Search Results: Titles starting with J from Flamingo Books

Self-published, 1981. Paperback. Acceptable. [1981] V.M.S. Root (n.p.), 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall stapled paperbound, index, viii, 37, 12, 15 pp. plus single page tipped onto last page of book, 'New Information on the Ancestry of 'Apostle' Peter Naffzinger. Slight to moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with chipping to lower edge of front cover, and spine and fore edge of front cover protected with clear tape. Abrasion to verso of front cover where a bookplate was removed. Retired library copy, with stamp to first page of text as the only indication of this. Otherwise, a very good copy of this scarce genealogy, with the added bonus of a relative's addition of a page of genealogy research. ~SP12~ [1.0P] Looks at the ancestry of, and traces the known descendants of, Jacob Gundy (1846-1919) and his wife Magdalena (Kinzinger) Gundy (1849-1932) of Carlock, Illinois. In addition to many entries for Gundy, other surnames which receive extensive coverage include: Allen,… Read More

Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, 1997-09-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1997 Barbican Art Gallery (London), 10 x 11 inches tall pale blue cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, dark blue lettering to spine, black endpapers, copiously illustrated with mostly full color photographs and reproductions of art, 143 pp. Very slight edgewear to covers, mainly the lower edge of the front board. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a like dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP33~ [3.0P] The 1997 exhibition catalog for James Ensor (1860-1949), Belgian painter and printmaker, and an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for most of his life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX.

D. Soderlund, 1990-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. [1990] D. Soderlund (Sacramento, California), 6 x 9 inches tall stapled paperbound booklet in green printed covers, [5], 31 pp. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce family history. ~SP37~ [1.0P] Both James Kearns and Elizabeth Magee were born in Ireland and married in about 1800. In about 1802 their son, John was born. About two years later the family immigrated to America. They settled in Johnstown, New York. Descendants lived in New York, Illinois, and elsewhere. Contents: Foreword; James Kearns and Elizabeth Magee; Gaelic is the Word; In Johnstown; Caughnawaga; Margreta Vrooman; The Brothers and Sisters of John; In Illinois; John's Children; Interim; Final Notes on the Second Generation; Closing Words.

Oxford University Press, 1984. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 7x1x10. 1984 Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), 7 3/4 x 10 inches tall red buckram cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, xxii, 227 pp. plus [150] pages of captioned full-page black-and-white plates. A near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a dust jacket which has minor sun-toning to spine but which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP30~ [4.0P] This reappraisal of the life and work of Tissot is the first scholarly monograph to be devoted to this artist. It examines his development as an artist and traces those trends in social, cultural, and political history which shaped his career.

J.C. Henry, 2005-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 2005 first edition, J.C. Henry (n.p.), 8 5/8 x 11 1/4 inches tall brown faux leather hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), inset image to front cover, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, pictorial endpapers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs, 111 pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce family history and genealogy. Not in OCLC. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ISBN 0976066106. ~C~ [2.5P] A collection of stories about the author's parents and family. Contents: Introduction; Muriel and Her Family; James Searcy's Family; James' Education and Experience; Marriage; Children and Columbia; Changing Course; Snapshots and Anniversary.

Burton Skira, 1987. hardcover. Very Good. 10x1x12. 1987 Burton and Skira (New York) 9 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches tall glossy green hardcover in publisher's clear dust jacket, copiously illustrated with tipped in color reproductions of artwork, 142 pp. Apart from slight rubbing to clear dust jacket and a bit of age toning, a very good copy - clean and unmarked. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP37~ [4.5P] Looks at still lifes and portraits by the Boston-born artist, and shares her comments on her paintings and her approach to art. Janet Fish (b. 1938) is a contemporary American realist artist. Through oil painting, lithography, and screenprinting, she explores the interaction of light with everyday objects in the still life genre. Many of her paintings include elements of transparency (plastic wrap, water), reflected light, and multiple overlapping patterns depicted in bold, high color values. She has been… Read More

Edwin Mellen Pr, 2003-03-01. Hardcover. Good. 2002 The Edwin Mellen Press, Ltd. (Lewiston, New York), 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches tall orange cloth hardcover, no dust jacket, white lettering to front cover and spine, iii, 146 pp. plus publisher's ads. Moderate to heavy soiling and rubbing to covers, with bumping to upper and fore edges of front and rear covers, and to tips. Inside, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~HHH~ [1.5P] The purpose of this study is to examine thoroughly, through examples, the methods of translation and editing used by the mission press in its attempt to produce a native Christian literature for Japan. Part One examines two translations of De Imitatio Christi - Contemptus mundi jenbu and the Kontemutsusu munji, a later version. Part Two examines Guia de Pecadores - Giya do pekadoru. The study details their background, structure and style, with a textual analysis and comparison. The author identifies the translations' Buddhist terminology, the only… Read More

Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1994-08-30. Hardcover. Very Good. 1994 signed first edition, Alfred A. Knopf (NY), 9 7/8 x 11 1/4 inches tall pictorial hardbound in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, copiously illustrated in full color, 64 pp. Boldly signed by the author on the title page. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a like dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Number line on copyright page: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Card laid in from August 1995 reception in East Hampton, New York, where the author signed this copy. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~LL~ Striking portraits, biographical sketches, personal reminiscences, and collage paintings chronicle the historical evolution of jazz from the perspective of forty African-American musicians who played key roles in its creation. Morgan Monceaux is a painter, singer, performance… Read More

Paulist Pr, 1990. hardcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. 1990 Paulist Press (New York), 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall cloth hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), color pictorial boards over brown cloth spine, white lettering to front cover and spine, viii, 526 pp. Prior owner blind stamp to lower edge of blank front free-endpaper and half title page. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP01~ [2.5P] Jeremy Taylor lived in an age of transition. Politically, England was emerging as a modern state, struggling with its new autonomy and experimenting with representative government. Religiously, the Puritan voices of the radical Reformation battled with the established church to move it from the via media. Intellectually, it was an age in which new philosophical voices were emerging and bards were composing their odes not in the learned classical languages of antiquity but in English. Taylor saw the completion of the Authorized Version of King James near the beginning of his life: an eloquent… Read More

Boise State Univ. Good. 1982 inscribed and signed first edition, Boise State University (Boise, Idaho), 5 1/2 x 8 inches tall stapled paperbound in pale green printed covers, 51 pp. Slight rubbing and sun fading to covers. Nicely inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked copy of this profile of American author of short stories and novels Mary Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984). ~SP41~ A Quaker from Indiana, Jessamyn West graduated from Whittier College in 1923. She is probably best known for her 1945 book The Friendly Persuasion, adapted into a motion picture by the same name in 1956. The book consists of 14 vignettes about a Quaker farming family, the Birdwells, living near the town of Vernon in southern Indiana along 'the banks of the Muscatatuck, where once the woods stretched, dark row on row.' West gained the background material for her stories while recuperating at home from a nearly fatal bout with tuberculosis in the early… Read More

The Lyrebird Press, 1972-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1972 signed first edition, The Lyrebird Press (London), 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches tall hardcover in publisher's card slipcase, yellow paper-covered boards over brown buckram cloth spine, gilt design and lettering to spine, green endpapers, color litho frontispiece by John Piper, illustrated with two full page and seven in-text monochrome lithographs, 31, [9] pp. A paperback trade edition of this book was produced in smaller format, and that edition does not have the full color lithograph frontispiece by Piper. This large published edition was 100 numbered copies signed by the author and artist. This is one of 20 out of series copies unnumbered and and unsigned, but bearing a presentation inscription on the colophon page from the publisher, Tambimuttu, to Jack Lambert: 'For Jack with love from Tambi.' Very slight staining to top margin of front cover. Bookseller's light pencil notation to the half title page, regarding the… Read More

The Lutheran Book Store. Very Good. 1889 revised second edition, The Lutheran Book Store (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 6 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches tall embossed black cloth hardcover, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, brown endpapers, 317 pp. Slight soiling and moderate rubbing and edgewear to covers, with slight bumping to tips and fraying to spine caps. Slight soiling and abrasions to front and rear endpapers, with likely nineteenth century Pennsylvania prior owner name in pencil to top margin of front free-endpaper. Contemporary prior owner name in green ink to top margin of front endpaper. Two quarter-inch closed edge tears to fore edge of title page. Pencil notations, marginalia and creased page tips to a handful of pages in the first third of the book. Otherwise, apart from moderate age toning, a good to very good copy of this scarce Lutheran family prayer book. OCLC has no listing. ~AA~ [2.0P] An American Lutheran prayer book designed for a family's home prayer service, written by Rev.… Read More

Religious Publishing Co, 1974-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. 1974 first edition Religious Publishing Co. (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania), 6 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches tall stapled paperbound in yellow printed covers, 32 pp. Light soiling and moderate rubbing and edgewear to covers. Staining to rear cover front a bit of rusting from the staples. 1 1/4-inch chip from the lower tip of the front cover and the first three leaves (six pages) of the book - affecting the margin of the title page, copyright page and first two pages of text. Slight creasing to the fore edge of the book from the rear cover to about mid-way through the book. Otherwise, clean, bright and unmarked. Overall, an unattractive but useful working / reading copy of this scarce title, offered at a great price. ~GG~ Contents: The Personna and the Shadow; The Psychological Ethics of Paul; The Teachings of Jesus; The Grand Inquisitor. John A. 'Jack' Sanford (1929 - 2005) was an American Jungian analyst and Episcopal priest. He was the son… Read More

Bonhams and Butterfields, 2008-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 2008 first edition Bonhams and Butterfields (San Francisco, California), 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches tall paperbound in glossy full color pictorial covers, copiously illustrated with magnificent full color photographs of the auction lots, 80 pp. plus order form and auctioneer's ads. ~SP34~ [1.0P] The catalog for the September 15, 2008 Bonhams and Butterfields auction of jewelry and watches. 434 lots.

Paulist Pr, 1999. 96th ed. hardcover. Like New. 6x1x9. 1999 Paulist Press (New York), 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), color pictorial boards over burnt orange spine, white lettering to front cover and spine, xxii, 358 pp. A near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP02~ [2.0P] In this remarkable volume in the acclaimed Classics of Western Spirituality series are the mystical autobiographies - unusual in themselves for the Jewish tradition - of two influential Jewish thinkers, Rabbi Hayyim Vital and Rabbi Yizhak Isaac Safrin of Komarno. Now translated for the first time in English, these texts will capture the attention of historians, theologians, and anyone studying Judaism. Rabbi Hayyim Vital (1542-1620) was the foremost disciple of R. Isaac Luria, one of the most important mystics in 16th century Judaism and founder of the major school of mysticism known as Lurianic kabbalah. Vital was the most influential transmitter of Luria's teachings, and the author… Read More

Gateway Press, 1988-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1988 Gateway Press (Baltimore, Maryland), 8 3/4 x 11 3/8 inches tall blue buckram cloth hardcover, no dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, thoroughly indexed, xi, 285 pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with a bit of bumping to all four tips. Inside, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~PPP~ [3.0P] Looks at the ancestry of, and traces the descendants of, Johann Christian Friedrich Genning (1818-1898) and Maria Sophia Dorothea Guderitz (1854-1875), who emigrated to the U.S. in 1854 and settled in Toledo, Ohio. Gives extensive primary coverage to the genealogy of the Rust, Gunn, Jennings, Rust, Genning, Kleinhans, Bruning, Holtgrieve and Nesper families. Other surnames receiving extensive mention include: Baker, Carver, Conrad, Dalton, Flegle, Gennings, Grewe, Guderitz, James, King, Lane, Marsh, Miller, Minnick, Nester, Newman, Pfanner, Raub, Reamsnyder, Saxbe, Schroder, Schweibert,… Read More

Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp. / Warner Bros, 1997-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 1997 Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp. / Warner Bros. (Miami, Fla.), 9 x 12 inches tall paperbound in white printed covers, 140 pp. Slight staining, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this version of the famed Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook. OCLC (No. 38236133) only locates copies at about a dozen institutions worldwide. A Belwin classic edition. Contains pieces originally for harpsichord solo, songs with continuo (realized for keyboard instrument), and chorales. ~SP17~ Anna Magdalena Bach (1701-1760) was an accomplished singer and the second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. This manuscript notebook of music, presented by J.S. Bach to Anna in 1725, is a compilation of music by both Bach and other composers of the era. It provides a nearly unparalleled glimpse into the domestic music of the eighteenth… Read More

Novello and Co, 1899. First English Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1899 first English edition, Novello and Co. (London), three 6 1/4 x 9 inches tall embossed green buckram cloth hardcover volumes, no dust jackets, gilt lettering to front covers and spines, engraved portrait frontispiece to Volume 1, illustrated throughout with musical notation, [v.1] xvi, 656; [v.2] 721; [v.3] 419 pp. (1,812 pages total.) Slight to moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with creasing to spines. Prior owner name and address stamp to front and rear pastedowns of all three volumes. About fifty pages with neat ink underlining and marginal notations, mostly in Volume 1. About 20 pages in Volume 2 with very light, faded highlighting and marginalia. A few instances of marginal chipping to page edges, not impacting text. Despite these detractions, still on excellent reading/reference set of this important biography. Note that this is a heavy and oversized set, so additional postage will be required for… Read More

Magveto, 1968-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. In Hungarian. 1968 first edition Magveto (Budapest, Hungary), 5 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches tall black hardbound in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, red lettering to front cover and spine, ribbon marker sewn in, red endpapers, title page in black and red ink, 121 pp. plus colophon. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a slightly stained and edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Scarce. OCLC (No. 15045996) locates only eight copies at institutions worldwide, ~HHH~ A collection of poems by Hungarian writer, educator, journalist and translator Agnes Gergely (b. 1933). In 1963, she published her first poetry collection Ajtofelfamon jel vagy (Sign on my door jamb). She published her first novel A tolmacs (The interpreter) in 1973. Gergely was awarded the Attila Jozsef Prize in 1977 and 1987 and the Kossuth Prize in 2000.

Picton Press, 2000-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1993 Picton Press (Camden, Maine), 6 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches tall x 1 3/4 inches thick pale blue cloth hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), gilt design and lettering to front cover and spine, map endpapers, index, xx, 481 pp. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP23~ [3.0P] The second volume in this massive genealogy of the descendants of Mayflower voyager John Howland (circa 1592-1672), this second volume tracing documented descendants through Howland's second child, John Howland (1627-1699), and his wife Mary Lee (circa 1632-1693). John Howland Sr. came on the Mayflower in 1620 as a servant of John Carver. A signer of the Mayflower Compact, he is best remembered for having fallen off the Mayflower during a mighty storm, as recorded by William Bradford. In addition to hundreds of entries for Howland, other surnames which receive a large amount of coverage (among many others) include:… Read More