Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Pages Past Books

Good+/Good+, Good+ dj Boys Series M A Donahue Chicago circa 1910 Early edition Hardbound 8vo, 244 pages A title in the Success Series. Name and address stamped on front endpaper; rear inside hinge cracked at top 1 1/4"; pages browning but not brittle. Rare dustjacket with extremity chipping. Solid book; bright dj which has been placed in a protective cover.

Good+ condition J. Whetham Philadelphia 1836 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 360 pages. Author dedicates this book to the young men of the Pennsylvania and New York Colonization Societies. Gilt title label on spine. Brown cloth with light spotting, 2 small pinholes, and light extremity wear. Foxing to text and endpapers. A solid, tight otherwise clean copy.

Good+ Ballantine NY 1976 1st ed softcover 4to, 152 pages, b+w photos. A collection of photos, etc. from celebrity's yearbooks including activities. Light edgewear; ink stain on front ocver. Otherwise a solid clean copy.

VG/VG, VG dj Literature George Braziller New York 1975 1st Ptg Hardbound 8vo, 66 pp Light agewear with light toning and rubbing to white of dustjacket. Solid and otherwise clean.

Fine/Fine Louisiana State Univ Press Baton Rouge 1993 1st hardcover 8vo, 183 pages, index, bibliography. The emergence of the planter-aristocrat over the yeoman as the dominant cultural icon in the newly settled states of the old southwest.

Good+/no dustjacket Rudolph Stanley-Brown illus Harper & Bros NY 1930 2nd ed hardcover 8vo, 259 pages, color frontis and b+w drawings, glossary, pictorial endpapers. A survey of American architecture from 1660-1929 in various locations written for young adult readers. Paper spine label chipped. Light agewear and rubbing. Solid clean copy.

VG/no dustjacket Copping illustrations Copp Clark Company Toronto 1901 1st Canadian hardcover 8vo, 318 pp, 16 b&w plates by Copping. Story of boys at Muirtown Seminary in Scotland. Red cloth binding with green and white titling and leaf design on cover and spine. Slight rubbing and fading to spine; binding lightly cocked; otherwise clean, solid copy. Christmas Birthday gift inscription from 1901 on front endpaper.

Good+, no dj Fiction George Routledge & Sons NY/London ND circa 1894 Early edition Hardbound 8vo, 303 pp + ads, pictorial cover + spine, 8 full page b+w plates, 16 pages of ads Tale of the 1884 Zulu Wars published circa 1894 with title page listing Routledge with New York and then London and Manchester at bottom of title page. Published prior to the sale of the plates to Blackie and Son who republished the title in 1897. Blue cloth with brown, gilt and yellow decorations and blue stained page edges. The spine cloth is darkened with some shallow wear to the spine ends; the frontis tissue guard has a chip at the outer edge; extremities are rubbed with cloth worn through at tips; inside front hinge has 3/4" and 2 3/4" inch splits to paper but hinge is solid. Rare printing.

VG-/G+ Little Brown Boston 1940 3rd hardcover 8vo, 287 pages, b+w photos and illustrations. History of invention with chapters including locks and blocks, gas lighting and the safety lamp, submarine telegraphy, roads and bridges, diving suits and diving bells, printing, balloons and airships, gunpowder to high explosives, moving pictures, etc. Name inked front endpaper. Light foxing to endpapers. Dustjacket chipped at extremities. Solid and clean with dj in protective cover.

G wear to spine cloth, some soiling, staining, pencilling pasted-in cut-out pictures Theodore Presser Co Phila (1925) hardcover 8vo, 82+pp, Story of music, including history, composers, instruments, composition, etc. with many b+w cut-outs pasted-in, with Includes questions for children to answer. Wear to spine cloth and pictorial boards with some staining/soiling inside front cover and on ffep.Rear inside hinge cracked. Despite the above, quite presentable and done quite well, neatly and complete.

Good+ P O'Shea NY (1867) hardcover 12 mo, 77 pages, b&w frontis. Translated from the German. Award bookplate of Saint Mary's School, Rondout inside front cover. Some penciled names and addresses inside covers. Some faint old pencil erasure on few early pages, and light random foxing. Light, general age-wear to binding; solid copy with strong gilt spine titling.

VG/G illus by author Junior Literary/McBride NY 1934 1st hardcover 8vo, 270 pages, b+w illustrations, pictorial endpapers, foldout map. 1935 gift inscription pencilled on half title page. Dustjacket worn at extremities with a 1" chip at spinehead and several small chips at extremities. Solid and clean with dj in protective cover.

Good+ Hurst & Co NY no date early hardcover 12mo, 312 pages, b+w frontis of author, paste on pictorial cover. The Boy Hunters journey to the cold desolate countries of the north where they encounter many wild creatures. Christmas 1909 gift inscription on front endpaper. Front cover paste on shows boys playing football in quilted pants and shirts. Spine sunned. Light cover rubbing. Solid and clean.