Search Results: Authors starting with J from Quill & Brush

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: 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.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Co., 1948. First edition. Her first book. Loosely based on her childhood in an affluent California neighborhood. Good to very good with usual darkening of the pages, small tear near hinge of half-title page mended with archival tape on verso, hint of sticker shadow on front endpaper which is backed with old tape, two inconspicuous damp stains to page edges not extending to pages, pages 111-118 showing shallow chips along lower edges, and spine ends and corners rubbed. In about very good dust jacket with few tiny chips, internal archival-tape mends to two thumb-nail tears (spine and front flap fold), and spine a little toned. From the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his penciled notations on rear endpaper.

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. Very good to near fine with offset to endpapers (from binding materials) and trace evidence of old insect activity. Quite attractive.

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.

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).

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: 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.

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: Random House, (1938). First edition. 125 poems selected by Jeffers and Una, his wife. Includes first appearances of four poems. From the collection of Allen K. Mears with THIS COPY CONTAINING THE ONLY VERSION EXTANT OF A 1939 LETTER WRITTEN BY UNA JEFFERS ON ROBINSON JEFFERS' BEHALF to Elizabeth Bauer, as recorded in THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF ROBINSON JEFFERS: With Selected Letters of Una Jeffers, Volume Two, 1931-1939 (Stanford: 2011, pp. 988-89) where it appears in full with the notation "ALC. Mears. 3 pages." A footnote explains that Una Jeffers' original letter is lost, but that it is known to have been written from notes by Robinson Jeffers on Bauer's letter to him, fragments of which survive. In her letter, Bauer requests he expound on the meaning and intent of his poems and mentions an upcoming meeting of her reading group during which they plan to discuss Jeffers' poetry, causing the editors to surmise that "Bauer then shared Una's letter with her reading group, and someone in… Read More

New York: Random House, 1933. First edition. Jeffers first title to be published by Random House after Liveright folded [Broomfield A16a]. 8vo gilt-stamped brown cloth boards; 199 pages. Near fine with small spot on front board at gutter; in very good somewhat tanned dust jacket with few short tears.

San Francisco, CA: Grabhorn Press for Gelber, Lilienthal, 1934. First edition. Number 51 of 250 copies [Broomfield A17a].Bound in limp orange paper boards. Very good with old tape shadow to bottom front corner.

New York: Horace Liveright, (1928). First edition, trade issue. Only 1900 copies per Alberts [Broomfield A9b]. 8vo gilt-stamped quarter polished black cloth with purple paper boards; top edge black; 160 pp. Near fine with rust offset from old paperclip to front endpaper and half-title page (most evident on verso of endpaper and where paper a little thinned at head of half-title) but otherwise quite crisp and fine. Lacking the dust jacket.

([San Francisco] / San Mateo: Book Club of California / Quercus Press, 1947). First edition. First separate appearance of the poem. [Broomfield A34]. One of a stated 750 copies. Pulblished as part of the Club's keepsake series No. 11, which was sent monthly to members for free. Small quarto (6.5 x 10") cream-colored paperwraps; 4 pages, including covers. Near fine.

[No-place]: Cayucos Books, 1974. First edition, trade issue; preceded by a limited edition in 1973 [Broomfield A64b]. Near fine in about very good dust jacket with light soiling, shadows from old internal masking tape repair (now removed), and few small areas now internally repaired with archival tape.