Search Results: Authors starting with J from Uncommon Works

[Tucson]: Arizona Pioneers’ Historical Society, 1955. First Edition, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. A fine first edition, limited to 600 copies. Gold cloth boards with gilt seal and title stamping on spine. Deckle page edges. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Otherwise clean and bright. A nearly pristine copy of an important work never before translated into English. In a near fine original dust jacket. Dust jacket shows one small spot at foot of spine, and a tiny tear on top edge. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Rear fold out map is perfect. 82 pp. plus unnumbered index. Octavo, 6 1/2 x 10 inches tall.

Paris: Chez Vincent, 1790. First Revised Edition. Full leather. Very good/none as issued. A very good 1790 revised edition. In full calfskin, with a crack in front gutter, one rubbed and one broken corner. Brown marbled papers. Ribbon marker. Library stamp on title page. Title page badly wrinkled. Fold out world map, badly creased. 384 pp. 16mo.

New York: Harper and Row, 1954. Early Printing. Cloth. Fine/very good +. A fine early printing denoted by this being the last book listed by the publisher in "Other works by..." front matter. Blue cloth boards with map endpapers. In a very good dust jacket shelfwear at all corners and two tiny closed tears at crown of jacket. Back flap creased. vii, 566 p.. Octavo. From the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L. Soske Jr."After the devastating earthquake in April 1906, looters roamed the streets of San Francisco. Rescuing gold and silver from his small Bank of Italy, A.P. Giannini gained fame by setting up a makeshift bank on a North Beach wharf and making loans to local residents "on a handshake." (California History Room, California State Library, Sacramento, California)The innovative bank welcomed small borrowers who might otherwise have to use high-cost loan sharks. Most banks at the time regarded people with… Read More

Paris, 1810. Later printing. Full calf. Near fine/none as issued. A near fine two-volume complete set in full calf. Red leather spine labels with gilt lettering. Gauffered book edges. Bumped corner on volume I. Blue marbled endpapers and marbled page edges. Bookplate present. Previous owner's name in pencil. Fine fold out map of the empire in Volume II. Text in Spanish. 244 pp. 16mo. A lovely example of french bindings."This critical edition adds to a growing number of the philosophe’s works to be re-edited in accessible form. Pierino Gallo places the text firmly in its Enlightenment context and looks back to the publication of Bélisaire in 1767 as well as forward to the Essai sur les romans of 1787 and its definition of a ‘roman politique’. Marmontel dedicated the text to Gustav III, whom he had met while the future Swedish king was in Paris. Gallo traces the evolution of the text, from the earliest version in manuscript form held in the Kungliga Biblioteket… Read More

Oakland: Biobooks, 1947. First Thus; Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/missing. A about fine first thus, one of 750 printed. Binding is perfect. Brown faux leather boards. Decorated endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate has come loose from front pastedown. Rear map intact and pristine. 166 [1] pp. Octavo. Thomas Jefferson Farnham (1804–1848) was an explorer and author of the American West in the first half of the 19th century. His travels included interaction with missionary Jason Lee, and he later led a wagon train on the Oregon Trail. While in Oregon Country he wrote a petition to federal authorities that requested federal protection of the region from the United States government, which was signed by many of the local settlers who had come from the United States." ---wikipedia

New York: Wiliam Morrow, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/Near Fine. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (hint of toning to pages) signed on title page. Parker has been hailed as in the top rank for crime writers by the Washington Post and readers worldwide. A stand alone suspense novel which explores the line between right and wrong, and "how close a man can come to crossing that line."Gray paper boards with black quarter cloth spine. Storm gray endpapers. 370 pp. Octavo.

New York: Smithmark, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first edition, first printing in a fine dust jacket. Complete number line. 128 pages : chiefly illustrations. Folio. Captures the Great Depression of the 1930s from the perspective of small-town residents and migrant workers in a series of photographs by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, and Ben Shahn.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1852. Three quarter leather. Good +/none as issued. A good plus later edition. Three quarter leather over marbled boards. Corners and joints rubbed. Painted top edge. Deckled pages. Binding is sturdy and strong. Joints of this large and heavy volume cracking (see photos). Mild foxing on various pages. With 100 plates, all present. Folio, 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches tall. SMITH, CHARLES JOHN (1803–1838), engraver, was born in 1803 at Chelsea, where his father, James Smith, practised as a surgeon. He was a pupil of Charles Pye [q. v.], and became a good engraver of book illustrations of a topographical and antiquarian character. He executed a few of the later plates in Charles Stothard's ‘Monumental Effigies,’ the views of houses and monuments in E. Cartwright's ‘Rape of Bramber,’ 1830, and several of the plates from illuminated manuscripts for Dibdin's ‘Tour in the Northern Counties of England,’ 1838. In 1829 Smith published a series of… Read More

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955. First Thus. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. A near fine first printing thus from the University of Oklahoma Press. Green cloth boards with maroon and gold title stamping on spine. Tan end papers with previous owner's name on first free end paper. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Odd printing showing a reversed bleed through of text on verso of some pages in the introduction. In a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with no chips or tears. Dust jacket shows spots of soil on back cover and sunning to spine. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated with maps and b/w plates. xlii, 275 pp. including index.

Berkeley: University of California, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/none as issued. About fine assumed first edition, "Distributed by the College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley" without an ISBN (presumably printed for a limited audience). Blue cloth boards with gold foil stamping of a cupola and title on cover and gold foil stamping on spine. Binding is sturdy, square and tight. Previous owner's name neatly stamped on FFE, otherwise as new. Text clean and bright. Laid in is a fine alumnae solicitation with historic photos from Berkeley, printed in 1997. Illustrated with b/w photo plates. ix, 292 pp. including index. Octavo, 6 x 9 1/4 inches tall. William Lee Jolly, professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley, whose work helped facilitate the renaissance of inorganic chemistry in the United States during the middle of the 20th century...Jolly worked as a group leader at the newly formed Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA, from 1953-55. There he… Read More

New York: Walker & Company, 1973. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. A fine, first English translation of an important work on the cities and monumental architecture of the Maya, Inca, Toltec, and Olmec. Binding is tight and sound, pages are clean and bright with no tears or markings. Immaculate orange cloth boards with title stamped in black on spine. Very good dust jacket, price-clipped with moderate chipping, curling and closed tears, and one scuff on front. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated with maps and sketches. 602 pp. Large octavo, 7 x 10 inches tall. A scholarly examination of Teotihuacán, Tula, Monte Albán, Uxmal, Chichen Itzá, Tikal, Palenque, Pachacamác and Machu Picchu

Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1970. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Fine/very good +. A fine first edition in a very good plus, original dust jacket. Red quarter cloth under buckram. Vancouver Island map end papers. Dust jacket sunned at spine. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. 142 pp. including index. Octavo, 6 x 9 inches tall.

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1965. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/very good. A near fine first edition. Brown quarter cloth under yellow cloth boards with gilt motif. Gilt title stamping on spine. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. In a very good, original, unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket showing a 1 inch closed tear and a crease. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated with maps and drawings. 196 pp. including index. Octavo. Och's comments on Spanish life and customs, both in the Old World and in the New, provide many a gem of human interest. He finds fault with the Spanish people for their failure to take advantage of business opportunities, with Spanish officials for graft and greed, with Spanish sea captains for inefficiency, and with Spanish miners for waste and incompetence. But ultimately he gives the Spanish their due: "I must admit that in my fourteen… Read More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. As new/as new. An as new, first edition with complete number line in an as new dust jacket. xiii, 234 pages, 41 pages of plates : illustrations. Octavo. Denis Judd tells the fascinating story of the remarkable British impact upon India, capturing the essence of what the Raj really meant both for the British and their Indian subjects. All aspects of this long and controversial relationship are discussed: the first tentative contacts between East and West, the foundation of the East India Company in 1600, the Victorian Raj in all its pomp and splendour, Gandhi's revolutionary tactics to overthrow the Raj and restore India to the Indians, and Lord Mountbatten's 'swift surgery of Partition' in 1947, creating the independent Commonwealth states of India and Pakistan."-- worldcatFrom the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L. Soske Jr.

Washington D.C : National Geographic, 1974. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good +/very good +. A very good plus first edition in a very good plus dust jacket. Beautiful native patterned cloth boards under one quarter black leatherette. Mild foxing to half title. Binding is sturdy and square. Foxing on the spine area inside the dust jacket. Rear pocket and map are pristine, 32 1/2 x 27 1/2 inch map. 399 pp. including index, richly illustrated with 440 black and white and color photos. Quarto, 9 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches tall. Contents:I Am Alive (by N Scott Momaday) Across an Arctic Bridge (by Jesse D. Jennings)Nomads of the North (by David Damas) Woodsmen and Villagers of the East (by William C. Sturtevant)About Language (by Wallace L. Chafe)Farmers and Raiders of the Southwest (by Alfonso Ortiz) Fishermen and Foragers of the West (by Robert F Heizer) Horsemen of the Plains (by John C. Ewers) The Clash of Cultures (by D'Arcy McNickle) From… Read More

Berkeley: The Professional Press, 1930. First Edition. Original wraps. Very good +/none as issued. A very good plus first edition in original wraps. Stapled. Gilt title stamping on cover with the seal of the Club. The very first of the series of Poems by the California Writers Club. Shelf wear and tiny tears to top edge (see photo). Text is clean and bright. The California Writers Club traces its founding to the San Francisco Bay Area literary movement in the early part of the 20th century. The informal gatherings of Jack London, George Sterling, and Herman Whitaker, along with others, eventually became formalized as the Press Club of Alameda. ---wikipediaJulia Cooley Altrocchi was an American author and poet, who wrote many works for children and adults, including The Poems of a Child, The Dance of Youth, Snow Covered Wagons, and Wolves Against the Moon.-- Wikipedia

New York: NY Lithograph, Printing & Engraving, 1867. Very good +/none as issued. Julius Bien, Sup.. Beautiful hand colored lithographic survey map of the North Anna American Civil War battlefield. Original from 1867. One crease in center of map. 24 x18 inches tall. Loss on bottom right; wear on bottom edge. The Battle of North Anna was fought May 23–26, 1864, as part of Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign against Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. It consisted of a series of small actions near the North Anna River in central Virginia, rather than a general engagement between the armies. The individual actions are sometimes separately known as: Telegraph Road Bridge and Jericho Mills (for actions on May 23); Ox Ford, Quarles Mill, and Hanover Junction (May 24).After disengaging from the stalemate at Spotsylvania Court House, Grant moved his army to the southeast, hoping to lure Lee into battle on open ground. He lost the… Read More

New York: NY Lithograph, Printing & Engraving, 1867. Very good +/none as issued. Julius Bien, Sup.. Hand colored lithographic map of the Bermuda Hundred American Civil War battlefield. Original from 1867. One crease in center of map. 36 x 24 1/2 inches tall. In March 1864, Ulysses S. Grant was summoned from the Western Theater, promoted to lieutenant general, and given command of all Union armies. Grant devised a coordinated strategy that would strike at the heart of Confederacy from multiple directions: Grant, George G. Meade, and Butler against Robert E. Lee near Richmond; Franz Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley; William Tecumseh Sherman to invade Georgia, defeat Joseph E. Johnston, and capture Atlanta; George Crook and William W. Averell to operate against railroad supply lines in West Virginia; Nathaniel Banks to capture Mobile, Alabama. This was the first time the Union armies would have a coordinated offensive strategy across multiple theaters.Grant and Meade attacked… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1958. First American Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. A very good stated first American edition in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Black cloth boards. Silver title stamping on spine. Yellow endpapers with previous owner's satmp on front pastedown. Dust jacket shows rubbing and some chipping at top edge. Binding a bit soft. Octavo. The first published account of the Manhattan Project and the German atomic bomb project. The book studied the making and dropping of the atomic bomb from the viewpoints of the atomic scientists. The book is largely based on personal interviews with persons who played leading parts in the construction and deployment of the bombs. --Wikipedia