Titles starting with J from B & L Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

Original printed wrappers, faded, front wrapper detached; interior good. First edition, without the advertisements. Rare in this original condition.... more information

Black publisher’s cloth, in the original dust-jacket. First edition. The tale of a young woman who,“after eight years of suffering brutality, sarcasm and other humiliations from her husband . . falls hopelessly in love with a doctor who represents all she has always dreamed of...” Marks (1883- 1942) was an American neurologist who took up writing after retiring in France. The majority of his books were first published in French; this is only his second work written in English. BMC, XVI, 98... more information

Original publisher’s cloth, preserved in the original box. Interior excellent ... more information

Quarter brown cloth beige cloth with front cover titled in brown and spine titled in gilt. Near fine in a dust jacket with spine sunned and chipped, price clipped. First edition.... more information

Engraved frontispiece. Original beveled brown cloth, title and author’s name in gilt to top cover and spine, slightly worn at edges, corners and extremities of spine. Presentation inscription from Motley’s son, Edwin, and morocco bookplate of Alfred Sutro. First limited large paper edition, one of 516 copies; printed first, but issued simultaneously with the trade edition.... more information

Original green publisher’s cloth, spine faded, a couple of small spots to covers. First edition. A novel of a man who gains happiness after rising to power, battling defeat, and then goes to live in the woods. Clearly a typical modern guy. BAL, 6, 14265; BMC, XVII, 522; Osler, 5169... more information

Frontispiece with original tissue-guard plus 17 text illustrations by Frederick Simpson Coburn. Publisher’s pictorial cloth; a fine copy. First edition of Drummond’s second published volume of poems.... more information

Original cloth backed flexible boards with paper spine label; front cover detached. Some scattered foxing, boards lightly soiled. A few unobtrusive ex-libris markings. First edition. A fascinating view of the proceedings at which the State of Missouri considers its relationship with the federal government of the United States.... more information

With 6 engraved plates (5 folding), including the map of Quito, in the first work, and 3 folding plates in the second work. Engraved headpieces. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt in compartments with morocco labels, upper front cover of both books with mild stain; some minor marginal waterstain to a few leaves of the second volume, otherwise a clean and wide-margined set. First edition of the account of the scientific expedition to the equator sponsored by the Academie des Sciences. The French Academy sent... more information

Contemporary half blue morocco over marbled boards, rubbed and scuffed, 4 raised bands, marbled end-papers; internally clean. Bookplate of W.F.G. First edition. Coggeshall (1824-1867) a Colonel from Ohio, was the State Librarian between 1856 and 1862. In 1866 he was appointed Ambassador to Ecuador, where he died a year later. Monaghan, 455. ... more information

Original green publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering and design to spine; a fine copy. First edition of this story about a doctor by a doctor. A best-seller at the time of its release perhaps due to its twisted themes of betrayal and lust.... more information

Title in red and black, text in double columns. Contemporary calf. Fine edition of the works of Juvenal and Persius, with text, interpretation and annotations by Louis Desprez. It also contains and index of words used. ... more information

Blue publisher’s cloth with paper spine label, in original gray, red and blue dust-jacket (dust-jacket slightly sunned at spine and edges, a tiny chip at head of spine, else fine). First edition of Cronin’s foray into drama. This play was first produced in Glasgow at the King’s Theatre, starring Henry Longhurst, Catherine Lacey and James Mason. The storyline loosely echoes the circumstances under which Cronin met his wife Agnes Mary Gibson, herself a doctor planning to become a medical missi... more information