Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Whitmore Rare Books

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First edition. Very Good +. Bound in publisher's original green cloth, stamped in blind on the front board and gilt titles on the spine. BAL 20117. One of 1546 copies. A Very Good+ copy with a few short tears to the cloth at the crown and a pencil owner's name and address on the rear end paper. An excellent copy internally. After Henry David Thoreau's 1862 death, the Boston publishers Ticknor and Fields, who had published Walden, gathered together and published a collection of Thoreau's essays. The majority of the essays in A Yankee in Canada outline Thoreau's commitment to social reform, especially Thoreau's abolitionist work. Slavery in Massachusetts as well as A Plea for Captain John Brown appear here. But the most famous and influential of Thoreau's essays included in this title is Civil Disobedience. This landmark essay was previously published with the title Resistance to Civil Government in Elizabeth Peabody's Aesthetic Papers, but it appears in the present… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition. Fine/about Fine. A Fine book in just about Fine jacket. Book is extremely clean and bright with just a bit of spotting to the top-stain. Jacket bright and unfaded and just slight wear at the spine ends, but overall a lovely copy. Housed in a custom clamshell case. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' beloved 1938 novel, set in rural Florida. The Yearling follows the story of Jody Baxter, a child who becomes friends with a fawn after his father kills the fawn's mother. The book was the best selling novel the year it was released and would win the Pulitzer Prize. Translated into over twenty languages, The Yearling was also adapted into a 1946 film starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman, who would both receive Academy Award nominations for their performances. "The thing about The Yearling, its great claim to distinction, is that it is able to make so much of simple, homely events" (Contemporary New York Times review). Fine in about Fine dust jacket.

Fayetteville: Lost Roads, 1979. First edition. Near Fine. Original printed wrappers. Slight toning to covers, overall very nearly Fine. The second posthumous publication of Stanford's work (following Crib Death), published as Lost Roads Number 15. An increasingly scarce example of Stanford's maturing work, cut short by his suicide at 29. Threatening animals mingle with weary men, observant and suspicious women in these stark poems. Death creeps through many of the poems as well: "When you get lost on the road / You run into the dead." Near Fine.

Fayetteville: Lost Roads, 1979. First edition. Near Fine. Near Fine in original printed wraps. Toning to spine and minor offsetting to edges of wraps. Internally fresh and unmarked. Scarce in collectible condition. The second posthumous publication of Stanford's work (following Crib Death), published as Lost Roads Number 15. An increasingly scarce example of Stanford's maturing work, cut short by his suicide at 29. Threatening animals mingle with weary men and observant, suspicious women in these stark poems. Death creeps through many of the poems as well: "When you get lost on the road / You run into the dead." Near Fine.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. One of 500 first trade editions. A Fine copy in nearly Fine publisher's acetate. Bound in cream boards with black cloth backstrip and maintaining paper title on spine; purple, grey, and blue title, with dark blue endpapers. Insignificant discoloration to top of closed text block, otherwise a copy that appears unread. In this poetry collection, hedonistic artist looks unflinchingly at his childhood, among other topics. A great example of a Black Sparrow Press book with a creative cover design. Run by John Martin the avant-garde press was responsible for supporting and publishing Bukowski's work throughout his prolific career. Krumhansl 100. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. Signed limited edition, number 195 of 210 copies signed by Bukowski on the limitation page. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket. White jacket maintaining bright purple and red text, toning to spine. Bound in yellow paper boards with purple backstrip, paper label to spine, and orange fly leaves. This shockingly violent short story focuses on a middle aged couple, married for decades, and the aftermath of the husband's affair. In typical Bukowski style, the author exaggerates the narrative action for humorous effect: furious at the husband's betrayal five years prior the wife shoots her husband multiple times; when they police arrive they joke about domestic strife and all the while the other woman fantasizes about someone else. Krumhansl 61. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket, jacket price clipped and with only the slightest wear at the extremities. First impression, first state, Binding 'A' (with "First published 1964" on the copyright page and Japanese gilt characters on the front board). Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 188 x 127 mm.). 255, [1] pp. Publisher's black cloth effect paper over boards, front cover with gilt kanji, spine lettered in silver, bamboo patterned endpapers. Dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping. "When Ernst Stavro Blofeld blasted into eternity the girl whom James Bond had married only hours before, the heart, the zest for life, went out of Bond. Incredibly, from being a top agent of the Secret Service, he had gone to pieces, was even on the verge of becoming a security risk. M is persuaded to give him one last chance - an impossible mission far removed from his usual duties - and Bond leaves for Japan." The twelfth novel in the James Bond series… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket, jacket price clipped and with only the slightest wear at the extremities. First impression, first state, Binding 'A' (with "First published 1964" on the copyright page and Japanese gilt characters on the front board). Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 188 x 127 mm.). 255, [1] pp. Publisher's black cloth effect paper over boards, front cover with gilt kanji, spine lettered in silver, bamboo patterned endpapers. Dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping. "When Ernst Stavro Blofeld blasted into eternity the girl whom James Bond had married only hours before, the heart, the zest for life, went out of Bond. Incredibly, from being a top agent of the Secret Service, he had gone to pieces, was even on the verge of becoming a security risk. M is persuaded to give him one last chance - an impossible mission far removed from his usual duties - and Bond leaves for Japan." The twelfth novel in the James Bond series… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First edition. Very Good +/Very Good +. A Very Good + copy in like jacket. Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, Japanese characters to front board in gilt, wood grain endpapers. With the dust jacket. Gift inscription to front endpaper. Some foxing to top edge; else a straight, bright copy. In the unclipped jacket, with wear to spine extremities and nicks to corners, toned spine, and some fading to rear panel. Following the wedding day murder of his wife Tracy Bond at the end of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 007 spirals into drinking, gambling, and erring on assignment. In an attempt to reignite him, MI6 assigns Bond to a diplomatic mission in Japan. There, James connects with the head of Japanese Secret Service and becames entangled in a plan to seek revenge for the death of another man's wife. Very Good + in Very Good + dust jacket.

Boston: William Crosby & Co, 1840. First edition. Very Good +. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and boards embossed in blind. Some wear to extremities. Slight sunning to spine and faint spotting to boards. Brown endpapers. Contemporary ownership signature of Cyrus N. Pollard to first blank. Light scattered foxing throughout, else a clean and unmarked copy. Collating [4], 260: complete. Scarce on the market and at institutions, OCLC reports 15 copies held at libraries. A Harvard Divinity graduate and Unitarian minister, Muzzey used publication to spread ideas about proper human behavior -- and he focused equally on the roles of women as he did on those of men. Following up on his conduct guide The Young Man's Friend, Muzzey presented readers with the present work The Young Maiden. Throughout, he shifts between conservative notions of femininity and more progressive approaches to women's capacity. On the one hand, he suggests that "the Elizabeths and Somervilles that occasionally… Read More

Wyoming, Cincinnati, and College Hill, Ohio; Richmond, Indiana; Covington, Kentucky, 1895. Cloth binding stamped in gilt and black, measuring 4 x 6.5 inches and comprised of 76 handwritten pages and 7 original sketches in a variety of hands. Binding shaken and hinges broken with text being held by cords. Internally, a rich document tracing the social attitudes, friendships, and familial links of a young Ohio woman nearing the turn of the century. Likely a gift from her mother, Jeanie Hendelson's commonplace book has an early entry from "Mama" tenderly calling her "Jennie" and reminding her that "we live by aspiration, hope, and love." It is a departure from many of the period's more demure mother-daughter wishes that tend to focus on ideas of humility, purity or virtue. But for the Hendelsons at least, these and "dignity of being" are central. For more than a decade, Jeanie used this book to capture memories with her friends and family, and to carry their sentiments with her when they were apart.… Read More