Titles starting with J from Joseph The Provider / Books

New York:: Macmillan,, [1989].. First edition of the author's first book. Hardcover. A fine, unread copy in a fine, fresh dust jacket, almost like new. 8vo. Signed by Homes on the title page. ... more information

New York:: Macmillan,, [1989].. First edition of the author's first book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information

San Marino:: Huntington Library,, 1966.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the spine. 8vo. With a frontispiece photograph of London. ... more information

Worcester:: Metacom Press,, 1981.. First edition. Printed wrappers. Fine. Small 8vo. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author (of a total edition of 276). ... more information

Berkeley:: Orloff Press,, [1995].. First edition of the author's first book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information

New York:: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence,, [1979].. First trade edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. This copy is inscribed by Vonnegut to LA Times writer / novelist Wayne Warga: "For Wayne, Kurt Vonnegut. ... more information

Cambridge:: Orthological Institute,, [N.D. but circa 1929].. 78 rpm phonograph record. The record is in fine condition in the original sleeve, a singular feat of preservation considering its composition. The first pressing (Slocum & Cahoon, page 173) of Joyce reading the "Anna Livia Plurabelle" episode from Finnegans Wake. The recording session took place in August of 1929 at a time when Joyce's eyesight had deteriorated considerably. As Richard Ellmann writes in his biography of Joyce (... more information

New York:: Abrams,, [1967].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Oblong 4to. The first full-length monograph on Johns with 142 illustrations of his paintings, some of which are tipped in. ... more information

Los Angeles:: Ricky Jay / W & V Dailey,, 1994 to 2000.. 16 issues (all published). Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Housed in a custom-made quarter-leather clamshell box. 4to. Profusely illustrated in color, some of which are tipped in. Printed letterpress by Patrick Reagh. Present here is the rare original promotional broadside for this astonishing melange of arcana and scholarship by the peerless prestidigitator. The broadside describes the series as "a quarterly periodical devoted to the investigatio... more information

New York:: Knopf,, 1992.. First trade edition. Hardcover. A fine, unread copy in a fine, fresh dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information

New York:: Criterion,, 1946.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a bright, lightly used dust jacket.. 8vo. With a foreword by Orson Welles. Illustrated with photographs. ... more information

New York:: Oxford University,, 1992.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information

New York:: Doubleday, Doran,, 1945.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in an exceptionally bright dust jacket (one tear at bottom of front panel).. 8vo. With an introduction by Arnold Gingrich. ... more information

New York:: Knopf,, 1964.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information

London:: Spearman,, [1948].. First edition. Hardcover. A just-about-fine copy in lightly used dust jacket of this poorly manufactured book.. 8vo. Illustrated with full-page photographs of Billie Holliday, Earl Hines, Django Reinhardt, Muggsy Spanier, Huddie Leadbetter, and others. Foreword by Charles Delaunay. ... more information

Englewood Cliffs:: Prentice-Hall,, 1964.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket (price-clipped). 8vo. With a foreword by Woody Herman. Illustrated with photographs. ... more information

New York:: Oxford University,, 1983.. New and revised edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. Includes new essays on King Oliver, Sidney Bechet, Art Tatum, Charles Mingus, and Sarah Vaughan. Laid into this copy is an ALS on Williams' letterhead to another writer on jazz: "A couple of reviewers called him the most influential pianist since Bud [Powell] -- patently untrue ... the best of it (to me) sounded like imitation Bartok." ... more information

New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1911.. First edition, first binding, of the author's second book. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. This copy is boldly inscribed on the title page: "For Harry Ruby from Theodore Dreiser." The celebrated songwriter, Harry Ruby ("Three Little Words," et al.), was a friend of Dreiser's songwriting brother, Paul ("My Gal Sal," "On The Banks Of The Wabash"). ... more information

New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1911.. First edition, first binding, of the author's second book. Hardcover. Fine in a fine example of the rare, fragile dust jacket. Housed in a custom-made, quarter leather clamshell box. 8vo. ... more information

Baltimore:: Johns Hopkins University Press,, [2007].. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information