Search Results: Authors starting with J from Black Paw Books

Social Scientists' Association, 2011. Softcover. Near Fine. Octavo, 99 pages. Stiff wraps. From private collection. Top corner of text block gently bumped, else Fine.

Assorted Publishers, 1939. Softcover. Very Good. Collection of six tales issued bimonthly during 1939 for members of The Book Club of California. Each of the booklets was printed by a different Pacific Coast printer and limited to 650 copies. This complete six-volume collection includes the following works: 1.) The Gentleman in the Barrel by Chester Bailey Fernald; 2.) The Case of Summerfield by W.H. Rhodes; 3.) Orso by Henry Sienkiewicz; 4.) The Trumpet Comes to Pickeye! by Joseph T. Goodman; The Ape and the Idiot by W.C. Morrow; and 6.) My Day in the Wilderness by Helen Hunt Jackson. Four of the six issues include the accompanying letter from the Club. A few of the issues show minor wear to edges of wraps. Issues' pages remain clean and unmarked. All said, a handsome set.

Providence, Rhode Island: Students of Moses Brown School, Providence, RI, 1913. Softcover. Good+. Moses Brown School publication includes articles on Cape Cod Canal; Sancta Sophia in Constantinople; school notes; pictures of sports teams, etc. Includes articles on Cape Cod Canal; Sancta Sophia in Constantinople; school notes; pictures of sports teams, etc. Octavo, pp., 179-198 pp. + plates and advertisements. In wraps. From private collection. Wraps show a little wear along edges and crown of spine. One of the plates is loose. Pages remain clean and unmarked.

New York: Liberty Communications, 1984. Softcover. Very Good. 11" tall. 70 pp. Stapled wraps. Light wear to upper corner of text block. Small nick along bottom edges of back wrap.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good+. Illustrated story covers James' childhood, his time working on ranches and cattle drives, and his eventual transition to riding for "High Points" While the book is presented as an autobiographical account, it is actually a work of fiction that James created to depict the life of a cowboy. With illustrations by the author, including color front label, endpapers, and frontispiece. Quarto, 431 pp. Black cloth with pictorial label. From private collection. No signatures or bookplates. Binding shows a little rubbing and wear.

Parlin, NJ: Self published, 1982. Softcover. Very Good+. Octavo, [40] pp., stapled wraps. Minor sticker scuffs on upper wrap. Text remains clean and unmarked.

John Murray, 1885. Hardcover. Very Good. Complete three-volume set. Edited papers of Irish statesman and author. Tall 8vo volumes in brown cloth binding. Cloth shows some wear, including some nicks and a small split along upper front joint of first volume. Prelims and edges of book blocks are foxed. Cloth shows some wear along spine ends and corners. All said, a solid reading and reference set.

Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 1998. Hardcover. Near Fine. Lavishly illustrated German language work. 12" tall. 317 pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards. From private collection. Minor rubbing to corners, else Fine. No ownership ink. No dust jacket, if issued.

Beijing: Hua Yi Publishing, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. Collection of black & white photographs record Jing Qiang's visits to the United States in 1992 and 1993. Inscribed by Qiang to previous owner on front free endpaper. Tall octavo, 112 pp. Leatherette binding. Clean, unmarked copy. Scarce.

1968. Very Good/Very Good. Korean language book. Author and other information based on Google translate; please refer to our images for original Korean. 10" tall, 397 pp. Black & white illustrations + tipped-in color plates. Gray cloth. In dust jacket. From private collection. Dust jacket and slipcase show some shelf wear.

Dallas, Texas: Society for Photographic Education, 1993. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo, 53 pp. + adverts. In stapled wraps. From private collection. Minor soiling to wraps from shelf wear with mailing sticker on back.

University of York, 1995. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo, 37 pp. Stapled wraps. From private collection of local historian. Booklet remains clean and unmarked (no underlining or notes). Wraps show no noticeable shelf wear.

Sonnabend Gallery, 1993. Softcover. Very Good. New York based conceptualist Ronald Jones examines and resurrects child victims of international terror. A series of portraits and accompanying texts provide the framework for Jones' 1993 exhibition of the same name in which he utilized modern forensic techniques to reify each child as a bronze bust aged to depict how they might appear today." Booklet (12mo), 24 pp. Stapled wraps in dustwrapper. From private collection. Small sticker mark on front panel of dustwrapper. Modest soiling to wraps.