Not for Children
by YOUNG, Roland
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. Small folio (31cm). Pictorial yellow paper over boards, backed in black cloth; black endleaves; unpaginated; color and black and white illustrations. Rubbed with mild wear at edges and corners, a few small spots to boards, binding cracking in center of book, but complete: Good. Nonsense verse and pictures by the... Read More
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Young Worker. Issue for April, 1971
by [YOUNG WORKERS LIBERATION LEAGUE] RISTORUCCI, Roque, ed
New York: Young Workers Liberation League, 1971. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 23pp; illus. Text slightly toned, else Near Fine. Official organ of the YWLL, youth arm of the CPUSA beginning in 1970 (preceded by the WEB Du Bois Clubs); the magazine was aimed at advanced high school and college audiences. This issue with articles on the... Read More
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Black Blues and Shiny Songs: Poems
by YOUNG, Tommy Scott
Charlotte, NC: Red Clay Books, 1977. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers; 72pp. A Fine, unread copy. The Blair, SC native's first book, a collection of poems paying homage to the rich oral tradition of African-American storytelling. Young, a poet, playwright, educator, and sculptor, was founder and director of the Kitani Foundation, which from 1977-1983 was responsible for enabling... Read More
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Labor's Wage Policies in the Twentieth Century
by YOUTSLER, James S.
[New York]: Twayne Publishers / Skidmore College, [1956]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in green and orange decorative dust jacket; 344pp.; illus. Light wear to jacket extremities, else Near Fine. "A survey of American labor's wage demands from the 'living wage' of 1900 to the guaranteed annual wage of today" - upper jacket cover.
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Yasuda Yukihiko
by YUKIHIKO, Yasuda, ed.; Kawakita Michiaki, text
Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition. Large Quarto (34cm x 26.5cm). Beige cloth boards (hardcover) with Japanese titling embossed in gold on spine; 70pp + 97 plates; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and tight. A retrospective volume of the work of Japanese painter Yasuda Yukihiko: a major figure in painting... Read More
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The Coolie Speaks; Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba
by YUN, Lisa
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. First Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's light brown linen spine over pale paper covered boards, titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xxiii]; 311pp. Some very light wear to the extremities of the dustjacket, and a small price sticker to the lower rear panel, internally clean, otherwise a very good copy indeed. A intensively... Read More
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Moment in Peking: A Novel of Contemporary Chinese Life
by YUTANG, Lin (novel; preface)
New York: The John Day Company, 1939. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); orange cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in black and gilt on spine; maroon topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 815pp; illus. Modest shelf-wear and soil, with light indentation to upper front board, and light rubbing to board edges; Good. Dustwrapper has modest shelf-wear, 1" chip to... Read More
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Chief of Staff: The Principal Officers Behind History's Great Commanders (2 Volumes) Volume 1: Napoleonic Wars to World War I. Volume 2: World War II to Korea and Vietnam
by ZABECKI, Maj. Gen. David T., AUS (Ret.), ed
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2008. Stated First Printing. Two Octavo Volumes. Paper-covered boards in dust jacket; xii, 241pp; xi, 243pp. Mild foxing to top edges of textblocks and boards, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Trivial soiling to spines of dust jackets. Near Fine.
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Trotskyism; the inside job. An analysis of the Young Socialist Alliance
by ZAGARELL, Mike
New York: Yong Workers Liberation League, N.d. [1970]. First Edition. 4to; staple-bound wrappers; 15pp. On newsprint. Slight toning to text, else Near Fine. Anti-Trotskyist, anti-YSA tract by a YWLL organizer. "Trotskyism, which has for some years now wormed its way into the peace movement, has become a major obstacle on the path ahead...
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Coastlines 19 (Vol.5, No.3) - Anti-War Issue
by ZAHN, Curtis (editor); BLY, Robert, Kenneth Patchen, Carl Larsen, et al. (contributors)
Santa Monica: Coastlines, 1962. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); illustrated wrappers; 96pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, faint foxing to text edges; Very Good+. Laid into this copy is a 1-page mimeographed leaflet from guest editor Curtis Zahn, promoting the long-awaited Anti-War Issue, and soliciting support; a few folds and creases, mild toning, with rubber-stamp "From the Desk of Walter... Read More
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![[Text in Russian] Voina i Mir: Glazami Khudozhnika, 1941-1945. Zhivopis', Grafika, Skul'ptura, Diorama](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/050/537/1257537050.0.m.jpg)
[Text in Russian] Voina i Mir: Glazami Khudozhnika, 1941-1945. Zhivopis', Grafika, Skul'ptura, Diorama
by ZAITSEV, Evgenii
Moskva: TOO "Passim, 1995. First Edition. Slim folio (34cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 183pp.; color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, spine rather toned, old price sticker to rear panel, else Very Good or better. Exhibition catalog of Soviet artistic works produced during World War II. Text almost entirely in Russian, with an English-language summary on pp.... Read More
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Youth in the Soviet Union
by ZAITSEV, Vladimir
New York: International Publishers, 1934. First American Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial paper wrappers; 61pp; photo illus. A clean, Very Good or better copy, tightly bound, unmarked. Includes chapters on trades, education, military service, juvenile offenders, etc; all clearly intended to contrast the opportunities available to Soviet youth against the dead-end future awaiting young Americans during the Great Depression.... Read More
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Untitled". Lithograph, ca. 1960
by ZAJAC, Jack
N.p.. No. 113 of an edition of 150, signed and numbered lower left; signed in plate lower right. Printed in black on tan chain-laid paper. Sheet size 13-1/2" x 10"; printed area 12" x 8-1/4". Fine, unmatted and unframed.
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Foreman Training in a Growing Enterprise [Inscribed and Signed]
by ZALEZNIK, A[braham]
Boston: Division of Research / Graduate School of Business Administration / Harvard University, 1951. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in grey decorative dust jacket lettered in red; xv,[1],232pp. Chipping and toning along jacket extremities, corners bumped, else Very Good, internally sound. Bifolium abstract laid in. Inscribed and signed "Abe" to the author's mother and father.
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Films and Film-makers: in Czechoslovakia
by ZALMAN, Jan [Antonín Novák] (text); George Theiner (translation); Alena Sestakova (editor)
[Prague]: Orbis-Prague, 1968. Softcover. Small octavo (16cm); white paper wrappers; pictorial dustjacket; [4],5-99,[1]pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations. A Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper has light shelf-wear; Very Good+. Czech film critic and previous editor for Film a doba, Zalman, explores films and artists in Czechoslovakia. [86372].
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The New Soviet Fiction: Sixteen Short Stories [Review Copy]
by ZALYGIN, Sergei, ed
New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, [1989]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; 396pp. Jacket spine a bit toned with small chip at foot, else Very Good to Near Fine. Review copy with promotional packet laid in.
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Dalla Periferia al Centro: La Seconda Rinascita Economica dell'Italia, 1861 - 1981
by ZAMAGNI, Vera
[Bologna]: Società Editrice il Mulino, [1990, 1991]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's pictorial grey glossy card wrappers; 536pp. Light shelf wear, faint spine crease, else Very Good or better. Text entirely in Italian. History of 19th- and 20th-century Italian economic conditions.
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Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia: Selections from His Writings [Inscribed by Kaunda]
by [ZAMBIA] KAUNDA, Kenneth; Thomas Patrick Melady (ed.)
New York: Frederick A. Praeger for the Africa Service Institute of New York, 1964. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Pale yellow-green cloth in white dust jacket; [xiv],254pp. 1964 inscription by the author on front free endpaper. With TLS by the editor, Thomas Melday, laid in. A tight, straight copy, lightly faded at spine and board edges, small indent... Read More
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The Gift of the Face: Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis's "The North American Indian
by ZAMIR, Shamoon
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 334pp; 4 unnumbered leaves of plates. As-new, in fine dustwrapper. From the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn, with his printed bookplate inside front cover.
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We [Advance Uncorrected Proofs]
by ZAMYATIN, Yevgeny (text); Natasha Randall (translation)
New York: The Modern Library / Random House Inc, 2006. Advance uncorrected proofs copy, softcover. Octavo (20.5cm); pictorial paper wrappers; 202pp. Trace sticker residue to front wrapper, with tiny spot of faint soil to right edge of textblock; Very Good+. First published in its English translation by E.P. Dutton (1924), with the original Russian text published later (1952), Zamyatin's... Read More
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Il Lungo Viaggio Attraverso il Fascismo: Contributo alla storia di una generazione
by ZANGRANDI, Ruggero
Milano: Feltrinelli Editore, [1964]. Quinta Edizione "Universale Economica. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's white card wrappers printed in black; 610pp. Light wear and soil, spine a bit toned, as is textblock, else Very Good and sound. History of the rise of fascism in Italy, text entirely in Italian.
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The War for the World
by ZANGWILL, Israel
New York: Macmillan Company, 1916. First American Edition. Thick octavo (19.5cm.); original tan cloth, red paper labels printed in gilt mounted to upper cover and spine; viii,[2],455,[9](ads)pp. Spine label partially perished, apparently during the binding process, as the gilt lettering has been partly applied directly to spine cloth. All else Very good and sound. Collection of short works on... Read More
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The Cockpit
by ZANGWILL, Israel
New York: Macmillan, 1921. First Edition. First Printing. (Nov. 1921); Octavo (19.5cm.); blue boards titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; uncut pages; 264pp.; light rubbing along bottom edge and corners; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.60) light rubbing and edgewear; chipping to extremities including spine ends; Very Good.
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The War for the World
by ZANGWILL, Israel
New York: Macmillan Company, 1917. Revised Edition. Reprinted with corrections." Thick octavo (19.5cm.); original tan cloth, upper cover and spine embossed in red and gilt; viii,[2],455,[5](ads)pp. A bit dust-soiled, else About Fine. Collection of short works on the early years of World War I by Jewish British humorist, best known for his play The Melting Pot (1908).
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Structural Bases of the Organization of the Latin America Labour Movement: Some Notes for Discussion
by ZAPATA, Francisco
Montreal: Centre for Developing-Area Studies, McGill University, 1975. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); original blue die-cut staplebound wrappers; 14 leaves printed from typescript. Fine. The Centre's Working Papers no. 3. "This paper was originally prepared for the Workshop on 'The Labouring Poor in the Third World: Perceptions of Strategy of Change' held at McGill University, Montreal, from 23-26 May 1975"... Read More
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