Search Results: Titles starting with J from small volume

Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1979. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Usui, Masao. 4to. 78 pp. Yellow pictorial wraps. First edition. Light scuffing along edges and spine ends. Small discoloration to ffep, sticker residue to rear wrapper. Otherwise clean and sound. Introduction by Yoshio Akioka, Photographs by Masao Usui illustrating the beauty of every day objects.

Cambridge, Ma: The Riverside Press, 1930. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo. 265 pp. Green cloth with gilt titling in dust jacket. Limited edition of 1,000. Soiling and chipping to dust jacket, heaviest at spine ends and corners. Spine cloth and top of front board lightly scuffed. Light foxing scattered throughout. Artist and subject John Elliott's bookplate to fpd. Warmly inscribed on ffep by the author (and wife of John Elliott) to Wilhelmina R. Miller, an apparent close friend. Inscription dated February 24th,1943. Laid in is a hand-written invitation to Maud Elliott and Ms. Miller from photographer Tommie Sullivan. Overall a very interesting association copy steeped in the arts history of Rhode Island. Association copy.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1902. Limited Edition of 350 Copies. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo. Green cloth, off-white paper spine label, black titling. Large paper edition of 350 copies. Light rubbing and soiling to cloth, heaviest along spine strip and spine ends. Paste-action at hinges, POs name,"Forrest E. Ferguson", stamped in black ink on fpd. Engraved frontis and title. Biography of John James Audubon edited by M. A. DeWolfe Howe as part of The Beacon Biography series.

Providence: Sidney S. Rider, 1880. Paperback. Good. 12mo. [4] 173 pp. [1]. Printed grey paper wraps, soiled and chipped at edges. Some foxing to wraps and prelims, interior toned but mostly clean. Binding fragile but holding. Previous owner's name in pencil to title page. "The following letters appeared [...] in the Providence Journal and the Newport Mercury during the years 1878 and 1879. [...] They form a perfect encyclopedia of the tales of winter nights in old Narragansett...

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1909. Red quarter cloth w/ tan paper covered boards, black titling. Good/Fair. Smedley, W. T.. 8vo. [4] 84 pp. [4] w/4 b&w plates. Red quarter cloth w/ tan paper covered boards, black titling. In illustrated dustjacket. Chipping to dj edges, sunning to all panels, with 3/4 of the spine panel roughly removed and amateurishly repaired with tape. Sunning to red spine strip where pieces of jacket are missing. Light discoloration to endpapers.The story of Julia Bride first appeared in Harpers' Magazine March-April 1908. Bookplate of Arthur & Rosemary Mizener to fpd. Mizener was an acclaimed literary critic and author of the first biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Far Side of Paradise" Association copy.

New York: The VIking Press, 1981. Advanced Proof. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. Peach colored wrappers. 175 pp. Light soil to wraps. "book-of-the-month club alternate" sticker to front panel. Slight wrinkling to leaves at inner margin. Clean interior. Uncorrected Proof of Gordimer's novel set in post-apartheid South Africa. Advance Reading Copy.

Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University, 1944. First Edition. Cloth Hardcover in a Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 256 pp. Green cloth w/ gilt titling at spine in tan dust jacket. Light soiling to jacket, clipped at front flap of dj. Otherwise clean and sound. Warmly inscribed in blue ink by Lysbeth Walker Muncy, Ph. D., Instructor in History and Government at Sweet Briar College. "To Diana and Chet, Who were very patient through it all. With much love, Beth Muncy. Christmas 1944". Offered together with a reprint of Muncy's thesis, "The Junkers and the Prussian Administration from 1918-1939