![The World of "Mestre" Tamoda [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/175/169/1127169175.0.l.jpg)
The World of "Mestre" Tamoda [Review Copy]
by XITU, Uanhenga; António Jacinto, intro.; Annella McDermott, trans
[London]: Readers International, [1988]. First English Language Edition. Wrapper Issue. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [6],vi,[2],158pp.Textblock a bit toned, minor wear to upper wrapper, else Very Good or better. Review copy with promotional materials laid in. Humorous short stories featuring the bush lawyer "Mestre" Tamoda, written by the Angolan author Uanhenga Xitu while a political prisoner of the Portuguese.
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Malcolm X on Afro-American History. Expanded and Illustrated Edition
by X, Malcolm; George Breitman, fwd
New York: Pathfinder Press, 1988. Ninth printing of the expanded edition. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 74pp. Near Fine. A collection of quotes and short writings of Malcolm X's views on African-American history, first published in 1967.
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The Rescue of Danish Jewry
by YAHIL, Leni
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1969. First Edition. Octavo; burgundy cloth, with titles stamped in silver and gilt on spine; dustjacket; xx,[3],4-536,[4]pp. Touch of dustiness to upper edge of textblock, else Near Fine in a Veyr Good+ dustjacket, unclipped, with some external wearl, a few short tears and creases, and some faint foxing on verso. Detailed account of the rescue of the Danish Jewry, discussing the "dramatic clash between anti-Semitic nazism and Danish democracy which convulsed Denmark... Read More
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Atlas of Creation: Volume I.
by YAHYA, Harun [pseud. Adnan Oktar] (text); Carl Nino Rossini & Ronald Evans (translation); Timothy Mossman (editor)
[Jacksonville, FL]: Global Publishing, 2007. Seventh English Edition. Publisher's typed promotional letter laid in. Quarto (38cm); brown cloth-covered boards, with titling and decoration stamped in gilt on spine and covers, and lenticular ornaments on covers; pictorial endpapers; [13],14-800,[20]pp. CD envelope 'Fossils Have Discredited Evolution' with CD to front pastedown. All pages present and complete. Noted zoologist James G. Mead ownership and date inked to front endpaper. Light shelf-wear and soil, with very occasional interior wear; Very Good+. ... Read More
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Cómo Educan los Argentinos a Sus Hijos
by YALOUR DE TOBAR, Margot Romano
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Libera, [1969]. First Edition. Slim octavo (20cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers, French flaps, yapp edges; 126pp. General mionr edge wear and light dust-soil, else Near Very Good and sound. Text entirely in Spanish.
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Yamagata
by [YAMAGATA, Hiro] Austin Jaynes, text
Fairfield, CT: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc, 1987. Revised Edition. Square Quarto (28.5cm x 28.5cm). Blue cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on cover and spine; pictorial dustjacket; 160pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slight soiling to front and back bottom corner end pages, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; slight shelf wear to extremities; retail sticker adhesive on inside from flap, else clean. Exploration and catalogue raisonné of the work of L.A. based Japanese artist Hiro... Read More
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![[Text in Japanese] 10th Japanese Bonsai Style Exhibition](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/991/956/1276956991.0.l.jpg)
[Text in Japanese] 10th Japanese Bonsai Style Exhibition
by YAMAGUCHI, Yasuhisa and Shinichi Nakajima (editors)
Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbun-sha, 1985. First Edition. First printing. Oblong octavo (23.5 x 24.5cm.); white paper boards in light green paper wrapper with gilt lettering; 50 unpaginated color plates. Text block has light handling wear and thumb creasing, but overall clean and sound; Fine. Wrappers show sunning along spine, with sunning and creasing along upper margins as well. Spine slightly pushed at crown and chipped on heel; Near Fine+. An exhibition catalog from the 10th Japanese Bonsai Style Exhibition (Nihon... Read More
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Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings
by YANG-MING, Wang (text); CHAN, Wing-Tsit (translation)
New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1963. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xlii,[3],4-358pp, with black and white frontispiece. Spine ends gently bumped, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped, spine-sunned, and lightly shelfworn, with some rubbing to panels, and a few tiny nicks, tears, and attendant creases; Very Good or better. "Wing-tsit Chan here translates Wang Yang-ming's Ch'uan-hsi lu, or Instructions for Practical... Read More
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![Time of the Fourth Horseman [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/665/388/1102388665.0.l.jpg)
Time of the Fourth Horseman [Signed]
by YARBRO, Chelsea Quinn
New York: Ace Books, 1981. First Ace Edition. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [vi],250pp. Signed and dated by the author (1984) on the title page. Pinpoint wear to extremities, faint diagonal crease to upper left corner of rear wrapper, with some mild tanning to text edges; Very Good+ or better. Yarbro's 1976 novel in which the government re-introduces certain diseases as a means of population control.
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![Cautionary Tales [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/691/388/1102388691.0.l.jpg)
Cautionary Tales [Signed]
by YARBRO, Chelsea Quinn
London: Granada Publishing Limited, 1983. Reprint. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; 285,[3]pp. Signed and dated by the author (1984) on the title page. Pinpoint wear to extremities, else very Near Fine and unread. Collection of 13 short stories culled from various sci-fi magazines and journals.
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MADO - A Discussion Monthly. Two Issues, with Prospectus in English
by YAROH, Tonda (editor & publisher)
Nagoya, Japan: Tonda Yaroh, 1958-9. Two issues of this monthly socialist-pacifist newsletter, together with a mimeographed prospectus in English. Includes issue nos. 37 (Fall 1958) and 38 (Winter 1958-9). Each issue on a single sheet of newsprint, 44cm x 32cm, folded to make eight pages. Prospectus on a single sheet, 36cm x 27cm, printed recto-only. Newletters toned (but not brittle); prospectus with old fold-lines, else fine, hand-signed "Tonda" in pencil beside red-ink chop. Included is a hand-addressed envelope to... Read More
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Were Death Denied
by YATES, Dornford
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1946. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 246pp. Bit of fading to cloth at board edges and spine ends, else a tight, Very Good copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, price clipped, slightly rubbed and worn with shallow losses at head and heel, not affecting titles. One of Yates' "Chandos" novels, this set in Biarritz and featuring a gang of international jewel thieves.
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TIGHT. ONE
by Yau, John, Tom Clark, April Bernard, Billy Collins, Ted Enslin, et al.
Bennington: Bennington College, 2001. First edition. Crisp elegant little poetry journal put out by a pair of Bennington students; this issue, the first, features an interview with John Yau. Two poems by Billly Collins: "The Crows in Russia" "Colorado". Fine.
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Paseo de las Esculturas / Cuautitlan Izcalli
by [YAZBEK, Charlotte aka Charlotte Mata Rascála]
Mexico City: Editorial Artes de Mexico, 1976. First Edition. Tall quarto. Tan linen boards (hardcover) stamped in blue and green; [72]pp; illus. Lacking dustjacket. Lightly worn copy with a few stains to prelims; text clean and unmarked, plates fresh. Photo-essay of the Parque de las Esculturas in the Mexico City suburb of Cuautitlan Izcallil, featuring a large body of work by the Mexican sculptor Charlotte Yazbek (1919-1989). An uncommon monograph, and one of relatively few books devoted to Yazbek's... Read More
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The Pio Nonite: 1932
by [Yearbook] STUDZINSKI, Lambert (Ed.)
[St. Francis, WI]: Pio Nono High School Senior Class, 1932. Edition not stated. Slim quarto (27.5cm); brown leatherette wrappers, stamped in gilt and blind; 126pp. Wrappers partially split along rear fore edge, with creases, bumps and chips along other extremities; gilt rubbed in spots. Bindings slightly shaken but intact; textblock yellowed, with trivial soiling and handling wear throughout. Overall Very Good. Pio Nono High School was founded in 1870 as part of a Catholic normal school (specializing in... Read More
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History of Nolan County, Texas
by YEARS, E. L.; Hooper Shelton
Sweetwater, TX: Shelton Press, 1975. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Black textured paper over boards, in brown dust jacket printed in black; color cartographic endpapers; 256pp; black and white illustrations. Clean and stable, with discoloration to endpapers: Very Good. Jacket lightly rubbed, else Very Good. [62034].
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FURTHER LETTERS OF JOHN BUTLER YEATS, Selected by Lennox Robinson
by Yeats, John Butler (lettters); Lennox Robinson (editor)
Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1920. First edition. Linen-backed blue paper-covered boards, with spine label; 8vo; 81pp. Small binder sticker on pastedown. Front hinge tender, label lightly worn; a bit toned and dusty, but quite nice and certainly Very Good. Excerpts from letters to his Brother W. B. Y. The Cuala Press was run by W. B. Yeats' sister Eleanor.
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The Herne's Egg: A Stage Play
by YEATS, W.B.
London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1938. First UK Edition. First Impression. Octavo; maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 73pp, [1]. Faint offset along gutter at half title and final page, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, gently sunned at spine, with a tiny splashmark to base of same, small chip to lowrer rear panel, and a few whitish scrathes to lower edge of front panel; Very Good+.
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![Explorations [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/298/643/987643298.0.l.jpg)
Explorations [Review Copy]
by YEATS, W.B.; Mrs. W.B. Yeats, ed
London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 1962. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth in buff decorative price-clipped dust jacket; viii,452pp.; frontispiece. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, the whole rather dust-soiled, spine toned, brief tape reinforcement to spine foot verso, else Near Very Good; portion of textblock unevenly toned due to varying stock quality, else interior about fine. Review copy with the Macmillan (Canada) review slip laid in.
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A Full Moon In March
by YEATS, W.B.
London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 1935. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo; hunter green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 70pp. Two very shallow bumps to board edges, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, gently sunned at spine, with some light wear along the edges; Near Fine.
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Plays in Prose and Verse Written for an Irish Theatre, and Generally with the Help of a Friend
by YEATS, W. B.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1922. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in tan decorative dust jacket; ix,[1],445pp. Jacket a bit brittle (as usual), loss with subsequent chipping to jacket spine foot, some minor shelf wear to cloth extremities, cloth spine a hint faded, else Very Good in a Good or better jacket.
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Autobiographies
by YEATS,W.B.
London: Macmillan, 1956. Reprint. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's emerald green buckram titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [vii]; 591; [1]. Scuffing and bumping to corners and spine ends, bright and clean; internally clean, bookplate to front pastedown and some neat pencil annotations (particularly to the final leaves); in a somewhat worn dustjacket with some fraying and shallow loss to spine ends and extremities, a tape repair to the front flap hinge, and some soiling of the pale cream paper. A... Read More
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Tribute to Thomas Davis
by YEATS, W.B.
Oxford: Cork University Press, 1947. First Edition. Slim octavo; navy blue cloth, with white title label printed in black affixed to front panel; 22pp. Some trivial rubbing to title label, else Fine. An account of the Thomas Davis centenary meeting held in Dublin on 20th November 1914.
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LAST POEMS AND PLAYS
by Yeats, W. B.
London: Macmillan, 1940. First Edition. One of 2000 copies. Green cloth, blind stamped design w/ gilt spine lettering; large 8vo. Gilt rubbed, shaken, interior a bit soiled, about Very Good; lacking dustwrapper. Combines with different ordering and in some cases titling of two Cuala Press limited editions. Includes many of the poet's finest poems. WADE 203.
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Dramatis Personae, 1896-1902 / Estrangement / The Death of Synge / The Bounty of Sweden
by YEATS, W.B.
[London]: Macmillan & Co.L Ltd, 1936. First Thus. Octavo (22.5cm.); original cloth-backed decorative boards in white printed dust jacket; vii,[1],189pp.; frontispiece and five plates. Jacket a bit dust-soiled, jacket and cloth spines darkened, small chip at crown, else a Very Good or better copy.
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