Search Results: Titles starting with J from RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA

Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.: Univ of Nebraska Press, 1985. Square 4to. in cream colored cloth stamped in gilt. Photo illustrated dust jacket. This copy is INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR "My Best Wishes to You, Mark Junge 1987." . Signed. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Secaucus NJ: Poplar Books, 1985. Some spotting on the front endpaper otherwise a bright and fine copy in dust jacket. Published at $85.00. [No International shipping on this item]. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Viking, 1995. Some light spotting on textblock edges, book appears unread. In a fine, price-intact dust jacket with protective mylar cover. xxvi, 629 pages. See photo. "What a man most wishes to hide, revise and un-say, is precisely what literature is waiting and bleeding for..."---Jack Kerouac. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine.

New York: Harry N Abrams, 1966. Oblong quarto in publisher's cloth. Silver gilt spine titles and decorative cover. Unpaginated with 169 plates in full color and B&W, many tipped-in. The standard work on this famous American painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. INSCRIBED TWICE BY JACK LEVINE. Front fep inscribed "For Marion and Jack Carney, Jack Levine." Half-title page inscribed "To Mr John Jay Carney, Jack Levine." Lacking the scarce and fragile glassine dustjacket. Very good.. SIGNED. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. Navy blue buckram with bright silver lettering to front cover and spine. Red top-edge stain and deckle fore-edge. 756 pages. "A grand omnibus of five books in one -- seventy-five masterly stories (including nine never before published in book form) by an original and mighty American storyteller, humorist, and tragedian. Each story is introduced by Caldwell's own comment on it." . First Edition (Stated). Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: Jacques Damase Editeur , 1953. Edited and with a preface by Jacques Damase. Oversize stiff cardstock wraps with illustrated dustjacket. xvi, 80 pages with illustrations. Inscribed on flyleaf otherwise a clean, very good+ copy. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

NY: Weatherhill, 1977. An exceptionally nice copy in jade green cloth with gilt embossed spine. With the scarce wrap-around publisher's paper band and original colour printed slipcase. [No International shipping on this item]. Hard Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Schiffer, 1999. Two volume set. As new oversize hardcovers in dust jackest. Offered at the original publication prrice. [No International shipping on this item]. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

New York: Warner Books, 1996. INSCRIBED BY ANAYA: : -- on the path of light. Rudolfo Anaya, Nov. 15, 1996." Fine in jacket. . Signed. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1981. Number 4 of only 250 numbered copies printed. Signed by Edna O'Brien on the colophon page. Black and green cloth covered boards with gilt flower on front cover. Light sunning to spine and upper edges otherwise a bright and fine copy. . Signed. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

Thames & Hudson Ltd., 1967. Fine copy in green cloth with gilt stamping. 144 pages with 124 illustrations. Clean and bright with crisp unmarked text. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

UK: Plantin Publishers, 1987. Photo illustrated stiff green and white wraps. Prior owner name stamp otherwise clean and bright with crisp text. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Georgetown, CA: The Talisman Press, 1967. Thick octavo in original mustard cloth boards with dark brown lettering. 558 pages, illustrated. Some soot darkening to top edge of textblock. Firmly bound and bright and fine internally. No markings. This is the first definitive biography of James W. Marshall, the discoverer of Calilfornia gold. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

St. Paul: Vision Quest Publications, 2000. Thirty two richly reproduced sepia toned black-and-white photograph images. Soft bound covers are hand-stiched in the traditional Japanese style. A warmly INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY. Bright and fine. . Signed. Soft Cover. Fine.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1959. Gilt decorated and titled brick cloth in pictorial jacket. Tipped-in color frontispiece. 108 photographs, 65 line drawings, and 7 maps. . Hard Cover. Good/Good.

Original brown textured wrappers with black illusttration. Essay "On Japanese Antique Chests" by Kazuko Koizumi translated in English, rest of text with descriptions of the plates is in Japanese. . Soft Cover. Fine.

Taschen, 1999. Fine in a fine dust jacket. "This beautifully photographed, 240-page book, details the five major epochs in the history of the Japanese garden." With bibliography, glossary of terms, map of garden sites in Japan. [No International shipping on this item]. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Tokyo, Japan: Taizo Sato / Tokyo National Museum Pictorial stiff wraps. 134 pages. Illustrated with 113 photographic plates in full color and black and white of swords, daggers, mounts and guards. With additional line drawings. The text (title roughly translated) is entirely in Japanese. This copy inscribed "With warmest regards to Mr. Reilly. April, 1967. Kiyoshi Okamoto, Hamae Okamoto." Some of the plates have been annotated in English, presumably by the books recipient, to indicate approximate dates or other details. "The Japanese sword combines unbreakability, rigidity, and lethal cutting power, and it is the in the resolution of these conflicting practical requirements that it emerges as a triumph of the forger's art...As an instrument of clear persuasion, no other blade anywhere has ever been its equal." Scarce.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Tokyo, Japan: The Hokuseido Press, 1960. Fine copy in full brown linen cloth in a fine dust jacket with protective mylar cover, housed in the original and rare publisher's cardstock slipcase titled in black with publisher's seal on back. Decorated endpapers, color frontispiece with titled tissue-guard. viv, 630pp. illustrated with 17 plates, each with titled tissue-guards. "Senryu enable us, as they enabled the Japanese, to understand and forgive others, and, what is vastly more important, to understand and forgive ourselves. Not only the life and character of the Japanese, but our own life and character are to be seen in this book, which is thus not merely a picture, but a mirror. Look well in it!" - from the dust jacket. Reginald Horace Blyth (1898 – 1964) was an English author, teacher, poet, and friend and student of Zen Buddhism under D. T. Suzuki. As a devotee of Japanese culture Blyth is most famous for his writings on Zen, Haiku poetry, and Senryu. He almost… Read More

Tokyo: Toto Shuppan Company, Limited / Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1960. Two color tan and beige cloth with black lettering and gilt embossed calligraphy. 19 hand-tipped color plates with tissue-guards, 96 black-and-white plates, 227 figures. Some spotting to covers and bookstore stamp on the front endpaper, internally very good. An invaluable reference to Japanese ceramics.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.