Search Results: Titles starting with J from Nudelman Rare Books

One page on mourning stationary from T. W. Jackson, the curator of the Hope Portrait Collection in Oxford, to an unnamed recipient regarding a query for a portrait, "Hope Port. Coll[ection], Oxford, 22 Oct. 1909. Dear Sir, We have no portrait of a John Paine [sic], the translator of Villon, in the collection: and I don't remember having seen one anywhere. His name does not occur in the ALA Index of portraits contained in printed books. I am, yours... T. W. Jackson." Referring to the English poet, translator, and friend to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Payne, Jackson may have missed the entries and holding in the collection, due to a misspelling of Payne's name (viz Paine).

London: Robert Barker and John Bill, for James Mountague, 1616. First Edition. First Edition. Folio, 13 1/2 x 9 1/4. 570pp. Magnificently bound in contemporary full dark brown calf, neatly re-backed with original spine laid down, with lavishly gilt-decorated design work on both covers comprising corner sections and a central geometric piece showing strapwork design as negative space behind thick gilt onlay work. Spine with five raised bands. The scarce first edition of the collected works of James I, King of England, said to be, "One of the finest specimens of Jacobean book-production," including, in part, to its highly accomplished copper-engraved frontispiece by Simon Pass, of James enthroned in robes, as well as an additional engraved title-page. An important edition, bringing Dante into the English-speaking world, the book having seen its reputation suffer a decline in the previous century. The translator, Henry Boyd (1748/9-1832), added his own personal character into the text with a lengthy… Read More

1954. 4to. Color pictorial paper covered boards, red cloth spine. Gorgeous full page color illustrations. Very good.

Tokyo, 1938. 8vo. Color illustrated wrappers. Striking pre-war publication fully illustrated in color showing beautiful Japanese decorative clothing, scenes rural and regal. Spine badly chipped, internally very good. A scarce and beautiful book.

Tokyo, 1938. 4to. Color printed wrappers, extensively illustrated Japanese children's book. Ikyuu san was the name of a famous priest boy in Japanese lore. Spine chipped, corner wear, occasional soiling, overall a very good copy of an interesting Japanese Pre-WWII children's book with a wide variety of stylistic art.

Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymur Co, 1913. First Edition. First Edition. Light brown fine woven cloth with superb cover illustration of stylized iris stamped boldly in gilt, with the iris bloom stamped in white (signed FWG). Decorative title page, limited to 200 copies of which only 100 were for sale. Scarce R. F. Seymour title. Fine.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1848. First edition. First edition. Original color pictorial paper covered boards with exquisite and intricate designs on both covers and spine, originally decorated endpapers. Illustrated by Richard Doyle. Fragile covers show wear predominantly at outer edges and at spine leaving most, if not all of the pictorial images on both covers and spine in tact, a very rare survival considering the delicacy of the paper covering. At the time of research, we could not locate any other copies in the original binding. AEG. Internally clean and bright.

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1848. First edition. First edition. Superb full crushed morocco (brown) with bold gilt strap-work and flower design on both covers, hearts covering whole of both covers and spine, by De Sauty (signed 'De Sauty' on front turn-in). A wonderful binding by De Sauty (1870-1949), active in London from 1898-1923, worked for Riviere & Son as well as the Hampstead Bindery. Binding hinges skillfully repaired, some wear to spine, otherwise near fine and distinctively Art Nouveau binding.

Newark, New Jersey: Carteret Book Club, Village Press, 1930. First edition. First edition. Bound in patterned paper covered boards with beige cloth spine. Limited to an edition of 200 copies, by Frederic and Bertha Goudy at the Village Press, Marlborough-on-Hudson, N.Y. Some wear to corners, light staining to board edges. Some foxing to uncut page edges.

London/Boston: Elkin Mathews/Copeland and Day, 1895. First edition. First edition. Gray paper covered boards, title, author and publisher printed in black on spine. Limited to 750 copies.E. One of the most uncommon of all Copeland and Day titles to be found in first edition, and this an exemplary copy with no sunning of spine or brown-toning to endsheets, both nearly always found even in otherwise fine copies. Top of spine with very small chipping. A rare example of a sought after "Nineties" title.

New York: Literature Publishing Company, 1919. First Edition. First Edition. 8vo. Written in Hebrew, and printed from back to forward, as per Hebrew texts. 115pp. Original publishers fine wove olive green cloth, lettering in black on clover with single thick black ruled border, lettering on spine. Extremely scarce and earliest of novels by Sarah Brandstein Smith, Sarah (1888-1968), journalist, author and playwright, born in Hungary and came to the US when she was 15-years old. She quickly learned the Yiddish language in New York, and soon landed a job as a newspaper writer, became a staff columnist. She wrote several "shund" novels (equates to "trash novels," in Yiddish, but formed an outlet and catharsis for immigrants) as well as plays for the Yiddish theater. The English language play, "Piper Paid" had a run on Broadway in 1934. Another play, "Ever the Beginning" became a movie called "My Girl Tisa" with big-name stars in 1948. "Sarah B. Smith is the most beloved Jewish newspaperwoman, the first… Read More

London: Wertheimer, Lea & Co, 1895. First Edition. First Edition. 12 x 8 cm. Original light brown printed wrappers (mended at spine). 32pp. PRESENTATION COPY, "Miss Richman, With affectionate thanks from L. H. M." An exceedingly scarce survival, the earliest of works by Lily Montague (1873 ñ 1963), influential female Jewish author, suffragist (she was a founding member of the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage), and early influencer on the rights of women who played a major role in Progressive Judaism. We can find no other copies of this early work by Montagu in the marketplace, and few are known to have survived, much less a Presentation Copy. Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895) is a collection of twenty-five prayers in vernacular English dedicated to the members of the West Central Girlsí Club, founded in 1893 by Lilian and co-led by her and her sister Marian Montagu. Lily Montagu played a key role in making Liberal Judaism more than a fringe movement in Great Britain in the early 20th… Read More

Amsterdam: Johannes Guijkens, 1838. First edition. First edition. Oblong 12mo. Original printed laid card laid paper wrappers with hand-colored woodcut illustration on cover. 16 text pp. and 16 one-sided superb hand-colored plates. A scarce and popular early children's book, here provided in near unused condition, a remarkable find with tender spine completely intact with all the lettering untarnished. No blemishes on this book whatsoever. Fine copy.

Darmstadt: H. Hohmann Verlag, 1920. First edition. First edition. Oblong quarto. Thick card paper covered boards with designs, color illustrated half-title and seven superb interpretive illustrations in color by Pfeiffer. A very scarce Jugendstil title, not found on the internet in our latest search. About fine, with only very minor wear to spine extremities and corners.

Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1921. First edition. First edition. Original color pictorial paper covered board with beige cloth-backed spine, Brightly decorated endpapers with bird and tulip design. 41pp. Superb hand-colored illustrations every page by Joshua Leander Gampp. Very scarce and charming Jugendstil title. Near fine.

Koln: Schafstein, 1903. First edition. First edition. Original beige cloth with ornate Art Nouveau gilt stamped design. Striking full color title page, cover design and entire book with elaborate gold printed design elements and borders by HEINRICH VOGELER (1872-1942), renowned German painter, book designer, architect and central member of the original artist colony in Worpswede which he joined in 1894. A fine copy of an immensely beautiful and important book.

Leipzig: 1911, Berlin. S. Fischer for the Society of Bibliophiles. S. Fischer for the Society of Bibliophiles. Elephant folio bound in rich dark brown crushed morocco with gilt interlocking and bold gilt borders on both covers as well as additional stylized gilt designs on inner dentelles all in the style of Henry van de Velde, superb interpretive illustrated endpapers with #210 of 250 Numbered Copies. 24 exquisite etchings by Alois Kolb and four full-page magnificent etchings with tissue guards, each one signed in pencil at bottom right by Kolb. Top edges gilt. An expansive production of a scarce work on the private press of the Royal Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, Georg Belwe letterpress, Richard Berthold images and initials. Alois Kolb (1875-1942) was a Viennese artist and book illustrator known for his painterly etchings. In an impressive and period binding showing the Viennese influence on design.

1909. Elephant Folio, 23 x 18 inches. Announcement for the Work. Four pages (a folded large sheet), printed on green card wrapper in black, with superb cover illustrated design of stylized painters, stamped in black and bright red and monogramed, ìM.î With the year, 1909 printed on front cover. The annual folder of the Society for Multiplying Art issued issued in 1909 by the Austrian organization, Gesellschaft fur Vervielfaltigende Kunst (The Society for Reproducing Art in Vienna). Translated from section inside: ìThe gallery work, as in the past, is destined to become the center of an independent activity of the society in the service of art under the influence of changing art views, now turning attention to the original graphic artÖ All sheets published in the annual folder. The usual edition of the annual folder alone costs 20 Marks an edition, Limited to 30 copies of unsigned priority prints, from the imperial-royal issue, and printed in ViennaÖî etc. Fine condition. Scarce for… Read More

Wien: Gerlach und Wiedling, 1909. First edition. First edition. Original gray-green cloth with cover pictorial design stamped in black, white lettering. Color plates throughout by Otto Bauriedl and Ernst Kutzer. In the famous Judendstil series by Gerlach. Some light cover wear, very good.

Bielefeld and Leipzig: Velhagen & Klasing, 1897. First Edition. First Edition. 4to. Fabulous Art Nouveau book printed in Germany at the Turn of the Century featuring distinctive Jugendstil design elements. Original publisher's white cloth with bold Art Nouveau style boldly gilt-stamped cover design and lettering. The endpapers are printed in striking repeating gilt printed design. With 204 illustrations throughout after paintings, etchings and drawings. With attractive contemporary woodcut bookplate. AEG. Fine condition.