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Toronto: Bantam Books, 1988. General Chuck Yeager is a born outdoorsman. From flying daredevil missions over Germany during World War II and cracking records as a test pilot to his annual trip into California's Sierra Mountains, he's always the restless adventurer, in search of a new experience. In 'Press On!' you'll roam the world with Chuck Yeager - and go back with him to his West Virginia roots. Illustrated with three sections of b/w photographs. Black boards, black cloth spine with silver print. No ownership markings. Price-intact photo dust jacket. Jacket photo by Mark Homan. An immaculate book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.
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Press On ! Further Adventures In The Good Life
by Yeager, Chuck & Charles Leerhsen
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How She Died
by Yglesias, Helen
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Boston: Houghton,Mifflin Company, 1972. A Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award Novel. Red cloth boards... white title print to front board and spine. Spine lightly sunned... title remains bright. A sound, square book.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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Double Double
by Yglesias, Jose
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New York: The Viking Press, 1974. Seth Evergood, thirty-six, the hero of this tart and detonating fable of the late 1960's, is what might be called an aristocrat of the anti-establishment... Black boards with black cloth spine, bright yellow endpapers. Short gift inscription to fep. A clean, firm copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.
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Amrita
by Yoshimoto, Banana Translated from the Japanese By Russell F. Wesden
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New York: Grove Press, 1997. "Amrita" opens with the death of a celebrated young actress in mysterious and shocking circumstances....In a few short years, this author has established herself as one of the best and most influential writers in modern Japanese fiction. Red and gold boards with gold cloth spine...matching gold endpapers. No ownership markings. Dust jacket artwork by Michael Tedesco. A bright, tight, crisp copy. (Price intact).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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HT = HT Comic Novel
by Young, Douglas H
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- 9780960651016 / 0960651012
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Chicago: New Directions Publishing House, 1987. HT = HT (high tech, high touch), terms used in J. Naisbett's book 'Megatrends' to represent a need for appropriate human response to modern technology's demands, is a darkly comic novel, with surreal overtones, covering several days of crisis in the personal and corporate life of the protagonist, as the dark side of the Information Age suddenly leaves him twisting in the wind. A bright book in a price-intact dust jacket.. ISBN: 0-9606510-1-2. First Edition Stated. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Dark Humour + The Tidy Bowl Man Lives + Jiffy John + Comic Novel. Catalogs: Modern Firsts.
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Portrait Of A Village
by Young, Francis Brett. Engravings on Wood By Joan Hassall
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London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1937. Author's note, prelude, eight chapters and postlude. A generous list of wood engravings provided. Twenty-nine engravings plus a beautiful woodcut frontispiece "The Stricken Oak" by Joan Hassall. Decoration in gilt to front board. Endpapers make up a two-page spread of "Cuckoo's View of Monks Norton" an imaginary English village. Bookplate to prelim. The woodcuts are all present and perfect. A most presentable copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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This Little World
by Young, Francis Brett. Engravings on Wood By Joan Hassall
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London: William Heinemann 1934 Second Edition (August) Attractive dark blue boards with the circular gilt pear logo that one sees on most (if not all) of his books. Gilt title print to spine. Top of ffep clipped horizontally...the clip roughly an inch wide. Four pages of author's book ads at back of book. A bright, square copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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Dr. Bradley Remembers
by Young, Francis Brett
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London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1938. 745pp. Dark blue uniform binding with the familiar gilt pear decoration to front board. Name to fep, gift inscription to ffep. Book text shows toning. Boards remain bright, gilt still bright. A sound copy showing very little edgewear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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Tales Told Over Mulled Rum: More Humourous Vignettes of Life In Nova Scotia and Other Stories
by Young, George. Don Pentz Illustrated. Signed By Author
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Queensland, Nova Scotia: George Young, 1972. Cartoon illustrated dust jacket by Don Pentz. Signature of George Young written on inside endpaper. Twenty humourous stories provided, several of them are based upon events that actually took place, others fictional. A well-illustrated book (by Don Pentz). Full- page cartoon illustrations accompany most of the author's stories. The illustrated dust jacket has kept this stapled card-covered book clean and bright. A Very Nice Copy!. Third Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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Earth's Aura. A Layman's Guide To The Atmosphere
by Young, Louise B
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London: Allen Lane/Penquin Books, 1980. Louise Young presents an outstanding clear account of current knowledge about the atmosphere. She explains such newsworthy phenomena as metal-corroding acid rain, smog and damage to the ozone layer, as well as the ever important and fascinating pattern of the weather; but she also gives progress reports about the amazing promise (and threat) of weather control, about the recently discovered solar winds, about the huge increase this century in reported tornado activity. The mysterious changes in storm patterns, the dangerous build-up of carbon dioxide, the objects that pass through the atmosphere (from invisible cosmic rays to meteorites weighing several tons) all are superbly dealt with. A list pf plates and a list of diagrams provided. Ten specially commissioned drawings and thirty-six photographs are to be found here. The material, here-in, has been effectively selected so that the book is not only very readable but also informative... Here is writing…
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Between Tears And Laughter
by Yutang, Lin
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Toronto: Longman's Green & Company, 1943. Author's seventh book. Between Tears and Laughter is the first full expression by an Oriental of the Asiatic viewpoint on the state of the world since Singapore fell. As such, it is enormously important. Lin Yutang draws upon the wisdom of Confucius, Lao-tse, Mencius, the ancient Greeks and Hindus to discuss such topics as : The White Man's Burden, A Philosophy of Peace, American Isolationism, Natzi Geopolitics, The Future of Asia, etc....Black cloth boards, gilt title block. No ownership markings.. First Canadian Edition (Sept,1943). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good.
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