Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Walkabout Books

North Yakima, WA: Yakima Commercial Club, 1912. Softcover. Very good. 10.5 x 7 inches, 64 pp, extensively illustrated in black and white, with color-illustrated covers (both outer and inner). Light handling wear; very good. A nicely produced early promotional book detailing the agricultural and natural resources, products, and prospects of the region. Includes sections on geography, climate, irrigation, soil, fruit-growing, berries and vegetables, hops, grains and grasses, livestock, transportation, local communities, etc.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 10.75" x 7.25", 104 pp, illustrated, in orignal red and grey cloth. Fine copy, with Verne Howard Mountaineering Books label on rear pastedown. Dust jacket has just a touch of shallow creasing to the top edge of the front panel, else fine, in a new mylar cover. Farquhar describes and provides full bibliographic details twenty-five books selected for their importance and rarity.

Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1850. Hardcover. Good. 4.5 x 6 inches, 64 pp, in original blind-stamped red boards with gilt title. Hand-colored frontispiece. Light soiling and general wear to boards, lacking front free endpaper. Penciled gift inscription on front flyleaf and poem on rear free endpaper (both likely contemporary), scattered foxing. The Preface conveniently provides the moral of the story: "We frequently find that the greatest enemies we have to encounter are our evil inclinations; but if we take as much pains to eradicate our prominent faults as the hero of this little story, our efforts will be crowned with similar success." The author published several other instructive tales for children.

New York: Harcout, Brace and World, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 368 pp. A fine copy, inscribed on the verso of the half-title page "For Harry -- with affections, admiration, and gratitude, Ken. May, 1968." Dust jacket has a small chip at the head of the spine, else fine. A sociological study of young people who were deeply involved in the movement against the war in Vietnam. According to the jacket, "The focus of the book is on the psychological development of these young men and women and on the impact of their experiences in the New Left.

Yuma, AZ: Yuma County Chamber of Commerce. 1930s promotional brochure. 20 pages, 9 x 8 inches when unfolded, extensively illustrated with half-tone photographs, double-page map at center. Showcases Yuma's businesses, irrigation and agricultural production (dates, figs, cotton, alfalfa, grapes, lettuce, canteloupes, pecans, grapefruits), mining, recreational opportunities. The last page describes the Yuma-Gila Irrigation project, then under construction and projected to bring 600,000 additional acres under cultivation.