Search Results: Titles starting with J from Great Northern Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Booksellers' Preview Edition." Also includes publisher's postcard, loosely laid in. The sixth novel by the two time Booker awarding winning author. Cover design by Chip Kidd. Slight edgewear to cover, else a clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Jack Snyder Publishing Co., 1924. Musical score. Very Good +. and Ukulele - Banjo, good for a laugh! anywhere! anytime! anyplace!" [from publisher] Color pictorial cover. No copies listed in World/Cat OCLC. A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Time, Inc., 1963: October 4. First publication. Periodical. Very Good in Wraps . Very Good in Wraps. Wonderful baseball ephemera. Life Magazine issue containing the article, by Jackie Robinson, titled: "Jackie Robinson on the Series. " "Famous former Dodger tells his old teammates the only way to beat the Yankees" in the 1963 World Series. It must have worked beacuse the Dodgers sweep the Series in four games. Cover shows signs of shelfwear and mailing label present.. .

Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Edited, with an introduction, by Paul Ashdown. "Selected Journalism is a collection of his articles published from 1933 to 1947 by Time and Fortune." [from publisher] Also includes black and white illustrations. Small date on half title page, spine of dustjacket is sunned, else a clean, unmarked copy.

London: Peter Davis, 1927. Limited edition. Paper covered boards. Good. One of two thousand unnumbered copies. Edited by Charles Whibley. Reprint of 1694 edition. Publisher's advertisement: List of little books p. [1] at end. Some discoloration to cover, lacking a dustjacket.

New York: Everyman's Library (Knopf), 1991. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Includes chronology, bibliographical references, and attached marker ribbon. A clean, unmarked copy.

Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. New. First printing. "This book is a lucid and engaging account of the development and functioning of Japan's system of lay participation in criminal trials." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. A clean, unmarked copy with pictorial cover, no dustjacket, as issued.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989. First edition. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page. Fourth work of fiction from the National Book Critics Circle Award winner. The word "New" is stamped on the front free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked book.

New York: Brooke Alexander Editions, 1991. wraps. Near Fine. One of a 3,000 copy unsigned limited edition exhibition catalogue. Features an original Johns lithograph frontispiece printed at ULAE, titled, "Summer. state ii, 1985-91," and printed in green. Also includes a black and white illustrated wrap around gatefold cover created by Johns especially for this publication, printed on Rives paper, also at ULAE. The catalogue was designed by Jordan Davies and printed by The Studley Press, Dalton, MA. 57 pages with an essay by Roberta Brenstein. Also includes numerous color and black & white illustrations, exhibition checklist, exhibition history, and bibliography.

London: Grolier Society, [no date] (OCLC 1890s). Luxembourg edition. Leather-bound. Fair. Number 483 of 1,000 numbered copies.Preface by Léo Claretie. Numerous engraved illustrations by Ad. Lalauze in several colors, with tissure guards. Half leather binding with marbled covers and endpapers, top edge gilt with untrimmed edges. Unfortunately front cover detached, rear cover missing, with chips to spine. Interior is tight and bright, unmarked, printed on high quality paper with no foxing and beautiful engraved prints - the highlight of the book.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1933. First American edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Young was a British suffragist author who lived in a "ménage à trois relationship with Ralph Henderson and his wife, in the early 1900s, occupying a separate flat in their house and was addressed as "Mrs Daniell"; this concealed the unconventional arrangement." [from Wikipedia] Ex-library with minimal markings. Dustjacket is chipped along spine edges and sunned.

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Facsimiles of the fifty pages of the poet's worksheets, with reproductions of the seven engravings and woodcuts Albrecht Durer made of St. Jerome. An interesting look at one of the great poet's last (unfinished) poems." [from publisher] A clean, unmarked copy.

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, 1909. Sjunde Upplagan. Half leather bound. Very Good +. A novel by Lagerlof, the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1909. Rebound in half leather: black leather over dark blue boards, with author's name, book title, and deccorations, in gilt, with four raised bans. Former owner's name on front free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked copy. Also have two other titles bound in matching bindings. Ships from USA.

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1910. Leather-bound. Fair. Three quarter leather binding with marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. Includes pictorial frontis with tissue guard, map, and index. Missing parts of spine backstrap, else a clean, intact copy.

Chicago: Time, Inc., 1970:April 24. Life Magazine v.68:no.15. Periodical. Good. The cover story, a nine page article with the photgraphs, on the perilous return of the aborted Apollo 13 mission, in the April 24th, 1970, issue of Life Magazine, v.68:no.15, the full issue. Also includes the two page article, "The Beatles Decide To Let It Be - Apart." Chipping and edgewear to bottom pages, not affecting text, else a clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Harper & Row, 1977. Advance Reading Copy/Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. Illustrated by by Thelma Gooch. The first of two books in the Joan series. Garis was one of the most prolific children's authors of the early 20th century. She also wrote for the Stratemeyer Syndicate including some of the earliest books in the Bobbsey Twins series. Book itself is clean and unmarked. The dustjacket is in fair condition with large pieces missing from the front panel, now protected in a Brodart cover.

New York: Macmillan, 1918. First American edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. First printing. "Joan and Peter is an indictment of "the educational stagnation of England during those crucial years before the Great War." [from Wikipedia] Includes four pages of publisher ads in rear. Ex-library with no external markings, lacking a dustjacket, a good reading copy.

Hamburg: Verlag der Gesellschaft der Freunde des Vaterlandischen Schul und Erziehungswesens, 1967. 6. Aufl.. Trade Paperback. Good. Translated into German by Maria Honeit. Illustrated byAlice Geist Bechert. Abridged version for school use. Slight edgewear, former owner's stamp on title page else a clean, unmarked copy. Ships from USA.

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., 1916. Hardcover. Good. One of the books in the Joe Strong series. Pictorial cover. Former owner's name on front free endpaper, Small tear along spine, age darkened, lacking a bookjacket. Still a presentable copy.