Search Results: Authors starting with J from Quill & Brush

New York: Farrar, Straus and Co., 1948. First edition. Her first book. Loosely based on her childhood in an affluent California neighborhood. Very good to near fine with the usual darkening of the pages (due to the high pulp paper used during and after WWII), small tear near hinge of half-title page mended with archival tape on verso, hint of sticker shadow on verso front endpaper, and two small damp stains to page edges not extending to pages. Spine and covers quite bright and fine. In very good or better dust jacket with few tiny chips, internal archival-tape mends to two thumb-nail tears (spine and front flap fold), and spine and flap edges a bit tanned. From the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his penciled notations on rear endpaper.

New York: Viking Press, (1968). First edition. Posthumous collection edited by her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman. From the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his penciled notations on rear endpaper and contents page and corresponding passages lightly marked in pencil in margins. Page edges moderately foxed otherwise fine. In very good to near fine dust jacket with light soiling, touch of rubbing and few tiny tears.

Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, (1953). First edition thus, one-act play based on the Shirley Jackson story of the same name. Near fine in stapled paperwraps. BASED ON JACKSON'S STORY

New York: New Yorker, 1948. First edition. First appearance of Jackson's best-known story, "The Lottery," the publication of which prompted hundreds of letters and subscription cancellations from outraged readers. Collected the following year in the book of the same name. Good to very good in pictorial paperwraps with staining to top edge front cover affecting top edge first two pages, small chip to upper rear cover, staples showing rusting, and innermost leaf detached but present. Quite scarce.

Dallas, TX: Kaleidograph Press, (1940). First edition. A Poet Laureate and prize-winning poet herself, Jacobsen's poetry was praised by Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky for its "reserve, stoic timbre, and its high precision." Near fine in very good to near fine dust jacket with shallow chipping to spine ends and corners and spine just slightly tanned. Still, a quite attractive copy of her SCARCE FIRST BOOK.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First edition. Short, offbeat stories illustrated with drawings by David Bromige. Number Number 24 of 200 numbered copies SIGNED BY JAFFE (of 226 total). Lower corners gently bumped still fine in original acetate.

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1894. Third edition. Gilt page edges, decorations and lettering. Near fine with offset on endpapers.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1883. First edition, first issue in primary binding of blue-green smooth cloth with "JAMES" in uniform letters on spine. 1,000 copies. Precedes the American edition. Light scattered foxing, boards rubbed on corners and a few light spots, back hinge starting to crack, small thin strip of cloth tape on copyright page and front endpaper (covering something?), otherwise very good.

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1948. First edition. Edited and with an introduction by Allan Wade. Light rubbing to spine ends and tips, otherwise fine in dust jacket with slightly soiled spine and spine lettering faded (barely legible).

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. First U.S. edition of the novel James considered to be his best. Differs somewhat from the UK edition. Very good to near fine with corners lightly bumped, board visible at upper front corner (just a tiny spot), and first and last few leaves faintly foxed; in very good to near fine blue cloth-over-paper dust jacket with minor soiling to rear panel and just a touch of light edge rubbing. Still, quite attractive.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. First edition. An almost very good copy with spine and edges sunned, inscription on front endpaper, offset on endpapers and title page, light foxing and newspaper clippings affixed to back endpaper and pastedown.

Paddington Station, London: The Great Western Railway, 1925. First edition. Additional chapter on "Monastic Life and Buildings" by A. Hamilton Thompson. Illustrated. Great Western Railway map in pocket on back paste down. About very good with offset shadow on front board, corners rubbed, endpapers lightly foxed, name on front endpaper.

Conway, Arkansas: Seven Oaks Publ. Co., (1994). First edition. Early, or perhaps the first, poetry selection from the writer, author, singer/songwriter, and professional treasure hunter known for his "Buried Treasures of America" series. INSCRIBED TO LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY, "To L.D.--...one who know the words, the language, the joys, the pains of this kind of life. Best, WC Jameson." Cream-colored paperwraps printed in brown, teal, orange and black. Fine. TREASURE HUNTER'S BOOK OF POETRY, INSCRIBED TO FELLOW POET

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First edition. His only novel. Uncorrected proof in blue, printed paperwraps labeled "Advance Copy" at top. About very good with covers somewhat soiled, spine slightly tanned and crease and tear to top edge rear cover. Newsclipping with notice of his death from the NY Times laid in noting his death to have been a presumed suicide and quoting him as saying, "The public has an unusual relationship to the poet, it doesn't even know that he is there.

New York: Knopf, 1954. First edition. SIGNED BY JARRELL on front endpaper. 8vo emerald-green boards with blind-stamped front and gilt-lettered spine, top edge pale orange, 277 pages. Spine slightly toned with gilt a bit dulled but readable, otherwise very good in about very good dust jacket with rubbing to edges and folds, small chips to spine ends, corners nicked, and orange spine blocking toned to gray but spine still bright. Relatively scarce signed.

(Amador City: Quintessence Press, 1987). First edition. Illustrated with drawing of Hawk Tower by Beilke. Number 14 of 100 numbered copies signed by her. 13.5 x 20" broadside printed in black, gray-brown, burnt sienna, and blue on heavy cream paper with lower edge deckled. Marlan Beilke notes on the verso that "Many of the exotic stones affixed to Hawk Tower were gifts of [Blanche], so that it is minor hyperbole only to state that [together they] 'built the tower of the hawk'." Fine.

No-place: no-publisher, 1964. First edition, first separate appearance [Broomfield A50a]. One of 250 copies "printed for their friends of the Roxburghe Club and for their other friends at Christmas, 1964, by Kerwin Whitnah and Arlen H. Philpott." Prints the text of Jeffers' letter to Sister Mary James beautifully answering her question about his "religious attitudes." Approximately 12.75 x 20" printed in black on Arches watermarked paper. Near fine with crease at center where folded (as noted by Broomfield) and touch of minor rumpling. Scarce.

[Frankenhardt, Germany]: Edition Schwarze Seite, (2010). First edition. Only edition, and a very limited one at that. Number 15 of only 25 copies SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Constitutes the first separate printing of Jeffers' poem which has alternately been titled "the unformed volcanic earth" [Broomfield A135, addendum]. Bilingual text with English on rectos and German translations by Eva Hesse on versos. Illustrated with five tissue-protected foldout color etchings by Froeschlin. Folio volume measuring approximately 11.5 x 15.5"; 16 pages, letterpress printed; hand bound in printed paper over boards with leather spine titled in gilt. The full-color etchings are printed on full-size (23-inch wide) Arches paper folded into the gutter and tipped on one edge. Each etching is protected by full-size tissue interleaving paper to prevent offsetting. Housed in publisher's original sturdy white slipcase covered in deep blue paper with flecks and streaks of white "suggesting stars in a night sky" (Broomfield p.… Read More

New York: Horace Liveright, (1929). First edition, third printing. INSCRIBED BY JEFFERS on front endpaper, "Inscribed for Ruth Thompson, in hope/ of seeing her again./ Sincerely,/ Robinson Jeffers/ Buffalo - March 11, 1941," which would have been during his tour to the East Coast. Very good, lacking dust jacket.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First edition, One of only 1,200 copies in the first printing [Broomfield A5a]. 8vo gilt-stamped purple paper boards with black cloth spine; top edge black; 253 pages. Very good or better with spine slightly dulled, upper corners lightly bumped, and faint abrasion to front pastedown. Lacking the scarce dust jacket.