Authors starting with J from Bolerium Books, ABAA/ILAB

Washington DC: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress , 1988. 159p., 11x8.5 inch hardcover with photo on front board, no dj. Collected articles of various cultural themes, illustrated with color and B&W photos. Includes sections on Afro-American folktales, material on Native American powwows, and a section on Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools. The latter features articles on the first Korean language school of Silver Spring, MD, German-Russian studies at Emmons Central High School in Strasbur... more information

Washington DC: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress , 1987. 176p., 11.8.5 inch hardcover with photo on front board, no dj. Collected articles of various cultural themes, illustrated with color and B&W photos. Includes a section on breakdancing by Sally Banes, several pieces on Finnish-Americans, the folktales of the Kalevala, and whaling customs surviving in Bequia. ... more information

Washington DC: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress , 1988. 159p., 11x8.5 inch hardcover with photo on front board, no dj. Collected articles of various cultural themes, illustrated with color and B&W photos. Includes sections on Afro-American folktales, material on Native American powwows, and a section on Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools. The latter features articles on the first Korean language school of Silver Spring, MD, German-Russian studies at Emmons Central High School in Strasbur... more information

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1977. The complete trilogy in two volumes: 175, 236p., matching buff wraps titled and ruled in red and black. First printings of the octavo paperbounds issued simultaneously with the casebounds; fine clean copies. ... more information

Chicago: Black Swan Press, 1980. 23p., stapled wraps, illus., very good. Surrealist Editions. illustrations by J. Karl Bogartte ... more information

Chicago: Black Swan Press, 1978. 27p., stapled wraps, second printing, offset of title page on inside front cover, else very good. Surrealist Research & Development Monograph Series, no. 9. ... more information

San Francisco: Kearny Street Workshop, 1996. 63p., wraps. Filipino American poet from the Richmond District in San Francisco. Jessica Hagedorn review on rear panel. ... more information

Boston: Meador Publishing Company, 1943. xiv, 110p., portrait of Jack from photography, previous owner's bookplate, part of dj neatly pasted to f.e.p., first edition cloth boards titled gilt, a nice bright copy. ... more information

New York: Charles Scibner's Sons,, 1968. [viii], 211p., illus., chipped dj. ... more information

Seattle, WA: Rational Island Publishers, 1970. 29p., edgeworn wraps. Jackins was a labor organizer who became involved with the early Dianetics movement and became a group therapy counselor. He created the Re-evaluation counseling process, described in this booklet, through which groups of people took turns focusing their positive attention on an individual as he or she discharged distress experiences ... more information

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. x, 231p., dj slightly faded on spine. ... more information

Washington: Howard University Press, 1974. 337p., first edition, red cloth boards fine in slightly edgeworn dj. Afro-Barbadan author/journalist. Jackman, educated at Cambridge University, was High Commissioner for Barbados in Canada, ambassador to the UN, former correspondent for the BBC and for Nigerian newspapers; much of the novel is set in Nigeria's elite social circles ... more information

Brighton: The Harvester Press, 1987. 242p., review copy with slip laid in, first edition, dj. ... more information

London: The Menard Press, 1981. 20p., 5.5x8 inches, very good first edition in stapled blue wraps. Poems on the possibility of nuclear holocaust. ... more information

London: Omnibus Press, 1984. [40]p., profusely illus. with color photos of the rock star and including a foldout poster, 8.5x11 inches, wraps. ... more information

Berkeley: Frog, Ltd., 2004. 234p., wraps. Second edition (first printing thus) of a well-received novel by the Oakland-based African American author; glossy comix cover art by Ariel Shepard. As new. ... more information

Teaneck: FirstHand Books, 1992. ii, 206p., Poser styled illustrations, very good first edition in original pictorial wraps. ... more information

San Francisco: Rip Off Press Inc / Last Gasp, 1979. 119p., wraps, 8x11 inches, sunned spine; inscribed by Jackson to Archie [Green]. Narrative in comic-book format. ... more information

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. xii, 323p., first wraps printing. ... more information

Brooklyn: n. pub., 1981/6. 108p., illus. in text, 8.25x10.75, second printing, very good in pictorial wraps. Ownership signature of Yosef ben-Jochannan. ... more information