Search Results: Titles starting with J from Dark and Stormy Night Books

Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1988 300pp. Octavo (6" x 9"). In publisher's red cloth binding with gold lettering to spine. Condition: About Fine. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Limited edition of 750 copies. *** Biography of the American frontiersman and soldier, James Francis Milligan (1829-1899). Milligan was first a Midshipman in the US Navy, where he took part in Commodore Perry's amphibious landings at Veracruz, during the Mexican-American war. He was later part of the "fifth expedition" by John Charles Frémont (1813-1890), to verify a proposed "Central Route" for an American transcontinental railroad (from about Richmond Virginia on the East Coast to San Francisco on the West). Included in this book is his diary of that expedition, giving the only detailed account of the day-by-day difficulties they encountered.. Limited Edition 1 /750 copies; First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1905 First trade edition, printed October 1905. Hard cover, 12mo., (measuring 5 x 7 ½ inches), in three quarter brown morocco with gilt, marbled paper covered boards, gilt title to spine with six raised bands, top edge gilt, glazed marbled endpapers, engraved bookplate of William Caleb Loring, inscription to ffep "William Caleb Loring from his loving wife-Christmas 1906." Includes five illustrations including engraved portrait frontispiece of the author. Condition: Very Good Minus. The volume is generally clean and tight, having had minimal use. The text is moderately age toned. The outer joints and top half inch of spine are notably rubbed. Fore edges dusty. This book once belonged to William Caleb Loring, an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and purchased from the estate of his descendants. Additionally, there is a connection of the book's subject, Mr. Lowell, to the Loring family; the book mentions Lowell's first… Read More

New York: Christies, 2005 Hard cover, quarto, 371pp. Auction record of an important collection of Americana with many color plates. Condition: Near Fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

New York: Octagon Books, 1969 Hard cover, 8vo in red cloth with titles in gold to spine. 286pp; 399pp. Reprint of the 1942 edition. Condition: Fine. ** A study of Jewish society in Spain during the Middle Ages, including their interaction with the broader Spanish society and their rulers. Includes sections on Jewish courts, economics and charities. With illustrations, extensive notes and index. ** The author, Abraham Aaron Neuman (1890-1970) was an Austrian-born, American rabbi and historian. "The Jews in Spain" (1942) is based on various sources, including the "responsa" (responses to questions) of Solomon Ibn Adret/Aderet (1235-1310), an influential medieval Spanish rabbi. OCLC 626220910, 626220924.. Hard Cover. Fine.

New York: Tilton Gallery, 2006 Hard cover, quarto, 95pp. Condition: Near Fine. Light marks to covers. ** Book published for exhibitions in New York and California. Text in English and Chinese.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Philadelpia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1886 Reprint. Hard cover, 12mo, in pictorial green cloth with titles in black to front and spine, and cover design in white, gold and red, pictorial endpapers, 1 p. publisher's adverts, 413 pp., plus additional 2 pp. publisher's adverts. Condition: Very Good Minus : Some shelf-wear, darkening to boards, wear at head and tail of spine, pages moderately toned. Front hinge cracked but holding firmly. Small bookseller's label on rear pastedown.** This was the first title in Castlemon's three-book Forest and Stream series. A description from Publisher's Weekly dated Oct. 9, 1886: " A fly-rod begins relating his story. It tells how Joe Wayring first bought it, and obtained such rare sport through it, as to call it " Old durability." It then drops the first person, continues in an impersonal way Joe's life and adventures, the latter being mostly fishing exploits in New England lakes and rivers." (Blanck, p.67) Bibliographer Jacob Blanck (Harry Castlemon, 1941) p. 66… Read More

Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1965 Hard cover, 8vo, in brown cloth with titles in gold to the spine, lacking dust jacket, with frontispiece illustration, red and black title page, 105 pp., Second Edition. First published in 1939, this volume contains eleven previously unpublished short stories, essays and poems of Duval, a biographical sketch and bibliography. **Kentucky-born writer John Crittenden Duval (1816- 1897) was famous for pioneering adventure stories about Big-foot Wallace, Texas Ranger, based upon a real man the author served with around 1845 in the Mexican-American War. "The Adventures of Bigfoot Wallace, the Texas Ranger and Hunter" was published in book form in 1870. His reminiscences of the Goliad Massacre, contained in the classic "Early Times in Texas" was serialized in Burke's Weekly at Macon, Georgia, beginning in 1867, later going into multiple printings in book form in the 1890's. CONDITION: Fine. . Second Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by Tom Lea.

Cambridge, Mass.: The Houghton Library, 1995 Soft cover, quarto, 126pp. Illustrated catalogue. Condition: Near Fine with light shelf-wear. Hole punch to back cover.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Boston: DeWolfe & Fiske Company Publishers , c.1886 Reprint. Hard cover, 8vo, in spruce blue cloth with pictorial cover design blocked in black and gold, featuring a camp scene, canoe and inset with a stag's head. Inscribed Christmas 1913 in old ink. 1 page publisher's ads at front, (no author portrait), 231 pp. Includes the Stories: "John Norton's Thanksgiving Party, " "Henry Herbert's Thanksgiving," "A Strange Visitor," "The Shadow on the Wall," "Was it Suicide?" "The Old Beggar's Dog" and "Who was He?" CONDITION: Near Fine. Some rubbing at front Joint. Otherwise, clean, tight and bright. ** By the popular nineteenth-century author, minister, lecturer and promoter of Outdoor Life, Connecticut-born William Henry Harrison Murray (aka Adirondack Murray, 1840-1904) these humorous and moral tales are somewhat reminiscent of Mark Twain. OCLC 8416940 Plum and Scribner 7333. Wright 3911.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Cambridge: University Printing House, 1971 Hard cover, 8 vo., with red cloth spine with title in gilt, cream paper covered boards featuring a facsimile of the title page of the original text in black, 73 pp. The dramatic text is accompanied by several modern illustrations in red ink, as well as reproductions of original woodblock illustrations, and musical notations, in black. The title page is in black and red. The title performance was part of celebrations honoring the four hundred fiftieth anniversary of the first book printed at Cambridge. The Introduction by Brooke Crutchley includes a good biography of the Tudor polymath John Rastell, (1475-1536.) He trained as a barrister at Oxford and was a member of Middle Temple. He would devise pageants for King Henry VIII, married the sister of Sir Thomas More, and was ultimately denounced as a Protestant. He thus would lose his burgeoning printing business, begun around 1512, (specializing in a new method of printing music,) as well as his own… Read More

unknown: Privately Printed, 1930 Hard Cover. 8vo. pp xi 1-366; 367-667.. In three-quarter leather binding with five raised bands to spine and gold lettering. ** Journal of Navy ship's doctor and pharmaceutical entrepreneur, Edward Robinson Squibb. ** Condition: Near Fine, with rubbing to corners of covers, and light marks on boards. Tissue guard to frontispiece on volume 1 browned and detached from binding. ** Inscribed in volume 1: "Given to Ruth and Roger Pierce in memory of Mrs John C Munro, June 1950". ** Edward Robinson Squibb (1819 - 1900) was a doctor who founded E. R. Squibb and Sons, now part of the modern pharmaceutical company, Bristol Myers Squibb. As a ship's doctor, he was disappointed with the quality of medicines available, and so pursued research into their manufacture, inventing a method of distilling ether (an anesthetic). After he left the navy, he founded his own pharmaceutical company, E. R. Squibb and Sons, with his two sons, Dr. Edward H. Squibb and Charles F. Squibb. They… Read More

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1903 317pp. Journal and letters on a tour of Scotland's Highlands and Western Isles undertaken in 1800 by John Leyden, a Scottish orientalist who worked with Sir Walter Scott in the documentation of folk songs and ballads for Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802). The editor, James Sinton, also provided a comprehensive bibliography of the works of John Leyden at the back of this book, which was published after the author's death. Sinton inscribed and signed the book of the front free endpaper. Condition: In remarkably fresh condition, with some browning to the endpapers.. Signed by editor. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921 Hard Cover, 8vo., 344pp; 283pp. Condition: About Very Good or better, with light marks to covers. One page in volume one has a light stain to the edges. The ghost of an ownership plate can be seen to the front paste-downs of both volumes. ** An account of the 1914-18 First World War by Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951), who was the chairman of the general purchasing board for the American Expeditionary Forces. After the war he led the effort to resolve the issue of the reparations Germany had been forced to pay by the Treaty of Versailles, for which he shard the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925. He subsequently became Vice President of the United States (1925-1929). *** Volume one consists of journal entries for the war from 1917 to 1919, and volume two consists of his daily reports to his Commanding General. OCLC 873195.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: George Bell & Sons, 1901 Hard cover, tall 8vo, in tan cloth covered boards over original printed green wraps, brown kraft type pastedowns, with a typed label applied to front, ii,621-640, iv. including advertising, First Edition. CONDITION: Very Good. Front board is sunned, or stained. The wraps are lightly browned at edges, and pages moderately age toned. A pencil location note at rear end paper.**This is the entire issue of this influential weekly arts newspaper for July 5, 1901, featuring a description off the Society's annual garden party, called "The Converzatione," whereupon over two thousand arts-minded Londoners were treated to orchestral music, choral singers, and no doubt tea and sandwiches, on the grounds of the Royal Botanical Society ( and within The Rhododendron Tent.) One presentation at this idlyllic sounding soiree was bad news about the deterioration of books bound beginning around 1830 and especially after 1860. The investigative committee set up by the Society took up… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1943 Hard cover, 8vo., in brown publisher's cloth with black and yellow paper label to spine, 157 pp. No dust jacket. Smith (1915-1977) was an American author famous for several novels and co-wrote the script for "A Tender Trap," a play later made into a movie, starring Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds. A graduate of Columbia University, he wrote for CBS radio. Condition: Good. Slight rubbing at head of spine, and dust soiled top. A bit age-toned. Inscription in pen to ffep.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1913 Hard cover, 12vo ( 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches), in blue paper-covered boards and cream linen to the spine. Cream paper title labels are upon the top board and spine. This is the stated second impression of the First Edition. (vi) 64 pp. Condition: Very Good. Bumped corners, browned exterior edges, a partial split to the front hinge. Moderate age toning. The inscription reading "With the regards of the editor" to the ffep. in blue fountain pen, signed. ** The diary describes the strenuous, dirty, and otherwise challenging six-hundred mile journey made from Massachusetts, over the Allegheny Mountains to the Ohio territories by wagon train by the then-nineteen year old Margaret Van Horn Dwight. She was traveling on her own, having lost her parents, grandparents and otherwise abandoned by various relatives. "New Connecticut," afterward to be Ohio, is her destination, and a husband her goal. Max Farrand's introductory essay goes into the ancestry of Ms. Van Horn, (b.1790)… Read More

New York: Borzoi Books for Alfred A. Knopf, 1946 First Edition Thus. Hardcover, 12mo, in green cloth with impressed BWT logo, title in gilt to spine, no dust jacket, 275pp. British author and screenwriter Eric Ambler (1909-1998) was the progenitor of the international spy genre, influencing future characters such as Ian Fleming's James Bond. Set in the beginning of World War Two, the hero of Ambler's book, a British engineer, undergoes assassination attempts by a Nazi spy as he returns from secret scientific and political assignations in Turkey. Norman Foster's 1943 eponymous movie is a classic noir espionage thriller. Condition Very Good Plus. The book is very clean, with bright boards and red colored page edges. There is the smallest degree of rubbing. Inside, there is slight browning to the endpapers. One prior owner's sticker appears on the front pastedown. Hubin 7.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover . Very Good+.