Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

(Charlestown, MA: Emporium Publications). (1973).. (1973).. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in decorative red, white & blue wrappers. The binding is slightly bumped with foxing to the covers. [iii], 93 & [3] pages. Good. <p>A humorous article by Tom Donnelly, reprinted from the Washington Post, serves as an introduction. The recipes feature well-known figures from the Watergate era: "Chili Con Colson", "Liddy's Fool-Proof Devil's Food Cake", "Nixon's Hot Cross Bread", etc.

(New York): Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, 1948.. 1948.. Good. - 4-page sheet music approximately 12 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide. Inscribed around and over the titling on the first page and signed "Nino" The inscription is undated but probably circa 1948. The pages are bumped, lightly soiled & a bit darkened. 2 names and an address & telephone number are noted in ink on the 4th page. Good. <p>The first page is headed "'Special Artist Edition' / Nino (The Great) Yacovino / Rumba Calypso. Lyrics by Harry Brent. Music by Irving Fields". The inscription, penned around this titling, reads: "To my dear Marilyn - I love you & your wonderful family - / Always, / Nino". There follow two more pages of music and lyrics with a further four stanzas of lyrics on the fourth page headed "Rumba Calypso / Special Patter Choruses" which feature Yacovino dreaming he is running for President.

(Tokyo: Toshiro Kuze/ Graphic-sha Publishing Company Limited, 1987).. 1987).. Very good. - Small quarto [10-1/2 inches high by 10 inches wide], softcover bound in printed white wraps, in a dust wrapper. The wraps are very lightly bumped. The dust jacket is lightly soiled with its top edge slightly creased & a small piece out of the head of the jacket spine. There is a glue stain on the front panel where a price-sticker has been removed. 81 & [2] pages plus colophon. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white drawings & photographic illustrations in black & white and color. Very good. <p>The text is printed in English and Japanese.

Athol Depot: G. H. Kellogg, Book, Card and Job Printer, 1862.. 1862.. Good. - Small octavo, softcover bound in printed tan wraps. The wraps are soiled & lightly bumped & chipped. The spine is perished & the wraps are partially detached. 24 pages. The top page corners are bumped & the last 2 leaves are partially detached. Good. <p>Rare. No copies were located in WorldCat.

Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1959.. 1959.. Very good. - Small quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in printed light green wraps. The spine & extremities are darkened with staining to the head & tail of the spine & the adjacent corners of the wraps. The wraps are lightly bumped with some light soiling & foxing. xii & 212 pages. The top edge is darkened with staining near the head of the spine & there is an owner's stamp on the inside front wrap, else the contents are very good. <p>The University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Bibliographical Series Number 8.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1949.. 1949.. Good. - Octavo, gray cloth. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped with a dent to the bottom edge of the front cover. The rear cover is lightly dampstained with a small brown stain & some creasing to the cloth along the top edge. x & 723 pages. There is dampstaining to the rear pastedown & endpaper & rear blanks & rippling to the last 100 pages of the book. Good. <p>First edition.<p>From the library of geographer Vincent Kotschar with his name and address on the front pastedown.

Union, NJ: Newark State College, 1971.. 1971.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in cream & brown wrappers with a portrait of film star Dana Andrews on the front wrap. There is a small stain to the front wrap & some light soiling & staining to the rear wrap. Unnumbered pages with the text printed in blue & brown & in white on a blue background. Illustrated with artworks and photographic illustrations in white, blue & brown. There is a light stain on the inside front wrap, else the contents are very good. <p>An attractively produced magazine publishing poetry, photography and art. This issue includes a visual poem by Dexter Pease, drawings by Robert Yoskowitz, Gary Weirnik and Frank Basilico and photography by Wm. Mellilo, Herb Yardley and Ellen Spector.<p>Rare.

(New York): Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, (1981)., (1981).. Very good. FIRST PRINTING INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY RICHARD YATES - Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-5/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in cream boards backed with a black cloth spine, in a printed yellow dust wrapper. The covers are lightly soiled and bumped. The edges of the dust jacket are lightly soiled and the head of the jacket's spine is slightly chipped. [x] & 272 pages. There is offsetting to the rear endpaper and pastedown. Very good.
First edition, first printing. Inscribed, signed and dated "June 11, 1984" by Richard Yates on the front endpaper.

(New York): Delacorte Press, (1978).. (1978).. Good. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The top edges of the covers are lightly foxed. The dust jacket is lightly soiled & foxed with a small stain & tear to the head of its spine and a stain to the front panel. Half-title, title, [4] leaves & 178 pages. The top edge & fore-edge are foxed. Good. <p>First edition.

Delft, Netherlands: Bulletin Ethnografisch Museum, (1966).. (1966).. Fine. - Small quarto [9-3/8 inches high by 7 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial maroon & olive green wraps. The bottom corner of the front wrap is slightly creased & the head & tail of the spine are lightly chipped. 91 pages. Profuse black-and-white illustrations. Near fine. <p>The text is in Dutch with a summary in English.

Washington, D.C.: McGill & Witherow, 1865.. 1865.. Fair. THE U.S. CONGRESSMAN YEAMAN OF KENTUCKY'S SPEECH IN SUPPORT OF THE AMENDMENT OUTLAWING SLAVERY - Octavo, 9 inches high by 6 inches wide. Softcover. Unbound printed self-wraps. The cover page is darkened and detached. 15 deckle-edged pages and [1] blank. The overlapping edges of the deckle-edged leaves are darkened, chipped and creased. There is dampstaining to the top inner corners of the pages. Good. <p>"After much hesitation and earnest reflection, I have concluded to vote for the resolution submitting to the people of the States the proposed amendment to the Constitution, which, if successful, with forever settle the vexed and distressing question of slavery.... If I wanted to justify it as an anti-slavery measure it would not be hard to find great authority in my own section. No two names are more worshipped throughout the South than Washington and Jefferson. Washington was a practical emancipationist, and it would not be… Read More

New York: The New York Public Library, 1953.. 1953.. Good. - Small quarto [10 inches high by 7 inches wide], softcover bound in printed cream wraps. The wraps are darkened & lightly soiled with the bottom corners creased. There is an owner's name on the top edge of the front wrap. There is a small blue stain to the rear wrap & a small crease to its bottom edge. 25 pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white facsimile frontispiece. Good. <p>First separate edition. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of January-February 1953.

New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1906.. 1906.. Good. - Small quarto [6-1/2 inches high by 5-1/8 inches wide], tan cloth-backed boards with a paper label on the spine. The binding is soiled with the corners of the covers rubbed and the label is darkened & rubbed. 75 pages plus colophon. There is an inscription penciled on the front endpaper & there are asterisks penciled by a few titles. There is occasional light soiling. Good. <p>First edition, limited to 1,000 copies printed on Van Gelder handmade paper.

NY: The Macmillan Company, (1971).. (1971).. Good. - Octavo, black cloth titled in gilt in a dust wrapper. The covers are lightly spotted. The dust wrapper is rubbed & lightly soiled with its front flap creased. xxvi & 341 pp. Very good. <p>First American edition.

(New Rochelle, NY): Spoken Arts Inc., circa [1959].. [1959].. Very good. - sc - Quarto [12-1/4 inches square]. A 33-1/3 rpm long-playing record in original pictorial cardboard sleeve designed by Scott. The sleeve is lightly bumped with some light foxing & soiling to the edges. The disc itself is only very lightly used with virtually no surface noise. Very good. <p>As a young playwright who had had a play performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Lennox Robinson [1886-1958] was appointed Manager and Producer at the theatre by Yeats, and this business relationship developed into a close friendship over the years. This record includes readings of poems by Yeats and Robinson's memories of the poet and playwright.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., (1964).. (1964).. Very good. - Large octavo, 9-3/4 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide. Greenish gray cloth titled in blue on the spine with Chinese calligraphy in blue on the front cover, in a color pictorial white dust wrapper. The books spine is bumped & soiled. The price-clipped dust jacket is soiled with staining and foxing to the edges. There are a few chips and short tears to the jacket's edges. 366 pages, with profuse textual illustrations and 16 full-page color illustrations by Chiang Yee. A previous owner's bookplate, mounted on the front endpaper, has been partially removed. Very good in a good dust wrapper. <p>First edition.

Chicago, IL: Ludowici-Celadon Company, 1931.. 1931.. Good. - Quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in printed gray wrappers. The binding is lightly bumped & rubbed with the edges of the wraps darkened. Title & pages [66]-79 plus a publisher's ad. 10 pages of black-and-white photographic illustrations by F. R. Yerbury & 1 page of architectural drawings. The contents are very good. Good. <p> The Tuileries Brochures: A Series of Monographs on European Architecture with Special Reference to Roofs of Tile, edited by William Dewey Foster. Volume III, No. 5, September 1931 . The publisher is the manufacturer of Ludowici tile.

(Chicago, IL): Ludowici-Celadon Company, 1932.. 1932.. Good. - Quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in printed gray wrappers. The spine is rubbed and the wraps are darkened around the edges with a small stain to the rear wrap. Title & pages [98]-111 plus a publisher's ad illustrated in black & white. 10 pages of black-and-white photographic illustrations by F. R. Yerbury & 1 page of architectural drawings. The inside wraps are darkened around the edges, else the contents are very good. Good. <p>"The Tuileries Brochures: A Series of Monographs on European Architecture with Special Reference to Roofs of Tile", edited by William Dewey Foster, a New York architect. Volume IV, Number 1, January 1932. The publisher is the manufacturer of Ludowici Tile.<p>An order form for back numbers is laid in.

(Chicago, IL): Ludowici-Celadon Company, 1930.. 1930.. Good. - Quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in printed gray wrappers. The spine is rubbed and the wraps are darkened around the edges with a small stain to the rear wrap. Title & pages [130]-143 plus a publisher's ad illustrated in black & white. 10 pages of black-and-white photographic illustrations by F. R. Yerbury & 1 page of architectural drawings. The inside wraps are darkened around the edges, else the contents are very good. Good. <p>"The Tuileries Brochures: A Series of Monographs on European Architecture with Special Reference to Roofs of Tile", edited by William Dewey Foster, a New York architect. Volume II, Number 3, May 1930. The publisher is the manufacturer of Imperial Roofing Tiles.

(New York): Ludowici-Celadon Company, 1929.. 1929.. Good. - Quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in printed gray wrappers. The binding is slightly rubbed with the edges of the wraps darkened. Title & pages [2]-15 plus a publisher's ad illustrated in black & white. 10 pages of black-and-white photographic illustrations by F. R. Yerbury & 1 page of architectural drawings. The inside wraps are darkened around the edges, else the contents are very good. Good. <p>"The Tuileries Brochures: A Series of Monographs on European Architecture with Special Reference to Roofs of Tile", edited by William Dewey Foster, a New York architect. Volume I, Number 1, January 1929. The publisher is the manufacturer of Imperial Roofing Tiles. This is the first issue of the series and laid in is a four-page leaflet announcing the series "which will be published every two months and sent to architects through the country".