Authors starting with Y from Argonaut Book Shop

New York: Takarajimasha Books, 1995 Square quarto. 131pp. Profusely illustrated with full color, full page photographs. Blue boards with silver lettering on spine. Small address sticker of previous owner on endpapers, else a very fine copy in lightly worn pictorial dust jacket. . ... more information

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930 First English translation. Limited to 1,000 copies and 1st with complete reproduction of watercolors. 4to. Illustrated throughout with full-page black & white plates. Some rubbing to the corners and spine-ends, else a fine copy. The first English translation of Svinin's journals.. ... more information

New York: Facts On File New York: Facts On File, 1992 Quarto. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of beautiful color photographs by Terry Dominco. Bibliography and index. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. An illustrated look at the nature of Borneo. . Illus. by Dominco, (Photographer). ... more information

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Gallery Books, 1979 LAter printing. Large, thick quarto. Illustrated with 377 color plates. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. A fine copy in lightly chipped dust jacket. . ... more information

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Windward, 1979 First American Edition. Large, thick quarto.Illustrated with 377 color plates. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. A fine copy in lightly spine-faded dust jacket. . ... more information

New York: Grove Press, 1994 Firat edition. Small octavo. Gray paper boards with black writing on spine. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. . ... more information

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976 Second printing. Octavo. 342pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. Brown cloth with gold and black printing. Minor wear to spine ends, no dust jacket. A fine copy. . ... more information

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976 First edition. xii, 196pp. Illustrated with 6 color photographs, 23 black & white illustrations, double-page map. Extensive notes, bibliography and index. Black cloth. A fine copy with slightly rubbed dust jacket. Covers the years, after 1860, of the great Bonanza strikes and of the men and the evolution of the machinery they used: the double-jack, hand steel, Bickford fuse, wire rope, steam engine, etc. The major strikes included Henry Wickenburg's Vulture... more information

New York: Crowne Publisher's Inc., [1961]. First edition. Illustrated with numerous color and black & white photos. Tan cloth. A very fine copy with dust jacket. The story of China's capital city during dynastic rule. 68C. ... more information