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J. P. Donleavy's Ireland - In All Her Sins and In Some of Her Graces


Donleavy, J. P.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 223 pages. Previous owner's inscription on title-page otherwise VG/VG.

Record # 63008


Price: $20.00 

 

Jack London: A Life


Kershaw, Alex

Hardcover. New York, NY, St. Martin's Press, First US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Hardcover. Black boards with silver titles to spine. Deckled edge. 16 pages of illustrations in black & white plus four maps. Dust jacket in very good shape with only light, marginal wear to edges. Clean, tight and unmarked.

Record # 6670093


Price: $19.00 

 

Jacques Coeur - Merchant Prince of the Middle Ages


Kerr, Albert Boardman

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 317 pages plus index. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Foxing to edges. Dust jacket with wear to edges, areas of soiling. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612402


Price: $15.00 

 

Jaguar's Children: Pre-Classic Central Mexico, The


Coe, Michael D.

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Primitive Art, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 126 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. Dust jacket with short closed tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609196


Price: $40.00 

 

James Madison - The Founding Father


Rutland, Robert A.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 3rd printing, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages. Black & white illustrations. Light sun fading to dust jacket spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608692


Price: $20.00 

 

Jameses, The: A Family Narrative


Lewis, R. W. B.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, First Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 695 pages. Hardcover. Frontis illustration, Sketch of Six Family Members, from a letter by William James dated 1861, in black & white, additional illustrations throughout. Clean text and unmarked pages. Dust jacket with faint, marginal tone to edges.

Record # 6670039


Price: $23.00 

 

Jane Austen: A Life


Tomalin, Claire

Hardcover. New York, NY, Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf, First Edition, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages. Hardcover. Ivory boards with gilt titles to maroon cloth spine. Deckled edge, black & white illustrations. Dust jacket in very good condition. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670049


Price: $23.00 

 

Janice Meredith: A Story of the American Revolution (2 volumes)


Ford, Paul Leicester, Illust. by: Lillie V. O'Ryan, Howard Pyle

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead , 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Two volumes. Color miniature frontispiece by Lillie V. O'Ryan and black & white plate illustrations by Howard Pyle and his students. Blue covers with gold lettering and decoration. Gilt top edges. Rubbing, light soiling to covers, faded spines.

Record # 508911


Price: $50.00 

 

Japan - September 1959 - Number Seven, This is


Asahi Shimbun Newspaper

Softcover. Tokyo, Asahi Shimbun, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 398 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Large magazine/digest format - measures 10" X 13" X 1". Wood slipcase shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610397


Price: $38.00 

 

Japan Expedition, The: 1852-1854 The Personal Journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry


Perry, Commodore Matthew Calbraith

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 241 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Fascinating historical document, edited by Roger Pineau. With an introduction by Samuel Eliot Morison. Many color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Price-clipped. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light bumping to corners. Heavy age toning to top text block edge. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951871


Price: $31.00 

Japan We Never Knew, The: A Journey of DiscoverySuzuki, David
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Japan We Never Knew, The: A Journey of Discovery


Suzuki, David

Hardcover. Toronto, Stoddart Pub, Reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor soiling to dust jacket. An otherwise clean copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471780


Price: $15.00 

 

Japanese Film, The: Art and Industry


Anderson, Joseph L./Donald Richie & Akira Kurosawa

Softcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 526 pages. Softcover. Light (erasable) pencil markings throughout, previous owner's signature to half title page. Clean and unmarked cover with light wear to edges. Black and white photographs throughout.

Record # 751613


Price: $15.00 

 

Japanese Prints From the Early Masters to the Modern


Michener, James A.

Hardcover. Rutland, VT, Charles E. Tuttle Company, First Edition, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages. Hardcover with stamped illustration to rust & brown cloth boards. Gilt titles to spine. Related ephemera laid-in to front & rear, writing directed to print collectors. Wonderful illustrations in black & white & full color throughout. Book design & typography by Kaoru Ogimi. Color plates by Kyodo Printing & gravure plates by Inshokan. Original illustrated dust jacket, price clipped, with small tears to edges, protected in original cardboard slip case.

Record # 6670132


Price: $31.00 

 

Japanese Rural Society


Fukutake, Tadashi

Hardcover. Tokyo, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st Eng. transl., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos, 203 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 59513


Price: $18.00 

Japanese TheatreBowers, Faudion
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Japanese Theatre


Bowers, Faudion

Softcover. Rutland, VT, Tuttle Pub, 3rd, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. Softcover with slight wear to edges. Clean, unmarked copy with sun fading to spine. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 470921


Price: $25.00 

 

Japanese Warships of World War II


Watts, Anthony J.

Hardcover. London, Ian Allan, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 400 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name embossed on title page. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with wear, chipping, creases. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612778


Price: $25.00 

Jazz Guitar: Its Evolution and Its PlayersSummerfield, Maurice J.
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Jazz Guitar: Its Evolution and Its Players


Summerfield, Maurice J.

Softcover. England, Ashley Mark Publishing Co, 2nd, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Softcover with minor edgewear. Clean, unmarked copy. Minor corner folds on front wrapper. Some shelf wear to back wrapper. Black & white images throughout.

Record # 470839


Price: $31.00 

 

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 

 

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 the Indians - The Tragic Fate of the First Americans


Wallace, Anthony F. C.

Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 394 pages. Black & white illustrations and maps.

Record # 207382


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 

 

Jewish Family Album - The Life of a People in Photographs


Hubmann, Franz

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st US, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 318 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners inscription and bookplate on inside front cover. Front cover interior hinge tender. Sunfading to edges of dust jacket.

Record # 609548


Price: $25.00 

 

John Doe, Bottle Collector


Tibbitts, John C.

Softcover. Sacramento, California, Little Glass Shack, The, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Guide to bottle collecting. 124 pages with 27 black/white plates. Good condition, covers show some fading/rubbing, previous owner's name, date, and location written in ink inside the cover.

Record # 805543


Price: $8.00 

 

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