Authors starting with J from Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA

Vestal, NY: The Vestal Press. n.d.. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). A quality reprint. . 31pp ... more information

New York: Doubleday. 1987 1st ed. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0385194315 A noted Gershwin authority presents a major work on the life and musical accomplishments of one of America's most enduring composers. . 436pp ... more information

Lausanne: Editions Mermod. (1951). HC. fine, green leather spine, marbled boards (hardcover). 192pp ... more information

Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Publishing. (1998) 1st ptg. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 087358628X A most comprehensive book about Hopi art. . 165pp ... more information

New York: Atheneum. 1982 1st ed. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0689112378 A novel of the World at War from 1939-1945. . 303pp ... more information

New York: Watson-Guptill Publications. (1969). HC. good+, pictorial boards (hardcover). ISBN 0289795842 . 103pp ... more information

New York: St. Martin's Press Inc.. (1980). HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0312442211 . 157pp ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1980 1st ed. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0394400461 "The saga of the forty-niners - their adventures and ordeals, their courage and greed, their inqenuities, delusions, bonanzas, and catastrophies - in California and on the way there." . 361pp ... more information

Harrisburg: National Historical Assn.. 1931. HC. very good+, green cloth (hardcover). Please note that this listing if for VOLUME II Only, which is pages 313 to 632 of the four volume set. ... more information

London: Jonathan Cape. (1934) 3rd ptg. HC. good+, green cloth (hardcover). First published in 1913 and reissued in The Life & Letters Series, Volume 17. The author has endeavoured to expound the attitude of the Eighteen Nineties and to indicate its victories and defeats. . 304pp ... more information

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.. [1931]. HC. good, grey cloth w/some light spotting (hardcover). A fascinating early history of the submarine and how it developed. . 244pp ... more information

New York: Stein and Day Publishers. (1975). HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 081281827X This is an intimate and entertaining social history of the last hundred years of that sunny place. . 278pp ... more information

New York: Oxford University Press. (1995). PB. very good+, wraps (softcover). ISBN 0195102762 Jackson brings together the world's major traditional epics and the characters who bring them to life, offering unique insight into the cultures from which they were born. . 732pp ... more information

Boston, MA: Meador Publishing Company. (1959) 1st ed. HC. very good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover). "It is written with the intention of reaching those persons who may possess old china and wish to know something about it without spending too much time in perusing numerous books on the subject." . 240pp ... more information

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company. 1947 1st Amer. HC. good, green cloth w/faint staining (hardcover). This anthology shows what writers of books think of their predecessors, their contemporaries, and themselves. . 264pp ... more information

New York: New-York Historical Society. 2000 1st ed. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0916141055 The first guide to New York's first collecting institution to introduce the museum-going public to the encyclopedic range of the Historical Society's renowned holdings of art, decorative objects, and artifacts. . 151pp ... more information

New York: Simon and Schuster. (1949). HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). An exceptionally nice copy of this early Richard Scarry work with "12 pages of touch-me materials," felt covered animals. The felt images are like new with no wear at all. There is only the lightest of wear to the corners of the pictorial boards and dustjacket. . unpaginated ... more information

New York: Ticknor & Fields. 1985 1st ptg. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) MARGINALIA ABOUT 5 PAGES. ISBN 0899193064 "The Life and Times of an Early-American Steamboat as it Pioneered on the Upper Missouri River and played a major role in the War for Texas Independence." From the noisy, vibrating deck of the steamboat YELLOW STONE, Donald Jackson surveys the American frontier of the 1830s. . 182pp ... more information

Cambridge, MA: University Press. 1905. HC. good+, maroon cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB with light edgewear. Volume I: NARRATIVES, 771pp; Volume II: TOPICAL HISTORY; 733pp; and, Volume III: GENEALOGY, Compiled by George C. Furber, and Revised and Enlarged by Ezra S. Stearns, 706pp. Nice clean and tight set, ex-lib (non- circulating) with minimal marks. ... more information

Hanover, NH: Maisie C. Jackson. (1992). HC. fine, blue cloth (hardcover) owner's name. Contents include: Foreword; My Parents and Grandparents; My Early Days; Sugar and Spice; Gathering Strength; Loosening Strings; My Own Apron; No Strings Attached; Afterword. . 145pp ... more information