ian jackson berkeley (34 results)

Paperback. 82p., 5.5x8 inch paperback wraps with dust jacket present, dust jacket slightly shelfworn, publisher's insert inlaid, else in very good condition. Reprint of the 1901 7th edition of the work, with added material, edited by Stray. Printed in Reading, UK.

First edition. [64 pp]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 500 copies.

Condition: Near Fine wraps. paperback. horiz 8vo. unpp. Wedding keepsake from . with a note on a photo card. A 'rare. work. missing from the usual English or American editions.'.

By "Jan Cosinka". vi, 169 [2]p., original stiff printed wrappers, errata sheet. Complete with a glossary of Malkielisms.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Staples slightly rusty. 116 items, including a shabby copy of F.E. Gretton's Memory's Harkback (1889) - "'Hereford childhood & cathedral social life; Shrewsbury and Cambridge; country life in Leicestershire, Rutland, Wales . . .' was Matthews's bland description a generation ago, but a bookseller in these degenerate days must recognize that this volume of agreeably rambling and pleasantly anecdotal clerical reminiscences contains but a single selling point: the author was a schoolfellow of Charles Darwin ('I just remember him a dullish apathetic lad . . .'). Extremely scarce" - $15.00. "Calls between eleven a.m. and two a.m. are most likely to be answered, although I am often out and earlier or later attempts will not offend." The Berkeley bookseller would read or work for much of the night. "Writing a good catalogue note for a book is a fine art, of which Ian Jackson was a master," wrote Nicolas Barker in The Book Collector, Summer 2018. "The vocabulary came to him naturally; he read the books he described, and quoted what they said with deft precision. Description, insult and amusement were retailed with equal gusto, terse or at length. He let the books speak for themselves. His catalogues were irresistible to those who received them.".

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Undated but circa 1988. Wrappers. 130 items, including Blanche Warre Cornish's Alcestis (1873) - "One of two anonymous novels published by the celebrated malapropist, immortalized in her daughter's Nineteenth Century Childhood and Logan Pearsall Smith's Cornishiana. It appears to have created a small vogue for the music of Gluck" - $25.00. "Calls between eleven a.m. and two a.m. are most likely to be answered; earlier or later attempts will not offend." The Berkeley bookseller would read or work for much of the night. "Writing a good catalogue note for a book is a fine art, of which Ian Jackson was a master," wrote Nicolas Barker in The Book Collector, Summer 2018. "The vocabulary came to him naturally; he read the books he described, and quoted what they said with deft precision. Description, insult and amusement were retailed with equal gusto, terse or at length. He let the books speak for themselves. His catalogues were irresistible to those who received them.".

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Oblong 8vo. Wrappers. Edition limited to 400 copies, 150 of which were distributed as "A keepsake for the wedding of Cassandra Leone and Terrence Dowd in Berkeley on 14th August 2017" - for friends of the bride and groom, and of the translator and illustrator; this copy with, loosely inserted, a single-sheet introductory essay, "Cassie & Terrence", on the history and practice of libretti per nozze, with a decoration hand-coloured by the illustrator and signed by both illustrator and publisher. The verse translation of Hans Christian Andersen's "Spørg Amagermo'er" was first printed by the British Library in connection with its 2005 Andersen exhibition; this represents the first illustrated edition. The bride and groom of the verses are carrots, and the groom ("Who'd reached the hard and knobbly stage"), alas, does not survive the festivities. A delightful little book, and not just for weddings.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Ann Arnold. Octavo. 89, [3]pp. Perfectbound illustrated wrappers. A fine copy.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Publisher's publicity notice loosely inserted. "WARNING Timed trials by the publisher strongly suggest that it is impossible to 'Teach yourself Malkielese in 90 minutes' unless the student resolves not to read the footnotes. Caveat lector." A formidable study, with extensive footnotes, of the idiolect of Yakov Malkiel (1914-1998), the Russian-born philologist, "one of the greatest (and most prolific) Romance philologists of the last century", based all his latter career at the University of California at Berkeley, where he founded the journal Romance Philology. "Like many a learned émigré, Malkiel thought he wrote English better than its native speakers. Some forty years as the autocratic and interventionist editor of a journal offered him the chance to follow in the steps of Marianne Moore, who was in the habit of rewriting contributions of verse during her tenure at The Dial . . ." Teach Yourself Malkielese, the publisher boasts, is "the only book on WorldCat to be classified under the subject heading 'Romanicists - Humor'". Note on the author: "Jan Cosinka comes of a Bohemian family long established in Dalmatia. He was born in 1968 in Trieste in the office of the University's Registrar, which his mother and several dozen other students occupied for three weeks. He was educated at 'La Sapienza' in Rome and is currently Assistant Exchange Lecturer in Italian at the University of Turku in Finland. He is married, with one child. He has published several papers on seventeenth-century Milanese macaronic verse and the Neapolitan chapbook appearances of the Church Fathers, but this is his first book." Crossword solvers will have remarked the coincidence that the author's name is an anagram of that of the publisher.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Wrappers. Frustrated by a Book Collector error in failing to provide him with offprints, Jackson manufactured his own. His ruminative essay on William Thomas's edition of The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay (five volumes, 2008) probes the Greek "codes" apparently misunderstood by the editor, especially with regard to Macaulay's sexual activity.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Oblong 8vo. Wrappers. Poem written in 1812 by John Hookham Frere to teach manners to his nephew. "Like many people who have written books for children," writes Jackson, "Frere had none of his own." "'Does uncle John,' the parrot said, / 'Put nonsense in his nephew's head? / Instead of telling you such things, / And teaching you to wish for wings, / I think he might have taught you better, / You might have learnt to write a letter - / That is the thing that I should do / If I had little hands like you.".

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. vi, 160 pages. A product of Ian Jackson's wildly creative and erudite mind. It does not appear that the ninety minutes have been used yet, as the book shows not even the lightest wear. 250 grams.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Edition limited to 250 copies. An annotated checklist of the books and periodical contributions, 1980-2020, of the late and learned Berkeley bookseller Ian Jackson, issued under his continuing imprint with useful appendices including a list of his book catalogues and "cedules"; to which are added Jackson's paper "The Ur-Clerihew or Bentley Dethroned", with Haynes's (almost) Jacksonian "editorial notes", and Haynes's own "Tennyson's Bawdy?: a footnote in memory of Ian Jackson (1951-2018)".

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Wrappers. 250 copies printed for the author's widow, Ann Arnold. When the food writer Alan Davidson died in 2003, his wife, following an old Thai custom, published a "funeral cookbook" for distribution to his friends. Before his own death in February 2018 Ian Jackson prepared for posthumous publication a dictionary of his own idiolect, "Cosinkan" (his alias Jan Cosinka being an anagram of his name). In the manner of the similar dictionary he compiled for his father, Mathein Pathein (2016), it is sharp, telling, touching, funny and sometimes downright abrasive.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Loosely inserted two elegant promotional flyers issued by the author/publisher, who issued the book over the name of his wife, the illustrator. In 1943 one of Dr. Seuss's contributions to the war effort was to illustrate a pamphlet to be distributed to troops heading for tropical climes: This is Ann: she s dying to meet you (now a very rare book) warned of the dangers of the local insect population, visualized by Dr. Seuss with mischievous wit. "Ann really gets around," Munro Leaf's text read. "Her full name is Anopheles Mosquito and her trade is dishing out Malaria . . ." Following where Seuss led, Ian Jackson and Ann Arnold deliver a high moral tale of Addie (another Mosquito) and her devilish partner in crime, Zika (the Virus). How may the awful pair be checked in their evil progress? Jackson and Arnold show the way. "Ann Arnold's book is addressed to Young Adults of all ages" (publisher's puff).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Wrappers. Spine slightly faded and rubbed. [Edition limited to 325 copies]; printed in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. The first move by Ian Jackson into the publishing of idiolects, a new edition of the Winchester College spoof dictionary commemorating the sayings and eccentric character of the schoolmaster Edmund Morshead. "Unfortunately, through a misunderstanding, neither our names nor addresses appeared anywhere in the book, making the book almost unobtainable," Jackson recalled, and it was allotted the ISBN of another title. "As usual, I lost money . . .".

Paperback. viii, 148p., illustrated with a fine frontis photoportrait, a ditto to rear cover, and a vignette of the translator. Softbound in 9x6 inch frenchfold cream wraps, titled in black & red and rubricated further within, original text reproduced in facsimile on tan versos of alkaline white stock, one of a run limited to 250cc. One of Ian J's masterpieces of design and insight, very good.

First Edition, limited to 250 unnumbered copies. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.). 147, (1, blank) pp. Green French-fold wrappers lettered in white. An important addition to any erotica reference library. New in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Author's photo frontis, 9 x 6", wraps, 148pp, small mark on last page else a nice, clean, fresh copy. Limited to 250 copies.

vi 160 [2]p., original stiff printed wrappers, SIGNED presentation on the verso of the front wrapper: "For Thom and Maggie from Jan Cosinka, 17th November 2006." A pseudonymous and humorous study of the English language employed by the late University of California Berkeley linguist, Yakov Malkiel, which the publisher himself actually wrote under the pseudonym of Jan Cosinka, an alleged lecturer in Italian at the "University of Turku".

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to. Single card sheet, folded; loosely inserted the publisher's single-sheet "Note on the Text", including a "bibliographical hand-list" of de Hamel's "other humorous or whimsical productions". Edition limited to 100 copies. "This Rosenthal mock-catalogue was produced by Christopher de Hamel for Barney Rosenthal's seventieth birthday, May 1990, in a unique photocopy of three pages. It is here published for the first time . . . both as a keepsake for Barney's ninetieth birthday and as an historical document . . ." The catalogue leads with a Gospel Book (Lindisfarne, late seventh or early eighth century), "unfortunately disfigured by rather a lot of illumination", and a Norse Saga (Spikkestat, 11th century), "describing a tedious voyage to Vinland, very exhaustive". The bookseller Bernard M. ("Barney") Rosenthal died in Oakland, California (next door to Berkeley), on 14 January 2017, aged 96. Christopher de Hamel, Gaylord Donnelley Fellow Librarian of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, achieved astonishing but well-deserved popular success with his book Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts (2016) - announced the month after Rosenthal died as the winner of the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Arnold, Ann (illustrator). 48pp. White softcover, black titles and illustration on front panel, black titles on spine. Clean, unmarked pages in a tight binding. Illustrations by Ann Arnold, who also illustrated Alice Waters's book, Fanny at Chez Panisse, among other titles. Irreverent title, a parody of the Peter Rabbit books. Size: 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Oblong 4to. Wrappers. "Edward Lear never illustrated The Akond of Swat. This edition of the poem . . . was published in December 1997 as a New Year's gift for friends." The appendix of Akondiana (or Akhondiana) represents further, previously unpublished verses, found inscribed in a John Addington Symonds family copy of Lear's Laughable Lyrics (1877) - perhaps composed by J.A. Symonds, perhaps composed by Lear and Symonds together. "When he hears the sound of a marching band / Does he dance a jig or a sarabande / or GAVOTTE / The Akond of Swat! // . . . Will he bow down low to the Holy Father / And murmur 'Mon Dieu', 'Mio Dio'. or rather / 'MEIN GOTT'? / The Akond of Swat! . . .".

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to. Wrappers. Edition limited to 100 copies. A disquisition with examples - laced with footnotes as lengthy as they are diverting. (The anthology itself is not present: a series of quotations individually presented on piles of A4 paper for correspondence.) "I think the only chance of a good biography," he quotes Benjamin Jowett, "is for a man to write memoirs of himself. His friends always think it necessary (except for Boswell, that great genius) to tell lies about him - they leave out all his faults lest the public exaggerate them. But we want to know his faults - that is probably the most interesting part of him." Jackson, benevolent in scholarship, hoards and harvests such imperfections.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Edition limited to 250 copies. "Adriaan Roland Holst (1888-1976) was arguably the greatest Dutch poet of the twentieth century . . . Most of his work consists of individual lyrics; a rare effort at a sustained poem is Een Winter aan Zee (A Winter by the Sea), begun in 1932 and published in 1937. It is a stark, intense, compact, driven work. Its sixty-three lyrics, irregularly grouped, haunt us with the images of the North Sea and its wild weather, its lowering sunsets, the fierce boreal wind, and the (un)bearable absence of the Beloved . . ." (translator's introduction). Parallel Dutch/English texts, constituting the first publication in English: the Dutch (reproducing for the first time the author's original manuscript) printed on a different-coloured paper - a very pleasing publication.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Stapled Wraps. 24 pp. VG.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Arnold, Ann (illustrator). First Edition. Berkeley, California: Ian Jackson, 2002. 48 pp. 140 x 105 mm. Off-white wrappers with black and white illustration on cover. Minimal soiling and rubbing to cover. Inscription on front endpaper reads: "for Bob & Cynthia / from / author & illustrator / 2002". Interior otherwise clean and unmarked; binding is tight and firm. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Arnold, Ann. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Ann Arnold (illustrator). First Edition. Booklet published as a keepsake for the wedding to Cassandra Leone and Terrence Dowd in Berkeley on 14th August 2017. First illustrated edition of a work by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Brian Alderson and illustrated with double page drawings by Ann Arnold, limited to 400 copies. Slight marking to front cover, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. Size: 6" Tall x 9" Wide. Book.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Soft Covers. 89 pp. VG.

Printed red paper wrappers. Condition: A Nr Fine copy. Second printing. [2 (blank)], 89, [5] pp. Illustrated with b/w drawings by Ann Arnold. 8-1/2" x 7" As one who "grew up" [as a bookseller] with much time spent in Serendipity and consequently, Peter B Howard's presence, I can attest there will never be another bookman quite like him.