Exhibition of Art Development in the Republic of China 中華民國美術發展展覽專輯
by Xu Shiwen 徐世文 [ed.]; [et al.]
Taichung City: Taiwan Museum of Art 台灣省立美術館, 1989. Very Good. Taichung City: Taiwan Museum of Art, 1989. This is the second printing from March of 1989 of the catalog first published in June of 1988. Quarto (slipcase 35.5x26.5x4.5cm; volume 34x26x4cm); 430pp. Densely illustrated in color throughout. Text almost entirely in Chinese and intended for Chinese usage; official introductory... Read More
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The Fetishism of Modernities: Epochal Self-Consciousness in Contemporary Social and Political Thought
by Bernard Yack
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. Very Good +/Very Good +. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. First Edition. Octavo. 182 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in silver. Light general rubbing to dust jacket with mild creasing at extremities. Boards show light shelfwear and one stray streak in... Read More
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The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche
by Bernard Yack
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. Very Good+. Berkeley: University of California, [1992]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's glossy purple card wrappers; xxiii,[1],390pp. Minor wear from handling, light soil to textblock extremities, ownership signature to half title, else Very Good or better.
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108 Images [WITH] Earthly Paradise [Two Volume Set] [Signed by Ginsberg with original drawing]
by Allen Ginsberg and Hiro Yamagata
Turin / Santa Monica, CA: Umberto Allemandi & C. / Fred Hoffman Fine Art, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good. Turin / Santa Monica, CA: Umberto Allemandi & C. / Fred Hoffman Fine Art, 1995. First Edition. Two volumes; oblong octavos; publisher's pictorial die-cut paper-covered boards in original printed card slipcase; illustrations throughout, original text pamphlets accompanying each volume laid... Read More
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Bending at the Elbow [Signed Limited Edition]
by Matvei Yankelevich
Hadley, MA: Minute BOOKS, 2011. Very Good +. Hadley, MA: Minute BOOKS, 2011. Limited First Edition of 360 copies, the first 60 of which being signed and numbered of which this is number 20. Chapbook (18cm); string-bound card wraps; [32]pp. Covers crisp with a couple very faint scuffs to surface. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed... Read More
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Cy Twombly
by Cy Twombly; Sally Yard
New York: C&M Arts, 1994. Very Good. New York: C&M Arts, 1994. First Edition. Quarto (27.5x21.5x1cm); unpaginated [40pp]. Fifteen full-page color plates with full-page photographic portrait frontispiece. Silvery gray linen with black lettering on spine and front panel. Back board curving outward near fore-edge. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. This is the catalog of the Twombly... Read More
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Hasanoglan: Socio-Economic Structure of a Turkish Village
by Ibrahim Yasa
Ankara: Yeni Matbaa, 1957. Good+. First English Language Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's green printed card wrappers; [4],xv,[3],233pp.; two folding plates, text illus. throughout, including photographs. Wrapper extremities extremely toned and rather foxed, small chip at top spine edge of upper cover, previous owner has written the title at bottom edge of textblock as well as blue pencil and... Read More
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Thousand Cranes
by Yasunari Kawabata; Fuji Komatsu [illus.]; Edward G. Seidensticker [trans.]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First American Edition, stated. Small octavo (19.5cm); illustrated dust jacket over illustrated paper-covered boards; blue topstain; [viii],147pp; vignettes by Fumi Komatsu at chapter heads. Jacket is price-clipped, with later price sticker to front flap; crisp overall, with a couple clean tears at folds... Read More
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House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
by Yasunari Kawabata; Yukio Mishima [intro.]; Edward G. Seidensticker [trans.]
Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International Ltd, 1969. Fine/Very Good +. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International Ltd., 1969. First English-Language Edition, Stated First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket by M. Kuwata retaining original price ($4.50); 149pp.; frontispiece and full-page illustrations throughout. Very light shelf wear and wrinkling to jacket margins, else Near Fine. The first translation... Read More
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Hawaiian Cowboys [Limited Edition, Signed]
by John Yau
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. Very Good/Near Fine. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. First Edition, Limited to 100 signed hardcover copies of which this is no. 93. Octavo; publisher's brown cloth over pictorial paper-covered boards in original clear acetate dust jacket; 169pp. Light shelf wear to board margins, else Very Good and sound. Signed... Read More
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Richard Artschwager
by Richard Artschwager; John Yau
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2008. Very Good. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2008. First Edition. Quarto (30x28x1cm); 56pp. Color images of Artschwager's work throughout, with a preliminary section treating his influences, including images from Morandi, Vuillard, Matisse, and Bonnard. Pictorial boards. Covers are sturdy and clean, with a slight outward bow to back board toward fore-edge. Binding is... Read More
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Yeats Reborn: A European Translation Project, 2014-2015 [Limited Edition]
by Hedwig Schwall [ed.]; William Butler Yeats
Leuven: The European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS), 2015. Very Good. Leuven: The European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS), 2015. Limited Edition, numbered 23 of 300 copies. Folding cardportfolio binding (11" x 8.25") with black outer covers and sea-green lettering, opening to reveal two bound sections of Thirty-Two Poems by... Read More
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Later Essays [Collected Works Volume V]
by W.B. Yeats
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. Very Good +/Near Fine. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. First Edition. Octavo. 532 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges. A touch of shelfwear to boards. Binding is sound. Slight binding flaw with front pastedown extending to fore edge of... Read More
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Racing for Gold or, Incidents in the Life of a Turf Commissioner. With Examples of the Most Successful Systems of Speculating on the Turf and in Games of Chance
by [Yellowbacks] James Peddie; A.C. Havell [illus.]
London: Messrs. Fores, 1891. Good +. London: Messrs. Fores, 1891. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's yellow pictorial paper-covered boards; x,[2],308,[4](ads)pp.; frontispiece, ten leaves of plates (collated complete), pictorial advertisements on paste-ons. Ex-The Racing Library in Manchester with their contemporary markings including shelf number in red ink on upper cover, faded spine label, and rubber-stamps to two... Read More
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Fairytales in Russia
by Yevgenia Petrova [ed.]
St. Petersburg, RU: Palace Editions / State Russian Museum, 2001. Near Fine/Near Fine. St. Petersburg, RU: Palace Editions / State Russian Museum, 2001. First Edition. Large quarto. 411 pp. Color photographs and illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Dark blue boards stamped in red. Decorative endpapers. English language. Light edgewear to dust jacket and boards. Binding is... Read More
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Dead in the Morning
by Margaret Yorke
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1970. Very Good/Very Good. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. 224 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket lightly edgeworn with some general rubbing, slightly heavier along edges. A couple short closed tears along edges. Boards show light shelfwear and bottom corners bumped. Binding is sound. Foxing... Read More
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Manhattan Land Book: Desk and Library Edition - City of New York 1934
by [Urban Planning; New York]
New York: G. W. Bromley & Company, 1934. Very Good. New York: G. W. Bromley & Company, 1934. First Edition, from an unknown number printed but with "No. 70" cut and pasted to front free endpaper. Oblong folio (30x43.5cm). [8]pp index; 188 color plates with extensive pasted-in cancels, collated and complete. Gray cloth stamped in red and black.... Read More
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Guenevere: A Play in Five Acts
by Stark Young
New York: Grafton Press, 1906. Very Good. New York: Grafton Press, 1906. First Edition. Small, slim octavo; publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 82pp. Light shelf wear to cloth margins, scattered foxing to endpapers, textblock a bit toned and brittle, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Scarce five-act play published the same year as the author's first... Read More
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The Complaint; or, Night Thoughts
by Edward Young
New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1856. Very Good-. New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1856. Reprint. Small octavo (15cm.); publisher's grey decorative gilt-stamped cloth, all edges gilt; 326pp.; engraved frontispiece, text printed within decorative floral border throughout. Cloth rather rubbed with coin-sized loss to upper cover exposing board beneath, textblock rather foxed throughout, else a Good to Very Good... Read More
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My Brother Jonathan
by Francis Brett Young
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. 439 pages. Frank McIntosh-illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in yellow, purple, and gilt. Unclipped dust jacket is heavily rubbed and chipped along edges with an additional hole to rear panel. Boards worn along edges with brief... Read More
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The Tourist's Pocket Map of Pennsylvania Exhibiting its Internal Improvements, Roads Distances &c [cover title: Mitchell's Map of Pennsylvania]
by Samuel Augustus Mitchell and James Hamilton Young
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1839. Very Good. Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell , 1839. Later issue with 1831 copyright and 1839 under publisher information. 12mo. Full hand-colored fold-out map (38x32.5cm) housed in original embossed red leather binding with gilt stamping to front. Light wear to extremities and binding is sound. Later gift inscriptions to pastedown. Mild toning to edges... Read More
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After the Banquet
by Yukio Mishima; Donald Keene [trans.]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First American Edition. Octavo. 271pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth over blue paper-covered boards stamped in gilt and red; red topstain. Unclipped dust jacket toned along edges with light wear and a couple minor nicks to spine ends. Boards show light... Read More
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Freedom and Community
by Yves R. Simon; Charles P. O'Donnell [ed.]
New York: Fordham University Press, 1968. Very Good. New York: Fordham University Press, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. 201 pp. Dark blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Light rubbing to edges of boards, touch of dust soiling along top edge, and gilt dulled along spine. Binding sound, ownership inscription to front free endpaper,... Read More
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Istituzione Antiquario-Lapidaria o sia Introduzione allo studio delle antiche Latine Iscrizioni in tre Libri Proposta
by [Francesco Antonio Zaccaria]
Roma: A spese di Venanzio Monaldini Mercante di Libri. Nella Stamperia di Giovanni Zempei, 1770. Very Good. Roma: A spese di Venanzio Monaldini Mercante di Libri. Nella Stamperia di Giovanni Zempei, 1770. First Edition. Octavo. 12mo. xl; 532pp. Quarter vellum over blue paper-covered boards; pink paper title label to spine. Ex-library with old (ca. 1900?) stamps and markings... Read More
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Riders of the Purple Sage: A Novel
by Zane Grey; Douglas Duer [illus.]
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1912. Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1912. First Edition, First Printing with "Published, January, 1912" on copyright page and date in Roman numerals on title page. Octavo; publisher's tan cloth stamped in brown and gilt, color pictorial paste-on to upper cover; [8],334pp.; frontispiece and three leaves of plates (collated complete).... Read More
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