Black Power; A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos
by Wright, Richard
New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($4.00), generally rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Quarter black cloth with red paper on the boards, rubbed at the edges. Squar and firmly bound, soiled at the edges and endpapers, clean otherwise. Wright's account of his trip to the Gold Coast of Africa, providing insight into the various cultures and their views of Communism.
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Uncle Tom's Children
by Wright, Richard
New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1965. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Good. Wraps generally toned and soiled, rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Firmly bound with a forward lean, toned pages with some stains.
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In the Name of God; The Khomeini Decade
by Wright, Robin
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped ($19.95), bumped and toned. Quarter maroon cloth with maroon paper on the boards, lightly bumped. Square and firmly bound, a small chip at the bottom-right corner of the front endpaper, clean otherwise. From the award-winning journalist, a work that "recreates the revolution's labyrinthine course and the growing power of the regime's initially inexperienced mullahs.
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Dawn
by Wright, S. Fowler
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), generally toned and soiled, rubbed at the edges, a few shallow chips at the corners. Blue cloth, some fraying at the edges, with yellow ink lettering on the spine and front board. Bound with a slight forward lean and some reading wear, faded red top stain, a few stray stains at the edges, clean internally. The sequel to the apocalyptical science... Read More
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The World Below
by Wright, S. Fowler
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Introduction by Everett F. Bleiler. Limited Autograph Edition signed by Wright. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.50). Teal cloth with red ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's stamps inside the front board and on the front endpaper, clean internally. Wright's time travel novel about a modern man who jumps forward half-a-million years to a barbarous alien civilization.
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That Way Lies Camelot
by Wurts, Janny
New York: HarperPrism, 1996. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($20.00), lightly bumped, faded at the spine. Quarter black paper with purple paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise. Wurts's award-nominated collection of stories about Camelot.
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Jamie Wyeth
by Wyeth, Jamie
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited to 500 copies signed by Wyeth. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase, some soiling to the cloth. Half leather with blue cloth on the boards. Square and firmly bound with gilt edges, some foxing at the edges, clean internally.
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Life of Lieutenant-General Nathan Bedford Forrest
by Wyeth, John Allan
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. Hardcover. Good. G-N on copyright page. Illustrations by T. de Thulstrup, Rogers, Klepper, Redwood, Hitchcock, and Carleton. Good. Grey buckram, generally toned, split at the top of the front joint, pushed at the corners. Square, bookplate and former owner's name on the front endpapers, hinges loose. An account of "one of the most famous fighters and leaders of mounted infantry or cavalry which the war produced" written by a private member... Read More
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Opus 21
by Wylie, Philip
New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, clipped, generally rubbed and worn, chipped at the edges, a few tape repairs. Red cloth, lightly bumped, with black ink panels and designs and gilt lettering and designs. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Crimes in High Life; Some Society Causes Celebres
by Wyndham, Horace
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, lightly bumped at the edges. Quarter green buckram with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of twelve cause celebres, including those of Queen Caroline, Colonel Blood, the Earl of Cardigan, Sir Robert Wilson, and others.
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Soul Mountain
by Xingjian, Gao
New York: HarperCollins, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Translated by Mabel Lee. Very Good in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($27.00). Maroon paper on the boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, multiple pages with bumps and short creases at the corners, clean otherwise. The first English translation of the Nobel Prize-winner's work.
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One Man's Bible
by Xingjian, Gao
New York: HarperCollins, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Translated by Mabel Lee. Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($26.95), faintly bumped. Quarter black cloth with yellow paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, a few spots of soiling at the edges, clean internally. The second English translation of the Nobel Prize-winner's work.
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When Nietzsche Wept
by Yalom, Irvin
New York: Basic Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. About Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($20.00), bumped at the edges and corners. Quarter purple cloth with grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, top edge toned, clean internally. Yalom's best-selling novel about a psychiatrist tasked with treating Nietzsche's suicidal despair. Adapted into the 2007 film of the same title.
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The Vow
by Yanagawa, Shunyo
Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Translated by Dr. T. Kihara. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), toned at the spine and edges, rubbed and with some tears and chips, some spots of soiling. Blue cloth, rubbed at the bottom edge, soiled at the top. Square and firmly bound with a yellow topstain, a few stains at the edges, former owner's information on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Yanagawa's novel about "a... Read More
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Fourth Wing
by Yarros, Rebecca
Shrewsbury: Red Tower Books, 2023. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Eighth Printing. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($29.99), bumped at the edges. Black paper on the boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square, hinges over-opened, firmly bound otherwise.
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The Winding Stair and Other Poems
by Yeats, W.B.
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near Fine, lacking the dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering and designs on the spine, faintly rubbed. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. A kind of sequel to his 1928 collection of poetry The Tower.
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Bratsk Station and Other New Poems
by Yevtushenko, Yevgeny
Garden City: Anchor / Doubleday, 1967. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Translated by Tina Tupikina-Glaessner, Geoffrey Dutton, and Igor Mezhakoff-Koriakin. Introduction by Rosh Ireland. Near Fine. Wraps toned, faintly rubbed. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name on the first page, clean otherwise.
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The Hidden Model
by Yezzi, David
Evanston: Triquarterly Books | Northwestern University Press, 2003. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Inscribed by Yezzi on the title page. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Yezzi's first book of poetry, praised by J.D. McClatchy as "a rich, resonant collection.
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Blue Laws; Selected and Uncollected Poems 1995-2015
by Young, Kevin
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Young on the title page. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped ($30.00), creased through the front flap, bumped at the top edge. Blue paper on the boards with white ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Boats on the Marne; Jean Renoir's Critique of Modernity
by Younger, Prakash
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Wraps bumped at the lower corners. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An interpretation of Renoir's films that "treat[s] them as a coherent narrative of philosophical response to the social and political crises of the times.
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The Cimmerian Volume Two: People of the Black Circle and The Frost Giant's Daughter
by Young, Rich; Louinet, Patrice
Portland: Ablaze Publishing, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine. Glossy pictorial boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Gleanings from Tao Yuan-ming (Prose and Poetry)
by Yuan-ming, Tao
Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, Ltd, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Translated by Ronald C. Fang. Near Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($12.00 sticker on the front panel), toned at the spine. Blue boards, faintly bumped at the bottom edge, with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, stained at the top edge, clean internally. A bilingual collection of the pre-Tang poet and politician's work.
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Tarzan Trilogy; The Wild Adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs Series 3
by Zachek, Thomas
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illustrations by Douglas Klauba. Cover by Joe Busko. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Zachek to Joan Bledig. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($34.95). Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The eighth novel in the Wild Adventures series. From the collection of Joan Bledig.
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Seven Out of Time
by Zagat, Arthur Leo
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Illustrated by Hannes Bok. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, clipped, generally toned and rubbed, some creases at the flaps. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A scientific adventure novel about the mysterious disappearance of Evelyn Rand.
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We
by Zamyatin, Yevgeny
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Translated by Mirra Ginsburg. Introduction by Lyman Tower Sargent. Artwork by Richard Powers. Fine. Red leather with gilt lettering and designs on the boards. Square and firmly bound with gilt edges and a sewn-in bookmark, with the collector's notes, unusued and laid-in bookplate, and original receipt. Part of the Masterpieces of Science Fiction series.
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