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London: A. H .Bullen, 1902. Second printing. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Missing dust jacket. Corners bumped. 234 p. A collection of essays regarding the lore and reminiscences of Western Ireland. Part of the Celtic revivial of Ireland.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Quarto-sized. SIGNED and hand illustrated. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. Unpaginated illustrated children's book. Title page features an inscription and hand-drawn illustration by the author/illustrator of Pinky Pig playing the clarinet. Pinky Pig saves her job and her boss's restaurant with her odd creations, in order to get her beloved clarinet.

Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Thin landscape format octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. First dj flap is clipped at the bottom, but the original $3.95 price is at the top flap. Some writing on the inside of the first dj flap, and there is a biit of tape at the crease of the rear dj flap. The charming story of an imprisoned emperor and his determined daughter. This book was Young's first to receive a Caldecott Honor Award (1968) and he eventually won the Medal in 1990 for Lon Po Po, which he also wrote. This was also Yolen's 3rd picture book of many.

New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2013. First US edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 503 p. w/ appendices, endnotes,bibliography, index. A detailed study of the international influences and resources drawn on during the formative years of the Chinese Communist Party from 1919 to 1922.

New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. First edition. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. x (2) 253 p. w/ endnotes, bibliography, index, very few b&w illus. A study that explores the first national festival of a unified Italy, the symbolic three day Sixth Cententary Festi di Dante in Florence in 1865, and the then competing ideas of Italian nationalism.