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Tokyo: Naigai Shuppan Kyokai, 1912. First Edition. An early comprehensive survey of the Japanese in North America. Includes chapters on American society; the historical background to immigration to North America; the Japanese communities of California, Washington, Oregon, and other states, as well as British Columbia, Alaska, and Hawaii; the types of employment in which the Japanese are engaged and the income derived therefrom; the monetary remissions to Japan and their relationship to trade between Japan and America; the political and social status of the Japanese; the exclusion movement; and the Japanese government's emigration policy. The 32-page appendices consist of the treaties, laws, and regulations pertinent to the Japanese in America."-A Buried Past, 274. With six leaves of halftone photographs, printed two per leaf. Most of the images are reproductions of US photo postcards. An important and very scarce book. [2], 10, 2, 2, 2,6, [6 leaves of plates], 366, 32, [16] pages. OCLC: 37260004… Read More

Boulder: Tomi Co. (Roberts Rinehart), 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A picture book, translated from the French. 9 by 11 inches. Full color throughout. First US edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the half-title page.

Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. Near fine. A blank poster for menus or price lists for price controls during the Second World War. The poster, folded to make four pages, as issued, includes a page of instructions to merchants and restaurant owners; the interior spread provides forty lines for filling out price information. An interesting piece of the homefront effort to control inflation. 13-15/16 by 20-7/8 (folded). A near fine copy, folded, as issued. This is an original World War II poster, not a reproduction.

New York: Holiday House, 1999. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A reissue of this collection of poems, slightly revised by Updike and with new illustrations by Hyman. This edition was a Newbery Honor book for 2000. First edition with these illustrations (no statement of later printings). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by both Updike and Hyman, and is scarce thus. Hyman's signature is dated 1999.

Cleveland: Bits Press, 1991. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. Four poems, published in an edition of 237 copies. First edition. A fine copy in wrappers.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Very good. Uncorrected proofs, printed prior to the first edition, of the fourth and final Rabbit Angstrom novel. 512 pages. Wear to top of spine, else very good in yellow printed wrappers (paper covers).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A novel. This is the signed, numbered edition of 350 copies. First limited edition. A fine copy in a fine, clear, unprinted dust jacket. In a fine slipcase; lacking the printed number that is usually founded affixed to the spine. Signed by Updike on the limitation page. This is copy 257.

Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. An essay memoir, slightly revised from The New Yorker. This is one of 250 numbered copies, signed by the author (there were also 50 deluxe copies). 43 pages. First edition. A fine copy, no. 19 of 250, signed by Updike on the first page.

Cleveland: Bits Press, 1988. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. Poems. One of 120 copies, signed by the author. 7 by 11 inches, printed wrappers, [11] pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers. Signed by Updike on the colophon page.

Worcester, MA: Metacom Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A short story that originally appeared in slightly different form in the New Yorker. With a new four-page introduction by the author. This is one of 150 numbered and signed copies (there were also 26 lettered copies). 34 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Number 49 of 150.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second Rabbit Angstrom novel. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. With a signed card glued to the half-title.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Updike's first book, poems most of which originally appeared in the New Yorker magazine. xii, 82 pages. First edition (stated, with code B-H). Very minor wear at the base of the spine in a very near fine, first issue dust jacket, with "two small children" on the rear flap.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First Edition. Trade paperback. Near fine. First issue proof bound in red wrappers. If you believe the Internet, this is an early version of the text, which was cut somewhat for the second issue proof in salmon-colored covers and the first edition. [vii], 286 pages. Basis for the popular film starring Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jack Nicholson. Near fine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 350 numbered copies, signed by Updike. Bound in marbled paper and black cloth and issued in a black cloth slipcase. Collects nearly two dozen illustrated essays on art. 210 pages. First edition. A fine copy in a fine slipcase; still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First Edition. Trade paperback. Near fine. First issue proof bound in red wrappers. If you believe the Internet, this is an early version of the text, which was cut somewhat for the second issue proof in salmon-colored covers and the first edition. [vii], 286 pages. Basis for the popular film starring Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jack Nicholson. Near fine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A novel, winner of the National Book Award. The mythological characters Chiron and Prometheus are represented in the 1940's relationship of a father and son in a Pennsylvania city. 303 pages. First edition (first printing). Minor edge wear and a small previous owner's name; thus very good in a slightly spine-faded dust jacket.

México (Mexico City): Imprenta de Alfonso E. López, 1889. First Edition. Good. A very scarce Mexican spiritualism book, collecting the transcripts of six communications from the spirit world. The medium was the Mexican psychic Francisco Urgel, who worked with Refugio I. Gonzalez's spiritualist circle, La Luz (the light), in Mexico City in 1878 (though not published until eleven years later). The spirits who communicated through Urgel were several saints, including Louis of Granada, and the French political philosopher Montesquieu, who explained the twelve epochs of history. Surprisingly, Montesquieu, dead for more than a century, kept up on political developments and expressed his support of socialism (p. 399) and of spiritualism because it was superior to all other religions. xiii, 412, [2] pages. Very scarce. OCLC locates one copy, in Mexico. For more information, see Everardo G. Carlos González, La República de los Espíritus: Historia del espiritismo en México, 1848-1897 (Ph.D. thesis),… Read More