Search Results: Authors starting with Y from George S. MacManus Company

YARBROUGH, J[ohn] C[offee]. A Tale of Exiles. Original cloth. Boston: The Roxburgh Publishing Company, [1921]. First edition. Fine. Tale of minister and family who left the South Carolina after the Civil War and went to Brazil and then sailed to New Zealand, ending up castaways on Carolina Island in the South Seas.

1904. YARDLEY, J. Watkins. With the Inniskillings Dragoons: The Record of a Cavalry Regiment During the Boer War, 1899-1902. London: Longmans, Green, 1904. 1st ed. xvi, 365pp. Portraits, plates, maps. Orig. cloth. Worn binding, else very good.

1968. YATES, Bowling C. History of the Georgia Military Institue, Marietta, Georgia, including the Confederate Military Service of the Cadet Battalion. [Marietta, GA: Bowling C. Yates, 1968]. 1st ed. iii,35pp. Illus., portraits, maps. Orig. pictorial wrappers. Fine.

1937. YATES, Richard E. Zebulon B. Vance as War Governor of North Carolina, 1862-1865: An Abstract of a Thesis in History. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University, 1937. 1st ed. 33pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Very good or better.

1958. YATES, Richard E. The Confederacy and Zeb Vance. Tuscaloosa, AL: Confederate Publishing Company, 1958. 1st ed. 132pp. Portrait frontis. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in 3/4 calf, raised spine bands, red morocco spine labels, original pictorial wrappers bound in. Faint scattered foxing to endpapers, else near fine. One of 450 copies. On the Confederate Colonel and governor of North Carolina.

1893. YAWGER, Rose N. The Indian and the Pioneer: An Historical Study. Syracuse, N.Y., 1893. Two vols. Illus. maps. A very good copy in orig. cloth, uncut. A scarce set devoted almost entirely to the Iroquois Indians with special reference to the Cayuga tribe.

BROWNLOW, William G. Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession; With a Narrative of Personal Adventures Among the Rebels. Phila., 1862. 1st ed. Illus. frontis. Very good in orig. cloth.

[YEAGER, Abraham Hoss]. Jacob Klodsoe, One of the Nobodies. How He Came Home from the War--How He Grew Up and into It. Cleburne, TX: T.L. Sanders, Printer, 1899. 1st ed. 129pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Small chip to front wrapper, housed in custom red morocco-backed box, else near fine. Rare. Not in any of the standard reference works on the Civil War or Tennessee. The autobiographical story of a Confederate soldier from an area described as having "Carolina's tallest peaks" on its southeastern horizon. Most names in the story appear to be fictional. Include his capture at Kennesaw Mountain in June, 1864, as a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas, Illinois, journey home, and, how he came to join an infantry company. Yeager (1842-1940) served with the 29th Tennessee Infantry (Confederate) until his capture. After the war he was a lawyer in Tennessee, then a newspaperman and farmer in Johnson County, Texas.

1912. (YEAGER). YEAGER, James M. A Brief History of the Yeager, Buffington, Creighton, Jacobs, Lemon, Hoffman & Woodside Families & Their Colonial Kindred of Pennsylvania. N.p. 1912. Illus. 278pp.

YEARNS, W. Buck and BARRETT, John G., eds. North Carolina Civil War Documentary. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, [1980]. 1st ed. xvii,365pp. Illus., portraits, map. Orig. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine. Covers the societal costs of the war to North Carolinians.

1865. YEARNS, W. Buck. From Richmond to Texas: The 1865 Journey Home of Confederate Senator Williamson S. Oldham. [Dayton OH]: Morningside Press, 1998. vi, 112pp. Frontis, portraits. Orig. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine.

1985. YEARNS, Wilfred Buck, ed. The Confederate Governors. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, [1985]. 1st ed. 295 pp. Orig. cloth. A fine copy in d/j.

YEARNS, Wilfred Buck. The Confederate Congress. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, [1960]. 1st ed. viii,293pp. Orig. cloth. Very good in d/j. In Tall Cotton, 199. "The first and only systematic study of the Congress; mainly a history of legislation, though it provides some insights into personalities and problems" Nevins II, p.177.

YEARY, Mamie, comp. Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, 1861-1865. Dallas: Published for the Author by Smith & Lamar, Publishing House M.E. Church, South, [1912]. 1st ed. [6],904pp. Portrait frontis., illus., portraits, plates. Later cloth, custom cloth slipcase. Very good or better. Dornbusch III, 60. "Recollections of dozens of Confederate veterans living in Texas in the early 1900's" Nevins II, p.248. "The Neale Publishing Company's entry in the 1912 Publisher's Trade Annual happily announced issuance of this work in a three-volume set, bound in cloth, costing $15. The large single volume privately printed for the author in Dallas that same year is the only known version--and it may well be the only version that ever existed" Krick 576.

YEARY, Mamie, comp. Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, 1861-1865. Dallas, TX: Published for the Author by Smith & Lamar Publishing House M.E. Church, South, [1912]. 1st ed. [6],904pp. Portrait frontis., illus., portraits, plates. Orig. 3/4 red morocco and gilt-pictorial cloth, all edges marbled, housed in custom cloth slipcase. Front inner hinge starting, wear to spine ends and corners, small piece torn from front free endpaper, else a very good copy. Dornbusch III,60. "Recollections of dozens of Confederate veterans living in Texas in the early 1900's" Nevins II, p.248. "The Neale Publishing Company's entry in the 1912 Publisher's Trade Annual happily announced issuance of this work in a three-volume set, bound in cloth, costing $15. The large single volume privately printed for the author in Dallas that same year is the only known version--and it may well be the only version that ever existed" Krick 576.

1939. YEATS, William Butler. Last Poems and Two Plays. Original linen-backed printed boards, printed paper spine label, unprinted glassine dust jacket. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1939. First edition. Wade 200. One of 500 copies. Glassine chipped, very faint sunning to spine ends, else a fine copy.

1989. YELLIN, Jean Fagan. Women & sisters: The Antislavery Feminists in American Culture. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, [1989]. 1st ed. xxi,225pp. Illus., portraits. Orig. cloth-backed boards, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine. With the ownership signature of Adelaide M. Crowell on the front free endpaper. Adelaide Cromwell Hill (1919-2019), a prominent sociologist and a granddaughter of John Wesley Cromwell, was the first Black instructor at Hunter College and at Smith College. She was the author of several books on Black history and a study of Boston's Black upper class.

(STONE & KIMBALL). YEOMAN, William Joseph. A Woman's Courier Being a Tale of the Famous Forty Conspiracy of 1696. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Stone & Kimball, 1896. First edition. Kramer 73. Some soiling, but a very good copy. Scarce.

YERBURY, F.R. Englische Baukunst um 1800. Berlin, n.d. 4to. Illus. with 150pp. of plates. 3pp. of text in German. Very good in d/j.

1908. (ALABAMA). (GREENSBORO). YERBY, William Edward Wadsworth. History of Greensboro, Alabama from its Earliest Settlement. Montgomery, AL: Paragon Press, 1908. 1st ed. 8vo. xiv, [2], 200 pp., frontis., illus. Orig. cloth. Binding a bit rubbed. Textblock is shaken but generally clean but for minor and occasional soiling. A good copy.