Search Results: Authors starting with J from Arches Bookhouse

Unpublished Dissertation, 1969. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. In two volumes with continuous pagination. 212, 213-262 pp pp. 8' x 11' typed dissertation perfectbound in marbled boards backed in plain burgundy cloth. A study of the liturgy during the enlightenment in southern Gemany with a special focus on the work of J. W. Strasser. In Dutch. OCLC 65944692 (8 copies).

[Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies], 1996. Paperback. VERY GOOD/Very Good. xiii, 323 pp. A clean and sharp copy. DJ bookseller's ticket to rear cover, otherwise crisp and bright.

David & Charles, 1986. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. 400 pp., Clean and sharp. DJ bright, in mylar. Bookplate to fpep.

Caxton Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/Fine. SIGNED and inscribed by John Scharff on the FFEP. Folio, burgundy buckram cloth. Color photos throughout.

Quadrangle Books (Chicago), 1972. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Very Good. xiii, 578 pp. Green cloth, black and gilt spine lettering. Crossed-out owner's name to FFEP and discreet bookplate to FPEP, text is faintly tanned as usual around extremities, very clean and sharp otherwise; DJ tips rubbed, spine just faintly sunned. Scarce.

Manchester University Press, 1963. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/Very Good. viii, 264 pp. Owner name to FFEP, slight bump to head of spine, pristine otherwise. DJ clipped, toned.

G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1967. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Very Good. xv, 264 pp. Review copy. Originally published in 1916, reissued by Putnam here, with note indicating the "original Batten illustrations" and "old favorites like 'Cinderella' and 'Jack and the Beanstalk'.". Aquamarine publisher's cloth with embossed image to boards, dust jacket intact and now wrapped in mylar, rubbed mark at edge and some toning. Light foxing to head edge.

Yale University Press, 1997. Paperback. GOOD. xv, 4989 pp. Penciling and pen markings to margins throughout, a bit of rubbing to extremities, sound otherwise.

Peter Lang, 2008. Hardcover. FINE. Pristine copy, as new. 211 pp.

McFarland, 1995. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. xviii, 730 pp. Orange boards, black lettering. Owner name and ticket to FFEP, owner stamps to all edges, very light rubbing to tips, pristine otherwise. Scarce in hardcover.

Oxford, 1967. Paperback. VERY GOOD. 259 pp. Clean, sharp copy.

Oxford University Press, 1986. Trade Paperback. FINE. Complete in three volumes, each entirely clean and sharp.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/Very Good. 549 pp. 8vo, two-tone goldenrod and black paper-over-board hardcover, gilt spine lettering. Entirely clean and sharp; DJ tips rubbed, scratch to front, now wrapped in mylar.

Oxford University Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/Very Good. 12mo, navy cloth, silver gilt spine lettering. Nearly pristine copy, bookseller's ticket to FFEP, exceedingly clean and sharp; DJ price clipped with very light rubbing to tips and faint toning to spine, tidemark to rear fore edge, now wrapped in mylar. Scarce in jacket. Straussian defense of the Declaration of Independence, tracing its particular afterlife in the Civil War and thought of Abraham Lincoln. The essay here flow out of his Lincoln work in "Crisis of the House Divided" whose sequel would not appear for another 35 years.

Vallentine Mitchell, 1977. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/Fine. xiii, 432 pp. A pristine copy with like DJ.

Oxford, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. NEAR FINE/Very Good. xxviii, 425 pp. Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering and debossed cover design. Light rubbing to extremities, a very clean and sharp copy otherwise. DJ toned, light rubbing to extremities, a few small stains.

Self-Published, 1953. First Edition. Paperback. FINE. Mass-Market Paperback, first printed thus by the author. Some trivial and inevitable rubbing to extremities, exceedingly clean and sharp otherwise. 'I publish my protest with the book on Melville because, as I have shown, the book as written is a part of my experience. It is also a claim before the American people, the best claim I can put forward, that my desire to be a citizen is not a selfish or frivolous one.' - From the back cover.

Edward Arnold, 1915. Ninth Impression. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. xi, [1], 270, [2] pp. 4 B/W plates with illustrations by James McBrides, frontispiece tissue intact. 12mo, rustic khaki cloth, title stamped in black and ruled in red, deckled fore and tail edges. Typical foxing and two small stains to front cover, two owner's inscriptions to FFEP, front hinge just starting at head, otherwise a very sound and handsome copy. This first collection of James's stories was a surprise hit from the Cambridge paleographer and medievalist. Bleiler notes, "Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary is generally taken to mark the beginning of the modern era of supernatural fiction. Most of his stories are concerned with the 'evil that dieth not but lieth in wait,' with a fine use of the exotica of antiquarianism. In the opinion of many the foremost modern writer of supernatural fiction" (p. 279." Bleiler 911.

Edward Arnold, 1912. Second Impression. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. vi, [4], 3-274 pp. + 24 ads. 8vo, gray cloth, black stamped lettering, black stamped bat to front cover above title, deckled fore and tail edges. Some rubbing to extremities, spine toned a bit, successive owners' inscriptions to FFEP, usual foxing but very sound and clean otherwise. Second collection of annual Christmas Ghost-Stories from the Cambridge paleographer, medievalist, and father of modern supernatural fiction. Bleiler 912.

Edwin Mellen Pr, 2014. Trade Paperback. NEAR FINE. Front wrapper curling slightly, a bit of rubbing to extremities, sharp and clean otherwise.