Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Chilton Books

Tring: Lion Publishing. 1982.. Introduces the sophisticated lifestyle and the superstitious beliefs of ordinary people in the first century AD. Takes the reader to the gladiatorial games and pagan temples, introduces Jewish sects, Greek thinkers and Roman emperors". 24cms x 17.5cms. Pp 128, many colour and b/w illustrations, name to verso front cover. P/b, illustrated cover. VG

Milton Keynes: Summit Publishing. 1995.. Helps us see signs of God's presence in all the overlooked and even ordinary times of life". Pp 266, ex. libris inkstamps to title and rear endpaper. P/b, clear protective wrap affixed. G+.

Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 2000.. Here is straight talk on life with God for the man or woman who wants more than pat answers to life's imponderables." Pp. 301. Pbk. VG.

London: Church Information Office. 1959.. This Book of Lessons for the kindergarten age group (5-7) is designed to fit in with A Scheme of Training for Church Children C.I.B)". Pp 215. P/b, creasing to spine, illustrated cover. G+.

Bucks.: St. Paul Publications, 1970.. Rep. Service of Baptism. Pp. 61. P/b. Illustd. cover. VG.

London: OUP,1959.. 1st ed. Pp.134. Blue cloth, d/w. VG/VG.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1966.. 1st ed. "...the author examines the problem of divine omniscience in relation to human freewill and neuro-physiological determinism, and deals in a fresh manner with the great questions of Christology and the hope of eternal life." Pp. 234. Mottled red cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w has sunning to spine. VG/G+.

Boston: The Harmony Shop, 1905.. 1st edition. Allegorical story. Pp.32, minor spotting to front endpapers, owner's inkstamp to front free endpaper, small bookseller's label (The Art Store, Sloane Sq) to inside front board small loss to corner tip of front free endpaper. Yellow illustrated boards with faint pink marbled pattern, slightly rubbed. G+.** "At the turn of the last century, around 1903, Ms. Yates began publishing stories intended to teach Christian Science to children of all ages. She labeled them �for boys and girls both little and �grown tall.�� Ms. Yates says of her stories, �The little books of �Marjorie and the Dream� series are not written primarily for children in years; but are for the little girl or boy within, who never has grown up, and never will grow up. Those who would find the kernel of these bits of allegory, have but to know that Marjorie is this ever-young child within; and the Dream, beside his dream character, is the prosecuting attorney, self-analysis, who… Read More

Privately printed: T Yates, Shoreditch College, 1958 .. A well bound printed thesis containing many black & white photographs. ff.39 (leaves). maroon leatherette covers with gilt title. Clean type-written manuscript and black & white pictures. Churches covered include: Greensted; Blackmore; Stock; South Benfleet; High Easter; Thaxted; and Theydon Garnon.

London: Diamond Books, 1996.. The author's classic collection of Irish myths and legends, tales of witches, fairies, giants and people of the otherworld, draws on the glorious storytelling tradition of Ireland." Pp, 160, many b/w sketch illustrations. P/b, illustrated cover. G+.

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1926.. 1st combined edition.Charles Ricketts binding. Contents: I. Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1914); II.The Trembling of the Veil 1922) - i.Four Years:1887-1891; ii.Ireland after Parnell; iii.Hodos Chameliontos; iv.The Tragic Generation; v.The Stirring of the Bones; Notes - I.The Hermetic Students; II.The Vision of an Archer. Pp.viii/477, portrait frontispiece photogravure + colour tipped-in plate (Memory Harbour painted by Jack B. Yeats) 3 more black & white portrait photogravure plates (all plates with tissue guards), Charles Ricketts "Unicorn" bookplates (a unicorn couching on pearls before a fountain, backed by a cave full of stars, with a hawk contemplating the moon on top of the cave) to front and rear pastedowns. Green cloth with Charles Ricketts blind-stamped decoration to front board, gilt title to spine, slight fading to spine and top front edge. Scarce in this binding. VG.

London: SCM, 1930.. Chapters include: I. Psychology and Religion; II. Freud and Jung; III. The Analytical Point of View; IV. "Mental Mechanisms"; V. The Elements of Religious Experience; VI. Repression and Religion; VII. Psychological Criticisms; VIII. Suggestion and Religion; IX. Some Further Considerations. Appendix - "Spiritual Healing". Pp.190/2(ads). Brown cloth, title to spine dulled. G+.

Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2006.. Michael Yelton was afforded unrestricted access to the archives iof the Shrine to produce thus definitive work which sets out previously unpublished material on Hope Patten's family and background and explores many of the myths which he created about himself. It records the struggles he had - personal and financial - to establish his dream in the Norfolk countryside, the failure of his vision in other areas and assesses his lasting legacy to the Church of England.� Pp.x/255, 48 black & white photo illustrations, owner's name to half-title page, slight toning to pages. Paperback. G+.

London: Epworth Press. 1966.. 1st ed. "A handbook for leaders to help in the preparation of epilogues and other acts of worship........There is also a collection of appropriate prayers and some specimen epilogues". Pp 71. P/b. VG.

Scottdale:A Concern Reprint, nd.. Reprint. "There must be many who will share my sense of envy and relief that what is said in this book, with its manifest Biblical foundation and its fearless exposure of sundry prevalent sphistries, is just what we would have wished to be able to say ourselves.! (Franz Hildebrandt. Foreword). Pp.25. Pbk. VG.

Illinois: Neil A. Kjos Music Company, 1961.. Thirty-five favorite tunes arranged in true Barber Shop harmonization. Piano introductions are optional." Pp.38/2 pages for filling in 'Your Own Specials' on the provided musical staves. Pbk, owners details to top of front cover. G+.

London: Methuen, 1934.. 1st ed. Poetry. Ex theological college library. Pp.8/120, some pages uncut, library inkstamps to endpapers and title page. Red cloth, spine faded, original paper label for front loosely inserted. G+.

Croydon: DTS Publishing, 1996.. 1st edition. The Singapore Traction Company once boasted it had "the largest trolleybus system in the world". This comprehensive book begins with a brief introduction to Singapore and its history with particular emphasis on its transport. The second part of the book gives type by type descriptions of the trams, trolleybuses and buses operated in Singapore from the 1880s to the 1960s. 30cms x 21cms. Pp.256, black & white phot illustrations throughout + several line drawing route maps. Green photo-illustrated laminated boards. VG.

London: Dryad Press, 1985.. 1st ed. "Each pattern is accompanied by either a diagram or a photograph which clearly shows the construction details, which tatters in any country will find invaluable." 25cms x 18cms. Pp.88, 59 line drawings and 47 photographs, owners name to fep and pen amendments to 'Suppliers' page to rear. Illustrated laminated boards. G+.

Harare: Weaver Press, 2007.. Before 'Harare' replaced 'Salisbury' as Zimbabwe's capital city in 1982, the name belonged to the country's first black township, now called Mbare. How and when did the township come into being? In this pioneering study, Tsuneo Yoshikuni offers a fascinating social history of urban development in the early twentieth century."Pp.vi/162, occasional black & white photos + 20 figure illustrations. Paperback, minor creasing to covers. Scarce. VG.