Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Jans Collectibles: Vintage Books

Albert Whitman & Company, 1944 Blue cloth boards, large front paste down, illustrations by well known illustrator Diana thorne, really cute color illustrations. Bumped corners, some edgewear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

New York: Groset and Dunlap, 1938 Green cloth boards , dark blue lettering. inside pages clean and unmarked. Awarded Pulitzer Prize on the front of the dust jacket
dust jacket has 2" off the bottom of the spine , 2" off the left side
of the book, lots of tears on the inside flap of the back board.
Only copyright date is 1938 but this is a reprint, wartime edition.

Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1941 Green-Blue Boards look almost new, dust jacket very good, 1/4" off dust jacket at the top of the spine and a 1 inch tear at the bottom of the spine of the dust jacket. Yesterday's son is a poignant story of a love that never reached its full flower. John Corey is a professor of English literature. As college opens one fall, Corey's peaceful life with his work and his friends and his wife is suddenly rent apart one day in his classroom by something which brought back to his mind a summer idyll of twenty years past. It was Jessica whose face so suddenly appeared in Corey's mind. He had almost been able to forget her in those intervening years--almost, Jessica Pindar, the then young bride of Nathaniel Pindar, the reserved and haughty scion of an old Massachusetts family, and an up and coming Boston banker. It seemed that those summer evenings, when the heavens were crowded with stars and the fields heavy with smells and sounds of night, conspired that… Read More

Houghton Mifflin Co. Riverside Press, 1913 Maroon cloth boards good plus, 1/2 inch tear at the top of the spine. Content: A summary of evidence from two thousand social workers. Edited for The National Federation of Settlements with an introduction by Jan Addams.

The World Syndicate Publishing Co. 1911-1915, 1911 Yellowed pages, price clipped dust jackets. ; Four books in very good condition with dust jackets also in very good condition, with original box with paste down label on the side. No. 1100. All have price clipped dust jackets. Yellowed pages, black and white illustrations. Rare to find the complete set with the original box. 1915 Little Miss Muffet Abroad by compiled by Kate Weston, 1913 A jolly Jingle Book Compiled by Laura Chandler, 1911 In Play Land compiled by Lucy Calhoun, and 1914 The Animal School and Other Stories compiled by Lucy Calhoun. ; Vol. 1100. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

New York: The Hyperion Press, 1943 Book and dust jacket are in good condition. Bumped bottom of the spine, blemish top of the front board (see pics). Has two book plates with former owners name on the front end paper and back side of end paper. Paper clip mark on two pages. Inside pages clean and unmarked.<p>

Dust jacket has an inch off the bottom of the spine and a few minor tears and bends.<p><p>

The story of an ostrich who aids American troops in North Africa and
becomes a spy to stop the Nazis on his home soil. After capture by the Nazis, Yussuf is scorned by his village when he appears to be helping the enemy. In reality, he spies on the officers, then escapes
with the help of German Dachshunds (who apparently are not Nazis).<p>

Not price clipped 1.75. Lots of cute color illustrations especially of Yussuf and a couple of the dachshunds.