Authors starting with J from Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA

Boston, MA Little, Brown, and Company 1900 Hardcover Monterey Edition 310, 308pp. Octavo [22 cm] Decorative blue cloth with gilt titles on front board and backstrip. Fine/Fine. In scarce publisher's jackets. Introduction by Susan Coolidge. Jackson's classic novel of the American Indian experience. Jackson used 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' as inspiration for her own work. "If I can do one-hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful," she... more information

Boston Roberts Brothers 1884 Hardcover First edition Very good 490+ [4] pp. of advertisements at back. Original maroon cloth with gilt decoration to cover; gilt title to spine. Light wear and previous owner's name on the ffep; else very good. A nice copy of this classic novel by one of the most well-respected female authors of the nineteenth-century. BAL: 10456 ... more information

New York Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc. 1951 Hardcover VG+/VG Steely grayish blue cloth spine and boards. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine and light rubbing at the tips of the corners. Dust Jacket - has light rubbing all around the outside edges. 1/4" chip in the tip of each outside corner. Couple small chips in the head and tail of the spine. Watermark visible on the rear cover and on most of the inside of the jacket - however, not a bad overall presentation. ... more information

The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company 1963 Hardcover First Crowell-Collier Press Edition 45pp. Quarto [29 cm] Illustrated paper covered boards. Very good. The edges of the covers are lightly rubbed. Previous owner's name on front free endsheet. Shirley Jackson was an American writer famous for her short story "The Lottery." ... more information

New York Farrar, Straus and Cudahy 1958 Hardcover First Edition VG+/VG+ Black boards eighthbound in light gray cloth spine. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine. Yellow publisher's topstain. Dust Jacket - has quite a bit of rubbing at the head and light rubbing at the tail of the spine with some at the very tips of the corners. Couple 1/4" chips in the head of the spine and on in the tip of each corner. Upper corner of front flap price clipped. ... more information

New York Farrar, Straus and Young 1953 Hardcover VG- Black cloth spine and boards. Plenty of bumping at the head and tail of the spine and at the tips of the corners. Red publisher's topstain. ... more information

New York The Viking Press 1968 Hardcover First Edition VG+/VG+ Brown boards quarterbound in ochre colored cloth spine. Light bumping at tail of spine and plenty of bumping to tips of the outside corners. Ochre colored publisher's topstain. Dust Jacket - has light rubbing around the outside edges. ... more information

London Michael Joseph 1958 Hardcover First UK Edition VG+/VG+ Maroon cloth spine and boards. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine. Dust Jacket has very light rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the tips of the corners. Tiny chip in the tip of each of the corners. 1/4" closed tear in the lower edge of the rear cover. Very nice copy! ... more information

London Michael Joseph 1963 Hardcover First UK Edition VG+/VG+ Black cloth spine and boards. Fair amount of bumping at the head and tail of the spine and at the tips of the corners. Previous owner's gift inscription on the free front endpaper in blue pen. Dust Jacket - has light rubbing all around the outside edges. 1/3" chip in the lower front corner. 1/8" chip in the tip of each of the other corners. 1/2" closed tear in the upper edge of the rear cover. ... more information

Mankato, MN Creative Education, Inc. 1990 Hardcover First Edition NF/NF Maroon blue cloth spine and boards. Dust Jacket. ... more information

New York Penguin Books 1984 Paperback Later Printing As NEW Shirley Jackson's classic tale of horror. Trade soft cover edition with cover art by Harry Bliss. "At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable noises and self-closing doors, but Hill House is gathering its powers and will soon choose one of them to make its own . . . " New book with no flaws. ... more information

New York Farrar, Straus & Cudahy 1958 Hardcover First edition 245pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] 1/4 gray cloth over black boards. Near fine/Near fine. Minor rubbing to corners. Mild discoloring to backstrip. An unusually nice and bright copy of this dust jacket. ... more information

[New York] Harlin Quist 1966 Hardcover First edition [46pp.] Octavo [21 cm.] Tan cloth with black stamped title on backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Small foil sticker at foot of jacket's spine. Light sunning to jacket's spine. Minor rubbing to corners. Jacket is price clipped. Illustrations by Charles Slackman. ... more information

London Michael Joseph 1969 Hardcover First UK Edition VG+/NF Pale green/gray cloth spine and boards. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine. Dust Jacket - has just a trace of rubbing at the head and tail of the spine at at the extreme tips of the corners. ... more information

New York Farrar, Straus and Company 1948 Hardcover First Edition VG/VG Orange cloth spine and boards. Light rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the tips of the corners. Very faint bump to the rear corner of the head of the spine. Pages have darkened to a golden color around the outside edges. 271 pages. Dust Jacket - has light rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and all along the upper and lower edges of the covers. Fair amount of rubbing along the outside edges. 2 1/2" semicl... more information

Lincoln, NE University of Nebraska Press 1985 Paperback Later printing as NEW 150 pp. Octavo. Blue illustrated covers. Foreword by Wendell Berry.Jackson's major solution calls for the development of plant combinations that yield food while holding the soil and renewing its nutrients without plowing or applying fossil fuel-based fertilizers or pesticides. his new way of raising crops, by working with the soil's natural systems, would keep the world's breadbasket producing perpetually.... more information

Berkeley Counterpoint 1996 Paperback Later printing as NEW 121 pp. Octavo. Green covers. "What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face."In six compelling essays, Wes Jackson lays the foundation for a new farming economy grounded in nature's principles and located in dying small towns and rural communities. Exploding the tenets of industrial agriculture, Jackson seeks to integrate food production with nature in a way that sustains both. His writing is anchored in his work... more information

[c.1885] Photograph 20.5 cm by 12.5 cm. Mounted cabinet card. Image mounted on tan card stock with a Jackson back stamp. Image is clean. Photographer's mark on image at foot '810. Alta. Head of Little Cottonwood Canon'. A landscape portrait from the renowned Western photographer, William Henry Jackson. The image shows two men standing above the mining town of Alta. The photograph was taken from the east (below what is now Albion Basin). At the time this photograph was taken Alta, and the Co... more information

New York Simon & Schuster 2004 Hardcover First edition thus As NEW 5x7 inches, 103 pp. ... more information

New York The Classics of Medicine Library 1993 Hardcover First Printing Thus NF Reprinting of the 1887 George S. Davis issue from Detroit in handsome dark brown leather spine and boards. Gilt ornamentation is bright and shiny. All edges of textblock gilt. Decorative endpapers. Brown silk ribbon bookmark fastened at the head of the spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Beautiful binding. ... more information