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J R.

J R.

by Gaddis, William

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Large 8vo. [9], 5-725, [5] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine; bright red topstain. Price of $15.00 on front flap of jacket. The author's second novel, winner of the National Book Award. The hardcover first (the book was simultaneously issued in paperback) is uncommon; there may have been as few as 2000 copies printed (Ahearn APG 002c). A handsome copy of one of the important literary works of the twentieth century. The winner of the 1976 National Book Award. A Near Fine book with a bit of foxing to the textblock; jacket is Near Fine with mild fading to the spine panel and miniscule edge wear.
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Jack Winters' Baseball Team or the Rivals of the Diamond

Jack Winters' Baseball Team or the Rivals of the Diamond

by Overton, Mark

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Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company [1919], 1919. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [4], 11-183, [12] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [1] pp. Light green cloth with green lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. With a full-page illustration at the front. Part of the American Boys Sports Series. McCue 76. Boards slightly bowed, the crown of the spine rubbed.
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The Jackal of Nar

The Jackal of Nar

by Marco, John

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London: Orion (1999), 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Large 8vo. [13], 4-660, [2] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £17.99 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with a map. The first hardcover edition of the author's first novel. A separation between the backstrip and the textblock from reading, else Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
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The Jackal's Head

The Jackal's Head

by Peters, Elizabeth (Barbara Mertz)

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New York: Meredith Press (1968), 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], 244, [4] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. The author's first novel using the Elizabeth Peters pseudonym. A Very Good+ book with a small abrasion to the corner of the free front endpaper and a slight lean in a Near Fine dust jacket with a few traces of edge wear.
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Jacob Have I Loved
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Jacob Have I Loved

by Paterson, Katherine

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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell [1980], 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [8], 1-216 pp. Quarter maroon cloth over grey paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $8.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Kinuko Craft. Signed by Paterson on the title page without personalization. The winner of the 1981 Newbery Medal. Our jacket has a Newbery Medal sticker on it, however, this is not in fact an issue point. When it comes to books and their jackets, issues and states are determined based on the decisions of publishers and printers (for further discussion of this, please see Bowers and Gaskell's treatises on bibliography). Newbery stickers are products of the American Library Association, and have nothing to do with the publisher or the printer. Anyone, from a bookseller, a collector, or a librarian, can paste Newbery stickers onto dust jackets. This does not make a jacket a later issue, as publishers and their printers… Read More
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Jacob Have I Loved

Jacob Have I Loved

by Paterson, Katherine

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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell [1980], 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [8], 216 pp. Tan boards quarter-bound in maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Newbery medal winner sticker on front panel of jacket. Jacket is price-clipped and shows a few traces of edge wear with a small chip to the bottom of the front panel.
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The Jaguar Smile; A Nicaraguan Journey

The Jaguar Smile; A Nicaraguan Journey

by Rushdie, Salman

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New York: Viking (1987), 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Fine. Slim 8vo. [10], 11-171, [5] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $12.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by a map of Nicaragua. Remainder mark on bottom text block, else Fine.
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Jail Notes

Jail Notes

by Leary, Timothy

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New York: A Douglas Book / Distributed by the World Publishing Company [1970], 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [4], 5-154, [6] pp. Silver paper boards with blue lettering on the spine. Orange endpapers and pastedowns. With a red, white, and blue ribbon bookmark bound in. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few in-text black and white photographs. With an introduction by Allen Ginsberg. ANB, Bruce L. Janoff, "Leary, Timothy (22 October 1920-31 May 1996)". One of the most famous figures in American counterculture, Timothy Leary was a strong advocate for the use of LSD and psilocybin to expand the mind and consciousness. He believed enlightenment could be achieved by expanding the mind through psychodelic drug usage. Leary was a Harvard psychologist, who pursued research on psychoactive drugs with controlled experiments involving graduate students, fellow counterculture figures such as William S. Burroughs, and even some undergraduate… Read More
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Jake's Thing

Jake's Thing

by Amis, Kingsley

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New York: The Viking Press, 1979. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [10], 276, [2] pp. Quarter grey cloth over black paper boards with red lettering on the spine. Price of $9.95 on front flap of jacket. A Near Fine book with a bit of offsetting to the endpapers; jacket shows hints of edge wear.
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James Duane Doty; Frontier Promoter

James Duane Doty; Frontier Promoter

by Smith, Alice Elizabeth

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Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin [1954], 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Large 8vo. [4], v-x, [2], 3-472, [4] pp. Pink cloth with gold lettering blocked in black on the spine. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few black and white photographs. Pencil annotations to the margins, one leaf with a crease; jacket has two tape repairs to its reverse as well as significant edge wear.
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James Gurley 2/17 & 2/18/ [at the] Avalon Ballroom

James Gurley 2/17 & 2/18/ [at the] Avalon Ballroom

by [Family Dog]; [Gurley, James]

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San Francisco: Family Dog Productions, 1967. First edition. Poster. Fine. 35.5 c.m. x 51 c.m. Poster. Printed in black, white, and gray on a gold and brown background. With a semi-glossy coating. Kelley, Mouse, and Bob Seidemann (the photographer for this poster) all contributed to the poster's design. The central photograph is of James Gurley of Big Brother and the Holding Company (Janis Joplin's band). FD-48. Grushkin 505. King 105. The concert poster for the Second Annual Tribal Stomp featuring Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother and the Holding Company. Ticket outlets included Moe's Books in Berkeley and City Lights Books in San Francisco. A lovely example of the first poster released for this concert.
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Jan Cremer Writes Again

Jan Cremer Writes Again

by Cremer, Jan

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New York: Grove Press, Inc. [1969], 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], 346 pp. Blue cloth with red lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on front flap of jacket. The first U.S edition of Cremer's second book. Owner's stamp on the bottom of the textblock and on the free front endpaper else very near Fine in a Near Fine jacket with a touch of toning to its spine panel.
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Jane Addams: A Centennial Reader

Jane Addams: A Centennial Reader

by Addams, Jane

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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [5], vi-xix, [3], 3-330, [2] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the front board and gold and blue lettering on the spine. Price of $6.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of Addams. Each essay with an introduction by an esteemed scholar. A bit of offsetting on the joints; jacket has a few hints of edge wear.
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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

by Bronté, Charlotte

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Chicago: The Home Library Association, 1887. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [4], 5-472, [8] pp. Brown cloth with a red border and a red device on the front board, two red rules, gilt lettering, and a red publisher's device on the spine. Floral endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece. A pleasing later printing of the literary classic. Light wear to the cloth's edges, an 1888 name on the first blank leaf, leaves toned.
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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

by Bronté, Charlotte

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Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co, 1890. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [4], 5-472 pp. Navy cloth with with blind rules and decorations on the front board and spine, gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece. Toning to the pageblock, a repair to the free front endpaper, a bookplate on the front pastedown.
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Japan; Attempt at Interpretation
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Japan; Attempt at Interpretation

by Hearn, Lafcadio

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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. [4], v, [3], 3-541, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with black and gilt lettering and a gilt decoration on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a lovely color frontispiece. ANB, Gary Scharnhorst, "Lafcadio Hearn (27 June 1850-26 September 1904)". BAL 7941. Lafcadio Hearn lived a productive life in several different nations: Greece, France, Ireland, the United States, and at the end of his life, Japan. He wrote twelve books on Japan, this one is his final work. It is a series of lectures he had intended to deliver at Cornell University, but was unable to do so due to a typhoid outbreak in Ithaca. Hearn became a Japanese citizen in the final decades of his life and adopted a Japanese name. His writings on Japan paint a vivid picture of life there during the turn of the century. A small push to the top textblock, a touch of rubbing to the extremities,… Read More
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Japan and Her People
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Japan and Her People

by Hartshorne, Anna C.

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New York: Henry T. Coates & Co, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 2 vol. 8vo. [8], v-x, [1], 2-377, [3] pp.; [6], iii-vi, [1], 2-374, [2] pp. Bound in blue-green cloth with elaborate gilt decorations on the front boards, spines with lettering and decorations in gold; top edges gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 24 plates with tissue guards in each volume (all photogravure), and a fold-out map in the rear of volume two. National Women's History Museum, "Anna Cope Hartshorne". Anna Cope Hartshorne lived in Japan for several decades, first teaching English at the Friends' School in Tokyo in 1897 and later serving as a teacher and administrator at Joshi Eigaku Juku (Women's Institute of English Studies) from 1900 until 1940. The present work was written to provide a detailed overview of Japan's people, customs, and culture as well as covering Japan's principal tourist destinations. A Near Fine set with a few hints of wear to the extremities and split to the front hinge of volume one… Read More
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Japan in Crisis

Japan in Crisis

by Wildes, Harry Emerson

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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [4], v-viii, [2], 300, [2] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A Very Good book with a bookplate on the front pastedown in a Very Good dust jacket with the front flap corners clipped and general toning and edge wear.
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A Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary
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A Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary

by Hepburn, J.C.

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Tokyo: Z.P. Maruya & Co., Limited, 1886. Third edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [3], iv-xxxiii, [1], 1-962, [2] pp. Rebound in modern green cloth with gold lettering and gold rules on the spine. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. A leaf at the front and one at the rear of the volume with text in Japanese only. Most of the leaves have text in both Japanese and English. ANB, Sam Alewitz, "Hepburn, James Curtis (13 March 1815-21 September 1911)". James Curtis Hepburn worked as a physician and a missionary in China and in Japan during the nineteenth century. He is credited with writing an early (if not the earliest), significant and informative Japanese-English dictionary. This is the third edition of his dictionary, first published in 1867. A 1903 name and bookplate on the front preliminaries, the leaves are toned with the occasional wrinkle, two leaves at the end with a small chip to their margins.
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Japan's Decisive Decade; How a Determined Minority Changed the Nation's Course in the 1950s

Japan's Decisive Decade; How a Determined Minority Changed the Nation's Course in the 1950s

by Entwistle, Basil

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London: Grosvenor Books (1985), 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [4], v-xv, [1], 190, [2] pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Maroon endpapers and pastedowns. Price of £12.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by several black and white photographs from the historical period. An academic history of Japan's reconstruction after the second world war. A Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with a few hints of edge wear and minor foxing to the reverse.
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