Titles starting with J from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1907. First Edition.. Original cloth-covered boards with pictorial front cover inset; 132pp; 19 illustrations, including 12 color plates by Christine Wright. Mild rubbing to spine ends and corners, prize inscription to front endpaper, else a tight, attractive copy, Very Good or better. ... more information

New York: G. Schirmer, Inc, 1945. First Edition.. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); 190pp. From the library of American composer & teacher Irwin Fischer, with ink inscription to him from one of his pupils on front endpaper, dated 1946. Mild dusting to boards; scattered pencil marginalia by Fischer; Very Good. ... more information

New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1947. First edition.. Stiff card wraps; lithographed front cover enclosing a single sheet folded into nine panels which, when opened, reveals a 23-3/4" x 19" lithographed poster. Additionally printed on verso of this sheet are five halftone reproductions of larger works. Unsigned, but both cover and poster are original Miro lithographs. Covers toned and a bit dusty; brief splits to poster at folds; about Very Good, and scarce. This exhibition coincided with Miro&... more information

New York: Harper & Row, 1977. First edition.. Octavo. Original cream cloth, 354pp. Near fine in very good + dustjacket. Slight dusting to page edges, otherwise no markings. Dustjacket has minor signs of use to top edges and bottom right corner. ... more information

Odessa, Missouri: Marty Helm Brunetti, 1986. Facsimile Reprint.. Quarto. Yellow printed wrappers, 131pp. Near fine, pages and exterior clean with no markings, binding tight. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. New, Revised edition. Octavo; cloth boards; xxxiii, 200pp. Numerous corner-folds; scattered ink marginalia; portion of jacket flap laid down to front endpaper. A solidly good working copy. ... more information

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931. First Edition.. Original cloth (hardcover); 324pp. Clean, bright copy with mild rubbing to spine title (not affecting legibility), else better than Very Good; in very good jacket which is mildly spine-faded, price-clipped and chipped a bit at extremities. ... more information

Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1912. First Edition.. Large octavo. Original wrappers; 638pp; 90 text illus; 2 engraved portraits. External wear, with fading and cracking to spine; brief ink ownership signature ("Beschke") to base of title page, else contents fresh and unmarked. ... more information

London: Faber and Faber, 1980. First Edition.. Blue cloth (hardcover); 275pp. Fine in dustjacket. ... more information

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. First Edition.. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 262pp; includes bibliography. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Else a clean, sharp, tight copy in crisp VG dustwrapper. ... more information

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980. First Edition.. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 421 pp. Tight, unmarked copy in crisp jacket. ... more information

New York: New York Labor News, 1932. Wraps. Near Fine. Third Printing. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Original printed wrappers; 30pp. Mild soil to covers, else clean and unmarked; VG or better. ... more information

Westport: Greenwood Press, 1978. Reprint.. Octavo. Cloth boards; 249pp; includes bibliography. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Else a sharp, unmarked copy, lightly soiled on covers. ... more information

Newport News: Mariner's Museum, 1949. First Edition.. Octavo. Original printed wrappers (softcover, as issued); 32pp; illus; bibliog. Scattered foxing, else clean and unmarked. ... more information

Prague: Sfinx, 1930. First Edition.. Octavo (21cm). Stiff printed wrappers, designed by Jindrich Styrsky; 104pp. Just mild wear to extremities of wrappers; VG to Near Fine. An impressive minimalist cover design by Styrsky, and an uncommon work from Nezval's surrealist period. PRIMUS 122. ... more information

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. First American Edition.. Cloth (hardcover);405pp. Clean, tight and unmarked, Near Fine in like dustjacket. ... more information

Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati, 1961. First Edition.. Very Good/No Jacket. Patterned boards; 41pp. Inscribed on half-title by Van Meter Ames. Mild soil & toning to covers, else about fine. University of Cincinnati Occasional Paper no. 1. ... more information

Prague: F.J. Muller, 1936. First Edition.. 12mo (18cm). Pictorial yellow wrappers designed by Frantisek Muller; 68pp. Mild external soiling; Very Good. Text of a lecture delivered by Teige at the Manes Pavilion in Prague, in which he analyzed from a marxist perspective the changes that the rise of capitalism had brought to the position of the artist in society. DANA 66. PRIMUS 168. ... more information

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1927. First Thus.. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 248pp. Old private owner's stamp to endpapers; more recent ownership label affixed over ffep stamp, and it looks like someone's had a go at removing it, with unfelicitous but not dire results. Else this is a bright, unworn copy, Near Fine, in the uncommon pictorial dustjacket which is toned and faintly spotted on spine with mild wear to edges, still bright and attractive, VG or better. First printing of this nove... more information

London: Talisman Books, 1977. First edition.. Octavo. Original pictorial, laminated boards (hardcover); unpaginated. Filmography with 2239 alphabetical entries of appearances of jazz musicians in film. Great reference; the hardcover edition is quite scarce. ... more information