Authors starting with J from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

N.p.: Governement Development Bank for Puerto Rico, [1971]. First edition. Folio.[4] text leaves, and two silkscreen plates loose in portfolio with tissue guards. Each plate initialed and numbered in pencil by the artist. Portfolio in slipcase. About to turn 60, Donald Jackson has exerted enormous influence over the development of modern calligraphy. ... more information

Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1963. 26 cm; 57 pages. Cloth. No blemishes. ... more information

Paris: Minuit, 1971. 260 p. Wraps. A seminal document in contemporary literary theory. ... more information

Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1974. Dust jacket rubbed at extremities. 29cm. ... more information

London: Longmans, Green, 1879. 2 vols. 21 cm; xx, 818 pages, and numerous wood-engraved plates. Handsomely bound in later full tree calf with gilt tolled border, spines extensively gilt. Marbled endpapers and marbled edges. Worn at edges only. Mrs. Jameson's Christian aesthetics in an especially handsome binding. ... more information

Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press (University of Copenhagen), 2004. First edition. 273 pages. Illustrated wraps. Studies by Jensen in the Neo-Latin culture of Denmark in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The papers were edited by Marianne Pade, Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, and Peter Zeeberg. ... more information

New York: Harry Abrams, 1979. 41 cm; [63] pages, including 23 exquisite full-page photographs of Ancient Egyptian objects. Bound in original illustrated wraps. Based chiefly on the Charles Edwin Wilbour collection at the Brooklyn Museum. ... more information

New York: The New School for Social Research, 1954. First Edition. Cloth. Published on the occasion of Alvin Johnson's 80th birthday. Johnson (1874-1971) was co-founder of the New School for Social Research and Assistant Editor of the New Republic Magazine. This volume collects many of the author's strayed works. Inscribed to fellow New School luminary Issai Hosiosky. Inscribed by the author ... more information

New York: Athenaeum, 1963. First Edition. Cloth. Stories of "Old Nebraska" by the founder of the New School for Social Research. Inscribed by the author ... more information

Lockport, New York: Union Printing and Publishing, 1881. First edition. Reference: Howes J134; Siebert Sale, 245. 23 cm; 234 pages. Wood-engraved portrait frontispiece. Wood-engraved illustrations in text. Original green cloth stamped in gilt with pictorial image and cover title "History of the Six Nations and the Tuscarora Indians." Covers bumped on fore-edge, and somewhat discolored by sunlight and perhaps a touch of water long ago. Discoloration extends to a portion of the upper board. ... more information

Montreal: June 28, 1827. 180 x 225 mm; 2 leaves, including integral address leaf. Remains of black wax seal. Addressed to John Johnson (the Baronet's son), St.-Mathias, QC. The following notation appears on the envelope: "The postmaster is requested to forward this on. Paid, Sir J.J." The address leaf is also stamped "paid" in ink. Usual folds; usual unsealing rupture; ghosts of old "document tape" repairs in margin of address leaf. A loyalist leader during the Ameri... more information

Philadelphia, 5 July 1784.. 21 x 9 cm; 6 lines of text and signature. Receipt for £30 for 300 acres of land on Shoholly Creek. The payment is specified as received in "Continental Certificates including the interest thereon, and State of Pennsylvania money. ... more information

London: Hutchinson & Company, 1902. First edition. 2 volumes, 26cm; 1018 pages, continuously numbered, and 48 color plates, 9 maps. 505 black-and-white illustrations in text. Illustrated endleaves. Bound in original black cloth with portrait stamped in white and gilt on top boards, titled in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. Portrait a little rubbed. Hinges reinforced. Bookplate. Corners a little bumped. Verso side of frontispieces show foxing, which does not penetrate to plates or text. Quite ... more information

London: Lawrence and Bullen, [1903]. 23cm; xv, 341 pages, and 73 half tone plates, including maps, portraits and facsimiles. Lacks folding map. Bound in recent half green morocco over marbled boards in 19th-century style. Light scattered foxing. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941. First Edition. Cloth. With 16 photogravure plates. Maps. Paste remains on title page. ... more information

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1925. 28 cm; 2 volumes. 768;748 pages, and 50 color plates including folding plates, primarily of subjects in natural history, and several maps. Bound in original green cloth stamped in blind on covers and in gilt on spines. This copy inscribed in calligraphic hand to Otto Braitmayer from the Sydney office of the Dayton Moneyweight and Scale Company, dated March 1927. An artifact of the early days of IBM. In 1901, the company then known as the Computing Scale Company of A... more information

New York: The Hebrew Free Loan Society, 1992. First Edition. Cloth. Dust jacket slightly bumped. ... more information

Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1969. xxxix, 299 p. Wraps. ... more information

London: Chapman and Hall, 1892. Original green pictorial cloth ruled in black.. 23cm; vi, 586 pages, two folding maps, many halftones and wood-engraved text illustrations. Third in the author's "Travels in Africa" series. Light scattered foxing, shelf wear, with some slight fraying at extremities and tanning of the spine, yet sound and entire. Early owner's name on half title. ... more information

Third edition. London: Printed for G. and W. Nicol; Cadell and Davies; and R.H. Evans, by W. Bulmer & Co., 1817. 2vols. 8vo (23 cm); lxxxii, 384; 163 pages. Bound in dark green polished half calf over marbled boards, spines tooled in gilt, with leather labels titled in gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers. Mild wear to extremities. Foxing confined to endpapers and adjacent pages. Few pencil marks. A very good copy. ... more information