Search Results: Authors starting with J from ZH BOOKS

Syracuse, NY: By the author, 1920. Very good. A circular, order form, advertising postcards, original envelope, and facsimile letter, n. d. (1920s); various sizes of paper stock; circular cards illustrated with a portrait; all with light age-toning, else minor wear; order form with a chip to lower corner and thin splits to fold lines; envelope with a closed cut through upper margin; overall in very good condition.Mark H. Jackson of Syracuse, NY, had allegedly, created a full-proof, home treatment for rheumatism and gout, and the current collection reflected on his advertising and distribution methods. The circuar, handsomly printed and illustrated with the proprietor's image, offered a "Dear Friend" 50-days treatment for $5.00, or 25-days for $3.25 - to be conveniently ordered through the enclosed form. The circular also asked the recipient to distribute the postal cards (five of them, also illustrated with portraits) to friends and family members afflicted with rheumatism. The… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1945. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [8], 1-211, [3]; brown cloth over boards, printed in black and decorated with a small vignette; pictorial dust jacket; small bumps to upper corners of boards and minor wear and creasing to tips of spine; in very good condition. DJ with a small loss of paper to head of spine and a few other chips and nicks to edges; in good or better condition. Signed, inscribed, and dated by the author on ffep.Helen Hull Jacobs (1908 - 1997) was a world-class tennis player, an author, and a Commander in the US Navy Intelligence during the Second World War, one of only five women to reach that rank in the Navy. Growing up in Berkeley and starting to play tennis at the age of thirteen, she would go on to win nine Grand Slam titles. She would also be remembered for scandalizing the masses by being the first woman to wear man-tailored shorts at Wimbledon in 1933. Jacobs wrote numerous books, both fiction and… Read More

San Rafael, California: San Rafael Gas & Electric Light Co., 1902. Soft cover. Good. One-sided printed letter; 8 1/2" x 11"; handwritten date of Feb 10th, 1902; right margin with crease lines, else clean; good. An introduction/advertisement letter, addressed "Dear Sir" (no specific addressee name), promoting the wonderful qualities of electricity and outlining the rates and conditions of the San Rafael Electric Company.

Bennington, VT: s.n., 1897. First edition; 6 1/2 x 9 1/2; pp. 20; textured brick red wraps printed in black; closed cut along spine; edges of wraps a bit brittle with a thin strip chipped off fore-edge of back cover; internally clean; overall very good-.A beautiful speech delivered at the dedication of the Catamount Monument - a granite and copper statue - in Bennington, VT marking the site of the famed Catamount Tavern. In fact, there had been not one but three monuments erected and mentioned in the speech the other two placed in a neighboring churchyard overlooking the graves of soldiers fallen during the Battle of Bennington and on a hill marking the spot where General Stark had camped the day before the infamous battle. The only copy in the trade.

New York: Sackett and Wilhelms, 1903. First Edition. Trade catalog, n. d. (1903); 7 x 3 1/2; pp. [12]; textured, lithographed wraps; numerous life-size, monochrome illustrations; a small, closed cut to fore-edge and a few minor spots to lower margin of front wrap; very good condition.A beautiful catalog for a jeweler in Washington Court House, Ohio, it displayed an array of stunning, Edwardian-style jewelry pieces - brooches, pendants, rings, lockets, scarf pins, and pocket watches - all with short descriptions and prices. It also contained information on caring for one's jewelry, birth month gems, wedding anniversary gifts, etc.

Liverpool: Reprinted from the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society , 1909. Softcover. First edition thus (apparently taken and reprinted from a larger publication); 6 x 9 3/4; pp. 4; olive green wraps; few crease lines to upper margin; nick to fore-edge; few minor spots of foxing; very good. Forward in English; 4 songs in Romani with the first one also with a French translation.It is not exactly clear how Augustus Edwin John - the renowned Welsh post-Impressionism artist - met the Demeter Family in Cherburg in order to record their songs. In his introduction he wrote the Demeters were coppersmiths from Baku. He also noted that, though good people and skilled craftsmen, they were chased out of England but they were welcome in France.

Carmel-by-the-sea, CA: Printed for the author by the Craftsmen of the Press in the Forest, 1932. First Edition. Very good. First, limited edition of 200 copies (this copy #72); 8 x 5 3/4; pp. [40]; textured blue paper over boards and 1/4 leatherette; decorative paper label with title pasted to front board; illustrated with two sketches by Donna Davis; deckled fore-edge; a bit of rubbing to edges and tips of spine; light offset to endpapers; a few small, penciled-in notes to text; overall in very good condition. Signed and inscribed by the author on a limitation page at the end of the book. Tressa Beatrice Johnson (1887 - 1975) was a poet, educator, and assistant professor of English at the University of Nebraska and the University of Maryland. A lovely, fine press book of poetry.

South Bend, IN: Flora A. Jones, 1892. Very good. Circular, n. d. (ca 1892); 6 x 5; single sheet, pp. [2]; pink stock, printed in black and illustrated with a small woodcut portrait; light horizontal crease line, else minor wear; in very good to near fine condition.At a time, when women's roles were largely encompassed by the domestic sphere, Flora Jones appears to have been an astute enterpreneaur and inventor, with a great business sense and aggresive advertising campains. What is more, she purportedly exclusively emplyed women, nearly 1000 of them, to manage branch offices of her business throughout the United States. She also had her own printing office, with three presses, for her advertising and packing material, and employed her own mail carrier. Ms. Jones started her empire in the early 1880s with her "Blush of Roses" lotions, oils, and powders for removing freckles and all other types of "facial disfigurments." She would dare anybody to question the purity of her… Read More

Bennington, VT: A. S. Baker & Son, Printers, 1879. Softcover. First edition; 3 1/4 x 5; pp. 4; a crease and two small closed cuts to upper corners, else very minor wear; a small correction with ink on pp. 3; very good or better.The report was compiled in 1879 by the Text-book Committee of Bennington (comprised of various educators, a doctor, a minister, and the town's Superintendent) and was filed with the Town Clerk, as required by the Vermont Legislature. Its purpose was to ensure uniformity of prices and the best selection possible of school printed materials. It contains a short summary of the committee's work and prices of textbooks not to be increased for five years. The report also states that "...in the Committee's opinion, dealers should have a reasonable profit above the following scale of prices for selling the books."

Rockford, Ill: Rockford Publishing Co., 1885. Good. First edition thus (first part published separately in 1878); 8 x 5 1/2; pp. [7], vi-x, [1], xii-xvi, [1], 4-314, [3], 6-300, [2]; embossed mustard cloth over boards, decorated in gilt and black; illustrated with numerous engravings; rubbed spots to corners and tips of spine; lacking ffep, else complete; hinges a bit weak; repair to title page and occasional smudging to margins; in about good condition.An exceedingly-scarce Victorian work on interior design and furnishing, published at the height of the Aesthetic Movement, it contained two distinctive parts - the first dealing with furniture, wallpaper, carpets, etc. for each room and the second - with window treatment, flower arrangements, lamp shades, embroidered seats, and so on. Of particular interest was the exhaustive sections on curtains and draperies, as given the 19th-century's rapid succession of revival styles, coming to and falling out of fashion, it usually meant that drapery… Read More

S. l. (Palo Alto): University Press, Leland Stanford Junior University, 1895. First Edition. Very good. First edition, n. d. (1895); 8 x 5 1/2; pp. [9], iv-v, [6], 2-149, [5]; plain beige wraps, printed in black; partially unopened; slight age-toning to spine cover; a few minor spots and light wear to edges; title page with a short cut to bottom edge; several small, penciled-in notes; signatures of Maude Shoemaker (one of the first few hundred female students at Stanford University, who graduated in 1898) to ffep and first free leaf; overall in very good condition.David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931) was one of the most influential of all American ichthyologists, former President of Indiana University, and the founding President of Stanford University. He was also a staunch supporter of eugenics and a great opponent of pseudoscience and was credited with coining the term "sciosophy" - a false knowledge of science. His current book contained chapters on "The Physical Basis of… Read More

New Orleans, Louisiana: Penick & Ford, Ltd., 1929. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 6 1/4 x 4 3/4; pp. 1-48; stapled, pictorial wraps; small nicks to tips of spine and mild wear to edges; a manuscript recipe pinned to first leaf; in very good condition.Published as an advertisement for Brer Rabbit Molasses, the booklet contained numerous recipes for cakes, gingerbread, nut bars, etc.

Shanghai and Mukden, 1921. Softcover. Two, original, studio photographs, albumen and silver gelatin, n. d. (ca 1921); the first mounted on two overlapping card stock sheets, photo 7 3/4 x 5 1/2, card stock 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 and 12 3/4 x 10 1/4; light wear to edges of the photo; larger card stock sheet with a few chips to edges; signed in ink by Josepho below the photograph. The second photo mounted on a studio, card stock folder; very minor wear, near fine condition; folder with a few scattered spots of foxing to lower margin and a penciled-in name to front wrap verso. "Josepho Studio, Mukden," in English and Chinese, below the photograph and on the front wrap.Anatol Josepho (1894 - 1980), birth name Anatol Josephewitz, was born in a wealthy jeweler's family in Omsk, Siberia. From a young age, he became fascinated with images of the American Wild West and began taking photographs with a Brownie camera. In 1909, at just 15, he attended classes at a local technical institute and… Read More

Barcelona: Union de Quiosqueros, 1931. First Edition. First edition, n. d. (1931); 6 3/4 x 4 3/4; pp. [3], 6-28, [4]; stapled, pictorial wraps, printed in black, white, and red; illustrated with four half-tones; a bit of wear to corners and spine; very good condition.A wonderful and quite-rare photoplay for this Russian, Proletariat, silent movie, it was published for its release in Barcelona in November of 1931, a year after it was first shown in Russia. The illustrated synopsis, with simple dialogue, appeared in the weekly publication "La Pelicula Nueva," Vol. I, No. 4, although in this case the entire issue was devoted to this one film, whose plot revolved around collectivization. After its appearance, the creator - screen writer, producer, and director Oleksandr Dovzhenko (1894 - 1956) - was forced by the Soviet Gocernment to severely re-edit it. Praised as one of the best silent movies ever made, it was voted one of the twelve greatest films of all time by a panel of over a 100… Read More

New York: J. Julian & Co., 1890. Very good. Small broadside, n. d. (ca 1890); 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; illustrated with an engraving; upper right corner clipped; two tiny pinholes to upper left margin; in very good condition.An advertisement for a cigar lighter, called "the smallest , handiest, neatest and most durable lighter ever made...Burns as long as you need it. A thousand lights with one filling. Fits the vest pocket. Will not leak."

London; Valentine & Sons, 1925. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 9; brown wraps with gilt title and vignette to front cover; tartan-inspired DJ with author's portrait on a paste-on label; mild wrinkling to tips of spine and corners; gift inscription; pages clean; illustrated with numerous photographs; overall very good or better. Jacket good with small nicks and chips along edges.Selections of various Burns' works with commentaries and photos depicting the natural sites and landmarks in the corresponding excerpts.