Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Inklings & Yarnspinners

London: Biteback, 2018. 1st. hardback. Fine, as new. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Tackling topics as diverse as terrorism, government intrigue and the reality of doing business in Russia, and offering unparalleled insights into the post-Soviet mindset, this is the first time that a figure with Yakunin's background has talked so openly and frankly about his country.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1950. Revised. hardback. Very good, missing d/j, marroon clothbound bards clean, gilt spine titling bright, text block good, pages unmarked and tight, endpapers tanned. Provenance: Prof Bill Trowbridge OBE, engineer and physicist, one of founders of computational electromagnetics (pencil inscription on ffep). 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Second edition (revised, with later poems added). This one-volume edition made complete by the addition of the poems from 'A full Moon in March (1935)' and 'Last Poems (1940)' issued after the author's death. The text embodies his final revision'.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1961. 1st. hardback. Very good, missing d/j, marroon clothbound bards clean, gilt spine titling bright, text block generally good (slight forward lean), pages unmarked and tight.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Third anthology of New Yorker short stories; includes writers such as John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov, J. D. Salinger, Philip Roth, Elizabeth Bishop, Saul Bellow, Richard Wilbur, Roger La Farge, Roald Dahl, Penelope Mortimer, Dorothy Parker, Prawer Jhabvala, Nadine Gordimer, John Cheever

London: William Heinemann, 1937. reprint. h/b. Good, reprint (original in 1932), missing d/j, blue boards, gilt spine titling, text block intact but loosened, pages crisp and unmarked; owner's inscription on ffep.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). The House Under the Water is a 1932 novel by the British writer Francis Brett Young. It is one of his ""Mercian novels"", set in the West Midlands and Welsh borders. It portrays the construction of the Elan Valley Reservoirs to provide a water supply for the rapidly expanding Birmingham, requiring the flooding of a significant area of land. This included a house associated with the poet Shelley, which is referred to in the novel's title.

London: Heinemann, 1937. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, no d/j, dark blue buckram boards, gilt titling and decoration bright; pages unmarked and tight but some foxing.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Illustrated with maps (on endpapers) and woodcuts by Joan Hassall.

London: J. & E. Bumpus, 1926. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (v.g., some bumping at head); green boards and gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, untrimmed pages unmarked but foxing on edges. Inscribed on ffep by author 'To Prof H. R. Mackintosh from A. J. Young'. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Andrew Young (1885-1971) was a Scottish poet and Presbyterian then Anglican clergyman. This is his 7th volume of poems to be published. Sometimes associated with the Georgian poets who were his contemporaries.