Search Results: Titles starting with J from Robert Dagg Rare Books

New York: The Viking Press, 1934. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. Spine of book evenly foxed otherwise a fine copy in a fine crisp dust jacket. Scarce in this condition. Author's pseudonymous first book.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1923].. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Pumpkin-colored cloth with paper label at spine. Book bumped at lower corner. Else a near fine bright copy lacking the scarce dust jacket. A particularly crisp example of this book. Only 1500 copies were printed. Kirkpatrick A6b.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. FIRST EDITION. Inscribed by Magee in the year of publication: "For Kit, who now sees this in its / handsome dress / as always, David / Sept. 24, 1941." Near fine book in a very good dust jacket missing a nickel-sized chip in lower rigt hand corner of front panel. Magee's love of the novels of P.G. Wodehouse is evident in this humorous novel about an English Lord who attempts to sell a rare stamp to an American businessman. Magee's book about his life as a bookseller in the Bay Area, Infinite Riches, is still highly readable today.

[London]: Socialist Book Centre, [1946]. FIRST EDITION. Crisp, near fine copy in wrappers with a faint crease to covers and internal leaves.

London: John Murray, [1953]. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine in dust jacket (faintly tanned at spine). Keene translated many of the key Japanese writers in the decades following the publication of this book.

New York: Covici-Friede, [1931]. FIRST EDITION. The scarce first issue book with page 305/306 integral (and with 34 lines of text on page 306). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, bright and crisp with only the most minor of edgewear.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1918. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. An interesting copy with a nice inscription on flyleaf from Stephen Vincent Benet to his sister-in-law: "Teresa from Stephen / Christmas 1918 / As an ---awful / warning for a Parent / who needs none." Rear hinge splitting. A very good copy otherwise with some minor rubbing to boards. Teresa Benet was the sister of popular novelist, Kathleen Norris as well as the wife of William Rose Benet.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1926. FIRST EDITION. One of 975 numbered copies. Fine copy in glassine dust jacket (glassine chipped). Highly uncommon in the original glassine jacket.

New York: Terence & Elsa Holliday, 1932. FIRST EDITION. Fine copy in a lovely fine dust jacket. Gallup A22. 1000 copies were printed.

New York: Stone & Kimball, 1897. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Top edges gilt. Pictorial design to boards (common to volumes issued in Stone & Kimball's Green Tree Library). A very good to near fine copy. Issued the same year as the British edition (Heinemann, using the same translation).

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [1949]. FIRST EDITION. Near fine book in a fine bright dust jacket (faint crease at spine).

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1925. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with some very minor edgewear. Nice copy of this early Nathan title.

New York: Hillman-Curl, Inc, 1939. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Very good to near fine book in a very good dust jacket with a few minor tears and creases. A Lawyer Jellipot mystery.

London: Jarrolds, 1935. FIRST EDITION. With the errata slip tipped in between the half-title and dedication leaf. A very fine copy in like dust jacket, virtually as new.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1945. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Hardcover. Some minor foxing else a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket, also slightly foxed with some tanning to spine panel. Nice copy of the concluding volume in Mann's Joseph tetralogy.

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1941. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. 10 plates, 2 maps (one folding; 2 full-page) and endpaper maps. Clean near fine books in near fine dust jackets slightly tanned at spines and with some light overall foxing.

Ithaca: The Dragon Press, 1931. FIRST EDITION. Paperback. Owner signature of George Marion O'Donnell. Very good in wrappers (somewhat soiled and darkened).

[London]: Peter Nevill, [1953]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. A very fine copy in dust jacket, virtually as new.

New York: Brentano's, 1929. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Filmed in 1930. Some foxing to page edges else a tight, near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some restoration at edges. Scarce in jacket. WWI.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1930. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Some spotting to page edges, otherwise a clean, nearly fine copy gound in quarter vellum cloth-covered boards. Gilt title on spine of book reads "Journey's End /American Edition." In a near fine example of the scarce dust jacket with some restoration at edges. Originally published in play form, this novel version was how Sherriff first intended to issue this important WWI narrative.