Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Morris on the front endpaper. About Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped. Beige cloth, bumped at the corners of the front board, with red and brown ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Morris's reporting of public school integration efforts in his hometown, hailed by Christian Science Monitor as "the finest social reporting in America in the last five years.

New York: Harper and Row, Publishers Inc, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, a few small creases to pages, clean otherwise.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.95). Red buckram with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Smith's account of her 2016 in which she reckons with "the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America.

New York: Viking Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, lightly soiled. Yellow buckram with brown ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Gordon's second play, a "nostalgic and charming lpay of domestic Americana, the autobiography of a small-town girl who confused her parents by deciding to go on the stage, found a warm reception on Broadway.

New York: Boa Editions, Ltd, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Kizer on the title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine later-issue jacket, unclipped (no price), rubbed and bumped at the edges, a few short closed tears. White cloth, bumped at the head and foot of the spine, black ink illustration on the front board with red gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, remaindered at the bottom edge, clean otherwise. Kizer's Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection published as part of Boa's American Poets Continuum Series.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($10.95), rubbed at the edges, a closed tear at the top of the back panel. Quarter tan cloth with cream paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of short stories that tell the story of "a woman coming to terms with her rejected past, acknowledging the price of having strayed from the culture that shaped her." Wicomb was one of the winners of the inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes awarded by the Beinecke Library.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($22.00), bumped and with a closed tear at the top edge, some creases at the flaps. Black cloth, pushed at the head and foot of the spine, pink ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Zinn's memoir about his previous thirty years, from teaching at Spelman to his work as a social activist.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Translated by Max Hayward. Edited and with Notes by Nathalie Babel. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.95), lightly toned at the edges, bumped at the head and foot of the spine, shallow chips at the top edge of the back panel. Purple cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean and red top stain, clean internally. A collection of nineteen Babel stories translated into English for the first time, two of which had never been published in their original Russian.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Drawings by Edward Gorey. Near Fine in a Good jacket, clipped at the top but priced at the bottom ($2.75), generally toned, chipped along the entire top edge. Blue cloth, rubbed at the bottom edges, toned at the panels. Square and firmly bound, gift inscription on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Ciardi's collection of poems written at a first grade-level meant to be read by children to their parents.

Boston: L.C. Page & Company, [n.d.]. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated. Very Good, no jacket. Light green buckram, rubbed and faded at the edges. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward lean, bookplate inside the front board, clean otherwise. Published as part of Page's Cosy Corner Series of young adult books.

Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1979. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Signed by Farrell on a tipped-in page. Fine in the publisher's leather binding with gilt designs. Square and firmly bound with gilt edges and a sewn-in bookmark.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, rubbed at the surface and edges, a few chips and tears. Brown buckram with blue ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Richard Harding Davis's biography of the boyhood and youth of Winston Churchill.

New York: Atheneum, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($7.95), lightly toned, a closed tear at the front panel, a ghost mark at the base of the front flap, lightly rubbed at the panels. Quarter teal cloth with grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The debut novel from the noted historical novelist, this one concerning an American business man whose business is "dealing dope around the various colleges and universities in Pennslyvania.

New York: Doubleday, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($26.00). Black boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Guns's debut novel that addresses racism and classism through her ride share driver protagonist.

Eugene: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Pulphouse SSP #10. Cover by George Barr. Near Fine. Wraps faintly rubbed. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Bloch's story about Jack the Ripper alive and slashing in Chicago.