Search Results: Titles starting with J from 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera

San Francisco: Le Salon Graphics, 1981. Softcover. Near Fine, unread with a slight roll on heavy glossy paper stock.. 8 1/2" x 11." 50 pp. includes covers, black and white and color photos in stapled pictorial wraps. No ads. Vintage male magazine. Rare edition. **OCLC** lists two institutional holdings at Cornell and Brown Universities.

Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005. Softcover. Fine. A valuable resource.

New York: A.A. General Service Office, ND. Softcover. Near fine in wraps with some pencil markings on the cover very lightly faded. Special reprint of the Jack Alexander article "Freed Slaves of Drink Now They Free Others." This if Saturday Evening Post article that built national awareness of A.A. and marked a milestone in the history of the fellowship.

New York: A.A. General Service Office, ND. Softcover. Near fine in wraps with a tiny bit of fading to the bottom of the cover page. Twenty two page brochure that contains the Jack Alexander article on Alcoholics Anonymous that was published in 1941 in The Saturday Evening Post. The article titled "Freed Slaves of Drink Now They Free Others" built national awareness of A.A. and marked a milestone in the history of the fellowship.

New York: Trident, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A biography about life of Jackie Kennedy during her service as First Lady to President Kennedy; here the author focusses on the professional gossipmongers.

Random House: New York, 2016. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 275 pp. 8vo.

New York: Delacorte, 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine foil dust jacket.. 8vo. 440 pp. With black and white photos. Includes Sources, Bibliography and Index.

Leonia: British Leyland Motors, Inc, 1976. Softcover. Near Fine. One [1] 24" x 11" folded sheet into six [6] panels. Color illustrations. Uncommon item. **OCLC** lists three copies, one each at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas J. Watson Library in New York City, The Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, DE and The Strong/Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play in New York City.

Leonia: British Leyland Motors, Inc, 1971. Automobiles | Automotive | Advertising | Automobile Ephemera Edition. Softcover. Near Fine/Automobiles | Automotive | Advertising | Automobile Ephemera. 9" x 12." Eight [8] pp. Staple-bound oblong booklet. Color covers and photos throughout. Rare item. **OCLC** lists one [1] copy at The Hagley Museum, Wilmington, DE.

New York: Jaguar Cars, Inc, 1962. Softcover. Fine. 8" x 4" staple-bound brochure. Twelve [12] pp. With color illustrations.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 247pp. Illustrated with 16 black and white plates. Very Good with some foxing along the edges in a Very Good with a lightly faded spine, shallow nicks, and some soiling.

New York: Dutton, 1984. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket that has some wear at the extremities.

New York: St. Martin's, 1986. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. 8vo. 427 pp. The complete dog stories of James Herriot. Featuring both a new introduction by Harriot and his own accompanying notes to each story, and profusely illustrated.

New York: Basic, 2011. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Knopf, 1961. Hardcover. Very Near Fine. The only noticeable flaw is a 2 1/2" x 4" card taped to the last blank page of the book in a Near Fine, price clipped dust jacket.. 8vo. 119 pp. with whimsical black and white and color illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert throughout. Later, but early, printing of one of Dahl's classics. Bound by The Book Press, with a four [4] line colophon, this is the issue in light blue boards with a darker quarter spine and a nine [9] digit SBN [precursor to the ISBN] on the rear jacket panel. Front flap of the dust jacket is clipped, so no original price appears there. No date on title page. Copyright page dated only 1961. Colophon has four [4] lines and says "Bound by The Book Press, New York" which is indicative of this being the second printing. Dahl's first children's book. The rear dust jacket flap of this copy mentions Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, making this edition from 1972 or so [although the only date printed in the book is 1961]. A very… Read More

Richmond: Jamestown Official Photo Corporation, 1907. Softcover. Very good. Official Publication. The Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, marking the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of Jamestown and the Virginia colony by settlers from England, was held in Norfolk, Virginia, from April 26 to November 30, 1907. The event was one in a series of large fairs and expositions held across the United States, beginning with the 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago, which commemorated the four hundredth anniversary of Christopher Columbus's landing in America. Such events were designed as international showcases for arts and technology and were often linked to important anniversaries in order to highlight the notion of historical "progress." More than its predecessors, the Jamestown exhibition emphasized athletics and military prowess, the latter drawing some protests.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition.

New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Fine with owner's name on front endpaper in fine price-clipped dust jacket.

New York: Harper Collins, 1996. Softcover. Very Good with a short black line along the bottom edge in color pictorial wraps.. Oblong 8vo. 5 1/2" x 8." 541 pp. Later printing. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. A valuable resource.

Naval Institute Press: Annapolis, 1987. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 570 pp. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. The first comprehensive analysis of the Japanese aircraft industry and their products between the late thirties and the dawn of the nuclear age.