Search Results: Authors starting with J from RC Books

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. , 1944. 1st Edition 7th Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Seventh printing of the first edition. A revealing story of an alcoholic man, later brought to the screen in a four oscar-winning film starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. Previous owner's name on inside front cover. Age-toning to paper. Price-cut dust jacket, protected in a mylar cover, has some edge wear and age-toning. 244 pages. A solid copy.

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Young, 1954. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A unique novel of a woman plagued by a multiple personality disorder. First Edition, First Printing. Some age-toning to paper. Some light shelf wear. Unclipped jacket, now protected in an archival plastic cover, has some fading, age-toning, and edge wear including three closed tears. 276 pages. No names or marks.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First American Trade Edition . Cloth and Paper. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The classic Adam Dalgliesh mystery SIGNED BY AUTHOR P. D. JAMES. 433 pp. Dustjacket protected in a BroDart cover.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press. Full-Leather. Near Fine/None as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two Volume biography of Andrew Jackson both before and during his Presidency. Part of the publisher's "The Library of the Presidents" series. Publisher's "Collector's Notes" laid-in to both volumes. Unused bookplate laid-in. 1,088 total pages, indexed with more than 30 illustrations. Light scratches to gilt page edges on volume two. Genuine red leather with gilt designs and titles. Hubbed spine. All page edges gilt. Satin ribbon book mark. Nice looking set.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1897. 1st Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Subtitled "With a Review of the Events of the Campaign." Authored by Henry P. Johnston (1842-1923), professor and author who specialized in the American Revolution. Published for the Columbia University Press. Printed at the Norwood Press. 234 pages. Frontispiece of Colonel Thomas Knowlton, protected by tissue guard with 9 other illustrations and maps. 2 of the maps are full-color pullouts. The tactical and strategic background and movements of the battle. Includes a section of "Authorities American, English, and Hessian on the Battle of Harlem Heights Including Letters and Documents on Various Events of the Campaign. Handsome, gilt decorated green cloth boards slightly rubbed with light bumping to corners. Top edge gilt. Tightly bound with no names or marks. A superb, rare copy with the pull-out maps intact.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Guide to the buildings of Rhode Island, home of one of the richest concentrations of important historical architecture to be found anywhere in the U.S. A volume in the Society of Architectural Historians' Buildings of the United States series. Contributing editors Ronald J. Onorato and William McKenzie Woodward. 704 pp. including 900 building entries accompanied by about 330 b&w illustrations and 55 maps. An important book of architecture and Rhode Island history.

United Kingdom/Dublin: Alan Sutton/Gill and Macmillan, 1992. Paper Covered Boards. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The classic collection of 15 short stories portraying Dublin, Ireland. Introduction by Joseph McMinn. 194 pages. Illustrated with about 2 dozen full-page contemporary black and white photographs. Photographic end papers. Dust jacket has light shelf-wear with a 1/4" tear at spine head not affecting anything.

New York: Walker Publishing Company, Inc. , 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Highly readable and scholarly narrative of the real First World War. Light shelf wear to book and jacket. 332 pages