Authors starting with Y from Bolerium Books, ABAA/ILAB

Chengdu: Sichuan minzu chubanshe, 1979. 5 plates, 173 p., worn wraps. Studies of Tibetan history by a mainland scholar, during a period of relative openness. Still, the first main essay is on how Tibet is an indivisible constituent part of the motherland. ... more information

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1972. xiv, 204p., first edition lime-green cloth in dj. Slight shelfwear, jacket is clipped and a little rubbed. The US army is developing killer robots, Stanley Milgram has demonstrated the inhumanity of "l'homme moyen sensuel," Lt. Calley used up a lot of adrenaline killing civilians, looks bad. Yablonsky's book doesn't look so good either, it's a mish mosh of William O. Douglas humanism uncritically yoked with Eric Hoffer's phil... more information

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1977. viii, 168p., dj. ... more information

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989. xxiii, 319p., very good in dj. ... more information

Berkeley: Chicano Chapbook Series, 1997. 12p., 5.5x8.5 inches, very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. The Chicano Chapbook Series #15, edited by Gary Soto. ... more information

New York: Bantam, 1959. 248p., first paperback in worn wraps. The British first edition is listed as Young 4251. Based on the Leopold-Loeb murder case. ... more information

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1957. 336p., ownership stamp on fep, otherwise very good first edition in cloth and unclipped dj. The British first edition is listed as Young 4251, although this edition came first. Murder story along the lines of Leopold and Loeb. ... more information

London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. 294p., first British edition, dj. Young 4251 ... more information

Miami: the author, n.d.. 92p., second edition, slightly worn wraps. On the black Yahweh and a panAfricanist interpretation of religion, with much on the Caribbean diaspora. ... more information

Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1983. 120p., pocket-size wraps slightly worn. Quite a lot on WWII covert operations, material on Reagan administration activity. ... more information

Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1983. 120p., pocket-size wraps have a cover crease, ffep bears a large rubber stamp of the American-Soviet Friendship Society. Quite a lot on WWII covert operations, boilerplate stuff on Reagan administration activity, this is not a focussed book. One "Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev" has been in retrospect alleged to have been recruited by CIA; the allegator is Vyacheslav Generalov, "former deputy chief of the KGB's Ninth Chief Directorate,... more information

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. xxi, 250p., dj. ... more information

New York: International Publishers, 1931. 128p., ex library with the usual markings. ... more information

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1985. 400p., dj. ... more information

New York: the author, 1990. 462p., wraps. ... more information

Tokyo: Kodansha, 1992. 191p., pocket-size in wraps with lightly worn illustrated dj. Japanese-language essays by Yamada, whose work addressing Black culture and interracial relationships was pathbreaking and controversial in Japan. Illustrated with humorous fake ads. ... more information

Tokyo: Kodansha, 1991. 212p., pocket-size in wraps with lightly worn illustrated dj. Japanese-language essays on wide-ranging themes by Yamada, whose work addressing Black culture and interracial relationships was pathbreaking and controversial in Japan ... more information

Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1987. 215p., very good hardcover with dj. Drawings of Black men signed "Ono. Japanese-language short stories featuring African-American characters. Yamada's work addressing Black culture and interracial relationships was pathbreaking and controversial in Japan. ... more information

Tokyo: Gentosha, 2000. 249p., pocket-size in wraps with lightly worn illustrated dj. Japanese-language stories by Yamada, whose work addressing Black culture and interracial relationships was pathbreaking and controversial in Japan. This collection includes "Family affair," set in Harlem. ... more information

Tokyo: Kodansha, 1998. 225p., pocket-size in wraps with lightly worn illustrated dj. Japanese-language essays by Yamada, whose work addressing Black culture and interracial relationships was pathbreaking and controversial in Japan. Illustrated with humorous fake ads. ... more information