Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

Louny, Czech Republic: Guerilla Records, 2021. Softcover. Very good. 132p. 1st U.S. printing. Cover corners lightly worn. A critical analysis of the recordings of the Czech experimental rock band with history and discography. The band played an important role in Prague's underground culture, which defied Czechoslovakia's Communist regime. [Wikipedia] B&w and color photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

[Lincoln, Nebraska]: Potomac Books; Imprint University of Nebraska Press, 2021. (1st Edition). Hardcover. Very good/very good. [xxii], 313p. Jacket corners lightly worn. Tells the story of the biweekly magazine published from 1937 to 1971 and a direct competitor to Life magazine. In addition to highlighting the influence of Look's photojournalism, it covers how the magazine reflected popular culture. 24 leaves of b&w and color photo plates. (9-1/4"x6-3/8")

New York: Viking Press, 1962. Cloth. Very good/very good. 33p. Signed and hanko stamped by author with color illustration on verso of front endpaper. Small tear at front gutter with front and back pastedown wrinkled from a manufacturing error, jacket neatly covered with clear plastic covering (which probably explains the preservation of the jacket). Story of a young boy overcoming his shyness and making a friend by Caldecott Honors winner. Color watercolor illustrations. (8-1/4"x9-1/2")

New York: Claude Bernard Gallery, 1989. Softcover w/French folds. Very good. [40p.] Cover rubbed and edges toned with light stain on back. Includes bibliography, biography, and list of exhibitions. Color plates. (8-1/8"x6")

Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942. Revised Edition. Stapled wraps. Very good. 18p. A few pages stained. (9-1/8"x5-7/8")

New York: History Commission, CPUSA, [1975]. Stapled wraps. Very good. 23p. A few chips on back and stains on front. Brief biography explaining the influence of the "Japanese Marxist political activist and journalist, " one of the original members of the American Communist Party and the Japanese Communist Party. Article reprinted from the March 1975 issue of Political Affairs, theoretical journal of the Communist Party U.S.A. (8-1/2"x5-3/8")

New York: te Neues, 2008. Pictorial Hardcover. Very Good. [96p.] Signed by author on title page. Back endpaper and pastedown is torn on bottom corner as if the two had been stuck together. B&w and color photographs. (14-1/2"x11")

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1972. (1st Edition). Hardcover. Very good/very good. 256p. Brown spots on top page edges. Born in Seattle, WA, to Japanese American parents, Yoshida played football in high school and was offered a college athletic scholarship. When his father passed away, he accompanied his mother and sisters to Japan to deliver his father's ashes when World War II broke out and the family had to stay in Japan. Jim was forced to serve in the Imperial Japanese Army in China. He learned that he had lost his U.S. citizenship when the war ended. Yoshida describes his ordeal of being caught between two countries. Jacket design by Judie Mills. (8-1/2"x5-3/4")

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985. Softcover. Good +. Fletcher, Robert & Martin G. Jowers. 175p. Page edges stained along the top edges, but with no internal damage. B&w illustrations. (8-1/2"x5-1/4")

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/fair+. 192p. Jacket has a 3" tear on front flap fold with chips to edges. 7 b&w plates. (7-1/2"x5")

Thailand: Cooperation of the United States Operations Mission, 1961. Softcover. Good. xiv, 120p. Cover scraped and edges chipped and name on front. Stapled text block. B&w maps and photographs. (10-1/2"x8-1/2")

Habana: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 1981. Hardcover. Very good/No Jacket. Cedeño, Nelson Domínguez & Manuel Castellanos López. [117p.] Bookstore label on front pastedown, cover lightly soiled with corners bumped. Poems and ink drawings and prints commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Victory of Playa Girón, more popularly known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Text in Spanish. B&w illustrations. (9-1/2"x6-5/8")