The Day of the Triffids
by Wyndham, John
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, precedes the British edition, first printing. A review copy with slip laid in. 222 pp. Bound in gray publisher's cloth, green lettering to spine. Near Fine with very light wear, and foxing and dust-soiling to top edge of textblock. Offsetting from dust jacket to free endpapers, contents lightly toned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light soiling, toning, and edgewear, soft... Read More
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(Hip Hop Flyer) X-Ecutioners, The Coup, Kenny Muhammad, Thursday May 2nd, 2002, Crystal Ballroom (The Sobe Adrenaline Rush Tour)
by The Coup; X-Ecutioners
[Portland, OR]: [No Publisher], 2002. Original 11" x17" b/w flyer for a 2002 Portland, Oregon show by group of turntablists X-ecutioners and radical Oakland hip hop group The Coup. Very Good with a few pinholes and faint wrinkling.
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Important collection of documents from Alex Haley's estate, including three items signed or annotated by Malcolm X.
by X, Malcolm; Alex Haley; Charles Bestor; et al.
[Various Places]: [No Publisher], 1971. Very Good+. Collection of documents from Roots author Alex Haley's estate, including three items signed or annotated by Malcolm X and three items signed or annotated by Haley. Haley ghostwrote the legendary Black Power activist's autobiography, The Autobiography of Malcolm X. All items are housed in a custom black leather tray case, lightly worn, with "X" pierced out on the front board. The case was commissioned by the individual who purchased the below... Read More
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A Good School
by Yates, Richard
New York: Delacorte Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition inscribed to former owner on front free endpaper, "Have a good life. Cheers, [signed] Richard Yates Feb. 22, 1986." 178 pp. White cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good+ with faint stains and dust-soiling to edges, slight mustiness in unclipped dust jacket with small tidemark at foot, else Fine. An uncommon signature from the critically-acclaimed author of Revolutionary Road and this late novel, set in a New... Read More
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Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
by Yates, Richard
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. 230 pp. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Pages toned with age. Very slight fraying to cloth along bottom edge, edges a bit dust soiled. Jacket worn and rubbed along edges, spine panel dulled, small split along fore edge, price intact ($4.50). The follow-up to Revolutionary Road, an excellent collection of short stories including "Doctor Jack O'Lantern," "B.A.R. Man," and "Out with the Old. ... Read More
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Hysterical Disorders of Warfare
by Yealland, Lewis R.; E. Farquhar Buzzard [Preface]
London: Macmillan & Company Ltd, 1918. First edition. First edition. xii, 252 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine with a hint of toning to the spine cloth and shelf wear; bright and clean internally save for a name stamped on the title page; sturdy binding. Rare in commerce.Perhaps the standard World War I text on treating post-traumatic stress disorder, then called "shell shock." Those were different times. Yealland, a Canadian doctor working at the... Read More
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[Japanese Internment Camp Yearbook] The Minidoka Interlude. September, 1942 - October, 1943
by [Japanese Internment Camp Yearbook]
Hunt, ID: Residents of Minidoka Relocation Center, 1943. Very Good. Original dark blue/black cloth stamped in blind. Very Good. Old tape with holograph Japanese characters on paper to spine and rear cover; tape reinforcements to inner hinges. Owner name (Frank M. Tomori) and family number to verso of front free endpaper, several holograph markings at rear section, several newsclippings taped to rear page, and Tomori's 1973 markings to rear free endpaper. An annual yearbook documenting the residents at... Read More
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[Japanese Internment Camp Yearbook] The Minidoka Interlude. September, 1942 - October, 1943
by [Japanese Internment Camp Yearbook]
Hunt, ID: Residents of Minidoka Relocation Center, 1943. Near Fine. An annual yearbook documenting the residents at the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Hunt Idaho. Bound in the original dark blue cloth stamped in blind. Near Fine with rubbing to extremities, light soiling to rear. Former detainee/owner's name on front pastedown "Margaret [Masako] Tomoguchi 38-12 Hunt, Idaho", and several instances of red underlining throughout. Depicted in this yearbook are various employment divisions and recreational activities including ikebana flower... Read More
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Sligo
by Yeats, Jack B.
London: Wishart & Company, 1931. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, second printing. Signed by Jack B. Yeats and inscribed to a former owner in Dublin. Very Good with cloth sunned at spine and edges. Previous owner bookplate and bookseller rubber-stamp to front paste down. Pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with soiling, toning heaviest at spine and edges, edge wear with a closed tear to the bottom of the front spine fold. The author's first... Read More
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The Tables of the Law and The Adoration of the Magi
by Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]
London: Elkin Mathews, 1904. First Edition, Deluxe Issue. Hardcover. Very Good. First published edition, one of an unspecified number of copies in the deluxe issue, bound in quarter buff linen cloth and blue-grey paper over boards (Wade 25). 60, 4 pp. Very Good. Small damp stain at head. Covers darkened with age and lightly marked and soiled; small nick to edge of boards. Crease to bottom corner of title page. Pages lightly toned and dust soiled; slightly exposed... Read More
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The Tower
by Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. First Edition. Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth elaborately stamped in gilt with design by Thomas Sturge Moore. Near Fine with uneven fading to cloth mostly at edges. Pages lightly toned and with a light storage odor. Light foxing to bottom textblock edge. A lovely copy.
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Plays in Prose and Verse
by Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. First American edition, limited issue. Near Fine. First American edition, limited issue; Copy #237 of a limited 250 signed by W. B. Yeats. Publisher's brown paper covered boards over green cloth spine with title labels on upper board and spine. Near Fine, with faint fading to spine cloth, and toning to spine label, corners bumped, small tear to bottom gutter of half-title page. In a fair slipcase, rubbed and worn, split along... Read More
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Essays
by Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine. Signed limited edition; copy #6 of a limited 250 signed by W. B. Yeats. Publisher's brown paper covered boards over green cloth spine with title labels on upper board and spine. Near Fine, with spine cloth lightly faded and foxed, with title label toned there. Former owner bookplate to front paste down.
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The Winding Stair and Other Poems
by Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]
London: Macmillan and Company, 1933. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original green cloth elaborately decorated in blind on the upper board and in gilt on spine. Several areas of discoloration/rubbing to cloth and foxing to endsheets, else Near fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with light edge wear and light toning.
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Plays in Prose and Verse
by Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. First American edition, limited issue. Near Fine. American edition, limited issue; Copy #44 of a limited 250 signed by W. B. Yeats. Bound in publisher's brown paper covered boards over green cloth spine with title labels on upper board and spine. Near Fine with slight dulling to spine cloth, contents lightly tanned. Housed in publisher's original white card slipcase with paper title label printed in black, Near Fine with light soiling and... Read More
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The Trembling of the Veil
by Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]
London: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only by T. Werner Laurie Ltd, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies signed by W. B. Yeats, privately printed for subscribers. Publisher's light blue paper covered boards over parchment spine with titles in gilt, in un-printed dust jacket with title label to spine. Near Fine with light wear, light bumping to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket shows toning to the spine and edges, dust-soiling, and... Read More
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Poems
by Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing; one of 750 copies. First state of the American issue, with both the American and UK publisher's imprints at the base of the spine, but retaining the UK title page only listing T. Fisher Unwin. Bound in publisher's buff cloth, with elaborate gilt design by H. Granville Fell. Near Fine, with slight darkening to spine, light softening at spine ends, light rubbing at tips. Previous... Read More
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Autobiographies: Reveries Over Childhood and Youth, and the Trembling of the Veil
by Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. First Edition. Very Good+. First American edition, copy #55 of 250 signed by William Butler Yeats on front colophon. [x], 477 pp. Publisher's cloth backed paper boards with paper labels on the spine and front panel. A Very Good+ copy with wear at tips, slightly darkened spine label, just a hint of wrinkling to endpapers. A signed limited edition of the famous Irish poet's memoirs.
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Essays
by Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine. Signed limited edition; copy #9 of a limited 250 signed by W. B. Yeats. Bound in publisher's brown paper covered boards over green cloth spine with title labels on upper board and spine. Near Fine with faint dulling to spine cloth, light soiling to rear cover, hinge slightly over-opened at title page. Housed in publisher's original white card slipcase with paper title label printed in black, Near... Read More
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The Wild Swans at Coole
by Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition, first printing. Grey paper boards, stamped in black with design by Sturge Moore, in dust jacket repeating the same design. Near Fine, with light edge wear and toning to edges of boards, pages toned and lightly foxed. Dust jacket is slightly shorter than the book, with toning to spine, light wear at corners and spine ends with shallow chipping at crown. Revised price sticker... Read More
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The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems
by Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1889. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. A family presentation copy signed by John Butler Yeats (the poet's father) on the fly-leaf and inscribed to Emily Thornley Stoker, her bookplate to front pastedown. vi, 156 pp. Bound in publisher's dark navy cloth lettered in gilt, black endpapers. Near Fine with light wear and moderate soiling to covers. Light toning and occasional thumbing to contents. Wade 2. The first edition... Read More
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Plays and Controversies
by Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine. New and revised edition. Signed limited edition; copy #52 of a limited 250 signed by W. B. Yeats. Publisher's brown paper covered boards over green cloth spine with title labels on upper board and spine. Near Fine, with light wear at spine ends and light fading to spine cloth. Pages lightly toned.
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Poems
by Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]; Edward Pay [Transcriber]; Austin Osman Spare [Illustrator]
London: Published by, 1916. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, number 18 of 122 copies printed on Italian hand-made paper, from an edition of 200 copies only. Folio. Bound in publisher's white wraps printed in black, title page printed in red. Very Good. Covers generally spotted, spine sewing just loose at bottom though the quire still attached and sound, some minor tears at the wrapper edges but the spine unsplit, and internally fresh. A scarce collection of the... Read More
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The Cutting of an Agate
by Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]
London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1919. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Signed by W.B. Yeats on the title page and dated Nov. 23 1922. Bound in publisher's navy coarse cloth decorated in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with darkening to spine, minor wear at extremities with bumped bottom corners. Rear cloth slightly rippled. Small ink spot on bottom fore edge; former owner's bookplate designed by Laurence Housman on front pastedown. Another former owner's... Read More
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The Tables of the Law and The Adoration of the Magi
by Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]
London: Elkin Mathews, 1904. First Edition, Deluxe Issue. Very Good. First published edition, one of an unspecified number of copies in the deluxe issue, bound in quarter buff linen cloth and blue-grey paper over boards. Very Good with toning to covers and light wear at extremities, soiling to spine with fraying to ends. Several hinges over-opened, contents lightly toned.
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