Search Results: Titles starting with J from Underground Books, ABAA

La Jolla: WildStorm Productions, 2001. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 10 1/4" X 6 3/4". Unpaginated. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Admirers of great art will delight in this rare chance to see the creative process that went into the smash hit Danger Girl Comic Book series, as well as the never-before-published concept drawings for the Danger Girl toys, video game, PVC set and statues.(Publisher).

New York: The Federal Book Company, 1906. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 7 1/4" X 5". 245pp, plus eight pages of ads. Pictorial publisher's binding, green cloth over boards, stamped in black and dark green with pictorial label to upper board. Moderate edgewear to binding, with bumping and rubbing to corners, light scattered rubbing, and spots of soiling. Soiling to edges of text block. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Toning, foxing, and soiling to endpapers and introductory pages. Occasional spot of toning and foxing throughout. Both hinges tender, with spine visible at some pages. A worn but still quite charming copy of this nineteenth title in the Jack Harkaway series for boys.

London: Pearson Education Limited, 2003. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xii, 310pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Black cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: England in the 1880s was a society in transition, shedding the skin of Victorianism and moving towards a more modern age. Promiscuity, moral decline, prostitution, unemployment, poverty, police inefficiency... all these things combined to create a feeling of uncertainty and fear. The East End of London became the focus of that fear. Here lived the uneducated, poverty-ridden and morally destitute masses. When Jack the Ripper walked onto the streets of the East End he came to represent everything that was wrong with the area and with society as a whole. He was fear in a human form, an unknown lurker in the shadows who could cross boundaries and kill. Jack the Ripper: The Definitive… Read More

Chicago: Merrill Publishing Company, 1935. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover. 6 1/4" X 6 5/8". Unpaginated. Red pictorial paper over boards. Heavy wear to binding, with edgewear, soiling, and scattered rubbing. 2" open tear to spine and chipping to head and tail. Pictorial endpapers. Both hinges tender. "Cat" written in crayon to second page and rear free endpaper, else pages clean and unmarked. A very worn, but complete copy of this charmingly penned and color illustrated tale of a rags-to-riches rabbit family.

New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". xxiv, 266pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light rubbing to covers and creasing to corners and edges. Price sticker to rear cover. Faint dust-spotting to edges of text block. Very occasional penciled notation to pages. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The first general exposition of Lacan's important but difficult work, this is designed to provide the conceptual tools which will enable the reader to study Lacan using the original texts.(Publisher).

Ravensburg, Germany: Ravensburger Buchverlag Otto Maier GmbH, 1990. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 10 3/4" X 7 3/4". Unpaginated. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light crubbing, creasing, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Pop-ups and interactive flaps are functional, clean, and unworn. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this French, children's pop-up book about numbers. Text is in French. This book is from the estate collection of prominent pop-up book collector and longtime Movable Book Society member Geraldine Lebowitz.

New York: Doubleday, 2024. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at front endpaper. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 302pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Gentle bump to tail of spine with light creasing to jacket at tail as well. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, NPR, THE SEATTLE TIMES, ELLE, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, AND OPRAH DAILY A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view • From the "literary icon" (Oprah Daily) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel Erasure is the basis for Cord Jefferson's critically acclaimed film American Fiction "If you liked Demon Copperhead, by… Read More

Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2017. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 7 1/4". xiii, 241pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Price sticker to rear cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The first biography of this important landscape architect, James Rose examines the work of one of the most radical figures in the history of mid-century modernist American landscape design. An artist who explored his profession with words and built works, Rose fearlessly critiqued the developing patterns of land use he witnessed during a period of rapid suburban development. The alternatives he offered in his designs for hundreds of gardens were based on innovative and iconoclastic environmental and philosophic principles, some of which have become mainstream today. A classmate of Garrett Eckbo and Dan Kiley at Harvard, Rose was expelled in 1937 for refusing to design landscapes in the Beaux-Arts method. In 1940,… Read More

Amsterdam: Stedelijk, 1987. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 10 1/2" X 8". 48pp. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, foxing, and toning to covers and edges. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Very faint foxing to front and rear flyleafs. Light foxing to gutter at foreword. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Text in English and Dutch. A catalog featuring the art of Dutch painter, Jan Beutener (b.1932).

New York: Anthem Press, 2003. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiv, 303pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This important study investigates how Austen worked with, and played upon, the cracks and faultlines which time had uncovered in the ideals of polite conversation. In a wide-ranging argument combining intellectual history and literary stylistics, Bharat Tandon explores such activities as flirtation and ventriloquism, in order to show how a form of conversational morality is what Austen's novels both describe and set out to achieve.(Publisher).

New York: Abbeville Press, 2021. Limited Edition. Hardcover. As new. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 14 1/4". 280pp. Book is As New in publisher's shrink wrap.Housed in protective clamshell box. Limited Edition of 3,000 copies. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A lavishly illustrated history of Japanese screens limited to 3,000 numbered copies Japanese screens (byobu, meaning "barrier against the wind") are made of wooden lattices with two to twelve panels, covered with a paper or fabric canvas. They are unique for being beautiful artworks as well as portable furnishings, acting as backdrops for court ceremonies or partitions for intimate tea services. Artists have embraced screens as three-dimensional objects, creating dynamic compositions that guide the viewer's eye from one panel to the next. This sumptuous book explores the 1,300-year history… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Hardcover. Very good/good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". x, 540pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Mild rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Sunning to spine of jacket. Bound in brown cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: These essays, by thirteen specialists from Japan and the United States, provide a comprehensive view of the Japanese empire from its establishment in 1895 to its liquidation in 1945. They offer a variety of perspectives on subjects previously neglected by historians: the origin and evolution of the formal empire (which comprised Taiwan, Korea, Karafuto. the Kwantung Leased Territory, and the South Seas Mandated Islands), the institutions and policies by which it was governed, and the economic dynamics that impelled it. Seeking neither to justify the empire nor to condemn it,… Read More

Paris: Librairie Hachettee Et C., 1910. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 10" X 8". 64pp. Rubbing, toning, scratches, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Boards are slightly warped. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Foxing to endpapers. Age-toning to pages throughout. Pages are free of marks and notation. Chipping to edges of illustrated page at front of book. Binding has been repaired with archival adhesive and is sound. A solid copy of this early 20th century French children's book on spelling.

New York: Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, 2015. Hardcover. Very good/good. Hardcover. 12 1/4" X 11 1/4". 108pp. Wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, creasing, chipping, and a couple open tears to covers, corners, and edges. Bound in green paper over boards with spine and front cover lettered in white. Pages are bright, clean, and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this catalogue accompanying Jaume Plensa exhibitions at Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art and The Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, TN. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote.

Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 1997. First Edition, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. First Edition, Limited Edition. Hardcover. This exhibition catalog, limited to 900 copies, was issued for the exhibition of the work of Jeffrey Lynn Koons (born January 21, 1955) from September 30 to November 29, 1997 at the Galerie Jerome de Noirmont in Paris, the artist's first solo gallery show in Europe. This uncommon and hard-to-find catalog features 29 full-page color illustrations of the work of Jeff Koons, providing a mini-retrospective of 29 works from 1979 to 1992 and includes 25 quotations from the artist. 6 3/4" X 9 1/2". Unpaginated. 84 pages, including 29 colour illustrations, all full-page. Bound in mirror-finish silver metallic paper over thin boards, bound together with white plastic screws. Moderate wear to binding, with much surface scratching and scattered rubbing, dust soiling, and light creasing, along with some bumping and splitting to extremities. Binding is firm, tight, and sound.… Read More

New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. Signed by author in ink to title page. 9 1/4" X 6". xxi, 436pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Gentle bump to tail of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. John E. Ferling (born 1940) is a professor emeritus of history at the University of West Georgia and a leading authority on late 18th and early 19th century American history. He is an award-winning author of numerous books, and has appeared as an expert voice in documentaries on the History Channel, PBS, the Learning Channel, and C-SPAN Book TV. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From the award-winning author of Almost a Miracle and The Ascent of George Washington, this is the rare work of scholarship that offers us irresistible human drama even as it enriches our understanding of deep themes in our nation's history. The decade of the 1790s has been called the "age of passion." Fervor ran high as rival factions battled over the… Read More

New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink to title page. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xxi, 436pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in brown paper over baords with spine lettered in silver. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. John E. Ferling (born 1940) is a professor emeritus of history at the University of West Georgia and a leading authority on late 18th and early 19th century American history. He is an award-winning author of numerous books, and has appeared as an expert voice in documentaries on the History Channel, PBS, the Learning Channel, and C-SPAN Book TV. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From the award-winning author of Almost a Miracle and The Ascent of George Washington, this is the rare work of scholarship that offers us irresistible human drama even as it enriches our understanding of… Read More

New York: A Perfect Crime Book (Doubleday) Viking Penguin, Simon and Schuster, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". Each volume First Edition, First Printing. Mistress of Justice inscribed and dated to half-title, A Maiden's Grave, The Devil's Teardrop, Speaking in Tongues, and The Blue Nowhere (dated) signed to title page, the remaining two volumes unsigned. Set presents nicely, with each unclipped dust jacket enclosed in protective archival sleeve. Each paper over boards, some spines backed in cloth and some in paper. Mild shelfwear to dust jackets and bindings, with gentle bumping to some extremities, else fine, tight, square, and sound. Pages are clean and bright. A very attractive set of first printings, several signed, of award-winning and best-selling crime and mystery novelist Jeffery Deaver's first seven stand-alone works. This set contains: Mistress of Justice (0385423772), The Lesson of Her Death (0385424817), Praying for… Read More

Mahwah, New Jersey: Ramapo College Art Gallery, 1984. Staplebound. Good. Staplebound. 10" X 8". 30pp. Mild wear and creasing to covers and edges. Permanent marker marks to front cover. Pages clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this exhibition of the work of Jennings Tofel at the Ramapo College Art Gallery.

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First Edition. Hardcover. This charmingly conceived and prettily bound 1880 children's book follows a young girl, the titular Jenny, as she learns about the insect world through a series of dialogues with "A Great Ugly Spider," "A Nice Little Housekeeper"-an ant, "The Little Confectioner"-a bee; "A Paper-Maker"-a wasp, "A Curious Caterpillar," "The Beetles," "A Musical Family"-a cricket, "Hunters and Miners"-a dragonfly, and "Two-Winged Insects"-a gnat. This uncredited educational novel is the work of Lucy Ellen Guernsey (1826-1899), an activist, abolitionist, and author of over 60 books for children. This British edition is illustrated in a frontispiece and 25 enchantingly lush and detailed illustrations by the French artist Hector Giacomelli (1822-1904). Presumed first and only British edition, preceded by the American edition published by Sunday School Union. 7 1/8" X 5". 267pp, plus four pages of ads. Bound in full blue… Read More