Search Results: Authors starting with J from Quirky Used Books & More

D.C. Heath & Company, 1925. Hardcover. Acceptable. The date of publication is an estimation, based on a review of this book in the The Modern Language Journal, Vol. 10, No. 5, dated Feb, 1926). The book was made in Great Britain, printed by Turnbull and Spears, Edinburgh, Scotland. Greenish olive boards stamped with title and decorative border in darker green. Spine is tanned, less so around the edges of boards. Upper portion of spine is cocked to right. Lightly bumped board tips, with wearing of cloth on very tips of corners. Shelf wear along bottom of boards. Page block has darkened and is dirty. Front pastedown has previous owners name. Back pastedown has an old price written in pencil. All pages are age toned with darker toning in the hinges of front and back covers. Book has no observable markings on interior pages. 244pps.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Red boards with black flag design and white and black text. Worn through corners with wearing to spine ends. Some soiling to boards. Scraped edges. Underlining and marginalia in blue ball point pen. Nice readable copy, with a good binding. Darkening to text block edges. Occasional fingerprint smudge. 211 pages.

Rational Island Publishers, 1981. Softcover. Good. Softcover with plastic comb binding. Clear plastic protective sheet over the light blue front and back covers. Clear sheets are scuffed. All pages remain bound by the comb, however a couple of pages are askew due to the way the pages were punched. A few pages have minimal amounts of underlining in pen and pencil. Light smudging to edge of pages. 107pps.

Golden Press, 1948. Hardcover. Acceptable. WELL LOVED children's book, with illustrations by Eloise Wilkin. "A Golden Giant Sturdy Book." Corner tips are dented and worn through. The top and bottom of spine are dented, worn through, with rips on the hinges. Covers are dirty, scratched and scuffed. Pages, which are of a stiff (sturdy) cardboard type, have foxing and stains. Text block is stained. Separation of the binding to book block, but all pages remain intact and this is a perfectly readable copy. All illustrations are charming in that typical Golden Book styling. Neat little vintage book.

Softcover. Good. Small chapbook with red wraps. Contains excerpts from Jackson's books, either Blood in My Eye or Soledad Brothers. Slightly bent upper right corner, with some finger print stains. This appears to be excerpts from one of George L. Jackson's books. Publisher unknown. 16 pages.

US Peace Coucil, 1982. Softcover. Good. Softcover pamphlet w/ stapled binding. The wraps are scuffed and slightly dirty, otherwise, good condition. 16 pages.

Editorial Orion Mexico, 1972. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Mass market paperback in Spanish. Scuffed and rubbed wraps. Scratched. Scraped edges and spine ends. Wraps are also faded. Toned pages. FEP has had a portion of top edge ripped away. Binding is fair. Readable copy. 172 pages.

Bernard Geis Associates , 1969. Hardcover. Acceptable. Third printing, March 1969. DJ is dirty, with small rips to top edges, bumped at the tips, with shelf wear to all lower edges. Inside of DJ is yellowing and has light foxing. Light foxing to text block, paste downs and end pages. All edges of orange paper-covered boards are water-stained.The pages of the textblock are not water stained. Pencil erasure at top corner of FFE. Pages are unmarked. Lightly bumped corners of boards. Small nick in the gutter between pages 200-201. 212 pages.

Girl Scouts of America, 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable. Poor condition. Significant wearing, but book remains readable. The paper covering on the boards is worn through, scraped, discolored, dented, scribbled on, scratched and dirty. Printed covering is red, black along the hinges. Board tips are worn through, exposing the cardboard. Scraping along edges of spine, and very worn at heel and head of spine. One former owner name on the front pastedown, another name and pencil writing on FFE. Paste downs, end pages and fly leaves are age-toned, with darker staining in the hinges, and also have foxing. Lightly toned pages. 184 pages.

Charles Scriber's Sons, 1912. Hardcover. Good. Hardback. Half-binding. Wine red leather on spine, has scratches and wearing along edges, in particular spine ends. That said, the leather has held up quite well. Gilt lettering on the spine is quite bright and perfectly legible. The remaining board cloth is also wine-red and textured. Wearing along board edges and the fore-edges. Dented corners. Cracking to the paste-downs in the hinge. Former owner name written in pencil on FFE. Light underlining and marginalia, all in pencil. Lightly age-toned. Text block is darkened on outside edges, with light stains. Solid binding. Quite readable. 565 pages.

Our Lady of Fatima Church, Albuquerque, 1994. Softcover. Good. Softcover. Pictorial wraps. Lightly bumped tips with a slight curl upward. Very lightly smudged wraps. Small stain on fore-edge of text block. Firm binding. Nice reading copy. 157 pages plus bibliography.

Self-published, 1977. Softcover. Acceptable. Softcover book of poetry. Inscribed by author of FFE. Wraps are soiled and stained, with scraping along all edges. Bumped and worn tips, scraped spine edges. Creases to front and back wraps. 80 pages.

The Colorado Outward Bound School, 1980. Softcover. Good. Softcover. Scuffed wraps. Chipped along edges. Small scrape at bottom of spine. Price on back wrap has been marked out. Ghost impressions of old pencil pricing at top of FFE. Small stain on outside edge of text block. Good spine. Clean pages. Nice copy. 137 pages.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1961. Hardcover. Acceptable. Ex-library book with stickers, stamps. Well toned pages. No dust jacket. Aqua cloth-covered boards. Faded. Worn spine ends and corner tips. Good binding. Readable. Stained text block. 271 pages.

Blackwell Publishers, 2000. Hardcover. Good. Edited by Michael Hardt and Kathy Weeks. No dust jacket. Black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Boards are lightly smudged and have a couple of fingerprints. FFE has penciled numerals which have been slightly erased. Remainder mark in pink highlighter on bottom of text block, which is otherwise clean with light smudge marks. Bottom of spine is bumped. Clean, unmarked pages. 410 pages.

George H. Doran Company, 1922. Hardcover. Acceptable. Distributed by the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Dirty, stained green cloth boards are dirty and stained. Bumped tips and spine ends. Faded and darkened spine strip. Various and sundry stains on spine strip and front board. Tanned/brownish paste downs and end pages. Yellowed pages, text block, and fore edge. Ink staining. Fairly sturdy binding. 178pps.

Prentice-Hall , 1966. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gray cloth covered boards are faded, but darkened around edges. Spine is faded as well. Book is prone to twisting, however, the yellowed pages are firmly sewn in. Spotting, soiling to all edges of the text block. Dented tips with wearing to cloth. Split in gutter between last page and end paper. That said, it's a decent copy to read. Large, heavy. Will require additional postage. 572 pages.

Self-Published, 1973. Softcover. Acceptable. Ex-library book. Rubbed, faded and stained wraps. Some yellowing along spine. Bumped tips. Spine and edges of wraps have had clear laminate tape added for reinforcement of same. Back of front wrap has old library stamps. FEP has "discard" writing. Previous owner stamp on half title page. Binding remains good. Very readable. 165 pages.

Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. Good. Hardback. No DJ. Reprint of the 1838 original publication. Brown cloth on boards. Light scuffing to boards. Light fingerprint stains. Very tight binding, book appears to have never been opened. Glue has darkened a bit in the front hinge. Nice copy. 206 pages.

ECL Publications, 2000. Softcover. Good. Softcover spiral bound book. Clean pages. Lower portion of front cover near spiral has area of discoloration and scraping where an old price sticker has been scraped off. 283 pages.