Search Results: Titles starting with J from Blue Sky Rare Books

1983. first edition. Paperback. Near Fine/near fine. Near Fine/near fine 1983 Rare monograph on plant dyes in traditional Japanese cloth manufacture 32 lovely fabric samples laid in the first two pages, protected by glassine. Book is fine (white paper in white wraps in hard slipcase) Colorful slipcase is also near fine Nice book, entirely in Japanese

1992. first edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. 1992 Hardcover Near Fine/very good + 1992 Nice clean copy in DJ with a little wrinkle on the back cover and minor edgewar (no chips) Nice book Hardbound with dust jacket, 7 æ x 10 î, 159 pages in Japanese and an introduction in English, as well as the glossary and index pp 154-197 This is a very nicely done book with crisp color and black & white photos of an important collection of fittings and other metal work Nice to see the jizo okimono, the finely crafted articulated animals and insects

New York: Weatherhill, 1982. first edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Book and DJ near fine, free of all markings, trivial shelwear only. Nice book.

Mukomachi, Japan: Bijutsu Shuppansha, 1953. first edition. Paperback. Very Good +/good +. First edition, #202 of 300 copies. 104 pages, with 40 woodblock prints (most in color) and 47 tipped-in specimens of hand-made paper, including Kozo, Mitsumata, Inden (with Japanese laquer design -- Urushi), Somegami, Montengujo, and Gasenshi. Book is in traditional Japanese paperwraps, string binding. Housed in publisher's original textured paper-covered portfolio case with string ties, red paper label. The book is strong VG or VG+ condition, occassional spotting. The folidng case is G+ only, considerably spotting to the botom of the front board (not a spill, just natural spotting) and a seam split (about an inch) on one hinge, edge-chips to the label (lettering bright and clear). Still a wonderful book, no. 286 of 300 copies.

St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Nice paperback inscribed by Rohr. Previous owner's stamp (same person Rohr inscribed the book to), and some scattered pencil notes. Book otherwise tight and clean.

The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. fine. Fine book, lovely tan boards with red title label on the top board. Great title, too.

Oak Knoll Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. fine/fine. Book and jacket fine, jacket in protective mylar wrap.

The Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. Paperback. VG++. Frontispiece portrait of John Steinbeck. Stapled wrappers with paper label laid on front. 14pp. Nice clean copy, trivial wear. Strong VG++.

Chelsea House, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. New/No DJ. . New/No DJ.

Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin / Bruce Rogers, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Bound by Zaehensdorf in the best house style, full large-grain morocco. Freakishly well-preserved: no signs of wear, inside or out, boards completely flexible, no markings of any kind inside. An absolutely top binding of a very appealing book designed and printed by Bruce Rogers.

Los Angeles: Kenneth Karmiole, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Book in near fine condition (a little fading to the cloth spine and edges). Contents fine. Leaf with that lovely roman type, leaf with some stains but still bright and clear. Copies 1-20 contained an illustrated leaf, 21-164, leaf not illustrated. This copy not numbered but, in any event, with a leaf that is not illustrated. Printed by Patrick Reagh Printers on Arches Text paper. One of the nicer leaf books. Hamel & Slver, Disbound and Dispersed 172.

MIT, 1993. First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Book and DJ near fine, one tiny nick to DJ.