Search Results: Authors starting with Y from THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY

CALL TO LIFE BOOK 1 / WINDOWS AT DAYBREAK, Privately published, 1972, first edition, just about fine in wraps with authors special printed "thank you for joining----" card as well as a TYPED LETTER SIGNED by the author laid in noting the poem entitled WALT WHITMAN among the contents. 1/1,000 copies.

FIRECODE, Warner Books, 1987, first edition., fine in wraps Uncorrected proof. SIGNED by the author.

*** ASSOCIATION COPY ***A SPECIAL PROVIDENCE, Knopf, 1969, first edition, fine in vg+ or better dust-wrapper. INSCRIBED by the author to a friend and his wife, the former being another author. Nice association copy thus.

THE CHILDREN OF RANGI AND PAPA, Whitcoulis, 1976, first edition., spine a little faded, else fine in full leather binding and cloth slip- case as issued. 1/350 copies SIGNED by the Maori artist. Illustrated with full page, full color plates. Published only in New Zealand.

WHEELS AND BUTTERFLIES, Macmillan, 1934, first edition., spine a bit faded, slight foxing to the foredge, else vg+/near fine in like dw.

THE SHADOWY WATERS in The North American Review for May, 1900, lst Am.ed., quarter size stain on front cover getting smaller on the next 5 pages of ads, else very good to very good plus in wraps. Also contains ORIGINS OF THE NEGRO RACE by Stanley.

JOHN SHERMAN AND DHOYA, Unwin, 1891, first edition., about half the pages have a small section missing at the base of the gutter, else a vg copy in soiled covers. The scarce wraps issue of this title. (While the soft-cover edition of this title was produced in a quantity of about 4 times as many copies as the hard-cover edition, you better believe that the wraps issue is much more difficult to locate).

LAST POEMS & PLAYS, Macmillan, 1940, first American edition, some off-setting to the paste-downs and end-papers from the dust-wrapper, else a fine copy in a vg dust-wrapper with a tiny, shallow chip missing from the head of the tanned dust-wrapper spine.

THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE, Macmillan, 1919, first American edition, small chip professionally repaired at the head of the spine, the barest hint of tanning to the upper and lower board edges, else a near fine copy in a vg+ dust-wrapper save for some brief tanning to the flap fold edges and a tiny chip missing from the head and heel of the tanned dust-wrapper spine. An uncommon book, no doubt due to its production in paper boards as opposed to cloth.

THE GREEN HELMET, AN HEROIC FARCE, Shakespeare Head Press, 1911, first edition, very good to very good plus in wraps. At one time female Dutch scholar C. R. Meibergen's copy.

PLAYS FOR AN IRISH THEATRE, Bullen, 1911, first edition., some light wear to the corner tips, some tanning and chipping to spine label, else a vg copy.

SEVEN POEMS AND A FRAGMENT, Cuala Press, 1922, first edition, slight wear to corner tips and small area of bottom edge of the front cover, else a near fine copy in gray boards and cloth spine as issued. 1/500 copies.

THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE, The Windsor Press, 1926, slight wear to the bottom fore edge corner tip of the front cover, else a just about fine copy. 1/750 copies.

REVERIES OVER CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH, The Macmillan Co., 1916, first American edition, frontispiece detached but present, spine lightly tanned, else a tight vg+ or better copy.

A GUIDE BOOK OF UNITED STATES COINS (7th Edition), Whitman, 1953, first edition., some creases to the front cloth cover, else a just about vg copy. Profusely Illustrated with photos.

THE VIXENS, Dial, 1947, first edition, just about fine in vg/vg+ dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and some very shallow chipping to the dust-wrapper spine extremities. The authors second book.

HUMPY, Harper and Brothers, 1931, first edition, several pages with closed tears, slight wear to the fore edge corner tips and spine extremities, else a tight very good to very good plus copy with wonderful illustrations on nearly every page by Michael C. Perts. Translated by William White.

YEVTUSHENKO IN READING FROM HIS NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO POETRY CONCERTS, Columbia Records, 1972, first edition., fine in near fine album cover. Also reading on this album are Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Wilbur, Lindfors, et.al. This album contains Yevtushenko's BOMBS FOR BALALAIKAS.

THE COLLECTED POEMS 1952 - 1990, Holt, 1991, first edition., very fine in like dust-wrapper. SIGNED by the author.

The enrichment of man, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1965, first edition, fine in gold-gilt stamped pictorial black cloth and fine tissue dust-wrapper. Part of the Benjamin F. Fairless memorial lecture series.