Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Books of the World

Grosset & Dunlap, 1971. Hardcover. 181 pages. c.1972 printing. Blue pictorial cover by Rudi Nappi. Black & white multi-scene endpapers. Format 9 cover design. Spine volume number in small Akzidenz-Grotesk font. Rear board lists to The Masked Monkey. Fine. Spine ends bumped. Light rubbing to corners. Interior is pristine. Binding is square and tight. Cover is clean and crisp except for two label ghosts. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Originally published in 1953. Manuscript by William Dougherty based on an outline by Andrew Svenson. Revised by Priscilla Baker-Carr in 1971. The Hardy Boys go to the Woodson Academy to solve the mystery of a missing will.

London: Verso, 1983. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition. Very Good+. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Reading and shelfwear to cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 202 pages.

New York: William Morrow, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Slight edgewear to jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 328 pages. For some couples, the whole biting-and-blood thing would have been a deal breaker. But Tommy and Jody are in love, and they vow to work through their issues. Like how much Jody should teach Tommy about his new vampire powers (and how much he needs to learn on his own). Plus there's Tommy's cute new minion, sixteen-year-old goth girl Abby Normal. (Well, someone has to run errands during daylight hours!)

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1932. Hardcover. First Edition, later printing. Dark blue cloth over boards with gilt printing and illustrations to spine and front cover. Illustrated end papers. Four color plates and 44 B&W illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Richly illustrated jacket. Very Good book in a Good jacket. Prior owner's name to FFEP, otherwise interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Spine ends and corners worn (not frayed). Jacket is chipped at spine tail. Significant wear and chipping all along top edge of jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. v+265 pages. Winner of the John Newbery Medal for American literature for children. Fu Yuin-fah, the son of a widow from the countryside of western China, wishes to become a coppersmith in Chungking (now spelled Chongqing), the big city on the Yangtze River. With the help of many people, including an old scholar and a white missionary, he eventually attains his goal. Includes a glossary of Chinese words… Read more