Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Magus Books

Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near-fine with a trace of sunning to board edges and minor crimping to spine ends, otherwise clean and tight. In near-fine dust jacket ($5.95 price intact) with minor edgewear. INSCRIBED AND DATED BY YATES on the flyleaf. Very scarce signed.

Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1981. 1st Edition . Fine in a fine dust jacket, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY YATES on the flyleaf. A beautiful copy, very scarce signed.

New York: Delphic Studios, 1934. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near-fine with minor shelf wear, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. INSCRIBED BY ART YOUNG on the second blank page, along with a self-portrait with the caption "Nine years after the trip." Very scarce, especially signed. One of a thousand numbered copies, although this copy not numbered and likely reserved for the author's use. Art Young was an American cartoonist and writer, best known for his socialist cartoons. Racial and sexual discrimination and the injustices of the capitalist system were prevalent themes in his work. Young wrote and illustrated three books depicting Hell, updating Gustave Doré's famous engravings of Dante's Inferno. In this--the final book in the series--most of the capitalist class have been condemned to Hell. The capitalists have subsequently led a hostile takeover, deposing Satan and transforming the Inferno into the last refuge of the free market.… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Very early printing of this famous Civil War novel, with no list of characters opposite the first page of text (and no mention of additional printings on dust jacket) but lacking the Scribner "A" on copyright page. Near-fine with neat name written on flyleaf, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. In a very good plus dust jacket ($2.50 price intact) with minor edgewear and some sunning to spine. Basis for the 1935 film directed by King Vidor. A beautiful copy.

Coward-McCann , 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good with initials written at bottom of front pastedown (concealed by dust jacket flap), otherwise clean and tight. In a very good dust jacket--$4.50 price intact--with light loss at the spine ends and minor wear at the corners. A nice copy of this very scarce title.