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Iris Murdoch: A Life


Conradi, Peter J.

Hardcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2001-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 706 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464641


Price: $13.00 

 

Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Magician of West 86th Street


Kresh, Paul

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 439 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Front flap on dust jacket creased. Remainder mark on bottom. Black and white photos in center.

Record # 2233413


Price: $15.00 

 

Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life


Child, Lydia Maria

Hardcover. New York , Negro Universities Press, reprint., 1969, Book: Very Good, 493 pages. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine, no dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855999


Price: $15.00 

 

Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 - Updated Edition


Calvino, Italo

Softcover. New Haven, CT, Princeton University Press, 1st Paperback, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 640 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear.

Record # 2230276


Price: $15.00 

 

Ivy: The Life of I. Compton-Burnett


Spurling, Hilary

Hardcover. New York, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 621 pages, with photographs. Remainder line on bottom edge and minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456769


Price: $15.00 

 

J.M. Barrie: The Man Behind the Image


Dunbar, Janet

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 413 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs. Fading, rubbing, slight soiling to dust jacket. Edgewear to dust jacket, mostly to spine and top edge. Damp stain to dust jacket, not wrinkled; mostly confined to interior dust jacket. Price clipped. Erasure marks to front flyleaf. Light rubbing to boards, bottom edge slightly bumped. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951247


Price: $35.00 

 

Jack - A Biography of Jack London


Sinclair, Andrew

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 297 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609375


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

James A. Michener: The Beginning Teacher and His Textbooks


Dybwad, G.L. and Joy V. Bliss

Hardcover. Albuquerque NM, The Book Stops Here, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 103 pages, b&w illustrations. Limited to 800 copies. A biography of Michener's teaching days (1921-1947) and the books he taught from. With notes and reminiscences by Michener. In a bright dust jacket.

Record # 405312


Price: $23.00 

 

james Baldwin - Artist on Fire


Weatherby, W. J.

Hardcover. New York, Donald I. Fine, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 412 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609339


Price: $12.00 

Jane Austen: A LifeTomalin, Claire
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Jane Austen: A Life


Tomalin, Claire

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket and very minor soil to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 459815


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Jascha Heifetz


Weschler-Vered, Artur

Hardcover. London, 1st , February 13, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451982


Price: $60.00 

 

Jean Cocteau: The Man & the Mirror


Sprigge, Elizabeth/Jean-Jacques Kihm

Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 286 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings and photographs. Dust jacket worn with small tears and chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608453


Price: $15.00 

 

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Volume I 1712-1758


Guehenno, Jean

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 460 pages, black cloth. Previous owner's small sticker on front fly leaf. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 403332


Price: $15.00 

 

Joffre


Recouly, Raymond

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 369 pages, b&w frontispiece. Chipping, tears, light soiling to dust jacket; in brodart. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851380


Price: $20.00 

 

John Millington Synge - Twayne's English Authors Series


Gerstenberger, Donna

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne Publishers, Revised Ed., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket with minor wear, fade to spine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 407860


Price: $19.00 

John Ruskin: The Later YearsHilton, Tim
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John Ruskin: The Later Years


Hilton, Tim

Hardcover. New Haven, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 656 pages, b&w photos. Light staining to rear dust jacket cover, slight rubbing to front flap edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453078


Price: $20.00 

 

John Ruskin


Harrison, Frederic

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages, blue cloth covers with gilt design, top edge gilt. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.

Record # 402721


Price: $12.00 

 

John Stanislaus Joyce - The Voluminous Life and Genius of James Joyce's Father


Jackson, John Wyse and Peter Costello

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&w illust. 494 pgs.

Record # 105677


Price: $28.00 

 

John Steinbeck, the Errant Knight: An Intimate Biography of his California Years


Valjean, Nelson

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages plus index, b&w photographs. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket, spine faded; protected by mylar cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850779


Price: $18.00 

Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and AndyGruelle, Kim (Foreword)
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Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy


Gruelle, Kim (Foreword)

Hardcover. Gretna, La., Pelican Publishing, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460492


Price: $38.00 

Joseph Conrad: Interviews and RecollectionsRay, Martin (Editor)
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Joseph Conrad: Interviews and Recollections


Ray, Martin (Editor)

Hardcover. Iowa City, 1st, September 1, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451637


Price: $12.00 

 

Joseph Conrad: Interviews and Recollections


Ray, Martin

Hardcover. US, University Of Iowa Press, 1st, 1990-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 240 pages. Light shelf-wear and scratching to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462731


Price: $13.00 


  
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