Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Good Books In The Woods

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Very Good-. 1946. First Edition. Softcover. Three Poems by Robert Frost: NOCTURNES: The Night Light; Were I In Trouble With Night Tonight' Bravery. Very Good Minus: cover edges crimped. Ships same or next business day. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages .

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. Very Good+. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Issue dedicated to literary essays about T. S. Eliot, including reviews of his major poems by five poets--Richard Wilbur, Amy Clampitt, Anthony Hecht, Gjertrud Schnackberg & James Merrill. Ships same or next business day. Book has some edge wear, small bumps on spine ends, tiny fold on top corner of front cover to page 195. Pages are clean and tight. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .

Nashville, TN: Southern Methodist Publishing House. Good. 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Presumed First Edition. Ships same or next business day. Ex-library book with all the usual markings. Normal edge and shelf wear. Spine is skewed and faded. Bumps and tears on corners and spine ends. Discoloration and some soiling to boards. Second to last endpaper has 2-inch square piece missing off bottom of page. Rough tears on front paste-down endpaper. Small damp stains along head edges of pages. 1/2-inch piece missing from spine tail. Soiling and tanning to edges of pages. Text is clean. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 368 pages .

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0393027589 . Author's eighth book. Back cover has two great blurbs from Rick Bass and James Lee Burke. This novel "offers the nostalgic pleasures of a period-perfect evocation of an American era, while its portrait of an occasionally hapless but emotionally resourceful young hero will provoke gusts of laughter and shocks of recognition alike as he lurches toward his coming of age." Ships same or next business day. Book has tiny bumps on both ends of spine; otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. ; 0.94 x 8.19 x 5.83 Inches; 174 pages .

New York, New York: Ticknor & Fields. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 0899194907 . INSCRIBED by author on half-title page. "One thing is clear: Marian is dead. She died -- by her own hand -- exactly one year ago. It doesn't much matter whether she meant to do it or not. What does matter is the void she has left and Madison Bell's consummate skill in filling it." Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on paste-down endpaper. Book has very slight edge wear, light bumps on both ends of spine, spine slightly cracked on first blank page; overall, it is tight, bright, and clean. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has minor edge and shelf wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 194 pages .

New York, New York: Ticknor & Fields. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 0899194907 . "One thing is clear: Marian is dead. She died -- by her own hand -- exactly one year ago. It doesn't much matter whether she meant to do it or not. What does matter is the void she has left and Madison Bell's consummate skill in filling it." Ships same or next business day. Book has very slight edge wear; overall, it is tight, bright, and clean. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has some edge and shelf wear, light creases on top right corner of front cover, small rubs on fore-edge of front cover and spine head, some yellow sticky residue on inside fore-edge of back flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 194 pages .

London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd.. Very Good-. N.D.. Hardcover. Contains chapters on birds of prey, the nidification of birds and the habits of British wild birds and animals as well as shooting, hunting, coursing, falconry, and fishing. Gold spine titles age darkened and faded. Both ends of spine rubbed. Top corners bumped. Bottom corners rubbed with loss of cloth. Cover edges have moderate shelf wear. Top page edges gilded. Page edges tanned and soiled. Previous owner name on half title page. Moderate foxing throughout the entire text. Previous bookseller label on front pastedown. Ships same or next business day well protected in a box. Please note this is an oversize and heavy book. Expedited/Priority orders may require extra shipping charges. International orders will require extra shipping charges in addition to the charges shown by this website. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 331 pages .

New York: Warner Books. Near Fine. 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. "No other single year in the 20th Century caused more shocks to the American people and political system than 1968...a watershed year in our nation's history. America's premier campaign journalist relives the epochal events he witnessed that year, including revelations that may have changed the course of American history in the second half of the 20th Century..." - from the back cover. Ships same or next business day. Fore-edge is lightly soiled. ; 534 pages .

London: Heinemann. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 0434292400 . "Years from Now is about family and family history. It is about the way - the title itself suggests it - that we think about our children, imagining their futures, and about the way we and our children achieve or disappoint these expectations." Ships same or next business day. Spine is slightly skewed, small bumps on spine ends, thin black mark on fore-edge of page 143; otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has minimal edge wear, light creases on spine tail. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 263 pages .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394555139 . INSCRIBED by author on half-title page, "For Rolland Comstock, with thanks - your enthusiasm is a great gift. Gary Glickman / East Hampton / April 2, 1990." "Years from Now is about family and family history. It is about the way - the title itself suggests it - that we think about our children, imagining their futures, and about the way we and our children achieve or disappoint these expectations." Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on paste-down endpaper. Book has minor edge wear, small bumps on spine ends, light soiling on head edge. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has minimal edge wear, light tanning on edges, some tanning on inside of spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 263 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 0374293414 . "In this radiant and hope-filled new novel, Carlos Fuentes gives us a richly painted portrait of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of Laura Diaz - a woman who becomes as much a part of our history as the Mexican history she observes and helps to create." Ships same or next business day. Spine is slightly loose, tiny bumps on spine tail and bottom right corner of front board; otherwise, in fine condition. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has minor edge wear, fold on bottom of front flap. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 518 pages .

El Paso, Texas: Texas Western Press/University of Texas At El Paso. Very Good+. 1971. Soft cover. With illustrations and sheet music. Very Good Plus. Ships same or next business day. ; Southwestern Studies Monograph No,. 31; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 19 pages .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 0684811537 . SIGNED by author in black ink on full title page. "Impassioned, lucid, articulate, and defiant, these essays by the acclaimed author of Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead [...] provide a brilliant and haunting portrait of Native Americans and the realitites of their life in America today." Ships same or next business day. Spine is slightly skewed and loose, minor edge wear; otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has minimal edge wear. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 205 pages; Signed by Author .

Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 0915463407 . "A fine and very funny novel! Thoroughly entertaining. Best mountain man I've read since The Big Sky and Little Big Man." -- Patrick McManus. Ships same or next business day. Book has small bump on top left corner of back board. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ is lightly tanned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 282 pages .

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. "Yentl knew she wasn't cut out for a woman's life. She couldn't sew, she couldn't knit. She let the food burn and the milk boil over. Yenty much preferred men's activities to women's." Ships same or next business day. Spine is slightly tilted, small bumps on spine ends; otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket has moderate edge and shelf wear, small rubs on spine ends, tiny tear on spine tail. ; Woodcuts; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 60 pages .

New York: Avon Books. Very Good. 1948. First Edition. Paperback. Includes "Children of the Times," "Nostalgia," "Counting the Waves," and other stories. Ships same or next business day. Book has normal edge and shelf wear, multiple creases on spine, crease from a dog-ear on top corner of page 19, spine slightly cracked on half-title page. Pages are tanned. Protected in archival plastic bag. ; Mass Market PB; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 154 pages .

Texas: Talley Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. "Eighty-six years old, Vic Pierce remembers his family moving from Junction to Ozona in wagons." Slight slant to spine. Minor edge wear. Tiny bumps on spine ends with very small tear on spine tail. Light tanning to edges of endpapers. Time and date handwritten on page 137. Otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has minimal edge and shelf wear. Tiny creases on corners and spine ends. Some light brown spots on both covers. Slightly tanned. Ships same or next business day very well protected in a box. ; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 137 pages .

New York: Vanguard Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. "A tumultuous novel of a rebellious writer, tormented by forbidden desires - completing the powerful 'Bernard Carr' trilogy." Ships same or next business day. Spine is slightly loose and skewed, normal edge wear, small bumps on bottom corners and spine ends, small brown spots on fore-edge, pages are lightly tanned. Spine slightly cracked on half-title page. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has normal edge and shelf wear, 1/4-inch rough tear on spine, chips on spine head, 1/4-inch chips on head edge of back cover, light soiling on back cover, four small water spots on front cover, lightly tanned. ; Bernard Carr Trilogy; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages .

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 1565121570 . SIGNED by Julia Alvarez on full title page. Includes an excerpt about the book from Publishers Weekly. "This zesty, daring novel is about what happens when an author really does 'write what she knows.' At once funny and poignant, intellectual and gossipy, lighthearted and layered in meaning, Yo! Is, ironically and above all, a portrait of the artist." Ships same or next business day. Book has minimal edge wear; otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 309 pages; Signed by Author(s) .

New York: Irego. Near Fine. 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine loose mimeographed sheets stapled in creme, stiff wrappers. Wrappers tanned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .