Search Results: Authors starting with J from DuBois Rare Books

Aspen, CO: Aspen Art Press, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/None Issued. 72 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Issued in connection with an exhibition held Feb. 14-Apr. 13, 2008, Aspen Art Museum.

Baltimore: I. & M. Ottenheimer, 1911. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Very Good. 94 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. Book Condition: Pages toned, wraps with small loss to tail of spine, discreet pencil marking (price) to front cover. Very Good at least. One of the nicest examples we've seen of this notoriously emphemeral series. Uncommon. Worldcat shows just 7 institutional holdings.

Harrisburg: Stackpole Co, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 187 pages illustrations 29 cm. 4to. Glossy pictorials boards. Book Condition: Small tear to foot of spine else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: A few closed tears to the edges and a chip at the foot of the spine. Nice and bright otherwise.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 166 pages ; 22 cm.

Paris: Hachette, 1968. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 335 pages maps (some color) 16 cm. (16mo.) Hardcover. Publisher's original cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover. Book Condition: pretty much pristine, fine. Dust Jacket Condition: acetate jacket shows v. light wear. A sharp copy; folding maps absolutely untouched, with original cardboard/staples slipcase.

New York: Information Office, Consulate General of Japan at New York, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good+. 24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 x 22 cm. Oblong 8vo. Sofcover. Saddlebound stapled stiff Wraps. Book Condition: Small splashes to front cover, covers a little dusty else fine. Diary entries of members of the first Ambassador's diplomatic contigent recording their impressions as they travel to America and the first Japanese Embassy to the United States is established.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993. First Printing of First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 327 pages ; 23 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original deep wine-colored cloth and paper over boards, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover. Book Condition: fine and most certainly unread. Dust Jacket Condition: freakishly bright and fresh and unmarred by virtue of the fact that this copy has had an extra jacket since it left the presses. As nice a copy as any out there. Linda Cloverdale's translation of the 1991 Prix Interallie-winner "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" ; basis for the 2004 Jean-Pierre Jeunet film.

New York: Canongate, 2005. First Printing of First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. xvi, 151 pages ; 21 cm.

New York: Alfred Knopf, 2000. First Printing of First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 289 pages ; 21 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Printing of First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Bridge Works Publishing Company, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 240 pages ; 22 cm.

New York: Pantheon, 2000. First Edition, First Printing so stated with full number line. Hardcover. About Fine/About Fine. 225 pp. Hardcover. Octavo. Book condition is about fine in an about fine jacket. Bottom right corner of both gently pushed else as-new. Author of National Book Award winning "Waiting" and winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award, the Flannery O'conner Award for Short Fiction, and the Pen/Faulkner Award.

New York: Wendy Lamb Books, 2007. First Edition, First Printing so stated with full number line. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by author on half title page.

New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

New York: Lee Publishing Co, 1921. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 137 pp. 19 cm. 12mo. Hardcover. Publisher's original black ribbed cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover. Book Condition: last 4 pages or so look like they weren't cut properly at printer and separation has left them bottom edges a little ragged and torn, edges a little dusty, faint signs of handling, else fine. Preface by Andre Tridon. Rinaldo argues against "prohibitionist" attitude towards any kinds of sexual interaction what-so-ever. Opening line of book ranks up there with the classics: "For the past 30 years I have been a student of sex problems and during the time have had abundant opportunity to study the sex instinct in normal and abnormal human beings."

New York: Bloomsbury, 2004. First Printing of First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 244 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm. 12 mo.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. xi, 399 pages ; 25 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original black linen over boards, silver lettering to spine and upper cover. Book Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: the faintest wrinkles at spine ends else fine. A sharp copy.

New York: W.W. Norton, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 236 pages ; 22 cm. A pristine copy. [Prominent (front of dust jacket) blurb by David Foster Wallace].

Lower Manhattan New York City: E.P. Dutton, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 228 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Vienna: Wilhem Frick, 1960. First Printing of First German Edition. Hardcover. About Fine/Very Good. 296 pp. illus. 20 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original red cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: shelf wear with chipping and dusty areas to panels.