Authors starting with J from Glenn Books

London: The Connoisseur, 1911. Front cover lined and lettered in gilt with three silhouette vignettes in black.Spine lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Cloth at extremities of front joint is frayed. Spine ends a bit frayed as well. Neat ink inscription on front free endpaper dated 1946. Title-page slightly browned. Quite a beautifully-designed book. Nine full-page color illustrations and 72 illustrations in monochrome. Extensive bibliography. Thirteen-page article from "The Connoisseur" laid-in ... more information

New York: The McBride Company, 1957. Illustrated throughout with photographs and 300+ touchmarks. 216pp.. First Edition. Two-tone Cloth.. Light Edge Wear./Minor Chipping.. Octavo. ... more information

Rutland, VT and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1971. Cardboard slipcase. This book is designed both for the novice in Japanese lacquer art and for the advanced collector. . First Edition.. Black Cloth. Fine/Price-clipped Dust Jacket. Quarto. ... more information

Westminster Archibald Constable 1901. Rebacked with original spine laid-down. Paper-covered boards. Edges worn. Paper has been professionally repaired in several places. Hinges re-inforced. Closed 1" tear bottom of p.xi. Printed at Oxford by Horace Hart. xii, 65pp. This is #23/250 numbered copies of this limited edition. The typography is quite pleasing. Frontispiece portrait of King James, elaborate title-page adapted from a design approved by the King for a folio edition in 1616. Five full-page illu... more information

New York: Henry Malkan, 1909. Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Gilt basket vigbette on front cover as well. Illustrated with nearly 600 black and white plates. Actually two books in one. "Indian Basketry" runs 266pp. and is indexed. "How To Make Baskets" is a second edition printed in 1904 and runs 136pp. with an index and list of illustrations. An excellent resource and reference book.. Fourth Edition.. Green Cloth. Light Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

Abilene, KS: Shadlinger-Wilson Printers, 1961. Inscribed to famous Kansas Citian Harry Darby by the author. Illustrated with copious photographic reproductions. 203pp.. First Edition. Tan Cloth. Nearly Fine/Price-clipped Dust Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

Montgomery Village, Maryland: NBK Publishing, 2002. "Nick Jamilla discusses Jedi sword fighting from the perspective of a martial artisi and fencer". 266pp.. First Edition.. Color Illustrated Wrappers.. Fine./No Jacket.. Octavo. ... more information

London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co. , 1915. Pages lightly yellowed and occasional trace of foxing, else very good. Previous owner's signature in light pencil, front free endpaper, dated 1915. Contemporary sticker bearing the likeness of Sir John Jellicoe also on front free endpaper. 115 illustrated photographic plates of various vessels. 167pp.. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Minor Wear and Soiling./No Jacket.. Oblong Octavo. ... more information

New York: Leavitt, Lord and Company, 1835. Blind-stamped covers Gilt spine title. Hinges firm. One quire at middle is loosening but attached. Bottom half front flyleaf torn out. Ink inscription on front preliminary page dated November 1835. Sections on the American Colonization Society who wished to obtain territory in Africa for asylum for emancipated slaves; and the American Anti-Slavery Society who wished to abolish slavery entirely . Excellent chapters on over-zealous abolitionists, dangers of continue... more information

London: Smith, Elder and Company, 1878. Front cover designs in gilt and black.Spine lettered in gilt. Brown endpapers. 216pp. A very clean copy of this Richard Jefferies' first work of non-fiction. Jefferies (1848-1887), born near Swindon, was a prolific writer on all subjects relating to the countryside of late Victorian England. He had tried writing novels earlier, but met with no success. This book was initially a series of articles in the Pall Mall Gazette, then published in book form in 1878. 216pp... more information

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. Purple paper-covered boards. Gilt stallion with title as frame on front cover. Top edge stained black. Slight creasing on spine. Owner's name and date 10/19/26 on front free endpaper. Internally very clean. (See Alberts 20). 253pp.. First Edition, Third Printing. 1/4 Black Cloth. Light Wear and Soiling./No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

Chicago, New York: Willett, Clark and Company, 1939. In a chipped, lightly soiled, but intact dust jacket. An autobiography by the minister of the Community Church in Kansas City. Owner's name in neat ink on front pastedown. 241pp.. First Edition. Red Cloth. Nearly Fine. Octavo. ... more information

Paris, Texas: The Lone Star Publishers,, 1910. A charming little book of love poetry, "A Little Book For Youir Heart When It's Full". A heart with two cupids holding it on the front cover.61pp.. Third Edition.. Illustrated Wrappers. Light Wear and Soiling.. Thin Octavo. ... more information

(Des Moines, Iowa) (Henry J. Walker) (1961).. Original orange cloth, fine. Volume one (all published). "Another of those ridiculous books filled with preposterous statements.". The author believed J. Frank Dalton was James. First edition.. ... more information

New York and London W.W. Norton & Co. (1990).. Pictorial wrappers. Historical fiction by the author of the highly acclaimed "Desperadoes". 1st paperback edition.. ... more information

New York D. Appleton and Co 1893.. Original red cloth blocked in black and gilt. Vol. XVII of the International Scientific Series. Pencil notations on 1/2 title and Table of Contents. Later edition.. ... more information

London: Macmillan and Company, 1879. Spine lettered in gilt. Slight bubbling of rear cover, one spot on front cover, five on back cover, subtle. Black endpapers. Half-title page present. Internally quite fresh and clean throughout. Stamp of the Yale College of Political Economy Loan Library on the title-page. Ink inscription at top of title-page, "Sold to F.C. Hughson June 16"84 W.G. Graham". William Sumner Graham (1840-1910) was professor of political and social science at Yale. In economics... more information

Dallas, Texas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1985. First published in 1955. New introduction by Ferenc M. Szasz. Often wild as the frontier itself, characterized by muscular Christianity, and sometimes frowned upon by the more discipl;ined churches of the eastern seaboard, the camp meeting filled the religious and emotional needs of many lonely settlers, in the period from 1800-1840. 325pp.. Reprint Edition. Pumpkin Cloth. Nearly Fine./Nearly Fine.. Octavo. ... more information

Philadelphia, New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1940. Spine shows slight fading. Old tape removal from half-title page. SIGNED INSCRIPTION by the authoress on verso of half-title. A clean copy, illustrated throughout.376pp.. First Edition, Third Impression. Zebra-design Cloth.. Minor Corner Wear./No Jacket. Quarto. ... more information

New York: G.A. Baker and Company, 1935. Spine gilt faded. Limited to 1000 copies SIGNED by the author. Foreward by H.L. Mencken. Arranged alphabetically by poem. 195pp.. Limited Edition. Brown Ribbed Cloth.. Light Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information