Search Results: Titles starting with J from Aardvark Rare Books

Dublin, Ireland: Victor Waddington Publications Limited, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good Plus. 12mo, 5 x 7.6 in., p. 39 + 58 (Twenty-nine black and white plates of Jack B. Yeats' paintings). Planned, printed and bound in Ireland by Colin O Lochlainn at the Sign of the Three Candles, Dublin. Beige paper boards with maroon title and decorative monogam ("JBW") to cover. Designer gray endpapers. Publisher's red topstain. Very light rubbing to extremities; very light spotting to fore-edge and tail. Light fading to price-clipped dustjacket with gentle rubbing and age-toning to top edge. Dustjacket is price clipped. Protected in mylar. Original hand-drawn picture in blue ink of sailboat, horse, and ducks signed by Jack. B. Yeats to title page. Yeats was one of the foremost Irish painters of the 20th Century, and brother of poet W.B. Yeats. Presentation copy signed by author with inscription: "Richard Hayward's book" to publisher's page. Richard Hayward (1892-1964) was an Irish… Read More

York, England: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1898. First Edition. Softcover in custom case. Good. Softbound 8 1/4" x 6 3/4. A suppressed work by the hugely prolific illustrator Hugh Thomson. With bright color images to front and rear panels, sixteen full-page color chromolithograph illustrations within, and all the other pages with several black and white illustrations along right and left margins, and along the bottom of each page, which drive the story forward. Thomson pulled no punches in this gorey, pull-no-punches retelling of the famous folk ("Jack") tale. 31 pp. An old cello-tape repair along front cover, and a small taped patch to front panel. Housed in custom slipcase, quarter-bound black calf over marbled boards, double-ruled in gilt, with apparently later spine label laid over original, this one with bold silver lettering and linked-diamond decorations. Quite uncommon. OCLC lists only one library -- The National Library of Scotland -- as holding an actual, physical copy of this censored… Read More

Dublin, Ireland: M.H. Gill & Son, Ltd, 1918. Third Impression. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, 6 x 8.5 in., pp. xlvii + [1] + 1 (illustration) + [1] + 463. The "Original Edition with a continuation of the Journal in New York and Paris, a preface, appendices and illustrations". Preface by Arthur Griffith. Green cloth boards with embossed bars in blind to front cover and embossed title in blid to spine. Publisher's emblem embossed in blind on back cover. Frontispiece of John Mitchel. Thirty six additional illustrations. Rubbing to extremities. Fading, especially to spine and back cover. Corners are bumped. Light marginal foxing on a few dozen pages. Text is bright; the story is fresh! Mitchel tells his tale of being an Irish patriot imprisoned and taken to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) during the Irish famine in the late 1840's, and then escaping to freedom in America.

Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2009. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good Plus. Large Quarto, 12 in. x 9.25 in., pp. 251. Illustrated with 420 color and 17 black and white illustrations. Olive boards with gilt title to spine. Original sales/UPC sticker to rear of dustjacket. DVD Film entitled "James Castle: Portrait of an Artist" in DVD sleeve affixed to rear pastedown. Protected in mylar. Published to celebrate the James Castle Exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: October 14 2008 - January 4 2009. James Castle (1899-1977) was an American artist who found inspiration in the detritus of everyday life, primarily in the materials he collected from his family's home such as envelopes, packaging, advertisements and matchbooks. Working mostly with soot, spit and homemade tools, he was able to create a rich, complex style that was wholly his own. Castle was born deaf and had limited means of communication. However, with the support of his family, he had dedicated… Read More

Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Two volume set: Octavo, 9 in. x 6.8 in. Volume I: pp. xiv, [2], 441. Volume II: pp. 453 Illustrated with tissue-guarded color frontispieces and 777 line drawings. Khaki cloth boards with title and Japanese village scene stamped in dark green and beige to fronts. Dark green title and small white flowers stamped to spine. Top edges gilt. Rubbing to extremities. Light soiling and several stains to boards; darkening to spines. Booksellers sticker to front free endpaper of Volume II. Front hinge tender and tissue-guard spotted on Volume II. Edward Sylvester Morse was born in Portland, Maine, U.S.A. in 1838. Although he worked mainly as a draftsman and did not go to university, Morse's research... caught the attention of Louis Agassiz, a renowned naturalist, thus launching his career as a zoologist. A singularly gifted lecturer on popular science, Morse used the money from his winter lectures to pursue vigorous research at his… Read More

Yokohama, Japan: Yamagata Printing Co, 1952. First Edition. Sewn. Very Good Plus / Good (wrap-around dustjackets). Octavo, 8.25 in. X 6 in. Original sewn cloth pictorial covers, with vertical paper label pasted to front with title. Blue cloth to headcap and tailcap of spine. Light age-toning to pages. Full wrap-around decorated paper dustjackets with title to spine and with tuck-in flap. Rubbing, several closed tears, and a touch of sunning to dustjackets. Volume I (1949): pp. ix, 258. Inscribed and signed in English and Japanese by the author on the title page. Volume II (1952): pp viii, 255. Signed in English and Japanese by the author on the title page. 1 in. x 1 in. chip to top of dustjacket spine.

Tokyo, Japan: Self-Published, 1914. Softcover. Good Only. Black, flexible card covers, with gilt and blue lettering and design to front panel. measuring 7 1/4" x 5". Paper cover worn at edges and a 1 1/2" piece missing from top of spine. Solid binding, nonetheless.Endpapers appear hand watercoloured. Printed on bifolio sheets.Thirty-five (35) articles on the Japanese point of view and it's attitude to Americans. Photographs of each contributor. A few of the articles are: "What Japan Has to Teach"; Japan HARBORS no Ill Feeling Toward America; America and Japan always friends; The Real Character of The Japanese Race; Japan and the Preservation of China's Integrity; Christianity in Japan; The Ethical Problems of New Japan; HIstorical Development of Western Learning; Western Wrks of Literature, Religion, and Philosophy Translated and Introduced in Japan; Centripetal Mikadoism; Socialism in Japan; and an article by the editor Naoichi Masaoka, entitled "Japan and Americanism"

Dublin, Ireland: The Talbot Press, 1921. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. Saddle sewn pamphlet, 4.75 x 7 in., pp. 27. Dark green-blue paper cover with subtle, patterned shimmer; title, small Irish emblem, and publisher's information in black to front. Light rubbing to covers. Toning to leaves. Light thumbing to lower front corner. Bookseller's ink stamp from "Sole South African Distributor" with '"Talbot Press Limited, Dublin, Scott Hayward Irish Bookseller, Portland House, Commissioner St., Johannesburg" to title page and at end of text, on p. 27. Protected in mylar. Rare copy; WorldCat notes only 4 copies in libraries worldwide. Hayward, (Harold) Richard (1892-1964), poet, novelist, playwright, historian, film actor, specialist in Ulster dialect, and ballad singer, producing over 100 records. He was born 25 October 1892, one among five sons and a daughter of Walter Scott Hayward and Louise Ivy Hayward. The family was English, but settled in Larne, Co. Antrim, and Richard attended Larne… Read More

Lake Oswego, OR: Great Outdoors Book Exchange, 1950. Very Good Plus / Near Fine. Octavo, 8.8 in. x 6.2 in., pp. xi, [1], 204. Illustrated with black and white ink drawings. Blue-green full cowhide boards with gilt title to spine. Untrimmed fore-edge; several uncut edges. Matching blue-green slipcase with no markings. Previous owner's inscription to half title page, and another signature to unpaginated page following copyright page. Book designed by William S. Hotine, printed by Maverick Publications (Bend, OR), and bound by Oregon Bookbinding Co. (Silverton OR). Slipcase made by The Booksmith (Nehalem, OR).

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Hardcover. Very Good. N.C. Wyeth. Octavo, 9 in. x 6.8 in., pp. xi, [5], 263. Illustrated with front cover, endpapers, and four additional plates from pictures by N.C. Wyeth. Black cloth boards with frame stamped in blind and with cowboy pictorial pasted to front. Gilt title to spine. Light rubbing to board and spine edges; small dent to top of front board.Illustrated endpapers. Glossy title page and free endpapers. Clean interior. Spine and hinges tight. The true story that tells what the life of a cowbey was like, written before Hollywood re-rendered the image.

Philadelphia, PA: Perkinpine & Higgins, 1871. Hardcover. Good Only. 16mo. Brick-red stamped clltoh, ruled in blind, with publisher's initials to center of front board. One of the Sabbath-School Books, quite popular in the latter 19th century. Wear and rubbing to extremities. Inscription to front free endpaper: "Master Charlie Jones. From his teacher Walter Johnson. Feb. 1871" A second name below, in red manuscript. B. Ball?? Four illustrations, including frontis. Bright pages of good paper, some spotting throughout32 pp. of ads at rear, entitled: "An Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of Sabbath School Books" at rear, published by same publisher (Perkenpine & Higgins).

New York: John Martin's Book House, 1922. Magazine. Good. A century-old children's magazine, filled with patriotic poems, songs, stories, puzzles, fairy tales, brief biographies of historical figures, cartoons, etc. Fabulous advertisement for an "American Flyer Backyard Railroad" and others (like Colgate Dental Ribbon!) Pages fragile. A century-old children's magazine, filled with patriotic poems, songs, stories, puzzles, fairy tales, brief biographies of historical figures, cartoons, etc. Fabulous advertisement for an "American Flyer Backyard Railroad"

New York: AMERICAN ARTISTS GROUP, 1943. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Very Good Plus in a Very Good Dustjacket.. Octavo.Light brown buckram-covered boards, with gilt and red lettering/design to spine. Loaded with black and white photographs and eight color images. Light shelfwear to dustjacket and some light shipping to top and bottom of spine (of dustjacket). "...an interpretive account based on the volumnious notes and sketches that Curry has kept since. his youth, of his early home life on a Kansas farm, the exhuberant enthusiasm of the high school and college athlete, his professional art training at the Kansas City and Chicago Art Instiututes, the hard and successful struggle with reality in the commercial art field, the study and experience in the European academy and art museums, and the years of fruitful activity since 1929 directed toward new forms and a distinctly American art... This book is "another volume. in the series devoted to outstanding American artists...on the premise that… Read More

Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good / Good. Lynd Ward. Octavo, 8.3 in. x 5.5 in., pp. 256. Burnt-orange cloth boards with black title and horse rider scene stamped in black to front. Black title to spine. Rubbing to edges, and sunning to top edge. Colorful map endpapers. Light age-toning to pages. Several closed tears and chips to dustjacket edges and corners. Sunning to spine. Protected in mylar. Winner of the Newbery Award for Best Children's book in 1944. "To read 'Johnny Tremain' is to live through two dramatic years of our country's history, and to see these great events from a new angle through the shrewd eyes of an observant boy."

Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Good. Louis Slobodkin. Quarto, 10.2 in. x 8.5 in., pp. 47. Inscribed ("This is a piiece of real rainbow!"), signed, and with an original colored rainbow drawing by the author on the front free endpaper. Paper pictorial covers and spine. Light rubbing to edges. Previous owner's inscription and name to front free endpaper. LIght age-toning to pages. Several closed tears to dustjacket edges, with 2 in. x 2 in. chip to top of dustjacket. Price clipped. Protected in mylar.

Havana, Cuba: Viva Cuba Libre! (?), 1957. Staplebound Pamphlet. Good. IN SPANISH: 16 pp. stapled pamphlet summarizing the life, philosophy and revolutionary actions of Jose Antonio Echeverria, killed on March 13, 1957, in a shootout with the police in Havana, Cuba after participating in the occupying of the Radio Reloj radio station. Jose Antonio had been part of the attack on the Presidential palace, and had been actively protesting the coup by Fulgencia Battista, since 1952.

Ithaca, NY: Mack, Andrus, and Woodruff, 1842. Third Edition. Hardcover. Good. WITH MAP OF OREGON TERRITORY. Octavo, 7.9 in. x 5 in., pp. 498. Brown cloth boards with elaborate frame stamped in blind to front and back. Gilt title and bandlines in blind to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Corners nudged and showing. Previous owner's name in pencil, dated 1843, to front free endpaper. Spotting to endpapers and to title page. Text block bright and supple with very occasional light spotting.. With folding "Map of Oregon Territory" (1838) by Samuel Parker. 34.5 x 57 cm. Between 1840 and 1846, Parker's book appeared in four more American editions and three other editions published in Dublin, Dresden, and Edinburgh. (Wagner-Camp 70:3). Includes a 14-page appendix featuring a "Vocabulary of Indian Languages" consisting of Nez Perce, Klicitat; Callipooa (Kalipuya); Chenook (as spoke about Fort Vancouver) Samuel Parker (1779-1866) was an American missionary in the Pacific Northwest, He was the first… Read More

London: T.Cadell and W. Davies, 1812. Fifth Edition, Revised and Corrected. Leather_bound. Good. Small octavo [6 1/2 x 4 inches]. Fifth ediiton, revised and corrected. 454 pages. Frontis engraving of Boswell. Full, diced leather binding, single ruled in gilt, with five raised bands,Front board detached but present, spine and corners chafed, edgewear. Marbled edges. Interior clean.

Paris, France: Chez Estienne Robinot, 1713. Leather-bound. Near Fine. IN FRENCH. EN FRANCAIS. 16mo. (16.7 cm. x 9.3 cm.).Recent leather rebinding. Four raised bands (5 compartments), lettered in bright gilt. 386 pp. Headpieces and tailpieces, and historiated caps. Lacks the folding map. Previous owner's signature, in part blurred or crossed out, with 1777 date, in ink. Joutel was a French soldier whose father had worked for LaSalle's family as a gardener. He became a close confidante of LaSalle, and accompanied the explorer on his third and final expedition, during which Lasalle was murdered at the hands of his own men. Joutel, who was not present at the time of the assassination, discovering the mutiny upon his return, narrowly escaped the mutinous crew, and accompanied by a small band of the six remaining loyal crew, went overland 800 leagues (about 2600 miles) from Texas to Quebec, Canada. Book provides an account of his experiences and trials, wandering around Texas and what was to become… Read More

London: Printed for T. Beckett and P.A. De Hondt in the Strand, 1772. First Edition. Leather-bound. Good Only. Two volumes, large quartos [11x9 inches] Full polished leather, red and black spine labels, five raised bands. Gilt seal of the Society of the Writers to the Signet on front and rear covers of each volume. Volume 1: front board detached but present. Spine worn at top and bottom, some chafing to raised bands, labels rubbed. Volume II: Outer front hinge cracked, corners show wear, spine has narrow crack along the full length. Binding sound. Boards to both volumes are fairly bright with scattered small stains and some areas of darkening. [24], 532+ 502 pages. Label and some ink musical notation to front pastedown to both volumes, Text clean, pages supple with some scattered foxing, mostly to prelims and title pages. Bindings tight. Includes the appendix to original papers.