Search Results: Titles starting with J from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

(NY: The Moretus Press, Inc.), 1981.. 1981.. Good. - Octavo, pictorial white wraps Slightly soiled; front wrap slightly spotted; short tear to head of spine). 72 pp. Good.

(Samuel Gabriel Sons & Company), circa [1939]., [1939].. Very good. - Small quarto [8-1/2 inches high by 7-1/8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial color "linenette" wraps with a cover illustration by R. A. Burley. The bottom corners of the wraps are very slightly bumped. [10] pages including inside wraps. Illustrated in red & black and full color by Gordon Robinson. There is very light soiling to the top edges of a few pages, else a clean, bright copy. Near fine.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, [1966]., [1966].. Very good. - Quarto, 11 inches high by 11-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth titled in gilt & silver on the spine with vignettes in silver on the front cover. The slightly warped covers are bumped and the spine & inner edges of the covers are faded. A couple of the cloth's threads are slightly pulled at the bottom corner of the front cover. 26 pages [consisting of the preliminary leaves & the text], followed by profuse illustrations from paintings & drawings by Jack Levine, including 1 full-page color illustration, full-page black & white illustrations, & numerous tipped-in plates in black & white and color, the black & white plates being tipped in on color stock. Lacking the dust jacket. Very good.
First edition.

New York: Lowe & Company, Printers, 1880., 1880.. Very good. - Octavo, 6-3/4 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide. Brown cloth titled in gilt on the front cover with decorations in blind on both covers. The head and tail of the spine are lightly bumped with a scratch to the rear cover. 193 pages. There is some occasional minor soiling and staining. A previous owner's name is penciled on the front endpaper. Very good. First edition. SCARCE. [Wright No. 2880].The author's name appears to be a pseudonym. The dedication to "Louisa May Alcott", and the author's introduction might indicate that this novel was composed by a woman: "I did not intend to write a preface, because a preface is so seldom read; but a friend said to me: 'Are you not extremely anxious to know what people will say about you [sic] book? I should think you would so dread the criticisms upon it, especially those of your friends.' I replied that I had not allowed myself to think of that, and closed the conversation; mentally resolved not to… Read More

East Hampton, NY: Lizan Tops Gallery, 2004.. 2004.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in decorative wrappers. [12] pages, including 10 full-page color illustrations. Also with color illustrations on the inside wraps. Very good <p>Catalog with a one-page introduction by Rose C. S. Slivka for an exhibition of Rosenberg's pottery shown at the Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, N.Y. from July 3-19, 2004.<p>Jack Rosenberg's e- mail address with a street address and phone number are noted in ink under his name on the title page.

NY: St. Martin's Press, (1978)., (1978).. Very good. - 8vo, tan buckram backed grayish tan boards (bumped); tilted in gilt on spine; in pictorial tan dw (lightly creased at top edge). [xii] & 339pp. Illustrated. Very good. <p>First edition. "Now, in Jack's Book, a poet and a journalist have retraced Kerouac's steps to talk with the prophets, musicians, poets, socialites, and working people who knew Jack not simply as a cult figure but as a man, a friend, and a lover." -- From the dw blurb.

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, (1980)., (1980).. Very good. - Oblong quarto, 9-1/2 inches high by 10-5/8 inches wide. Softcover, bound in pictorial creamy white wraps. The spine is darkened. 96 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Very good.

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, (1998)., (1998).. Fine. - Oblong quarto, 10 inches high by 12 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth titled in silver on the spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. 336 pages, illustrated with pictorial endpapers and profuse color and black & white illustrations, including full-page and folding plates. Near fine.
Published in conjunction with the exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and London's Tate Gallery.

Munich/Berlin/London/New York: Prestel, (2007)., (2007).. Fine. - Small quarto, 10-3/4 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in pictorial wrappers featuring a detail of a Jackson Pollock painting. The corners of the covers are lightly bumped. 96 pages, profusely illustrated in color & black and white and with a photographic frontispiece. Near fine.
"A force, a living force, the same sort of thing I responded to in Matisse, in Picasso, in Mondrian...I was hit hard with what I saw." - Lee Krasner on Jackson Pollock's work.

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, (1956).. (1956).. Good. - Small quarto [approximately 10 inches high by 7-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial black-and-white wrappers. The wraps are bumped with some light soiling & staining to the rear wrap. [32] pages. 1 double-page color plate & numerous black-and-white illustrations. The contents are very good. Good. <p>"Bulletin Vol. XXIV, No. 2 1956-57."<p> Published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, this bulletin includes a checklist of the exhibition and a page of statements by the artist.

Coral Gables, FL: Lowe Art Museum, 1971.. 1971.. Very good. - Small quarto [approximately 10 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial tan wrappers. The binding is lightly bumped with its extremities rubbed. There is a small area of staining to the top inner corner of the front wrap. 64 pages. Numerous sepia-toned illustrations depicting 64 sculptures by Epstein. The page corners are very slightly bumped. Very good. <p>The catalog includes text extracted from "Jacob Epstein: a Catalog of the Collection of Edward P. Schinman" [Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University Presses, Inc., 1970].

(Kobenhavn, Denmark): Gyldendals Ugleboger, (1966).. (1966).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The binding is very lightly bumped with the edges of the wraps slightly darkened & some minor soiling to the rear wrap. 105 & [1] pages plus 6-page publisher's catalog. Very good. <p>Jacob Paludan [1896-1975] was a Danish novelist and conservative critic. The text is in Danish.

Toronto, Ontario: McClelland & Stewart Inc., (1995)., (1995).. Fine. - Octavo, 9-1/4 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in blue boards titled in gilt on the spine, in a pictorial dust wrapper with an illustration by Norman Eyolfson. [6] & 137 pages, illustrated in black & white by Norman Eyolfson. There is minor light blue staining to the bottom of the front endpaper. Near fine. First edition, first printing with a full number line.INSCRIBED ON THE FRONT ENDPAPER BY THE AUTHOR: "To Barry / Mordecai Richler""Jacob Two-Two is back, in his third exciting adventure, one that seeks deliverance from injustices at school and leads him into the fascinating, costume-clad world of spycraft." - From the dust wrapper copy.Signed copies of this title are scarce.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961.. 1961.. Very good. - Small quarto, red cloth-backed tan cloth, titled in gilt on the spine, in a printed cream dust wrapper. The dust jacked is soiled and rubbed with some light chips to the head and tail of the jacket's spine. 127 pages, illustrated throughout in black & white. Very good. <p>First edition. Review Copy with the piublisher's review slip laid in at the front.

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1953., 1953.. Very good. - Quarto, 10 inches high by 7-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled white self-wraps illustrated and titled in black on the front cover. The covers are lightly soiled and the head and tail of the spine are starting to split. 24 pages, including the covers, with profuse black & white illustrations. Very good.

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, (1951).. (1951).. Good. - Octavo, printed cream wrappers with a color vignette on the front cover. The spine & extremities are darkened & there is a tiny piece out of the tail of the spine. The bottom edge of the front cover is lightly creased & chipped. 349 & [2] pages. The text block is partially detached from the wrappers & there is an owner's blind stamp on the half-title. Good. <p>A novel by Norwegian author Sigurd Hoel, translated into Swedish by Cilla Johnson.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, (1960).. (1960).. Very good. - Quarto [11-1/4 inches high by 8-5/8 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly soiled with its spine & extremities darkened. There are a few small stains to the jacket's front panel with a tear to its top edge. Unpaginated. 25 black-and-white illustrations from drawings by Philip Kappel. Also with a full-page photographic portrait of the author-artist. There is a small price-stamp on the rear blank. Very good in a good dust wrapper. <p>First edition.<p>A Documentary of the Island of Jamaica, West Indies. Text, drawings and designs by Philip Kappel. Introduction by John P. Marquand.

London: David Bruce & Watson, (1970)., (1970).. Good. - Octavo, 8-3/4 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in cream cloth titled in gilt on the spine, in the original pictorial dust wrapper. The covers are soiled and slightly warped. The price-clipped dust jacket is creased and chipped with a stamp and a price in ink at the bottom of the jacket's front inner flap. xiv & 128 pages, with a map and 10 full-page photographic illustrations. Good.
First edition.
From the library of professional hunter Bill Ryan with a note in his hand on the front endpaper: "Bill Ryan from Pat Orr". In a tribute to Bill Ryan (c.1908-1985) in Gamecoin Magazine, Chuck Ennis writes of him: "Bill was one of Kenya's best liked and well-known professional hunters". Bill Ryan arrived in Kenya from South Africa when he was 11 years old. He quickly became a crack shot and an expert horseman. He spoke several African languages fluently. After serving in World war II h went into the saw milling business. In 1954 he took… Read More

New York: The Pond Bureau, circa [1924]., [1924].. Very good. - Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, self-wraps. A four-page brochure printed on cream paper with a portrait of Miriam Finn Scott on the cover page. There is some light creasing to the top edges of the pages. Very good. <p>The brochure includes a biography of Miriam Finn Scott with her own account of her training and career, and a list of her lectures with comments on them by educational and child-rearing experts. Among the lectures are "How to Know Your Child", "A New Vision of Education", "Fathers and Children" and "Training for Motherhood". On the rear page is a Little, Brown & Co. listing of books by Scott that they have published and quotations from positive reviews.<p>Miriam Finn Scott (1882-1944) was born in Vilna, Russia and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1893. Her interest in child development was aroused by her first job working at a… Read More

(New York: James B. Pond, [1923]., [1923].. Very good. - A sheet of cream-colored paper printed in blue is folded once to form a four-page brochure 8-3/8 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Illustrated with a portrait of Schermann on the 1st page. There is some darkening to the top right corner of the brochure. Very good. This brochure for a lecture tour reprints two pages of an article by Eugene S. Bagger under the heading "The Amazing Rafael Schermann and His Rare Gift". Some typical Schermann cases are listed on the 4th page along with the topics on which he wll speak: "Handwriting and Destiny", "Love and Crime in Handwriting" and "Anonymous Letter-Writers and Forgers".Rafael Schermann [1879-1945] was a Polish graphologist, self-proclaimed psychic and writer. Born in Krakow, he settled in Vienna in 1910 and worked for insurance companies. He became an expert graphologist and allegedly possessed powers of clairvoyance, second sight and telepathy. Oskar Fischer, a professor of pschology at the… Read More