Search Results: Titles starting with J from Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB

NY: Ivison, Phinney & Co, 1860. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. A very well preserved copy in original pictorial paper, brown cloth spine. Large 4to, 11 pages of text and charts, 35 full page colored maps, the last double-truck. Cover states the atlas is "designed to accompany Colton's American School Geography". The covers are soiled with shallow loss head of spine. Insides shows little if any signs of use. Rear cover is a publisher list titled at top "The American Educational Series" Original owner's name in florid contemporary script dated 1865 on the ffe. A solid, unsophisticated copy.

NY: Scholastic, 1974. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Volume 4 in the Lucky Mini-book series buy Scholastic. About 3.5 inches high, 10 panel folding panorama printed in orange and black on tan stock. Corners bumped, some toning.

NY: MOMA, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Dustjacket slightly soiled, otherwise near fine.

NY: Knopf, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A pairing of Pepin's two volumes (1987, 1988) on kitchen technique, both first editions, the later a review copy with promotional materials laid-in, both INSCRIBED BY PEPIN. Dustjacket spines sunned a tad.

NY: Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1929. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Near Fine. Only 160 copies, privately printed. 4to, blue cloth over printed boards, 61 pages, illustrated with b&w frontispiece and 27 figures. Inscribed to artist Robert Osborn and his wife Eloide who started the traveling exhibition program at MOMA "To Eloide and Robert Osborn with best wishes William Valentiner April 10,1944". German-born Valentiner founded two art journals, Art in America (along with Frederic Fairchild Sherman, publisher of this book) and Art Quarterly and served as curator of decorative arts at the New York Metroplitan Museum. co-dreictor of LA County Museum, director of the Detroit Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Getty in LA. The book is dedicated to Eleanor and Edsel Ford, who were patrons of the Detroit Museum at which Valentiner was director when this book was published. At the Detroit Museum, Valentiner Detroit Institute of Art in Michigan, from 1924 to 1945. Valentiner commissioned… Read More

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good+. First UK edition of 1967, six years after its first publication in the US in 1961. Pictorial laminated boards. Short open slit at bottom of front gutter and upper rear too. Some peeling of laminate, and some light foxing to endpapers. Solid binding, absent any ownership marks.

West Hollywood: St. Ann Press, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. Deluxe edition, 200 copies, this numbered 19:200, blind-stamped on bottom of rear cover of book. Black linen folding portfolio of three original prints, each numbered 19 and signed by Fee on the verso, plus black linen covered book, both housed in black, linen covered slipcase. As new all around. An elegant production.

NY: Steuben Glass (Corning Glass Works), 1987. 1st Edition. Soft cover. As New. Fine, unused exhibition catalog, of Steuben's crystal pieces featuring Inuit or Eskimo themes, the primary interest of Steuben's then president, James Houston.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. Complete set. #1 Tonal and Rhythmic Principles, 4th printing, 1969. #2 Jazz Rhythm and the Imporvised Line, 3rd printing, 1969. #3 Swing and Early Progressive Piano Styles. #4 Contemporary Piano Styles. Each with original price of $4.95. Covers a tad worn, corner missing from front cover of #4, internals fine.

NY: Colony Publishing Co 0. 1st Edition Limt. Soft cover. Very Good. No date, circa 1920s. Limited edition, 500 copies, this #40, signed by Gregory in the limitation, tall 8vo, green, limp suede, yapped edges, silk moire endpapers, 138p. Odin also wrote a drama called "Caius Grachus", not much known about him. Internals of book are fine, but like all limp, colored suede, this green has faded to brown at spine and edges and the yapped edges are starting to crumble with some loss.

NY: Columbia University Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. An unused set each volume still in publisher's glassine wrappers in clipcase that is a wee dusty. WHY PAY MORE FOR LESS????

London: Frederick Muller Limited, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine.

Tokyo: Gihodo, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. NF/No Dustjacket. 1959 annual for the Japanese Industrial Designers Assoction. 4t, pub rust cloth, no dustjacket (as issued?). 175p + 26p (ads). Illustrtaed in b7w showing range of Japanese industrial design - vehilces (Nissan, Toyota) heavy machinery (Mazda, Mitsubishi), optical instruments (Nicca, Canon), acoustic instruments (Yamaha, Nippon, SONY, domestci electric appliance (Fuiji), domestic articles, (Awashima Glass), furniture andf interior design (Akita, Yamguchi) and miscalleneous objects. Indexed by designers (, manhufactures and products.

Boston: The Four Seas Comnpany, 1916. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/VG+. Larthrop, Dorothy Pulis (Dustjacket art). First edition. Near fine copy, plainly signed by Aiken on the ffe (absent any ownership names or markings) in better than very good dustjacket that is moderately soiled, with a few minor chips about edges. Publisher price label on middle of spine. THE collectible copy.

NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1985. Hardcover. As New/As New. An unused, as new copy in like dustjacket inscribed by Dine on the title and dated by him 1985, year of publication.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1979. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine, apparently unread, copy in near fine price-clipped dustjacket. #190/250 copies SIGNED BY MILLER on the colophon.

NY: Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1980. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Polished, French-style stiff paper covers. Catalog 12 of the IAUS series. Scarce.

NY: The Literary Guild, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good +. Harpers' edition of The Literary Guild and first thus (stated on copyright page: there was also a trade edition.) 8vo, duotone blue, ArtDeco-patterned cloth boards, gold label title pastedown spine, in decorated dustjacket typical of The Literary Guild editions, decorated endpapers, illustrated throughout, title label nicked, dust jacket soiled and faded, internals of book near fine. Roark Bradford (1896 - 1948) was an American short-story writer and novelist. His novelistic version of John Henry popularized the folklore legend of the African-American railroad worker beyond railroad and mining and Black communities. According to the publisher's bio of Bradford in the rear of this edition, Bradford is "amply qualified to write about the Negro. He was born on a plantation near the Mississippi River, fifteen miles from the railroad. He had a Negro for a nurse. He has seen them at work in the fields." Today, subject to contemporary… Read More

Joliet: P F Volland, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. Unusually well-preserved copy, in broken pictorial box (top and bottom intact, sides unattached or missing). Covers fine. Internals as new, really. No names, inscriptions or bookplates.

NY: Delacorte, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Inscribed by legendary playwright and director Logan: "NYC 1-3-80 For Jane Thank you for being so helpful & courteous. Sincerely, Joshua Logan." Jane Emerson, with her husband Bob, managed the Drama Book Shop in Manhattan for many years, which for theatre professionals like Logan was the go-to bookstore. Dustjacket worn about edges with some loss at corners and spine ends.