Search Results: Authors starting with J from Great Northern Books

New York: Oxford University Press, 1963. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Includes the following essays: The Literary Scene in 1815 -- Byron -- Shelley -- Keats -- Clare and the Minor Poets -- The Waverley Romances -- Peacock -- John Galt and the Minor Writers of Prose Fiction -- Hazlitt -- Lamb -- De Quincey -- Miscellaneous Prose -- History, Biography and Autobiography -- Interest in Foreign Literature and in Earlier English Literature -- The Literary Scene in 1832. Also includes chronological tables, bibliographical references, and index. Fading to spine of dustjacket, slight edgewear, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy.

Chicago: Thos. W. Jackson Pub. Co., 1927. Trade Paperback. Good. A humor book "for sale on all railroad trains and news stands." [from cover] Illustrated, includes politically incorrect racial humor, from the 20s. Cover is chipped along edges with some loss.

Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. First printing. Foreword by Bill McKibben. "A harrowing documentation of our modern world's descent into fragmentation, self alienation, and emptiness -- brought on by communication technologies that distract us." [from dustjacket] Includes bibliography and index.

[Philadelphia] : Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Art exhibition catalogue: introduction by Alan Fern ; catalogue by Ellen S. Jacobowitz and George H. Marcus. Features numerous illustrations, some color, and a bibliography. Features such artists as Whistler, Hassam, Cassatt, Bellows, Sloan, etc. A clean, unmarked copy.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. Numerous line drawing illustrations by Fletcher Clark.. Edgewear and rubbing to cover, hinges beginning to split, else an unmarked copy, lacking a dustjacket.

[West Chester, PA] : Chester County Historical Society, 1947. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Number 418 of 1,000 numbered copies. Includes numerous illustrations, a fold out map, and bibliographical references. Slight edgewear to cover, else a clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Library of America, 1993. First printing. Slipcased. Very Good +. The subscription edition in brown cloth and cream colored slipcase, without dustjacket as issued, distributed prior to the retail edition in black dustjacket. Richard Howard wrote the notes for this volume. Contents: A Little Tour in France -- Italian Hours -- Other Travels. Also includes a chronology, bibliographical references, black & white illustrations, glossary, and attached ribbon marker. The slightest rubbing to spine.

Paris: Librairie Générale Française, 1989. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. French translation of "Innocent Blood" by Lisa Rosenbaum. For the completist. A clean, unmarked copy. Ships from USA.

London: Faber and Faber, 2008. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing.The fourteenth and final Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Wonderful pictorial wrap around dustjacket. Slight edgewear to dustjacket, else a clean, unmarked copy. Ships from USA.

New York: Knopf, 2001. First American edition Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. The 11th in the Adam Dalgliesh mystery series. Uncorrect proof of the first American edition in printed wrappers.

New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2008. Advance Uncorrected Reader's Proof. Trade Paperback. Near Fine in Wraps . A Touchstone Original. " The fourth book featuring ex-anchorwoman, Ali Reynolds. An oversized trade paperback with a colorful cover. Slight edgewear to cover, else a clean unmarked copy.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1937. Hardcover. Ex-Library. With a preface by James Brown Scott, and postscript by Josiah C. Wedgwood. a pre-war examination of Gernan racial policies with regard to international law. Also includes an index. Ex-library with usual markings, not affecting text, lacking a dustjacket.

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Facsimiles of the fifty pages of the poet's worksheets, with reproductions of the seven engravings and woodcuts Albrecht Durer made of St. Jerome. An interesting look at one of the great poet's last (unfinished) poems." [from publisher] A clean, unmarked copy.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company , 1908. Hardcover. Ex-Library. A collection of papers originally published in the Standard, English illustrated magazine, Longman's magazine and other periodicals .Includes 12 color illustrations [including frontis with tissue guard], by Ruth Dollman. Gilt debossed title, author and nature scene on front cover panel. Ex-library with minimal markings. No dustjacket.

New York: Seven Stories Press, 2007. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Uncorrected galley of the first American edition. Winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of "The Piano Teacher."

London: Granta Books, 1997. First UK edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. First printing. A paperback original. The second book by the author of "Typical American." A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: New York University Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. First printing. "Philip Jenkins's innovative research methods let him explore and map the secret electronic networks that link individuals whose deviance seems not just outrageous, but incomprehensible." [Joel Best] Includes bibliographical references and index.

New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1957. First American edition. Hardcover. Good/good. First printing. The second book by Jhabvala, the Booker Prize and Academy Award-winning author. Very distinctive dustjacket art by Jack Strimban. Slight edgewear and sunning to spine of dustjacket, small J on spine of book cover. Still a good, decent reading copy.

New York: New Directions, 1989. First edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. First printing, a paperback original. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half title page.

New York: Brooke Alexander Editions, 1991. wraps. Near Fine. One of a 3,000 copy unsigned limited edition exhibition catalogue. Features an original Johns lithograph frontispiece printed at ULAE, titled, "Summer. state ii, 1985-91," and printed in green. Also includes a black and white illustrated wrap around gatefold cover created by Johns especially for this publication, printed on Rives paper, also at ULAE. The catalogue was designed by Jordan Davies and printed by The Studley Press, Dalton, MA. 57 pages with an essay by Roberta Brenstein. Also includes numerous color and black & white illustrations, exhibition checklist, exhibition history, and bibliography.