Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

Self Published, Portarlington, Victoria, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Traces of foxing to the top and front edges of the text block, small creasing to the lower left hand of the rear panel, internally clean. Comes with a letter from the author. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 270 pages. please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Australia; ISBN: 0646388681. ISBN/EAN: 9780646388687. Inventory No: 0270142. . 9780646388687

Porcella Studios, Modest California, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Slight damage to the head of the spine section of the cover, otherwise clean and free of damage. "when I am teaching, the most frequent questions I am asked our "how do you begin your designs for a quilt or garment?" Or "where do you get your ideas?" Or "how do you know which colours to put together?" This book will attempt to answer these questions." – Page 11 Size: Trade Paperback. 119 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fashion, Fabrics & Style; ISBN: 0936589000. ISBN/EAN: 9780936589008. Inventory No: 0252763. . 9780936589008

Nautical Books -- Macmillan, London, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Diagrammatic. VI, 218 pages, includes numerous appendices, printed end pages, text illustrated with line drawings, and tables. Photographic illustrated boards. Slight bump into the rear board, loss of colour on the back strip section and foxing of the top edge of the text block. . "Despite all the political or religious difficulties that flare up and then die down again in different parts of the world, seamen learned many decades ago the ships need to communicate, and to do so in a universally recognised manner. Everyone uses the same disciplines and the same procedures and, when necessary, the same codes." -- from the preface Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Diagrammatic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Ships & the Sea; Sailing; ISBN: 0333325281.… Read More

A. H. & A. W. Reed, Sydney, 1980. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Acknowledgements, introduction by author, to appendices and index. Green coloured end pages. The text is illustrated with 178 photographs and 130+ line drawings and charts. Blue coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Photographic dustwrapper with blue, red and black coloured titles to the front panel and blue and black coloured titles to the back strip. Even though we have GPS, and electronic navigation, this book covers every aspect of accurate navigation that might be needed by a yachtsman, when the batteries go flat. The author moves from a consideration of basic equipment, the marine compass and charts, to the details of laying off and plotting a course. There is a full discussion of the use of the sextant and all aspects of celestial navigation. Rubbing of the book corners and softening of the back strip edges. Dust marks and faint spotting… Read More

A. H & A. W. Reed, Sydney, 1975. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Acknowledgements, introduction by author, 2 appendices and index. Green coloured pages. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photographs, maps, figures and line drawings. Blue coloured boards with small gilt and white coloured illustration to the lower right-hand corner of the front panel, and gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Colour photographic dustwrapper with blue and black coloured title to the front panel and backstrip. The title says it all, in which the author sets out to teach in a practical manner the art of navigation for yachtsmen. Rubbing of the backstrip edges, top book corners and there is an erosion to the lower edge of the front panel. Age toning of the text block edges, and, a few small foxing spots also present. Previous owners name to the top right hand corner of the free front end page. Minor rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels.… Read More

Pan Books, Sydney, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. the inside of both front and rear cover have browned, there is no other damage to describe. The book is a set of interviews with Australian authors including Christina Stead, Thea Astley, Peter Carey, Blanche d'Alpuget, David Foster, Helen Garner, Nicholas hasluck, Dorothy Hewett, Elizabeth Jolley, David Malouf, Thomas Shapcott, & David Williamson. Each interview has a photograph in black-and-white of the author, and a reproduction of a working page from one of their books. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 320 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Australia; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0330270648. ISBN/EAN: 9780330270649. Inventory No: 0274593. . 9780330270649

Grafton Books, London, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Acknowledgements, dedication and introduction by author. Photographic paperback binding with black coloured titles to the front panel and black and pink coloured titles to the back strip. Black-and-white photograph of author to the verso of the front panel. The author was 13 when she was sent to Auschwitz, where she was a victim of Doctor Josef Mengele's experiments, was then transferred to Dachau, where she escaped and found refuge in Vienna and later Italy. But, when victory had been announced she, and Cossacks and others who had fought alongside the Nazis, were repatriated back to Russia – as part of the Yalta Agreement terms. This is her story. A previous owner has covered the book in a clear coloured plastic. Uniform tanning of the text block edges and pages. Previous owners' rubberstamp to the lower edge of the half title page and top edge of the title page. White coloured sticker to the lower… Read More

Yamba Centenary Committee, Yamba, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Illustrator: Keith Howland. 136 pp., last three blank, acknowledgements, foreword by Don Day, index. Illustrated endpapers, showing a digital photograph of 1930's scene. Black and white photographic frontispiece showing early settlers in the region. The text is profusely illustrated with black and white photographs, maps, illustrations, and the occasional coloured photograph. Maroon coloured boards with gilt writing on spine. Corners scuffed and rubbed and there is bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, by Keith Howland, with maroon background and yellow and white writing on front panel and spine. Corners of the dustwrapper are scuffed and rubbed and there is rubbing along the fore edges of book. Chipping to the top and bottom edges of the dustwrapper, and a 0.25 "and 2" tears top front edge, and 0.5 " tear with associated creasing to the top… Read More

Walker Books, London, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Christine Simpson – drawings. previous owner has covered the book with clear adhesive plastic, there was no damage, there are no cooking splashes. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 94 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Christine Simpson – drawings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; cooking – Chinese; ISBN: 074450774X. ISBN/EAN: 9780744507744. Inventory No: 0284390. . 9780744507744

Corgi, London, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. clean copy age toning of the page edges, no other damage. Written during the early 1950s, preceding the author's other books, a spellbinding romantic novel, the intriguing story of a beautiful woman who was kidnapped by the most attractive man she's ever met – a man from outer space Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 348 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0552110191. ISBN/EAN: 9780552110198. Inventory No: 0277602. . 9780552110198

Rigby, Adelaide, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: The Author. Signed by Author. 600 g; 190 pages, last two pages blank, yellow and end pages, text is illustrated with black-and-white line drawings, and the dust jacket is illustrated with a colour drawing of a stockman on horse. Slight rubbing of the edges of the dust jacket, and traces of foxing to the top edge and front edge of the text block.Inscribed and signed by author: " best wishes Ron Edwards Kuranda Oct. '84". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The author has signed the book on the title page.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: The Author. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Humour; Signed; Australiana; Folk Song; Signed by Author. ISBN: 0727014870. ISBN/EAN: 9780727014870. Inventory No: 0217245. . 9780727014870

Self Published, Tumut, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Illustrator: Andrew Scholz and Keith Nickles and Photography. acknowledgements. The text is illustrated with black and white cartoons drawn by Andrew Scholz and Keith Nickles and black-and-white photographs. Illustrated hardcover with black and red coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the backstrip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear book panel. Tales tall and true, poetry and of the author from the Snowy Mountains to the Gulf of Carpenteria. Signed by the author on the title page. Creasing to the book corners with rubbing of the book edges, panels and either side of the backstrip. Some marks to the rear book panel with light age toning of the textblock edges and pages. Size: Trade Paperback. 80 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Andrew Scholz and Keith Nickles and Photography. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Myths, Legends… Read More

Pan Books, London, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: David Bergen -- Cover Art. author's note. Colour illustrated paperback binding (wraparound), by David Bergen, with white, red and yellow coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Quoting from the rear panel blurb " ... Cat Midhir lives in a land of dreams, crossing nightly over the borders of sleep into a magic realm ... a land where gnomes hide among the standing stones and selchies dwell beneath the waves. Where the Harper Kothlen tells paralegals of the ancient days and the antlered Mynfel walks by moonlight. Until a thief comes talking – and steals Cat's dreams away ... " Rubbing of the book edges and panels with age toning of the text block edges and pages. Black remainder stripe to the lower text edge. Full number line. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 244, [4 – of which three are further titles and publishing house] pages,. Please refer to… Read More

Collins Fontana, Sydney, 1975. annual. Softcover. Very Good Condition. slight foxing to the front and rear page of the book, no other damage to describe. Illustrated with colour plates and black-and-white photographs,, book covers flowers and fruits and vegetables, and the treatment of pests and diseases Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 288 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Gardening; Gardening -- Australia.; Australia; ISBN: 0002114267. ISBN/EAN: 9780002114264. Inventory No: 0264112. . 9780002114264

Abacus, London, 2003. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. acknowledgements, bibliographies, source notes and index. Illustrated paperback binding with white and yellow coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. The authors, looked at life in England at the end of the first millennium, to give a vivid and surprising quarters of life in England with no spinach, no sugar, but a world which already knew brain surgeons and property developers. A hint of rubbing to the book edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 230 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: History; Britain/UK; Early (0-1000 AD); Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0349113068. ISBN/EAN: 9780349113067. Inventory No: 0127368. . 9780349113067

The Bodley Head, London, 1984. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 232 pages.. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Edges and pages slightly aged toned.. Previous bookseller's sticker to the rear panel.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0370308182. ISBN/EAN: 9780370308180. Inventory No: 0115608. . 9780370308180

Howard Baker, London, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: C. F. Tunnicliffe. The text is illustrated with black and white drawings by C. F. Tunnicliffe.Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper, and again by C. F. Tunnicliffe, with green and black coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the backstrip. The memoirs of the author living in rural England, both as a writer and as a member of society. Rubbing to the backstrip edges and book corners. A little rubbing to the dustwrapper panels and creasing to the dustwrapper edges. first edition by this publisher. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], 7 - 131, [1] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: C. F. Tunnicliffe. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Farming & Rural Life; Britain/UK; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0703001442.… Read More

Macmillan, London, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. indexed, and illustrated with 6 maps and a selected bibliography and index. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Decorated dustjacket with gilt coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. The author has provided an extraordinary account of how an onslaught designed to overrun the Western world (as it was then) came to be defeated. The only damage of the book suffers is the previous owner's full name at the top of the title page and at the bottom of the last page of the index. No other damage is apparent. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 256 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Persia; ISBN: 0333232712. ISBN/EAN: 9780333232712. Inventory No: 0229971. . 9780333232712

Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Illustrated. List of illustrations and Acknowledgements. Illustrated end pages, showing an industrial illustration – multiple factories spewing smoke in the sky stop the text is illustrated with black-and-white the photography and illustrations from the year 1857. Green coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with gold and black coloured titles to the front panel and to shades of blue and black coloured titles to the back strip. Using month by month the author has detailed the goings on in Britain in the year 1857 – the year the climax of the Indian Mutiny, the publication of Little Dorrit, the year that Prince Albert became Prince Consort, of the trial of Madeleine Smith and the passing of the controversial Divorce Bill – to mention but a few events. Softening and fading of the back strip edges… Read More

The Harvill Press, London, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 175 g.; 118 pages. Plain green covers with black titles to the front panel and backstrip. A hint creasing to the book corners. Inserted loosely is a letter asking for a review from the Australian publishers. A novel set in Franco's Spain about a strong willed nun and rich landowner. Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Spain; Inventory No: 0109776. .