Authors starting with Y from Rulon-Miller Books

Tokio: Yamasiroya, 5th year of Meiji. [1872]. 2 volumes, 12mo (180 x 122 mm.), 54 and 48 double-fold pages, title-pp. in both English and Japanese, the Japanese title on pink paper and used as front pastedown; orig. blue wrappers, printed paper labels on each volume (that on vol. I with partial loss); sewn in the Oriental manner; some worming to the first volume, mostly confined to the margins; front cover of vol. I stained; moderate wear; good or better. An instruction book for English spelling laid out in... more information

Hamburg: Helmut Buske. [2006]. First German edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 195, [1]; fine in original blue and red wrapers. Originally published in Malayasia in 2005 under the title. Basic Japanese Vocabulary: an Explanation of Usage. ... more information

N.p.. n.d. Square 8vo, pp. 24; endpaper map; profusely illustrated in color throughout; fine in original paper-covered boards, dust-jacket with light edgewear. Photographs of Hemingway House inside and out and many of its feline residents. Text in Japanese. ... more information

Tokyo: Kamisu-ya. 1869. Small 8vo, pp. [36] including first and last page mounted as endpapers, as issued; original blue paper wrappers, printed paper label on the upper cover; some wear else very good. The first Japanese book on chess, with a woodcut illustration of two men at a chessboard and a number of woodcut diagrams in the text. National Diet Library in Tokyo only in OCLC which also locates a 20th century edition at Princeton. ... more information

Tokyo: Nagai-do. 1867-68. First edition, 2 volumes, small 8vo, pp. [58]; [70], both including first and last leaves mounted as pastedowns, as issued; a number of woodcut illustrations of photographic equipment and techniques for development; orig. blue wrappers printed and sewn in the Japanese manner, printed paper labels on upper covers; good and sound, or better. Not found in OCLC. ... more information

Tokyo: Hakubundo & Co.. 1886. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 40, [98]; original gray wrappers printed in black and red; near fine. Introduction by A. B. Langdon who proposes that English become the national language of Japan. Includes sections on letters of friendship, letters of condolence, mercantile letters, invitations, official letters, etc. Not in OCLC. ... more information

[Cambridge, Mass.]: Blackwell Publishers. [1992]. First American edition; 8vo; pp. ix, [1], 581; illustrations throughout; fine copy in original pictorial jacket featuring the painting, "Une soirée chez Mme Geoffrin." ... more information

London: Parker, Son, and Bourn. 1863. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. cxliv, 446, [1] ads; viii, 504, 8 (ads); original green cloth, spines faded to brown, hinges cracked, spine ends cracked, vertical tear in spine of vol. 2 but without loss; a fair copy of an interesting book. ... more information

London: for the Camden Society by J.B. Nichols and Son. 1848. Small 4to, pp. xxxii,124; very good copy in orig. blue-green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Part of the diary details the Gunpowder Plot. Extensively indexed. ... more information

London: George Bell and Sons. 1881. Bohn's Illustrated Library edition, 8vo, 2-[16]pp. ads (including front pastedown), xiv, [i-ii], [xiii]-xiv, [iii]-xi, [2], 580pp., [17]- 31pp. ads (including back pastedown, folding frontispiece, engraved title-page, and 19 plates; in the original green blindstamped cloth, gilt spine, overall fading, spine ends chipped and fraying, back hinge cracking. ... more information

[Tokyo. 1867.]. A series (obantriptych) of three colored woodblock prints (each approx. 14" x 9¼") forming a single image (approx. 14" x 28") depicting a stereotypical American family on a verandah overlooking a harbor, with surrounding buildings in a western style, an American flag prominent in the central panel, and three hot-air balloons in the sky, each with American flags waving in the breeze. The images are clean and crisp, and beautifully colored. The only set of these prin... more information

Kyoto: Shobousha-shi. 1872. 8vo (approx. 7 1/4" x 5"), 34 leaves folded and sewn in the Japanese manner plus printed front pastedown, xylographically printed throughout, orig. yellow wrappers with pink printed label on upper cover; minor staining, very good. Text largely in double column, and arranged in squares, one word or phrase of English with Japanese equivalent and phonetic pronunciation for each in katakana and kangi. Not found in OCLC. A Critical Bibliography of Materials for English Studi... more information

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. [1971]. First edition, 1 of 600 copies, 4to, pp. 317, [1]; 43 plates (including the extra only found in the limited edition), 19 in full color; fine in original leatherette, dust-jacket very lightly rubbed at edges. Approximately 3,500 items. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers. 1937. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 248; very good in tattered, soiled, and creased dust jacket. ... more information

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. [1971]. First trade edition, 4to, pp. xiii, [1], 317; frontispiece illustration in color, plus 41 plates (17 in color); a couple signatures starting and back hinge cracked, but still good and sound in dust jacket with a few tears and some wear to extremities. ... more information

Cuttack: Orissa Mission Press. 1900. First edition of what appears to be Young's only book, 12mo, pp. [4], ii, 163; small puncture hole coming through back cover and into last dozen or so leaves (no loss), otherwise very good in orig. black cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Contains brief word lists and reading lessons, including 15pp. of fables. Only 1 copy in NUC. ... more information

London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1886. First edition, 8vo, 579-[580]pp., illus. throughout, many full-p., a near fine copy in orig. green cloth gilt. ... more information

Cleveland: M. C. Younglove. 1846. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 224, [1], plus 3-page publisher's catalogue; full contemporary sheep, brown leather label on spine lettered in gilt; worn, scraped, and stained, the joints beginning to crack, the gilt dulling, and scattered dampstaining to text; a good enough copy, still sound. ... more information

London: printed by C. Whittingham for T. Heptinstall. 1798. 8vo, pp. 22, [2], 364; engraved frontis portrait of the author and engraved vignette title, 8 engraved plates after Thomas Stothard; contemporary full calf, rebacked, red morocco label on spine; extremities worn, but generally a good, sound copy. The material for the Life of Young is taken from Johnson's Lives of the Poets, "written by Herbert Croft, with the critique of Dr. Johnson, and compared with the Biographia Britannica, and other r... more information

London: printed for A. Millar and J. Dodsley. 1765. Small 8vo, pp. [4], xii, [2], 281; engraved frontispiece of the centaur stomping on the Ten Commandments; full contemporary calf, red morocco label; joints cracked, cords holding; extremities worn; good copy. There were a number of editions throughout the last part of the 18th century, and there was a Philadelphia edition in 1806. ... more information