Search Results: Authors starting with J from Barbara Bilson Books

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co 1951 New York, 1951. Very good+ (sunned covers at top) in sun-darkened, price-clipped dust jacket. A retelling of the Mexican legend of the poinsettia. Beautifully printed and illustrated. 31 pages. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Tom Lea.

New York: Crowell , 1953. Fine in good dust jacket (price-clipped, edgeworn, sunned with a few closed tears at top). SIGNED by author. A contemplative, sometimes joyous study of the author's adopted city. 42 pages. Nice gift for the love of San Francisco.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Macmillan, 1939. Near fine in price-clipped, edgeworn dust jacket with slight soil to back panel. SIGNED by author. Nicely illlustrated. Four California outlaws--Black Bart, Rattlesnake Dick, Dick Fellows, Tom Bell--191 pages.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Giacomo Patri.

New York: Crowell, 1953. SIGNED by author. Near fine (spine top and bottom very slightly wrinkled; ink name, address, and giver's name on ffep) in very good- dust jacket (soiled, edgeworn, 2 closed tears, some chips missing, fold on spine, price-clipped). A contemplative, sometimes joyous study of the author's adopted city. 42 pages. Nice gift for the love of San Francisco.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: One World, 1997. Fine (slight wrinkle at top of spine) in fine dust jacket (corresponding slight edgewear at top of spine). 401 pages. A first novel from an award-winning poet, fiction writer, screenwriter, and journalist, growing out of her trips to Africa and an imaginative exploration of her own African roots. She quotes Langston Hughes following the table of contents: "I've known rivers / older than the flow / of human blood in human veins . . . . my soul has grown deep / like the rivers." Stated first edition with number line; not a book club edition.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Facts on File Publications, 1985. Near fine (slight wrinkle at top of spine) in very good dust jacket (edgewear at top of spine, sunned spine). Contributions from various writers--including Quentin Bell on the Bloomsbury writers--covering the home settings of such writers as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Carlyle, Hardy, Henry James, Kipling, Shaw, T.E.Lawrence, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Many illustrations.. Hard Cover.

New York: American Photographic Book Publishing Co, 1972. Very good (edgewear, musty smell; clean interior) in good only dust jacket (heavy edgewear including missing chips and one hole in front panel). Even in this digital age, Jacobs' instructions on depth of field, composition, time exposures, etc., are helpful, especially for the photographer who wants to venture beyond the point and shoot.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

New York: Macmillan, 1968. Near fine (except for 2 pages opened roughly at lower edge) in very good+ dust jacket (slightly chipped along top edge and mildly tanned at spine; small bookstore sticker on inside flap). Contains the excellent story "Beggar My Neighbor." 214 pages.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harper & Row, 1982. Fine in very good+ dust jacket (one small chip at top of back panel, and insect chewings at bottom of rear flap--critters now gone). Jacobson is the author of the Rape of Tamar, a short novel, and here turns his attention to the relationship between the Hebrew God and his chosen people, as spelled out in the Bible, including the New Testament. Definitely not a strictly orthodox reading of the Bible. Scholarly and readable.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Baltimore: Printed by Port City Press, 1976. Near fine (price sticker removed from back cover, faint initials on title page; otherwise fine with no other markings) in heavy paper covers. No dust jacket as issued. A reprint with some changes of three articles previously published in literary journals, illustrated by some very fine engravings. 76 pages including bibliography and notes. Scholarly and interesting studies of unexpected connections to Moby Dick. 1885 photograph (postcard) of Melville laid in. . 1st Edition. Paperback. Illus. by Steel plate engravings.

New York: Gideon Music, Inc., 1969. Very good+ in decorated soft cover. Music and lyrics for the Rolling Stones' "Let It Bleed," "Country Honk," "Live with Me," "Midnight Rambler," "Monkey Man," "You Can't Always Get What You want," "You Got the Silver," and "Gimme Shelter." 32 pages with 3 pages of photos of the young Stones--and I do mean YOUNG.. Soft Cover.

New York: Knopf, 1994. Near fine (light sunning at edges) in near fine dust jacket (slight edgewear). An Adam Dalgliesh mystery. 416 pages.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Knopf, 2003. Very good (small stain on lower front cover) in very good dust jacket (corresponding light stain on front panel, some wrinkling and edgewear at bottom of spine, tiny closed tear near stain). Sounds bad but this is really quite an attractive copy of the American first edition of this Adam Dalgliesh mystery.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Knopf, 1993. Very good (some light foxing on the page edges and endpages along with a minor excavation by silver fish on the ffep, not very obvious; otherwise fine) in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by James on the title page. We have called this science fiction since it is set in 2021 in a world where men are all infertile. Since 1995 no babies have been born. Society begins to crumble. 241 pages.. Signed by Author. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

London: Macmillan, 1883. Reprint of Macmillan's three volume edition of 1879. James's first novel, originally published in the U.S. in 1875. 4 x 6 1/4 inches. Salmon-colored binding. Volume I: condition poor (covers barely attached; binding still firm with some separating between signatures; soiled and edgeworn covers). Volume II: condition good+ (covers much cleaner than volume I; some separating of signatures and a few loose pages which need to be tipped in). . Hard Cover.

New York: Harper & Bros, 1961. Very good (1 bumped corner, sunned spine top and bottom) in good only dust jacket (rubbed, darkened, and edgeworn, but intact and protected in archival plastic jacket). A novel of the conflict an earnest, respected British colonial official experiences when he runs up against an equally earnest but stubborn guerrilla freedom fighter. Written at the time when the British Empire was disappearing and all colonial empires were under siege. 234 pages.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

Boston: The Writer, Inc., 1938. Near fine (slight yellowing of page edges, book plate on front pastedown; otherwise clean and unmarked) in very good+ dust jacket (clean but lightly sunned with one small smudge on front panel). A brief discussion (28 pages) by this English novelist of some of her contemporaries, such as Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence. In particular, she is concerned about how novelists deal with the disturbing problems of the time--written in 1938 just before the outbreak of WWII--rather than ignoring them. An interesting, hard-to-find work by this significant English writer.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harper & Row, 1966. Very good+ (someone has drawn a small "happy face" on the ffep; edgewear at top and bottom of spine) in near fine dust jacket (minimal edgewear, mainly at the top and bottom of the spine). A novel of a young man of modest birth trying to work his way UP, and of his relationship with a wealthy old man (and his wife) endlessly revising his autobiography. Storm Jameson was a prolific and influential English novelist, 1891-1986, whose active career spanned the turbulent 1930s and 1940s and beyond; this is one of her later novels. 284 pages.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Atheneum, 1962. Very good (light foxing on page edges, some scribbly insect damage on front cover; otherwise good solid and clean book) in very good+ dust jacket (light edgewear, one light scratch on front panel, price-clipped). See scans. Jarrell is always timely; the first essay is titled "The Intellectual in America," and it quotes Eisenhower's description of an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows." Such denigration is echoed--less politely--by today's shouts of "fake news." 211 pages. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1969. Nine essays, published posthumously, on writers Jarrell loved. His essays--written in his inimitable style--make you WANT to read the reviewed writer, rather than making you turn away as is the case with fault-finding critics. His essay on Frost's "Home Burial" is a good example of Jarrell's poetic understanding and sensitivity; he sees the astounding skill of Frost's word choices, the sequence of sounds, the sadness of the marriage. Very good+ (a few spots on top cover edge, interior clean and clear) in very good-- dust jacket (edgewear especially at spine top and bottom; one small tape repair inside the dust jacket). This is an enjoyable intro to one of America's most-loved and much-missed authors, one who could write anything, from criticism to "The Bat Poet." 334 pages.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.