Search Results: Titles starting with J from Lamplighter Library

Tokyo,Japan. Charles E. Tuttle. 1955. Brown cloth boards with darker brown lettering to spine. Stated First Japan Printing January 1955 on copyright page. Reprint of 1904 edition. Japanese Book seller (The House of Sung) stamp on bottom of last page. Jacket is clipped with $3.75 pencil notation in place of printed price; protected with removal mylar cover. Three color printing of warrior on front is reproduction from an original woodblock print by Torii Kiyomasa (1694-1716). Minor shelf wear, chip to top of spine and a 1 inch closed tear on bottom of jacket. Hearn (1850-1904) changed his name to Koizumi Yakumo after becomeing a Japanese citizen 1896. Hearn (pen name Yakumo Koizumi) provides a personal account of his time spent in Japan into a vivid account of how the Japanese live, work and think. Hearn (Yakumo) is well known for his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories. 5x7.5in. Including Idex, 498 pg.

Pellegrini & Cudahy. Boston. Quarter-bound in blue with oatmeal colored cloth boards. 9 color and 62 bw pages. Forward written by John Marin. Extensive text dealing with Marin's art and life is followed by the large, full-page plates. Prior owner's stamp on FFEP, 1.5-in. tear on front jacket, spine top bumped. Color plates A - H were printed by offset lithography by the Western Printing and Lithographing Company. John Marin (1870-1953) was an early American modernist artist best known for his abstract landscapes and watercolors.

Houghton Mifflin,1843. Very good First Editon, later printing of the Newbery Medal editon. Boards bright greeen with black pictoral & title on front, lettering on spine. Minor chips to bottom of pictoral paste-downs and small book seller decal on rear paste-down. Very good unclipped ($3.75) with bright Newbery decal on front, shelf wear typical of age of book, several small chips to edge(s), closed tear on bottom of spine and open (1/2 in.) tear at top of spine that does not involve author's name. The Pulitzer Prize winning author (Paul Revere) expands on the story that most children read in elementary school. Who can forget the fourteen year-old boy who (in 1773) burned his hand with iwth molten silver. The book describes in detail the Revolutionary events in/around Boston such as the Tea Party and the Battle of Lexington. The Newbery additon includes twelve full-page illustrations by Lynd Ward not in the seen in the trade edtion. 8.5x5.75 in.

Little Brown and Company, Boston 1972. Near fine/fine- Mustard hardboards with green titles on spine. Clean tight edition with no marks, no stickers. Tri-colored jacke dj with full black and white photo of JFK on front and back of cover. First Edition, later printing. Fourteen chapter beginning with The End of the Beginning and ending in an Index.
Written by his two closest confidants and signed by one, Dave Powers, in ink on the half titile page. Mr. Powers was the Special Assistant and assistant Appointments Secretary to JFK while President of the United States. "Through the eyes of these firsthand observers we witness insights into Kennedy the man - the tension and agony of the Cuban missile crisis, his love of Irish songs and Gaelic poetry, the machinations leading to the selection of Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate in 1960, the witty and truly personal replies he wrote to curious schoolchildren's questions, the Vienna meeting with Khrushchev." Small 4to 9.75x6.25. 434 pg.

Turnstone Press,1972. Fine First (stated) British edition, preceded by the American edition in 1970. Bright blue boards with silver lettering to spine. Good clipped jacket shows generalize shelf wear with ghost of sticker on front. Chipping on edges, as shown, reveal no paper loss. JLS is named after a test pilot named John H. Livingston who died of a heart attack in 1974. Given the date published, it seems Mr. Livingston made an impression on Mr. Bach. Perhaps that is why the book was first published as a series of short stories in Flying magazine. According to JLS we can all be more than we believe or given to believe. Still true after more than fifty years since the book was released. 8.5x6.5.

Brewster,MA. Paraclete Press. 2010. Red paper boards with copper lettering to spine. As new, First Edition, first printing (stated) with requisite number line ending in 1. Unclipped ($19.99) jacket is likewise as new and protected with removal mylar cover. Inscribed by author on half title page and sigend by author on title page. Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 - after 1416), wrote the earliest surviving works in the English language (Revalations of Divine Love) by a woman. Her work was done while an anchoress (someone who for religious reasons withdraws from society to lead a life guided by prayer). As such, she lived in permanent seclusion in a cell attached to St. Julian's Church, Norwich. 5.5x8.5 in. 147 pg.