Search Results: Titles starting with J from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera

NY: Robert T. McBride & Company. 1927. First edition. 12mo stapled slate blue wrappers. Simultaneously p ublished in hardcover. 32 pp. biographical and bibliographic stud y by the noted critic. Published for free distribution to promot e the Kalki Edition of Cabell's works. .

Harcourt Brace and Company, New York. Near Fine. 1939. 1st ed.. 1st ed., 8vo., beige cloth, 360 pp. This early jazz history focus es on the important hot spots and musicians of New Orleans, Chica go, and New York. 56 photographs; comprehensive index. CONDITION: Near fine in fair dustjacket. A clean, tight copy: prior ownerâ €™s penciled signature on front end paper, some browning in the h inges; contemporary bookshop label inside back cover [and transfe r to facing page]; no tears, chips, or rubbing. The jacket is com plete, not price-clipped but has numerous edge tears up to 1”, chipped a spine ends; soiled back panels. .

NY: Raw Books and Graphics. Fine. 1982. 1st printing.. 1st printing [no additional printings stated]. 38pp. Tabloid-size d comic magazine printed in duotone and b/w on newsprint. Attache d at rear to corrugated cardboard coves, as published, with paper label on front and black tape spine. No. 1 in Raw Magazine’s “One Shot” series, this is an anthology of strips featuring P anter’s post-apocalyptic punk “Jimbo” An innocent, spikey-h aired, freckled-faced wanderer, surviving in a post-nuclear no-fu ture. . e Slash between 1978 and 1980, but there are also a number of ful l-page illustrations published here for the first time. In additi on to his comic and graphics work, Panter created the Emmy-winnin g sets for television’s PeeWee’s Playhouse. He was among the artists honored in the exhibition "Masters of American Comics" a t the Jewish Museum in… Read More

A life of Jimi Hendrix told through text, rare photographs, reproductions of documents and memorabilia, and a 70-minute audio CD.
4to, 10.25x10.75", illustrated boards, 64 pp. plus inserts of memorabilia.
With exclusive access to the private family archives, the authors provide an indispensable addition to the Hendrix canon. The book includes a 70-minute audio CD with interviews and unreleased recordings of live concert music and a Record Plant jam
CONDITION: A new copy, with CD pocket still sealed. However, a former store display copy with some light surface wear to the cover and slipcase.

1st printing. 8vo, Brick red cloth. Limited to 160 copies. The club's second publication. John Sutter Jr was the eldest son of Capt. John Sutter; he managed the Sutter properties during most of the critical period between 1848 and 1851, and was himself the founder of the city of Sacramento. By 18952, the Sutter holdings had all been lost, and Sutter Jr was a penniless exile in Mexico. He returned to California early in 1855 hoping to retrieve some of his lost fortune. Here, published for the first time, is the story of his life in California, telling how the property was lost and how he had been drugged and swindled. A few months after writing this, he moved again to Mexico where he became a successful business-man and public official. He never returned to California. "His 'Statement' is a straightforward and guileless account…and its revelations are essential to a true understanding of the Sutter family and their part in the early history of Sacramento. Perhaps nowhere else is the… Read More