Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Chris Hartmann, Bookseller

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co.. Hardcover. 1974. 1st Edition. 8vo 289pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations .

New York: Bantam Books. Paperback. 1959. 1st thus. 12mo 248pp . Fine with no DJ. Mass Market PB Inspired by the brutal Loeb-Leopold murder case. Story of two young men driven by abnormal passions to the crime that shocked the nation .

Philadelphia: Univ. Of Pennsylvania Press. Hardcover. 1990. 1st Edition. 8vo 365pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. Translated with and introduction and commentary by David B. Ruderman Yagel (1553-c.1624) , a physician, natural philosopher, and kabbalist, composed his Hebrew work, A Valley of Vision, in Italy at the end of the 16th century. It is an autobiographical account of the vicissitudes of the author's years as a Jewish loan-banker. It is also a description of a heavenly journey he is taken on by the soul of his recently deceased father, who visits his son while he is imprisoned in Mantua for debt. Finally, it is a series of theological and moral discussions based on the insights of Judaism, particularly the kabbalah as understood by Yagel and his Italian contemporaries .

Hollywood, CA: Vedanta Press. Hardcover. 1961. 1st Edition. 8vo 224pp . Very Good in Very Good- DJ. Front edges foxed, some foxing on text and DJ rear panel foxed . The record of a journey by an American to the great holy places of India, and his study of the Ramakrishna Order and movement .

London: Jonathan Cape. Hardcover. 1993. 1st Edition. Thick 8vo 580pp . Very Good in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations Bottom corners lightly bumped Story of Carlos the Jackal from the Bekaa Valley .

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers. Hardcover. 2007. 1st Edition. 8vo 530pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. Investigative journalist Yallop explores the myths and half truths of John Paul II’s long reign and asks some difficult questions ranging from the role of the Vatican in the momentous events in 1989, and the continued mismanagement of Vatican finance, to the failure to address the child sexual abuse crisis and the rise of Opus Dei. Including revelations from the CIA, the KGB, and the Vatican itself, this is an unflinching look at a man who may soon become a saint .

New York: Random House. Hardcover. 1988. 1st Edition. 8vo 357pp . Fine in Fine DJ. Small neat ink name & date. Looks at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City .

New York: Basic Books. Hardcover. 1993. 2nd Printing. 8vo 308pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations Remainder mark .

New York: Kodansha International. Hardcover. 1988. 1st Edition. Tall 8vo 134pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. Slight damage at bottom of spine. DJ price clipped and lightly wrinkled at base of spine .

New York: Miramax Books. Hardcover. 2002. 1st Edition. 8vo 318pp . Fine in Fine DJ. Color Photographs .

New York: Exposition Press. Hardcover. 1962. 1st Edition. Thin 8vo 64pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. DJ is dust soiled and has a rubber stamped price on the inside front flap. Self-published book of poems. Very scarce .

New York: Harper & Row. Hardcover. 1986. 8vo 215pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. Rear cover edge bumped, DJ clipped Not a first edition A 14-year-old girl meets an intriguing stage musician on board an ocean liner and the cruise is disrupped by a series of apparently impossible murders .

New York: Warner Books. Paperback. 1980. 1st thus. 16mo 304pp . Very Good with no DJ. Mass Market PB. Based on an original story by Jeff Millar and Alex Stern and a screenplay by Ronald Shusett and Dan O' Bannon .

New York: Random House. Hardcover. 1977. 2nd Printing. 8vo 415pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations DJ price clipped .

New York: Oxford Univ. Press. Hardcover. 1959. 1st Edition. Thin 8vo . Good+ in Good+ DJ. Slight waterstain on spine cloth with some light silverfish damage, DJ waterstained at bottom of spine .

London: Oxford Univ. Press. Hardcover. 1960. 1st Edition. Small 8vo 119pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. Attractive bookplate on front pastedown. DJ lightly rubbed. A book about the eucharist written by an Anglican .

New York: Macmillan. Hardcover. 1959. 1st Edition. 8vo 207pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. Deals with our understanding of the order of nature, with some of the central doctrines of Christianity, and with the pressing ethical and moral problems of the industrial and nuclear age .

Fort Pierce, FL: Pioneer River Press. Hardcover. 2008. 1st Edition. Oblong 8vo 175pp . Fine in Near Fine DJ. Color Illustrations. DJ has a one-half inch closed tear at top edge of front panel . Artwork by Richard A. Kelly. Profusely illus. In color .

Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair. Hardcover. 1997. 1st Edition. 8vo 97pp . Fine in Fine DJ. Color Photographs. Photographs by William A. Bake. Portrait of a beautiful valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. An Episcopal bishop christened the place Valle Crucis -- Latin for Vale of the Cross. It became the site of the first Episcopal monastery since the sixteenth century .

Canaan, NH: Phoenix Pub.. Hardcover. 1981. 1st Edition. 8vo 97pp . Fine in Fine DJ. Seeking shelter on a night of wild weather, an oddly assorted group of people come to know each other .