Authors starting with J from Bauman Rare Books

1930. SIGNED. JABOTINSKY, Vladimir (Altalena). ???????? [Short Tales], ????? [Verses] and Causeries [Essays]. Paris: Voltaire, (1930). Three volumes. Slim octavo, original half brown morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. $6500. Signed limited edition, number 117 of 200 copies, of this collection of the Zionist leader's stories, poems and essays, published by his friends to commemorate Jabotinsky's 50th birthday, each v... more information

1900. JACKSON, Catherine Charlotte. Works. Paris and Boston: Grolier Society, [circa 1900]. Fourteen volumes. Octavo, three-quarter red morocco, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, deckle edges. $2500. Large Paper Edition, number 531 of 1000 copies, beautifully illustrated with portrait frontispieces (some colored) and 98 additional plates. With portraits of Anne Boleyn, Catherine de' Medici, Rubens, Moliere, Voltaire, Rousseau, Louis XV, Talleyrand, Madame de Stael, Napoleon,... more information

1949. FIRST EDITION. JACKSON, Shirley. The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Company, 1949. Octavo, original gray cloth, original dust jacket. $2200. First edition of Jackson's second and most famous book. her first collection of short stories, including her masterpiece, the title story "The Lottery." First published in The New Yorker in 1948, this chilling tale elicited more comments and letters than any story the magazine had ever printed. Jackson,... more information

1950. FIRST EDITION. JACQUES, Serge and TAVRIGER, Michel. La Légende de Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Paris: La Roulotte, (1950). Slim octavo, original cream paper boards, photographic endpapers, original dust jacket. $1000. Limited first edition of this documentary photo-essay on the famous Paris neighborhood, number 40 of only 50 copies, with 88 candid black-and-white halftones of people and events on a typical day. Pioneer of the modern photographic pin-up, Serge Jacques is credited with launc... more information

1981. SIGNED. JAGGER, Mick. Typewritten lyrics with autograph corrections ("Worried About You"). WITH: Original album cover (Tattoo You). New York: Rolling Stone Records, no date [circa 1981]. Two pages of Rolling Stones Records stationery, typing and autograph corrections on rectos only, stapled. Original album cover measuring 12-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches, with vintage LP in inner sleeve. $4200. Typed copy of the lyrics to "Worried About You" from the Rolling Stones' 1981 album Tattoo ... more information

1895. FIRST EDITION. JAGO, William. A Text-Book on the Science and Art of Bread-Making. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1895. Thick octavo, original burgundy cloth. $175. First edition of "the first scientific treatise on the art of bread-making" (Bitting, 244). "Treats of the chemistry of baking, the design of bakeries, machinery used, processes of commercial bread-making, technical and chemical testing of materials, etc. A thorough, practical work for technical chemists and ba... more information

1838. JAMESON, Mrs. [Anna Brownell]. Memoirs of the Beauties of the Court of Charles the Second. London: Henry Colburn, 1838. Two volumes. Quarto, 19th-century three-quarter red calf gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, brown and green morocco spine labels, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $850. Second and enlarged edition, with 21 engraved portraits. Attractively bound by Zaehnsdorf. A contemporary reviewer wrote that "this truly beautiful and splendid production is e... more information

1970. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. JAY, Bill, editor. Album 12. (Wisbech: Album Photographic, 1970). Small, slim folio, original stiff white photographic covers. $150. First edition of the last issue of Album, devoted to Erwitt, Boubat and Gardin, inscribed on page 4, "Pour Peter, Boubat." From the collection of award-winning photojournalist Peter Turnley, also signed by him on page 1. Bill Jay was the first Director of Photography at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and editor of Album, which only... more information

1860. FIRST EDITION. JEANS, Thomas. The Tommiebeg Shootings; or, A Moor in Scotland. With Illustrations by Percival Skelton. London and New York: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860. Small octavo, later blue three-quarter morocco and cloth boards, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. $550. First edition, with hand-colored title page and five hand-colored plates of sporting scenes. Skelton's vividly colored illustrations complement Jeans' sporting novel of the hunting and fishing adve... more information

1804. JEFFERSON, Thomas. Message to Both Houses of Congress, November 8, 1804. IN: American Citizen, Extra. [New York: James Cheetham, 1804]. Original broadside, measuring 9-1/2 by 19-1/2 inches. $6200. Early separate printing of Jefferson's fourth message to Congress, in which he assures the nation that "peace and intercourse with other powers continue on the footing on which they are established by treaty." Jefferson's fourth message focuses primarily on American relations with foreig... more information

1963. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. JESSUP, Richard. The Cincinnati Kid. Boston: Little, Brown, (1963). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $600. First edition, inscribed the year of publication, "For Milton and Constance, with much affection. Richard Jessup, December 10th, '63." Former merchant seaman Richard Jessup's experience as a dealer in a New York City gambling house inspired his novel about an edgy young gambler, The Kid. Adapted to film in 1965 by writers Ring Lardner... more information

1883. FIRST EDITION. JEVONS, William Stanley. Methods of Social Reform and Other Papers. London: Macmillan, 1883. Octavo, original reddish-brown cloth gilt. $750. First edition of this posthumously-printed collection of Jevons' papers on social issues. During the latter part of his life, Jevons, one of the foremost 19th-century English economists, "was turning with increasing interest to social problems. For many years he had with unwearied diligence collected the most diverse statistical materi... more information

1870. FIRST EDITION. JEVONS, William Stanley. On the Mechanical Performance of Logical Inference, In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 160, Part II, pp. 497-518. London: Taylor and Francis, 1870. Quarto, original printed wrappers, partially unopened. Housed in custom cloth clamshell box. $5800. First published description of Jevons' logic machine, the first computing machine to perform at superhuman speed. Jevons "was the first person to construct a machine with sufficient po... more information

1864. FIRST EDITION. JEVONS, W. Stanley. Pure Logic or the Logic of Quality Apart from Quantity. London: Edward Stanford, 1864. Small octavo, original blue pebbled cloth with paper labels. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $5000. First edition of this important work that refined Boolean logic. The system of logic developed in this short work is "largely founded on the mathematical analysis of logic in Boole's 'Investigation of the Laws of Thought,' but was here divested of the garb of ma... more information

1840. FIRST EDITION. (JOHANNOT, Tony) LE SAGE, Alain René. Le Diable Boiteux. Paris: Ernest Bourdin, 1840. Tall octavo, late 19th-century full brown morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and covers, with green morocco inlays on covers, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. $850. Illustrated edition of Lesage's renowned satire, the first illustrated by Tony Johannot, with dozens of charming in-text wood engravings. This copy extra-illustrated with 13 engraved portraits of Le Sage ... more information

1942. FIRST EDITION. (JOHNSON, Harold "Speed") CARMICHAEL, John P. Who's Who in the Major Leagues. Chicago: B.E. Callahan, 1942. Octavo, original illustrated paper wrappers. $125. First edition, containing team rosters, home-game schedules, photographs of key players and up-to-date statistics for all the then-current major leaguers. Begun by "Speed" Johnson in 1933 and issued annually from 1935-55, this team-by-team directory for 1942 lists each player with brief résum&eacu... more information

1823. JOHNSON, Samuel. The Rambler. London: Thomas Tegg et al., 1825. Three volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter brown morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. $1125. Later edition of Johnson's Rambler, "a vast treasury of moral precept and ethical instruction" (Lowndes, 1218). Published twice weekly over a two year period, from March 20, 1750 to March 14, 1752, The Rambler features essays on a variety of topics, as well as fables, allego... more information

1781. JOHNSON, Samuel. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; with Critical Observations on Their Works. London: C. Bathurst, et al., 1781. Four volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, red morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers. $2200. First London edition of Johnson's celebrated Lives of the Poets, with engraved frontispiece portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds, handsomely bound in contemporary calf-gilt. Originally a commission undertaken for... more information

1675. FIRST EDITION. JONES, William. Les Reports de Sir William Jones Chevalier Jades un des Justices del'Banck Le Roy. Et devant un des Justices del'Court de Common-Banck et devant Capital Justice d'Ireland… Cy bien en le darreign Temps del'Reign de Roy Jaques, Come en Anns de Roy Charles I [1620-1640]. London: Printed by T.R. and N.T. for Thomas Basset and Richard Chiswel, 1675. Folio, 19th-century three-quarter brown sheep, russet linen boards, red spine label. $400. First edition ... more information

1927. FIRST EDITION. (JONGKIND, Johan Barthold) SIGNAC, Paul. Jongkind. (Paris: G. Crès et Cie., 1927). Royal octavo, contemporary full dark red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; original printed paper wrappers bound in. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase. $850. First edition of Signac's survey of the life and works of the Dutch painter and printmaker, a forerunner of the Impressionists, with 129 illustrations of Jongkind's paintings, dra... more information