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Brockport, NY: Boa Editions, Limited, 1986. Paperback. Fine. Li-Young Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, of Chinese parents. In 1959, his father, after spending a year as a political prisoner in President Sukarno's jails, fled Indonesia with his family. Between 1959 and 1964 they traveled in Hong Kong, Macau and Japan, until arriving in America. 71 pp. 8vo. English. "What characterizes Li-Young Lee's poetry is a certain humility, a kind of cunning, a love of plain speech, a search for wisdom and understanding - but more like a sad than a desperate search - a willingness to let the sublime enter his field of concentration and take over, a devotion to language, a belief in its holiness, a pursuit of certain Chinese ideas, or Chinese memories, without any self-conscious ethnocentricity, and a moving personal search for redemption . . .-from the Foreword by Gerald Stern.

Sergeant Kirkland's Museum, 1996. paperback. fine.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Brick colored cloth covered boards stamped in green. 277 pp. quarto. Dust jacket price is $3.00. Tight, clean very good copy./Dust jacket shows some wear.. The human hero of this story is an old and humble Zulu parson, from the hills above Ixopo, who sets out for Johannesburg, "the city of evil," in search of his only son. He goes with apprehension, fearing the worst, for he has had no word from the son since he left many months before, and he knows that the road to Johannesburg has led to corruption, crime and destruction for many a native youth.

Harper and Row, 1982. later printing. paperback.

1972. soft cover. fine.

William Morrow and Company, 2010. First Edition. 322 pp. 8vo. Beige paper covered boards with brown paper spine stamped in red. Book in as new condition./Jacket is fine.. From internationally bestselling author Jamie Freveletti comes a riveting new thriller featuring brilliant biochemist Emma Caldridge, except this time there's nowhere to run. . . . . Emma Caldridge is on mile thirty-six of the fifty-five mile Comrades ultramarathon in South Africa when a roadside car bomb explodes. Dazed and disoriented, she regains consciousness after the blast to find a man standing over her with a whit plastic injector. She feels the prick of a needle and the rush of medication under her skin, but before she can make a sound, the man is gone. Shaken by the event and unsure of what substance was pumped into her, Emma calls the one person who can help her figure things out: Edward Banner of the security company Darkview. But Banner has his hands full with another emergency: Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden… Leer más

New York: The Viking Press, 1984. First Edition. 8vo. Orange paper covered boards with black cloth spine. 184 pp. Tight, clean very good copy with a little foxing on the top edge of the text block. A dime size water stain on endpaper at top of back gutter where a drop of water probably made the spine bleed a little./A very good to fine dust jacket.. J. M. Coetzee takes us into the world of Michael K, a young man unwillingly caught up in a war in South Africa. At the age of thirty-one, Michael loses his job as a gardener for the city of Cape Town, and promises to take his ailing mother back to her home town of Prince Albert. On the way there she dies leaving Michael completely alone. He takes refuge on a deserted farm, living off the land "by the rising and setting of the sun in a pocket outside time." . . . In this compelling yet simple story, written in beautiful, spare prose, J.M. Coetzee goes to the center of human experience - the need for an interior, spiritual life; for some connections to the… Leer más

Grosset & Dunlap, 1945. hard cover. fine/very good. Ralph Smith.

Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1982. First Edition. 8vo. Softcover. 164 pp. including index. Previous owner's name in ink, otherwise as new condition..

New York: Viking Press. Seventh Printing, January 1963 of this book originally published in 1951. Large 8vo. 9-3/16" x 6-7/8". 191 pp. Beige cloth covered boards printed in brown. One page has a finger smudge. Otherwise a clean, tight, very good copy.. Illustrated with all the original beautiful, charming and funny pencil drawings by McCloskey.

New York: African American Family Press, 1993. Stated First Edition. 8vo. paperback. 190 pp. As new condition..

St. James Place, London: Collins, 1955. 8vo. Black paper covered boards made to look like cloth. 320 pp. Front cover a little splayed (only very slightly). Previous owner's names in ink and embossed ownership medallion on free front endpaper. Otherwise, a clean, very good copy..

San Francisco: City Lights, 1993. Translated from the Spanish by James Nolan. Softcover. 8vo.116 pp. Very good to fine.. The poetry of Jaime Gil de Biedma, the most original and influential Spanish poet since the civil war, is finally, after years of censorship under Generalissimo Franco, reaching a huge audience in Spain. His poems capture the mood of post-civil-war Spain and of cosmopolitan Barcelona, where the poet belonged to a celebrated literary movement within the antifascist resistance. His poems are ironic and urban, satiric and sensually Mediterranean. The maudit poet profiled in his poetry - defiant, self-mocking, with a nostalgic tango in the background - has become a legendary figure in the long struggle of the Spanish to emerge from the dictatorship modern and free.

Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1993. 4to. with glossy pictorial boards, glossy red endpapers. Book is in fine condition./Jacket is fine also.. Illustrated by the author.. One of America's most prominent African-American artists turns his genius to the inspiring story of Harriet Tubman. Striking rhythmic verse conveys the urgency of Harriet's mission as she risked her life to lead her people to freedom. Lawrence's magnificent paintings capture Harriet's spirit with simplicity and power.

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1853. 24 mo. Printed paper covered boards with leather spine. 44 pp. Top half of back free endpaper is missing. Old library stamp on front pastedown endpaper. Heavily foxed. Binding is tight. Hinges strong. A well used copy of a hard to find book.. Embellished with twenty-one engravings.. This work is designed especially, but not exclusively, for the younger classes of Sabbath-schools. It embraces a general and connected account of the most important events recorded in the Old and New testaments. The answers to questions are short, simple, and, as far as practicable, in Bible language. In the New testament, the questions on the Evangelists are taken from them all collectively, and not in the order of any one in particular. such a general view of the contents of the Bible seems necessary, as an introduction to the study of particular portions of it. The series of Union Questions, in sixteen volumes, published by the Society, is now used more or less… Leer más

New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt Co, 2006. First edition. Black paper covered boards, orange spine stamped in gold. Book in fine condition./Jacket also fine..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959. First edition. 8vo. Red cloth stamped in gold. 120 pp. Bottom corner of free front endpaper bent and a little discolored. A slim touch of discoloration on fore-edge of last 20 pp. Overall tight, clean, fine condition./Spine of dust jacket a little faded. Otherwise fine.. This practical handbook illustrates and explains the 134 symbols most commonly employed in Christian religious art and liturgical practice. Each drawing is based on a study of the many uses in art of the symbol it represents; it is not a reproduction of any one use but a careful rendering of the essential elements of the symbol. The brief, incisive text explains the origin and meaning of each symbol and relates it to appropriate passages in the Scriptures and in the Patristic writings. Where there is any significant difference int he wording of the texts, both the King James and the Douai Versions are cited. They symbols are arranged in dictionary order, from A to X for ready reference. The… Leer más

New York: Covici-Friede, 1933. Second Printing. Purple cloth covered hardcover large 8vo. 351 pp. Half page inscription from a father to his daughter on front paste down end paper. A little light scattered foxing and darkened end papers. Overall a tight, clean very good copy./Poor dust jacket.. With drawings by Zhenya Gay.

Electric Paper, 1993. First Edition published by Electric Paper. 4to. 11-1/2" x 8-1/2". Glossy pictorial paper covered boards. Six pop-up illustrations. Fine condition.. With photo and watercolor illustrations and fascination facts text.

Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991. Paperback 8vo. 260 pp. As new.