York: Vertigo, 2008. Paperback. Very good. 8vo. Wraps. Full color. Minor shelf wear. This is a collection of the first three trade paperbacks in the Fables spin-off series.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo. Pictorial boards. Illustrations throughout. 47 pp. Soiling to boards and scuffing to edges. Front hinge overopened. Previous owner's name inside front cover. Light soiling to endpapers. Corner of p. 5 creased. A good+ copy. This is a first printing of Ewing's juvenile novel with illustrations by Caldecott (of Caldecott Medal fame). Frontispiece is numbered "p. 39" and "Egad" is last word of p. 27.

New York: Knopf, 1987. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/good. 4to. Cloth. Dust jacket. 342 pp. Inscribed by Pepin on 2nd free endpaper. Book is fine, but jacket is price-clipped and has a large tear in center of rear cover as well as several closed tears around edges. This is a signed, stated first edition of Pepin's classic cookbook.

Pocket, 1945. First Thus. Mass market paperback. Very good. First Pocket edition of the classic historical novel.

Chicago: Dramatic Publishing Company, 1946. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. 8vo. Wraps. Minor shelf wear and a bit of curling to corners. Tight and clean. This is a first edition play script with photos from the original production.

Alhambra, CA: Meiji Art/Litho, 1975. First Thus. Wraps. Fine. Small 8vo. Wraps. 64 pp. A fine copy. This is a limited edition (one of 1500 copies for private distribution) printing of the journals of British railroad engineer Purcell from the early days of the modernization of Japan. A fascinating primary source.

New York: Atria Books, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Signed on bound-in page. This is a signed novel by bestselling author Allende.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. 8vo. Cream-colored burlap with red cloth spine. Dust jacket. 376 pp. Minor wear to jacket edges. Excellent condition. This is a first edition of the first comprehensive study of the linked style of poetry in English.

Ann Arbor, MI: Asa Gray Bulletin, 1961. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Green cloth. Many woodblock illustrations throughout. [3], VI, [2], 267, XIII. This is an uncommon essay on the development of natural history in Japan, on the influence of early Chinese & Western contacts and on Japanese books of wood-block illustration. It is also the catalogue for an exhibition of Japanese botanical books and manuscripts held at the Clements Library, University of Michigan, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of America's first treaty with Japan (1954). These essays were originally printed in the Asa Gray Bulletin N S 3 pp 289-561 Spring 1961.

Rutland: Tuttle, 1968. Paperback. Very good. 8vo. Wraps. Minor shelf wear. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Sticker on rear cover. This is an uncommon guide to the Japanese abacus tool.

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1975. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback science fiction book.

Mannheim, Germany: Kunsthalle Mannheim, 2018. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Large 4to. Boards. Dust jacket. Full color. This is an exhibition catalog and profile of photographer Wall.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage book club edition hardcover science fiction novel.

New York: Knopf, 1973. Hardcover. Very good/good. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Dust jacket. Paintings and illustrations by the author. Shelf wear to jacket and chipping to edges. This is a vintage hardcover edition of Gibran's biography of Jesus.

Totally Galactic Comics, 2020. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Boards. Full color. This is a limited edition retro futuristic indie comic collection. Jetta Raye was created in 1953 by Archie Comics artist Dan Decarlo (creator of Josie and the Pussycats and Sabrina the Teenage Witch) and brought back to the 21st century by Totally Galactic Comics. This is the limited edition variant cover by Jeff Sholtz and Joe Sinnott, the last cover inked by Sinnott before his passing, which was only available as a crowdfunding reward. This copy is from the collection of comics writer Chuck Satterlee.

New York: Avon, 1985. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. This is a meta-novelization of the adventure film Jewel of the Nile, the sequel to Romancing the Stone. This book was "written" by Wilder -- Kathleen Turner's romance novelist character from the films -- as her lightly fictionalized account of the film's events. A fascinating, accidentally post-modern item.

New York: Grove, 1965. Paperback. Very good. Minor shelf wear. This is a vintage paperback collection of Brecht's plays.

Macmillan, 1918. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Both hinges cracked. Date and pen markings on flyleaf. This is a first edition of H.G. Wells' satirical novel of the English education system during World War I.

Albany: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1885. Wraps. Very good. Small 4to. Publisher's wraps. Hand-pressed paper. 94 pp. Interior is excellent, clean, and unmarked. Wraps are poor and quite fragile, with numerous chips and detached rear cover. 1891 owner's mark on front free endpaper. This is a limited printing in original wraps of the journals of Capt. Heart, credited with leading the first U.S. military expedition into the West in 1785. Heart was a keen observer and a well-educated man of letters, and this account would have been among the first reports of what lay beyond the Western border, more than a decade before Lewis and Clark's expedition. From a limited printing of 150 copies, though this copy is not numbered. (Howes H379).