Search Results: Authors starting with J from BIAbooks

New York, NY: Scribners, 1940. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Edmund Blampied. THE BLAMPIED EDITION OF PETER PAN. 1st Edition 1940. A very rare book with the original dust jacket. Wonderful twelve full colour and seventeen black and white illustrations by Edmund Blampied. One of the finest editions of 'Peter Pan' ever produced. The complete wrapper is very good+ and bright. Edges and spine tips lightly rubbed and nicked. A few closed tears to edges.

New York: Saint Martin's Press, Inc., 2007. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A very attractive book that has two tiny cuts to the edge of the DJ spine, else fine. "POSH is a beguiling novel. Lucy Jackson moves with an astonishing deftness from social satire to family heartbreak and back again. POSH is both funny and moving, and a pleasure to read, from the first page to the last."--Brain Morton

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Author's first novel. 'The story of a gifted runner confronted with by numbing consequences of reality. Jackson's debut novel is filled with rich prose.'.---Terry Kay. Dj has a mylar cover.

New York: Viking Books, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Debut Novel. Author inscribed.

Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. A pristine book that is SIGNED by Dr. Maas and Ms. Robbins. Appear unread.Recent research has shown us that when we get enough sleep, we are able to accomplish more in less time and with less stress and greater health. We don't need a 26-hour day. With more efficient and effective sleep habits.

Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, 1954. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Complete guide to hunting ducks and geese in North America. Dust Jacket Pictorial boards covered with matching dust wrapper.Color plates and B&W photos on slick paper. 4to. 11 3/8" x 9". 187 pages. 12 chapters. Appendix of waterfowl laws. This book is in great condition, solid with no faults. DJ has some edge wea,r five minor closed tears and one 1"X2" cut from front panel. Presented in protective cover.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1986. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers. But between the disappointments come snatches of self-awareness, and astrange beauty in their encounters with one another. "A true original with an eye for quirky detail. Janowitz's lean, satirical vignettes put her in the stylistic company of Fran Lebowitz and Jay McInerney."--San Francisco Chronicle. "GREAT! SIZZLING! WOW!."--Andy Warhol

New York: Crown Publishers. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1986. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers. But between the disappointments come snatches of self-awareness, and astrange beauty in their encounters with one another. "A true original with an eye for quirky detail. Janowitz's lean, satirical vignettes put her in the stylistic company of Fran Lebowitz and Jay McInerney."--San Francisco Chronicle. "GREAT! SIZZLING! WOW!."--Andy Warhol

New York: Crown Publishers, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A Collectible book. SIGNED. In 1978, Elizabeth Bishop selected Ms. Janowitz book for the Associated Writing Programs Poetry Prize. This was the first of many honors Phyllis received for her poetry, including a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton and two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts

New York: Free Press, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1986. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine book, inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf page. John Foster Dulles was President Eisenhower's Secretary of State. Louis Jefferson was Dulles's security officer for five years until the diplomat died in 1959. Mr. Jefferson has compiled personal recollections and press-club-bar war stories of Mr. Dulles.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Senator Jeffords explains the issues that led to this dramatic break from the Republican Party on May 24, 2001, when he could no longer reconcile his beliefs with the politics of the party he had supported his whole adult life. Also included with this book is a special signed postcard of thanks from Senator Jeffords for a generous contribution to his campaign. A pristine book that appears UNREAD.

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1985. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A collectible book, SIGNED by the author front free end paper. Book's flaw is that the spine is slightly cocked with minor toning. The DJ is whole but with a one inch tear near bottom spine. Minor curl to top of DJ with minor wear and tear along edges. . Jackson Pollock, the spectacularly self-destructive and gifted American painter, comes to life in this fascinating oral biography assembled and written by his friend and East Hampton neighbor, Jeffrey Potter. The dramatic narrative of Pollock's violent death, told by those who were on the scene, from farmers and policemen to coroners and lovers, is gripping in its immediacy. "Jackson Pollock is very much alive again...arresting...fascinating." -- The New York Times, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. A collection of eight wonderfully alive stories. The author chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on America - with sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreaking results. "Sparkling--a gently satiric look at the American Dream and its fallout on those who pursue it."--The New York Times

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. "Ive been reading and marveling . . . Her characters are so alive that one can hardly call them characters. Blondie, Mama Wong, Carnegie, Lizzy, Wendy, and, oh, Lan! I didnt want to part from them: here is a novel so insightful, so satisfying, that it ought never to have ended. The interlude in China, the ingenuity of the narration, the tenderness, the all-observing comedy, the darker elements, the perfect-pitch dialogue, the domestic exactitude, the surprises! Having lived for a time (too brief a time) with Gishs people as with ones own family, one comes to love them."-- Cynthia Ozick

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Debut Novel.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2004. Second Printing Before Publication . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. "Ive been reading and marveling . . . Her characters are so alive that one can hardly call them characters. Blondie, Mama Wong, Carnegie, Lizzy, Wendy, and, oh, Lan! I didnt want to part from them: here is a novel so insightful, so satisfying, that it ought never to have ended. The interlude in China, the ingenuity of the narration, the tenderness, the all-observing comedy, the darker elements, the perfect-pitch dialogue, the domestic exactitude, the surprises! Having lived for a time (too brief a time) with Gishs people as with ones own family, one comes to love them."-- Cynthia Ozick

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.