Search Results: Titles starting with J from Better Read Than Dead

London: Faber and Faber, 1972. First UK edition. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 109 pp. Very good book, front free end paper owner-inscribed; very good dust jacket.

Trinidad, West Indies: Columbus Publishers, 1976. First paperback edition. Signature-bound, [octavo], in illustrated wraps, 200 pp. Very good, wear to spine ends and edges, with some spotting to rear cover. Also known as Marion Glean, Marion O'Callaghan, and Marion Glean O'Callaghan, this is the author's second and last novel after Pan Beat was published in 1973. Former copy of literary critic and translator Robert[o] Marquez. Marion Patrick Jones was born in Trinidad and after attending an all-girls Convent in Port of Spain was admitted to St. Mary's College, now the St. Augustine section of the University of the West Indies. Then pursued graduate studies in London, 1959, where she was founding member of CARD (Campaign Against Racial Discrimination). 'J'Ouvert Morning explores the lives of the tormented Grant family in Woodbrook, a fusty suburb of Port of Spain...all of them seek refuge in failure...seek refuge in ultimately unrewarding shelters---drink and maudlin, unfulfilling religion for one,… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First paperback edition. Perfect-bound, [octavo], illustrated wraps, 725 pp. Very good. Cover design by Janet Halverson.

National Gallery of Canada, 2014. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Very light wear to boards, slight bumping on corners. Otherwise a fine copy with tight binding and pristine interior. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Damiani, 2019. Hardcover. Near Fine. Clean boards, tight binding, clean square text block, and bright leaves free or foiling or creasing. Near Fine.

London and Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1919. Hardcover blue cloth boards with gilt lettering, no dust jacket. Good or better, would be Very Good save a small piece of front free endpaper cut out (possibly a previous owner inscription) and light markings to p. 93. age 93 lightly marked.

London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. Hardcover octavo with glossy pictorial boards, no dust jacket, 217 pp. Near fine/No dust jacket. Cover design by Chloe Batch.

New York: One Dog Books, 1993. Perfectbound octavo in pictorial wraps. vi, 482 pp. Very Good.

Kingston: The Institute for Jamaica, 1976. First Edition. Perfect-bound octavo in illustrated wrappers. 266pp. Slight edge wear, rust offsetting from stapled card to front, card itself is foxed. Otherwise clean and sound; Very Good (+).. Cover by Gisa Malburg. Presentation copy of the notable Jamaican writer's penultimate novel, an account of Juan de Bolas and the Jamaican Maroons. This copy, with a card from Reid stapled to the front wrap with "Compliments" penned to it, is further inscribed to half-title for his daughter Sonia (from his 1935 marriage to Victoria Monica Jacobs): for my daughter / Sonia / from Daddy / Victor Reid / Nov. '76

Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1960. Softcover duodecimo in illustrated orange paper wraps, unpaginated [56]. Good condition, gently worn overall and slighlty shaken, stamped by Smithsonian on p. 5.. Sōsaku Hanga; Design by Everett McNear. Museum catalog from The Art Institute of Chicago for January 21 - March 20 1960 featuring the prints of Sōsaku Hanga. Foreword by museum curator of Oriental art Margaret Gentles and introduction by Oliver Statler.

Steidl, 2019. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Slight bumping to the bottom edges and light bowing of boards. Tight binding and clean, bright leaves free of soiling and creasing. Full Page photographic illustrations. Very Good.

Sveriges Radios Forlog, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good. Original cardboard case has spotting, creasing and dings. Two small, 1 in, tears to the dust jacket. Tight binding, clean text block, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Bilingual Parallel text, Swedish/ English. Come with two CDs in jewel cases. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978. First printing. Signature-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 275 pp. Very good book, spine faded, wraps creased and rubbed, edge wear. Cover design by Jacqueline Susan. Two dramatic works.

Walther König, Köln, 2019. Hardcover. Near Fine. Very Light wear to the boards and minor bumping to the corners, otherwise this copy is near fine.

Basel, Switzerland: Das Museum, 1987. Soft cover. Very Good. Book is in very good condition, minor shelf wear along edges, slight soiling to front and back covers, minor abrasion to rear panel drags through edge of text block, otherwise clean and unmarked, binding is tight and square. Overall in very good condition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, black boards with silver lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 265 pp. Very good/Very good jacket.

New York: Just Another Asshole, 1979. Unbound newsprint tabloid [folio] in printed self-wraps, hand-stamped title to front in red. 48 pp. Near Fine, save a spot of fray to spine.. Third issue, the first to be co-edited (with Jane M. Sherry), of the legendary Downtown / No Wave journal from Barbara Ess. As per usual, a heavy-hitting cast of contributors, including Kim Gordon, Dan Graham, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Lynne Tillman, and many others. From Ess's deadstock -- an unusually clean copy.