Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Black's Fine Books & Manuscripts

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: McClelland and Stewart, 2022. Hardcover. pp. 708. Thick, heavy 8vo. Publisher's black boards, gilt lettering to the spine, map endpapers. Bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; fine and housed in fine, unclipped, dustjacket.

[New York]: Minerva Press, 1968. First Edition. Softcover. pp. 316. Small 8vo. Pictorial covers. Lightest rubbing to the covers, very faint crease to the spine, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked; very good. An uncommon edition of Chekhov's works.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 71. 12mo., measuring 4.5" x 7". Pictorial, glossy, card covers. Richly illustrated with colour photograph, illustrations, etc., including early illustrations by noted Manitoba illustrator, Marcel Dzama. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Scarce in commerce. See OCLC #823202556. Not found in Peel.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: The Manitoba Society of Artists, 1992. First printing. Stapled Wraps. As New. pp. 49. 4to. Illustrated stapled card covers. Black and white portraits, photographs, illustrations. Appears unread; as new.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: The Manitoba Society of Artists, 1992. First printing. Stapled Wraps. As New. pp. 49. 4to. Illustrated stapled card covers. Black and white portraits, photographs, illustrations. Appears unread; as new.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: The Manitoba Society of Artists, 1992. First printing. Stapled Wraps. As New. pp. 49. 4to. Illustrated stapled card covers. Black and white portraits, photographs, illustrations. Appears unread; as new.

Plainfrield, New Jersey: Logos International, 1972. Softcover. Unpaginated. Small 4to. Illustrated card covers. Beautifully illustrated by the author, in colour, throughout. Rubbing, and edgewear to the covers, neat ink name to the ffep. Contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked otherwise. Overall, very good-.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Doubleday, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. pp. 381. Small 8vo. Publisher's black boards, silver lettering to the spine. Many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine and housed in fine original, unclipped, dustjacket. As new.

London: The Slaney Press, 1996. Hardcover. pp. 406. Thick 8vo. Pictorial boards. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine and housed in fine dustjacket.

New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. pp. 299. 8vo. Origianal terracotta cloth over boards with silver lettering and illustration to the spine, and front board; untrimmed pages edges. Light bumping to spine ends, some faint spotting to the spine, contents clean and unmarked with firm, sound binding; very good. Autobiography of the British Indian army officer, and recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1930. The book would be loosely adapted for the screen in the 1935 eponymously titled film starring Gary Cooper.

New Delhi, India: Yogoa Satsanga Society of India, Self-Realization Fellowship, 1982. Sixth Impression. Softcover. pp. xviii, 486. 8vo. Illustrated covers. Black-and-white photograph frontispiece of the author. Light rubbing and edgewear to the covers, neat ownership stamp to the title page (not ex-library), else, contents clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good.

Los Angeles, California: Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers, 1959. Hardcover. pp. xvi, 514. Thick 8vo. Light blue cloth coves with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white frontispiece of the subject captioned with a facsimile of their signature. Black and white maps and photographs. Extremities remarkably well-preserved, short neat inscription to the ffep, a rare few pages show some ruled underlining (entirely unaffecting the legibility of the text), else clean with firm, sound binding; very good+ and housed in its original price-clipped dustjacket showint chips and short closed tears along the edges of the panels (now housed in protective mylar cover). Overall, very good. Uncommon, early edition of this classic.

Toronto: Canada Packers Ltd., [1949]. Stapled Wraps. pp. 40. 12 mo. (13 cm x 21.5 cm). Stapled card covers. Profusely illustrated, endpapers are comprised of foil. This is a Canadian cookery book featuring (according to the printer of the book - see Driver) the art of A.J. Casson, member of the iconic Canadian Group of Seven artists. See Driver, #0130.1 (p. 919) for a detailed description of this title. Also a colour illustration of the cover of this book is to be found in the illustrations at the centre of Driver's book (unpaginated section). Driver gives the publishing date as about 1949. For a biographical note, re: the author, see Driver, p. 918. Driver notes that margarine, a substitute for better, was legalized in Canada at the end of 1948. Very lightly rubbed covers, contents clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+ to near fine. From Driver: “According to Katy Hodgins, the printer of the book was the Toronto firm Sampson-Matthews, and the art director, A.J. Casson (of Group… Read More

New York: Grove Press, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 152. Small 8vo. Publisher's quarter pink cloth over speckled lime-green boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Near fine, neat ink name to the upper-right corner of the ffep, else, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in original, unclipped, first-state, dustjacket.

[Toronto, Ontario, Canada]: Red Farm Studio | Regal Stationary Co., Limited (Toronto), 1971. First Edition. Spiral Bound. pp. 49. Slim 8vo. Illustrated, stiff, card covers held with white spiral binding. Charming colour illustrations throughout as rendered by Ellen A. Nelson. Light rubbing, and a few superficial spots to the covers. Neat ink name to the title page, else, contents overwhelmingly bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound stapled binding. Charming, illustrated children's cook book with sections devoted to Breakfast, Luncheon, Dinner, Snacks, etc. Overall, very good.

Edinburgh: Printed for A. Guthrie, T. Brown, and Sylvester Doig, MDCCXCII [1792]. Leather Bound. pp. xii, A, 2-266, [plus two pages of publisher's advertisements]. 12mo., measuring 4.25" x 6.5". Period leather over boards with gilt lettering over maroon spine label; five gilt rules, six compartments, each housing gilt motifs, gilt borders to the boards. Striking engraved frontispiece, accompanied with engraved vignette to the title page depicting "death" visiting a man in his bed. Light rubbing and edgewear, superficial scuffs to the leather extremities, text-block remains remarkably bright, clean, and unmarked and with firm, sound binding; very good+. See OCLC #32649869. One of the most popular works of the 18th century, Young's 'Night-Thoughts' was originally published in a series of nine parts, or "nights", over the course of 1742-1745, and accompanied with notable engravings by William Blake. It would be rendered into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Welsh, Magyar, et al.

New York & Chicago: Eaton & Mains Press | Student Missionary Campaign, 1896. Hardcover. pp. 240. 8vo. Beige cloth boards, black lettering to spine and front board. Black and white frontispiece; eleven illustrations. Light edgewear, some spotting to boards. Text-block remains clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: University Of Manitoba Press, 2017. Softcover. pp. 272. 8vo. Black and white maps, photographs and illustrations. No detectable flaws, unread; near fine.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Free Press, 2015. First Edition. Softcover. As New. pp. iii, 253. 8vo. Pictorial covers. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked. As new.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Free Press, 2015. First Edition. Softcover. As New. pp. iii, 253. 8vo. Pictorial covers. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked. As new.