Search Results: Authors starting with J from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Bethesda: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, 1967. Second edition. Very Good. 28 cm; iii, 384 pages. Illustrated. Bound in original wraps. Spine somewhat tanned and opened, but very good used condition. Comprehensive account of Russian pharmaceuticals and remedies.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893. First edition. Hard cover. Very Good. Octavo (24 cm); 36, 39 pages, text illustrations, 5 half-tone plates and folding map. Half morocco over marbled paper boards, with ownership ink stamp of career diplomat Reed Paige Clark (1878-1958). Autograph of Reed Paige Clark on title page of second title. Very good condition. Volume two of the annual report on the introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska, bound together with the GPO extracts, printed in 1904, of the first two volumes of the series, without illustrations or maps. In effect, the extracts (paginated 1091-1128) present volume one in the series, the "Preliminary Report of the General Agent for Education for Alaska to the Coommissioner of Education," along with the repeated text of volume two. After industrial whaling had decimated a traditional food source of the indigenous people of Alaska, the Government Commissioner of Education sought to alleviate mass starvation by transporting… Read More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891-1906. First editions. Hard cover. Very Good. Octavo (24 cm); 15 (of 16) issues in 13 volumes. Lacks 16th issue. 18 folding maps; dozens of half-tone photos. No reports published for the years 1891-92; two reports published for the year 1894. Title varies. This is a married set, with first three reports bound in one in recent red buckram, original wraps of first issue bound in, map in pocket in rear; fourth and fifth report in half morocco over marbled paper boards, with ownership ink stamp of career diplomat Reed Paige Clark (1878-1958); all others in early 20th-century black cloth, with bookplate of Mount Holyoke College and release stamp. All volumes in very good condition. Very rare nearly-complete set of the annual report of the reindeer experiment. After industrial whaling had decimated a traditional food source of the indigenous people of Alaska, the Government Commissioner of Education sought to alleviate mass starvation by transporting… Read More

Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1873. First edition. Good. 28 cm; 750 pages and XII engraved plates. 200 woodcut figures in text. In green half crushed morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt; spine in six compartments, with gilt-stamped images of a vase. Original hand-painted wraps bound in. Abrasions to raised bands on spine. Corners and edges shelf-worn. Some of the pigment on the hand-painted wraps has flaked away.

Paris: Minuit, 1971. Wraps. Very Good. 260 p. Wraps. A seminal document in contemporary literary theory.

Austin: John H. Jenkins , n.d.. Original edition. Very Good. 28 cm; unpaginated. Jenkins catalogue 140. 2686 listings. Original printed wraps.

Austin: John H. Jenkins , n.d.. Original edition. Very Good. 28 cm; unpaginated. 920 listings. Original printed wraps. Stain on front cover. Mailing label on back.

Austin: The Jenkins Company, n.d.. Original edition. Good. 28 cm; Unpaginated. 1715 listings. Original wraps. Mailing label on lower wrap. A bit darkened toward fold.

Austin: John H. Jenkins , n.d.. Original edition. Very Good. 28 cm; unpaginated. 950 listings. Original printed wraps. Mailing label on back wrap.

Austin: John H. Jenkins , 1976. Original edition. About fine.. 28 cm; unpaginated. TItle page in red and black. Jenkins catalogue 100. Original printed wraps.

Austin: John H. Jenkins , n.d.. Original edition. Very Good. 28 cm; unpaginated. Jenkins catalogue 162. 524 listings. Original printed wraps. Mailing label on lower wrap.

Austin: John H. Jenkins , n.d.. Original edition. Very Good. 28 cm; unpaginated. Jenkins catalogue 165. 829 listings. Original printed wraps. Mailing label on lower wrap.

Austin: The Jenkins Company, n.d.. Original edition. Very Good. 28 cm; Unpaginated. 1235 listings. Original wraps. Mailing label on lower wrap.

Austin: The Jenkins Company, n.d.. Original edition. Very Good. 28 cm; Unpaginated. 3774 listings. Original wraps.

Austin: John H. Jenkins , 1979. Original edition. About fine.. 28 cm; unpaginated. Jenkins catalogue 120. Original printed wraps.

Austin: The Jenkins Company, 1979. Original edition. Very Good. 28 cm; unpaginated. Printed wraps. Ownership blindstamp of Janet Jurist. Slight shelf wear.

Austin: John H. Jenkins , 1983. Original edition. Very Good. 28 cm; unpaginated. Jenkins catalogue 150. Original printed wraps. Slight abrasions on spine.

Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press (University of Copenhagen), 2004. First edition. Wraps. As New. 273 pages. Illustrated wraps. Studies by Jensen in the Neo-Latin culture of Denmark in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The papers were edited by Marianne Pade, Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, and Peter Zeeberg.

Turin: Umberto Allemandi, 1992. Very Good. 341 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm. Bound in original laminated paper wraps. Slight crease in paper covers, else about fine. Catalogue of exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in the winter of 1992-93.

Ulaanbaatar: Admon for the Zanabazar Museum, 2014. First edition. soft cover. New. 30 cm; 80 pages, chiefly color and half-tone photo illustrations. Text and captions in Mongolian and English. Introductory material by Luboš Belka, Veronika Kapišovská, and Sampildondov Chuluun. Bound in photo illustrated wraps. OCLC locates no copies in its consortium. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Zanabazar Museum in Ulaanbaatar (and Prague's Dox Centre for Contemporary Art) of original color and black and white photographs made by Lumír Jisl, a Czechoslovak archaeologist and expert in Oriental art and material culture. Jisl studied Buddhist art in China, Tibet and mainly in Mongolia, where he led a successful archaeological expedition exploring prince Kultegin memorial in 1958. The catalogue reproduces all 108 of the pictures on exhibit, all taken during Jisl's three Mongolian journeys between 1957 to 1963. Includes a detailed description and analysis of his visual and textual materials and sources.… Read More