Titles starting with Y from John Michael Lang Fine Books

New York: The New York Nautical College, 1901. Hardcover 5.75" x 4.25". 96pp. Blue cloth hardback with silver lettering. Near fine condition. With many illustrations from drawings by the author. One of "Patterson's Pocket Yachting Series." ... more information

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Yakima, Washington: Privately published, 1947. Hardcover 10.5" x 7.5". Appr. 125pp. Embossed buckram. Mild rubbing and wear, overall VG+ condition. With many illustrations and much historical information on the early Catholic missionaries to the Pacific Northwest, church activities, various parishes, etc. With many photo illustrations. ... more information

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New York: New Century Publishers, 1949. Paperback 7.75" x 5.5". 32pp. Stapled yellow / gold paper wrappers. Nice VG+ condition. The Communist perspective on the Spanish Civil War and how the Americans were ruining everything. ... more information

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Detroit, Michigan: Pettigrew Enterprises, Inc., 1979. Hardcover First edition 8.5" x 5.5". 383pp. Green cloth hardback with gilt lettering, in dust wrapper. Bookplate, else near fine condition; the jacket is lightly edge worn. This copy signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. This detailed work describes the crucial military service that many Japanese Americans provided during World War Two while many of their relatives were imprisoned in internment camps. With many b... more information

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Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1953. Hardback First edition 8" x 6". 287 pp. Blue cloth, illustrated dust wrapper. Near fine condition; VG+ jacket with a faded spine and light general wear. A history of the United States Merchant Marine from colonial times to the mid 20th century. This copy signed and briefly inscribed by author. ... more information

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New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965. Hardcover First edition Octavo. 275pp. Near fine in a near fine dust wrapper. With a good section of illustrations after old drawings, etc. This exellent volume on early Japanese - American diplomatic relations emphasizes cultural contacts and provides depth not seen in the other histories. ... more information

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Wilmington, North Carolina: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2000. Hardback 8.5" x 5". 102pp. Beige cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; near fine jacket. A reissue of number twelve in the Confederate Centennial Studies Series. "Descriptions of the invasion of a Southern home by Northern marauders; rich in detail, interesting in content." This copy signed by the editor on the title page. ... more information

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Copenhagen: G. E. C. Gad, 1969. Hardback 11.75" x 8". 481pp. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Ownership blindstamp, else near fine condition. A detailed study, with chapters covering genealogy of the Yar-Lun Dynasty, names of the members of the royal family, the Mongol tradition of the Tibetan kings, cosmological and theogonical aspects of the representation of the dynasty, and much more. With many charts and plates. ... more information

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Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1939. Paperback 9" x 5.75". 290pp. Beige paperback. Near fine condition. A study of the South American tribal people. Number 11 in the Anthropological Papers series of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology. With chapters on the physical characteristics of the Yaruro, their economic life, social organizations and customs, religion and shamanism, art and music, language, etc. With illustrations after drawings and... more information

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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Hardcover 7.75" x 5.5". 218pp. Orange cloth hardcover. Spine tips and corners are lightly bumped, ownership signature on first leaf, .5" soiling on front cover does not affect any text. Inscribed and signed by the author on the first leaf and on the back last leaf, upside down. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Frank Spradling. ... more information

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New York: Dial Books For Young Readers, 2000. Hardcover First edition 8.25" x 5.5". 130pp. Purple and black hardback, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; the jacket has a Newberry Medal sticker, but is otherwise in fine condition. This copy signed by the author on the title page. This book was awarded the prestigious Newberry Award in 1991. ... more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Hardcover 8.5" x 5.5". 428pp. Blue - green cloth, in dust wrapper. Gift inscription, else near fine condition. The jacket has light edge wear and is price clipped, but is quite bright. Color illustrations by Edward Shenton. ... more information

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New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Hardcover First edition 8.25" x 5". 428pp. White cloth, lettering & decoration in green. Decorations by Edward Shenton. A good copy with external soiling & wear, notably at board edges, bookplate removed, otherwise sound with unmarked pages throughout. Dust jacket is bright but tattered with large, tape-repaired tears. The touching story of the Baxters, notably young Jody and her pet fawn named Flag. ... more information

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(Connell, Washington): [Privately Published], 1977. Paperback First edition 9.5" x 6.75". 167pp. Bound in color printed paper wrappers. Some light fading to wrappers, else near fine condition. With much about life in rural Washington state, farming, etc. ... more information

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Detroit, Mich.: Harlo Press, 1971. Paperback First edition 8.5" x 5.25". 226pp., plus illustrations from newspaper clippings. Green cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; fine jacket. This unusual book "gives a progressive review of the UFO mystery in relation to geological happening and prophecy." ... more information

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New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1929. Hardcover 7.5" x 5". 288pp. Red cloth hardback, in dust wrapper. Near fine condition; the jacket is somewhat faded and edge worn. A novel of two men, one of whom is dying and entrusts his companion with a mission. ... more information

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Malta, Montana: Phillips County Historical Society, 1997. Hardcover First edition 10.75" x 8.25". 361pp. Blue cloth hardback with silver lettering. Light rubbing and wear, gift inscription, overall near fine condition. With many illustrations after black & white photographs and drawings. This volume of Montana history includes much on life on the prairie frontier, local people and families, farming and ranching, etc. ... more information

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Seattle: Seattle Art Museum & University of Washington Press, 1983. Paperback First edition 10" x 9.75". 133 pp. Illustrated glossy wrappers. Near fine condition. An accompanying text to an exhibit of Japanese folk art at the Seattle Art Museum in 1983. ... more information

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London: Collins, 1982. Hardcover 12.25" x 9.5". 209pp. Tan cloth covered hardback with gilt lettering in dust wrapper. Fine condition. The dust jacket has light rubbing, else fine condition. With much on the art of the Yoruba, their history, artists and their regional styles and cults, a descriptive catalog by John Pemberton 3rd, and an extensive bibliography. Illustrated with 70 full-page plates, 35 in color, and more than 50 black and white. photographs. ... more information

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Berkeley : University of California Press, 1990. Paperback First edition 9.25" x 6.25". 67pp. Green paper wrappers. Near fine condition. Number 38 in the series of keepsakes issued for its members by the Friends of the Bancroft Library. With several black & white illustrations. ... more information

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