Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Cat's Cradle Books

Moskva: Sovetskaya Rossiya, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Russian language. Square, sound binding and hinges. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Paper over boards is edge rubbed with light overall shelf wear. Novel by Soviet author. Biblioteka Russkoi Khudozhestvennoi Publitsistiki; 8.25" tall; 461 pages.

New York: American Church Review Press, 1882. Ephemera. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Pages tanned, clean. Some minor edge wear and occasional closed tear at margin on a few pages. All pages are original. Articles are contained in a clear protective sleeve. Photocopies of volume's title page and table of contents are included for bibliographic context. ; Argues that if the Resurrection can be proven, the truth of Christianity will follow from it. ; 8.5" tall; 31 pages.

Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi, 1959. Soft Cover. Fair with no dust jacket. Book is in the Russian language. Stapled, booklet-style binding is sound. Pages age-darkened, clean. Thin paper wraps have moderate handling wear. 61 pp. Short stories about animals, written for children. Illustrated with line drawings throughout. 8.75" (21.5 cm) tall.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Roger Yepsen. First Edition. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Cloth over boards clean. DJ has minor edge rubbing. Elegant guidebook to the world of berries with instructions on finding wild berries, growing domesticated varieties, and preserving the harvest. Recipes. 8.25" tall; 160 pages.

Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Vestnik Information Agency, 1995. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Signed by author on title page with brief inscription. Square, sound binding. Clean and bright pages, lightly read. Wrappers have light handling wear. Poems in English with Russian version on opposite page. 8.0" (23 cm) tall; 152 pages; Signed by Author.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Fine dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Remainder mark across lower edge of pages (visible when book is closed). Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has light edge rubbing. ; Emigré Russian dissident and literary leader explores the social and cultural roots of the breakup of the Soviet Union. ; Remainder; 9.5" tall; 320 pages.

Basel: Roche Pharmaceuticals, 2005. Softcover. As New with No dust jacket as issued. Book is still in the publisher's shrink wrap. Sound binding, clean, bright pages, wrappers clean. ; Book honors Chinese composer (1953- ) Chen Yi, the second recipient of the Roche Commission. 10.0" tall.

Charlotte: McMillan and Associates, 1991. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean and bright pages. Cloth over boards has light edge rubbing. DJ has light shelf wear. ; History of American & Efird, a textile company in Gaston County, North Carolina. ; 11.5" tall; 144 pages.

North Carolina: Edwin M. Yoder, Jr., 2020. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. First Edition. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers are clean with two proofreader's notes on back. Signed by author with additional inscription on title page. ; Compares and contrasts two formative conflicts, the American and English Civil Wars. Intended as a contribution to the sequecentennial of the U.S. Civil War. ; 10" tall; 121 pages; Signed by Author.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1966. Later Printing. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Later Printing. Exlibrary markings. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with wear to corner tips. General light shelf wear. ; Arranged by cultures throughout history. ; Ex-Library; 7.75" tall; 476 pages.

New York: New York Tribune, 1888. Ephemera. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. Binding is sound, although there are tears at spine on some pages. Pages tanned, with heavy handling wear. Front of wrappers has small amount of marking. ; Provides detailed tables of rates of duty of hundreds of imported goods arranged by category. Compares the two-year period ending June 30, 1883, with the two-year period ending June 30, 1887. Reprinted in part from the Tribune Almanac for 1884. 10.5" tall; 22 pages.

Cambridge Massachusetts: MIT Press (MA), 1988. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wrappers have edge rubbing, light overall shelf wear. ; Study of the Sogo Shosha, nine influential Japanese trading houses. 9.0" tall; 304 pages.

Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1998. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers clean with light overall shelf wear. ; English language catalog accompanying exhibition of the same name at The Israel Museum. ; 10.5" tall; 136 pages.

New York: Columbia University, 1967. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Stapled binding is sound. Pages clean, off-white. Wrappers have general light handling wear. ; Literary introduction to Spanish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (1881-1958). Columbia Essays on Modern Writers; Vol. 28; 8.0" (21 cm) tall; 48 pages.

Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Bookshop, 1976. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Facsimile Reprint. Exlibrary markings. Lightly circulated. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is lightly edge rubbed. ; Originally published by Harper & Brothers in 1913. Author served as divisional staff officer in the 84th Pennsylvania Volunteers at Gettysburg in the Peach Orchard, among other battles and campaigns.(1844-1914)4th Illinois Cavalry, 84th Pennsylvania Volunteers ; Ex-Library; 8.5" tall ; 463 pages.

Tempe, Arizona: School of Art, College of Fine Arts, Arizona State University, 1982. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. ; Contents: Coulson, Phyromachos the Athenian. Jacquette, Roland Barthes on the aesthetics of photography. Peters, Ruskin and the language of art. Stark, Language and stylistic elements in the visual arts: examples from Inca sculpture. Rorex, Some observations on Harold Osborne's "The aesthetics of Chinese pictorial art." Moffitt, Post-cubist pictorial themes: suggestions for iconographic investigations in non-abstract twentieth century painting. Gavin and Conway, Works of art as cultural probes. Donnell-Kotrozo, Abstract expressionism: criticizing the criticism. Barela, The visual arts as language. ; 10.0" tall; 167 pages.

Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Cloth over boards has very light edge rubbing. DJ has light shelf wear. ; Study of the Fugitive group at Vanderbilt University (John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren and others) who conceived and helped to launch the Agrarian manifesto published in 1930, "I'll Take My Stand."; Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures; Vol. 24; 9.25" (23 cm) tall; 96 pages.

New York: Summit Books, 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Remainder mark across lower edge of pages (visible when book is closed). Sound binding and hinges. Clean, slightly tanned pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has light edge rubbing. ; BIography of Sigmund Freud's daughter, a psychoanalyst who worked closely with her father. ; Remainder; 9.5" tall; 527 pages.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Front hinge cracked, rear hinge holding. Binding sound. Pages tanned with occasional minor marginal notes. Cloth over boards is shelf worn with bumped corners, edge rubbing, wear at extremities of spine. ; Sociological study written as a novel. ; International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction; Ex-Library; 8.75" tall; 234 pages.