Search Results: Authors starting with J from Rainy Day Paperback Exchange

Paris, France: Cocorico, ©1952. Hardbound. GOOD. Un Petit Livre D'Or (Little Golden Book) Tight, light page yellowing, light age soil, square. Rubbed cover edges, Corners & spine rubbed though. Foxing to inside of cover and end pages. The Little Eskimo - Text in French.

NY: Indian Head Books, 1994. (1st thus). Trade Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! 514 pages. "The classic account of our government's mistreatement of Native Americans." ISBN: 1566198097.

Washington, DC: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 1967. Trade Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for faint signs of use. 20 scholarly articles (snakes, toads, salamanders, turtles, frogs, fish - Costa Rica, Florida, Wyoming, California,+) with Acknowledgements and Literature Cited. Plus shorter papers:12 Ichthyological Notes (Long Island Sound, Texas, San Francisco Bay,+) and 11 Herpetological Notes (South America+). Page 259 to 505. 6.75x10x.25"

NY, NY: Reader's Digest PressMcGraw-Hill, 1979. (1st edition). Hardbound. VERY GOOD. Book as new except for light age soil to cream colored cloth spine and top exterior page edges. Dust jacket is present and unclipped but has a large chunk missing from the bottom edge of the back cove. 228 pages. 5.75x8.6x1" "a psychiatrist explains not only what goes on in the minds of patients but even more what goes on in his own mind in the course of therapy...how he responds to specific situations or why he refrains from responding; how he helps patients gain important insights into their behavior and why some patients react differently from others..."

France: Jeunesse/ Hachette, 1998. Mass Market Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for light scratches on covers. Collection of short essays concerning films, arranged in alphabetical order. Text in FRENCH. 349 indexed pages with illustrations and photos. "A bout de souffle" and "Actor's studio" to "Zero de conduite" ande Zoetrope Studios".

London, UK: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1991. Oversize Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for rubbed cover corners. "Wolf Jahn on the Tryptych Class Militant Gateway by Gilbert & George at the Anthony d'Offy Gallery London 1991. Essay, raising "the question of what future an utopian new society may have...", with 76 thoroughly illustrated, annotated pages, including Bibliogrpahy.

NY: Pinnacle Books, 1976. (1st thus). Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Tight, faint page yellowing, shiny cover with a few light scratches, clean, faint curl. Light wear to edges and hinges. Initials and bookstore stamp inside. This is the first paperback issued with John Jakes' name and has been revised and enlarged from the 1st edition, issued under the pseudonym, Jay Scotland. the classic story of Salome.

Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1984. (1st thus). Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD-. Ex-library - as new except for expected library markings and a single crease on the bottom corner of the back cover. "The prefaces in this volume…offered Henry James a unique opportunity to stand back and analyze his own works years after their original publication." Praised as "the most eloquent and original piece of literary criticism in existence..." 351 indexed pages. Migrated Template

Garden Cuty, NY: Doubleday, Anchor, 1958. (First thus). Hardbound. VERY GOOD +. Book is as new -Tight, bright, clean, square and unmarked. Cream cloth covers with teal title block with gold trim and lettering. The price clipped dust jacket is present but has tattered edges and light age soil. Selections "from James's travel books, most of them out of print for many years…For Henry James, travel was an art in itself, but more than an art it became a major factor in his own art and life, the basis of his moral and critical outlook, and a life activity second only to his writing...' 507 pages including Biographical Note. 5.75x6.75x2" Migrated Template

NY, NY: The MacMillan Companuy, 1898. (1st American edition). Hardbound. FAIR. Published in New York by The Macmillan Company in 1898. This is the first appearance of James' renowned ghost story "The Turn of the Screw." One of only 2,250 copies, this is a first American edition, published either simultaneously with the British edition or one week later. This copy comes in its original maroon cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and gilt on the top edge of the pages. There are 393 pages in this volume, followed by three pages of advertisements for other Henry James works. The book has a solid unmarked text block with faintly age tanned pages with rough cut side and bottom edges. The binding is loose in the space ahead of the title page and at the rear hinge, ahead of the advertising pages. The maroon cloth covers have slightly curled corners, and light age soil. The spine covering is damaged with both the top and bottom edges frayed and diminished, age soiled and the gilt printing faded.

Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2008. trade paperback. GOOD+. Tight, bright and clean but has a bumped corner which has creased the front cover and a few page corners. ISBN: 9781434386496.

Macon, GA: Samhain, 2010. Trade Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! "It's hard to trust the future when you've been branded by the past." "feature nekkidness the cowboy way - sex with boots on and with boots off, dirty sex against a dirty pickup truck, bare-assed sex on a bear skin rug, graphic language, unfortunate aim with a nail gun, and improvisational use of whips and whipped cream." ISBN: 9781605042992.

Macon, GA: Samhain, 2010. Trade Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! "Pulling off the ultimate con…if they can keep from pulling off their clothes." "contains one hot-blooded cowgirl and one cool-headed businessman in a stripped-down , revved-up game of sexual truth or dare." ISBN: 9781605048574.

Secaucus; NJ: Warner (#GF0348). Oversize Paperback. VERY GOOD. Tight, bright, clean, slight curl. Corner bump has left a crease on the bottom corner of the front cover. Book of Sheet Music - Vocal and guitar super-tab. Contents: You've Got a Friend; Handy Man; Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight; Bartender's Blues; Mona; Only a Dream in Rio; Shower the People; Sweet Baby James; That's Why I'm Here; Your Smiling Face; How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You); Limousine Driver; Mockingbird; Her Town Too; Fire and Rain. 88 pages.11-7/8x9" (30.3x22.8cm)

NY: Bramhall House / Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1968. (b printing). Hardbound. FINE. As new - gift quality. 266 indexed (general and recipe) pages. "Great American Hotel…symbol of the best and most elegant in dining and entertaining…over 100 choice recipes…carefully tested for home kitchens…richly illustrated with period drawings, etchings and photographs..." Migrated Template

NY: Dutton, 1971. (1st thus). Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for sticker shadow on front cover and faintest edgewear to covers. "these …writings (8 essays and 8 lectures) mark James as a thinker of strong existentialist tendencies and as 'a native American phenomenologist" 284 pages

Stockholm, Sweden: Stiftelsen Skargardsbaten, AB Norrmalmstryckeriet, 1969. Trade paperback. NEAR FINE . As new except for faintest sunning to covers. 84 pages illustrated throughout with sketches of the development of boats and maps of the area. For a hundred years the Skargard traffic has been operated with its home in Vaxholm. The vessel type is called Waxhlmsbaten (original spelling). How this type of vessel emerged from the general development over the last four decades of the eighteenth century is an interesting history related to shipbuilding technical problems but is also related to the social and cultural development in each country. 84 pages. Text in SWEDISH

London, UK: Picador / Penguin, 1992. Paperback. GOOD+. As new except for light age soil to exterior, creased bottom corner of front cover, and one creased page corner. "a fiercely funny picture of today's male-female relationship wars, messy sex roles and romantic expectations…"

NYC,NY: The American Scandinavian Foundation, 2006. Trade Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! Journal of the American-Scandinavian Foundation…that promotes international understanding through educational and cultural exchange between the United States and Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. 96 illustrated pages, 6x9x.25 (15.2x23x.5cm). "Tove Jansson and Her Lovable Moomins", "The Stockholm Water Prize", "Jacob Riis: Social Reformer", "Ibsen's :Legacy: Making the Theater Better", "Ibsen on Film", "an Ibsen Chronology", "Terje Vigen: An Idealist Triumph", "Scandinavia's Global Role", "Remembering Tore Gjelsvik", "My Norwegian Uncle".

Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers, 1997. 6th printing (zesde druk). Trade paperback. NEAR FINE. Text in Dutch. As new except for slight tilt to spine. 389 pages. 8.5" x 5.5" x 1.75" Tekst in het nederlands. Solide binding. Lichte plank slijtage op hoeken. Reinig interieurpagina's vrij van markeringen 389 pagina's. "The Black With the White Heart". Two Ashanti princes, Kwame Poku and Kwasi Boachi, are taken from what is today Ghana and given to the Dutch king William II in 1837 as a guarantee in a business transaction between the Dutch and Ashanti kingdoms. The two boys are raised and educated in the Netherlands, after which Kwame returns to Africa while Kwasi continues his education in Weimar Germany and then takes a position in the Dutch East Indies. The novel is a postcolonial depiction of the Dutch colonial past. Migrated Template