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Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press Book / Little, Brown and Company, 1951. First Edition. Octavo (20.25cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket by I.N. Steinberg; [10],269pp. Some minor chipping and edge wear to jacket extremities, else Very Good or better. The mystery author's first book, a collection of short stories set on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

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 in the first days of October, 1943. The persecution of Danish Jewry by the Nazis, the failure of this persecution, the position of the Jewish community during the crisis, the rescue operation, the vital role played by the neighboring Swedish people - all are recounted in careful detail" (from front flap).

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.

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 Yamagata. Hundreds of reproductions in color and in b&w. Signed by the artist on front endpage.

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 Bonsai Sakufuuten) at the Daimaru Grand Hall department store in Tokyo. Features 50 fine full-color photographic plates of special and selected prize-winning bonsai exhibits, plus biographical information of featured bonsai artists. All text in Japanese.

New York: Timescape Books, 1983. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; yellow edge-staining; 206,[2]pp. Signed and dated by the author (1984) on the title page. Pinpoint wear to extremities, else very Near Fine and unread. Paperback original novel featuring a jet-setting 4,000 year old vampire.

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.

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.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1978. Book Club Edition. Octavo; royal blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 208,[6]pp. Signed and dated by the author (1984) on the title page. Large bookplate removed from front endpaper; Very Good+. Dustjacket is clipped, a bit edgeworn, with a small chip to lower left corner of rear panel; Very Good+. Post-apocalyptic novel set in 21st century California.

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 the Editors of "Proletarian News," Chicago. Newsletters entirely in Japanese, save for running title in English in upper margin. Prospectus, seeking international distributors, in English. The prospectus states that "...we make up our mind [sic] to begin publication of a new information bulletin. This new information bulletin has an aim to let you know of the views and activities of many small groups within the Japanese labour, peasants, students and peace movements...written mainly in… Read More

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.

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.

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 work.

South Brunswick: A.S. Barnes and Co, 1967. First Edition. 4to. 28.5cm x 22.5cm. Publisher's black cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in silver gilt to spine, strong and handsome, in a clean bright dustjacket with some very light marginal wear. A very good copy indeed. 182pp. Internally clean. A vibrant travelogue through Jamaica by one of the period's most prominent woman glamour phtographers, perhaps now most famous for her work with Bettie Page, featuring the requisite landscapes and candid shots of the locals, interspersed with nude models cavorting beneath waterfalls. Yeager had particular skill photographing cavorting, and the latter part of the book is taken up with her on location, begind the scenes shots for the filming of Dr. No, with Sean Connery and Ursula Andress.

[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 music education) and business college. However, by 1922 it had become a boarding/day high school for boys. This is the yearbook for the graduating class of 1932 and features all the classic yearbook staples: Student and staff photographs, highlights of the year, sports and activities, gags and gaffes, and ads from sponsors (mostly from the Milwaukee area).

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].

New York: Macmillan, 1989. First edition. 751 pp., w/ index of first lines and notes. Uncorrected proof in red printed wrappers with three pages of pub material laid in. Price corrected in ink and label over original printed title. Fine in wrappers.

London: Macmillan, 1940. First Edition. Green cloth, blind stamped design w/ gilt spine lettering; large 8vo. Includes many of the poet's finest poems. Gilt rubbed, shaken, interior a bit soiled, about very good; lacking the dust jacket. One of 2000 copies. Combines with different ordering and in some cases titling of two Cuala Press limited editions. (In a removable mylar protective cover.) Wade 203.

Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1920. First edition. Linen-backed blue paper-covered boards, with spine label; 8vo. 81 pp. Excerpts from letters to his Brother W. B. Y. Front hinge tender, label lightly worn; a bit toned and dusty, but quite nice and certainly very good. With small binder sticker on pastedown. (In a removable mylar protective cover.) The Cuala Press was run by W. B. Yeats' sister Eleanor.

[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.