Search Results: Titles starting with J from B Street Books, ABAA

CrowsNest Publishing, 2002. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Stated first edition of Robert A. Hannon's detailed, invaluable manual. Slight shelfwear and bumping to corners, clean and unmarked. 8.25 x 5.5

Artizen Editions, 2009. Hardcover. New. New in original shrinkwrap from publisher.

Washington, D.C.: The Rappahannock Press, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book that accompanied the exhibition "Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series," by The Phillips Collection. Book also contain essays by acclaimed historians. There is a little wear to dust jacket and prior owner inscription on the half title page. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked.

Motorbooks Intl, 1996. Hardcover. Like New. Clean and unmarked.

Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Thollander, Earl. A lovely SIGNED copy of the cookbook. Stated eighth printing. The colors of the price-clipped jacket are bright, as are the orange cloth covers and the dark orange endpapers. There is crease to the front flap of the jacket. [xii], 877 pp. 10.25 x 7.5". As a large and heavy book this order may incur additional shipping charges. From the jacket: "But there is even more to James Beard's American Cookery than his superb recipes. This is a book to be savored as well as used, an epicurean journal that with delightful prose digs deep into the history of America to trace the origins and Americanization of our cooking.

D. Magee, 1965. Unknown Binding. Very Good. David Magee at The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1965. One of 365 copies. Near Fine. Facsimile of the first edition of 1769-1770 published in London by Thomas Jefferys. 6 pages of plates in the text volume plus facsimiles of the title page and 10 charts, mostly folding, in the separate volume of charts. Printed in black and red. Folio, both parts in blue printed wrappers, housed in a linen covered clamshell box with black and gilt label on the spine.

Hazard Press, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Jane Evans on the half-title page. Pages and red covers have only minor wear. Dust jacket is faded at the spine and has shelfwear to the edges, but has no cracks/chips/tears.

Surrey: Jane's Information Group, 1989. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Stated first edition of Jane's Battlefield Surveillance Systems, 1989-90. The Foreword outlines the editor's decision to, for the first time, divide Jane's Weapons Systems into eight more specialized yearbooks. With perforated stiff blue order form. 218pp. 11.5 x 8.5

Janes Information Group, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good. NOT ex-library. The pages are bright, clean, and unmarked. The blue cloth covers have some minor shelfwear at the edges. No dust jacket.

Arco Publishing, 1975. Hardcover. Good. Some light wear to the pages, and the binding has loosened just slightly, but still solid. Dust jacket has light shelfwear to edges.

Oyama, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine. Giles Greenfield. A collection of Lafcadio Hearn's poetry designed by his son to include notes and illustrations from his father's notebook. From the Preface: "Among my father's relics I have found a note-book which contains Japanese comic poems about goblins and monsters and other odd subjects rendered by him into English and a number of them illustrated by himself. [...] The present volume is designed to reproduce the more interesting parts of the old note-book and the publishers have taken great pains to make faithful reproductions." 17x12.5". Beautiful dark blue and beige covers with yellow paper title to front cover (English) and rear cover (Japanese), bright yellow endpapers, handmade rough-cut pages. Limited Edition: No. 336 of 500 copies issued. Half-title, limitation on tipped in card, full-title page, preface, 5-45, Japanese preface, Japanese title page. Pages of text and tipped in tissue illustrations. Near fine. Foxing to half-title and occasional very… Read More

Hotei Publishing,The Netherlands, 2001. Soft cover. Very Good. From the back cover: 'This publication offers the reader a ravishing selection of erotic prints (shunga) by the first full-colour woodblock-print masters: Harunobu and Koryusai. It is based on a private collection of prints of remarkable quality, their radiant colours perfectly preserved by the albums in which they were kept. The first volume in a popular series on erotic prints by famous Japanese woodblock-print artists, this book contains a detailed general introduction to the genre of shunga. In addition to a description of the historical and cultural settings of the prints, it focuses in particular on the locations and interiors where the erotic action takes place.' Minor scuffs to the soft covers, interior is bright and unmarked. 160 pages. 9.75 x 11.75

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The first edition, limited to two hundred copies, bound uncut. Slight wear to the paper label, with a replacement label bound to the rear. Bookplate of a previous owner facing the half-title, with minor offsetting. Another previous owner's name on the title page ("Clara C. Rittenhouse, March 1917), and a small bookseller's label to the rear endpaper ("H.H. Evans, San Francisco"). Scuffing to front and back covers, bumping of corners. Darkening of the pages with age.

University Press of Colorado, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good. 11" x 9" "Lane Ryo Hirabayashi was an innovator in the field of Asian American Studies, a historian and storyteller who dedicated his life to deepening public knowledge of Japanese American WWII incarceration.

2009. Paperback. Very Good. Clean and umarked. Almost like new.

Electronic Industry, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. Clean and umarked. Almost like new.

Marysville, Kansas: Published by the Author, 1938. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8.75"x6". An account of one of the first groups of '49ers who made the difficult journey to California, and were said to have given Death Valley its name. 130 pages, illustrated with photos including frontispiece of the author and one pullout. Previous owner's name on endpaper, some wear to wrapper, particularly yapped edges, pages are bright and clean.

Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. Fine condition.

London: Printed by T. Paine and M. Simmons for J. Rothwell and T. Underhill, 1644. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A contemporary history of the English Civil War, from an enthusiastic supporter. Covering in detail, as the title-page promises, the years 1641 to October of 1643, concluding with the Solemn League and Covenant. "Collected and published, principally for the high honour of our wonder-working God, still most graciously and gloriously carrying-on the great work of a pure Reformation in Church & State; As also for the great encourageme[n]t of all that are zealous for God & Lovers of their Country". Vicar's Chronicle has been professionally restored, leaving it suitable for reading or display. Rebacked, retaining a panel from an early binding reading "Vicar's Chronicle, 1644". A weak section of the title page is reinforced on the verso (see photos). Wear and loss to the corners of the boards. Slight toning to the pages, more pronounced to the index then elsewhere. Edges, now darkened,… Read More

Gagosian Gallery, 1999. Paperback. Good. All plates are intact. Dampstaining to last four pages and back cover. Slight stain to back cover. Spine and back cover have a crack/rip that extends into the last page.