Search Results: Titles starting with J from Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. Reprint. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 153. Decorated endpapers. Bound in half tan linen over light blue paper-covered boards, lettering stamped on front board and spine. Pencil notes on the essence of poetry on rear free endpaper. Dust jacket with slight chips to edges, darkening to spine. Inscribed by Archibald MacLeish on the half-title page. Inscription reads, "To Jack Troy, with every good wish, [signed] Archibald MacLeish". The play won both the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award. Endpaper and dust jacket design by Ismar David. Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

Jefferson, NC & London: McFarland and Company, Inc, 1982. First Edition. Stiff illustrated wraps. Very Good. 8vo. Pp. x, 197. Illustrated with b&w production stills, posters and advertising. Foreword by actor Richard Bakalyan. With filmography, bibliography and index. Black & white photo illustrated stiff paper wraps. Edges minimally rubbed and age toned, binding tight. A perceptive, witty, non-academic study of the genre within its socio-cultural context, going well beyond Blackboard Jungle, Rebel Without a Cause and The Wild One. The first of several books on B-movies from the screenwriter of Bad Girls from Mars. A well-preserved copy.

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Tall, thin 8vo. Pp. 37, (2). Introduction by Maria Hummer-Tuttle. Each of the medal winners is provided a brief and insightful biography by James Cuno. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white and color photos. Bound in purple paper-covered boards with metallic lettering stamped on front cover and spine. A superb copy. Bookseller inventory C09141X82W.

(Salt Lake City): (Elk Press), 2004. Limited Edition. Stiff printed wrappers, saddle-stapled. Good+. Matthew Stoudt (cover illustration). Small 8vo. Pp. 32. Stiff printed wraps printed in color, saddle stapled. Light dampstains to top of front cover and first three pages. Of an edition limited to 100 copies, this is hand-numbered copy 12. A tribute to Kerouac's fondness for the City of Seattle, documented in Desolation Angels and other works. This essay first appeared in Jack Kerouac's Nine Lives (2001). This limited edition is increasingly scarce.

Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Eduardo Calderón (photographs). Small 4to. Pp. xi, 238. Illustrated with black & white photo reproductions and document facsimiles. With sources, notes, discography and index. Blue cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, coated paper. In the color illustrated dust jacket with price intact on the front flap. Signed in ink by Sonny Booker and Buddy Catlett beneath their respective portraits. The Seattle-based jazz critic's deeply-researched story that began with interviews for an oral history project in 1988. With contemporary portrait photos by Calderón and select discography assisted by Ken Wiley. Includes musicians Corky Corcoran, Bumps Blackwell, Ray Charles, Patti Bown, Larry Coryell, Buddy Catlett, Floyd Standifer, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, Traff Hubert, Janet Thurlow, Oscar Holden, Pops Buford, Palmer Johnson, Don Lanphere, Chuck Metcalf, Jabo Ward, Leon Vaughn, and Billy Toles.Dust jacket is now… Read More

(Greenwich): The Navy Records Society, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Pp. xxvii; 319, followed by seven pages of publisher's previous titles and 22 pages of Society members. Fronts. portrait of King James I. Index. Full blue buckram with gilt medallion stamped on front cover. gilt lettering stamped on spine. A solid copy with no detracting qualities. A volume in the vital series published by the Navy Records Society, providing insight to specific periods of maritime history, and proving great value to researchers and writers. Notably, Patrick O'Brian has proclaimed his debt to the series for imparting verisimilitude to his Jack Aubrey - Stephen Maturin novels. The editor was Deputy Keeper, National Maritime Museum. A handsome, presentable copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine. David Hendrickson (dust jacket illustrator). 8vo. Pp. 242. Color frontis. illustration. With black-and-white illustrations throughout. Bound in taupe cloth with green lettering stamped on front board, green lettering on spine. Slight age-toning to cloth. In the dust jacket separated along front panel-front flap fold. Dust jacket illustration by David Hendrickson. Subtitle on dust jacket: "Memories of Cheese and Cider Days on an American Farm." First edition, review copy with the signature of Los Angeles Times critic Paul Jordan Smith. Dust jacket illustrator David Hendrickson, San Francisco painter, studied under Dean Cornwell. "Jake Falstaff" was the pen name of Herman Fetzer (1899-1935), the novelist, poet and newspaper columnist. Dust jacket now enclosed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

New York: Mason Publishing Co, 1932. Early Reprint. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good-. Charlot (dust jacket illustration). 8vo. Pp. 244. Bound in green cloth with black rules on front board, black lettering on spine. Bookplate of Langley Porter, then-dean of the UC School of Medicine, on front pastedown, binding tad cocked. In the color-illustrated dust jacket, price-clipped, that has two old tape reinforcements on verso, edge-wear and chips along spine. Please see photos. Early reprint published a year after the first printing, of the crime novel involving racketeering in the Chicago Loop, and a pair of antique jade green cats. The superb dust jacket illustration by Charlot depicts the inscrutable jade green cats looking down on a murder victim. One of only two mysteries written by Blake. HUBIN, p. 36. Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

Berkeley: Quelquefois Press, 2012. Limited Edition. Cloth Covered Hardcover. Fine. Ciel McKay, Anita Barrows, Mary Risala Laird. Tall 8vo. Pp. 44. Illustrated with seven linocuts by Ciel McKay, one each by Anita Barrows and Mary Risala Laird. With an introduction by the poet. Title page printed in red and black. Printed letterpress. Bound in deep red Japanese cloth over boards, linocut printed on front and rear cover. Sewn with red stitch over three bands of black goatskin. Of an edition limited to 115 copies, this is hand-numbered copy 75. Signed by Barrow, McKay and Laird at the colophon. An exquisite production, refined in everyway and yet exuding a modern vibe, especially as conveyed in the prints.

Austin: Gammel's Book Store, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Pp. 200. Frontis. photo portrait. Illustrated with line drawings. Bound in maroon cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine and front cover. Faint foxing to preliminaries, slight pea-size bumps to fore-edge and spine (see photo), and dust-soiling to top edge. A well-bound copy. A series of anecdotes documenting the scraps in which Wilson was involved and invariably prevailed, accented by more than a dash of braggadocio. Not in ADAMS Six-Guns.

London: F. E. Robinson & Co, 1903. Limited Edition. Full leather. Very Good. Small 8vo. Pp. lx, 157. Frontis. Montrose portrait photogravure reproduction. With notes and index. Black morocco, elaborate decorations surrounding royal coat of arms stamped in gilt front and back, spine gilt fleur de lys diapered, red watered silk endpapers, gilt tops, title page with ornamental border, hand-numbered 134 of an edition limited to 320. Spine faded to dark brown although gilt remains brilliant, edges minimally rubbed, title page with transfer toning from frontis., leaves crisp and bright and uncut after p. xxiv. Binding tight. The origin and motifs of the gilt decorations are described in Cyril Davenport's "Note on the Binding," pp. ix-xv. A very well preserved copy with great shelf appeal.

London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd, 1941. Early Reprint. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good-. Augustus John, G. R. Morris. 8vo. Pp. 354. Frontis. subject portrait by Augustus John. Illustrated with eight full-page photomontages by G. R. Morris on coated paper. Red cloth, titles and rules stamped in pale yellow on the spine. Top edge dyed yellow. In the two color Morris photomontage illustrated dust jacket, 15s. price intact on the front flap. March 1941 reprint of the February 1941 first edition, as stated on the copyright page. Owner signature on front endpaper, notes on back endpaper, and a few marginal highlights all in light pencil. Laid in newspaper clipping reproduction of Joyce portrait by Jacques-Emile Blanche. Spine ends rubbed, corners lightly bumped, damp stains to boards, endpapers lightly age toned, head edge lightly foxed and dust soiled. Jacket edges rubbed, damp stains front and back, spine ends chipped and reinforced with aged cello tape. This sympathetic biography… Read More

La Conner, Seattle and London: Museum of Northwest Art with University of Washington Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Square 4to. Pp. 120. Color frontis. illustration. With some-60 full color plates reproducing Martin's work. Bound in deep red cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. In a Fine dust jacket and with a matching red-cloth slipcase. SIGNED by Martin on a page featuring his photo and a self-portrait. In addition, he has signed the afterword, with a manuscript "D.D.R," referencing his residence, Donald Duck Ranch. Inscribed by Sheila Farr on the title page. The author's inscription is to a prominent Seattle arts patron, "For -- --, with many thanks, [signed] Sheila 2001". In the acknowledgements, the recipient is credited as "taking a chance on a dark horse and putting up the front money for this project." One of an unspecified, limited number of special copies issued with the matching slipcase. Dust jacket is now preserved in a clear, removable archival protector.

London: A. Fletcher, 1980. First Edition. Printed wrappers, stapled. Good+. Robin Parry Richards (cover). A4 (210 x 297 mm). Pp. 43. Illustrated with black & white photo reproductions. Color offset printed, side-stapled. Edges a tad rubbed, a few corners dog-eared, price sticker remains: the stout paper has survived well. Famous, ambitious, text-heavy fanzine with just four pages of ads. This number appeared nine months after No. 9 while Fletcher studied for exams. With: singles & album charts calculated from reader votes, a South London venue guide, letters, The Directions, Delta 5 interview, singles reviews (Pointed Sticks, The Slits, etc.), Au Pairs, The Damned interview, DIY record discussion, album reviews (The Chords, The Fall, etc.), Security Risk, The Apocalypse, Crass interview, Girls At Our Best.Fletcher was 13 years old in 1977 when he started his zine and kept it going until 1986: 36 issues!Now preserved in a clear archival sleeve with acid-free backing.

[New York]: Totem Press, 1959. First Edition. Stiff Printed Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. Pp. [6]. Stiff printed wraps saddle stapled. Edges age toned, covers lightly soiled. The second of thirteen pamphlets published by Jones (aka Amiri Baraka, Imamu Amear Baraka) and Hettie Cohen 1958 - 62. Preserved in a clear archival sleeve with acid-free backing.

(Budapest): Mora Ferenc Konyvkiado, 1989. Reprint. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Rona Emy. 8vo. Pp. 123, [1]. With Rona Emy full-plate and intertextual illustrations in full color. Bound in teal-colored paper-covered boards, black lettering on front cover and spine. In the pictorial dust jacket. Slight wear to edges of dust jacket, else Fine. An attractive, fresh copy. Dust jacket now preserved in a removable, archival sleeve.

NP: Grey Spider Press [for] White Pine Press Signature Editions, 1996. Limited Edition. Single Sheet Printed Recto. Near Fine. Single poem printed recto measuring 16 x 11 inches. The poem is printed in black; Hansen's collection of Chinese seals, or chops, are printed in red, along with their meanings printed in black. Lower left corner slightly bumped, now mellowed. Corners sharp, Signed by Hansen in his calligraphic style. Of an edition limited to 50 copies, this is hand-numbered copy number 6. A bright, presentable copy of the poet-translator's poem, an explication of his Chinese chops, vibrantly printed on Ingres-Fabriano paper by Chris Stern and Jules Remedios Faye at their renowned Grey Spider Press. Scarce. Broadside is now housed in a removable, clear, archival sleeve with acid-free backing.

Tokyo: Shinkenchiku-sha, 1961. First Printing. Stiff illustrated wrappers. Very Good. 4to. Pp. 91. Illustrated with black & white gravure and color litho photo reproductions, drawings and display advertising. Stiff paper photo illustrated wraps, side-stapled. Text in English, one leaf in Spanish. Edges rubbed, corners bumped, mellowed creases. Lead article on Isoya Yoshida's Yamato Bunkakan Museum including a fold-out color photo. A scarce issue of the influential magazine that disseminated modern design trends eventually adopted in the West. Now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve with an acid-free backing.

Baltimore, London, Oxford: Johns Hopkins Press; Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Pp. xxxv; 332. Foreword by W. W. Willoughby. Illustrated with a map of the South Manchuria Railway. Bibliography. Index. Bound in royal blue cloth with gilt-stamped labels on spine and cover. Previous owner's name on ffep, else Fine in printed dust jacket that show slight fading to spine. An attractive copy. A desirable copy. A volume in the publishers' series "Japan's Jurisdiction and International Legal Position in Manchuria." Increasingly uncommon and rarely seen in the dust jacket.

Ithaca: Cornell University -- Department of Far Eastern Studies, Southeast Asia Program, 1961. First Edition. Stiff printed wraps. Fine. 4to. Pp. 241, followed by a bibliography and a list of other papers in the series. Map laid-in. Stiff paper wraps, red, with lettering in black. Published by the Cornell University Department of Far Eastern Studies Southeast Asia Program as "Data Paper: Number 42.". A superb copy, now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.