Titles starting with Y from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1987. Revised edition. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. Hiro Yamagata. Quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 159pp; illus. SIGNED in magic marker by Yamagata on front endpaper. Clean and unmarked copy in lightly rubbed jacket. ... more information

Hong Kong: Inspiration Art Press, 1997. First edition. Wraps. Fine. Large quarto. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; 119p; illus. INSCRIBED by the artist on half-title page, and further signed and dated by him (2001) on front free endpaper. Fine and unread. ... more information

Portland, ME: Anthoensen Press, 1985. First, limited edition. Cloth. fine/very good. One of 250 copies; this copy inscribed by the author on a tipped-in bookplate on front endpaper. Fine and unmarked in lightly rubbed dustjacket with small chip at upper corner. . ... more information

Paris: Plon, 1968. Later printing. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 470pp; illus. Clean, tight and unmarked in lightly rubbed jacket. Attractive copy. In French. ... more information

New York: Birth Press, 1962. Wraps. Near Fine. Printed, staple-bound wrappers; (22pp). Slight soil; Near Fine. Early satirical publication by the Fugs co-founder. With a centerfold broadside, "Oh Drop the O Bomb," by Howard Shoemaker, and laid-in advertisement for Kupferberg's Birth Press. ... more information

New York: Pegasus, 1967. Very Good Plus/Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue-green cloth (hardcover); 448pp. Brief ownership signature to front endpaper, else clean and unmarked, close to fine in mildly rubbed & edge-nicked dustjacket. Excellent anthology of Depression-era social literature, art, and photography. ... more information

Hartford, Connecticut: Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1928. Very Good/Good Plus. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Yellow cloth (hardcover); 413pp; color frontis after Beerbohm, line illustrations after Beardsley, Beerbohm. Tiny nick to crown of cloth spine, bit soiling to board edges, internally clean, solid and unmarked; jacket spine-darkened, chips to jacket spine ends, closed tear to front panel. Still a presentable copy of this nicely-produced anthology of writings and drawi... more information

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1934. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gray cloth (hardcover); 152pp. Clean copy with mild bump to top edge of front board; in the scarce dustjacket mildly rubbed w/ chips to extremities. Uncommon first edition of this Broadway drama dealing with the history of the fight against yellow fever. ... more information

New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, 1968. Second (Revised) Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Staple-bound, printed wrappers (softcover, as issued); 39pp; 247 items described. Mild corner-wear, else Fine. Second edition, including a supplementary list of publications for the period ending April, 1968. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1965. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black cloth (hardcover); 659pp. Bit of foxing to foredge, else a clean, tight unmarked copy in mildly rubbed jacket. Nice copy. ... more information

New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1965. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black cloth (hardcover); 659pp. Bit of foxing to foredge, else a clean, tight unmarked copy in mildly rubbed jacket. (Second copy). ... more information

Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1930. Offprint. Wraps. Very Good. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial wrappers; 28pp; illus. Light external soil; pencil ownership name to front cover, else clean and unmarked. ... more information

New York: Crown Publishers, 1951. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green cloth (hardcover); jacket. Offsetting to endpapers, mild soil, still VG in lightly rubbed & edgeworn jacket. ... more information

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951. Near Fine/Very Good. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Yellow and red cloth (hardcover); 213pp. Clean, fresh unmarked copy, quite close to Fine, in a mildly dusted and edgeworn jacket. An attractive copy of this hard-to-find title in S&S's "Inner Sanctum" series. ... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/Good. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 342pp. Base of boards flecked, else a fine, tight copy in unclipped pictorial jacket, rubbed and perforated at extremities with slight loss of rear panel blurb, G to VG. 8vo. ... more information

Pardeeville, Wisconsin: Carl V. Larson, 1959. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Staple-bound pamphlet; 63pp; illus. Mild soil to covers, else Fine. Illustrated with halftone (photographic) plates. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good. Red cloth boards (hardcover); 193pp; frontis. Endpapers foxed; light wear & fading to boards; text clean and unmarked. A solid reading copy. 12mo. ... more information

Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co., 1901. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. J.H. Betts. First thus. Original pictorial cloth boards (hardcover); 269pp; 12p publisher's catalogue at rear; 4 inserted leaves of plates (includes frontis); 12 text illus. Brief rubbing at base of spine; short (3/4") crack to front hinge (internal), else a bright, unrubbed copy, Near Fine. Young adult fiction, marking the rise of a young clerk on Wall Street in the 1890s. Originally published, with different illustrations... more information

London: Peter Owen, 1997. Good/Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue cloth (hardcover); 208pp. Reviewer Robert Dumm's copy, with his pencil underlining and marginalia (heavy in places) throughout. ... more information

New York: Henry Holt, 1922. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Small octavo. Original blue cloth; dustjacket; 300pp. Clean, tight copy, VG or better, in the exceedingly scarce pictorial jacket which is chipped at upper 1/2" of spine, just shy of title, and eroded at heel just into publisher's name. In all, a VG example, uncommon thus. HANNA 315. A novel of social mores in the Roaring Twenties. ... more information