Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Beasley Books

New York: Holt Rinehart Winston. (1971). First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine but for "tiny" decorative stamp at lower corner of the rear pastedown endpaper, in near fine dust jacket with a mere trace of wear at head of spine. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 87 pp .

Princeton: Princeton Univ Press. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket.; 327 pp .

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Folklore Society. 1959-1961. First Printing. Softcover. Wraps, very good copies, soiled, especially issue #1. Each has a stamp of the Folklore Center of New York City, each has the small issue number on the cover circled in ink. "Blues for Big Bill' with a photo of Broonzy, Peggy Seeger, many songs with many drawings, New Lost City Ramblers, more. Priced for the three.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 38, 42, 48 pp .

New York: Horace Liveright. 1928. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. No. 797 of 1000 press-numbered copies in paper-covered boards with vellum backstrip stamped in black, gilt stamped horse and carriage on front board, ribbon marker, partially unopened. Minor spotting to rear board, but very good+ copy of this presentation edition for the author and friends of the publisher, with none offered for sale. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pp .

New York: Morrow. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket, photos by Young with an essay by Atwood, the beauty of the natural world. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Paris: Chez Etienne Ledoux. 1824. Hardcover. Two volumes, complete, a very uncommon edition. Marbled paper-covered boards with red leather backstrip stamped in gilt with 5 raised bands. Boards and leather rubbed, gilt still bright on spine, one abrasion on front board, very good. Compelling frontispiece engraving, "Le Temps est arme d'une faux, &c." Ledoux bookseller's label at corner of front pastedown of each volume. A nice set of Young, handsome on the shelf. Andre Breton declared the Night Thoughts a principal historical precursor of Surrealism.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 380; 395 pp .

New York: Abrams Comic Art. 2012. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A fine copy, issued without dust jacket. CD included (also fine). A graphic novel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 191 pp .

New York: Morrow. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine copy in fine dust jacket but for a litte rubbing and wrinkling at head of spine. Author's first book. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 100 pp .

Cambridge: Zoland Books. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine but for owner's name in the upper right corner of the free front endpaper, in fine dust jacket. A poetry collection. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 350 pp .

New York: Morrow. 1995. 1st Quill Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Wraps, the paperback issue of the author's first book, fine but for tiny corner bumps and light rubbing.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 100 pp .

Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in fine but for slight sunning to dust jacket spine. Study of prejudice since WWII. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 632 pp .

(New York): Revolutionary Youth Movement. Softcover. Six legal-size leaves, stapled at the upper left corner, Revolutionary Youth Movement rubber stamp at upper right corner. Text begins, "The Revolutionary Youth Movement is first and foremst dedicated to ensuring the continued existence of the human race past the next five years through creating a working-class government which centralizes and holds all political power." Very good+ with fold at center.; 8½ x 14"; (6) pp .

Chicago: Ziff Davis Publishing Company. 1947. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A favorable analysis of Communism for the American reader, undertaken by the German sociologist/communist Gumperz and Volk, who was born in the the Ukraine and lived and studied all over Eastern Europe. Very good with very slight shakiness and bit faded spine.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 479 pp .

Peking: Foreign Languages Press. 1961. Softcover. Wraps, a little wavy, very good. The author's first poetry collection, The People, was published in 1940, and by 1961 he had become an important man of letters in China. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 39 pp .

New York: Totem. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Single leaf, 7 x 9', printed on one side, announcing contribs by WCW. Ginsberg, Blackburn, Whalen, Lowenfels, O'Hara, Kerouac, Corso, Finstein, et al. Fine. .