Titles starting with Y from Harper's Books, Inc.

Tokyo: Gendai Shokan,. 1968.. First Edition. Octavo. Great images of coal mines and miners. With endpapers of the graffiti lining the walls of the mines. An important book of Japanese social documentary almost never encountered in the west. No copies in OCLC. Near fine in wrappers in the publisher's card slipcase, with a small version of the cover image pasted to the front of the slipcase (as issued). ... more information

New York: Press of the Chauncey Holt Co.,. 1926.. First Edition. Octavo. INSCRIBED by the author and dated 1927. 48 pp. With several interesting photographs of 19th century Forty Second street. Near fine in gilt-stamped maroon boards. ... more information

Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama. (1978).. First Edition (the second edition of this book published in 1979 is more common). Small square quarto. 1000 copies printed. The seventh book of the Asahi Sonorama Series, which published works by all the leading Japanese photographers of the time. Images of Araki's wife, Yoko, the subject of many his books. Fine in a bright, near fine jacket, foxed at the verso, but with none of the endemic sunning to the spine. ... more information

London: Studio Vista,. 1969.. First Edition. Quarto. Numerous illustrations in both color and black and white of cool sixties interior design. Former owner's signature, a few tape marks to the endpapers from an old jacket protector, thus only a near fine example of what would otherwise be a fine copy, in a fine jacket. ... more information

Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha. (1971).. First Edition. Quarto. The first book by photographer Masahisa Fukase, and the fourth title in the influential ten volume Chuo-Koronsha series. One of the stranger books in the Japanese canon, with a jarring juxtaposition of abattoirs and weddings, sex and destruction. Light foxing as usual to the endpapers, pastedowns, and edges, else near fine in an almost near fine jacket with a tear to the back panel, complete with both the publisher's obi (worn at the spine) and outer... more information

[Montreal]: Privately published,. [n.d.].. First Edition. Privately published poetry chapbook by Montreal poet A.E. Steinmetz. INSCRIBED by the poet to fellow Montreal poet Michael Harris. Near fine in stapled black wrappers. Uncommon. ... more information