Search Results: Titles starting with J from Frey Fine Books

London: Horace Marshall & Son Ltd, 1900. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st edition. A Very Good + copy. 8vo., 264 pp. Black cloth, top edge gilt. With the handsome book plate of civil rights champion Arthur B. Spingarn. Very Good +.

np: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc, 1941. Wraps. Very Good. Lois Lemski. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 1941 edition. A Very Good copy. 16mo. Stapled red wrappers. CHildish signature on the rear wrapper. A Very Good copy. Publisher's number 1000B. *** Part of Platt & Munk's boxed set Jolly Rhymes of Mother Goose, 1941. With individual titles numbered separately: 1000B (Jack and Jill), 1000C (Little Boy Blue), 1000E (Mother Goose Rhymes), 1000F (Pat a Cake), 1000H (Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe), 1000J (Wee Willie Winkie). Illustrations by Lois Lemski. ***.

Chapel Hill, NC: author, 1991. 1st edition. Paperback. Near Fine. trade-size white illustrated wraps, 1st ed. (1991), 88 pages, SIGNED. Near Fine; text clean / unmarked. Signed by the Author.

New York: Hurst and Company, 1905. 1st edition, thus. Cloth. Very Good. Marshall D. Smith. 1st edition thus, 1905. A Very Good copy. 12mo., 114 with black & white images. Bound in publishers illustrated brown cloth. Some minor overall soiling to covers, with light rubbing to edges. Previous owners name inside front cover listing his address as "Any old place, Virginia". Front hinge starting, unmarked.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1892. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Phiz.. 2 vols, Little, Brown, white gilt-decorated cloth, Limited edition (1892, Limited to 250, #156), 299 + 291 pages with deckled edges, in Very Good ( have author & title neatly hand-printed on spines, spines lightly faded, lightly soiled / stained) cloth (pale green) Dust Jackets (original?). Bindings & endpapers foxed; text Near Fine. The Military Novels: Our "Mess", First Series. Due to weight, extra cost to ship overseas,

London and New York: John Lane, 1900. 1st edition. Hardcover. Good. Chas Robinson. 1st edition, 1900. A Good copy. 4to., 64 pp., bound in decorated tan cloth. Ex-library but not many faults - call numbers on front cover, bookplate inside front cover, blind stamp on title page. Covers worn; tips rubbed; top and base of spine bumped. Some notations inside front and rear cover; finger soiling to pages; binding is tender. Still an overall Good copy of this scarce title.

The New American, 1968. 1st edition, 1st printing. Cloth. Very Good +/Good +. 1st printing, stated. A Very Good + copy in Good + dust jacket. 8vo., 266 pp. Black cloth in off-white dust jacket. The dust jacket, priced at $5.95, is toned along the edges, especially the spine. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1846. 1st edition, thus. Leather. Very Good. 1st edition, thus (1st Continental Edition). A Very Good copy. 12mo., [Vol.1] 458; pp., illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece. Bound in quarter red leather and marbled paper boards, with title and volume on the five compartment spine in gilt. All edges marbled. Yellow end papers. Moderate shelf wear, mostly at the tips. Spine darkened, with wear along the joints. Text pages age-toning, with occasional spots of foxing and browning. Frontispiece with light damp staining in the fore-edge margin. Hinges very strong. Jack Sheppard was serially published in Bentley's Miscellany from January 1839 until February 1840. The novel was intertwined with the history of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, which ran in the same publication from February 1837 to April 1839. Dickens, previously a friend of Ainsworth's, became distant from Ainsworth as a controversy brewed over the scandalous nature around Jack Sheppard, Oliver Twist,… Read More

London / New York: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge / Young & Co, 1885. Eightieth thousand. Hardcover. Very Good. Randolph Caldecott. Eightieth thousand printing, ca. 1885. Very Good. 8vo., 47 pp., with Caldecott's black & white illustrations.Bound in publishers blue cloth spine with illustrated paper boards. Overall light toning, soiling and rubbing to the boards. Front hinge starting. Half title page darkened, but otherwise clean and unmarked. Early W.B. Clarke & Carruth Boston small sticker inside front cover. Randolph Caldecott (22 March 1846 - 12 February 1886) was a British artist and illustrator, born in Chester. The Caldecott Medal was named in his honor. He exercised his art chiefly in book illustrations. Caldecott greatly influenced illustration of children's books during the nineteenth century.

Milwaukee, Wis: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1991. 1st edition. Wraps. Near Fine. Jackie Winsor. 1st edition, 1991. A Near Fine copy. Square 4to., 132 pp., bound in publishers photo illustrated glossy wraps. Minor signs of shelf wear. Clean and unmarked.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition, 2004. A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo., 332 pp., bound in publishers tan cloth with illustrated dust jacket. Minor signs of shelf wear, especially at jacket edges. Previous owners name inside front cover, otherwise text is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. tan cloth, 1st ed(1960)., 286 pages, in Good (red tape neatly along edges) Dust Jacket. Owners name inside, dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. The relationship of the American workingman to Jacksonian democracy is part of a larger question that has caused great controversy among historians - what kind of people were behind the Jacksonian movement? - From inside book cover.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1842. 1st edition, thus. Leather. Very Good. 1st edition, thus, Copyright edition (1st Continental Edition). A Very Good copy. 12mo., 394 pp., illustrated with an engravd portrait frontispiece, with guard. Bound in quarter red leather and marbled paper boards, with title and volume on the five compartment spine in gilt. All edges marbled. Yellow end papers. Moderate shelf wear, mostly at the tips. Spine darkened, with wear along the joints. Text pages lightly age-toning, with occasional spots of foxing and browning. Hinges very strong. Captain Frederick Marryat (1792 - 1848) was a Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of nautical fiction, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836). He is remembered also for his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847), and for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling known as Marryat's Code. Christian Bernhard… Read More

Jerusalem: Jerusalem Art Publishing, 1952. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Jacob Steinhardt. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 1sr edition. A Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket, housed in a Good, publisher's slip case. Folio. Tan cloth with a plastic comb binding in black and white, illustrated dust jacket. The dj's spine is a little sunned/darkened, with a closed tear on the rear panel. The publisher's slipcase is soiled, with a few small splits at an opening. Contains 57 woodcuts, some hand-colored. The plates ae captioned in both English and Hebrew. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. A Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket, in the scarce slipcase. *** Jacob Steinhardt (1887-1968)was a German-born Israeli painter and woodcut artist. He worked mainly in woodcuts depicting biblical and Jewish subjects. He participated in the Berlin Secession and founded the Pathetiker Group. He was a member of the Bezalel school group. In 1934, after the rise of the Nazi's,… Read More

Charleston, South Carolina: Walker, Evans & Cogswell Co, 1978. 1st edition. Wraps. Near Fine. 1st edition, 1978. Near Fine. 8vo., 140 pp. Bound in publishers tan wraps. Minor toning on covers, interior is clean and unmarked.

Charleston, South Carolina: Self Published / Printed at Walker, Evans and Cogswell, 1978. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st edition, 1978. A Very Good copy. 8vo, 140 pp., short inscription by author on title page. Bound in stiff printed paper wraps. The wraps have a couple small smudges, and light sunning along its edges. SIGNED with a short inscription on the title page, and dated 1984.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1964. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 1st edition. INSCRIBED. A Very Good copy in Good dust jacket. 8vo., 337 pp., illustrated with drawings. Blue cloth and grey paper binding in pictorial dust jacket. The price-clipped dj has some chipping at the spine's crown, and a darkened spine. INSCRIBED and boldly signed by Beard "Good Cooking & Good Eating, James Beard" on a front blank end paper. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. A Very Good copy in Good dust jacket.

Boise Art Museum, 2005. 1st edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition. A Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. 4to., 103 pp., illustrated with b&w and color photographs. Grey cloth in brown paper dust jacket. The dust jacket has wear at the front upper tip. Upper tip bumped. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve.

Ooltewah, Tennessee: Old James County Chapter, East Tennessee Historical Society, 1983. 1st edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 1st edition. A Near Fine copy. 8vo., 281 pp., illustrated with a b&w map frontispiece. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles and courthouse design. Very Clean. Tight. This small county in eastern Tenn. was formed in the late 19th century, and abolished just after World War 1. Its county seat was, for a while, at Ooltewah.

New York: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc, 1996. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine/Near Fine DJ. small quarto, dark green wraps, 1st ed.(1996), 134 pages with price list laid in, in Near Fine (clear plastic, rubbed) Dust Jacket. Limited to 1500 copies.