Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Keel Row Books

Newcastle upon Tyne; Andrew Reid & Co. for the Northumberland Yacht Club, 1902., 1902. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp., [3]- 115, [1]. 18 maps and charts, of which 6 folding. Publishers' olive green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, and club crest blocked in red, black and gilt to upper board. Covers soiled and scuffed, with toned spine and dull gilt. Endpapers lightly toned with tidy ownership inscription to ffep, marked N.Y.C. for Northumberland Yacht Club and dated 1909; thumb print to title page otherwise contents clean. Very Good contents in Good binding. Navigational guide to the North East Coast, intended for those with small craft and published partly to encourage southern yachtsmen to venture northward to experience the delights of the sea bird colonies and rugged countryside of the less crowded harbours. Rare, COPAC locates no institutional copies.

York; Dean & Chapter of York, 1981., 1981. Hardcover. Revised. Large octavo. 40 pp. Illustrated with monochrome photographs. Book Condition: Near Fine. Stapled pictorial card wraps. Covers lightly sunned top edge otherwise fine. No annotation or inscriptions. A short history of York silver, together with an illustrated catalogue of the William Lee Collection now on permanent loan in the Treasury, York Minster Undercroft.

London; James Ridgway, 1847., 1847. Hardcover. SECOND EDITION. Duodecimo. Original green cloth with gilt titles to spine. xi, [1], 274 pp, [2] advertisements, [12] Publisher's catalogue of agricultural works. Book Condition: Very Good. Original green cloth with gilt titles to spine. A clean tight copy with no annotation or inscriptions. Paper fault to p.30 with surface peeling but complete text. Spine and top edge lightly sunned; edges a little rubbed with very minor wear to corners. Scarce.

New York; The Ring Incorporated, 1928., 1928. Mass Market Paperback. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp 96. 30 mainly photographic illustrations within text plus 18 numbered photographic plates entitled " A Boxing Lesson". Original stapled red pictorial paper wraps with advertisements inside covers. Lightly sunned to spine but still bright; minor creasing to covers and very small split across spine. Very minor creasing to upper corners throughout, affecting margin only. No annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. Biography of boxing legend Griffo from early days in Australia to his death in America in 1927 aged 56, well illustrated with images of contemporary luminaries of pugilism. Scarce, particularly in this condition in original wrappers. Hartley, "History & Bibliography of Boxing Books" p 159.

London; Folio Society, 1953., 1953. Hardcover. Octavo. Wood engravings by John Gaastra. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Good. Original maroon cloth with gilt titles with grey patterned paper-covered boards in matching grey patterned dust-jacket. Signature of former owner in ink to ffep; minor foxing to endpapers and textblock edge only. Jacket torn with 2-inch loss at head of spine, small loss to front and rear top edges; numerous nicks and splits to edge and minor surface soiling.

London; MacDonald & Co, 1953., 1953. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 416. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by Broom Lynne. Cover cloth sunned to head of spine; lower corners bumped. Jacket lightly soiled to rear white panel with a few nicks & creases to edge and small loss head of spine. Contents clean & bright. Third volume in the Chronicles of Ancient Sunlight series.

London; Arthur Baker Ltd, 1952., 1952. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Small octavo, pp. 236, [2] advertisements. Bound in publishers' lemon cloth with navy titles to spine. With the original unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Slightly creased to spine-tips, clean, tight, square copy free from ownership inscriptions or annotations. Dust-jacket lightly soiled with some very small nicks and nibbles to edges. Very Good in a Very Good dust-jacket. Classic crime story set in Johannesburg.