Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

UNKNO, 2007. A fine copy with some light wear and a few small stains to the jacket. 8 x 10 inches. 80 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. Signed by author on half title. "A distinguished photographer respected for her images of the most needy in society - the homeless, abused children, children with AIDS - Yaffa also has an eye for the delicae and often unnoticed images that surround us. Accompanied by a brief poetic text, the books focusses our eyes on the beauty and mystery that can be found in every day objects.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. First edition. A fine, well-preserved copy. 10 x 9 inches. 128 pages. Original red cloth in pictorial dust jacket. "The Edge of Time presents a retrospective of Yampolsky's photographic work since 1960. Reflecting her lifelong concerns, the images capture rural Mexico and its people with respect and infinite care" (The Publisher).

Jiazazhi, 2014. New in shrinkwrap. 8vo. 168 pages. Cloth-backed boards. FIRST EDITION, number 263 of 500 copies.

New York: Timken Publishers, 1991. First. Corners lightly bumped, ink ownership name on half-title, pages with light age-toning at edges. Square 4to. Photographically illustrated by Bill Barrette. Original pictorial wrappers. With poems by John Yau and photographs by Bill Barrette, this shows a "New York as it is" view of the city, unvarnished "immense and ultimately unknowable." Distributed by Rizzoli, it was praised by John Ashbery: "This 'record of gregarious surfaces' is the ultimate dream-Baedeker of New York -- essential reading and viewing for locals, tourists, and out-of-body travelers.

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Scuffed at joints and edges, but very sound and internally fine. 8vo. Contemporary black half morocco, with leather label of the compiler of the volume, Henry C. Boyd: "STATEMENTS / HENRY C. BOYD / March 14th 1859 to June 27th 1866." Several pages have annotations in pencil or ink by Boyd. Bound in are three leaves filled on both sides by him with numbers (regarding attendance, expenses, etc.; and there is evidence of other manuscript interleavings having been removed). (BA).

New York: H. Wilson, 1850. Hardcover. Map slightly misfolded else clean and clear; rear hinge separated. 16mo. 142 pages, index and ads at end. Folding map. Original pale blue embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover.

New York: John Doggett, Jr., 1844. Minor browning and foxing throughout (and light pencil writing throughout); front hinge weak else a good to very good copy. 16mo. 160 pages. Double-page map. Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover.

James Miller, 1866. Inkstamp on reverse of frontispiece and spotty stain to rear cover else a very good copy. Long folding map is misforded and lacks a small chip [not affecting the image] but is clean and bright. 134 pp + Index plus ads, including a number of plates, some folding. Original cloth over boards with gilt stamped cover.

New York: New York University Art Collection, 1967. A near fine copy with some light wear to extremities. 8.5 x 9 inches. 107 pages. Fully illustrated in black-and-white. Original black cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, with a folding poster title "Chronology" laid in. Typed presentation slip from the curator Ruth Gurin pinned to front free endpaper.

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Horizontal folds, but in very good condition. One page, folio, with integral blank leaf (with docket). Signed by Roos and Thinehovon (followed by red wax stamps) and signed by three witnesses. "The Condicon of this obligation is... that if the above bound... doo well and truely observe, perform, fullfill, accomplish, and keep all and singular the Covenants, grants... which... are or ought to be observed, performed... and kept mentioned and Comprised in one Bill of sale, or Transport from the above bound... (and if performed without fraud)... Then this obligation (is) to be void..." (BA). So, pretty straight-forward!

Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1909. Pale stain lower right, several short separations along folds, two with small areas of loss, otherwise clean and brigt, the colors fresh. Folding colored map, sheet 27.75 x 31 inches. Insets lower right show New York City and Long Island. The steam railroad lines are shown in colors on the map, keyed in the upper left with a listing of the stations. Scale: 12 miles to the inch.

Geneva, NY: Press of W. F. Humphrey, 1912. 8vo. 148 pp. Plates by H. DeF. Patterson. Original red cloth, lettered in black. A near-fine copy with slight toning to cloth. Provenance: Thomas W. Streeter (pencil note on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. Overland from Atchison, Kansas, to Denver. Indian raids, badmen; Blackhawk, Colo., etc. Adams, Six-Guns 2465; Rader 3775.

Geneva, NY: Press of W. F. Humphrey, 1912. 8vo. 148 pp. Plates by H. DeF. Patterson. Original red cloth, lettered in black. A near-fine copy with slight toning to cloth. FIRST EDITION. Overland from Atchison, Kansas, to Denver. Indian raids, badmen; Blackhawk, Colo., etc. Adams, Six-Guns 2465; Rader 3775.

Philadelphia: Samuel Augustus Mitchell, 1834. Early issue (the first was 1831). Light rubbing to binding, a few short separations along folds, light wear at sheet edges. Hand-colored engraved folding map, 15 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches. Folding to 5 x 3 inches into original green gilt-decorated roan binding. Provenance: William Fitch (contemporary ownership signatures on verso of map). Mounted on the inside front cover of the binding is the 1830 Census data for the state, recording the total population of the state at 937,903. At bottom of the map are Profiles of the Ohio and Erie Canal, and the Miami Canal. 73 counties are delineated, the most populated then being Hamilton, Columbiana, and Muskingum.