Titles starting with J from William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958.. Cloth and boards. First edition. Pencil name, else fine in near fine spine tanned white dust jacket. ... more information

London: Frederick Muller Limited, 1976.. Small quarto. Gilt navy cloth boards. Portrait and illustrations. First edition. Edges lightly rubbed, otherwise near fine in good dust jacket with a few tape mends on the verso. Mason was associated with the Doves and Cranach presses, among others. ... more information

[New York]: Viking, [1986].. Cloth boards. Photographs. First edition, U.S. issue, bound up from sheets printed in the UK. Pencil name, very good in dust jacket. ... more information

London: The Bodley Head, [1982].. Printed wrapper over stiff wrappers. First edition, the text accompanied by Jean-Pierre Carosso's translation into French. About fine. ... more information

London: Dent, [1934]. Boards. First edition. Pencil note, else very fine in dust jacket. ... more information

London: Richard Bentley, 1837.. Three volumes. Contemporary three quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt extra, gilt labels. First edition. Binding rather rubbed, but sound, foxing to prelims and terminal leaves, bound without half-titles, ads and errata; just a good fill-in set. SADLEIR 1204. WOLFF 3255. ... more information

London: Phoenix Sports Books, [1956].. Gilt cloth boards. Photographs. First edition of this British account of the career of the Texas heavyweight. A trifle foxed at edges and endsheets, small sticker abrasion to corner of free endsheet, but otherwise a very good copy, in bit faded, rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket with small chip at lower edge of lower panel. ... more information

Georgetown, CA: The Talisman Press, 1966.. Gilt cloth. First edition. Frontispiece, and facsimile illustrations. Fine, in fine dust jacket. ... more information

London: Faber and Faber, [1976].. Cloth. First U.K. edition, cloth-bound issue. One corner bumped, else fine in dust jacket with light wear to one corner. ... more information

New York: Meredith Press, [1968].. Cloth and boards. First edition. This is the first book written as "Elizabeth Peters" by gothic thriller writer Barbara Michaels. Very good in lightly soiled dust jacket (lower panel, mostly) with wear to the spine ends. ... more information

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884.. 47,[1]pp. Cloth and pictorial boards (in color). Frontis, pictorial title and illustrations by Randolph Caldecott. First edition, later printing, with 'Why' at the end of p.27 and the frontis numbered at p.38. Boards a bit spotted, fore-corners worn, otherwise a good copy with the ownership signature of book historian Thomas Barston. ... more information

London: Mills & Boon, [1915].. Dark green cloth, lettered in gilt. Frontis. First edition (preceding the U.S. edition). Edgeworn, ink name and modest soiling to endleaves, some finger smudging. Just an average, sound copy of a cheaply made book. BAL 11962. ... more information

New York: Holt, [1984].. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, first book. There was no cloth issue of this title. Crown of spine a bit bumped, else near fine. ... more information

New York: Arcade Publishing, [1996].. Gilt paper over boards. First U.S edition thus; in fact a revised edition of Leila Vennewitz's 1990 translation. Near fine in a faintly rubbed pictorial dust jacket with two small nicks. ... more information

New York: St. Martin's, [1999].. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first U.S. edition. Originally written as a screen story. A fine copy. ... more information

[New York]: New Directions, [1961].. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, wrapper issue. Near fine. ... more information

[New York]: New Directions, [1961].. Pictorial wrappers. Later printing of the wrapper issue, inscribed and signed by the author in 1985. Recipient's ownership signature and inscription, wraps a bit rubbed, good. ... more information

New York: Sheed & Ward, 1947.. Cloth. Frontis. First edition. Cloth lightly soiled, else very good in a tanned dust jacket with some wear to the top edge. ... more information

New York: Simon & Schuster, [1985].. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition of the author's second novel. Fine. ... more information

New York: Elsevier, [1976].. Cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by the author: "To John Howard Griffin - with my admiration for you and your work, Brooke W. Smith." Griffin's well-known photo-portrait of Maritain is utilized for the rear jacket panel. ... more information