Search Results: Titles starting with J from Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

Paris: Goupil & Co.; Manzi Joyant & Co, 1905. Full-Leather. folio (12 3/4" x 10"), #162 of 425 copies, bound by Durvand, blue full leather, generously and magnificently decorated in gilt; silken end papers; 24 plates (4 in color). Original blue wrappers bound in. A beautiful copy, visually striking.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1960. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover. Fine. Quarto. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 UNNUMBERED COPIES. ALSO SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY PHILIP KAPPEL ON FFEP. ALSO WITH TYPE WRITTEN LETTER SIGNED (TLS) BY PHILIP KAPPEL LAID IN. Includes signed and inscribed Christmas cards by Philip Kappel laid-in. First Printing. Jamaica Edition. A Documentary of the Island of Jamaica, West Indies. Fine copy in original glassine dust jacket and slipcase. Glassine torn in half, but complete. Slipcase in fine condition.

Chicago: Handy & Higgins, 1903. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Octavo. No pagination, a fine copy decorated and photo illustrated through out, bound in 1/4 light gray cloth over gray paper covered boards lettered in gilt with a color illustration and a bust of Riley mount to upper board. Previous owner's gift inscription. Preserved in its original publisher's box. Box and book are beautiful; absolutely as new.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1947. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good+. Small Octavo. 128pp. Stamped "Review Copy" with publication date Sept. 11, 1947. Bound in red cloth lettered and ruled in black, near fine without foxing in unclipped dust jacket with toning to spine.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/About Fine. The source of the acclaimed movie starring Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge, both competing for the affections of the incomparable Sterling Hayden. 242pp., bound in 1/4 red over black paper covered boards lettered in gilt; text slightly age-toned, as we have seen in other copies. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY JAMES LEE BURKE ON TITLE PAGE. Inscribed to bookseller Charles Parkhurst. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 349 pp.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1869. Full Leather. Near Fine. Octavo. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Full crushed olive morocco binding by Bayntun, spine compartments with gilt frames surrounding, gilt hunting devices, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In a felt-lined green cloth slipcase. All 16 color illustrations including color frontispiece and color engraved title page with tissue guard present. Original red cloth front cover and spine bound-in rear. Autographed wedding gift note signed with original envelope laid-in. A very attractive copy.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1925. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Review copy with review slip tipped-in ffep. A very good+ copy in original purple cloth with gilt lettering spine. All twelve black and white plates are present. Bookplate front paste-down. vii, 246 pp.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co, 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. 424pp. Illustrated by Joseph Papin. bound in publisher's 1/4 black cloth over tan pictorial gilt paper covered boards, pictorial dust jacket, with short closed tear at head of front panel. A lovely copy of a Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel.

London: Osgood, McIlvaine, 1896. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. Etched frontispiece by H. Macbeth-Raeburn with tissue guard and map of Wessex rfep. A very good+ copy bound in original green cloth with gilt lettering spine, gilt design front cover, top edge gilt. Mild cover edge wear, mild spotting ffep, slight scuffing lower spine. Purdy bibliography mentions two distinct states of signatures A - H, with or without page numbers on partially blank pages. This copy has mixed states of these signatures. vii, 515 pp. + map.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octvo. First illustrated edition. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering spine and front cover. Very good copy with light foxing, off setting to ffep from newpaper clipping, pencil notes endpapers. 488 p.

Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2010. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED TWICE ON FFEP. With John M. Findley's business card laid-in. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. v, 623 pp.

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1979. Hard Cover. Fine. Octavo, [xii]121 pages; number 211 of 300 numbered copies printed. Quarter red leather over decorative boards. America's first color plate book: "The two illustrations mounted into this study comprise original, engraved plates - one hand-colored and one left uncolored - which Jacob Bigelow had made up when he initially intended to illlustrate his edition in the usual, hand-colored way.....led him and his cohorts to invent a mechanical method of printing the plates and coloring them concurrently. This resulted in the abandonment of these initial plates, some of which had been colored by artists and some left untouched. These surplus plates, amounting to several thousand, came into the Boston Medical Library in 1927..... and it was deemed desirable to mount two of them - a colored and an uncolored specimen - into each copy of this edition....." (p. ix). A fine copy.

New York: G. P. Putnam, 1990. First Edition. Fine/Fine. octavo, 304 pages; INSCRIBED by the author on title page to mystery collector Arthur H. Parson: " For Arthur / All good wishes / John Gardner" - Pictorial dust jacket, with price of $14.95 on front flap. First printing, with full number line. Owner name and date on ffep.

New York: G. P. Putnam, 1989. First Edition. Fine/Fine. octavo, 319 pages; INSCRIBED by the author on title page to mystery collector Arthur H. Parson: " For Arthur / Best wishes and Thanks / John Gardner" - Pictorial dust jacket, with price of $13.95 on front flap. First printing, with full number line. Owner name and date on ffep.

New York: M. Evans and Company, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/About Fine. Octavo, 191 pages; owner name and date on ffep. Price of $6.95 on front flap of dust jacket, spine very slightly faded. SIGNED by the author on the title page. First printing with full number line. Top edges stained green.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. First Edition. Fine/Fine. octavo, 751 pages; first printing with full number line; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $35.00 on front flap. INSCRIBED to football icon Johnny Parker, holder of 4 Superbowl rings, on title page: "For / Johnny Parker / with greetings / David McCullough / 2004." A beautiful copy.

London: Seeley and Co, 1903. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Quarto, 82 (1) pages, 4 pages of ads; publisher's red cloth, decorated in gilt; black coated end papers. A handsome, near fine copy.

London: John Murray, 1889. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. 519 pages, 4 pages of ads; original gilt decorated green cloth. Light wear at extremities, neat owner name, bookplate. Front inner hinge cracked; altogether a very good copy of an early printing.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/About Fine. Octavo. 181 pages; SIGNED by the author on title page. Dust jacket with price of $7.95 on front flap. First printing, with full number line on copyright page; owner name and date on FFEP.