Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Sanctuary Books

Hardcover. Very Good. Half mottled cloth and leather boards; 10 x 13 inches; approximately 200 pages, nearly bursting with photographs and ephemera relating to student life at turn-of-the-century Yale. Compiled by a Mr. Jay Morse Pickands (1890-1913), whose family was prominent in the industrial and commercial life of Cleveland, Ohio. (His father, Col. James Pickands, co-founded Pickands, Mather, and Co., Iron Ore, Pig Iron, and Coal.) While at Yale, Jay Pickands was affiliated with Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and seemed an active participant in many sporting events, theater events, and possibly a secret society (Scroll and Key). This unique tome manages to amass the commonplace and the surprising – though significantly more of the latter. It begins with all the trappings of Freshman life (a student handbook, list of rules, course offerings, exam schedules, school songs, telegrams, bills, invitations to debates), then quickly gives way to sports (football, swimming, baseball – and we know… Read More

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. Cloth; dust jacket; oblong 8vo; pp. 117, illustrated in b/w throughout. Book is near fine, in chipped and torn dust jacket.

Moscow: Gosizdat, 1924. Paperback. Very Good. Typographic designs in text by Rodchenko, original wrappers with photomontage designs and Constructivist typography by Rodchenko. Jim Dollar was the pseudonym for Marietta Shaginian, and this saga was the equivalent of an American ‘dime-store’ novel. 10 volumes in this series were printed, satires aimed at American capitalism and its bourgeois society. Rodchenko’s photomontage designs for these publications would soon be in vogue as a propaganda tool. Strongly influenced by early Soviet Avant-Garde film makers, Rodchenko came up with a uniform design for this series, with changeable elements from one issue to the next. The print-run was large, approximately 25,000 per issue; however copies were generally discarded and survivals are scarce. For the moment, offering our three issues as a group.

London: Methuen, 1985. Paperback. Near Fine. Wraps; 8vo; pp. 249. Signed by Sher on the title-page. Aside from some very light rubbing along joints and edges, book is fine. With a laid-in advertisement for Sher's book signing.

Boston: C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original tan paper boards and printed paper label. First Issue, one of the first available copies, issued without the errata slip (rare thus). Lowell's first book, preceeded by the pamphlet, "Class Poem". An exceptionally nice copy, with light wear only.

Boston: C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. First issue. Errata slip at the end. Original tan paper boards, chip to base of spine; cover a bit rubbed and stained (but better than most!) and printed paper label. Lowell's first book, preceeded by the pamphlet, "Class Poem". Early bookplate of Alexander L. Wyant.

New York: Pageant Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Yellow cloth. Fine copy in dust jacket with slight wear. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, “For my good friend Doug Fairbanks with every good wish for the years that will be. Jimmy Beck. Plaisance, Newport, R.I.”

St. Petersburg: Marks, 1896, 1911. Paperback. Very Good. Collection of 6 volumes: 5 issues from July, September-December 1896 in original wraps; 1 from 1911, half calf and cloth. Volumes in wraps -- covers rubbed, chipped along the edges and, in two instances, sometimes detached but present (nos. 7, 12). Single hardbound volume -- boards a bit scuffed. All volumes illustrated, internally clean. An exellent working set.

New York: Harper & Row, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Black cloth; illustrated dust jacket; 8vo; pp. x, 246. Book is fine. Dust jacket very lightly chipped and scuffed along the edges; some tiny specks of soiling here and there; not price-clipped. A nice, bright copy.

USA: Palmer Products, 1930. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good+. Original brown wraps, lettered in red. 143 pp. With numerous illustrations throughout. Light edgewear, but a nice copy overall of a scarce golf book. Sold with no guarantees that you can or will break 80 after purchase.

New York: Henry Holt, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. With wood engravings by Thomas W. Nason. 8vo; 94 pp. Original cloth in price-clipped DJ, with tear to front panel. Nice clean copy.

San Francisco: Printed for Private Distribution by H. S. Crocker Company, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. Paper-covered boards; with frontispiece and text printed in red and black, with decorative gilt border. Boards and endpapers a little dust-smudged; spine tips and corners gently bumped. With laid-in prospectus (a bit wrinkled).

New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by the author in 1934 in a shaky hand. Near fine copy in very good dustwrapper, which is edgeworn and has a small chip at the top of the spine, and another at the bottom of the rear panel. Attractive pictorial jacket.

London: Hutchinson, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 195. Inscribed by the author to Lauren Bacall, "For Betty, with much love, from Antonia, 14 May 1987." (Lauren Bacall was born in the Bronx as Betty Joan Perske, and only close friends and loved ones used her real name. Antonia Fraser is the widow of Harold Pinter, who directed Bacall in Tennessee Williams's "Sweet Bird of Youth.") Spine tips and corners lightly rubbed, otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket somewhat age-toned, and a little wrinkled along the edges. A Jemima Shore novel. Lauren Bacall (born in the Bronx as Betty Joan Perske, 1924-2014) was an American actress known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks. Howard Hawks (director, producer, screenwriter) changed her first name to Lauren, and Perske adopted "Bacall," a variant of her mother's maiden name (of Romanian Jewish descent), as her screen surname. The young Lauren Bacall,… Read More

New York: Heron Press, 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine. Decorative paper over boards, backed in gilt-stamped cloth; 8vo; pp. 69, illustrated, pages unopened. Spine tips and corners lightly bumped, otherwise fine.

Paris: Au Pont des Art, 1950. Paperback. Near Fine. Two portfolios in wrappers. 2 lithographic illustrations in multiple colors (front and back), one lithographic set of plates in green, and an additional suite of 31 loose lithographic plates (of which 3 are colored, the rest in black) at back. Contents complete and loose as issued in publisher's wrappers, chemise and slipcase. LIMTED EDITION, number LIII of 150 copies numbered LI-CC, of a total edition of 1,750. With Boston Book and Art Shop stamp on title-page. Contents very fresh and fine. Slipcase with crack at back.