Authors starting with J from Garrett Scott, Bookseller (ABAA)

London:: Dulau & Company,, (1932).. First edition.. Wrappers a little dust-soiled and worn, with a small pencil annotation to the front wrapper; a very good copy.. 8vo, original printed gray wrappers, 59 pages. A bookseller's catalogue of 480 items relating to typography or books from famous presses. Includes a brief essay from Moira Gibbings on the Golden Cockerel Press and the text of a letter from Francis Meynell regarding the Nonesuch Press. ... more information

[Boston?:: n. p.,, ca. 1900?].. Some foxing to the portrait and facsimile signature; a little soiling; in very good condition.. Single sheet, card stock, printed recto and verso, 6-1/2 x 4-1/8 inches. Are you Attending These Meetings? If not, you are losing a great deal. They are increasing in interest and power nightly. Mr. Jackson is winning golden opinions from all who hear him, by his wise, common sense methods and for his able preaching. Jackson offers evening services, women's prayer meetings at... more information

San Francisco:: Frank S. Thayer,, (1924).. First edition.. A fine copy in the good, sound mailer.. Small 8vo, original printed stiff brown wrappers, [2], 48, [2] pages printed on yellow and pink paper. Frontis portrait. Newspaper verses from the bard of the San Francisco Bulletin. With a brief essay on the merits of sentimental poetry, taking as his exemplar "Rock Me to Sleep, Mother." With the original printed mailing envelope (used). ... more information

12mo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering, [2], 78, 8 pages. But for examples of cruelty, treachery, perfidy and contempt of solemn promises, that would be disgraceful in the most barbarous community, we have only to look at the last War carried on under the eye, and by the authority of our own government--I mean the War in Florida--where the maxim that any means are justifiable which may be employed with advantage against an enemy was practically adhered to. Horrible to relate were the cruel... more information

Chicago:: Thos. W. Jackson Publishing Co.,, 1922. First edition.. Wrappers a trifle soiled and a little stained; cheap paper browned; a very good copy. RLIN notes a copy at MiU, to which the NUC adds DLC & Wa.. 8vo, original color pictorial wrappers, 96 pages. Illus. An entry in this Chicago humorist's series of joke books, all published in this format by his Chicago publishing house, which also churned out cheap western novels,romances, Bible stories, etc. Many of the jokes are on current topics ... more information

Boston:: Roberts Bros.,, 1895. First edition.. A little rubbed and darkened; a very good copy.. 8vo, original decorated green cloth. Title printed on art stock, 12 plates. A collection of quotations for every day of the year, culled from such works as Ramona, A Century of Dishonor, Mercy Philbrick's Choice, Encyclicals of a Traveller, etc. BAL 10516. ... more information

Chicago:: World-Wide Evangelism,, [ca. 1885?].. In very good condition.. 12mo, unbound leaflet, 4 pages. Illus. Jacobs appears to have been connected with (perhaps the son of) Chicago's B. F. Jacobs, one of the founders of the modern Sunday School movement; W. B. Jacobs here advertises a striking lithograph chart (available for $5, suitable for every Christian home) showing the relative number of world heathens remaining to be converted. There is also exhortation to domestic mission work. ... more information

Small 8vo, contemporary calf neatly rebacked with a new calf spine and label (retaining the original decorated endpapers), gilt decorations and lettering, [8], lx, [4], 334 pages. A relatively early work from the German philosopher and economist Jakob (1759-1827), perhaps best remembered as an early exponent of Smith's ideas in Germany, this work a critique of Moses Mendelssohn's Morgenstunden oder Vorlesungen über das Dasein Gottes (1785)--though Jakob claims his work is not directly related t... more information

[London?:: n. p.,, 1680].. First edition.. Very good copy.. Folio, removed, 4 pages. Who ever heard a Brother (which is of so remote a degree) call Heir apparent? Lastly, how wild is this? If we were bound as aforesaid to the D. because he may be Heir; so there being thousands may be Heirs, we are bound to them too, though so much as know 'm not. A whiggish answer to objections to the exclusion bill, couched in terms both legal and religious. Wing P-2526. ... more information

New York:: American Association for International Conciliation,, 1910.. Likely first published appearance, adapted from the address delivered in 1906.. Some light dust-soiling; a very good copy.. Small 8vo, original printed self-wrappers, 22, [2] pages. An important American pacifist essay. James argues in part for civilian service to take the place of militarism: "Such a conscription, with the state of public opinion that would have required it, and the many moral fruits it would bear, would preserv... more information

[Des Moines, Iowa,, 1910]. Corners a bit chipped and worn; some light soiling; in very good condition.. Original watercolor view of a Lutheran Church (largely obscured by trees) and a horse-drawn milk truck, approx. 7-1/2 x 12-1/2 inches. Later ink notation on the verso, "Lutheran Church across the street from where Mama Clarke lived at 610 W. 3rd St. Des Moines, Iowa in 1910. Drawn by a boarder at her house. A lively if perhaps amateur (or naive) view which may very likely have graced the walls of the ar... more information

Boston:: Printed by True and Greene,, 1823. First edition.. A little browned; a very good copy.. 8vo, removed, 15 pages. The New England diplomat who introduced the merino sheep to America here offers up an address on a proposed act regarding church membership during his term in the Massachusetts house; given that taxation, citizenship and church membership were entwined in Massachusetts through the first third of the 19th century, Jarvis essentially appears to argue that loosening paperwork restrictions ... more information

8vo, unbound, 8 pages. One of the several uncommon and ephemeral pamphlets published on behalf of the eccentric millionaire and peace activist William "Colorado" Jewett, whose dogged efforts as a sort of free-floating peace delegate (he styled himself the Representative from Pikes Peak and had petitioned Congress to be recognized as such) would have been a thorn in Lincoln's side but for the fact that (according to John Hay) the president never bothered to read Jewett's nearly numberless e... more information

London:: Printed for T. Longman [et al.],, 1794. A new edition, the first to include the notes of Hawkins.. With some occasional foxing or spotting; some rubbing to the boards; a very good set.. 4 vols, 8vo, contemporary tree calf neatly rebacked with uniform new calf spines (and new endpapers) to each volume, tan morocco labels, gilt decorations and lettering. Frontis portrait of Johnson in vol. 1. Johnson's late critical masterpiece. ... more information

London:: Printed for Thomas Tegg [et al.],, 1824. Some general rubbing (somewhat heavily to the fragile dicing of a couple boards), with evidence of a small clumsy adhesive repair removed from the head of vol. 1; some other light general wear; in all a very good, attractive set.. 12 vols, 8vo, contemporary diced calf, gilt spines. Frontis portrait (after Reynolds) in vol. 1. ... more information

New York:: Thomas Whittaker,, 1897. First edition.. Some offset from a large clipping on Johnson mounted on the front free endpaper; otherwise a fine copy.. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt and black lettering. The only collection of verse from this versatile professor of literature at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. The title poem is a lengthy blank-verse dialogue on social conditions and sociology. Johnson had served as a professor of mathematics at the Naval Academy and a bridge builder before b... more information

Elkhart, Indiana:: Mennonite Publishing Company,, 1902. First edition.. Some light foxing in the endpapers; cloth a little rubbed; a very good copy.. 8vo, original blue cloth, black and gilt lettering, 305, [4] pages. Frontis portrait, illus. Something of a minor James Whitcomb Riley, narrative and sentimental verses, often in dialect and often touching on a sort of homely theology. Johnson ranges over such subjects as a dying Sioux chief, tales of pioneer days in the Midwest and his indignant reaction to... more information

New York:: W. J. Johnston, Compiler and Publisher,, 1879. First edition.. A trifle rubbed; a fine copy.. 8vo, original gilt decorated green cloth, gilt lettering. Frontis, numerous illus. With an ink presentation inscription on the front blank, "Samuel Kyle Esq. With the Compliments of The Publisher. Christmas, 1885." The date would indicate that this attractive late attempt at a gift book did not readily sell; Johnston drew on such authors as Longfellow, Bryant, Tennyson, Wordsworth, essentiall... more information

Paris:: Imprimerie de Decourchant,, [1833].. First edition.. A trifle loose along the spine; a little dust-soiled; a very good copy.. 8vo, removed pamphlet, 20 pages. One plate, "Coupe de la cour du Louvre. As the obelisk was sailing to France, the noted Egyptologist Jomard here examines various proposals for the placement of the monument. (He dismisses Place de la Concorde as too vast and seems to suggest instead the courtyard of the Louvre, shown here in a plate in an elevation.) Signed in type wit... more information

San Francisco:: Printed by Edward Bosqui & Co.,, 1878. First edition.. Spine a bit darkened; a fine copy.. 8vo, original terra-cotta cloth, gilt lettering, 156 pages. An accomplished and scholarly work, later published under a New York imprint in 1880. Two later bookplates on the front paste-down. ... more information