Authors starting with Y from Bellefair Books

Berkley, California: Ten Speed Press, 2003. A beautiful copy of this intriguing cook book, tightly bound in brown with pale sand lettering on front and spine, and decorated green endpapers; signed, "Aloha Roy" on the page opposite the title page; ix + 165 pages including index; tiny bit of wear to spine ends and lower outside corners. Pictorial dust jacket, price-intact, has a touch of edge wrinkling; jacket now protected in clear, archival quality sleeve. This is the companion book to Roy Yam... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1993. xv + 416 pp. Frontispiece. Introduction. Illustrated. "W B Yeats included almost every sort of Irish folk tale in this marvelous compendium of fairy tales and song which he collected & edited for publication in 1892. Here is the literature of the heart - a place where anything is possible.." Book is unread, has slight bumps to spine ends. Attractive landscape photo on DJ. DJ is brodart protected, has 1 mm tear on front cover and just a tou... more information

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London: Country Life Ltd, 1949. Reprint, originally published in 1937. A lovely copy, tightly bound - sewn - in pale sage cloth-covered boards with black Chinese script on front and English lettering on spine; 67 pages, printed on heavy stock, pages very lightly toned; frontispiece painting "Storm on the Screes, Wastwater" with poem in gold colour Chinese script (translation on later page) plus 12 additional paintings, each on its own page with an accompnying poem in Chinese script. Between pa... more information

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London: Mysterious Press / Century Hutchinson Ltd., 1988. A very good + copy of the first edition, first printing, tightly bound in black with gilt lettering on spine and red-and-black decorated endpapers; 207 pages; slight lean to spine, tiny bumps to spine ends; dust jacket, price intact, has surface edge wear but no chips or tears; jacket now protected in removeable clear sleeve. Yorke's 30th novel. Carrie Foster becomes curious about her husband's first wife. He says she left him. Then s... more information

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Philadelphia, Penn., U.S. A.: World Bible House, 1899. Edition unknown. Bound in blue cloth with engraved picture of Dewey on front and gilt lettering and blue lines on front and spine; decorated green and white endpapers; all edges marbled; ix+552 pp.; frontispiece colour painting of Admiral Dewey at the Battle of Manila, plus many B&W photos and engravings throughout; wear at spine head and tail, corners, and edges; previous owner's name inked out on front pastedown and written on blank second fre... more information

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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1983. First Edition, First Printing, in brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine and cream endpapers; x+221 pp. including index; 27 B&W photos; pictorial dust jacket has slight edge wrinkling and scratch on rear; dj now protected in archival quality brodart cover.. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 6" x 9.25". ... more information

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Peking/Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1978. Third Edition, translated by Wang Tso-Liang and A.C. Barnes; in pale green quarter cloth over pale yellow boards with blue lettering on front and spine; 151 pp; about 9 full-page B&W photos of a production of the play; navy blue dust jacket, with yellow lightning bolt on front and white lettering on front and spine, has minor edge wear and is now protected in archival quality brodart cover. Thunderstorm, a four-act play by one of China's leading dramati... more information

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New York: The John Day Company, 1945. First Edition, First Printing, in black cloth with silver patch on spine with black lettering; 8 pp. B&W photos; viii+262 pp.; very slight wear to silver patch on spine, small bumps to spine ends; no jacket. Lin Yutang's account of his second exploration deep into wartime China. He interviewed Chinese soldiers, American soldiers, aborigines, Japanese prisoners, farmers, businessmen, ardent leftists, stern reactionaries, scholars, and school children. He talked m... more information

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Toronto: Longmans, Green & Co., 1945. First Edition, First Printing, in navy blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and patch on spine with navy lettering; eight pages of B&W photos; light bumps to spine ends; first free endpaper missing; slight tanning to pages; black, red, and white dust jacket, now protected in archival quality brodart, is price clipped and has edgewear, chipping, and dust soiling, plus two neatly, archivally mended tears (longest is 0.75 inch/18 mm), but none of this impi... more information

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