Search Results: Titles starting with J from Bibiliophilia Books

Paris: La Belle Edition , 1918. Soft cover. Very Good. Fernand Leger. Square octavo (19x18 cm). - 32 pages, uncut. - In original wrappers, illustrated in yellow and blue, in the cubist style. - In a protective clear acetate wrapper (which is somewhat yellowed and frayed, due to age). - Printed entirely in bright red, title page also in red, with a blue illustration. - With 2 full-page plates in blue, and 2 text illustrations in red. - First edition of the first book illustrated by Leger (and the only one in the cubist style). - No. 202 of 327 copies, 300 of which are "sur papier a la forme". - Very strongly anti-war, as indicated by the title itself ("J'ai tue" = I killed). - Both Cendrars (1887-1961) and Leger (1881-1955) served on the Western Front during World War I. (In fact, Cendrars lost his right arm in 1916.) - A BEAUTIFUL AND RARE PACIFIST DOCUMENT AND ART WORK.

zu Alten Stettin: Hoppfner, 1654. Hardcover. Fine/not applicable. Crown octavo (19x14.5 cm). - [80] leaves. - Newly rebound in dark blue cloth, with title in gilt on spine. - Exterior as new; interior fine, with some slight foxing of the first few pages. - MICRAELIUS (1597-1658) [actually Johannes LUTKESCHWAGER] was professor at he University of Greifswald, and later rector of the Ratsschule in Stettin. Besides his works on theology and philosophy, he is most famous for his six books on the history of Pomerania. - Very rare: WorldCat locates only 3 copies (Greifswald, Munchen and Ballerup, Denmark)

Bruxelles: Balthsaris Vivien. Hardcover. Good/not applicable. (34x22.5 cm). - [1], 586, [29 ] pages. - Full calf, rebacked. - Rebacking (5 raised bands, title printed in gilt on black leather label on spine) very fine; covers worn corners bumped. - Title-page, with vigvette, printed in red and black. - Profusely illustrated with over a hundred of engravings. - Illustrations very fine. Link to additional photos available on request.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co. Inc., 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Large 8vo. (26x18 cm) -- Red half-cloth, with title in gilt on spine. - Very fine, in very fine (not price-clipped) dust jacket. - First edition. - Signed by Jacqueline Kennedy on upper right corner of front free end-paper.

Prague: Nakladatelstvi? c?eskoslovensky?ch vy?tvarny?ch ume?lcu?, 1958. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Beautiful monograph on of the book covers of the great Czech Illustratator, Josef Capek. 184 color reproductions . First edition, no dust-jacket, tight copy. Covers are soiled, interior is very clean. See photos 290 pages

Chicago: Eyncourt Press, 1930. First . Hardcover. Fine. Title continues: "With a bibliography of the known issues of the Baptist Mission Press at Shawanoe, Stockbridge, and Ottawa, 1834-1854", - 169 pp. - Eyncourt, Chicago, 1930. - Royal octavo (26x17 cm). - Original red cloth, title in gilt on spine. - Very fine. - Uncut. - No. 189 of 650 copies only. - With tipped-in frontispiece portrait of Meeker, and many reproductions of title-pages. - With inscription in ink: " To J. Christian Bay / with the high esteem / of Douglas C. McMurtrie" on the front free end-paper. - Tipped-in bookplate of Irving S. Cutter on front end-paper. - The Danish-American writer and bibliographer Jens Christian Bay (1871-1862) was chief librarian of the John Crerar Library in Chicago, 1928 through 1947.

[Mount Vernon, New York]: [Walpole Printing Office] , 1942. Hardcover. Fair. Medium octavo (24x16 cm). - {8], 313. [2] pages. - Publisher's dark gray cloth, title on front cover and spine in gilt on red label. Spine and top 4 cm of front cover quite faded. else fine. - Frontispiece, title-page and first page partially printed in red. - Number 57 of a limited edition of 295 copies printed in Bodoni type. - Previous owner's signature in pencil.

1971. First Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New. (27.5x21,5 cm). - 63 pages, including plates. - Original black boards, with title in white on front cover. - As new. - Signed in ink on front free end-paper: "'Mildred D. Johnson / 928-4671" - Poems by black children along with illustrations - The subjects range from Du Sable, Frederick Douglass, Marian Anderson, "Mr. Ellington", Bojangle,; Thurgood Marshall, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Whitney Young, Joe Louis to Gwendolyn Brooks. - VERY RARE; WorldCat locates only 3 copies {Governor's State U., University Park, IL, Olive-Harvey College, Chicago and the Chicago Public Library} - Link to additional photos available on request.

Columbus: Isaac N. Whiting, 1840. Soft cover. Good. 16mo. (16x10 cm). - 156 pages. - Original yellow wrappers, with printed title" Bishop McIlvaine on Justification", and with owner's signature, in ink: "G K Perry". Worn, !/3 of spine missing; some water damage and foxing on first few pages. - On title-page, in same handwriting as on cover, in pencil: "G K Perry from the author". - "Errata" printed on bottom of Page 3. - In 1832, Charles Pettit McIlvaine (1799-1873) became the second president of Kenyon College, and the second Episcopal Bishop of Ohio. - He was a leading advocate of Evangelicalism, and - as in this work - extremely critical of the Catholic leaning Oxford Movement. - He was so highly respected internationally that shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War, President Lincoln asked him to go to England to argue against British recognition of the Confederacy. - He died in Florence, Italy in 1873, and, on its way home as… Read More