Authors starting with Y from John Michael Lang Fine Books

New York: Rizzoli, 1990. Hardcover 11.5" x 8.75". 248pp. Red cloth hardcover with gilt lettering in dust wrapper. Fine condition. Dust jacket is in fine condition. The contents is organized into four main sections; Women on the Brink of Modernism, The Amazons of the Avante-Garde, Women Artists and the 'Chamber Art' of the 1920s and 1930s and Two Soviet Sculptors. Featuring 284 black and white illustrations, 83 in color. ... more information

Tokyo, New York & San Francisco: Kodansha International Ltd., 1982. Hardcover First American edition 12" x 8.5". 84pp. Beige cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; near fine jacket. With photographs by Ryo Hata. A guide to Japanese interior design. With many color and black & white photo illustrations. ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Hardback First edition 9.25" x 6". 331pp. Blue paper covered boards, blue cloth spine, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; near fine jacket. With many black & white illustrations. "The first book to consider how the breast has been perceived in the Western world from ancient days to the present." ... more information

[No place]: Parco, 1978. Paperback 16.5" x 11.75". [94pp.] Glossy paperback, with the original dust wrapper. The book has just a bit of edge wear, but otherwise it is in nice, near fine condition. The jacket has heavier edge wear and some soiling, but is still in fairly decent condition. Harumi was one of the great practitioners of illustrator art in its Golden Age. She is known for travel posters and advertising designs, and especially for her sexy pinup style paintings of beautiful and ... more information

Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1982. Hardcover 9.75" x 7". 332pp. Blue cloth covered hardcover in dust wrapper. Spot stain on foredge, else fine condition. The dust jacket is faded on the spine and edges, else near fine condition. A collection of essays by American and Japanese scholars regarding the Japanese economy and the U. S. - Japan trade relationship. Illustrated with black and white graphs. ... more information

Seattle: Garfield High School, 1929. Hardcover First edition 9" x 6". 143pp. Brown flexible buckram. Mild edge wear, else near fine condition. With the usual class portraits, sections on clubs, athletics, faculty, etc. Minoru Yamasaki, best known as the designer of the World Trade Center, was a senior at Garfield High in 1929. His class picture is on page 41. ... more information

New York & Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1979. Hardcover First edition 12" x 12". 195pp. Gray cloth with silver lettering, in dust wrapper. Near fine condition; the jacket has a small bit of wear to the spine tips but is otherwise near fine. One of the greatest American architects, Yamasaki is best known as the designer of the World Trade Center. This volume includes the architect's aesthetic philosophy and many color photographs showing his commercial and residential work. ... more information

Beijing: People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 1996. Paperback 11" x 9.5". Appr. 100pp. Plain wrappers with a pictorial outer wrapper. Fine condition. This copy signed and inscribed by Li Yan on the first leaf. With a postcard from the Li Yan studio laid in; it is also signed by the painter. With many color illustrations from paintings by these two eminent Chinese artists. The text is in Chinese and English. ... more information

Washington DC: The Potomac Corral of the Westerners, 1967. Paperback Revised edition, 1968 9" x 6". 16pp. Illustrated paper wrappers. A very good copy. A short appreciation of Dobie written by a collector of Dobie material and Western Americana. ... more information

Houston, Texas: Gulfport Printing Company, 1919. 12" x 8.75". 159pp., plus ads. Yellow illustrated cloth boards. Light soiling and general use, over all VG+ condition. The boards are covered in "doped linen from the wings of wrecked airplanes." This scarce book includes numerous photos of planes and aviators, lists of pilots in training and officers, poetry and humoroyus sketches, accounts of training, a roll of honor, etc. It is a sort of annual for World War One military avia... more information

Tokyo & Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1958. Hardback 7.25" x 4.75". 320pp. Gold and red illustrated paper covered boards, in the original slipcase. Gift inscription, else near fine condition. The box is somewhat used. With 98 color illustrations by Yoshinobu Sakakura and Eiichi Mitsui. Third printing of the second edition. ... more information

Tokyo: [No publisher], 1947 . Hardback Three 7" x 5" Volumes. 92, 96, 112 pp. Illustrated paper covered boards. Light general wear; overall a VG+ condition set. A set of three volumes of Japanese folktales for children. Volumes 1 & 2 illustrated by Yoshinubu Sakakura. Volume 3 illustrated by Eiichi Mitsu. A charming series. Volume three was issued in 1948. ... more information

Wilmington, North Carolina: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2000. Hardback 8.5" x 5". 132pp. Beige cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; near fine jacket. A reissue of number eight in the Confederate Centennial Studies Series. Vance was governor of North Carolina during the Civil War. ... more information

Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. Hardback First edition 9.25" x 6" volumes. Gray cloth, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; the jacket has a very light bit of edge wear. A study of the men who governed the Confederate states during the early triumphs and later agonies of the American Civil War. ... more information

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. Hardcover First American edition 7.75" x 5". 101pp. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, in dust wrapper. Spine slightly ridged from being read, else fine condition. The jacket has a darkened spine with one tiny hole, a few small edge chips, and is price clipped. This collection of poetry includes several of Yeats' Crazy Jane poems and much more. ... more information

New York : The Studio Publications, Inc., 1943. Hardcover First edition 7.5" x 4.75". 88pp. Brown cloth. VG+. With illustrations after drawings by the author. Chiag Yee also wrote the widely admired "Silent Traveller..." series books. ... more information

New York: The Dial Press, 1955. Hardcover First edition Octavo. A near fine copy in a bright dust jacket with a mild bit of edge wear. Yerby is best known for his novel "The Foxes of Harrow." ... more information

New York: The Dial Press , 1954. Hardcover First edition 8" x 5.25". 346pp. Green & red cloth, gilt lettering, in dust wrapper. A very good+ copy with faint trace of external wear. Dust jacket has some light edge wear and light fading to the spine. Set in the South, here is Yerby's story of four brawling generations of the Delta family, specifically the illicit Cajun branch of the family that brings the saga of the Benton's to its violent climax. ... more information

New York: The Dial Press , 1948. Hardcover First edition 8" x 5.25". 346pp. Beige cloth hardback, in dust wrapper. Nice VG+ condition; the jacket is bright but has a small bit of edge wear. Anoter of Yerby's adventure novels, this one set in the West Indies of the 17th century. It was made into a film in 1952 by director Sidney Salkow, Sterling Hayden and Rhonda Fleming starred. ... more information

Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1984. Hardcover 8" x 7". [58pp.] Beige cloth spine, color illustrated paper covered boards. Mild general use, overall a near fine copy. This story of a young Uygar fisherman boy features charming color illustrations by the author. ... more information