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 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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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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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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Bread Givers
by Yezierska, Anzia
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. First Edition. Good. First edition stated, first printing. Publisher's black cloth binding decorated in yellow, lacking the dust jacket. Good. Cloth worn, corners and spine ends a bit frayed. Full-page inked notation to verso of front free endpaper, rear inner hinge exposed with webbing visible, pages toned and foxed.
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Lucky Peach: A Quarterly Journal of Food and Writing (Issues 1-7)
by Ying, Chris [Editor-in-Chief]; David Chang [Editor]; Peter Meehan [Editor]; Anthony Bourdain
San Francisco: McSweeney's/ Lucky Peach, 2013. The first seven issues of the definitive culinary magazine of the Hipster era, irreverent and profusely illustrated, with an emphasis on the quality of the writing. Bound in publisher's illustrated wraps. Wraps slightly shelf-worn, else Fine.
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Imperium
by Yockey, Francis Parker (writing as Ulick Varange)
London: Westropa Press, 1948. First edition. First edition, first printing. [xii], iv, 405, [3]; [viii], 280 pp. Complete in two volumes, the first bound in publisher's tan cloth lettered in black, front board stamped in blind; the second bound in black cloth lettered in gilt, front board stamped in blind. Near Fine with typical toning to cheaply-produced contents, light shelf wear, in the very scarce original dust jackets, Very Good with some tape repairs to the extremities and filled-in... Read More
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The Autobiography of a Yogi
by Yogananda, Paramhansa [Paramahansa]
New York: The Philosophical Library, 1946. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Paramhansa Yogananda on the front free end paper and inscribed "with blessings" in Los Angeles in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with lean to binding, moderate wear and light soiling to cloth. Staining to top edge of textblock with slight waviness at upper margins. Books signed by... Read More
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The Autobiography of a Yogi
by Yogananda, Paramhansa
London: Rider and Company, 1949. First Edition. Good+/Fair. 403 pp. with photo frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. First British edition. A Good+ copy with mottled cloth, foxed edges, small scratch to front board, in a tattered dust jacket with multiple chips and tears, Fair. The first British appearance of a classic of modern spirituality.
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The Autobiography of a Yogi
by Yogananda, Paramhansa
New York: The Philosophical Library, 1946. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt; red topstain. Near Fine with light wear to cloth at corners and spine ends, bottom corner bumped, remnant of small bookseller ticket removal to front paste down. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, chipping to spine ends and bottom corner of front panel, light soiling and a small stain to... Read More
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Whispers from Eternity
by Yogananda, Paramhansa [Paramahansa]
Los Angeles: Yogoda and Sat-Sanga, 1929. Second Edition. Near Fine. Second edition. Signed by Paramhansa Yogananda and inscribed "with unceasing blessings" on front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's vertically ribbed red cloth stamped in gilt; lacking a dust jacket. Near Fine with patch of light discolroation to front cover and puckering to spine between the title and author's name. Light soiling to front inner hinge, contents tanned. A lovely copy. Books signed by Paramahansa Yogananda, the hindu monk... Read More
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Songs of the Soul
by Yogananda, Paramhansa [Paramahansa]
Boston: Sat Sanga, 1923. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Paramhansa Yogananda and inscribed to a former owner, Mrs. [Camilla] Tedrow. 106 pp. Bound in publisher's orange pebbled cloth ruled in blind with titles stamped in gilt. Very Good. Corners bumped. Cloth toned at spine, lightly stained affecting bottom inner page corners throughout. Evidence of bookplate removal from front paste down, and former owner rubber stamp there as well; two small areas of excess... Read More
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The Autobiography of a Yogi
by Yogananda, Paramhansa
New York: The Philosophical Library, 1946. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt; green topstain. Very Good with light lean to spine, light wear to cloth at extremities. Previous owner notations and stamps to endsheets and half-title page, clipping taped to rear pastedown. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, moderate fading to spine and edge wear with fraying at spine ends.
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Songs of the Soul
by Yogananda, Paramhansa
Boston: Sat Sanga, 1925. Second Edition. Very Good. [ii], 117 pp. Publisher's ribbed orange cloth lettered in gilt. Second edition. Very Good with slightly rubbed lettering and toned boards, small stain to top edge, former owner's stamp on paste down. An early edition of the mystical poetry collection by the renowned spiritual guru.
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The Science of Being and Art of Living
by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
New York: New American Library, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. First American edition. 320 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket with a few tiny edge chips and edge rubbing, small tear to back panel upper corner, unclipped ($5.95), old store sticker on front flap. The book that introduced many to the concept of Transcendental Meditation, which proved to be wildly popular in the '60s and '70s, with famous devotees... Read More
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Love and God
by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Los Angeles: Maharishi International University, 1973. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on frontispiece. Bound in publisher's dark blue leatherette boards lettered in gilt. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light soiling. The Transcendental Meditation Yogi's scarce essay on spiritual regeneration; books signed by him scarce.
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Art Young: His Life and Times
by Young, Art; [Sara Bard Field]
New York: Sheridan House, 1939. First Edition. Near Fine/Good. First edition, first printing. Association copy signed by Art Young on the half-title page and warmly inscribed to Sara Bard Field (her name misspelled) with date Nov. 22, 1939. ALS to Field dated Feb. 18, 1941 laid in. xii, 467, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt, printed endpapers. Near Fine with light soiling to textblock edges, light toning to endpapers, and thumbing and erased bookseller... Read More
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The Dark Land
by Young, Kathleen Tankersley
Ithaca, NY: The Dragon Press, 1934. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original cream wraps with yapped edges stamped in black. Near Fine with light wear to the extremities and light soiling to wraps. A beautiful copy. Literary scholar Eric White has written of Young: "Almost forgotten by literary history, Kathleen Tankersley Young's name appears like a cipher through little magazines of the late 1920s and early 1930s, and in anthologies of Harlem... Read More
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![(Marion Zimmer Bradley's Copy) The Mutant: Volume II, Number I [sic]. March, 1948](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/626/972/1467972626.0.l.jpg)
(Marion Zimmer Bradley's Copy) The Mutant: Volume II, Number I [sic]. March, 1948
by Michigan Science Fantasy Society; [Marion Zimmer Bradley]; Ben Singer; Art Rapp; George Young
Saginaw, MI: Michigan Science Fantasy Society, 1948. First Edition. Very Good. Marion Zimmer Bradley's copy with her address on the rear cover. Front cover states this issue as Volume 2, Number 1 but contents page states this as Volume 1, Number 3. An early scifi fanzine published by the Michigan Science Fantasy Society. Bound in publisher's stapled wraps. Very Good with a vertical crease down the center, toning and light general wear.
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Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
by Yunus, Muhammad
New York: PublicAffairs, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. First edition. Signed by Yunus on the title page in black ink. xvii, 261pp. Original cloth. Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket. Bangladeshi Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus' thoughts on capitalism in the 21st century.
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The Warriors
by Yurick, Sol
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. 189, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's black paper-covered boards lettered in white and red. Near Fine with several faint circular indentations to covers. In a Very Good+ dust jacket with sunning to spine panel, light soiling and edgewear, faint scattered foxing, and impressions to front panel matching those on front board. A novel of New York street gangs in the 1960s... Read More
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The Importance of Living
by Yutang, Lin
New York: John Day in association with Reynal & Hitchcock, 1937. First Edition. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Lin Yutang on a blank following the copyright page; former owner's penciled address above Yutang's signature and offsetting to that and the copyright page from a clipping formerly laid in. Bound in publisher's original black cloth stamped in red and gilt. Very Good with lean to binding, wear to extremities. Pages tanned. Former owner's penciled notations,... Read More
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We
by Zamiatin, Eugene (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1924. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black ribbed cloth, ruled and stamped in gilt, lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light wear to covers, faint fading to spine cloth and pages lightly tanned. A fantastic copy. A dystopian novel which was first published here as an English translation, with the original Russian text first published nearly 30 years later in 1952.
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We
by Zamiatin, Eugene (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1924. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black ribbed cloth, ruled and stamped in gilt. Very Good with lean to binding, cloth lightly stained and worn, with spine faded and gilt lettering there fully rubbed, several nicks to the edges. Light staining to top of textblock edge, which barely intrudes into the margins, pages toned with reading creases to corners, and soiling to front free endpaper.... Read More
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Myi [We]
by Zamyatin, Eugene [Yevgeny Zamiatin]
New York: Chekhov Publishing House [Izdatelstvo Imeni Tsechova], 1952. First Edition. Near Fine. First complete edition in Russian. Bound in publisher's original tan wrappers printed in blue. Near fine with light wear and light soiling to wrappers, contents lightly tanned. A fantastic copy. A groundbreaking dystopian novel seen as the predecessor to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. This edition is considered the authoritative edition, constituting the basis of all new editions and translations... Read More
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