Search Results: Titles starting with J from Peruse the Stacks

U.S.A.: Random House, 2011. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proofs. Fine, in publisher's wraps.

Austin: Betty Smedley, Bookseller, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 150 numbered hardcover copies signed by Hertzog and Haley. Fine condition.

Austin, TX: Steck-Vaughn, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second edition, 1968, with new material not in the 1965 first edition. Signed by Bode on the title page. Near fine with minimal wear to edges of buckram boards in like jacket.

Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition of this collection. Very good with some light rubbing to edges of boards in like jacket with some pushing at head. Laid in is the publisher's informational pamphlet for this title.

Mulholland Books, 2018. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing, signed by Lansdale on title page. Fine in like jacket.

Jackson, WY: Jackson Hole Museum, 1987. Soft cover. Very Good. Printed by the Jones Boys printers in Jackson, Wyoming for the Jackson Hole Museum. Very good in red illustrated wraps with some wear at staples, soiling to page edges, sticker residue on back cover, and former owner's name to front cover.

U.S.A.: Harper Collins, 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Later printing, inscribed by Paterson. Near fine in like jacket with price blacked out on back.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated first edition. Reinforced binding with orange cloth Holt Library Edition boards. Bound upside down from textblock and former owner's gift inscription to ffep, else fine and clean. Very good jacket is price clipped to upper corner, with lower corner retaining the original price of $3.97. Holt library edition gold sticker and some edge wear, mainly at heel of spine. A nicely preserved copy.

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1972. First edition. Miniature book, 6x4.5cm. Woodcut portrait frontis of Zeitlin. Inscribed around his printed name on the first leaf, "from" (Jake Zeitlin) "to Jerry Stuart, this mini-ography with regards." Fine condition in orange cloth boards, stamped in gilt. Inscribed by the subject of the "miniography," Los Angeles publisher and bookseller, Jacob Zeitlin (1902-1987).  Printed and bound by Cathay Press Limited of Hong Kong.

Austin, Texas: Gammel's Book Store, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good only in good jacket. Would be better, save for the bottom corner of the boards and jacket being chewed by a dog. Contents remains clean and unmarred. Scarce in jacket. Other than chewed corner, minimal wear and tear to jacket.

Austin, TX: Bertha and Frank Dobie, 1957. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Reprinted from the Southwestern Quarterly, Volume LX, No. 3, January 1957, and issued by the Dobies as a Christmas greeting that year. Very good in red wraps with some soiling and edge wear.

South Carolina: Thomas Cooper Society, 1993. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Limited to 350 numbered copies. Program for the event laid in. Near fine folded broadside.

Bobbs Merrill, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated first edition. Very good with small stain along bottom edge of front board. Very good jacket has chipping to spine ends and corners, and some scuffing to front panel.

Knopf, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second state with 4 line colophon (you can actually see a ghost of the line they removed). Cranberry boards (not the later bright red). Very good with foxing to page block edge in like jacket with some chipping and wear.

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2020. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. #709 out of 2000 signed and numbered copies. Fine in fine jacket.

Houston: Students of the Rice Institute, 1960. First edition. 11x8.5" 32pp. Illustrations, advertisements. Illustrated, red card wrappers with wear and rubbing along spine and at corners. Very good. Contains very early appearances by Larry McMurtry, "Notes on Vassar Miller," and "The Beat Academy."  Also contains several poems from Miller and "Excerpts from a Novel: Suffer, little children," by William Corrington.

U.S.A.: Scribner, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing, signed by author on title page. Near fine in like jacket with some sticker residue to front panel.

U.S.A.: Knopf, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Stated first edition, signed and dated by Gardner on first blank page after the front free endpaper. Fine copy in like jacket with minimal to no wear.

U.S.A.: Macmillan, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by Armes on ffep. Very good in like jacket with a couple small tears to the top and bottom edges.

London: Robert Hale, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First hardcover edition of two novels, Jealous Woman and Sinful Woman. Published in the U.K. in 1955 by Hale. Very good book with lightly bumped upper corner in very good jacket with small loss at head of spine. Some edge wear, and soiling to back panel, otherwise nicely preserved.