Search Results: Titles starting with J from McBlain Books

New York: Privately Printed, 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine. frontis portrait, illustrations, 63p. Original paper-covered boards backed in cloth. dj (glasseine). 26 cm. Protective cardboard box. Scattered browning in text. Edition limited top 250 copies. American landscape painter.

Leipzig: J. F. Hartknoch, 1839. Vierte rechtmassige Gesammtausg. Hardcover. Good. 8 vols. bound in 4. frontis (portrait), Original(?) 1/4 leather (black boards with darker black leather backstrip and tiny corners). 15cm. Extremities rubbed. Covers scuffed. Moderate foxing and browning. German text.

Paris: H. Floury, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vols. Vol. I: frontis, xvi (text), plus 28 plates numbered 1-28 (and three more lettered A-C which were incorrectly attributed to Forain) and a [2]-page Table at end. Vol. 2: Plates numbered 29-125 and [8] unnumbered pages at end containing a Table for the contents of the second volume and a Table Alphabetique des Planches for the set. The frontis is an original etching by Forain, presumably limited to the 300 copies of this limited edition. The black and white prints are printed on one side and each it is preceeded by anumbered leaf containing the title of the plate and a little information about that plate. Contemporary 1/2 leather (mabled boards backs in (at least now( brown leather with matching corners. Original wrappers bound in. 26 cm. Scuffing on leather portions of bindings, Spines somewhat sloped. Contents sound and clean. French text. Copy No. 54 of an edition limited to 300 copies, of which 250 were for sale. Forain was a French painter,… Read More

New York: Methodist Book Concern, 1922. Paperback. Very Good. frontis, photos, 179p. 19cm. Bookplate. Pencil notes on blank page at end. Scattered foxing (heavier on a few pages). Religious fiction about Methodist efforts among African Americans.

Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. photos (black & white), xiv, [2], 271, [1]p. Original cloth. dj. 28 cm.

Nashville: House of the M.E. Church, South, 1893. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 308p. 19cm. Some light spotting or discoloration on back cover and at base of backstrip. No jacket. Haygood served as President of Emory University, 1875-1884, and was elected a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1890.

Washington: Jesse Jackson for President Committee, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. Single sheet folded to form a narrow six-page campaign brochure. 22cm. Printed in blue ink on off-white paper. Image of Jackson clad in white shirt and tie speaking before a microphone.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illustrated (many color), index, 235p. Brown cloth. dj. 29cm. INSCRIBED along bottom left side of title-page by Lawrence ("To Charles Harris Jacob Lawrence 10/1/87"). Charles F. Harris is a pioneering African American editor who had worked for many years in the white publishing world. He founded Amistad Press Inc. in 1986 to focus on African American writers and themes. This book appears to have been signed on the day that the Jacob Lawrence retrospective exhibition opened at the Brooklyn Museum.

Very Good. Single sheet 17 x 18 cm. which was recently framed under glass (32 x 30 cm. as framed) Old and very visible tape mark on both sides of an old vertical fold on the document. An old dampstain covers most of the document but does not affect readability. Document dated Nov. 27, 1847. No location given in document. Handwritten note on the brown paper on the back of the framed item: "Owned by Anna Galbraith Smith's grandmother Vilatta Hagler, in Carthage, Tennessee. He was freed at 18 years of age per family history." If the dating of Henry's freedom is correct, that would have been about a year after General George Crook established a Union outpost in Carthage during the Civil War while trying to root out pockets of resistance in Eastern and Middle Tennessee and a couple years before Lee surrendered at Appomattox.

New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 244p. Original black cloth. dj. 22cm. Cover slightly soiled. INSCRIBED on half-title by Williams. A novel.

New York: Sheed & Ward, 1947. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, index, 116p. 21cm. Cover and contents moderately browned. No Jacket. INSCRIBED by Fowlie. From the library of Professor Thomas M. Greene.

New Haven: Yale, 1994. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. illustrations (many in color), photo, maps, index, 307p. Original dark blue cloth. dj. 31cm. SIGNED on half-title by James Cahill who wrote one of the introductory essays appearing in this volume. Introduction by Richard M. Barnhart. Exhibited at the Yale University Art Gallery April 9, 1993 - July 31, 1994 and later at two other American museums and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

New York: , Print Drpartment, 1970. Paperback. Very Good. 18 black & white illustrations (including one on front cover), 28 p. Softcover in original wrapper. 20 cm. Cover lightly worn. 69 prints are listed.

Adelaide: A Broiga Book, 1970. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, illustrations (some color), (14) unnumbered pages, 27 plates. Original cloth. Cover lightly soiled. No jacket. SIGNED on by artist (beneath his photograph) and author (on title-page). Laid in is a small printed color image of a 1963 Cant work titled Drawing. which was INSCRIBED on back by Cant ("Best wishes to Frank & Alice from Jim and Dora Xmas 1963"). This book also appears to have been published in softcover.

n.p., n.p.:[199-?]. Paperback. Very Good. xiii, 158p. Softcover. Original yellow cover. Black plastic comb binding. 28 cm. Text printed (photocopied) on one side. OCLC locates three copies (Harvard, Johns Hopkins and KSU Medical Center. McCune graduated from medical school (University of Glasgow) in 1837. This loosely organized effort does not appear to have been published in a more permanent form. Quite a bit about Smith is found in the five volumes of Ripley's "Black Abolitionist Papers" (1985-1992).

Nottingham: Nottingham University Art Gallery, 1940. Paperback. Very Good. 8 full-page black & white illustrations, 24p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25 cm. Exhibition held January 10-February 4, 1970. Calalog prepared by Andrew McLaren Young. 70 items are listed.

Chapel Hill: UNC, 1920. Paperback. Good. 74p. Wrapper. 23cm. Backstrip chipped at top. This issue includes "The Free Negro in North Carolina," by R. H. Taylor (at pages 5-26).

Hardcover. Very Good. Twenty 4 x 6 inch color photos placed back to back in clear plastic photo sleeves. Nineteen of the photos are from the Walk. Reno is clearly visible in ten of those photos. The twentieth photo is of Reno and a younger woman with Florida foliage visible behind them. A photo birth announcement, addressed to Janet Reno and postmarked 2002, has been placed a separate photo sleeve although it is slightly taller than the sleeve. Inexpensive faux reptile cover on the small album. Several empty sleeves at end.

London: A & C Black, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. 32 color illustrations (including frontis), map, index, x, 240p. Original blue cloth. 21cm. No jacket. Minor wear. Small spot (about the size of a quarter farthing) on front cover.

London, 1967. Paperback. Fine. 22p plus 28 black & white plates (maps). 25cm. Map Collectors' Circle. Publication No. 36.