Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

Little Brown and Company, 1993. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 0 Blue Cloth and Yellow Paper over boards. During the decade prior to this book, the 'Fighting Irish' football program established a new set of standards among themselves: "Trash talking. Pregame fights. Off-field hell-raising. Academic misfits. Steroids, " dustjacket notes.

Tokyo.: International Society for Educational Information, Inc., 1990. 3rd printing. 1985 1st.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor cover wear.. 1 28 p. Includes illustrations. White illustrated covers. 8x9.25in. Color drawings by students, front and back covers. B&W photos throughout. ISEI had been disseminating information about Japan for 25 years When asked by the Council of Europe to provide information about Japanese school children written for children in other countries, this and a book about secondary schools were published.

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. First edition. 1st printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor small lower corner paper curl section toward back. Minor sun-fade to spine. Square. Tight.. 1 Trade paperback (US). 512 p. B&W Illustrations. Over 2, 000 entries, listed alphabetically: events, people, places, etc., woven together. Suggested Reading List. Appendix: Maps, Tables, Historic Documents, p.438-473. Index.

Princeton NJ.: Princeton University Press., 1963. 2nd printing. ©1962.. Hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket. Near fine, light top page block shelf soiling.. 1 Dark grey cloth over boards, decorated w/ silver and black graphic. Silver spine titles. 68 p. 23 cm. Includes Illustrations. Author was co-winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize; also corecipient of the Albert Einstein Commemorative Award. Listed near front: Vanuxem Lecturers at Princeton University, 1912-1960; multiple lectures in some years. Four panel fold-out chart at back, related to content of this lecture.

Windsor, VT: Self published., 2002. First edition.. Wraps. New. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author.. Schram, Laurie (Illustrated by).. 1 48 p. Includes illustrations. Not paginated, 8x6" horizontal pictorial cover; color drawings and photos. Danny visits Vermont and learns new values. Formatted for early readers with large print, colorful artwork. Includes photo of cheese-making process.

Yankee Publishing / Globe Pequot., 1999. 1st printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Small prior price inside, pencil mark over. Single light spine crease.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. B&W photos. Yankee Magazine Guidebook. Vintage tour guide, late 20th century. Feature: "What the Locals Know". Local travel resources, maps.26 travel writer stories. Sampler: prettiest towns.

Indianapolis.: Bobbs Merrill., 1931. First edition. Likely 1st. No print line.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Foxing to front end papers. Lower page block: single small insect condo, empty, not penetrating secret code info. Age-toning; lesser quality acidic text paper.. 1 375 p. Black cloth over boards; red titles. 22 cm. Deckled outside page block. Larger, readable text font size. B&W author casual portrait frontispiece plate. Facsimile code pages, tricks-of-trade codes. Secrets unveiled: In 1928, the Black Chamber de-codification operations were suspended in America by order of a new Secretary of State, following guidelines to no longer "read" coded international messages. The Black Chamber, known as the Cryptographic Bureau, specialists examined cypher telegrams of foreign governments, "where chemists forge diplomatic seals and photograph letters of foreign plenipotentiaries". The author fostered this secret organization for the American… Read More

Rachelle Park NJ.: Hayden Book Company., 1978. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Edge wear to jacket.. 1 Red cloth over boards w/ light blue titles and eagle graphic. 181 p. Audience: General/trade. Rare. Written for parents and teachers. A veteran teacher of reading teachers, author Yarington identifies "The Great American Reading Machine" as "the interlocking mutual self-interest created over the years among government agencies, textbook publishers, reading experts, language arts coordinators, and classroom teachers". Each has a stake in the self-promoting "business of reading".

New York: Dell (Yearling), 1971. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Minor spine crease. "Merry Christmas, John, from Aunt Jean, Dedcember 25, 1971. ". Unwin, Nora S. 0 Glued binding. 181 p. Audience: Young adult. Pen&ink chapter heading illustrations; Cover in black, magenta, blue, w/red frame & back. During 1725, At-Mun was captured by a slave trader in Africa's Gold Coast. By the end of the century, he was a free man, living in Jaffrey, NH, and this is his true story, written for a youth audience. Winner of the Newbery Award. Yates is also a Sarah Josepha Hale Award author in Newport, NH, given annually by the Richards Free Library Trustees since 1956.

New York.: John Day Company., 1964. First edition. Presumed first. No print line.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Jacket has minor edge wear at spine ends. Light shelf soiling.. Sipprell, Clara (B&W photos by).. 1 Red cloth over boards. old spine titles. 249 p. 22 cm. Includes Portraits. Biography / Christianity / Boston University 1950s-1960s. A minister and teacher whose quest was for common experience binding people together; a mystic of his time. In 1953, Life magazine chose Dr. Thurman as one of America's 12 great preachers. He was Dean of Marsh Chapel at Boston University, 1953-1964. Chronological bibliography of works by Howard Thurman: p. 241-242. The Daytona Beach FL native was the grandson of slaves.

Woodstock VT.: The Countryman Press., 1987. First edition. Presumed 1st printing. No print line.. Trade paperback. Fine. Signed by author. Back cover publisher price markered out. Short sun-fade bar, top front cover.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 86 p. Audience: Children/juvenile; Young adult. Like the decades earlier accepted Seeing Eye Dogs aiding sight-impaired individuals, Hearing Ear Dogs are specially trained to care for and alert hearing-impaired people. Willa, 24 in this true account, lost her hearing at age 14, and is aided by her companion Hearing Ear Dog, Honey. Coverage of how the dogs are trained and rewarded, and how people adjust, leading to greater self-reliance. Elizabeth Yates is a Newbery Award winning author from New England.

The Archaeological Society of Alexandria, 1971. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Routine soiling to simple white covers. Glued squarely over spine; stapled binding.. 1 105x2 p. Includes diagrams. Three-language publication, half English & French, text repeated in Arabic, or vice versa. Single fold-out (4 leaves) B&W diagram of The Funerary Complex of Horus Neter-Khet; numbered key in English. B&W photo plates. Authors: Yehya (Greek Political Thought); Nabil Swelim (Funerary Complex at Sakkara); Georges Moazzo (Text in French, Interprétations, Deux Representations Anciennes); Omar Abdel-Aziz Omar (First Egyptian Railway, 1851-1858); Soheir Bakhoum (French, Une Statue en Bois de Sarapis au Musée Greco-Romain d'Alexandrie); Mostafa el Abbadi (Working Conditions in Greco-Roman Egypt).

Smithmark Publishers, 1986. First edition. 1st printing;. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Wonderful edition. Top corners appear to have been bumped slighly somewhere in its history. Just a minor wrinkled squashed look and feel half-inch in.. Various photo credits. 0 Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade. High Quality paper. 9.5x12 in. Color-coded rail routes and timeline 1906-1986, Largest US Railroads. Historic color and B&W photos are used well adn often dramatically. Technical reproduction of photos is fine. A visual and text history.

Newport NH.: The Friends of the Richards Library., 1993. Purchase of this edition helps support Richards Free Library.. Trade paperback. New. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by both Yeomans and Thorpe.. Scott, Ernest (Design by).. 1 Gray card stock paper. Glued binding. 80 p. 22 cm. Index. B&W photos. Pen&Ink on cover. The story of a public library is the story of community and the supports through generation of its members. Thus, this is that story for Newport, New Hampshire, in Sullivan County. One extraordinary aspect of Richards Free Library is the annually given Sarah Josepha Hale Award given to a New England based author each year on the merit of her or his body of work. The first recipient was poet Robert Frost. The most recent in 2019 was novelist Jodi Picoult. Sarah Josepha Hale was a Newport native and proponent of education for girls and women, and many other themes found in Godey's Lady's Book, a magazine which she edited well into her 80s. Widowed and with children to… Read More

New York: Dial Press, 1965. Book Club Edition. . Hard cover. Fine in fair dust jacket. Jacket pieces neatly taped inside, missing front and spine.. 1 Red washable material over boards. Black spine title box. Gold spine titles. vi, 471 p.; 22 cm. HIstorical fiction featuring a Christian Visigoth and reluctant feudal kingdom heir at a time of multi-ethnic tensions, violence and proximity: the Visigoths, Islamic Arabs, Berbers, Yemenites, Byzantine Greeks, Jews, and Egyptians, all on the Iberian Peninsula. Yerby was a master storyteller, and a prolific published author, with many of his tales becoming movies and book club selections. This is a well-researched work. Yerby had lived in Spain and traveled these roads.

New York.: Dial Press., 1967. Book Club Edition. . Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Small soil-splash spots (4), bottom page block. Tight, clean inside. Tiny spine indent point.. 1 Black pebbled mock leather / vinyl over boards. White spine titles w/ design. 469 p. 24 cm. Historical fiction by popular and prolific mid-20th century American author Frank Yerby, this novel breaks away from his American and Spanish settings to explore a story line in Ancient Greece. Introductory quote in early Greek from Xenophon: , "The Symposium" iii, 7. A lead character, the Lakedaemonian, Ariston, has stopped running, momentarily, with a stolen kid goat. He was trying to outrun angry villagers, eager to kill a hungry Spartan thief.

New York.: Dutton Paperback., 1964. 1963 Dutton translation copyright.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Signed by previous owner. Moderate page block soiling. Minor cover surface wear. Clean interior. Tight binding.. Davis, Paul (Cover Design by). 1 Mass-market (rack) paperback. 124 p. B&W Photo section. Memoir by Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko of his first 30 years. When part of this work was published in Paris in 1963, Soviet authorities attacked the author, a youth idol who insisted on thinking for himself in an oppressive society. His themes are of love of country and literature.

Beijing, People's Republic of China.: Foreign Languages Press., 1981. First edition.. Trade paperback. Very good. Signed by previous owner. Minor cover blemishing.. 1 63 p. Horizontal format, colorfully illustrated paper covers. Glued binding. 8x7 in. Beautiful color artwork, all pages; minimal storyline beneath art. Traditional Chinese tale set about 13, 000 years ago. Xuan Zang of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) went westward to search for Buddhist scriptures. The journey to India was filled wth difficulties. "Immortal Fruit" is adapted from an animated cartoon, based on one episode in the novel "Pilgrimage to the West" by 16th century writer Wu Chengen. Characters include the disciple Monkey and greedy Pigsy.

Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2008. First edition. 1st Kensington printing.. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Closed tear. lower spine. Classy book design, but shows wear. Clean pages.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 421 p. Reading Group Guide at back. Trade paperback designed with flyleaf fold-ins. Audience: General/trade. Subtitle: "Behind its doors, a world of sensuality and intrigue awaits." Opens in California, where a young woman and her fiance arrive to record her great-grandmother's story, which itself begins in China. Precious Orchid's life changed when her father was accused and found guyilty, executed, leaving his family to a life of dishonor. HIs wife sends her daughter to relatives in Shanghai, and she herself enters a Buddhist nunnery. The girl finds her surroundings pleasant in Shanghai, and she is schooled in the arts, literature, and in pleasuring men. Her dream, however is to be reunited with her mother, toavenge her father, and to… Read More

Christian Light Publications.: Park View Press., 1977. Lithographed.. Trade paperback. Fine.. Sensenig, Verna M (Art and Layout by).. 1 32 p. Color photo of needlepoint. Stapled binding. Color and B&W artwork, photos. 18 cm. Christian theme. Author adopted a family of 5 Siamese kittens. She worked to give them good nutrition, and a warm loving home.