Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Ash Rare Books

London : Ward, Lock & Co., (1952). First edition. A conversation piece - a memoir of both Yates and his most famous creation. Post 8vo (21cm). [ii],(286)pp. Original black cloth, lettered across spine in gilt; top edge red; a few faint marks, endpapers lightly browned, but otherwise a very good, clean and sound copy in the original dust-jacket, complete with the original wrap-around band - also very good, with minimal wear and just a couple of short nicks.

London : Ward, Lock & Co., (1958). First edition. Further reminiscence and memoir from Yates and Berry. Post 8vo (21cm). (286),[ii]pp. Original black cloth, lettered across spine in gilt; top edge yellow; a few faint marks; mild tanning of endpapers, but a very good, clean and sound copy in the Peter Rudland dust-jacket - just faintly tanned, but otherwise very good indeed.

London : Ward, Lock & Co., (1945). First edition. "As I see it, Major Pleydell, the exact position is this. When you and your cousins inherited White Ladies, the cost of maintaining the place as your father and his brother had maintained it was less than three thousand a year. To-day it is nearly eight thousand – eight thousand pounds".
Crown 8vo (20cm). 286,[ii]pp. Original pale blue cloth, lettered across spine in black; a very good, clean and sound copy in the original pictorial Campbell dust-jacket – a little sunned, reinforced in places and lightly edge-worn at foot.

London : Charles Dickens & Evans, 1873. First edition. The younger Charles Dickens revives his father's Christmas Numbers - pictures come to life in a German castle and tell their dreadful stories - "An introductory chapter to connect the tales, and a concluding one to wind them up. The five tales are all very good ... Altogether we should be puzzled to name any Christmas number of All the Year Round fuller of amusement and enthralling incidents than will be found here, and we commend it heartily" (The Era, 14th December 1873). The framing story is by Edmund Yates, friend of Dickens, foe of Thackeray, and occasionally compared to Trollope - eliciting the famous "That's not very high praise" remark by Dickens. Yates may also have written some, if not all, of the other chapters. Royal 8vo (25cm). 48pp. With three flyers on coloured paper for insurance companies loosely inserted. Original blue wrappers, ruled and lettered in black; lightly worn and a little creased; some… Read More

London : A. H. Bullen / Dublin : Maunsel & Co., 1906. First edition. "I walked among the seven woods of Coole ..." - fifteen poems (some previously published in a limited edition), including "In the Seven Woods", "Never Give all the Heart", "The Withering of the Boughs" and "Under the Moon", together with much revised versions of three verse plays ("The Shadowy Waters", "On Baile's Strand" and "The King's Threshold"). Yeats' preface provides a highly interesting commentary on his work at this period. "We have gradually come to think of Mr. Yeats as the greatest of the younger poets who use the English tongue" (Daily News). Crown 8vo (20cm). xvi,(280)pp. Original decorative blue cloth gilt in a design by Althea Gyles (1867-1949); just very faintly rubbed and bruised; mild tanning of endpapers, but a very good and bright copy. Neat contemporary gift inscription dated Xmas 1906 and later decorative… Read More

Dublin : Cuala Press, 1932. First edition : limited to 450 copies printed and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Cuala Press. A collection of forty-six poems, including some of Yeats' finest work - "Byzantium", "Coole Park 1929", "The Nineteenth Century and After", "The Crazed Moon", "Quarrel in Old Age", "I Am of Ireland", the "Crazy Jane" sequence, etc. Demy 8vo (22cm). [xvi],(42),[ii],[4]pp. Original linen-backed boards; a hint of browning to tips; a few tiny marks and faint spots, but overall a very good and unopened copy. Small bookseller's label of Greene & Co. of Dublin on front pastedown.

London : Macmillan & Co., 1880. First edition. "There is always a pleasurable feeling of expectation in opening a new novel by Miss Yonge and that lady's many admirers need not be told that there is a certainty of more or less satisfaction from anything she writes" (Morning Post, 14th September 1880). A lost inheritance, a secret love - Major Delavie and his three daughters encounter the wonderfully villainous Lady Belamour. Two volumes. Crown 8vo (20cm). [viii],288; [viii],304pp. Original green cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt, and blocked in black; a little rubbed and worn; endpapers cracking; a little slack; a few internal marks, nicks and spots, but a good and serviceable cloth set.

London : Macmillan & Co., 1879. First edition. A physician dies leaving his widow with a medical discovery to be passed on to whichever of his sons is best equipped to perfect it and most apt to benefit the world with it. "The chief interest of the novel, however, is due to Miss Yonge's never-failing genius for working up minute and photographic details, stroke by stroke, until we know her characters so well that it will be strange if we ever forget them" (The Globe, 30th January 1880). Three volumes. Crown 8vo (20cm). iv,314; iv,(315)-636; iv,(637)-956pp. Original green decorative cloth gilt; some mild rubbing and slight bruising; some spotting of edges and prelims; a few slight creases, but overall a very good set. Not listed in Sadleir or Wolff.

London : Macmillan & Co., 1908. A collection of fifty historical tales of heroism and self-denial intended as "a treasury for young people", or "a mother's storehouse for reading aloud to her boys" - Alcestis and Antigone, The Pass of Thermopylae, The Shepherd Girl of Nanterre, The Keys of Calais, Sir Thomas More's Daughter, The Children in the Wood of the Far South, etc. Originally published in 1864. Foolscap 8vo (154 x 98mm). (xii),454pp. Engraved pictorial title-page. Bound in a very pretty contemporary half navy calf, banded and gilt; red label; top edge gilt; a few trifling signs of age, but a very good, clean and partially unopened copy. With the attractive 1914 bookplate of Maude Hawke (1888-1976), etched by her Tyneside neighbour, Sir Henry John Fanshawe Badeley (1874-1951), and the later 1950 ownership inscription of David Fyfe Anderson.

London : for C. Elliot & T. Kay; Ogilvie & Spears, etc. 1789. A pleasant eighteenth-century edition of Young's most celebrated work - the nine nights of poetic meditation originally published between 1742 and 1745. The much reprinted original source of "Procrastination is the thief of time", etc. - a work regarded by Boswell as "the grandest and richest poetry that human genius has ever produced". Post 12mo (178 x 103mm). x,290pp. Contemporary full calf, now neatly rebacked in morocco; red label; fresh endpapers; a few very minor marks and small creases, but a very good copy. Manuscript inscriptions trace the copy's ownership passing to Jane from Lucy Chalmers in 1810, and to Lucy Ellen Mayne from her mother in 1885.

London : Oxford University Press, 1934. First edition. A magisterial and richly illustrated study of the background to mid nineteenth-century England, with chapters on Work and Wages (J. H. Clapham), Homes and Habits, Town Life and London (R. H. Mottram), Life in the New Towns, Country Life and Sport (Bernard Darwin), The Navy, The Army, The Mercantile Marine (Basil Lubbock), The Press, Art, Architecture (A. E. Richardson), Music, Drama (Allardyce Nicoll), Holidays and Travel, Charity, Expansion and Emigration, and the Portrait of an Age. Two volumes. Medium 8vo (24cm). [ii],(xxvi),414,[ii]; viii,558,[ii]pp. Errata slip. Numerous plates drawn from contemporary sources. Facsimiles. Original cloth gilt; some spotting of edges, one endpaper lightly tanned, but a very good set in the original dust-jackets - lightly tanned, slightly worn and a little chipped.