Search Results: Titles starting with Y from R. Siedlecki Vintage Books

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1976. [1976] Tan leather binding, gilt designs and lettering, five raised ridges on spine, gilt on all three sides, satin moiré endpapers, specially milled paper, 563 pages. Illustrated by Ben S. Wohlberg. Condition: Fine. New. Book ordered by collector direct from the publisher in 1976; kept it as a collectible. Never read. (Other dealer listings of this book online may say Fine or New, but the books have been read. This book has never been read, it's still crisp and new.) In gift-giving condition. Free of smelly old humidity stains and the smoke smell of a cigarette or cigar smoker. Stored in temperature-controlled bookcase. Franklin Library (a division of Franklin Mint), published collectible books of high-quality materials. Since the publisher ceased operations in 2000, all editions are considered out-of-print, many uncommon and collectible. The New York Times commented that "this story of the death of an old order and the birth of a new one,… Read More

Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1973. [1973] Redish orange hardcover with gilt lettering on spine, 184 pages. Condition of hardcover: Overall, Near Fine. Pages are clean, clear. Dustjacket: Short tears/chips/creases to extremities, light age wear, overall Fair. Price is intact on flap. According to Publisher's Weekly, this book "shows us the life of the hill people of Georgia from the inside." The authors lived this life. They are "reliving the life of their own community and people from forty to eighty years ago, reexperiencing it and letting their readers experience it with them." You'll read about the hill people and "their backbreaking field work, their song and play, their courtships, their neighborly exchange of help with the chores, their homemade remedies for illness and homemade practically everything else, their humor and the individuality." Here is truly an informative, insightful, fascinating work that is sure to please readers. Vintage.… Read More

Francestown, New Hampshire: The Golden Quill Press, 1970. [1970] First Edition hardcover and dustjacket. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Hardcover: About a one-inch crack at foot of joint of top cover (almost not noticeable), else overall Near Fine. Gilt designs and lettering on binding are Fine (not chipped). Book stored in temperature-controlled room (no musty smell). Dustjacket: Lightly age darken and soiling (darker at folds and spine panel); minor shelf wear; else overall Very Good. Not price clipped. A nice, collectible, inscribed and signed book. Protected in Mylar cover. The author writes about her husband in verse and other items of interest -- all tongue-in-cheek and plenty of humor. She addresses gardens, knees, notes to her hairdresser (and dentist, electrician, chiropractor, etc.), phones, going places, being far-sighted, logic, food for thought, and a parade of other things. Note: We are a well-established, well-respected, ethical book dealer in business since 1991. We describe the… Read More