Titles starting with J from Donald Magee Fine and Rare Books, ABAA

Los Angeles: Southern California Jewish Historical Society, 1981. 8Vo. Paperbound, 144 pgs, sixteen essays honoring LA's 200th anniversary. Illustrated. A Good+ copy. No markings, no ISBN ... more information

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1976. 8Vo. Handsome full Franklin black leather, gilt decorations, tan moire end papers. AEG, 371 pages. Peter Harritos illustrations. Printed for the bicentennial. A Fine Copy, no markings. ... more information

Boston: Merrymount Press, 1915. 1st edition. 8Vo. Limited to 600 copies for subscribers on French handmade paper. 1/2 brown cloth spine, light brown hard boards. 426 pgs incl index and notes. Illustrated. A Good+ folding map of Peacedale and Kingston area is bound in (one small closed corner tear.) Untrimmed edges. Two previous owners' bookplates and residue from a third bookplate. Owner's name stamp. An essential cornerstone Rhode Island book. A Good+ copy. No other markings. Howes USIA... more information

Boston: Privately Printed, 1913. Small octavo, cloth spine, blue paper over boards, paper spine label. 134 pgs, frontis photo of Blaney and other illustrations, map of voyages on end papers. Some unopened pages. Blaney 1832-1896 was from Boston, son of Benjamin Blaney. He wrote these journals on the clipper ships, Samuel Russell, NY to Canton, and Mandarin, Shanghae(sic) to NY. Owners A.A. Low and Bros, employers Wolcott, Bates and Co. Both were written as intimate family letters. Evidently rather s... more information

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institute, 1959. 8 Vo. Pub # 4375 0 Misc Collections, brown cloth, gilt lettering, 268 pgs. Journal of a cruise on the Brazils onboard US ship Delaware, 1841-1842 and notes onboard US schooner Enterprise, 1843. Illustrated, a Good+ copy. Slight soiling to edges, no markings. Not in Albion Naval Bibliography. ... more information