Search Results: Titles starting with Y from 100 POCKETS

Moskva: Izdatel'stvo "Sovetskaya Rossiya, 1988. Hard Cover/stitched. New/No Jacket. Text/NEW, showing trace margin discoloration. Navy blue boards/Fine. DJ/None. This well-prepared volume is divided into three sections: 1, Gruzinskie ucherki; 2, Rasskazy; and 3, Vospominaniya. 496 pages (two unnumbered), with [Preface] Tri gravy iz Polonskogo by Polochkaya, and Primechaniya.

Alburquerque, NM: Chambers & Campbell, 1963. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW, except for marginalia and bracketing of opening paragraph to page 1. Vintage 1963, First Edition, First Thus. Taupe linen boards/NF, showing trace discoloration. DJ/None. The above mentioned bracketed paragraph in question translates the Navajo greeting "Yah-tay sik'is" as "welcome friend" --- the marginalia gives a broader translation to be "welcome to our ..." with suffixes of boat, home, land, etc. Market analysis of the technical & economic feasibility of developing tourist & recreational facilities of Navajo Route 1 --- the envisioned project, at the point of this publication, was projected to require some ten years to complete. A historical document of dominant concerns of highway development in Arizona and New Mexico half century ago.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968. First American Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Blue linen boards/NF w/trace push to corner tips. DJ/NF; price-clipped w/ligh edge wear; under mylar. Travel narrative. Memoir of the 1966 family Christmas holidays spent in the Himalayan mountains of leading New Zealand family, the Hillarys. Their trip to attend dedication of a needed hospital in a remote Sherpa village. Photographs include a portrait of a young Tensing Norgay and wife, Daku. A historical record.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: Romance Philology - University of California Press, 1988. Special Issue, 1988-1989 . Black Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 9 1/4" Tall. This is compilation of the works of the prodigious philologist/linguist/entymologist who was founding editor of Romance Philology. 186 pages, with 5 Appendixes; plus xxxi pages Contents, and prefatory matter, including an Introductory Essay by Henry Kahane. Boards carry markered initials of prior owner at upper backstrap: boards otherwise clean and sound; text is clean and as new.

Beijing, China: The People's Fine-Arts Publishing House, 1981. First Chinese Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & Collectible. Copy w/trace humidity stains to lower text edges of c. last 20 pages. Published w/o ISBN/ISBN subsequently assigned to 1981 re-issue by China Books & Periodicals. Treatise on the Chinese folkart of papercuts produced in the Yan'an (or, Wade-Giles, Yen-an) region by contemporary artists adhering to traditional motifs and composition. The term 'scissor-art' is often used; strictly speaking only one blade is used in exacto-knife fashion. It is a popular art craft that permeatated all of China, often pasted on fabrics as a pattern before fine emboidering, especially in fashioning ladies slippers. Fine color reproductions ranging from the very traditional to celebrations of the modern proletariat. Last sector (from pg 159) are didatic works both extolling communism, the need for literacy and support for… Read More

Stanford, CA: Stanford Alumni Assoc, 1988. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/faint creasing to upper front corner. PO stamp title page. Hydrology. Outstanding scholarly tour of China's colossal Yangtze River, or Changjjian. Rising in the Tibetan Plateau 3.900 miles in length, it is the longest river in Asia, the 3rd longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country, empties in the East China Sea near Shanghai. It waters lands housing near one-third of the country's population. This tour with historian Lyman van Slyke is geographical and human travel in time, along the river itself as well as its tributaries and watershed , and a prize coverage of the Grand Canal, dating to n the late Spring & Autumn period (770 - 476 BC), world's oldest artificial river, that connects the Yangtze with the Yellow River in the north. 211 pgs in 11 chapters, 3 parts: Part I, Natural Time,… Read More

Guilford, CT: Yankee Knitter Designs, 1989. Pattern #15, 1989 . Soft Cover/Pamphlet. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/sticker shadow to upper front corner. 3 page pamphlet. COVER ART: "Women's pullover & cardigan w/heart motif"; photo. Classic wear knitted in multiple worsted yarn colors on no. 4 needles.

New York, NY: Clarkson Potter/Random House, 2002. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/New. Dorothy Handelman (Photographer); Dabueka Tubeo & Gael Cadden (Illustrators0. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. First Edition, First Printing. Basic pimer of knitting techniques. 30 basic projects including easy-to-knit patterns for the 6 most popular sweater shapes plus scarves, hats, and throws from Julie Carles and Jordana Jacobs --- aka the Yarn Girls, owners of the Yarn Company in New York City since 1997. Liberating guide written in the spirit that readers will creatively mix-and-match presented designs.

New York, NY: Clarkson Potter/Random House, 2004. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/New. Ellen Silverman (Photographer); Daniella Cohen & Gail Caden (Illustrators). BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. First Edition, First Printing. Julie Carles and Jordana Jacobs --- aka the Yarn Girls, owners of the Yarn Company in New York City since 1997. Dedicated knitters whose knitting classes are always fully booked. This 159 page volume, preceded by fundamentals, features their Yarn Girls' favorite patterns of basic pullovers, cardigans, hats, ponchos & dresses, and blankets & buntings to keep the young warm.

Pickens, SC: Brunswick Worsted Mills, 1995. Volume 9522, 1995 . Soft Cover/One Page Pamphlet. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. Margo Fletcher (Photographer). NEW. One-page pamphlet, printed on cardstock. Knitting instructions for a fringed mohair throw (42" X 52"), or afghan (55" X 65") in shell patterned motif. Produced on size # 15 (10 mm) needles, with double strands of yarn (Brunswick Mohair and Arbor).

Moskva, USSR: Akademiya Nauk SSR/Izdat. Vostochnoi Literatury, 1962. Soft Cover/Library Boards. Very Good/None as Issued. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy; no loan pocket. Tears to backhinge library boards' attachment. Grammar for the Hindustani Urdu, national language of Parkistan and offical language to 6 Indian states. This is a volume in the publisher's series Yazyki Zarubeczhnogo Vostoka i Afriki. The grammar is concise and to-the-point -- no illustrations or exercises. 143 pages, the last unnumbered.

Moskva: Isdatel'stvo "Nauka, 1979. Printed Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 7 3/4" Tall. The authors were associated with the Institut Yazykoznaniya. This early (Russsian) book on information and data processing and display is unusually forthcoming in regard to methods, and has a solid bibliography of Russian (and Western) sources. Fifteen chapters, 305 pages, with Ot Redaktora, Predisloviye, figures, tables, Literatura, and Oglavlenie. Covers show fading and scrapes on upper and lower backstrap, and on front leading edge; text is strong and clean, but browning at edges.

Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ Press, 1996. Reprint . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/trace wear to lower back corner. First published 1991. A rich anthology of short verse thematically arranged to the twelve months of the year. Selected for the young in mind, but enjoyable for all ages. Fine copy.

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks/ Marysue Rucci Books, 2016. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. New/None As Issued. Archival Photos of Authoress. Tex/NEW & Bright. First 2016 Paperback Edition, 1st Printing. Softcover/Fine w/a whisper of shelfwear to lower front corner tip. First book from Chicago-born television producer, screen writer, actress, and founder of Shondaland, Shonda Lynn Rhimes (1970 -), who was named, 2013 & 2021, by Time on the Time 100 (annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world). "YEAR OF YES" is a semi-autobiographical, self-help novel drawing on her own developmental experiences from an introvert to an outspoken public figure. The main point is bysaying "yes", even when asked a question to which an affirmative response invites uncertainty & risk, is positive. Rhimes' argues with "yes," one affirms certain extroverted traits essential to foster self-love; secondly, remember no one is ever… Read More

London, UK: Penguin, 1988. 1st Penguin Ed, 1st Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/As New showing faint margin discoloration. Illustrated softcover (detail from Jerusalem by D. Henry)/NF w/trace shelfwear. Anthology of poems, selected by poet Yehuda Amichai (1924 - 2000) himself. Originally written in Hebrew.This English edition is in 173 pgs, 2 parts. Part I, poems written 1955 - 1968, translated by Stephen Mitchell; Part II, written 1971- 1985, translated by Chana Bloch. Born in Germany, Yehuda Amichai moved to Palestine when twelve. In 'Jews in the Land of Israel' written about 1971, he writes: "We forget where we came from. Our Jewish/names from the Exile give us away/... Circumcision does it to us/As in the Bible story of Shechem & the sons of Jacob/so we go on hurting all our lives/...What are we doing coming back to all this pain?/...What are we doing/in this dark land with its/yellow shadows that pierce the eyes?/...What are we doing w/these souls of mist,… Read More

New York, NY: Back Bay Books/Little Brown & Co, 2013. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Soft cover. New/None As Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. First Edition, 3rd Printing. Softcover/Fine. Debut novel & Nat'l Book Award Finalist by Virginia-born Kevin Powers (1980), fiction writer, poet & Iraq War veteran, son of a factory worker & postman who, enlisted in the U.S. Army at 17 to serve in Iraq as a machine gunner; and, after discharge, took degrees in English (VA Commonwealth Univ.), and a MFA in poetry (Univ. of Texas at Austin). This novel, The Yellow Birds (title derived from US Army marching cadence) draws from his experiences in the Iraq War that, incessantly, people asked him to share: 'What was it like over there?". Powerful & lyrical account of what it was like for 21-one-year old Private Bartle & 18-year-old Private Murphy as their platoon launches a bloody battle for a city. They met during basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely… Read More

New York, NY: Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster, 1997. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition, First Printing. Anthology of 22 essays Leslie Marmon Silko (1945 -) is of Laguna Pueblo Native American heritage with European and Mexican ancestry as well. Of this collection of essays, Silko says it is "... structured like a spider's web.It begins with the land; think of the land ... as the center of a spider's web. Human identity, imagination and storytelling were inextricably linked to the land, to Mother Earth, just as the strands of the spider's web radiate from the center of the web." The narrative web paints the portrait of the life of American Indians in America today.

Taipeh, Taiwan, ROC: Net and Books, 2007. Chinese Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. Chinese language translation of San Francisco poet and author Lewis Buzbee's The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (2006). Title in Chinese is reads, "If you fall in love with a bookstore" (Pin-jin: Ru-quo ni ai-sang yi jia su-dian). Both a history and memoir, Buzbee celebrates the unique experience of the bookstore --- smells and touch, maze of shelving, and sharing religious silence with others passionate over books. Fascinating history of the world of books from great libraries to famous bookstores, rich in anecdotes; and, the story of his own experiences in many aspects of the book trade both as a writer and working for bookstores.

Norman, OK: Univ of Oklahoma, 1964. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. EX-LIB. Text/Bright, clean, sound, As New. Linen boards/NF. DJ/None. Loan pocket removed. First published 1895. Original text includes a Section II, entirely descirptive; this sector has been omitted from this Univ of Oklahoma Edition. In the Preface, engineer and historian Hiram Martin Chittenden (1858 -1917) endeavored to assemble "widely scattered" literature and records of the history of Yellowstone Park into a coherent whole. 18 chapters: 1, "Yellowstone; 2, Indian Occupancy of the Upper Yellowstone; 3, John Colter; 4, The Trader & the Tapper; 5, Early Knowledge of the Yellowstone; 6, James Bridger; 7, Raynold's Experience; 8, Gold in Montana; 9, Discovery; 10, The Nat'l Park Idea; 11, Why So Long Unknown?; 12, Later Explorations; 13, An Indian Campaign Through the Yellowstone Park; 14, Administrative Histoyr of the Park; 15, The Nat'l Park Protective Act; 16. Hostility… Read More

Niwot, CO: Roberts Rhinehart, 1991. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF. Tracing soiling to leading text edge. Gift dedication to fEP. Anthology of bear stories representing a cross-section of viewpoints and experiences by nature writer Paul Schullery who teaches "Grizzly Bear Ecology and Management" for the Yellowstone Institute. Contents in 4 parts: I, The Early Naturalists; II, Bear Versus Man; III, Tourists, Soldiers, & Rangers; and IV, The Bear Students. followed by a very interesting collection of essays addressing Food Habits, and Epilogue ("The Bear's Reaction to Man" by Olaus J. Murie).