Search Results: Authors starting with J from Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books

London: Cassell & Company, 1947. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. The 1938 first edition, in brown cloth boards with a black cloth spine and gold lettering. The rare "somewhat interesting" ex library copy, this is from the library of the Training Department" of publisher R.R. Donnelly & Sons, home of the Lakeside Press. Edition is confirmed from the card, showing it checked out several times between 1939 and 1963. Cloth at spine is splitting a bit, and is a touch frayed at the top, but the binding is sound and the interior is clean and unmarked. Includes many B&W illustrations of book covers and interiors.

Wilcox & Follett, 1952. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Boehl, Jackie. Ex-library. Page of checkout stamps mostly removed (cleanly). Green pictorial boards with some wear to corners. Light soil to last page of text.

New York: Gramercy, 1965. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A very good to VG+ copy of this book about doll houses and furniture, with 67 b&w photos. Interior very clean, but jacket only fair, with chips, tears, rubbing, soil.

New York: Putnam, 2009. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. First printing of the author's wildly popular first novel. Fine in a NF jacket with minimal shelfwear. A nice clean copy, not price clipped.

Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. An earlier novel from the author of The Finkler Question. A dark comedy narrated by the biblical Cain. NF save for modest remainder mark to bottom edge in a NF jacket with minimal wear. First edition stated.

United Kingdom: Allison & Busby, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. First UK edtion of this collection of short mystery stories from British masters of the genre. Includes Rankin, Lovesey, McDermid, Barnard, Martina Cole, many others. Fine in a NF jacket with minimal wear.

Push/Scholastic, 2004. Advance Reader's Copy (ARC) . Paper. Fine/No Jacket. As new Advance Reader's copy, uncorrected proof version of young adult novel.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. This P.D. James novel is the source material for Alfonso Cuaron's fabulous 2006 film. Fourth printing, fine in a NF jacket. Not remainder marked, and a nice copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Brett, Jan. Beautiful copy of this uncommon OP Jan Brett title. Unmarked first edition, "1" present in numberline. DJ is priceclipped and has VERY minor bumping to bottom of spine. A spectacular copy.

New York: Free Press, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine, unread copy in fine jacket. First printing. Promo sticker w/Anna Quindlen quote on front cover.

Dover, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A fascinating instruction and history book about the incredibly wide variety of "cat's cradle" type games played by indigenous populations around the world. Originally published in 1902 as "String Figures", this is a Dover reprint in quite respectable condition, with a stray ink scrbble on the front endpaper, otherwise unmarked and clean internally, with a little wear to corners.

Harper and Row, 1967. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Lovely copy, NOT ex-lib. Stated first. Book has pictoral boards and is completely unmarked. DJ is price-clipped and has very minor chipping on top & bottom of spine. Colors are bright, minor fading to spine. By the author of Police Dog and Against Time.

New York: Scribner, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Full look back at the life and career of Justice Powell, often the deciding vote on the Burger Supreme Court. Thie is a first printing w/intact number line. Jacket has a little wear, and is slightly loose to book at front flap. Book has faint stray ink mark to bottom edge, small spot on rear pastedown. Very good overall.

St Louis, MO: Bethany Press, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Anweiler, Marilyn. A fairly educational picture book about the role of the various types of bees in a hive. This centers on a particularly drone-y drone, it would seem. Near Fine, apparent first printing with a bit of surface soil to boards, very clean internally.

New York: Broadway Books, 2007. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. The author's harrowing tale of life in an arranged plural marriage to a fundamentalist Mormon. Fine in a NF jacket (shows minimal wear). Later printing.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A fine copy of this novel by the Booker-winning novelist and screenwriter. A novel about a family's multi-generational involvement with a charismatic spiritual leader. First printing, fine in a fine jacket.

New York: Pantheon Books, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Award-winning author's second novel, examines daily life in contemporary China--the story of a man asked to care for the stroke-afflicted father of his fiance. A remarkable novel. Fine in a very nearly fine jacket (very light wear where flaps fold over boards). This is a first printing.

Charles E. Tuttle, 1960. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Hiroshige Ando. A translation of a notable Japanese comic novel from the turn of the 19th century. Laid in are multiple little (roughly 3x4in) reproductions of woodblock prints by Hiroshige Ando. Jacket is fair-- price clipped, with tears and chipping primarily around the spine. The book, for its age, is actually VG -- pages somewhat yellowed, and a touch of staining to the bottom of the foredge, not affecting the text. In protective mylar.

New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1952. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. First edition (N.A.P) of John's autobiography. Very good--book has some browning to fr and rear endpapers from non-archival tape used to secure vinyl protective covering, otherwise VG. Jacket has some wear, but no tears or chips--in protective covering VG+.

Little, Brown and Company, 1954. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. First Edition. Book has damage to pp 41-48 (jagged tears bottom right corner, text not affected). Jacked has minor soil, darkening of spine, closed tears. In mylar