Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Carpe Diem Fine Books

Np: Yale University Class of 1935, 1951. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. Quarto; [6], [4], [10], 36, 11pp. Typed pages bound in blue paper wrappers; printed label to front cover. A near fine copy. According to a cover letter from Field, Secretary of the Yale Class of 1935, this publication was produced following the class' Fifteenth Reunion. Included in the assemblage is the 4-page program for 'A Memorial Service' held during the reunion (full-page bios of two class members who died after the reunion are also included). Following that are 4 pages of photos from the reunion (with a key to the photos); 1 page 'Treasurer's Report;' 35 pages of '1935 Biographical Sketches' of class members followed by a '1935 Biographies Supplementary List.'.

New York: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only, 1922. 1st. Hardcover. Limited #206 of 1225 copies. 8vo. 406pp. Translated from the original Russian by Bernard Guilbert Guerney. Green leather spine and corner tips over lighter green paper boards; 5 raised bands and gilt lettering to spine; marbled endpapers. Fine condition. Originally written between 1909 and 1915 in three parts, here is the first translated edition of the Russian novelist's indictment of the lives and evils of prostitution. Yama the Pit refers to a run-down section on the outskirts of Odessa. All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request.

Paris: Geuthner, 2011. First Edition. Large 8vo. 354 pp; [4pp color plates. Bibliography. Includes CD in rear pocket. Preface by Niccolas Elias. Color illustrated softcover in fine condition. The Yayla are the pastures where the yörük , nomads and semi-nomads Turkmen, lead their herds in May and it is now more often the place where these nomads ended up settling. Thus, in the southwest of Turkey, not far from the Mediterranean, in a few yayla from Western Taurus, musicians rehearse music over and over again to encourage relatives or friends to dance. The resulting monograph starts from this small country of dancers, its musical conceptions, its habits , exploring the concepts of rhythm, territory and minority. Questioning the deep nature of this rural world which remains very little studied by anthropology, the author proposes a "geomusicology": because music is here not only an object of study, but also a link between a landscape and men who inhabit it.

Washington: American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers, 1947. 1st. Softcover. Slight sunningto spine area; minor wear to extremities else near fine.. 8vo. 38pp. Illustrated with 10 mounted bookplates and 7 full-page black & white plates. Original mauve wraps with silk tie. From the personal library of Clare Ryan Talbot , noted collector, appraiser, dealer, writer, and historian of bookplates. Ms. Talbot has made the following notes in pencil "Keep with Saunders material. Irene Pace's article on RTS with excellent picture of her. It is due to Ruth that I began serious bookplate writing and publishing. C.R.T. Sept, '69." A nice association copy. Articles on W.H.W. Bicknell, Ruth Thompson Saunders with checklists on Bicknell, Saunders and Arthur N. MacDonald.

San Francisco: D. L. Hughes & Associates, 1954. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. 315pp, including index of advertisers. Black & white illustrations; photographs; drawings; advertisements. Red cloth covered boards; white stamped "S" on front board. Minor wear to extremities else fine. Includes forewords by James H. Hart, President of the Stanford Club of San Francisco; Marion R. Reich, President of the East Bay Stanford Club; and R. Chris Jenkins, President of the San Jose Stanford Club. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Los Angeles: Students of Los Angeles High School, 1939. 1st. Paperback. 12mo. 64 pp. Stiff blue staplebound wrappers in near fine condition (owner name; slight tanning). Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

San Francisco: Alameda County Society of Architects, 1916. 1st. Original boards. First Edition. Quarto; 123, [3]pp Index to Advertisers. Photo-illustrations; business advertisements. Decorative bookplate for 'William Dickey Merrill.' Good (chipped and soiled white paper-covered boards with lettering in gold withsplitting and chipping to spine; contents Near Fine. The first exhibition of the Alameda County Society of Architects, was held October 2-10, 1916 in the Oakland Municipal Auditorium. This scarce (copies found only in UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library and the California Historical Society) yearbook chronicles the exhibition, and reproduces works by a veritable Who's Who of Bay Area architects of the time, including C.W. Dickey, John Galen Howard, Julia Morgan, Willis Polk, J.J. Donovan and Lewis P. Hobart. The book features a frontispiece, 'Cathedral in the Forest,' by newly elected member of the SF Chapter of AIA (and later famed space artist) Chesley K. Bonestell. Laid in is an unused 'C.W.… Read More

Los Angeles; London: The Science Society; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1931. First Edition. 8vo.40 pp. Illustrations. Blue cloth in very good condition. Japan adopted the practice of using year names of "Nengoh" during 645 A D (the first year of Taikwa). Since then the accession of a new emperor, with the exception of a few, has been marked with a new year title, exactly as has been the custom in China. During the reign of some of the emperors, as many as six new titles have been adopted. Ambiguities have often occurred in computation of time, due to frequent changes of year titles. Changes may take place at any time of the year, and from the time of the change on till the end of that year, no matter how short, it is called the first year under the new title. Thus that same calendar year has two different titles. This volume provides a comparison of historical dates of two Oriental nations but is also of use to specialists in Oriental arts and scholars of ancient documents, scripts, pictures… Read More

Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. 1st. Hardbound. Near Fine copy. Octavo, 1082 pages.

St. Paul: W. C. Riley, 1889. First Edition. Oblong 12mo (5 1/2 x 7 1/2"). 71 photo-lithograph views on 23 accordion-fold panels. Engraved by Chas Frey, Frankfurt, Germany from photographs by Ingersoll and Haynes. Gilt-embossed brown cloth covers. Minor wear to extremities, boards slightly bowed; else a near fine copy of a scarce Yellowstone title. Includes images of Yellowston National Park: Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel; Mammoth Hot Springs; Falls west of Garner River; Excelsior Geyser; Norris Geysers; Fishing at Gibbon Falls; Fountain Geyser; Mammoth Paint Pots; Hell's Half Acre; Grand Geyser; Grotto Geyser; Giant Geyser; Old Faithful Geyser; Castle Geyser; Monarch Geyser; Old Faithfull at Sunrise; Lone Star Geyser; Canyon of Yellowstone River; Upper Falls; Yellowstone River; Tower Falls; among many others.

Monterey, CA: Monterey Museum of Art, 1976. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 88pp. Index. 18 color and 23 black & white reproductions. Color printed stiff wraps in very good condition (light rubbing to front cover; creasing to upper corner). A brief history and artist biographies including Charles Rollo Peters, Xavier Martinez, William Keith, Francis McComas, Albert Bierstadt, Paul Dougherty, Evelyn McCormick, Mary DeNeale Morgan, Armin Hansen, August Gay, Jules Tavernier, William, Ritschel, Jo Mora, William Merritt Chase and many more.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943. 1st. Hardcover. Fine in near fine dustjacket (fading to spine; minor wear to extremities). Small 8vo. 291pp. Red cloth in color printed dustjacket. Author's first novel.

New York: [Printed by the Commercial Press, Ltd. for the Chalfant Publication Fund], 1935. SIGNED by the author on cover page. Tall 8vo. 21 pp.Title and author's name also in English and Chinese. Photographic reproductions on most pages with some details. Cream printed staplebound wrappers in very good condition (1" split at spine head; light general wear). "These Fragments of archaic Chinese writing are from Yin Hsu, the site of the latter capital of the Shang Kingdom, near Anyang, Honan." Two pieces shown are from the Couling-Chalafant collection. The other pieces all belong to the Princeton Collection. The author was born in Shanghai and lived in China until the age of 15. He did his graduate work at Columbia University; since 1926 he was professor of Chinese studies at New York University. He is the author of severals books dealing with archaeological studies of China, the best known of which is "The Chinese Periodical Press - "1800-1912

Washington DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery/Smithsonian Institution, 1990. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. 198pp. Bibliography; Chronology of Selected World Events; Artists in the Exhibition. 33 figures and 85 color plates. Green cloth, map endpapers in color printed dustjacket. A near fine copy (informative ink notations by former curator of major art museum) in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities; some creasing along upper edge). A selection of printes from the collection of William and Florence Leonhart, vividly portraying Japan's first modern encounters with America and Europe. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago: Published by John C. Yorston & Company, 1886. First Edition. Complete in 8 volumes. Large 8vo. Various paginations. Frontispiece in each volume (7 folded). Volumes 1-5 and 8 have extra title page printed in black & red. Profusely illustrated with upwards of two thousand engravings, from drawings and paintings by Albrecht Durer, Vandyke, L. Alma Tadema, R.A., Gustave Dore, A. de Neuville, Sir John Gilbert, R.A. Gerome, and other eminent artists; consisting of Architecture, Sculpture, Portraits, Fac-similes, Seals, Coins, Weapons, Works of Art, Antiquities, Progress of Culture, Historical Scenes, Etc., Etc. Together with a Sieries of Beautiful Colored Maps by A. Keith Johnson. A translation by H.W. Dulcken of the author's "Illustrirte Weltgeschichte für das Volk", 2.auf ., Leipzig, 1878-84, in 142 parts, or 1881-84, in 8 vols. Brown cloth with black & gilt design and gilt lettering.; floral endpapers. A near fine and uncommon set (minor wear & rubbing to extremities;… Read More

New York & London: Underwood & Underwood, 1902. First Edition. 24 stereograph cards with photographs with text on the verso of many of the cards, in a slipcase distributed by Underwood & Underwood and produced by Sun Sculpture Works and Studios of Arlington and Westwood, New Jersey, documenting locations and geographical features in Yosemite National Park, accompanied by a guide book by Charles Quincy Turner and a folding color map which details the views of the stereograph images in the landscape; the map is titled "Yosemite Valley Showing Wagon-Roads and Trails". The 70-page guide book includes a brief history of Yosemite National Park, instructions on using the stereoscope, and extended captions for each image. 23 view cards are copyright 1902 and one is copyright 1901. Most images include men and women situated in the landscape. Overviews of valleys include Yosemite Valley and Little Yosemite Valley, and the canyons, Glacier Canyon and Tenaya Canyon. Images of water features include lakes,… Read More

San Francisco: Lithographed, printed and bound by H.S. Crocker & Co, 1890. First Edition. Folio. 4 preliminary leaves, [13] leaves of text, each illustrated with pen and ink sketches (with tissue guards) by Carl Dahlgren, all but one (the snow plant) with a printed poem by Harry Dix; 13 stunning chromolithographs after original watercolors by H. W. Hansen. Uncommon publisher's full brown leather binding with gilt illustrating & lettering on front cover; gilt dentelles inside front & rear boards. A very good copy (spine has been professionally restored; minor wear to extremities; light scraping to spine & rear board). "The chromolithographic views often were used with promotional material issued by various California merchants in a number of formats, including broadsides which reproduced a chromolithograph, part of a poem, and advertising copy." - Currey & Kruska 97. The views consist of classic Yosemite including Sentinel Rock, Bridal Veil, El Capitan, The Cascades, The Three Brothers, Vernal Falls,… Read More

San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1979. First Edition. 4to. [12] pp. Photo-illustrations. Introduction by Alfred Frankenstein, Curator of American Art at M.H. de Young Memorial Museum; brief section on John Muir and single page history of Yosemite Valley and the Origin of a National Park by James Gurley. Stiff staple-bound wrappers. Die-cut photo-illustrated front cover showing upper Yosemite Falls. A fine copy of a scarce checklist; no copies located in online institutions. Catalog for exhibition held at the The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Downtown Center September 17 - November 9, 1979 showcasing 135 paintings and photographs of Yosemite National Park by noted artists Thomas Moran, Thomas Hill, William Keith, John Muir, Rowena Meeks Abdy, Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton E. Watkins, George Fiske, Ansel Adams and more. Each listing includes artist name, title & date, size, and ownership of the art work.

Sacramento: Published by Authority of the Legislature, 1874. Third Edition, First Issue, Revised and Corrected. Small 8vo. vii, [1], 186 pp. Complete with 4 maps (large folding in rear pocket; frontispiece fold-out in color; monochrome fold-out and full-page in text). Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt and black lettering and design. Minor wear to covers and extremities; else a near fine copy. "The most influential publications of the California Geological Survey were the series of Yosemite guide-books published between 1869 and 1874...intended to serve as tourist guides to the Yosemite region and various groves of giant sequoia. In this 1874 edition, the maps were improved and information about the Yosemite region was revised and somewhat expanded. This series of Yosemite guidebooks influenced the literature on Yoseite which followed, becoming the frequent source of quotations in numerous other books about the region. (Curry & Kruska 61; Farquhar 7f).

Yosemite National Park: Yosemite Association, 2020. 500 pieces; image size 18 x 24." Full-color reproduction of Mora's Yosemite carte, New in cardboard box, sealed. This 500-piece jigsaw puzzle was made from the 'Yosemite' carte drawn by Mora in 1931 (Grandeau & Shorts Cartes 5b). As well as many humorous elements, it pictures features in Yosemite Valley no longer to be found. They include the Old Village, the petting zoo at the Yosemite Museum, the Firefall, the bear-feeding platform, and the Glacier Point Hotel. For those who remember when the campgrounds had numbers instead of names, those designations are included, too.