Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Springhead Books

From the author of Fantômas, this World War I espionage thriller, first published in 1919, follows a group of French patriots as they struggle to prevent the Kaiser from recovering a certain yellow document containing the plans for a secret weapon that could decide the outcome of the war. 344 pages. 'Copyright, 1919, by Brentano's' t.p. verso. Green cloth boards, shelf wear and dusty edges, no inscriptions. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Between 1739 and 1742, Britain's major war effort against Spain was concentrated in the Caribbean. This book sets out to examine the problems involved in operating and administering the overseas naval bases at the heart of this effort. Drawing largely on unpublished archive material, it paints a detailed picture of the organisation and development of the yard facilities at Jamaica and English Harbour, as well as examining the problems of manning and supplying the ships stationed there. x, 321 p. ; 21 cm. Minimal shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

The late 1960s were a period of great turbulence and rapid social and political change. You Say You Want a Revolution? examines that moment when youth culture drove an optimistic idealism, motivating people to come together and question established power structures across every area of society. Catalogue published to accompany an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London from 10 September 2016 to 26 February 2017. 320 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 32 cm. Pictorial boards, still in publisher's shrink-wrap, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé, two important and widely known commercial photographers from Mali, took mesmerizing photographs of members of their communities during the decades before and after the country's independence from France in 1960. This book presents a range of these portraits, as well as excerpts of recent interviews with the artists and an essay placing the photographers within the context of the history of portrait photography in West Africa since its beginnings in the 1840s. Catalog of the exhibition held Sept. 1-Dec. 16, 2001 at the Fogg Art Museum. 116 pages, ill. ; 25 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, some fading to cover, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

1965. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Pamphlet of uncertain origins, extolling the possibilities of youth in America in the mid-1960s. Includes a foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson (President of the United State 1963-1969) along with essays and many photographs. Undated but internal evidence suggests 1965. [52] p. ill. ; 265 mm. (some colour). Slight shelf wear, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Well-illustrated survey of the best in British photojournalism in the 1950s and early 1960s. 160 pages, illustrations (some colour). First edition, first printing. Slight shelf wear to cover edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding with no reading creases. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

London: The Bodley Head, 1969. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 'When four breathtaking girls took their dog Youpi away for the weekend in the country, far from the disturbing challenge of men, Marcel Veronese, the brilliant French photographer, keeping carefully out of sight, was able to record them in all their moods' front flap blurb. First UK edition, first printing. Yellow cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Shelf wear to jacket edges, tear and small chip to head of spine, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Flyer (135 x 190 mm) printed both sides for a performance by Lali Chetwynd as part of EVIDENCE, Essor Gallery Project Space, 57 Ewer Street, SE1,3 December 2002. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Ostfildern ; London: Hatje Cantz Publishers ; Hayward Gallery, 1995. Soft cover. Very Good. Well-illustrated catalogue published to accompany a travelling exhibition held in Germany and the Hayward Gallery, London, Feb. 9-April 23, 1995. 292p : ill. ; 30 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. This copy with ephemera relating to the Hayward exhibition loosely inserted. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.