Search Results: Authors starting with J from Alba's Books

New York: The Heritage Press, 1949. First HP Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Edward A. Wilson. Introduction by C.S. Forester. Possibly the best translation of these classic Arabian Nights stories, with super art by Wilson. Heritage Sandglass laid in, fine as the book. Slipcase has a couple f minor small dust smudges to one side, and is otherwise near fine.

Chicago: 3B Publishing, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with 6-line autobiographical inscription. Stated first edition. The memoirs of an ex-resident of Chicago's Ida B. Wells Housing Project, and how he as a public speaker campaigned for its reform. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

Chicago: 3B Publishing Co., 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The reminiscences of a man who grew up in the Ida B. Wells projects, became a successful Chicago businessman, and helped his contemporaries deal with inner city violence. A clean, unmarked copy.

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Diagrams and illustrations. Original green gilt cloth. Among the best researched histories of the development of anatomical studies with an extensive subject bibliography, appendix and index. Very good ex-library copy with back interior hinge cracked but holding,bookplate of The John Crerar Library (deaccession stamp to corner), and no marks on text.

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. J.J. Lankes. Original green cloth with light green title and cabin design. One of the great woodcut artists of the century here presents the processes and materials by which he created his art, with accompanying autobiographical asides. A clean, tight copy, unmarked and bright. Scarce.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Plates. Stated first edition. A monumental work and probably the definitive biography of the great Russian poet, with excellent bibliography. Pristine, clean and unmarked.

New York: Maxwell Macmillan publishing, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Michael McCurdy. With the '1' in a number line. A beautiful showcase for McCurdy's superb wood engravings. Both book and jacket are in fine, clean and whole condition. Archival Mylar jacket cover included.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn et al. A groundbreaking study of documentary photography in the Great Depression, with plates by the aforementioned and others documenting scenes made famous in such books as THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Book is fine and unmarked save for name stamp of the noted photographer Suchary on bottom foreedge. Jacket has minor edge rubbing and a small corner chip, and is price-clipped, but otherwise whole, clean and bright. Still attractive in its Mylar jacket cover.

Random House, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. First book publication of Du Maurier's ""The Birds,"" which became a classic Alfred Hitchcock film, and of Jack Finney's ""Of Missing Persons."" Single date on copyright page, A fine, clean an unmarked copy in a near fine jacket with two tiny corner nicks. Protected in a Mylar jacket cover.

Oxford: Oxford at The Clarendon Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Minor tiny nicks to spine edge, else a fine, unclipped and unmarked copy in a Mylar dj cover.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo.

New York: The Odyssey Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Edited by King Hendricks and Irving Shepard, this massive groundbreaking collection provides much biographical material on London not hitherto available. 502 pages including index. A fine, clean, unmarked copy in a Mylar jacket cover.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Out of print.

Privately Printed, 1968. First Printing Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo.

New York: Charles Scribner, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Very good (bottom cover foreedges rubbed). Out of print and uncommon. Binding is cloth boards.

Boston: Beacon Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Photographs. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR Angela Jackson. The definitive biography of the Black Poet Laureate, with an excellent bibliography for scholars and collectors. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Dust jacket shows very light edgewear.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photographs. Original quarter beige cloth on decorated paper boards with title label. Perhaps the best study of the Eighteen Nineties ever written, by a critic who was a contemporary collector and enthusiast, who saw the Nineties as far from the decadent decade castigated by max Nordau and others but as a creative, sane and healthy expression of vitality and a rebirth of the arts. Book is clean, fine and unmarked. Slipcase has rubbing at tips of opening, else is better than very good, bright, clean and free of tears or chips. A handsome copy, scarce in a slipcase this fine.

Page Publishing, 2014. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. From the library of author/scholar and Story Workshop creator John Schultz. A fine unmarked copy.

The Macmillan Co., 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Stated first edition. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Mylar jacket cover.