Search Results: Titles starting with Y from THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY

YACHT RACING, L-B, 1931, first edition., a vg copy with 25 photo plates.

YALLAH, McDowell, Obolensky, 1957, first American edition, fine in like dust-wrapper with one closed tear. Profusely illustrated with photos by Peter Haeberlin.

A YANKEE AT THE COURT OF KING ARTHUR, Chatto & Windus, 1889, first edition, some wear to the extremities of the somewhat faded spine and fore edge corner tips, a bit of foxing to the verso of the f.e.p. and adjoining page, else a good to very good copy in the publishers black stamped pictorial cloth with gold-gilt lettering to the front cover and spine. Profusely illustrated by Dan Beard with drawings within almost 40% of the text block. This copy has a 32 page publishers catalogue dated June, 1889 at the rear.

A YANKEE DARED, O'Sullivan, 1933, first edition., near fine in bit chipped but still most attractive dust-wrapper. Illustrated. A history of the beginning of American Railroads in novel form.

YANKEE DOODLE AN OLD FRIEND IN A NEW DRESS, Scribner's, 1883, first edition, wear to the corner tips, spine extremities and board edges, some soiling to the covers and flaking to small areas of the spine, else a good to very good unsophisticated copy with near fine contents containing 8 full page, full color illustrations with many others in blue monotone with unbroken inner hinges and the original end-papers. The authors highly desirable first book.

YANKEE DOODLE DEAD, Avon, 1998, first edition., fine in wraps. Uncorrected proof.

A YANKEE IN PATAGONIA, Houghton Mifflin, 1931, first edition, top and bottom margins of the covers as well as the spine somewhat lightened, else just about fine in a vg+ dust-wrapper save for some sunning to the dust-wrapper spine and upper and fore edge margin of the rear dust-wrapper panel as well as a stamp to the front dust-wrapper panel which states that this is published overstock and sold at a reduced price. The travels and trials of the authors upon meeting Edward Chace, a former New Englander now living in South America. Frontispiece, front cover illustration and introduction by Rockwell Kent.

YANKEE NOMAD, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966, first edition., fine in vg dust-wrapper with some wear and tear.

YANKEE NOMAD, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966, near fine.

VARGR-MOON, St. Martins, 1988, first American edition, fine in wraps. Uncorrected proof.

YEAR BEFORE LAST, Harrison Smith, 1932 first edition., vg+ in attractive dust-wrapper with some chipping, mostly to the upper margins of the dust-wrapper. From the library of film and television director Curtis Harrington. SIGNED by Boyle.

A YEAR MORE OR LESS, Gollancz, 1948, first edition., some slight soil and sunning, else about vg in wraps. Uncorrected proof.

THE YEAR OF THE QUIET SUN, Hale, 1971, first English edition and first hardcover edition, front corner tips just gently bumped, else fine in near fine dust-wrapper. If you opt for this, it may well become, and forever be, the scarcest book in your collection. INSCRIBED by the author. (While many of the Doubleday science fiction first editions ended up being sold to the libraries in the 50's, 60's & 70's, it is probably true that virtually all of the Hale editions followed suit). Along with THE YEAR OF THE QUIET SUN, Ace, 1970, first edition, vg+ in color pictorial wraps.

THE YEAR OF THE RANSOM, Walker, 1988, first edition., fine in like full color pictorial dust-wrapper. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Another TIME PATROL adventure.

THE YEAR OF REGENERATION, Harpers, 1932, first edition, a tight vg+ copy. A very uncommon book being an economic fantasy told by a person living in 1983 about the devices used to bring us out of the depression. INSCRIBED by the author generically and dated at time of publication. Lawrence was a scholar and at one time Dean at the University of Minnesota.

YEAR OF CONSENT, Dell, 1954, first edition, just about fine in full color Richard Powers pictorial wraps.

A YEAR OF PROPHESYING, MACMILLAN COMPANY, 1925, first edition, a bit of dust-soiling to the t.p.e.'s, some off-setting and faint foxing to the end-papers and paste-downs no doubt due to the dust-wrapper flaps, some scattered foxing to the fore edge, else a just about fine and bright copy in a vg color pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and dust-soiling to the dust-wrapper spine and rear dust-wrapper panel. A collection of 55 essays and a nice copy. Scarce in dw.

THE YEAR OF THE RANSOM, Walker, 1988, first edition., front wrapper creased, else vg+ in wraps. Uncorrected proof. SIGNED by the author. Walker proofs are scarce.

YEAR OF THE UNICORN, Ace, 1965, first edition, fine in wraps.

A YEAR WITH THE BIRDS, Educational Publishing, 1890, a tight vg copy with a small area of light spotting to the front cover.