Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Foldvaribooks

[Uruguay]: [S.n., Chute y Brooks(?)], 1880. Vintage photo album. In burgundy pebbled cloth, gilt title, and ornament on the front panel. 22 albumen prints mounted on album card leaves with printed decorative border and printed caption beneath. Binding rubbed, faded, corners bumped, with some damages to the extremities. One card damaged at the corner, with no effect on the photo. The first and last leaves are spotted, stained, with slight effect to the edges of the first and the last two photographs. The photos are sharp with rich tonal ranges, generally in fine condition. Overall the album is in very good condition.. Vintage photo album. In burgundy pebbled cloth, gilt title, and ornament on the front panel. 22 albumen prints mounted on album card leaves with printed decorative border and printed caption beneath. 22 albumen prints. Plate size: ca. 385 × 320 mm; Image size: ca. 237 × 170 mm. Early photo album of Montevideo, with scarce urban and ethnographic scenes of the city and the surroundings.… Read More

Warsaw: Basach, 1932. In original wrappers. In very nice condition. Artistically restored. In original wrappers. 18 pp. Cover illustration by M. Kohansky. Rare. One copy only in OCLC.

Budapest: Lampel, 1930. In original half cloth. The paper part of the binding is damaged.Insidide in fine condition,. In original half cloth. 543 p. Inscribed to Kuno Klebelsberg, the Hungarian Minister of Religion and Public Education.

Jerusalem: Turgeman (or Turgemon), 1920. First Jerusalem edition (second overall; first in Odessa, 1912). In publisher's printed wrappers. Illustrated. Artistically restored. Ownership stamps on the front cover, title page, and inside the book. Occasional brown stains. Paper yellowed due to aging. Overall in very good condition.. First Jerusalem edition (second overall; first in Odessa, 1912). In publisher's printed wrappers. Illustrated. [6] 3-161 [3] p. The first translation of the Arabian Nights into Hebrew, consists of sixteen selected stories. This scarce collection of sixteen selected stories is the first Hebrew translation of the Arabian Nights, done by David Yellin in 1912, for the then Odessa-based publishing house Turgeman. Turgeman was founded in 1911, besides others by Zeev Jabotinsky and Nachman Bialik, with the aim of introducing classic European and world literature to the Jewish audience in Hebrew translations. David Yellin (1864-1941), the Jerusalem-born educator and Zionist… Read More

[Lyon], 1840. [140] p., [2] loose large designs; [3] silk brocade samples (around 130 ×190 mm; 180 × 270 mm; 200 × 280 mm). Over 600 hand-colored, silk-pattern designs on paper in various dimensions (of which a dozen full-page, and two double-page), mounted onto plain sheets of a book. The book-block loosely inserted into an older vellum binding; unrelated title lettered on the front panel. The patterns are placed onto the first 71 pages (the remaining leaves left blank). In addition: 2 loose large designs, and 3 original silk brocade samples (stamped, labeled, and dated by the Yemeniz manufacture). The vellum binding is somewhat worn. The first pages are dusted, dogeared here and there. The pattern designs and the silk samples are in fine condition. Overall in very good condition. Nicolas Yemeniz's register book of silk-pattern designs, comprises more than 600 motifs, together with three original silk brocade samples. Nicolas Yemeniz (1781-1871) was a descendant of a Greek Phanariot family… Read More

Kharkiv, 1920. Fine condition. 12 x 17 cm. Vasyl Dmytrovych Yermylov (Ukrainian: Василь Дмитрович Єрмилов) (1894-1968) was a Ukrainian painter, avant-garde artist and designer. His genres included cubism, constructivism, and neo-primitivism.

Budapest, 1941. In original paper. In very good condition, the cover rubbed.. In original paper. 179 p. Inscribed by the author. Selvarajan Yesudian arrived in Hungary from India in 1937 and founded Europe's first yoga school in Budapest with Elisabeth Haich (in Hungarian: Haich Erzsébet) in 1941. After World War II in 1948 they had to close their school, when the communist regime came to power in the Soviet occupied country, and fled to Switzerland.

(Paris): Gallimard, 1980. Presentation copy. Inscribed to Bernard Hassell. In original, illustrated paper. In fine condition.. Presentation copy. Inscribed to Bernard Hassell. In original, illustrated paper. 282, (6) p. The dedication reads: à Bernard Hassel[!] en souvenir de notre rencontre à Paris et de deux bonnes soirées à Vence dans la maison entourée de beau jardin. Bien sympathiquement, Marguerite Yourcenar. 18 fév. 1981." Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) was a Belgian-born French author, who was the first women elected to the Académie française in 1980. Bernard Hassell (1930-1991) was an American actor and dancer, James Baldwin's companion. Baldwin (1924-1987) was an African American gay writer and civil rights activist. He and Yourcenar were good friends and in 1982 Yourcenar translated his play "The Amen Corner" into French.

1985. 3 pages manuscript letter in ink on two leaves. Folded twice. In fine condition.. 3 pages manuscript letter in ink on two leaves. Folded twice. 150 × 225 mm. Yourcenar reports about the tragically declining health of her last lover and travel companion Jerry Wilson the young American gay photographer. They were in India on a trip to Nepal when Jerry "fall dangerously ill around Jan. 25 from what we thought was malaria", but a doctor in India diagnosed "that it had to do with lungs". "Jerry thought that a stay at the sea-shore at Goa would help him" so the two stayed there for about 2 month and arrived back to New York in mid March. "Since than, an advanced tuberculosis of both lungs has been diagnosed". Yourcenar mentions that Jerry undergoes a "strong chemical treatment which makes him awfully weak" and writes that she won't "give his 'phone no, since he is so tired that he begged me not to give it to anyone". She provides Jerry's mother's address to send letter to him through her. Yourcenar… Read More

Moscow: Kino-Izdatelstvo (Kinopechat), 1926. Second edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. Old price in ink to rear. Spine slightly damaged, edges chipped. Overall in very good condition.. With five photographic illustrations.. With five photographic illustrations. Second edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. 15, (1) p. Early Soviet-Russian, illustrated biographical pamphlet on Max Linder, in constructivist cover. In the 1920s Kinopechat, the Soviet state publishing house for cinema, published a series of booklets focusing on the popular foreign film actors of the day. Each pamphlet was published with striking constructivist cover, designed by different artists, the cover of this brochure is uncredited. .