Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Aardvark Rare Books

London, England: Horace Cox, 1867. Hardcover. Very Good. Small octavo, 7.8 in. x 5.2 in., pp. xii, 300. Green half calf over marbled boards. Gilt title to red and black panels on spine. Gilt decoration and five raised bands to spine. Publisher's gilt top-edge. Sunning to spine, turning green to brown. Rubbing to extremities. Marbled endpapers. Errata slip tipped-in at rear. Green cloth tape repair to front and rear hinges. Light age-toning to pages. Unmarked interior. Peard visited Ireland in 1865 "pausing for a time at the first class salmon rivers and lakes, arriving at each when in the highest order for angling."

Wash., D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. E.J. Schutt; A.A. Newton;. 8vo. Deep purple cloth-covered boards with silver lettering to front and spine. Color frontis/many photos. Corners nudged, Minor shelfwear and a bit of staining to boards, and nudging and rubbing to extremities. Black and white photographic plates. Articles include: The NAtional Forests and the Framer, Apple Sirup and COncentrated Cider., The American Woman as She Sees Herself, Our Shore Birds and Their Future, Hard Wheats Winning Their Way, The Farm Wood-Lot Problem, Edible Snails, and more.

Wash., D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. GOOD PLUS. E.J. Schutt; A.A. Newton;. 8vo. Deep purple cloth-covered boards with silver lettering to front and spine. Color frontis/many photos. Rubbing to extremities; a few stains to boards. Corners just starting to peep. Front free endpaper has been removed. One small photo ("An Alabama Beef Herd on Natural Pasture"), clipped/missing. This issue has a wonderful, LONG (60+pp) section of the cultivation of hemp in the U.S., including seed collection, cleaning, cultivation, cost of production, varieties and uses worldwide, etc, etc. Note: this is the original printing, not a facsimile copy. Extraordinarily beautiful, full-page color plates by botanical Iilustrators Ellen Isham Schutt, and Amanda Almira Newton of the Banana Apple, the McCroskey Apple, the Opalescent Apple, the Lizzie Peach, The Flowers Grape, The James Grape, The Triumph Persimmon, The Lue Orange, The Boone Chestnut. Beautiful copy of a now, elusive USDA… Read More

Wash., D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. E.J. Schutt; A.A. Newton;. 8vo. Deep purple cloth-covered boards with silver lettering to front and spine. Color frontis/many photos. Corners just a tiny bit nudged, and one or two very small, and faint waterstains to front board. Front pastedown bears the inked stamp of California U.S. House of Representatives James H. MacLafferty. The stamped impression reads: "From James H. MacLafferty, Representative in Congress, 6th District California (Alameda County)". This issue has a wonderful, LONG (60+pp) section of the cultivation of hemp in the U.S., including seed collection, cleaning, cultivation, cost of production, varieties and uses worldwide, etc, etc. Note: this is the original printing, not a facsimile copy. Extraordinarily beautiful, full-page color plates by botanical Iilustrators Ellen Isham Schutt, and Amanda Almira Newton of the Banana Apple, the McCroskey Apple, the Opalescent Apple, the Lizzie Peach, The… Read More

Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1968. Softcover. Very good. Marbled slipcase with black leather title label, double ruled in gilt with gilt letters. 12 volumes, octavo, 8 7/8" x 6." Brown paper covers with black and red lettering, black lettering to spine. Mild rubbing to spine and top and bottom edges. Ink ownership inscription (Irish balladeer Margaret "Peggy" Scanlon Noone) and date to top of front cover of each volume. Pages clean excepting several ink notes in margin of Mccartan Volume. Very sound copies. Complete set includes Edward Malins YEATS AND THE EASTER RISING; Raymond Lister BEULAH TO BYZANTIUM; Russell K. Alspach YEATS AND INNISFREE; Giles W. Telfer YEATS'S IDEA OF THE GAEL; Peter Faulkner YEATS AND THE IRISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; Hiro Ishibashi YEATS AND THE NOH; George Brandon Saul, IN...LUMINOUS WIND; Curtis Bradford, YEATS'S 'LAST POEMS' AGAIN; George M. Harper, YEATS'S QUEST FOR EDEN; John Unterecker YEATS AND PATRICK MCCARTEN(Signed by John Unterecker). A FENIAN FRIENDSHIP; Richard… Read More

Los Angeles, California: Center Publications, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Quarto, 5.6 x 8.75 in., Unpaginated. Number 188/300, Inscribed by author on half title page. Ivory boards with black title to spine. Light rubbing to dustjacket. Yellow Dog Journal is a collection in the Sumac Poetry Series. This book has two parts: "Fall" comprises 29 poems; "Spring" comprises 30.

Boston, Mass: New York Graphic Society, 1981. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. Wide Folio, 12.25 in. x 15.25 in., pp. 28 + [110] additional pages of photographic plates; 116 photographic plates total. Dark gray boards with burgundy cloth spine; gilt title to spine. Very light rubbing to extremities. Very light spotting to half title. Light rubbing to dustjacket with small tears to top of dustjacket spine. Price clipped. This large coffee table book is the culmination of Adams' most stunning black and white photographs.

Chicago, IL: Contemporary Books, 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Color illustraterd wraps, octavo. Very light wear to wraps, interior clean, binding tight. 1,542 entries with full descriptions. Numerous illustrations. 431 pages.

Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co, 1898. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Good Plus. Bright green cloth-covered boards with handsome, ornate embossed graphic (black, gold and light green) to front board and spine, with gilt and black lettering. Light shelfwear to extremities with one bumped corner. Black endpapers. Bookplate of second owner to front free endpaper Previous owner's name and 1904 date to second free endpaper. One signature sprung and resultant spine lean. Scarce Alger title which in the right skilled hands, could be tightened and prettied up, but fine as nice, well-read collector's edition.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. Octavo, 8.3 x 5.6 in., pp. 343. Red cloth boards with black title to front and spine. Publisher's red topstain. Untrimmed fore-edge. Light rubbing to extremities. Rubbing and small closed tears to edges of dustjacket. Small chips to top of dustjacket spine. Price clipped. Protected in mylar. "A concise and highly readable account of the laws of chance and how they enter into numerous aspects of human activity from gambling to modern business and science." (from the dustjacket).

Buffalo, NY: Charles Sterling Underhill, 1929. Limited Numbered Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD IN VERY GOOD MINUS DJ. Number 294 out of 400 copies of this limited numbered edition. Frontis piece portrait of Samuel Edmund Nichols. Privately printed in 1929 by Charles Sterling Underhill. Map endpapers covering region of the region of the Army of the Potomac from the Fall of 1862 to 1865. The map scale says 15 miles to 1 inch, however a laid in note at front of book gives the correct scale which is 28 miles to 1 inch. Pastedown with title and author to front cover and spine. Numerous leaves throughout book uncut. Bottom and fore-edge untrimmed. Contains several black and white illustrations throughout book. Dust jacket shows some bleedthrough from book covers. Tideline to back of DJ. Minor staining to front of DJa nd minor rubbing to spine. Book itself has one corner nudged, and a couple creases at top of spine. Some stainning to edges of endpapers. Several pages near front and back of book have faint… Read More