Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

Y-Junction 2017. 4to. Unpaginated. Publisher's full cloth. No jacket, as issued. Clean copy. No ownership marks. Colour photography throughout. In unused condition. 9781527211087 . Fine. Cloth. 2017.

London & Bombay: Longmans , Green and Co. 1901 ; 1895. 8vo. 2 volumes. xvi, 430, (4); xvi, 488 pp. Original publisher's decorated brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine, and decorated endpapers. History of and guide to yachting and sailing; plates, diagrams and in-text illustrations throughout by R. T. Pritchett from photographs. Publisher's catalogue at rear. Boards bright and clean, with minimal wear to spine ends and one or two small dents to edges; page edges foxed with scattered light spotting throughout. . Very Good. Decorative Cloth. Second Edition. 1901.

Oxford and New Haven: Oxford University Press and Yale University Press 1983. 4to. Vol. 45. 589-1152 pp. Publisher's full cloth in dust jacket. Fresh and clean condition. Fine/Near Fine 0300027133 . Near Fine. Cloth. 1983.

New Haven: Yale University Press 2005. 8vo. In shrinkwrap. xlviii, 506 pp. This volume collects the most important statements on the English language by Samuel Johnson. Includes scholarly, fully annotated editions of Johnson's main writings on the history, structure, and cultural importance of the English language as well as his reflections on lexicography. These texts represent Johnson's thinking as he undertook and completed the major work of his life, the colossal Dictionary of the English Language. The editors set Johnson's writings on the English language in historical context and provide the fullest possible account of their composition. Among the works presented in the volume are Johnson's Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language and the Preface to the Dictionary. . As New. Hardcover. 2005.

Japan: Idemitsu Museum of Arts 1986. Large 4to. 252pp. Orange cloth-covered boards and navy faux-leather spine with text in Japanese and English. 36 items are beautifully reproduced here, first in their entirety and then over several details. Accompanying catalogue entry for each piece of work. 4582218210 . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1986.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1974. 8vo. 207 pp. Paperback. Fading to spine. Covers clean. Internally clean. No ownership marks. Penguin compliments slip laid in. Scarce. 014042184x . Very Good. Paperback. 1974.

Frankfurt and Berlin: Museum fur Kunsthandwerk / Museum fur Islamische Kunst 1993. 4to. GERMAN TEXT. 424 pp., illustrated. Still shrinkwrapped. 3882700645 . Fine. Pictorial Boards. 1993.

London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. [1886]. Small 8vo. 15 pp., Printed paper wraps. Some marks to the covers and a patched repair to the front. Split to the tail of the spine, 6cm. . Good. Paper Covers. 1886.

London: Methuen 1952. 8vo. [vi], 216 pp, rubbing to extremities and darkening to the spine. . Good. Cloth. 1952.

London: Duckworth and Co. 1911. 8vo. 158 pp. Publlisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to front board & spine. Top edge gilt. Boards clean. Endpapers darkened with neat ink name to front endpaper. Frontis. The author was the wife and model of sculptor Antonio Maraini, and the mother of photographer and Tibetan traveller Fosco Marani. Her first book. . Near Fine. Cloth. 1911.

London: The Hogarth Press 1937. 8vo. 469 pp. Recently bound in full green morocco with gilt lines to boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt devices and red leather title & author labels. Top edge gilt. New endpapers. No ownership marks. . Near Fine. Full Morocco. First Edition. 1937.

London: The Hogarth Press 1937. 8vo. [iv], 469 pp. Recently bound in full purple morocco with raised bands and gilt lettering. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. No ownership marks. The last novel published in Woolf's lifetime. . Near Fine. Full Morocco. First Edition. 1937.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd 1919. 8vo. xii, 159, 30 pp,. First edition, earlier issue with the publisher's catalogue in rear. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Slight sunning to the spine and edges of the boards. Dustjacket has some minor marking and small chip to the spine and a tear with creasing to the back cover, otherwise clean. Uncut edges with slight foxing, clean and bright internally. A collection of 45 poems by the famed writer of the jungle books with several reflecting on the great war. 19 cm tall. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1919.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1935. 8vo. First edition, pp 150. Compiled by Denys Kilham Roberts, Gerald Gould and John Lehmann. Dustjacket dusty with a stain on front. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Internally paper a little darkened and rear board has the number 129 written in ink. Otherwise clean, tight and bright. a very good copy. . Very Good. Publisher's Cloth. First Edition. 1935.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1894. 8vo.Illustrated. First edition. xvi, 321, (2) pp. Publisher's original gilt-decorated yellow cloth. All edges gilt. Spine and boards darkened, dulled and marked. Lean to spine and wear to joints. Ink markings to prelims and foxing/marking throughout. With numerous full-page & in-text b&w illustrations by H. J. Ford. Plates complete. A well read copy. . Poor. Gilt Decorated Cloth. First Edition. 1894.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1920. Small 8vo.Illustrated. xvi, 321 pp. Publisher's original yellow decorative cloth. Bumping to extremities, dulling to spine and foxing to edges. Small piece cut from the ffep. With numerous full-page & in-text black and white illustrations by H. J. Ford. . Good. Decorative Cloth. New Impression. 1920.

London: Cassell and Company, Limited 1909. 8vo. From the library of one of Haggard's great-great grandsons. 352, 8 pp. Publisher's cloth with black lettering to front board & gilt lettering to spine. Wear to spine ends and boards slightly marked. Rear hinge split. Internally clean. Binding firm. With colour frontis and two additional illustrations by A. C. Michael. Eight-page publisher's list at rear of 'Delightful Fiction.' . Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1909.

London: The Fortune Press 1944. 8vo. 48 pp., First edition, first issue. Signed label pasted to the half title. Black cloth binding with some marks and bumping to the boards and some darkening to the edges of the leaves, other wise clean. Portrait and decorations by David Haughton. Drummond Allison was a war poet of the second world war with this collection of his works published a year after his death at Monte Cassino. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition, First Issue. 1944.

London: Angus & Robertson 1973. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. Yellow pictorial laminated boards. Biro mark to verso of title page. Illustrated throughout by Mark Alan Stamaty. VG 0207955468 . Very Good. Laminated Boards. First UK Edition. 1973.

London: Royal Academy of Arts 2012. Oblong 8vo. First Edition. (90 pp.) Vinyl-covered boards in illustrated jacket. Clean and colours rich and bright. A rather splendid collection of watercolour and ink sketches Hockney made in 2004. 9781907533235 . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 2012.