Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Flamingo Books

Harvest Home Park Board. Good. [1982] M&D Printing Co. / Harvest Home Park Board (Yates City, Illinois), 8 3/8 x 11 inches tall blue cloth hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), silver design and lettering to front cover and spine, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs, maps and facsimiles, 112 pp. Slight staining, rubbing and edgewear to covers, especially the fore edge of the rear cover. Slight bumping to lower tips. Prior owner gift inscription to top margin of blank front free-endpaper. A few pages with slight creasing. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce local history. OCLC (No. 26156730) locates only three copies at institutions worldwide. ~SP13~ [2.0P] Produced for its 125th anniversary, a town history of Yates City, Illinois, a village in Knox County, northwest Illinois. Filled with captioned images of residents and more than 100 images of their homes identified by family name and address, making this an important tool for the… Read More

Golden Gate Academy, 1978-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1978 first edition Golden Gate Academy (Oakland, California), 7 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches tall white cloth hardbound, no dust jacket (as issued), black lettering and design to front cover, brown endpapers, filled with black-and-white photographs, 124 pp. Moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Mild soiling, abrasions and creasing to a few pages. Student name and phone number to last blank free-endpaper. ~SP44~ The 1978 yearbook of Golden Gate Academy, founded in 1923 as a Seventh-day Adventist elementary and high school on Alcatraz Avenue in Berkeley, California. It remained there for 23 years until it moved to its current position in the Oakland Hills next to Holy Names University in 1949.

Century Co, 1931. hardcover. Good/Missing. 0x0x0. 1931 signed and inscribed first edition, The Century Co. (New York), 5 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches tall black cloth haredcover, no dust jacket, blind emboss design to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, viii, 307 pp. Slight to moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with mild bumping to all four tips. Spine is very slightly cocked. Nicely inscribed and signed by the author in the year of issue on the blank front free-endpaper. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce issue. Authenticity of signature guaranteed in perpetuity. ~RR~ [2.0P] Novel for adults about 'growing up an American boy.' Prolific U.S. author Parker Hoysted Fillmore (1878–1944) is probably best remembered today for his books of folktales and fairy tales for children drawn from the folklore of Central and Northern Europe. One of his best-known works is Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1919), a collection of 15… Read More

F Hazan Editions, 1999-03-10. paperback. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. 1999 Editions Hazan (Paris)5 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches tall x 1 1/2 inches thick paperbound volume in pictorial covers with a matching dust jacket, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs and maps, 587 pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers and dust jacket. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~RR~ [3.5P] This unique book is an unforgettable journey into the heart of yiddishland, a mythical and real land that has never appeared on a map of the world, but whose frontiers have forged rivers, crossed oceans and spanned continents. Although, tragically, it no longer exists, yiddishland - a huge area that stretched from Poland to the Ukraine, Belorussia, Romania, Bessarabia, Eastern Hungary and the Baltic States - lives on through the telling imagery of the humble postcard. Gleaned from the millions preserved in attics, trunks and Jewish family archives all over the world, this… Read More

L.B. Osborne. Very Good. 1999 first edition, L.B. Osborne (n.p.), 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall spiral bound (black plastic comb) with a clear cover and red back, thoroughly indexed, 94 pp. plus supplementary materials. Light to moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. A few pages with light creasing. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this rare genealogy and family history of a coastal Georgia family. Not in OCLC. ~UUU~ [2.0P] Traces the descendants of Moses Young (1761-1845) and Catherine Mackdonald of Darien, a city in McIntosh County, on Georgia's coast at the mouth of the Altamaha River, approximately 50 miles south of Savannah. Apart from Young, among the other surnames most extensively covered: Adams, Andrews, Bagley, Barnette, Branson, Burkette, Butler, Carter, Clark, Collins, Davis, Deal, Dykes, Faircloth, Floyd, Gerrald, Ginn, Hagerman, Hart, Herndon, Hood, Jernigan, Lee, Maulden, McCallie, McCants, McIntosh, Merkerson, Mitchum, Moye, Nettles, Osborne,… Read More

Froben Press. Good. 1949 signed and inscribed first edition Froben Press, Inc. (NY), 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall red cloth hardbound in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, 24 illustrations by Carl Brill, 155 pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with a bit of bumping to the tips. Nicely inscribed and signed by the author on the blank front free-endpaper. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a lightly soiled and moderately edgeworn dust jacket with several tape repairs to the verso but which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~DDD~ Dr. Albert P. Seltzer (1902 - 1981) was a noted specialist in ear, nose and throat disease and a plastic surgeon. he received his medical degree in 1944 from the University of Pennsylvania, and later became a professor of otorhinolaryngology there. He was chief of the otolaryngology departments at Philadelphia General Hospital, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Mercy… Read More