Search Results: Titles starting with J from Grinning Cat Books

First Edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket: Illustrated by Barry Moser. Inscribed by Moser on the title page. Forty (40) pages with wonderful illustrations throughout by Moser. Fine in cream paper over boards and yellow cloth with bright red lettering on cover and spine. Fine dust jacket, not price clipped. Size: 11.25 x 8.75 Inches. A lovely, Moser illustrated copy of this timeless classic.

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Rear board pocket contains extremely rare large color folding model of Dahlberg's theory. With a foreword by famed economist, Edward Alsworth Ross. An adaptation of Dahlberg's dissertation, Dahlberg is also remembered as the inventor of the Parker fountain pen. Prior owner's signature on the front free endpaper. 8vo. 252 pp. A wonderful and rare copy of this famous economic work.

Fine in publisher's original glossy illustrated boards and fine pictorial dust jacket. Signed by beloved illustrator, Jerry Pinkney, on front free endpaper with drawing of John Henry. 1995 Caldecott Honor Award Winner. Slim quarto. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with reproductions of color drawings from Jerry Pinkney. An outstanding copy!

First Edition, First Printing. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of black-and-white drawings, and with 3 full-page color plates. Illustrated endpapers. Fine in original green cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover and in black on spine, and very good yellow dust jacket with large pictorial onlay affixed. Chipping to dust jacket. Duodecimo. 14.5 x 19.5 cm. ix; 144 pp.

irst Edition, First Printing. Special Limited Edition, numbered 94 of 100 copies (110 in total). Signed by Green opposite the colophon on the half title. In the original French. Quite scarce thus. Near fine in original pebbled white leatherette printed in gilt within a blind-stamped block on the spine and in a good, chipped original acetate dust jacket. This is one of the great writer's spiritual biographies of our time. Of the diary, Francois Mauriac says: "It is unique in confessional literature and at all events the work of an inspired artist." Born of American parents in Paris, Julian Green became one of the most eminent of French men of letters, admired by men as diverse as Gide and Bernanos. He went to school in France, studied at the University of Virginia, and spent the war years in the United States. His dual cultural background was enriched further by his conversion to Catholicism, grafted on to a Puritan heritage. Vibrating to the unseen and unspoken as much as to surface reality, Julian… Read More

First Edition, First Printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket In archival protection. A wonderful copy of this "joyful" classic.

First Edition thus. Deluxe Easton Press Edition (Connecticut, 2016). Signed by Van Allsburg. New; sealed in original shrink wrap. Fine in green leather with gold accents on cover and spine, All edges gilt; with green satin bookmark ribbon. Includes a CD of the book read by the late Robin Williams. 8vo. A fantastic collector's or gift book of this Caldecott Medal winner and timeless classic!