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Jean Renoir: The French Films 1924 - 1939 (Harvard Film Studies)


Sesonske, Alexander

Softcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, First Edition, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 463 pages. Softcover with moderate wear to edges. Light (erasable) pencil throughout. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper. Black & white illustrations throughout. Forward written by Jean Renoir.

Record # 751598


Price: $15.00 

 

Jean-Jaques Rousseau: Volume II, 1758-1778


Guehenno, Jean

Hardcover. New York , Columbia University Press, 2nd, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Volume II. 316 pages. Dust jacket price clipped with light wear and small white mark on font cover. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Nice, bright copy.

Record # 809835


Price: $15.00 

 

Jefferson - A Revealing Biography


Smith, Page

Hardcover. NY, American Heritage, 1st , 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust.

Record # 54234


Price: $15.00 

 

Jefferson and Monticello - The Biography of a Builder


McLaughlon, Jack

Paperback. NY, Henry Holt, pbk rep, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&W Illustrations. 481 pgs

Record # 70617


Price: $12.00 

 

Jefferson Davis: Private Letters 1823 - 1889


Strode, Hudson

Hardcover. New York, NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., First Edition, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 580 pages. Hardcover. Orange boards with silver titles to cover & spine. Inscription by previous owner to front flyleaf. Light toning to edges throughout. Small spots to a couple pages. Grey dyed top edge. Tight binding, tight signatures.

Record # 751513


Price: $23.00 

 

Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia, The


Thurlow, Constance and Francis Berkeley

Softcover. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Library, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages, softcover with blue paper wrappers. Minor wear to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy. INSCRIBED BY BERKELEY on the front fly leaf.

Record # 405976


Price: $25.00 

 

Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance


Jowitt, Deborah

Hardcover. New York, NY, Simon and Schuster, First Edition, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 619 pages. Hardover with dust jacket & deckled side edge. Blue boards with silver titles to navy cloth spine. Crisp clean dust jacket with only minor wear to edges. Light marginal foxing top edge. Clean and unmarked pages & black & white illustrations throughout. A nice copy.

Record # 751595


Price: $19.00 

 

Jerome: Solving the Mystery of Nova Scotia's Silent Castaway


Mooney Jr., Fraser

Softcover. Halifax, Canada, Nimbus Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 178 pages, b&w illustrations in rear. What looks like a tiny coffee-stain on the edge of the textblock, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 854847


Price: $70.00 

 

Joan of Arc - The Image of Female Heroism


Warner, Marina

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 349 pages.

Record # 60956


Price: $18.00 

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned MusicianWolff, Christoph
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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician


Wolff, Christoph

Hardcover. New York, W W Norton & Co Inc, 1st, 2000, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 599 pages. Hardcover. B&w illustrations and tables of data throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Gutter cracked between half title page and frontispiece. Ex library copy with markings to top edge, spine, and end papers. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468695


Price: $13.00 

 

John Adams and the Diplomacy of the American Revolution


Hutson, James H.

Hardcover. Lexington , University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with blue dust jacket. Dust jacket in good condition with some very small tears to the top front edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 470781


Price: $44.00 

 

John Burgoyne of Saratoga


Lunt, James

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 369 pages. Light wear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 809747


Price: $15.00 

 

John Ford's Stagecoach (Cambridge Film Handbooks)


Grant, Barry Keith

Softcover. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, First Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages. Softcover with only marginal wear to edges. Previous owner's signature to preliminary page. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean and unmarked copy.

Record # 751599


Price: $19.00 

 

John Hunter: Man of Science and Surgeon (1728-1793)


Paget, M.A., Stephen

Hardcover. New York , Longmans Green & Co., 1st US, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages. Green cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. No dust jacket. Light wear to edges and spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856729


Price: $31.00 

 

John M. Synge and the Irish Theatre


Bourgeois, Maurice

London, Constable & Co. LTD, 1st, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 337 pages including index. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. In good condition but no dust jacket.

Record # 176260


Price: $25.00 

 

John Marin - A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonne


Reich, Sheldon

Hardcover. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volume Set in slipcase. Volume 1 - A Stylistic Analysis. 312 pages. Illustrations primarily in black & white. Features biographical information. Dust jacket with light wrinkling, spotting along rear bottom edge. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - Catalogue Raisonne. 576 pages. Features black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear, wrinkling to rear. Clean, tight copy. Slipcase with very minor wear.

Record # 611261


Price: $6,250.00 

 

John Muir's Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa: Unpublished Journals and Selected Correspondence


Muir, John, Michael P. Branch

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Island Press/Shearwater Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Orange cover boards, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean. Binding tight. Green endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Like new. Michael Branch has elegantly and creatively helped imagine John Muir's "missing years" and his astonishing journey to the tropics.

Record # 31567


Price: $25.00 

 

John Paul Jones in Russia


Golder F. A.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page and Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages. Blue cloth cover with some wear to spine and edges. Edges are slightly bumped. Minor foxing on front and back endpaper. Pages untrimmed. Edition limited to 1,001 copies, this is number 343. Inside is clean with many b&w illustrations and maps throughout.

Record # 852485


Price: $40.00 

 

Johnny Carson


Bushkin, Henry

Hardcover. US, Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2013-10-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462665


Price: $19.00 

Jonathan Edwards: A LifeMarsden, Professor George M.
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Jonathan Edwards: A Life


Marsden, Professor George M.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, March 11, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 615 pages. Tiny closed tear to upper edge of dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458363


Price: $31.00 

 

Joseph E. Davis: Pioneer Patriarch


Hermann, Janet Sharp

Hardcover. Jackson , University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 196 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Minor to no wear on edges.

Record # 2233390


Price: $23.00 

 

Josiah White


Morton, Eleanor

Hardcover. New York, Stephen Daye, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Bio of an early Quaker merchant, industrialist, coal miner. Front fly leaf gone otherwise VG.

Record # 7642


Price: $12.00 

 

Journal of Joshua Gilpin 1809, The


Walker (Editor), Joseph E.

Hardcover. Harrisburg, Pennyslvania, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 156 pages, Walker was a Pennsylvania native and author of Hopewell Village: A Social and Economic History of an Iron-Making Community published in 1966. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Record # 853828


Price: $15.00 

 

Journal of Madam Knight, The


Knight, Sarah Kemble

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 39 pages. Includes an introductory note by Malcolm Freiberg and INSCRIBED BY FREIBERG on front fly leaf. Wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Mild, musty odor, otherwise very good with dust jacket.

Record # 302035


Price: $30.00