Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Appledore Books, ABAA

Venice: Societe Europeenee de Culture, 1951. Original wraps. Near Fine/Very Good +. Uncommon 1951 Le Corbusier 4-pg. essay ("Is There a Crisis in Art?"). Reprinted from the French review "COMPRENDRE" #4, here elegantly re-fashioned in its stand-alone off-white wappers and glassine dustjacket. Tall quarto, a touch of light spotting to the glassine, otherwise very sharp.

Tokyo: Akira Corporation, 1976. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A lovely copy of the uncommon 1976 1st (and perhaps only) edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, Near Fine example of the pictorial dustjacket. Tall quarto, gorgeous gravure photography throughout. Text in both Japanese and English.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Co, 1881. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 1881 1st edition of Howard Pyle's very first illustrations in book form. A well-preserved, VG copy. Bright and clean and still tightly-bound. Professionally and subtly rebacked along the spine, not affecting the original pictorial front and back panels whatsoever. Quarto, 31 pgs. Lavish full-color illustrations, vivid and bright and well-executed.

New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1973. Decorative Wrappers. Fine/Fine. A lovely copy of the signed/limited. #34 OF 100 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY JAMES MERRILL at the limitation. Clean and Fine in a crisp. Fine example of the decorative, dark-blue dustjacket. #17 in the Phoenix Book Shop's "Oblong Octavo" series.

The Brooklyn Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 1910. Printed Boards. Very Good +. A solid copy of the 1910 Year Book of the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Clean and VG+ in its printed grey boards, with light wear along the spine base and a touch of mild soiling to the panels. Quarto, McKim, Mead and White color frontispiece, black-and-white photographs, sketches and plans to every page.

The City of Danbury, CT, 1901. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. A tight, very solid copy of the 1901 1st thus. A clean, VG octavo in its navy-blue cloth, with light fading along the spine. Octavo, "Containing the Doings of the Boards of Councilmen, Aldermen-- Together with the Officers of the City Government, Message by His Honor, the Mayor. Annual Reports of Several Departments and Estimates for the Ensuing Year". Includes the fold-out chart on "Fires and Alarms" in Danbury thru Feb. 1901.

AIA / T-Square Club of Philadelphia, 1922. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. A solid copy of the 1922 1st edition. Tight and VG in its beige boards, with light wear to the spine and very light soiling at the rear panel. Quarto, 256 pgs., including the last 40 or so pgs. of wonderful Philadelphia-area advertising.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A crisp, fresh copy of the 1970 1st edition. Solid and Near Fine (small, tasteful bookplate at the front apstedown) in a bright, price-clipped, Near Fine dustjacket. Thick octavo, 500 pgs.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1949. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A solid, very sharp copy of the 1949 1st UK edition (preceded by an American edition a year earlier). Tight and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG+ to Near Fine dustjacket, with very mild darkening along the spine. Octavo, frontispiece portrait of Yeats by Augustus John.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. Cloth. Collectible; Fine. A pristine copy of the 1983 signed/limited. #390 OF 450 COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH ISAAC SINGER AND ANTONIO FRASCONI at the limitation. Tight and Fine in its oatmeal cloth. And in a bright, Fine brown-cloth slipcase. Quarto, beautiful woodcuts thruout by the great Antonio Frasconi. Signed by Author(s).

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. Decorative Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Antonio Frasconi. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR ANTONIO FRASCONI on the title page. A clean, very sharp copy to boot of the 1983 stated 1st trade edition. Tight and Fine in a crisp, price-intact, Near Fine to Fine dustjacket. Quarto, wonderfully illustrated in woodblocks (a number of them in color) by the maestro Frasconi.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1897. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. The 1897 1st edition. VG in its navy-blue cloth. Both nner hinges starting (but still holding sturdy), othwerwise very solid. 12mo, Also includes laid-in Yersin French School charts and ephemera.

New York: Random House, 1958. Pictorial boards. Very Good +/Very Good +. Dr. Seuss. The 1958 correct 1st edition (Younger & Hirsch, pgs. 194-196). Solid and VG+ (former owner bookplate at the front pastedown, tucked behind the front flap) in a bright, VG+ dustjacket, with light creasing and several tiny closed tears along the panel edges. Quarto, wonderfully illustrated throughout in rich color by Dr. Seuss.

New York: Rinehart & Co, 1947. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. 1947 1st edition, with a SIGNED, TIPPED-IN BOOKPLATE. Solid and VG in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with very light soiling to the rear panel. Octavo, 277 pgs. Signed by Author.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. INSCRIBED BY TANA DE GAMEZ TO MAXWELL GEISMAR, pre-eminent literary critic and biographer and one-time editor of Ramparts Magazine. A solid copy to boot of the 1966 1st edition. VG in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with light chipping to the spine crown and very light scuffing at the panels. Octavo, 309 pgs.

Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press (for The British Academy), 1987. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good +. A solid, well-preserved copy of the 1987 1st edition, with light creasing along the front panel's top-edge and several marks at the bottom-edge. And in a bright, VG+ to Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of very mild wear to the edges. Tall, thin quarto, a handful of vivid color (along with crisp black-and-white) reproductions throughout. Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (Catalogue of Medieval Stained Glass), Fascicule #1 (The West Windows of ther Nave).

Oxford University Press (for The British Academy), 1999. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. A very sharp copy of the 1999 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of creasing along the spine crown. Tall, thin quarto, a handful of vivid color (along with crisp black-and-white) reproductions throughout. Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (Catalogue of Medieval Window Glass) #5 in the series.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. Cloth. Near Fine. A tight, very sharp copy of the September 1926 1st edition of this immortal, pre-Depression look into the underground lives of hobos, thieves, grifters, etc., mostly set in the Bay Area. Tight and VG+ to Near Fine in clean bright-red boards, with pristine gilt-titling along the spine. Even offsetting at the endsheets, just a touch to the rear pastedown too. The text crisp and immaculate. 12mo, the profound influence of this book on a young William Burroughs has been often-cited. Lacking the scarce dustjacket.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1918. Boards. Very Good. A WARM, FULL-PAGE, YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION INSCRIPTION BY STEPHEN VINCENT BENET at the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the September 1918 1st edition. Tight and VG in its light-gray boards, with mild creasing and soiling at the rear panel. Octavo, the author's 2nd published book.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1907. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. A crisp, clean copy of the 1907 1st edition of Witt Bynner's 1st book, IN THE UNCOMMON DUSTJACKET. Tight and VG (with bright gilt-lettering at the front panel) in a bright, surprisingly well-preserved, VG+ to Near Fine dustjacket. 12mo, 119 pgs., including "An Ode to Harvard and Other Poems"