Truthfully, I don't care about quality if I am starting out... I need results first. You'd sell me the book with results, you'll enrich the deal with how to do it right.

Focus on creating 'working' JavaScript, along the way encourage proper formatting/syntax, labeling, etc as you go. Useful type-in in examples are great.

As an example I needed to make a field input aid for a project, this one would be an alternative to a [YYYYMM] text entry, where they click on the tool button and are presented in a popup (ala date/time picker) with a range of months around the current date (or range specified in the calling code) where the user could quickly click the appropriate textual month/year and it fills in the form... also pulls the current field data into the script.

Examining date time picker code - I got it figured out. The books I've bought/checked don't seem to cover (or cover well enough to recognize it) what I was looking for. So an annotated cookbook approach I feel would be a good and mix in the style/management along with it.

I'm sure others working mainly on the backend code wanting some more front end support code would be interested in such a book as I would.