1998Best.-Nr. 582161Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1998. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Trade paperback. xvii 315pp. Printed neon yellow wrappers. Fine. Advance Review Copy with publisher letter laid in. Introduction by Garrison Keillor and short stories by John Updike Kathryn Chetkovich Poe Ballantine Diane Schoemperlen Edith Pearlman Akhil Sharma Carol Anshaw Annie Proulx and more. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1997Best.-Nr. 507734Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1997. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Octavo. xix 381pp. Coated printed wrappers. Contains a five-page introduction by E. Annie Proulx and short stories by Robert Stone T.C. Boyle Donald Hall Cynthia Ozick Clyde Edgerton R. Bausch Tobias Wolfe and more. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1987Best.-Nr. 504395Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1987. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Blue wrappers. Some fading on the spine else near fine. Contributions by John Updike Raymond Carver Tim O'Brien C. Nova and Susan Sontag among others. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1994Best.-Nr. 466214Boston: Little Brown and Company 1994. Softcover. Fine. A promotional brochure only. Tri-fold pamphlet forming six panels. Fine promotional pamphlet only no book. Little, Brown and Company unknown books
1977Best.-Nr. 333165Menlo Park: Lane Publishing Co 1977. Softcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Lower corner a bit bumped some scrapes on the rear wrap else near fine in wrappers. Illustrated with color photographs. Lane Publishing Co unknown books
1983Best.-Nr. 300372New York: American Heritage Publishing 1983. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Trade paperback. Near fine. American Heritage Publishing unknown books
1999Best.-Nr. 24641Focus 1999. Wraps. Printed wrappers. Fine. 34 x 28 cm Three page article by Albert M. Tannier. Photographs in black and white and color. Focus unknown books
2015Best.-Nr. 408310Paris: Magazine Antidote 2015. Hardcover. Rear corner bumped and damaged affecting last 20-30 pages at the corners otherwise internally fine. 13 x 9.75 inches. 246 pages. Pictorial boards. In French. Magazine Antidote hardcover books
1998Best.-Nr. 406933New York: Three Rivers Press 1998. A near fine copy with some light wear to extremities. 11 x 8.5 inches. 160 pages. profusely illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers. First edition. Three Rivers Press unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 31458New York: Cinema Magazine 1937. First edition. Three numbers of four published of this deluxe annual. Issue 1: Folio 11.5 inches x 14 inches. Cloth backed pictorial boards with cover portrait of Greta Garbo by Jaro Fabry. Light wear to extremities very good condition. Limited edition numbered and specially bound. With the publisher's presentation to Edward G. Robinson. Issue 3 has the publisher's presentation to Leslie Howard. Cinema Magazine unknown books
1936Best.-Nr. 79685New York: Time Inc. Very Good. 1936. Softcover. Facsimile Reprint of LIFE VOL. 1 NO. 1 NOV. 23 1936. The magazine is a facsimile 8-3/4" X 6-1/2" is soft-bound in black white and red printed covers. The covers show light edge-wear. The staple binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations. This is a facsimile of Volume I #1 of Life Magazine. . Time Inc. paperback books
1990Best.-Nr. 155169Emmaus Pennsylvania: Rodale Press 1990. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Thick octavo. 676pp. Near fine with light edgewear. Rodale Press hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 255029New York: Harper & Row 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Book club edition. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Featuring: Jeane Dixon; Kreskin; Sybil Leek; and more. Harper & Row hardcover books
1960Best.-Nr. 119340Menlo Park California: Lane Book Company 1960. Softcover. Near Fine. Fourth printing. Illustrated in color and from black and white photographs. Wrappers. Near fine. How to barbecue tested recipes and menus. Lane Book Company unknown books
1929Best.-Nr. 888971929. CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE. KODOMO NO KUNI V. 8 #15. Tokyo December 1929. 25.7 x 18.5 cm. There are 36 pages of color illustrations counting the front and back covers printed on wonderful deluxe paper. There is also one flimsy paper insert with a bw illustration printed on one side. THE LAND OF CHILDREN was the finest kid's magazine of the prewar period in Japan. There were contributions in each heavily illustrated issue by some of the finest illustrators and writers of the time. This issue includes work by Okamoto Kiichi Kawakami Shiro Katsuyama Shigeru Iwaoka Tomoe Ota Saburo and many others. Issues are seldom found today this copy is a bit rubbed and soiled but overall in very good condition and doubly unusual thus. unknown books
1933Best.-Nr. 888931933. CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE. KODOMO NO KUNI V. 12 #2. Tokyo February 1933. 26.0 x 18.7 cm There are 32 color pages on heavy paper with work by such artists as Takei himself Maeshima Tomo Kawakami Shiro Kumatani Motoichi and many others. There is also a 20 page flimsy paper section with advice for mothers songs the colophon etc. Takei Takeo was a seminal figure in THE LAND OF CHILDREN and his wide contacts throughout the artistic and literary world insured that the magazine was the finest of its kind. Its artwork is justly famous and utterly charming. Any issues of the magazine have become very hard to find particularly ones in as good condition as this one. Slight soiling and edgewear to the covers.Internally clean. unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 877931932. LITTLE MAGAZINE FUJITA Erosu author artist. PRINT AND POETRY PAMPHLETS. Showa 7 to 12 1932-37 51 assorted issues of this little series of poetry and print pamphlets by Fujita published in Tokyo by one Tomita Hikaru under the publishing house name of SHIN MYOJO. It would seem that Fujita was the only contributor. The front and rear covers are "kikai-zuri" machine printed woodcuts the contents have some intext illustrations. The sizes range from 19.9 x 14.7 cm to 22 x 15 cm. There are 2 issues from 1932 6 from 1933 11 from 1934 11 from 1935 11 from 1936 and 10 from 1937. Brooding gloomy aesthetic. Very interesting example of the sort of creative effort even amateurs were capable of in the 30s and how conversant they were with trends in world art. The pamphlets are in Japanese but often subtitled in German. As one might expect this ephemeral production is vanishingly rare. I can find no trace of it in any institution. In very good condition throughout. unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 879731927. MAGAZINE TEIKOKU HATSUMEI KYOKAI. HATSUMEI THE INVENTION 41 issues. Tokyo Maru-no-uchi. Magazines bound Western style in decorated wrappers. 1927 - 1943. About 26 x 19 cm in size. This important magazine began in 1905. The Imperial Science and Invention Society that published the magazine built a permanent research facility for inventors in the Meguro area in Tokyo about the time of the earthquake. The magazine continued after the war and is still in publication today. This group of issues is as follows: Vol. 24 1927 #s 3457; Vol. 27 1930 #s 9 & 11; Vol. 29 1932 #s 5 & 7; Vol. 34 1937 #s 6-12; Vol.35 1938 #s 9 & 10; Vol.36 1939 #9; Vol.37 1940 #s 246-9 12; Vol.38 1941 #s 2-41012; Vol.39 1942 #s 24-68912; Vol.40 1943 #s 1245. The earlier issues are dedicated to civilian inventions though as war looms in the late 30s and arrives in the 40s the inventions grow warlike as well. However in 1943 there is a strange cover photo of a torn Japanese flag seemingly hanging at half staff - odd message indeed in the middle of a total war. Overall good or better condition with occasional soiling and edgewear. Very unusual in the marketplace. unknown books
1934Best.-Nr. 858751934. CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE. KODOMO NO KUNI V. 13 #11. Tokyo October 1934. 26.1 x 18.8 cm There is a 20 page section of flimsy pages with the colophon and lots of ideas for mothers. There are 32 heavy deluxe paper pages counting the front and rear covers illustrated by such important artists as Takei Takeo and many others. Mickey Mouse makes his appearance on "Baby Island" in one of the illustrations! Some edgewear and soiling a few color pages foxed a few flimsy pages corner folded else good. unknown books
1805Best.-Nr. 822291805. THE BOSTON WEEKLY MAGAZINE; Devoted to Morality Literature Biography History the Fine Arts Agriculture &c. &c. Volume II -- 1803-4 & III -- 1804-5. Boston: Published by Gilbert and Dean at their Printing-Office No. 78 State-Street 1805. Two complete years of this weekly from 29 October 1803 through 19 October 1805 bound together: Volume II no. 1-52; Volume III no. 1-52. Folio. Pp. vi208;vi208. Text is printed in triple columns. Each volume is preceded by an index arranged according to the style of the piece essay history useful poetry etc. There are two title-pages for Volume III; one is bound at the beginning of Volume II and the other is in its proper place. The title-page for Volume II is lacking. Paper quality varies throughout. Text leaves are age-browned and occasionally lightly soiled and/or foxed mostly light to moderate but in a few instances it is heavy with a few dog-eared corners and occasional edgewear. Volume II no. 41 p. 163-4 has some loss at the bottom fore-corner resulting in a loss of text to the last few lines in one column. Bookblock is splitting with remnants of the backstrip; but the boards are missing. The June 16 1804 issue third page p.135 second column. "Domestick" mentions that Captain Lewis was in Pittsburg "accompanied by twenty Indian chiefs." There are a couple of tohter references to the L&C expedition. unknown books
1941Best.-Nr. 107160Folio magazine softcover illustrated 132 pp. A little edge and spine wear normal aging; otherwise very good plus. Air Raid spotter on front cover. Time Life< books
1940Best.-Nr. 107156Folio soft cover magazine illustrated 116 pp. Some spine & edgewear a couple of chips normal aging; otherwise very good. Great WWII coverage including photos of the Emperor of Japan. Time, Inc. books
1941Best.-Nr. 107148Folio magazine softcover illustrated covers illustrated 132 pp. Two sheets loose but present corner folds some slight wear on spine and edges normal aging; otherwise a very good copy. Chuck full of photos and ads. Life Magazine Inc., books
1972Best.-Nr. 612925Chicago: Henry Regnery 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 314pp. Illustrated in color and black and white. Fine in a very good dust jacket with a crease and a few tape repairs on the front panel. Overflowing with photos stats and commentary on all things NFL. Henry Regnery hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 612927Chicago: Henry Regnery 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 314pp. Illustrated in color and black and white. Faint crease on the last few pages near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a crease on the rear flap and a bit of loose lamination. Overflowing with photos stats and commentary on all things NFL. Henry Regnery hardcover books
