Search Results: Titles starting with J from Sparkle Books

Paris: LES LIVRES DU DRAGON D'OR, 2008 2008 Les Livres Du Dragon D'or Stated First Printing, Full Number Line. No Writing Or Marks, Very Good Glossy Boards With Have Slight Rub To Corners And A Few Dents. Clean And Bright. Comic Strip Format.

Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing, 1941 Bound Copy Jack And Jill Magazine Containing January Through August Issues 1941. Some Pages Are Missing (Presuming This Includes Cutouts). There Is Child Writing And Scribbling On Some Pages. End Papers Are Foxed. Green Buckram Boards With Worn And Chipped Brown Leather Title Patch And Gilt Titles. No Institutional Markings, But Unlikely Any Private Household Would Have Arranged Binding. Calgary Binder's Label On Inside Cover. Heavy Book Requiring Additional Postage.

New York: Signet, 1969 This Is Signet Y5444 Priced At $1.25, Stated First Printing July 1969. Some Cover Creasing And Pages Are Toned, But The Binding Is Tight Enough And The Pages Are Even Enough That It May Be Unread. Described As "Candid," And You Know What That Means When A Publisher Wants To Sell Books! London Is A Clark Gable Look-A-Like In The Art Work. Includes An Index, Suggesting Stone Did Some Research And Took Some Pains, As He Did In The Agony And The Ecstasy.

Not Stated: Scholastic, 2007 Near Fine First Edition A 2007 Michael De Capua Hard Cover By Natalie Babbitt, Author Of Tuck Everlasting. Dust Jacket Is Unclipped But Has A Crease To Back Flap. Stated First Edition. No Writing Or Marks, Clean Burgundy Boards With Quarter Cloth. An Ex-Pirate Seeks Out A Second Career.

USA: Publicor, 1996 Number I in the series: Les contes de l'Oncle Picsou, in French, Like new.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Pr, 1987 As New In Unclipped Dust Jacket, This Is A Story About A Short Boy Who Helps His Father To Raise Giant Canada Geese To Save Them From Extinction.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975 Very Nice Copy Of Mordecai Richler's First Children's Book, Illustrated By Fritz Wenger. Apparent First Given Price ($5.95) And Print Date (08-12). Text Has Some Sunning At Top And Bottom Of Spine (Perhaps One-Tenths Of An Inch Each End). Clean Orange Boards With Greige Spine And Silver Lettering, Binding And Corners Intact, Interior Clean And Fresh, No Writing Or Marks, Nice "Swoosh" Sound When Pages Are Turned. Very Good Dust Jacket Is Unclipped With Some Small Scale Chipping And Rubbing At Spine Top And Tail, One Small Bite, Bread Crumb Size, From Bottom Of Spine. Difficult To Tell If There Is Any Fading Or Not To Pictorial Cover. Collectible Copy.

France: Librairie Plon, 1968 A Fascinating Biography Of Baldur Von Schirach, Tried And Sentenced At Nuremburg In 1946 To Twenty Years In Prison For His Role As Reichsjugend-Fuhrer Of The Hitler Youth Movement And Subsequent Role In Vienna As Reichsstatthalter. In French, Translated From The German In 1968, Possibly First Or Early Printing. It Is Illustrated By A Somewhat Startling Array Of Black And White Photos Which Include Informal Snapshots Of Hitler And Numerous Additional Personae From The 1920'S Through 1940'S, Including Hess, Goering, Goebbels And The Author's Then-Wife, Henriette Hoffman. Charcoal Grey Boards With Gold Lettering In A Somewhat Tattered Dust Jacket.

Jakarta: Metafor Pub, 2001 From the back blurbs: "It is social and political commentary, a comedy of cross-cultural confusion,a love story" . stated first edtion apparently very authentic Indonesia by an ex pat who has lived there for decades. nice condition, light yellowing, no writing or marks, tight and square.9793019050

Mcclelland & Stewart, 1937 This Is Later Printing Of The 1937 Mcclelland & Stewart Edition Of Jane Of Lantern Hill In Near Fine Condition. The Boards Are Maroon And The Lettering Is Silver. There Is A Name And Address Sticker Of The Former Owner On The Inside Cover. Very Good Unclipped Dust Jacket By Stanley Turner Which Has Some Wrinkling And Chipping To The Upper Edge.

Toronto On: Macmillan of Canada, 1983 Signed Copy By Author, Dennis Lee, Macmillan 1983 Apparent First. No Writing Or Marks. Production Flaw: Laminate On Front Board Is Wrinkled, Otherwise Very Good Binding And Corners. Illustrated By Juan Wijngaard.

Uk: Phaidon Press Ltd, 1990 First Edition, Inscribed By Author/Illustrator Graham Clarke, No Writing Or Marks, In Near Fine Condition And Near Fine Dust Jacket. This Is Somewhat Reminiscent Of A Child's Christmas In Wales, Being A Rhymed Introduction To A Set Of English Villagers Represented In A Christmas Pageant. Humorous Verses And Illustrations.

Tampere Finland: Makela, 1997 This is a translation into Finnish of Kenneth Grahame's The River Bank and Other Stories which credits the Walker edition (see 0744544300), translated by Raija Viitanen. It is near fine condition, but does have a gift inscription on the interior front endpaper. Corners and binding intact, very little wear.

Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1985 Near Fine Inscribed Copy. Appears Unread Soft Crease To Lower Front Corner. 1985 Mcclelland & Stewart. Two Novellas.

Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1967 This is a 1967 children's book on the subject of Joseph in Egypt, written by German educator-theologian-poet Rudolf Otto Wiemer and illustrated by Reinhold Hermmann. The graphic style is almost medieval, in the Picasso Modigliani vein, with the wraparound cover showing Joseph in white surrounded by stylized red wheat and blue cows on a black background. The decorative endpapers are white with gold wheat sheafs, moon and stars. The corners and spine ends are rubbed and former owner's name is on inside cover and whited out on ffep. Published by Augsburg Publishing of Minneapolis.

U.S.A.: Viking Juvenile, 1967 7Th Printing (1967) Of The 1953 Viking Original. This Is A Library Binding With Foil Sticker And No Mention Of Weekly Reader. It Is Ex-Library And Has A Number Of Corresponding Flaws: Stamps, Tape Stains, Rear Endpaper Card Pocket Remnants. Boards Are Very Good With Little Rubbing And Binding Is Good. Comes With Poor Old Ragged Dustjacket Which Is More Or Less Complete But In Four Pieces!

Brighton And Montreal: Litor Publishing Danny Books, 1961 This Is A Very Obscure Book With Very Few Copies Around. It Is An English Version Of A Swedish Book And Is Undated. Worldcat Dates It At 1961 And Has Only One Copy In All Of Its Member Institutions. B. Evison Is The English Language Author, No Information About The Original Author. Illustrations Are By Lucy Lundberg, A Swedish Artist. The Style Is Reminiscent Of Enid Blyton. It Is In Very Good Condition, With Glossy Boards Only Very Lightly Rubbed At The Corners. No Writing Or Ownership Details. Large Quarto With Large Size Type. Decorative Endpapers Which Are Multicolour At The Front Of The Book And Yellow With Black Printing At The Back.

New York: St Martins, 1974 Illustrations By Meri Shardin. Copyright 1974, St-Martin's, New York Edition, Very Good In Good Dust Jacket Which Is Unclipped And Has Some Soiling, One Notch And 4 Short Tears, Essentially Complete. Very Good Volume, Binding And Corners Intact, Black Boards With Gold Lettering Show Light Wear. Clean Interior With No Writing Or Marks. Richard Taylor Was A Philosophy Professor As Well As A Beekeeper And This Book Is A Happy Marriage Between The Two.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Oberon Pr, 1985 This Is A Very Good Library Discard With Light Wear And Slight Tape Stains To Boards, Spine Label And Numerous Stamps. The Near Fine Dust Jacket Is Unclipped, In Protective Cover And Has Some Light Curl And Edgewear At Spine Top And Bottom. There Is Possibly/Barely Perceptible Cant To Spine, Otherwise Black Cloth Boards With Still Bright Silver Lettering, Clean Crisp Creamy Pages And One Small Pencilled Comment Which One May Or May Not Want To Erase. Scarce In Hard Copy. This Book Is A Kind Of Colloquium In Which Over Two Dozen Named Participants In The Dieppe Raid, From Privates To Commanders To Montbatton And Churchill, Give Their Accounts Through The Poet's Words. Raymond Souster, Order Of Canada, Governor General's Award Winner, Is A Low Key And Major Canadian Poet, Publisher, Editor And Mentor Who Speaks For Us In Many Ways And Voices: I Read His Nijmegen Poem, In Which He Describes The Liberation Of Holland From The Perspective Of The Dutch… Read More

New York: Dutton, 1951 Stated first edition, illustrations by Nedda Walker, colour frontispiece, Christian juvenile fiction. Corners bumped, spine edge grooves a bit dusty, light soil to turquoise boards with black lettering and line drawing. Gift inscription on ffep. Solid, good binding.