Authors starting with J from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 244pp. Bright, straight unworn copy in crisp dustjacket with minor restoration at crown of spine, still quite near Fine. Jackson's classic portrayal of alcoholism was the source for the 1945 Billy Wilder film starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. HANNA 1888. COAN p.107. ... more information

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1918. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 12°; cloth boards; 147pp. Mild soil to boards, light crease to endpaper; VG or better. Katayama (1859-1933) was born in Japan, emigrated to the United States in the 1880s, and converted to socialism while a divinity student at Yale in 1894. He was a founding member of both the U.S. and Japanese Communist parties. This is once of the scarcer Kerr publications of the period. 12mo. 10 ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Octavo. Tan linen boards; dustjacket; 461p. Mild toning to boards, else Near Fine in unclipped jacket, slightly age-darkened on spine and, dusting and rubbing to panels, still Very Good. HANNA 3339. A novel of the New York jazz scene, the parallel narratives contrasting the "straight" lives of mainstream Swing players with the underground existence of the Bop improvisers. Steig was the brother of cartoonist William Steig... more information

New York: Random House, 1937. First, limited edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Octavo. Original morocco-backed patterned boards; acetate (unprinted) dustjacket; slipcase; 129p. One of 300 signed copies, printed and bound at the Spiral Press. Tiny scuff at base of spine, else fine in the original acetate jacket and publisher's slipcase. ... more information

New York: H. De Marsan. Broadside. Good. N.d. (ca. 1860s). Broadside song-sheet, 10" x 6-1/2", printed recto only. Printed within an uncolored wood-engraved border of patriotic scenes. Darkening and chipping to margins (away from border); mild soil; Good. A parody of the English broadside novelty song of the same name; the current version ends: "So, a fig for Isabella, / And her gingham umbrella / And her father's little barber-shop at Wee-haw-ken." ... more information

Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1976. First, limited edition. Wraps. Very Good. One of 600 copies. Octavo. Printed wrappers, unevenly faded at margins; previous owner's embossed stamp to base of title page, else clean and unmarked. Johnson's elusive second book, preceding any of his published fiction. Johnson won the 2007 National Book Award for Fiction for his "Tree of Smoke." ... more information

New York: Chilmark Press, (1963). First American edition. Cloth. Near Fine/very good. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 243pp. Small stain to foredge of text block, else a tight, Near Fine copy in lightly rubbed & soiled dustjacket, trifle sunned on spine and with shallow erosion at crown, still VG or better. Front cover includes the W.H. Auden blurb: "...very probably the finest long poem written in English in this century..." ... more information

New York: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1994. Second edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 152p. 56 color plates; 19 b/w text illustrations. Fine in jacket. ... more information

New York: AMS Press, 1976. Reprint. Cloth. Fine. Octavo. Cloth boards; 274pp. Fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1929 Cambridge edition. ... more information

Philadelphia: Dropsie College, 1942. Offprint. Wraps. Near Fine. Octavo. Printed wrappers; pp171-212. Presentation inscription from author to "Sgt. L. Maverick" on first page of text. Mild external wear; internaly fine. ... more information

Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1955. First edition. Cloth. Good/good. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 298p. Boards soiled, rubbed; jacket edgeworn. Solid if slightly rugged copy, internally clean and unmarked. ... more information

London: Faber & Faber, 1959. First edition. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Mervyn Peake. Octavo. Original red cloth-covered boards, pictorial dustjacket. Fine, unworn copy in bright, unrubbed jacket, price-clipped by publisher with new price stamped at bottom front flap. Lovely copy of an uncommon Peake-illustrated title. ... more information

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1945. Later printing. Cloth. Near Fine/very good +. Small octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 299p. Clean, tight copy of a late printing, in an uncommonly sharp example of the scarce pictorial dustjacket; jacket has a faint horizontal crease (as if it had been removed and folded), otherwise quite fresh and attractive. Young adult fiction. ... more information

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1945. Later printing. Cloth. Near Fine/very good +. Small octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 300p. Clean, tight copy of a late printing, in an uncommonly sharp example of the scarce pictorial dustjacket; jacket has a faint horizontal crease (as if it had been removed and folded), otherwise quite fresh and attractive. Young adult fiction. ... more information

Boston: David R Godine Pub, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket. Fine in unworn jacket. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1913. First edition. Cloth. Very Good +/very good. 12mo. Green cloth boards with applied front cover illustration; pictorial dustjacket; 70p. Small chip to rear pastedown; one signature (i.e., page gathering) slightly pulled, else a bright, Near Fine copy in the highly uncommon dustjacket, lightly rubbed overall and with a few small incursions at spine ends, still easily Very Good. Sentimental tale of an orphaned waif. Paine is today best remembered as the close friend, an... more information

Moscow: Detgiz, 1946. Wraps. Near Fine. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial wrappers (softcover); 16p; illus. Near Fine. Reissue of Nekrasov's classic 19th century tale-in-verse of a dancing bear and his drunken handler. Nicely illustrated on each page by A. Bubnova. Text entirely in Russian cyrillic. ... more information

Lausanne: Maurice et Pierre Foetisch. Original Wraps. Very Good Plus. Printed wrappers; 40pp; errata leaf. Pencil ownership signature; pages tanned (not brittle); Very Good or better. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

New Haven: Thomas J. Stafford, 1867. First Edition. Original Cloth. Near Fine. Publisher's gilt-decorated cloth boards; aeg; 84pp. Spine ends and corners touched; mild rubbing to rear board; still a bright, impressively well-preserved copy of this scarce volume of 19th-c. poetry. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. Second Printing. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Yellow cloth (hardcover); 152pp; illus. Clean, tight, unmarked copy, about fine, in price-clipped, else near fine dustjacket. Attractive copy. ... more information