Titles starting with J from Dawson's Book Shop

Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, 1972. First Edition. Fine. 2 1/2 x 1 5/8 inches, 15 pages, gold-stamped orange cloth, Frontispiece portrait of Zeitlin by Herschel Logan. Printed and bound by Cathay Press Ltd., Hong Kong. This is the original edition; William M. Cheney printed a second, "pirated" edition in the same year. ... more information

Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, (1979 ). 9 x 6 1/2 inches, 256 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket (slightly chipped at edges). ... more information

Pantheon Books, New York, (1992). First Edition. Fine. 8 3/4 x 11 inches, 119 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket (cloth). ... more information

Ministere de la Culture, Madrid, 1989. Fine. 8 x 8 inches, 117 pages, maroon cloth with embossed illustration on front cover, Inscribed by the photographer in felt pen on half-title page, Elaborate exhibition catalogue for the Centre National de Photographie in Paris. There are beautiful red tissue guards with printed text facing many of the illustrations of Witkin's drawings and photographs. Text in French. ... more information

Samuel Johnson, Douglas, 1848. Fourth Edition. Very good with occasional light soiling. 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches, original blue publisher's cloth still bright with decorative gilt and blind-stamping, gilt spine, some light soiling and minor exposure to corners and spine head, sprinkled edges with light soiling , Titlepage and every textual page with delicate blue ornamental boarder, 33 engravings including frontispiece on 22 pages, one addition full page engraving of Castle Rushen not in the illustrations... more information

Ash Ranch Press, San Diego, (1987). Limited edition: One of 126 copies, bound by Don Hildreth. Fine. 1 1/4 x 1 inches, 53 pages, pig skin, Text in Spanish and English. ... more information

B.F. Ells, Dayton, Ohio, 1840. Very good: touches of old coloring to Lewis portrait and "Indian Hunter" woodcut, more coloring to "Burning a Village. 6 5/8 x 4 inches, 240 pages, contemporary sheep, expertly rebacked in calf, retaining red morocco spine label, Howes L 321. Included in pagination are woodcut portraits of Lewis and Clark, and 14 woodcut illustrations. Wagner-Camp-Becker 8:8 (our title page varies slightly from the W-C-B description in not including the name William Fisher a... more information

R. Ackermann, London, 1821. First Edition. Fine: unobtrusive marginal discoloration to frontispiece, 3 small closed tears to title, expertly mended, bound without the 2 ad leaves as is usual. 9 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches, [ii], ii, 292 pages, twentieth-century blue cloth boards with dark blue crushed levant morocco spine and tips, spine in six compartments, all edges gilt, Includes eighteen hand-colored plates by Rowlandson. Tooley 415. ... more information

Published by the Author, Ithaca, New York, 1840. Second Edition. Moderate foxing throughout (heavier on endpapers), short tear to map at juncture with text block. 7 3/8 x 4 5/8 inches, 400 pages, publisher's blindstamped blue-gray cloth, expertly rebacked preserving most of the original spine, Includes folding map of Oregon Territory, 1 plate, "The leading object of this expedition was to ascertain what might be accomplished through missionary labors among the Indians...[T]his work within the sco... more information

State of California, Sacramento, 1854. 9 x 5 3/4 inches, 688 pages, cloth. ... more information

SMPTE, New York, 1935-1954. Very good: scattered silverfishing to wrappers, spines in particular, small, neat ownership stamp to bottom right corners of upper wrapper and title page of each issue. 9 x 6 inches, printed wrappers, Complete run of 237 issues of the Journal beginning with volume 24, number 4 (April 1935) through volume 63, number 6 (December 1954), plus 5-year indices covering the period 1930-1985 (total of 10 index issues), and the complete 12 Journal issues for the year 1986 (volume 95). N... more information

SMPTE, New York, 1937-1952. Very good: light stain to top margin of volume 35 (July-December 1940). 9 x 6 inches, black fabricoid with former owner's name in gold on each upper cover, bound without wrappers, Run of 186 issues of the Journal beginning with volume 28, number 1 (January 1937) through volume 59, number 6 (December 1952). Lacking volume 47 (July-December 1946). Not included are 2 membership directories and the index for volume 57, published as separate "Part II's" that acc... more information

University Press in Dallas, Dallas, 1949. Very good. 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches, 115 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket (wear to spine extremities), With illustrations and decorations by José Cisneros. Printed by Carl Hertzog. Bookplate. ... more information

University Press in Dallas, Dallas, 1949. Very good. 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches, 115 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket (lightly edgeworn), With illustrations and decorations by José Cisneros. Designed and printed by Carl Hertzog at the Pass of the North. ... more information

Peripatetic Press, El Paso, 1947. Limited edition: one of 700 copies. Fine. 11 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches, 562 pages, Dust Jacket (spine sunned, top edge worn). ... more information

John Henry Nash, San Francisco, 1937. Very good. 111/2 x 7 3/4 inches, ix, 48 pages, boards with cloth spine. ... more information

John Henry Nash, San Francisco, 1937. Fine. 111/2 x 7 3/4 inches, ix, 48 pages, boards with cloth spine, Dust Jacket. ... more information

California Historical Society, San Francisco, 1941. First Edition, Limited edition: One of 750 copies printed by Lawton R. Kennedy. Fine, unopened. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches, [ii], 94, [1, colophon] pages, decorative boards with linen spine and paper spine label, Includes four-color frontispiece and 3 large decorative initials in red. Special Publication Number 17 of the Society. ... more information