Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Great Expectations Rare Books

New York: Welcome Rain, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition Thus. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format trade paperback, with French flaps. 272 pages. Bibliography, Index to Illustrations. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs. First edition by this publisher, first printing thus with full number line. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Near fine. .

Da Capo Press, 2001. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 478 pages. Bibliography, Index. First Da Capo Press edition, first printing with full number line. An homage to the New Yorker, the urban and sophisticated magazine that defined the new intelligentsia of the post-war United States. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. No remainder marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine. .

New York: Basic Books, 1993. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. Autographed edition, flatsigned by author on title-page. 308 pages. Bibliographic References, Annotated Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with several vignette portraits. First edition, first printing with full number line. A narrative history utilizing memoirs and other sources chronicling the distaff reaction to the French Revolution. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket. .

Tokyo, Japan: Japan Modern Decorative Arts Association Book. Near Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large quarto paperback with stiff pictorial wrappers and French Flaps. Perfect bound. 72 pages. This is the annual exhibition catalog of Japanese art published by the Japan Modern Decorative Arts Association. The present edition is undated, the Association began their annual exhibitions in1962, this copy dates from approximately 1970. There are 325 numbered objects in the catalog, each with size, artist and title listed, plus a photograph. Most photos are in black and white, 11 are in color. Major sections include ceramics, metal work, lacquer ware, dyed fabric and a chapter covering diverse mediums such as wood and bamboo , dolls, paper, cloisonne, glass etc. First edition. Previous owner's name stamp on lower title-page and the stamp of the Pensacola Art Center, Pensacola, Florida on lower front free end-paper. Moderate damage to pager spine on… Read More

Essex: Pearson Education Limited, 2004. Book. Good. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 597 pages. Bibliographical Guide, Glossary, Index. Illustrated with 9 maps, some double age. Updated from the first edition with a new 60 page final section. Second edition. No previous owner's name but moderate underlining throughout. Else a square, tight and crisp copy. Good. .

New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1978. Hardcover, cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 471pp., Bibliography, Index. First edition, first printing. Containing over 650 individual entries and illustrated with 8 pages of color and over 2000 drawings of meticulous detail. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good in a very good dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's silver, non price-clipped dust-jacket. 249 pages. Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs on glossy stock [eight pages of black and white and eight pages of color]. Stated first edition, first printing with full number line. The definitive history of Harley-Davidson motorcycles and their place in American culture. No previous ownership marks. Not ex-library. Pages show mild toning to margins as per usual with this edition, else a clean, square, unmarked copy in nice jacket. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket. .

Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2000. Hardcover in dust-jacket. 314 pages. Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs. First edition, stated first printing. A new reappraisal of the controversial naval battle, drawing on the profiles of the major players involved, the importance of gunnery, and the employment of signals and intelligence. A balances and insightful study. Book protected by reinforced acetate covers that are pasted to inside covers. Else book and dust-jacket as new. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Asheville, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 1998. Trade paperback. 303 pages. Illustrated. First edition. of collection of 15 essays broadly concerned with the Middle English writer John Gower's politics of gender, the court, the church and poetics; selected from papers presented to the John Gower Society [1992-1997] at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo Michigan and revised extensively for this volume. No previous ownership mars. A clean, square, unmarked copy, unread and as new. Fine. . First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Londion: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1961. First edition, second impression [same year as first printing]. Green cloth sans dustjacket. Illustrated with frontispiece. Fine.. Second Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Londion: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1962. First edition. Green cloth sans dustjacket. Illustrated with frontispiece. Very good+.. First Edition. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919. Hardcover, blue cloth lettered in gold on spine. 113 pages. Reprint. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good. . Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good./No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Collier Books, 1973. Trade paperback. 236pp., Bibliography, Index to Titles. Edited and introduction by M.L. Rosenthal. Updated edition, containing 195 poems by the greatest poet to write English in our time, together with two of his extraordinary verse plays. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tightly bound copy. Very good.. Later Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Cooper Hewitt Museum / Rizzoli International Pub., 1997. Large format paperback. 192 pages. Profusely illustrated throughout with magnificent color photographs depicting everyday technologies from shoes, hair-brushes and flatware to architectural design and transportation. First edition. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Near fine. . First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Belka Publishing Company/Times Books/Random House, 1994. Hardcover, cloth spine over black paper covered boards, in slipcase. 316pp., illustrated with photographs. Stated first American edition, first printing [number line beginning with 2 as per Random House practice]. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good+ in a very good+ slipcase. [N.B. This book was originally issued in a dust-jakcet. We have not found any other copie housed in slipcase. It is our opinion that this copy was "married" to an available slipcase by a former owner.]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 278 pages. Index. Illustrated with photographs. Second printing. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1959. Book. Good+. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, blue cloth lettered in gold, no dust-jacket. 127 pages. Illustrated. 17th edition. General work on collecting, record of prices paid by dealers for all U.S. coins, tips on cleaning, buying, etc. Front blank end-papers quite busy with previous owner's names, notes, etc. Else book is sound, square, and clean internally with no writing, underlining, or marginalia. Good+. .

Pownal, Vermont: Storey Communications, 1992. Large trade paperback. 298pp., Index. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, sqaure, unmarked and unread copy. Near as new, a very fine copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Columbia, South Carolina.: Univ of South Carolina Press, 1991. Hardcover in dust-jacket. 202pp., Bibliographic References, Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs and a map. First edition, no additional printing listed. Signed presentation copy by author to student: [name] "My favorite librarian and a wonderful student, Best wishes, Don Yerxa 10/21/95". No other markings. A very clean, square, crisp copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1989. Hardcover, large oblong quarto, bound in brown cloth , in dust-jacket. 198 pages. Index. Illustrated with old photographs, daguerreotypes, watercolors, sketches, and maps of the old city and color photographs of a rehabilitated Williamsburg. Second printing. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Mild shelf-wear to rear panel of dust-jacket. Near fine in a very good jacket. . Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.