Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Cat's Cradle Books

New Haven: Yale University, 1951. Softcover. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, tanned pages with general reading wear. Wrappers are tanned with heavy handling wear, tattering at top and bottom of spine. ; Contents: Picon, Remarks on Gide's ethics. Noth, The struggle for Gide's soul. Turnell, André Gide and the disintegration of the Protestant cell. Loy, Prometheus, Theseus, the uncommon man and an eagle. Collignon, Gide's sincerity. Brée, Time sequences and consequences in the Gidian world. Parnell, André Gide and his Symphonie Pastorale. Stock, A view of Les faux monnayeurs. O'Brien, Gide's fictional technique. Cordle, Gide and the novel of the egoist. Lang, Rilke and Gide: their reciprocal translations. Guggenheim, Gide and Montaigne. Maurin, A few notes on the Gide-Suarès relations. ; 9.0" (21 cm) tall; 128 pages.

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Art Gallery, 1987. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wraps have general shelf wear, light overall soiling. ; Essays in honor of Alan Shestack, Director of the Yale University Art Gallery, 1971-1985. 10.0" tall; 90 pages.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Pages are uncut. Soundly stapled binding. Clean, tanned pages. Wrappers have handling wear including edge creasing. ; Elegant typography including two-color illumination at the beginning of each article. Contents: Keogh, The Gutenberg Bible as a Typographical Monument. Tinker, The Significance to Yale of the Gift of the Gutenberg Bible. ; 10.25" tall; 16 pages.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with gently bumped corners. DJ has shelf wear, edge wear, closed tear at top front, light scuffing. Examines the cultural and generational controversy over jazz and modernist music that raged in the American musical world between the two world wars. On one side were Yankee composers and their followers; on the other side were the promoters and composers of jazz and modernist music and numerous African American jazz greats (from DJ flap). ; 9.25" (23.5 cm) tall; 213 pages.

Los Angeles: International Council for Traditional Music, 2002. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear including some curling. Contents: Medeiros, Oral Tradition and Brazilian Popular Music. Impey, Culture, Conservation and Community Reconstruction: Explorations in Advocacy Ethnomusicology and Participatory Action Research in Northern Kwazulu Natal. Rice, Bulgaria or Chalgaria: The Attenuation of Bulgarian Nationalism in a Mass-Mediated Popular Music. García, Making Culture Coherent: Nomadism, "Open Agenda" and Music in Wichi Society. Barendregt and van Zanten, Popular Music in Indonesia since 1988, in Particular Fusion, Indie and Islamic Music on Video Compact Discs and the Internet. Lucas, Musical Rituals of Afro-Brazilian Religious Groups within the Ceremonies of Congado. Thram, Therapeutic Efficacy of Music-Making: Neglected Aspect of Human Experience Integral to Performance Process. Soon, Chinese Street Opera Performance… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is lightly edge rubbed with bumped corners. DJ has light overall shelf wear. ; Account of the Israeli author's journey to Palestinian camps and Jewish settlements. ; 8.25" tall; 224 pages.

Atlanta: B. F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1911. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Rebound in sturdy library buckram. Exlibrary markings on spine, endpapers, and title page. Pages clean, tanned. Binding and hinges sound. Cloth over boards has minor shelf wear. ; An 1835 historical novel by American writer William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870). It is set in the low country of South Carolina before and during the Yemassee War of 1715-1717. ; Ex-Library; 7.5" tall; 441 pages.

Warminster, Wiltshire: Aris & Phillips, 1987. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Some pencil writing on ffep. Wrappers have minor edge rubbing. English-language translation of play by Garcia Lorca. Hispanic Classics ; 8.5" (21.5 cm) tall; 138 pages.

Boston: Sherman French & Co, 1914. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Second Edition. A sound, tight copy, in a green cloth binding with red design and gold lettering; foxing to last page of text, o/w text appears clean, slightly tanned, and unmarked; cloth over boards shows light to moderate rubbing at corners and spine ends, light rubbing to rear outer extremity, and a small abrasion to front outer extremity; small chip to outer edge of front free endpaper; previous owner's name written and stamped on front free endpaper and both pastedowns. Illustrated. ; From the foreword: "This tale was woven from threads of thought given me by a child as he stood before the monument erected to the memory of Dennis Cahill, the hero who leaped into the canal at Augusta, Georgia, hoping to save the life of a babe who had fallen into its turbid waters."; 9.5" tall; 90 pages.

New York: Undzer Veg, 1948. Hard Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Yiddish language using Hebrew alphabet. Exlibrary markings. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean but tanned text pages. Cloth over boards is edge worn and generally shelf worn. ; Historical study of ethnic minorities in American history, with primary emphasis on American Jews, published in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust and in the year of the founding of Israel. Yiddish-English bibliography. Ex-Library; 9.25" (23.5 cm) tall; 424 pages.

New York: Convergent, 2019. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. As New in As New dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ is clean with no evidence of wear. ; Memoir by African-American entrepreneur and philanthropist who played pivotal roles advising political leaders such as Nixon. ; 9.5" tall; 237 pages.

New York: Viking Press, 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Front hinge starting; rear hinge and binding sound. Pages off-white, generally clean with occasional minor soiling/staining at edge of margin not affecting text or photographs. Cloth over boards is edge worn with slightly darkened spine, bumped corners, general light shelf wear. ; Profusely illustrated with powerful b&w photos by Margaret Bourke-White. Photo-documentary with text, featuring "the tortured face of poverty" in the deep south of the United States during the Great Depression. Ex-Library; 12" tall; 190 pages.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc, 1929. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary marks. Book has been rebound with hinges reinforced using cloth tape. Binding sound. Pages lightly tanned. Pencilled marks on several pages of "Heart of Darkness." Remaining pages clean. Cloth over boards is shelf worn and edge rubbed with spine darkened. ; Three novellas: Youth, Heart of Darkness, and The End of the Tether. Originally published in 1903. ; Ex-Library; 7.5" tall; 339 pages.

New York: Yugoslav Information Center, 1952. Ephemera. Good with no dust jacket. Stapled binding. Clean, tanned pages. Small amount of writing on front. Wrappers are edge worn with general handling wear to the volume. ; English-language publication with news and features about Yugoslavia in its early years under Tito. Articles on the U.S.-Yugoslav Aid Agreement; Atkinson, "Yugoslav Report"; Farm Cooperatives Enter New Phase; Yugoslavia at the General Assembly; Dedijer, "With Tito Through the War"; other items. ; 10.75" tall; 16 pages.