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New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1873. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo. 32pp. Very good in original printed wrappers with some soiling.

[London]: T. Nelson and Sons, 1855. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. 32mo. 32pp. Frontispiece lithograph in sepia. Glazed wrappers embossed in gilt with engraved illustration in purple on front wrap. Slight rubbing, near fine. Four children's stories, one is signed "X.X.", another is signed "Cousin Kate." *OCLC* maintains a record, but lists no physical copies.

New York: Doubleday, 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Near fine in fine dustwrapper. Edges of spine lightly bumped. Slight shelf rubbing to dustwrapper Sticker on back dustwrapper. Otherwise nice condition. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

New York: American Anthropological Society, 1935. Hardcover. Near Fine. Privately reissued. Small quarto. 380pp. Ownership stamp and signature of noted American psychologist Henry Guze, (a founder of the American Academy of Psychotherapists, the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and co-founder of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex) on the front fly, spine lightly toned, else a fine copy, lacking a dustwrapper.

New York: Evergreen Review, 1967. Softcover. Very Good. Volume 11, Number 50. Cover illustration by Tomi Ungerer. Quarto. Illustrated. Pictorial wrappers. Wraps moderately rubbed, tear at the foot of the spine, very good or better. Includes: The first appearance of "God's Judgment of White America" by Malcolm X, taken from X's own hand-corrected copy of his speech given at a Manhattan rally two weeks after President Kennedy's assassination; "Chicago, Honkies, and Camus" by Jack Newfield; "Men's Crapper" by Charles Bukowski; "Hello Out There" by E.F. Cherrytree; "The Last Frenchman in Fez" by William Eastlake. Also contains an ad for the new collection of love poems and lyrics by Rod McKuen and contributions by: Abdullah Schleifer, Tennessee Williams, John Rechy, Heathcote Williams, Leroi Jones, Nat Hentoff, Karl Shapiro, Herry Shatzberg, and Lyman Andrews.

(New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc, 1970. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. 16mo. 244pp. Illustrated from a few cartoons. Pictorial wrappers. Light edgewear, a bit of creasing on the spine, near fine. "The Rebel Culture is a record of rebellion. In biting parodies, in hard-hitting essays, in mind-expanding poems and satirical cartoons, activists and observers sock it to the Establishment America, attacking the hangups of our culture, from Miss Rheingold contests to television newscasts, from the generation gap to racism, from our sexual taboos to our deep-rooted love of violence.

New York: Barry Vail Corporation, 1931. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Quarto. Half red morocco gilt and marbled cloth. Nominal wear at the corners else just about fine. Printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. One of 1000 copies, of which 580 were for sale. An attractive volume.

Hong Kong: Inspiration Art Press, 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Very small bumps to the top corners else fine in a fine dustwrapper.

Hong Kong: Opium Books, 1969. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Glossy wrappers. 187pp. Corners slightly curled, very good. A novel.

(San Francisco): Cleis Press, 2008. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Trade paperback. Fine.

Boston: Charles E. Tuttle, 1998. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in wrappers. Paperback, light shelf rubbing on cover edges and spine ends, some light scuff marks on bottom edge of back cover.

(New York): HarperCollins, 2004. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Translated by Mabel Lee. Fine in wrappers with a publisher's label on the cover, with a lightly worn publisher's letter laid in. A book of short stories about the fragility of life and love, and the power of memory from the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2006. Hardcover. Fine. First edition thus. Full leather gilt. Translated by Mabel Lee. Fine. One of an unspecified number of copies Signed by the author.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book club. viii, 367pp. Small and very faint dampstain on bottom inner corner of some pages, else near fin in a nearly fine lightly spine sunned dustwrapper with faint dampstain on bottom of spine. Edited by W.J.F. Jenner and Delia Davin.

China, 1990. Softcover. Near Fine. Folio. Near fine portfolio containing 12 loose plates with works by the artist. Introduction is in English, remainder is in Chinese.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. Softcover. Very Good. Very good in wrappers. Paperback is uncorrected proof, lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, very slightly soiled foredges. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Shanghai: Shanghai Far East Publishing, 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with a bit of scuffing.

[No place]: Phong phú [?], 1975. Near Fine. Six original silk screen posters. Each measures about 15.5" x 18.5". Each is printed in six vibrant colors: purple, burgundy red, orange, blue, green, and gold. Very few short tears at some edges, and the upper margins a little uneven, else fine. A suite of compelling images of young women in traditional informal dress, four of which depict a woman being courted by a young man, and two that depict a pair of young women working together outside: one in a rice paddy field and one at the ocean. Each poster has two lines of text. Our Vietnamese is rusty, but the two lines of text appear to be proverbial couplets of folk wisdom pertaining to the agonies or follies of budding love, or couplets from the erotic poetry of Ho Xuan Huong, a famous female Vietnamese poet from the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. In particular Huong's poem "Bailing Water" closely reflects the poster depicting two women on a rocky coast maneuvering a bail between them with ropes,… Read More