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New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. Book has very light bumping to head and tail of spine. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Dust jacket has chipping at head and tail of spine. Age toning & light soiling to spine. Not price clipped. DJ has been placed in an archival mylar cover. Stated first printing, 1961. 5.5 x 8 inches. 233 Pages.

New York / Chicago / San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Stated First Edition. Yellow ochre papered boards with pictorial of crabs on front cover and black lettering on spine. Small worn spot with a bit of surface loss near foot of spine, else fine. Illustrated endpapers. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows light edgewear; very shallow chipping at spine ends; not price clipped ($3.00; in an archival mylar sleeve. [33] pages. 8 x 7.5 inches. From the flap: ''Warmth and sensitivity characterize Tohr Yamaguchi's gentle story of Ake, a young river crab willing to sacrifice anything to save his mother's life. Caught in a fish net as they are crossing the brook on their way home one evening, Ake is unable to free her until he is found by the moon, who offers help, but at a price. Ake quickly and unselfishly agrees to pay what the moon demands. The extent of his love and loyalty and its effects on his mother and the moon, as it takes… Read More

Buenos Aires: Ediciones Del Rio Primero, 1958. Soft cover. Good. Inscribed by Author(s). Inscribed by Yanover on half-title page. Wraps. Soiling to covers with some dark stains on spine. Pages clean. 118, [2] pp. 7.75 x 5.5 inches. Yanover's work of poetry, Elegia y Gloria, was awarded the Faja de Honor de la SADE (Sociedad Argentina de Escritores) in 1958. Hector Yanover (1929-2003) was an Argentinian poet and bookseller. He served as the director of the Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina from 1994-1997. Inscribed by Yanover in October 1958 to Ida and Amor [Halperin]. The Halperins immigrated to the United States from Argentina in 1957. Amor was himself a poet and painter and worked as a designer. His wife Ida was a translator and a foreign language instructor at the University of California.

Oregon Conference Historical Society, 1954. Soft cover. Good. No date (circa 1954). Card covers. Covers show some edge chipping; the paper-tape over the spine is brittle and worn. 23, [5] pages, single-sided. 11 x 8.5 inches. No copies noted on OCLC. 23 page essay on Jason Lee in Oregon (and a five page appendix with notes, including the text of J. L. Whitcomb's petition to the U.S. Congress). The author, Thomas David Yarnes (1883-1957), was a life-long Methodist minister in western Oregon. He was born in Minnesota and moved to Oregon in 1892. He was ordained as an elder in the Oregon Methodist Conference in 1911 and received degrees from the Kimball School of Theology and Willamette University. For forty years he served in pastorates from Portland to Klamath Falls and at many places throughout the Williamette Valley. He served in various administrative roles in the Oregon Conference and was its secretary for several years.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quentin Blake. Book is a little bumped at fore edge corners as well as head and tail of spine. Bookplate on front paste down. No marks in book. Binding is tight. First edition with full number line. 10 x 8 inches. Once upon a time, a heron and a crane lived at opposite ends of a swamp. One day, Crane realizes he is lonely, and decides it's high time he got married, and it seems obvious to him that he should ask Heron to be his wife. So, after grooming himself very carefully, he crosses the swamp to propose. But life is never simple and proposing turns out to be more difficult than Crane could ever have imagined.

New York: Harper Wave, 2017. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Signed by Yogis on half-title page. Stated First Edition, first printing (with full number line). Boards show soiling on front and rear covers. Interior is clean and crisp. Dust jacket near fine; not price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. pp. xix, 248. All Our Waves Are Water follows Jaimal's trek from the Himalayas to Indonesia; to a Franciscan Friary in New York City to the dusty streets of Jerusalem; and finally to San Francisco's Ocean Beach. Along his journey, Jaimal prays and surfs; mourning a lost love and seeking something that keeps eluding him, until he ultimately finds what he's been looking for: that the perfect ride may well be the one we are on right now. Yogis' first book, Saltwater Buddha: a surfer's quest to find Zen on the sea, was published in 2009.

Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Robert Quackenbush. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by author with her kite drawing on ffep. Third printing (per last page of text). Boards in golden-ochre cloth, stamped in brown. An attractive copy, unmarked, clean, and crisp. Illustrated with photographs. Index. Dust jacket illustration by Robert Quackenbush. Dust jacket price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. pp. 143, [1]. 10'' x 7''. Telling the story of kites, Yolen describes ''every aspect of the kite--its history, the legends and lore that surround kite flying, kites as a means of transportation, kites as instruments of war, the kite's contribution to science, the kite as a religious symbol, kite flying today, the kite as art object, kite flying as a sport.'' Jane Yolen, a prolific and award-winning author, is notably the daughter of the famous kite-flying enthusiast and champion Will Yolen, recognized for his kite flying accomplishments in both the… Read More

Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon, 1898. Soft cover. Very Good. Original printed wraps over stapled material. Short splitting with a little loss at spine ends. Clean and unmarked. Two maps. vi, 22, [3] pp. 9.75 x 6.75 inches. An essay in two parts by Horace Sumner Lyman (1855-1904). First, on the early mileposts of Oregon history (Captain Gray, Marcus Whitman, the Provisional Government, and the opening of rail transportation. Second, the character of the people of Old Oregon, their mental restlessness, the checking of the tendency to diversity and separation by national organizations, etc. This is followed by an essay by University of Oregon professor Frederic George Young (1858-1929), ''A World Movement and a National Movement that had Important Relations to the Making of Oregon,'' regarding various expansionist influences, the Monroe Doctrine, competition between England and America, westward expansion (beginning from Europe), the development of the Columbian Hypothesis,… Read More

New York: Atheneum, 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Ed Young. Signed by Illustrator(s). Signed by Ed Young on half-title page. Stated First edition, first printing with full number line. Burgundy cloth spine with gilt lettering and turquoise sides. Bottom fore-corners faintly bumped. Dust jacket not price clipped ($13.95). DJ in archival sleeve. 32 unnumbered pages. 10.25 x 8.25 inches. A spare, poetic rendering of the Aztec myth about how music came to the earth. Beautifully illustrated by Ed Young. Richard Lewis (b. 1935) founded the Touchstone Center for Children in New York City in 1969, which has been a leader in the arts and education field, focusing on the relationship between poetry, the imagination and the natural world. Ed Tse-chun Young (b. 1931) is a Chinese-born American illustrator and writer of children's books. For his work he has received high recognition, including a Caldecott Medal, two Caldecott Honors, multiple Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, the Washington Irving… Read More

[Portland, Oregon], 1948. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Inscribed by Author(s). Inscribed by author on front paste-down. Red cloth boards with black lettering. Sticker ghost on ffep, otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows some chipping at head and foot of spine and a few other very small edge chips. DJ in archival sleeve. Approximately 50 illustrations. 200 pp. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. A collection of essays on various aspects of the history of Methodism in Oregon, featuring material on the missionary pioneers who came out west, early Portland history, a substantial section on the life and work of Jason Lee, and the establishment of three Methodist churches in Portland. [Note: this volume has two working titles, each with its own title page; the other title is "One Hundred Years of the Imprisoned Splendor of Jason Lee and Saddle Bags, Pioneers and Religion in Portland, Oregon 1848-1948."] Contents: The Name of Portland; The Beginning of Methodism in Portland; Pioneers of… Read More

[Portland, Oregon], 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). The author's custom bookplate and inscription on ffep. Red cloth boards with black lettering. Light wear to boards. Interior is clean. Approximately 50 illustrations. 200 pp. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. A collection of essays on various aspects of the history of Methodism in Oregon, featuring material on the missionary pioneers who came out west, early Portland history, a substantial section on the life and work of Jason Lee, and the establishment of three Methodist churches in Portland. [Note: this volume has two working titles, each with its own title page; the other title is "One Hundred Years of the Imprisoned Splendor of Jason Lee and Saddle Bags, Pioneers and Religion in Portland, Oregon 1848-1948."] Contents: The Name of Portland; The Beginning of Methodism in Portland; Pioneers of Geography; Who was Jason Lee?; The Forgotten Man; Grace Church and First Church, Centenary Church; This Great Freedom; Mrs. Frances C.… Read More