Search Results: Titles starting with J from Americana Books ABAA

Cincinnati: J.A. Graft & Co, 1892. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 466 pages, [14] pages advertisements. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt lettered title on front cover. Gilt title and previous owner's paper name label of "C. P. Crawford Lawyer" on spine. Gilt lettered advertisement on rear cover. Front and rear end sheet removed. Front hinge cracked. Light shelf wear to the cloth binding. Pink paper advertisements on front and rear paste downs. Two tipped color pages with publisher's notes in the text. "C. P. Crawford March 4, 1892" written on the front and rear blank end sheets. Crawford was an attorney from Milledgeville, Georgia.

Springfield: J. Babeuf, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. [4] pages advertisements on pink and yellow pages, 230 pages, [4] pages of advertisements. Dark brown cloth hardcover with gilt stamped advertisements on the covers. Gilt illustrated advertisement on the back cover. Front and rear paste downs are advertisements. The cloth is chipped head and base of the spine. Corners worn. The front and rear hinges are lightly cracked. No map with this copy. Previous owner name of Orendorff & Creighton (a law firm) written on the front paste down, right front flyleaf, and initials O & C written top of page 5. Scarce. Two copies located in OCLC (New York Historical Society, Univ. Michigan).

New York: Macmillan, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. xx, [1], 468 pages, 6 pages of advertisements. Green cloth hardcover with gilt stamped title on spine. Gilt top edge. Very light shelf wear to the hardcover. Nevins II page 36 - "A complete, balanced study of the Alabama politician and Congressman; based on Curry's papers, including many of his letters.

New York: Macmillan, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. xx, [1], 468 pages, [1], [4] pages advertisements. Frontispiece photograph. Green cloth hardcover with gilt stamped title on spine. Gilt top edge. Light edge and shelf shelf wear to the cloth binding. Both hinges are broken with exposed webbing. The right front flyleaf and the half title page are detached. Pasted down on the right front flyleaf is an approximate 6" x 4" studio portrait photograph of J. L. M. Curry. The front paste down has a shadow the cabinet card and an inscribed card "Compliments of Mrs. Alice Connally". Inscription reads - "To Dr. Wm H. Hilliard." Interior contents clean. Nevins II page 36 - "A complete, balanced study of the Alabama politician and Congressman; based on Curry's papers, including many of his letters.

London: Pemberton, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover with dust jacket. 271 pages. 3 pages of publisher advertisements in back.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +/good. Octavo. xix, 218 pages, [1]. Illustrated. Brown cloth hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket is price clipped and edge worn. A few foxed spots to the foredge.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. xx, [1], 420 pages, [1]. Edge wear and toning to the dust jacket.

New York: The H. W. Gray Company, 1907. Wraps. Good. Wrap. Approx. 10.5" x 7". xii, pages 3-170. Brown paper covers with illustration by William Blake and title on the front cover. Light edge chipping to the covers. A music score.

Atlanta: Foote & Davies, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 122 pages. Frontispiece photograph of Jack Davis. Light blue cloth hardcover with gilt stamped title on the front cover. Shelf wear and light fading to the cloth. Several page corners are creased. John Gaddy Davis was born in Roberson County, North Carolina in 1849. He died in Augusta, Georgia 1903. These poems were compiled by the wife of the late author. Memorial attributes by various friends follow the poems. Obscure publication of Poems printed in Atlanta.

n.p.: Woodside Publishers, 2014. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. x, 124 pages. Illustrations and map. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. Original price sticker on the back cover. Includes promotional pages for the book.

Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc, 1999. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. viii, 193 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Blue cloth hardcover with silver title on the front cover and the spine.

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, Inc, 1933. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Unpaginated. Color illustrated paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations and a two page color illustrated pop up inside. Illustrated end papers. Light edge and shelf wear to the hardcover. The paper spine is chipped and split. The front inner hinge is tender. The text and pop up illustration are in very good condition.

New York: Sringer and Townsend, 1852. New Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Two volumes in one: 244 pages; 217 pages. Brown cloth hardcover with blind stamped "busts" on front and rear covers. Faded gilt title on spine. Small split along the spine joins. Light shelf wear and a few spots to the cloth. Scattered foxing to front and rear end sheets. Light to moderate scattered foxing to contents. Cooper Novels 9 is part of the title on spine. First published in two volumes 1848.

Milwaukee: Milwaukee Board of Trade, 1857. Wraps. Fair. Wraps. 46 pages, 1 pagelist of names in German, 1 page advertisements in German. Tan printed, stitched wraps. First German edition of the Milwaukee Board of Trade publication. Contents printed entirely in German. Text printed in two columns. Pages 9 and 10 has a hole (1.5" x .5") with slight loss of words, bottom right paragraph, last 9 lines. Sabin 49156; Wisconsin imprints 1855-1858 #309.

New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Square octavo. 48 pages. Hardcover with color illustrated dust jacket. A children's illustrated story of Africans brought to America under chains and lock, placed into slavery, and waited for freedom until "One day a tall man in a big black hat said that all slaves should be free.

New York: The Literary Guild, 1932. New and Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. [3], 86 pages, [4]. Decorative gray paper covered boards. Title on the black cloth spine. Previous owners inscription written on the right front flyleaf. Light edge wear to the boards. Originally published 1925.

Virginia Beach: The Donning Company, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover with color pictorial dust jacket. 640 pages. Illustrated. Map illustrated end papers. Personal inscription by the author to the previous owner written on the right front flyleaf.

Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. viii, 220 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Jackson. Blue cloth hardcover with title on spine. No dust jacket. Brown spot located in the upper gutter of the front end sheets. A section of the original dust jacket with a picture of the author is pasted down on the rear end paper. Previous owner's book plate on the front paste down.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1926. Later printing. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. [4], 238 pages. Tan paper covered boards with burgundy cloth spine. Paper title label on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Joyce and a photograph of the first page of Ulysses in text. A few spots and to the paper. The cloth spine is worn and a little faded. Toning to the right front flyleaf and rear flyleaf. "Isseido" small red bookseller label in the upper left corner of the front paste down. Number 168 hand written under the title page. A vertical line of Asian language characters written in light pen on the blank verso of the frontispiece. First published in New York by B. W. Huebsch 1924. Reissued by Viking Press and B. W. Huebsch in 1925. Published in England by Geoffrey Bles in 1926 with American sheets but a new title page (John Slocums' Bibliography of James Joyce page 76).

London: Orion Books, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Tall quarto. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. 112 pages. Illustrated with photographs and a few color illustrations. Pictorial end papers.