Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Classic Books and Ephemera

Roslindale, MA: YMAA Publication Center, 1995. Paperback. Near Fine. xx, 266, [2] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. "Chinese internal martial arts" -- front cover. Includes appendices: Names of Qin Na Techniques -- Translation of Thirty-Seven Postures -- Translation and Glossary of Chinese Terms. In Near Fine Condition: cover curves up; a few page corners creased; clean and tight.

Jamaica Plain, Mass: YMAA Publication Center, 1996. Paperback. Very Good -. xiv, 363, [7] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Publisher's catalog on final 2 unpaginated pages. In Very Good- Condition: cover slightly soiled; ink underlining on a few pages; otherwise, clean and tight.

New York: Sterling, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good. [40] p.: full-page color illustrations; 27 x 30 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt spine title. Color paste-down illustration on front cover. Illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket. Inscription on title page from Peter Yarrow. In Very Good Condition: lacking cd; closed 2-cm. tear from lower edge of next to last leaf; otherwise, clean and bright.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Fine. 437 p.; 23 cm. Green cloth with silver spine and cover titles. Plain glassine dust jacket. In Fine Condition: clean and tight.

Shannon, Ireland: T.M. MacGlinchey, 1970. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. [4], 42, [4] p.; 21 cm. Light orange-brown cloth spine with blue paper over boards. Black cover title. Original glassine dustjacket. Blue endpapers. Colophon printed in red indicating that this is part of the 1970 reprint by photo-lithography for the Irish University Press by Robert Hogg, printer, of the 1911 edition by the Cuala Press. Scarce. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and bright. Glassine dust jacket is in Very Good+ Condition: 1-cm. closed tear from upper edge of back section; otherwise, clean and intact.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974. Paperback. Near Fine. [6], 295 p.; 18 cm. Paperback. A novel by Irish artist Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957), the brother the the poet W. B. Yeats. In Near Fine Condition: edges rubbed; clean and tight.

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1909. Hardcover. Near Fine. [6], 31, [3] p.; 19 cm. Off-white stiffened covers with overlapping fore-edges. Spine and cover titles and front cover decoration printed in light green. Original light green slipcase with title in black at foot of front section. Title page and colophon in red and black. Pages are unopened. "Five hundred copies of this book printed on Japan vellum small quarto and the type distributed in the month of July MDCCCCIX." -- colophon. First (American) edition thus. Book is in Near Fine Condition: slight discoloration on back cover; slight darkening along edges of covers; otherwise clean and bright. Slipcase is in Poor Condition: separated into two sections; lacking upper and spine sections; lacking small amount of green paper from front section.

Garden City: Doubleday & Co, 1976. Hardcover. Fine/very good. xiv, [2], 126 p.; 22 cm. Red and blue cover with gilt spine title. Dust jacket. Stated First Edition. Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-2017) was a Russian poet, novelist, screenwriter, and director. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: edges are rubbed; minor loss at tail of spine; clean and bright.

New York: Persea Books, 1975. Paperback. Near Fine. xviii, [6], 297 p.; 20 cm. Paperback. "First published in 1925, Bread Givers is the clear voiced expression of a young woman's struggle to free herself from the arbitrary strictures of Jewish immigrant society and from the 'woman's role' assigned to her by men." -- back cover. In Near Fine Condition: edges rubbed; clean and tight.

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1845. Hardcover. Very Good -. 333, [1] p.; 22 cm. Contemporary half red morocco with five spine compartments between raised bands with gilt-tooled decoration. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment, "Bishop Onderdonk's Trial," with blind-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Maroon cloth over boards. All page edges speckled. Marbled endpapers. Imprint includes: Philadelphia: George S. Appleton. Without the 16 pages of publisher's advertisements found in some copies. The official account of the trial of the Rev. Benjamin Tredwell Onderdonk (1791-1861) on charges of immorality and impurity, by the court of bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Small oval paper label at head of spine. Small label at lower edge of front fixed endpaper reading: "From the Library of Herbert Boyce Satcher." Tipped in, on the second blank leaf following the front endpapers, is a portrait of Onderdonk engraved by W.L. Ormsby from a photograph by Brady. Tipped in on 2 blank pages… Read More

Dublin: J. Milliken, 1771. Hardcover. Very Good. "The Second Edition, Corrected and enlarged." xii, 1 leaf of an engraved plate (folded), 51, 50-284, [20] p.: 1 in-text engraved illustration, tables; 20 cm. Contemporary full calf; modern bonded leather spine label with gilt-tooled title: Six Weeks Tour. Folded plate, often bound as frontispiece, is here bound following p. xii. Bookseller's advertisements on final pages following index. Error in pagination: page numbers 50 and 51 are repeated. Former owner's name at head of title: John Morrison. Title page continued: "Describing, particularly, I. The present State of Agriculture and Manufactures. II. The different Methods of cultivating the Soil. III. The Success attending some late Experiments on various Grasses, &c. IV. The Prices of Labour and Provisions in different Counties. V. The State of the Working Poor in those Counties, wherein the Riots were most remarkable. With descriptions and copper-plates, of such… Read More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. xiv, 433 p.; 22 cm. Red and black cloth with red-on-black spine title. Dust jacket. "Revised and Updated. Introduction by Senator Birch Bayh." -- dust jacket. Book is in Near Fine Condition: pages slightly browning along edges; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good+ Condition: corners rubbed; clean and bright.

London: A. Millar, and R. and J. Dodsley, 1758. Hardcover. Good +. "A New Edition, Corrected by the Author." iii, 315, [1] p.; 17 cm. Contemporary full polished calf with six spine compartments between raised bands and double gilt rules. Double gilt-ruled border on each board. All page edges speckled red. "Notes": p. [309]-315. Publisher's advertisements for A. Millar on one page following text. Lacking frontispiece. Small printed bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Samuel Eakin, dated 1763. Most of another small printed bookplate, dated 1793, has been removed. Former owners' names on front fixed endpaper largely erased. Former owner's name in pencil at head of p. [1]: "S.P. Shinn, 1860." Lacking frontispiece; otherwise, in Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; joints starting but solid, with minor loss at head of front joint; small hole in leather on front board; lacking both free endpapers and lower corner of last leaf, with minor loss from… Read More

London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office by Harrison and Sons, 1916. Very Good. 10 p.; 33 cm. Sewn. "Miscellaneous. No. 34 (1916)." The detailed report on the typhus epidemic that occurred at the German internment camp at Gardelegen in 1915 was presented by Robert Younger (Baron Blanashburgh 1861-1946), the chairman of the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War. Robert Younger, Baron Blanashburgh, (1861-1946) was a Scottish barrister and judge. In Very Good Condition: "ABI" in ink at upper edge of front cover; lightly creased; otherwise, clean and solid.