Search Results: Authors starting with J from Caroliniana

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press/DK Publishing, 1998. Quarto, 192pp, leather binding with gilt decoration depicting two beer mugs. Brand new in original shrinkwrap.

Greensboro, North Carolina: Privately Printed for the Alumnae Association of North Carolina College for Women, Greensboro, 1924. Octavo, beige cloth, 164 pp. According to the title page, this cookbook was “the result of the combined effort of the alumnae of the North Carolina College for Women," which is today UNC Greensboro. The book contains a wide variety of recipes, including many with the prefix "My Husband's Favorite," i.e. "My Husband's Favorite Corn Bread." There are also recipes for fromage inconnu, Brazilian cocoanut pudding, and "Black Mammy's Hush Puppy." The name of the contributor is printed below each recipe, in some instances together with the woman's profession (one was an attorney) or year of graduation from the college. There are also three pages of manuscript recipes on the rear endpapers, including for date bars and for apple sauce cake. Soiling and wear to covers, foxing and spattering/staining to pages, two closed tears to pp. 141 to 142, tear through rear endpaper, gift… Read More

Finland: Schildts Gebers, 1960. Quarto, illustrated paper boards over grey cloth spine. First Finnish edition of the second Moomin Picture book. Gift inscription to front pastedown, mild toning to covers, light rubbing and wear to edges, else a very nice copy.

New York: Chillmark Press, 1954. Hardcover with dust jacket, 320 pp. Very good with foxing and toning to pages, toning and rubbing to jacket.

Milan: R. Lier & C., 1923. 4to, 75, [4] pp, green boards with beige printed title labels. Facsimile edition published in a limited edition of 500 in 1923, the centenary of Jenner's death. Mild toning, creasing and foxing to pages, spine sunned, wear to corners and spine ends, slight discoloration to covers.

Columbia, S.C.: The R.L. Bryan Company, 1938. 8vo, softcover with printed wrappers, 219 pp. 1938 reprint, first published in 1914. Toning and fading to covers, damp stain to upper corner of a couple leaves, very good overall.

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1930. 8vo, black cloth with gilt spine lettering, [12], 245 pp, photographic illustration plates. First Edition. Includes much on slavery, cotton culture, the Civil War and the African American population of the Southern Sea Islands. By a pioneering woman historian at the University of North Carolina. Toning and bit of foxing to pages, bit of soiling to covers, bit of wear to spine ends, small area of chipping and staining to text block edges.

Memphis, Tennessee: Memphis Negro Chamber of Commerce, 1943. 9.5 x 8", yellow wrappers with black lettering, 192 pp, photographic illustrations, local advertisements. Staining and discoloration to covers, front cover detached from staples and spine but wrappers holding via rear wrapper, damp staining and creasing to upper corner of last 70 or so pages. Second edition of this rare African American directory for the city of Memphis, Tennessee, compiled and edited by T.J. Johnson, a former schoolteacher, a directory consultant with the National Negro Business League, and the executive secretary of the Memphis Negro Chamber of Commerce. The directory begins with introductory pages stating the purpose of the directory and celebrating the African American population of the city: "Forty-one percent of the whole population of Memphis, Tennessee...are Negroes...It requires no deep thinking to understand that the progress of the city and of the spheres of its influence is directly and inevitably related to the… Read More

New York: Bryan, Taylor & Co, 1894. Folio, blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustration, 551 pp, profusely illustration. A very good, bright copy with wear to corners and edges, mild discoloration to covers, toning to pages.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1927. 7.75 x 5.25", green hardback with gold lettering and illustrated dust jacket, 276 pp. Protagonist Richard Kaye has been exiled to a remote island and after a year, eventually returning to a war-torn society. Discoloration to cloth along edges and spine, foxing to text block edge, toning to jacket, with chipping to jacket spine ends, and corners and damp staining to upper dj spine, still a very good copy.

New York, May, 1883. Small folio, 8vo, leaves unopened. Single issue of Zion's Day Star, founded in 1881 by A.D. Jones, an employee of Charles Taze Russell in the 1870s. The magazine was founded as a supplement to Watch Tower, but Jones' views changed by the end of 1882. By the close of 1881, A.D. Jones, still in harmony with Russell, set out on his own to publish Zion's Day Star, a supplementary magazine to Zion's Watch Tower. Tony Wills writes in "A People for His Name: A History of Jehovah's Witnesses and and Evaluation," that "By the close of 1882 Jones, who had formerly rejected Paton's views for publication, started to espouse them..Thus Russell's fourth and last original coworker fell out with him..." M. James Penton adds in "Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses" that "Russell's only principal early associate to continue in fellowship with him was A.D. Jones. But even that relationship did not last." A very good copy with folding creases and minor toning.

Boston and New York: Houghton MIfflin Company/The Riverside Press, 1891. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, 211 pp. This copy inscribed by the author, Charles Colcock Jones Jr, who was a prominent Georgia politician, attorney, and author, as well as the the mayor of Savannah immediately prior to Sherman's March to the Sea. He was known as the "Macaulay of the South." The letter is to Prosper Berckmans, a prominent Augusta, GA horticulturalist and owner of Fruitland Nursuries. Together with a laid in two page letter from the author to Berckmans, dated 1891 at Augusta, Georgia, exchanging pleasantries and describing the enclosed book.

London: R. Phillips, 1805. 8vo, gray contemporary publisher's boards with later cloth library spine, uncut page edges, xv, 235 pp, 15 engraved plates and 16 pages of ads. Wear to covers, mainly corners and edges, withdrawn from University of Pennsylvania library with library spine, inked title and call number to spine, cloth repairs to hinges, library pocket removed from rear pastedown, library bookplate, library stamps to title page (rubber stamp and perforated stamp), perforated stamp to margin of one other leaf, minor foxing.

Anderson, South Carolina: Palmetto Publishing Co, No Date (Circa 1960). Octavo, red pictorial wrappers, spiral bound, [6], 130 pp, local ads throughout. Anderson, South Carolina community cookbook with a wide variety of recipes, including many southern favorites. Of interest is a section of children's recipes such as chocolate milk shake and peanut-butter toast, a section of "recipes for men," including fried shrimp and pork barbecue, and a section of recipes for brides. A nice copy with crease through center of front cover.

Meridian, Mississippi, 1907. 7 x 5.5", tan cloth with black lettering, 111, [33] pp, including [28] pages of local advertisements at the end. A rare Mississippi community cookbook. According to the foreword, the recipes were "gathered from our friends and from other reliable sources," including The Delineator, a women's magazine of the period. Many of the recipes are attributed to local women, while several recipes submitted by celebrities of the era are attributed to The Delineator; the book also contains three bean recipes "Written expressly for the Junior Guild's Cook Book" by Miles Bradford, editor of The Delineator. Other recipes include Gopher Soup, Gumbo (five recipes), and Vegetarian Mince Meat; the book also contains around a dozen recipes for alcoholic drinks, including Brandy Punch, Whiskey Cocktail (Old Fashioned), Absinthe Cocktail, Coffee Cocktail, and Mint Julep. Staining and wear to covers, staining/spattering to some pages, in good condition overall.