Search Results: Titles starting with J from Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB

New York: Watson-Guptill, [1974] Cloth. Quarto. Over 200 black and white illustrations. 64 color illustrations. One small tear to dust jacket on top of back cover. Otherwise fine in fine d.j.

New York: Jack Hallman, 1975 Of a total of 400 copies this is one of 300 copies in red wrappers printed in black (there were also 100 signed and numbered casebound copies). . Wrappers. Octavo. Fine. Inscribed by Gunn "to Ruth with love from Thom because she liked it when she heard me read it at Jess's house." The recipient is Ruth Witt-Diamant, founder and first director of the San Francisco State University Poetry Center.

[London:] Oxford University Press, 1968 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Former owner's ink signature, a little light pencil. Very good+ in like jacket, with a little browning to spine.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, [1986] First edition. Cloth. Quarto.l. Some small paint stains on bottom edges of covers. Otherwise fine in fine d.j.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, [1949] Volumes I and II of a set that eventually extended to seven volumes. Volume II is a first, Volume I is a reprint. Cloth. Two volumes, octavo. Ink signature in each volume. Near fine in price-clipped, partially faded very good d.js.

The complete volume, in original printed wrappers. . Octavo. Stain on front cover, library rubberstamp on first page of the periodical. Otherwise very good. On algorithms for finding the characteristic values of a matrix suitable for use on large-scale electronic digital computers.

Braziller, [1984] First edition. Cloth. Folio. With 119 color illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.

[London:] Presented to Members of the Roxburghe Club, 1995 Published in a small edition for Roxburghe Club members, with a small overrun. Quarter burgundy morocco over burgundy cloth boards, gilt spine. Folio. With sixty-eight pages of manuscript facsimiles, plus seventeen additional illustrations. Printed at the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont. A fine copy.

New York: McGraw-Hill, [1966] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Spine cocked, review copy with publisher's slip and attached newspaper article laid in. Offsetting from newspaper article. Otherwise very good in very good d.j.

Sedona, AZ: Fetherolf Publishing, 1982 First edition. Cloth. Oblong quarto. Black and white and color illustrations by the artist famous for the "Uncle Remus" illustrat ions (1854-1913). A fine copy.

New York: Scribners, [1960 Cloth. Octavo. Very good in price-clipped d.j.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2009 One of 500 copies. Designed and printed. Using stochastic screening at The Castle Press, Pasadena. Black cloth over green cloth boards, printed paper label on front cover, spine stamped in gilt. . Quarto. With 208 illustrations in black and white and in color. Notes, bibliography, index. A fine copy.

[London:] Vision, [1976] First edition. Boards. Octavo. Corners bumped. Very good in very good d.j. Jacket has small tear at top of front cover and a little edgewear.

[London:] Scolar Press in association with the National Library of Scotland, [1980] Cloth. Large octavo. Colored frontispiece, numerous full-page black and white illustrations of bindings,. Fine in price-clipped, near fine d.j. In cardboard slipcase.

New York: Vanguard Press, [1957] First U.S. edition of the author's second book. Cloth. Octavo. Bottom corners lightly bumped. Very good in lightly edgeworn, very good dust jacket with the $3.50 publication price.

London: Printed for the Nonesuch Press, 1929 One of 875 copies. Printed by R. & R. Clark in Edinburgh. Collotype illustrations by the Chiswick Press. Blue paper boards with ecru board spine, printed paper label. Octavo. Frontisportrait and three facsimile plates. Fine in dust jacket. Jacket has some light browning, but is near fine. Extra label tipped in at rear.

[Laguna Beach: Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1985 ] One of about 70 copies printed by Ward Ritchie on the Albion hand press of Laguna Verde Imprenta. This book was created from a talk given as the Goudy Lecture at Scripps College, Claremont. Quarter blue-green leather over black and gray decorative boards, title in gilt on front cover. Octavo. With illustrations in several colors, including facsimiles of Jane Grabhorn's work. Printed on handmade paper. Spine slightly faded, but a fine copy. Laguna Verde Imprenta Bibliography, 25.

San Francisco: The Greenwood Press, 1954 Quarter vellum over brown paper boards. Gilt spine, printed paper label on front cover. . Oblong octavo. Three folding plates, plus text illustrations. Printed in terracotta and black on French Rives paper. Fine condition. With original prospectus and order form laid in.

[New York:] Nadja, [1987] One of twenty-six lettered copies, specially bound in cloth and signed by the author. The colophon states that there were 74 numbered copies (in wrappers). The total edition appears to have been 100 copies, even though the colophon doesn't make it clear. Cloth. Octavo. A couple of minor scratches on front cover. Near fine.

Washington, DC: The National Museum of Natural History...in association with Abrams, [1991] Quarto. With 435 illustrations, 181 in color. Fine in fine d.j.