Search Results: Titles starting with J from The Bookworm

Norman, Oklahoma:: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: tan cloth with black and gilt on the spine; the top edge tint is yellow; light stains on the bottom edge of the text block, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Very Good- dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) . Index. Description: This copy is Signed by the author on the half-title page. Includes two sections of black and white plates. J Ross Browne combined a literary career with government service. A century ago, Browne was well known as a travel writer, humorist, essayist and government servant. In 1853, as a confidential agent for the Treasury Department, he was assigned the task of ferreting out the misdeeds of federal office-holders in the nation's outposts. Extracts from Browne's witty, humorous, and often satirical government reports enliven this biography of a builder and reformer of the West. Includes chapters on: Indian Wars;… Read More

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.. 3rd Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: gray boards with black cloth at the spine; a Very Good- book, with a Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. The jacket is very good but for a small chip to the front panel.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Pumpkin colored endpapers. Description: Dust jacket art by Sandra Dionisi; jacket design by Sara Eisenman. The Washington Post Book World wrote of this novel, ''Jack Gance is more than simply a political novel. We do not often find beauty in the context of political life, but Ward Just succeeds in doing so. With its historical sweep and vivid dramatic textures Jack Gance will only serve to extend and expand Just's well-deserved reputation as both a political observer and a novelist of manifest gifts.''

New York:: Delacorte Press, 1990.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: two tone binding -- tan with black at the spine; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Black endpapers. Description: Dust jacket art by David Stimson; jacket design by Victor Weaver. This is the seventeenth novel in the Nameless Detective series. Nameless finds a friend's brother dead-- an apparent suicide. Yet he had just won two hundred thousand dollars at a casino. The investigation takes Nameless inside the world of high-stakes gambling and mob-run casinos, and into the middle of a complex scam.

New Haven:: Yale University Art Gallery, 1994.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: navy blue cloth with gilt; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket.. about 12.25 inches tall by 9.25 inches wide . Appendix, bibliography, index. Silver-gray endpapers. Description: Profusely illustrated in black and white and color. This was published in conjunction with an exhibition displayed at the Yale University Art Gallery, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Art Gallery at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Spenser Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas; the exhibit ran from April 1993 to June 1995. Includes maps and a chronology. From the jacket blurb: ''The collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy of the Ming and Qing dynasties assembled by the late Wong Nan-p'ing is among the finest still in private hands. The works constitute a near perfect illustration of the entire canon of orthodox painting -- styles which embody the aesthetic, philosophical, moral, and spiritual… Read More

New York:: Tower Publications, 1957.. Mass market paperback . BINDING/CONDITION: mass market paperback; name written inside; the cover is creased, and paper is tanning; Good condition.. 12mo (7 inches tall) . Description: Cover design by Adelson & Eichinger. ''Author-adventurer John Keel traveled in search of Jadoo, the black magic of the Orient, and found that it has a language of its own. Strange but true -- stories of the bizarre and the inexplicable. The secret of the X-ray eyes. The city of snakes. The Yezidi devil-worshippers. Eyewitness accounts of the Abominable Snowman. Mummy dealers of the Muski, who manufacture ancient mummies from fresh corpses.'' The only printed date is a 1957 copyright; this probably from the late 1960s. Publisher's book number 43-620.

New York:: Villard Books, 1991.. 1st American Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards with cloth at the spine; a Very Good+ book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped.. 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket design by Richard L Aquan; photo by Michael J Britto. Using the pseudonym Olivier Orban, Loup Durand has written several best selling novels in France.

Washington, D.C.:: National Park Service, 1957.. Revised Edition.. Paperbound: center-stapled format . BINDING/CONDITION: paperbound; stapled booklet format; Very Good condition.. 8vo (about 9 inches tall) . Description: Illustrated with b&w photographs. This is No. 2 in a series of historical handbooks done by the National Park Service.

New York:: G P Putnam's Sons, 1992.. 8th Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. The jacket is somewhat faded at the spine.. 10.25 inches tall by 8.25 inches wide . Brown endpapers. Description: Illustrated in color by Tomie dePaola. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Saints preserve us! Jamie O'Rourke is the laziest man in all of Ireland. So when his poor wife's back gives out before she is able to harvest the potatoes, it looks as if Jamie will go hungry all winter. Now Jamie is as lucky as he is lazy, and one morning he traps himself a leprechaun, from whom he wins a single wish. What does Jamie O'Rourke wish for? All the potatoes he can eat. But this time Jamie may have bitten off more than he can chew. Half Irish himself, Tomie dePaola is wholeheartedly enthusiastic about passing on this colorful folktale.''

London:: Jane's Publishing, 1983.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: Pictorial boards; a Good book, no dust jacket.. 4to (about 11'' to 12.5'' tall) . Description: Well illustrated in b&w with maps, photographs and drawings.

Boston:: Little, Brown & Company, 1967.. Book Club Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: blue binding; the top edge tint is light red; the spine is slightly slanted, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Description: Panoramic dust jacket design by Keith Shackleton. Nort Clay was a millionaire. Suave and charming -- and quite mad -- a fact unknown to even his best friend. Every room in Nort's house was bugged. Ben Powers, besides being Nort Clay's best friend, was a washed up television writer with a marriage on the rocks. He made the mistake of inviting Penny Savodi for a weekend at Nort Clay's Long Island estate. Nort had a grand scheme. He was convinced several gold cannons were sunk off the coast of Janus Island during the seventeenth century, and had an elaborate salvage plan that he wanted to keep secret by masking it as a documentary film. He wanted Ben to write and direct the film. For Ben, the offer was too good to resist, but he began to… Read More

Paris:: Hazan, 2003.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: red binding; a Very Good book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket.. about 12.5 inches tall by 9 inches wide . Glossary, bibliography. Patterned endpapers. Description: Lavishly illustrated in color. Chapter headings are: The body in Japanese life; The sacred body; The social body; The body in love; The made-up body; Image and the body; The festive body; The performing body; Spatial relationships; The body in death.

Tokyo:: Tuttle Publishing, 2009.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green binding with black text; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. about 8.5 inches square . Glossary, bibliography, index. Photo endpapers. Description: Profusely illustrated with color ;photographs. Provides insight into the powerful mystique and dynamism of Japanese stone gardens from their earliest use as props in animistic rituals to their appropriation by Zen monks and priests to create settings conducive to meditation and contemplation and, finally, to their contemporary use and meaning. The text, complemented by abundant imagery, reveals the hidden order of stone gardens, heightening the enthusiast's awareness and appreciation of how they were constructed, and why. Fifteen gardens are featured, some well known, others less so.''

Chico, California:: Self Published, 1987.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: sturdy dark burgundy binding with gilt text; a few pinpoint white spots on the front cover, otherwise in Very Good condition.. 4to (about 11 inches tall) . References, appendices. Description: A project presented to the Faculty of California State University, Chico; in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree Master of Arts in Special Major: Dance/Education, Spring 1987. This paper presents the thematic, technical, and physical elements that went into a production of a jazz dance recital. Includes a brief history of jazz dance; a review of literature. The remainder of the book details the performance. Includes a fold-out facsimile of a full page newspaper review.

Philadelphia:: Centaur Press, 1933.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: black cloth; slight darkening of the endpapers, especially near the hinge area, the text edges are somewhat darkened from exposure, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Fair dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped.. 8vo (about 8.25 inches tall) . Description: This copy is inscribed and Signed by the author on the front free endpaper.

Boston:: Little, Brown & Company, February, 1952.. 4th Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: pale blue cloth; some fading to the cloth along the top and bottom edges, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 8.25 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket by George Salter. The first printing was in January, 1952; this fourth printing just one month later. Jefferson Selleck, a comfortable self-satisfied man with a sudden change in health faces a future with two one-ounce drinks a day, no golf, no hunting, no business, no phone calls. He decides to take stock in his life and dictates to a tape recorder given to him as a Christmas gift. He talks of his first love, hunting friendships, ... After Selleck's death, his physician and friend takes on the memoirs, and brings his own perspective to the life. The publisher's blurb tells us the author was born in Nebraska in 1913 and (at that time) lived in Aspen, Colorado. His… Read More

Garden City, New York:: Doubleday & Company, 1965.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: dark blue cloth with silver spine text; Anchor logo blind stamped on the front cover; owner's names on the front endpaper, otherwise a Very Good book with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (9.5 inches tall) . Appendix. Description: A note about the dust jackets for this series -- beginning with the publication of Genesis in 1964, the books were published as they were completed. Up until 1972, the jackets were all the same -- a simple graphic design by George Giusti showing the Anchor symbol on a cream colored background. After that time though, the covers were greatly transformed -- they came alive with outstanding works from various artists. This is Volume 21 in the Anchor Bible series of book by book translations of the Bible. The publisher's blurb declares ''The Anchor Bible marks the beginning of a new era of cooperation among scholars in… Read More

Philadelphia:: Westminster / John Knox Press, 1990.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket.. 8vo (about 8'' to 9.5'' tall) . Index, bibliography, notes, appendix.

New York:: Random House, 1976.. Book Club Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: mustard-gold boards with red spine text; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good- dust jacket.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art by Ben Stahl, Jr. A suspense novel set in Hong Kong. Rear gutter code ''G25'' indicates a printing date of June, 1976.

New York:: Robbins Music Corporation, 1958.. Paperbound: center-stapled format . BINDING/CONDITION: paperbound; center-stapled format; Good condition; no markings.. 4to (about 12 inches tall) . Description: Two pages of b&w photo illustrations. Words and music to 21 hit songs, including Honey; Peg o' My Heart; Roll Along Prairie Moon; The West, A Nest and You; When It's Springtime in the Rockies; When You Wore a Tulip; You Were Meant for Me; You're a Sweetheart; and many more.

Australia:: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1989.. Paperbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paperbound, with a dust wrapper; book and wrapper are both Very Good.. 8vo (8.25 inches tall) . Bibliography. Description: A few black and white photo illustrations. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Jimmy Woods was one of the pioneers and legends of Australian aviation. Best known to thousands of Western Australians as 'Woodsie' -- owner-operator for many years of a popular, battling air service to Rottnest Island - he had made his name a generation earlier as a pilot of extraordinary skill and resourcefulness. Recruited by Norman Brearley in 1924, following war service in the RAF, he joined the fledgling Western Australian Airways as pilot on its North-West contract service, transferring later to the pioneering East-West run (between Perth and Adelaide). During this time he took part in a number of daring search and rescues, including that for Charles Kingsford-Smith. In 1933, Jimmy made an attempt on the record of a… Read More