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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 white along top edge of front panel. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked.

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.

Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. Very Good/Near Fine. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; xii,284pp.; illus. throughout, many in color. Corners a bit bumped, slight curve to front board, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy.

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 exhibition at C&M Arts in New York City from 27 September to 12 November 1994.

New York: Frederic R. Harris, Inc. Consulting Engineers, 1946. Very Good. New York: Frederic R. Harris, Inc. Consulting Engineers, 1946. First Edition. Quarto. 264 pp. + index. Black and white charts, graphs, and illustrations, including many fold-out. Brown textured boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Boards bumped and worn and gilt to front rubbed. Binding is sound. Minor smudging to interior, principally to endpapers, and pages else unmarked. Very Good. Scarce report on the design and construction evolution of floating dry docks throughout World War II.

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 ink marginalia throughout, mostly to early leaves, else Good or better overall. Description of the "rural uplift" of the Turkish village of Hasanoglan, due in part to the establishing, in 1943, of the Institute of Hasanoglan, a teacher's training college at which the author was an instructor of sociology. The study was originally written in 1944, before the Institute was closed in the wake of attacks made by the conservative Republican People's Party as well as the liberal Democratic Party. (For more information see "The Encyclopedia of Islam," Vol. V, p. 282.).

Clinton, NY: Nobodaddy Press, 1977. Very Good. Clinton, NY: Nobodaddy Press, 1977. First Edition. Signed by Yau without inscription at title page. Octavo. 27 pp. Illustrated wraps. Light soiling and a few stray pen marks to wraps. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good copy of a scarce early Yau title.

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 sound and pages unmarked. This is the catalog for the Artschwager show at the Gagosian Gallery in New York City, from 24 January to 1 March 2008.

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 Yeats (in English, 44 pp.) and Yeats Poems Translated into Twenty-One Languages (117 pp.) Volume shows very faint shelfwear, but is clean and crisp with no tears, chips, or marks. Binding is sound. Selection from 181 translations produced in a year-long project run by The European Federation of Associations and Cenres of Irish Studies. Languages include Castilian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, Gaeilge, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, and Turkish.

Washington, D.C.: Ethiopian Research Council, 1990. First Edition. Very Good. Washington, D.C.: Ethiopian Research Council, 1990. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on title page. Octavo (9" x 6"); 161p. Covers bumped at top corner, with light shelfwear but no chips or tears. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. First Volume of a scholarly journal "to help narrate and interpret the historical, philosophical and social conditions of Ethiopia.

New York: The Dial Press, 1946. Very Good +/Very Good -. New York: The Dial Press, 1946. First Edition. Octavo. 534 pp. Dust jacket illustrated by Lynd Ward. Black boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket rubbed and chipped along edges with several short closed tears and one longer 4" tear along bottom edge of front panel. Board lightly shelfworn with some very faint spotting. Binding is sound. Pages toned but unmarked.

Garden City: Doubleday & Co, 1971. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1971. Fourth Printing. Signed by the author without inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo; xxii, 328pp. Photo portrait dust jacket with $8.95 price intact; book in sage cloth with black cloth spine and gilt lettering. English translations, with Russian originals in appendix. Jacket rubbed along edges with a few shallow closed tears along top, light scuffing down joints and folds, and a bit of smudging to back panel. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Selected poems, with translations / adaptations by James Dickey, Geoffrey Dutton, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Anthony Kahn, Stanley Kunitz, George Reavey, John Updike, and Richard Wilbur.

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 to top edge of text block but otherwise pages unmarked. First installment in the Peter Grant series.

New York: Vantage Press, 1975. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Vantage Press, 1975. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial cloth retaining original price ($4.95); [14],113pp. Very minor wear and rippling to jacket, light dust-soil, corners tapped, else a Very Good and sound copy overall. Inscribed and signed by the author to American immunologist Merrill W. Chase on front free endpaper. Short story collection, mostly set in the author's native Louisiana.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. First Edition. Large, thick octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket retaining original price ($10.95); [12],1198pp. Moderate wear to jacket extremities, corners bumped, else Very Good and sound. One of the longest novels ever published, taking the author twenty years to complete and arriving at the editor's office on 3,449 typescript pages. According to the rear jacket panel at one point seven suitcases containing the manuscript went missing at the Gare Lazare in Paris but were eventually "retrieved by seven men from Cook's with seven wheelbarrows." This begs the question: Exactly how big were these suitcases?

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 book, a collection of poems titled "The Blind Man at the Window.

Cambridge: Jones & Piggott (Late Rivingtons), 1882. Very Good +. Cambridge: Jones & Piggott (Late Rivingtons), 1882. First Edition. Octavo. 214 pp. + 2 pp. advertisements. Publisher's blue beveled boards decorated in gilt; decorative endpapers. Boards sunned along edges with some very mild scuffing. Binding sound. Touch of off-setting to endpapers and interior otherwise unmarked. A collection of "simple word painting" of Western life from the Jesuit missionary.