Search Results: Authors starting with J from Bygone Books

New York: Macmillan, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A. Walton Litz and Brian Southam, Consulting Editors; "A Dictionary of Jane Austen's Life and Works" by H. Abigail Bok. 1st edition (number line), 8o, tan boards with blue cloth backstrip, 511 pages, index. Condition is VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: the slightest edgewear, appears unread. A must-have collection of 65 essays by various scholars on all things Austen.

Newton Abbot, Devon, UK: Redwood Burn / David & Charles, 1979. Soft cover. Very Good. Large ordnance survey map, cartographical notes by Dr. J. B. Harley, 1970. 2nd impression 1979. Condition: VERY GOOD map in a VERY GOOD envelope: map is in nice condition excepting a few small red and blue penned lines under town names, a few faint spots, very slight creasing; slipcase envelope has light edgewear and some creasing to bottom corner. Nice condition with no tears to the map.

NY: Simon and Schuster, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. NF/NF. 068481093X 1st ed., 8vo, hardcover, 333 pp, b&w illustrations, bibliography. NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: new except for remainder mark on bottom page edge.

Akron, OH: Saalfield, 1929. Soft cover. Collectible; VG-. Folio wraps, stapled, [12p] each with 2 letters of the alphabet with accompanying color illustration; stiff card covers ( front and back covers are the same illus) are illustrated by Jan Cragin depicting 3 children reaching for books with a clown-like figure in a crumpled hat looking happily upon their reading adventures; the interior text pictures are not credited. VERY GOOD- : front cover has some paper-thinning in 3 sm. spots, a 2" tear to the paper at the illustrator's name, some typical lt. edgewear, lt. creasing and scuffing to covers, rubbing to spine, interior pages are clean and tight. A nice collectible ABC.

London: Oxford University Press, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The 1975 edition with further revisions by Brian Southam; first published in 1954, reprinted in 1958, with revsions 1963, 1965, all edited by R. W. Chapman; further revisions by B. C. Southam 1969, 1972, and 1975. Includes Chapman's preface of 1953, and Southam's of 1967. 12mo, green cloth with gilt titles on spine, 476 pages, with illustrations from contemporary sources, various indexes (characters, real persons, places, authors, etc.). Condition is VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: book has minor wear; jacket has slight edgewear at extremities, price-clipped. A very nice copy. Includes Austen's juvenilia, her Volume the First, Volume the Second, and Volume the Third; Lady Susan, Fragments of Novels (The Watsons, Sanditon); Plan of a Novel; Opinions of Mansfield Park and Emma; Verses; and Prayers; with Chapman and Southam's invaluable notes.

Norwich, UK: Jane Austen Memorial Trust / Jarrold Publishing, 1996. Soft cover. As New. Printing of June 1998. 8vo, illustrated paper wraps, 18 pages, color photographs, Jane Austen Chronology and family tree. Condition is AS NEW, no visible wear.

NY: Coward-McCann, 1959. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 1st American edition [stated] [but has "Book of the Month Club Selection" on the jacket - price is present and no publisher slug], 8vo, green cloth, 336 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: slight edgewear. A very nice copy.

New York: Leo Feist / Universal Music Corporation, 1936. Soft cover. VG-. Original vintage sheet music, from the Universal Production of "Top of the Town." 6 pages, including covers. Condition: VERY GOOD- : light edgewear of tiny tears and creasing.

Liverpool: Northern Publishing Co., Ltd., 1948., 1948. Hardcover. G+. 81p. B/w illus; color frontispiece; map eps; white boards, blue spine. GOOD+/ no dj : x-library (Princeton University) w/ remains; title written on spine; edgewear.

Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 1st edition, 8vo, gray cloth, 282 pages, 80 of which is a glossary of characters in all the books discussed. Condition: VERY GOOD / no jacket: light rubbing to extremities and bottom edges. Archon's "Plots and Characters series" covering various titles by Austen, Eliot and the three Brontës.

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1969. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 3rd printing (1969, first published in 1961), 8vo, rust cloth hardcover with gilt titles on spine, 182 pages, index. Condition is VERY GOOD+ / no jacket: light rubbing to extremities, appears unread.

Haverfordwest, Dyfed, U.K.: Shire Publications, 1992. Soft cover. NF. 8vo, stapled wraps, 32 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography. NEAR FINE.

Scotia, NY: Americana Review, 1960. Soft cover. VG+. 8vo, stapled wraps, unpaginated pamphlet, b/w illustrations. VERY GOOD+ with light yellowing to the thick paper. An illustrated sampling of American school books from the earliest New England Primer of 1780 to the First German Book of 1880, all a temptation for the school book collector.

Burlington, VT: Queen City Printers, 1992. Soft cover. NF. Published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the establishment of Burlington's first post office in 1792. 8vo, stapled wraps, 92 pages, b/w illustrations. NEAR FINE with little wear excepting an owner label on title page.

London, UK: Studio Editions, 1995. Hardcover. NF/VG+. 3rd printing. Quarto, blue hardcover, 191 pp, color and b&w illustrations. NEAR FINE book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: jacket has a small crease and 1/4" closed tear at rear bottom hinge.