Authors starting with Y from J & J Hanrahan

New York:: Taintor Brothers, Merrill & Co., (1867).. .. Orig. purple pictorial cloth with gilt lettering.. 8vo.. Binding scuffed and worn at edges and head and tail of spine. Internally good. Ex library with gift label on front pastedown and library pocket on back. With signature of "Warren F. Kellogg/ Cambridge, Mass./ 1878" on verso of illustrated frontis. ... more information

[New York]:: F. B. Patterson, 61 Liberty Street,, 1874.. 1874 reprint, the second reprint. of the first New York Directory.. Original printed wraps.. Sq. 4to, 8 x 6 inches.. The 82 pages include an Almanack; Table of Dollars; Table of Species; Table of Half-Johannes; Table of Guineas; the actual directory beginning on page 20 with John Arden and ending on page 52 with Samuel Zeller and Òomissions;Ó followed by a list of the members of Congress; Grand Departments of State; Citizens for settlin... more information

New York:: D. Appleton & Co.,, 1872.. First six issues.. Original green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine.. 8vo.. Several small spots on front cover. Some wear to hinges. Else a very good copy of the first volume of this scientific publication (later the Scientific Monthly) founded by Edward L. Youmans and his brother, promoters of scientific education. "It was in persuading original investigators to write for the educated non-scientific public... that this 'apostle of evolut... more information

London:: Printed for R. Dodsley,, 1753.. First edition.. (iv), 83 (3)pp. 8vo.. Removed; in a rather nice fold-down box with gilt title and author on spine. Stratman #6786; New CBEL 2: 495. Based on Corneille's Persee et Demetrius, this play had eight or ten performances in 1753 (sources vary). This is, of course, "Night Thoughts" Young who brought, the DNB informs us, his churchyard contemplations to market. Known as absent minded, he was also called "Tragic Young. His poetry had much in... more information

London:: Oxford University Press,, 1934.. First Edition.. xxv,414; viii,558pp. 8vo.. Original blue publisher's cloth with gilt lettering. . With bookplate and signature of former owner, John B. Young. Small tear to top of each spine else very good. ... more information