Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Charles Agvent

Chapel Hill, NC: The Carolina Publications Union, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name on front endpaper, 2 pages with photographs clipped and removed from corners, not connected to Percy or Foote. Very Good. Green and gold embossed cloth covers (9" x 11-7/8"), illustrated with photographs. Walker Percy's senior yearbook with 7 mentions and/or photographs of him and Shelby Foote's sophomore yearbook with 2 mentions and/or photographs.

New Haven, CT: The Editors, 1912 - 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Light wear. Near Fine. Four issues in wraps including Volume LXXVII, No. VII, Volume LXXVIII, Nos. III and VIII, and Volume LXXIX, No. 5, with three poems and two pieces of fiction by Archibald MacLeish, his earliest appearances in print. The two stories are of particular interest. MacLeish wrote a total of eight stories for the magazine. He never published any prose fiction again. Archibald MacLeish was not only a well-known poet but also served as Librarian of Congress, appointed by Franklin Roosevelt, a position he used to reorganize and promote the institution. In addition to winning three Pulitzer Prizes, MacLeish was commissioned by the NEW YORK TIMES to write a poem to celebrate the Apollo 11 moon landing, which he entitled "Voyage to the Moon" and which appeared on the front page of the 21 July 1969 edition of the paper.

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Internally Fine in a Fine, attractive binding. Bound in modern half dark green morocco leather and marbled boards with matching morocco corners with new endpapers. BAL 20117: only 1546 copies printed. Borst A7.1.a notes 1500 copies printed. Edited by Sophia Thoreau. Distinguished for its containing, in addition to the title piece, the first book publication of "Civil Disobedience" and "Life Without Principle," Thoreau's two most famous essays, as well as all of his major political writings. "Civil Disobedience" influenced, among others, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. who cited it as his first intellectual contact with the theory of nonviolent resistance.

New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1847. First American Edition. Hardcover. Occasional light foxing; front hinge holding by one cord, joints rubbed. Very Good. Two volumes bound in one, publisher's black half morocco with matching corners. An account of the popular actress's year after leaving her husband, a wealthy Georgian plantation owner who ultimately divorced her. A 2-3/8" x 3-1/2" albumen photograph of Kemble is pasted to the verso of the front blank, and tipped to the verso of the rear endpaper is an uncommon AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Kemble to "My dear young Lucy" on "the order of nature for a pretty young girl to be bestowing flowers on an elderly woman."

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, (1999). First Edition. cloth. Fine as issued, without dustwrapper. Edited by Richard Finneran. Articles and reviews illustrated with several plates.

Cambridge: Temple Bar Bookshop, 1974. First Edition. Wraps. Slight crease bottom rear corner. Near Fine. One of 800 copies in wraps of a total edition of 850.

(Mansfield Centre): (M. Martino), [2000]. Reprint. As New, still in shrinkwrap. Reprint of the 1948 edition. Cloth; xii, 104 pages. Farquhar has assembled the most complete private library on the mountain regions of the Far West. From this collection he has selected 25 titles of major importance, either in their value as source material or in their rarity, concerning Yosemite, the Big Trees, and the High Sierra. The annotations, many of which are based on original research, go far beyond a mere tabulation of facts, for they bring to light numerous historical vignettes the author has gathered in many years studying and writing about the Sierra.

New York: Cassell, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Small tears to top of spine, minor soiling. Very Good. Uncommon anthology with poems by mostly forgotten poets but including Harte, Howells, Joaquin Miller, Riley, Alcott, Thaxter, and a section on Canadian poets with Bliss Carman represented.

New York: Moods Publishing, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Corners worn, some typical edgewear. Front hinge cracked; paper on spine largely lacking; contents Very Good. Full parchment lettered in gilt. Copy #16 of only 50 autographed copies of a total edition of 500. This copy SIGNED by the editor, Edwin Markham, and 22 contributors including Louis Untermeyer and Joyce Kilmer, a very scarce autograph as he was killed in World War I. This anthology predates both Kilmer's and Untermeyer's first books.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., (1961). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. SIGNED by the former First Lady on the front endpaper. Roosevelt advises how a teen-age girl can grow to be a gracious lady by recounting her own experiences of overcoming shyness and facing her fears. A few pages in the penultimate chapter have pencil and pen markings with some words crossed out and a few added, apparently in preparation for reading from the chapter. The handwriting does not appear to be Roosevelt's but possibly may be Ferris's. In any case, it's an interesting alteration to an already uncommon book, especially when autographed.

Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine red paper slipcase. Robert Shore. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11") bound in deep blue levant morocco, with the title stamped in pure gold leaf on a maroon spine panel, and blue sailcloth sides, 251 pages. Printed at the Ward Ritchie Press. Illustrated with 3 color spreads and 6 full-page color plates by Robert Shore. Copy #1448 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist and by the printer on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine in a close to Fine red paper slipcase. Robert Shore. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11") bound in deep blue levant morocco, with the title stamped in pure gold leaf on a maroon spine panel, and blue sailcloth sides, 251 pages. Printed at the Ward Ritchie Press. Illustrated with 3 color spreads and 6 full-page color plates by Robert Shore. Copy #39 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist and by the printer on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine red paper slipcase. Robert Shore. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11") bound in deep blue levant morocco, with the title stamped in pure gold leaf on a maroon spine panel, and blue sailcloth sides, 251 pages. Printed at the Ward Ritchie Press. Illustrated with 3 color spreads and 6 full-page color plates by Robert Shore. Of a total of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist and by the printer on the colophon page, this copy is not numbered but is SIGNED.

(London): (Faber & Gwyer), n.d [1927]. First Edition. Hardcover. Sunning to spine and outer edges of faded boards. Very Good. Decorated green boards, 4 pages. #1 of the Ariel Poems printed by the Curwen Press. With a full-page color and black-and-white cover drawing by Albert Rutherston. One of 350 copies, this not numbered, on handmade Zanders paper bound in boards.