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Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition, Number 152 of 1,000 copies signed by Alexander Jablokov. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and printed note from The Easton Press. Additionally signed by illustrator Pat Morrissey. In a future solar system inhabited by eleven alien races, one refugee is attracting the attention of various government and private factions who want access to his vast technological knowledge. Small octavo. Full red leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, four raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 345 p. Frontispiece, with 16 pp. photographs. One of the great lyricists and screenwriters of Broadway's and Hollywood's golden age, Alan Jay Lerner (1918-86) was one half of the successful collaboration (with Frederick Loewe) that created such memorable ventures as My Fair Lady and Camelot. Noted musical theater scholar Jablonski tells the story of Lerner's career and of his personal life, filling in the cracks purposefully left open in Lerner's own autobiography. Presentation copy, inscribed by Jablonski on the front flyleaf. Octavo. Light dust soiling along the edges; else very good or better in a clean and bright dust jacket. Inscribed by Author.

Glossop, Derbyshire, England: The Transport Publishing Company, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 440 p. Profusely illustrated. Second printing. Comprehensive history of the British bus manufacturer, from Leyland's first model, an 18-seat steamer for Dundee, to ubiquitous single deck and double deck buses of the postwar era. Quarto. Original green buckram binding, with gilt titles. Ink address stamp to the front flyleaf. The dust jacket is very lightly edgeworn. A very good copy.

New York: Random House, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Jackson on the title page. The second Detective Sergeant Mulheisen mystery. Octavo. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 348 p. Textual illustrations. From the James S. Copley Library, with the San Diego newspaper publisher and philanthropist's bookplate to the front pastedown. Small bookseller's label to the rear pastedown; otherwise a fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Glendora, California: Citrus Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Textual photographs. Blue cloth binding, with gilt lettering. Issued without a dust jacket. Some mild wear to the spine ends and corners; otherwise very good or better.

Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illustrated by Robert Morrow. The story of the orchestra mice, Sam and Clarissa, and their gifted offspring. Signed by Jackson on the front flyleaf. Original mustard cloth binding, with red titles. Light bump to the top of the rear board. Some occasional mild wear to the dust jacket. A near fine copy. Signed by Author.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. With eight illustrations in colour, sixty-five in half-tone, and a map. First American edition. "A sketch book of Sicily's scenery, native types, buildings, gardens and garden furniture, describing the arts and crafts wrought by the people of almost every nation of the civilized world who, each in turn, have conquered or colonized Sicily." Original dark blue cloth binding, with decorative orange stamping. Small bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. In the British dust jacket, which is a touch faded along the spine, with some occasional minor rubbing and edgewear; otherwise a crisp, very good copy.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. This book, besides including an introductory sketch of Manichaeism, contains also several critical translations made from original Manichaean documents in Turfan Pahlavi, or Middle Persian, which were discovered in Central Asia during the first decade of the present century and a little later. These fragmentary texts are given here in a transliterated form, and in three cases out of four the word-for-word translation is followed by a somewhat freer version. There are also full notes of a philological and illustrative character." Octavo: 393 p. with a folding diagram. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. The ink signature of noted Buddhist scholar Robert P. Jackson on the front flyleaf. Faint evidence of a removed bookplate to the front pastedown. The spine is lightly faded, with some minor offsetting to the rear board from an old acetate cover; else very good.

London: The Chiswick Press, 1891. Second Edition, Enlarged and Classified. Hardcover. Very good. Small octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. Period previous owner's signature to the front flyleaf. Mild foxing to the fore-edge and the prefatory and concluding leaves. A bit of minor wear to the corners and tips, with a few small spots to the front board; otherwise very good.

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. First Edition. Trade paperback. Fine. Winner of the 2001 AWP Award Series in Poetry. Inscribed by Jacobik to acclaimed poet B.H. ("Pete") Fairchild on the title page. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. A fine copy.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Memoirs of the American champion who played the sturdy foil to Helen Wills Moody's willowy star turn in the rivalry that captivated women's tennis in the 1930s. With a powerful serve and overhead smash and a sound backhand, Jacobs (1908-97) won nine major championships, including the United States national title four straight times from 1932-35 and the Wimbledon singles in 1936. Long known to have been lesbian, she was in a relationship from 1934 to 1943 with Henrietta Bingham, daughter of Louisville publisher and ambassador to England Robert Bingham. 32 illustrations in aquatone. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with dark green stamping. The remnants of a small bookseller's label appear on the rear pastedown. In the uncommon dust jacket, which lightly faded along the spine with some general edgewear and a few tape repairs to the verso. A very good copy.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1999. Trade paperback. Fine. Oblong octavo. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A fine copy - as new, still in the original shrink wrap.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 290 p. Introduction by Edward F. O'Day. From the James S. Copley Library, with the San Diego newspaper publisher and philanthropist's bookplate to the front pastedown. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. Internally crisp and clean. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with some very light edgewear; otherwise a near fine copy.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. Light bump to the spine heel; else a fine copy.

Paris: Charles Carrington, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. Paris: Charles Carrington, [1901]. Limited to 750 numbered copies. A French barrister, colonial judge, author, and lecturer, Jacolliot (1837-90) wrote several pseudo-scientific studies of human sexual behavior, including this work on "its excesses, abuses, perversions, aberrations, and crimes." Contains chapters on onanism, exhibitionism, fetishism, necrophily, bestiality, sadism, and masochism. Original silver cloth binding, with blue stamping. Light foxing along the edges, with a bit of scuffing to the front board; otherwise very good.

1978 1st, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 257 textual photos and illustrations. Saint Louis, MO: The C.V. Mosby Company, 1978. First edition. ISBN 0-8016-2401-0. A detailed medical monograph on the use and surgical implantation of artificial intraocular lenses for the treatment of cataracts and other opthamological disorders. Bound in pictorial buckram boards, and issued without a jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamp to the lower corner of the front flyleaf, with some mild wear to the spine ends and corners; otherwise a very good copy.

Honolulu: Paradise of the Pacific, Limited, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Four color plates, with numerous textual photographs, illustrations, diagrams, etc. The original textured brown buckram binding is rather edgeworn.

London: Prospect Books, 1988. First Edition. Trade paperback. Near fine. Quarto. Original blue paper wrappers. Light fading along the extremities; else near fine.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An introduction to the work of the Russian-American linguist and literary theorist. Jakobson (1896-1982) was a pioneer of the structural analysis of language, which became the dominant trend in linguistics during the first half of the 20th century. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with red titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.