Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989. Stain on rear panel, some light wear to edges. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 173 pages. Original boards, with blue cloth spine; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, inscribed by the author on the half title, on 9/29/89. "The coming of age of ten-year-old Trygve Napoli, a Norwegian immigrant, is a struggle for emotional survival in the alien territory of 1943 Los Angeles" (the publisher).

Kansas City: Ramsay, Millett & Hudson, 1882. 8vo. 99 pp., advertisements at beginning and end. Original brown cloth, gilt-decorated with Old Faithful on the front cover. Slightly toned and with light wear at extremities, one front blank leaf and leaf of Bozeman, Mont. ads at rear removed. FIRST EDITION. A complete guide by W. W. Wylie, who made three expeditions through the region in the preparation of his book.

Santa Fe: The Santa Fe Magazine, 1983. A virtually as-new copy with two corners lightly bumped. 9.75 x 7.5 inches. 152 pages. Fully illustrated in black-and-white. Original red boards. First edition, number ten of 25 special edition copies.

Beijing: Ke xue chu ban she, 1982. Revised and enlarged edition. Light wear to jacket. 8vo. 882pp. Original cloth; dust jacket.

London: Violette Editions, 2001. A fine copy, without the original polystyrene slipcase. 4to. Original color-illustrated cloth, lettered in silver on black cloth backstrip. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Paul Smith in 2001 on the front free endpaper. In this wide-ranging compendium on fashion and art, Smith collaborated with Richard Williams, James Flint, Glen Baxter, Paul Slater, Mick Brownfield, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Semir Zeki and Jim Davies.

New York: Putnam's, 1891. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Slight rubbing at edges. 8vo. Original light blue cloth, lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. First American edition; with five inserted plates. Bookplate of H. C. Cross. A very good copy of a scarce book. BAL 6271. (BA).

New Rochelle: [Verona: Stamperia Valdonega for] The Elizabeth Press, 1973. 8vo. 55, [3]pp. Original printed boards. A very good copy, the spine lightly sunned, a few small splits and chips to joints. FIRST EDITION, one of 400 copies. PRESENATION COPY, inscribed in 1973 by Weil on the front free endpaper. With Weil's business card laid-in.

Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1992. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Fine. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, hors commerce, signed by Tyler, from an edition of 100 copies (60 in wrappers as here and 40 in boards).

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, 1990. 8vo. [16]pp. Original printed batik wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 125 copies signed by Weil and the designer, printer, and binder Carol J. Blinn. Dedicated to William Bronk.

New York: Random House, 1986. A fine, well-preserved copy. Folio. Original quarter cloth, green boards; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing, in an unclipped jacket priced $9.95. Signed by Dr. Seuss on the verso of the front free endpaper, facing the title.

Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press for The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Limited edition, number 605 of 1500 copies signed by the printer and illustrator. A few short tears to glassine, the spine panel of which somewhat toned, one joint of slipcase separated. Quarto. Illustrated by Robert Shore. Original blue morocco-backed cloth; original glassine; publisher's slipcase.

Washington, D. C.: Black Sun Press, 1950. A fine copy. Small square 8vo. [16] pages. Printed in blue ink. Five full-page illustrations by Cagli. Stapled as issued in original wrappers. Second edition of Olson's first book of poetry, the first trade edition after the limited edition of 1948. Issued as "Collectors Item No. 1" by Caresse Crosby. It was partly on the merits of this poetic debut that Edward Dahlberg recommended to Josef Albers that he invite Olson to lecture at Black Mountain College. Butterick & Glover A3.