Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Charles Agvent

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1961). First Edition. Hardcover. Just about Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with the spine tanned but in this case much less severely than typically found. Advance Copy in plain printed white dustwrapper with praise from the publisher on the front and rear panels, including a blurb by Alfred Kazin. Yates's powerful first book which Kurt Vonnegut called "the Great Gatsby of our time." Tennessee Williams said of this book: "Here is more than fine writing; here is what, added to fine writing, makes a book come immediately, intensely, and brilliantly alive. If more is needed to make a masterpiece in modern American fiction, I am sure I don't know what it is." An Academy-Award nominated film was made from this book reuniting Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet from TITANIC. "No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying."

New York: Delacorte Press, (1978). First Edition. hardcover. Slight dust soiling to top bulked edge. Just about Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. NOT the rather common Book Club edition which also states "First Printing."

New York: Delacorte Press, (1976). First Edition. Wraps. Title in ink on spine. Light creasing and soiling to margins of a few pages. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof in tall (10-3/4") red wraps.

[New York]: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, [1975]. Photograph. Fine. A 5" x 7" publicity photograph for the book DISTURBING THE PEACE depicting a bearded Yates. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the blank left margin: "for Al Newgarden/with best wishes always,/Dick Yates/11-2-90."

New York: Delacorte, (1981). First Edition. wraps. Mild sunning to the spine. About Fine. Uncorrected Proof in light blue printed wraps of this fine collection of short stories by a master of the form. Publicity slips laid in.

New York: Delacorte Press, (1978). First Edition. wraps. Fine. Uncorrected Proof copy in gray printed wraps with author and title in ink on spine as well as date of publication also in ink on the front cover. Laid in is a photocopied review slip.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1961). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Good dustwrapper with edgewear and chipping at the top of the spine and the rear panel. Yates's powerful first book which Kurt Vonnegut called "the Great Gatsby of our time." Tennessee Williams said of this book: "Here is more than fine writing; here is what, added to fine writing, makes a book come immediately, intensely, and brilliantly alive. If more is needed to make a masterpiece in modern American fiction, I am sure I don't know what it is." The Academy-Award winning film AMERICAN BEAUTY echoes its theme of a soulless modern suburban marriage, and indeed this book too was made into a less successful film reuniting Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet from TITANIC. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to noted translator Helen Lane "who writes better sentences/than almost anybody./with best wishes,/Dick Yates/3-16-61." There is an excellent interview with Helen Lane online.

New York: Delacorte Press, (1981). First Edition. hardcover. Very mild rubbing to the boards. About Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with light sunning to the spine. Outstanding collection of stories by this master of the form. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper and dated 8 October 1981. Publication date was 29 October.

New York: Delacorte, (1975). First Edition. wraps. Paperclip rust impression to the first two pages, spine a little sunned with the adhesive label bearing the title beginning to fray. Near Fine and uncommon. Uncorrected Proof in red printed wraps of Yates's fourth book, and perhaps his most uncommon, especially in this state.

New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, (1975). First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper. Yates's fourth book, and perhaps his most uncommon. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "for Al Newgarden/with warm regards,/Dick Yates/10-2-90."

New York: Delacorte, (1981). First Edition. wraps. Mild sunning to the spine. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof in light blue printed wraps of this fine collection of short stories by a master of the form. Photocopied publicity slips laid in. Publication date and price on small label pasted to the front endpaper.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1962). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, crisp copy in an about Fine dustwrapper with very mild sunning to the spine. His second book and first collection of stories, which along with his first novel, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, established Yates as one of the most important writers of fiction of the latter twentieth century.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name on front endpaper. Some wear to corners, spine label soiled. About Very Good, lacking the scarce slipcase. First Printing of the New and Revised Edition. Original green cloth-backed brown paper boards with a paper label on the front cover and on the spine. Copy #114 of only 250 numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the limitation leaf.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary owner inscription on front endpaper. A bright, Fine copy in a Fine, intact white slipcase, a printed label on one side, with expected soiling. New and Revised Edition. Original green cloth-backed brown paper boards with a paper label on the front cover and on the spine, housed in the original slipcase. Frontispiece portrait of Yeats from charcoal drawing by John Singer Sargent, and seven more illustrations in text. Copy #190 of only 250 numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the limitation leaf.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very mild sunning to the spine. Just about Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Original two-color buckram with gilt lettering on the spine; 884 pages. Edited by Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach. Copy #449 of 825 numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the limitation leaf of this definitive collection of Yeats's poetry. Yeats was the first Irish writer to win the Nobel Prize. Laid in is the original letter from Kroch & Brentano's offering the book and explaining how they are able to offer an autographed copy nearly 20 years after the death of Yeats.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary owner inscription on front blank. A bright, Fine copy in a Fine, intact white slipcase, a printed label on one side, with mild soiling. New and Revised Edition. Original green cloth-backed brown paper boards with a paper label on the front cover and on the spine, housed in the original slipcase. Copy #214 of only 250 numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the limitation leaf.

Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1973. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown; a few rubbed spots on the spine. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Rowal Friers. Tall octavo (6-1/2" x 10") bound in green buckram stamped in pure gold leaf, 456 pages. Collected, edited, and introduced by William Butler Yeats. Illustrated with 12 full-page tipped-in color plates and 17 part-page line drawings by Rowal Friers. Copy #1657 of 2000 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1973. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a close to Fine slipcase with one small ding. Rowal Friers. Tall octavo (6-1/2" x 10") bound in green buckram stamped in pure gold leaf, 456 pages. Collected, edited, and introduced by William Butler Yeats. Illustrated with 12 full-page tipped-in color plates and 17 part-page line drawings by Rowal Friers. Copy #1087 of 2000 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

London: A. H. Bullen, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. An altogether Very Good and intriguing copy. Original green linen-backed gray paper boards with paper spine label. Wade 56. Published in March 1904. This copy INSCRIBED by Stephen Gwynn on the front endpaper: "To MD/for her [his?] birthday/Mar 1904." An educated guess is that MD might stand for the actress Miss Darragh [Florence Laetitia (Dallas) Darragh), an established figure on the London stage who appeared in the Dublin 1906 production of Yeats's plays DEIRDRE and THE SHADOWY WATERS. A more likely possibility is Michael Davitt, the Irish Nationalist, whose birthday was on the 25th of March and who died in 1906. Stephen Gwynn, author and Irish nationalist, was a champion for Yeats. According to the DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY, "In spite of his book IRISH LITERATURE AND DRAMA (1936) and some early association with the Irish Players in London, Gwynn himself had little to do with drama, and stood apart from the fame and influence of the… Read More

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, (1999). First Edition. cloth. Fine as issued, without dustwrapper. Edited by Richard Finneran. Articles and reviews illustrated with several plates.