Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Black Swan Books, Inc.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1932. First Edition. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Mostly this study is "a service roll of Yale men" but also includes a "brief account of college life at the outbreak of the war" [Nevins II, 148]. The publisher's dustjacket has minor loss at the spine; the slipcase is very nearly Fine. (Nevins II, 148). Near Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.

Boston: Chapman & Grimes Publishers, 1952. First Edition. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. Signed. A "vivid and dramatic romance of the south". Signed on the front endpaper with a personal inscription by the author Paul W. Pyle, and dated in his hand "April 7, 1952".~~Otherwise a clean First Edition copy The dustjacket has some loss at the top of the spine. It has not been price-clipped and is now protected with a new mylar cover. Not a common title, with a handful to copies found on OCLC. Very Good binding / Good dust jacket.

Williamsburg, Virginia: Students at The College of William and Mary, 1921. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; in brown suede with title and the seal of the College stamped in gold and with yapp edges; 322 pages, including the ads at the rear of the book; illustrated throughout with decorative borders and black and white photographs; a clean copy with no marks of any kind.~~An attractive copy, from an era when segregation most certainly held sway. We note a page with college servants -- male and female -- headed "The Darkside of College Life". Very Good binding.

1955. Five year books -- THE COMPASS --from George Washington High School in Alexandria Virginia covering 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954 & 1955. Typically bound in leatherette. These year books are heavily annotated by the owner's friends and teachers -- with such encouraging sayings as "You are a good girl. Stick with it!"; and "Roses are red | Violets are blue | You are sweet | and cute too"; and reminiscences: "To a real cute & sweet girl. Always remember the swell time we had a Nannette's slumber party" or (perhaps) suggestively, "When you are old | and have gray hair | Remember the nights | at the Open Air" (which we surmise to be a drive-in movie theater).~~True period pieces -- high school aged boomers in the first half of the 1950's.

New York: Printed for the Author By Clayton and Kingsland, 1818. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Part I only, of three, in the publisher's printed paper-covered boards; the binding has been neatly rebacked. Page 63/64 has long closed tear. The boards have edgewear. The names "Hill Carter of Shirley" and "Elizabeth Minge Carter" are on the front endpaper -- a nice Virginia association. With foxing throughout. Sabin notes that Part I was issued separately. (Howes C-535; Sabin 14021). Very Good binding.

Norfolk, VA: Landmark Publishing Company, 1882. Soft Cover. Fair binding. James Barron Hope's Yorktown Centennial Ode, "Arms and the Man." A metrical commemoration of the surrender at Yorktown. Ex library, with library bookplate on verso of front cover, library punch stamp on the title page, lacking rear cover. Some separation to the front cover, and a closed tear extending from the spine. Some dust soiling to the front cover and final leaf. Printed paper wrappers. Fair. Fair binding.

New York: The John Day Company, 1929. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. The First American Edition of the novel adapted from Van Druten's play of the same name (1925). The play was initially banned in London as it portrayed a schoolboy in love with the headmaster's wife and that we too much for the Lord Chamberlain's office. Naturally when the ban was lifted it enjoyed a most successful run. A nice binding, with no marks of any kind, in a dustjacket which has moderate shelfwear, and a piece missing from the top of the rear panel. The dustjacket is not price-clipped and is protected with a new mylar cover. Very Good+ binding / Very Good dust jacket.

London | New York: J. M. Dent | E. P. Dutton, 1913. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. A lovely bright copy with just a bit of quite light spotting to the boards. There are no marks of any kind in the book; the endpapers have some modest toning. Pale green publisher?s binding, stamped in black, blue and gilt. Mylar has been cut to protect the binding. Very Good+ binding.