Titles starting with Y from Margolis & Moss

Havana: Talleres Tipograficos P. Fernandez y Cia., 1959. 186 pages. 8 1/2 x 6 inches. Printed wrappers as issued. Light dusting to wrappers. First edition, inscribed to the poet Witter Bynner, August 19, 1959. ... more information

New Orleans: Published by the Association, 1907. 52 pages. Illustrated from photographs. Large folding colored map. Octavo, 9 x 6 inches. Blue embossed pictorial wrappers; spine frayed; light marginal damp staining. Tipped in is a note offering the correct name to use when placing the association in your will or other legal forms for donation ... more information

Tokyo: The New World Press, circa 1950. Folding colored map measuring 29 x 20 1/2 inches; maps on both sides, text in English. A fine, postwar map of Yokohama. ... more information

San Francisco: Southern Pacific, (1908). 24 pages. Illustrated from photographs and with a double-page map or the valley. 9 x 8 inches; folded once. A fine bright copy, with one one inch tear on one page. ... more information

New-York and Baltimore: Samuel Wood & Sons, circa 1820. 16 pages. With charming woodcuts. Sixteenmo (4 x 3 inches); original brown printed wrappers; a bright, clean copy. Originally published in 1806, this charming educational piece contains alphabets in hornbook form and a list of syllables, with woodcuts illustrating objects in alphabetical order. "This edition has variations from the first edition both as to text and woodcuts." - Rosenbach 596. ... more information

Boston: William J. Reynolds & Co., circa 1850. Engraved frontispiece, extra-engraved title, 323 pages + publisher's promotional pages. 8vo, gilt-pictorial cloth. Eleventh edition. Originally published in 1843 as advice for the author's sister. Newcomb was a Boston Clergyman who obviously enjoyed writing. He wrote 178 books, of which all but 14 were advice for Children. ... more information

Boston: C. H. Pierce& co., 1851. 151 pages. 8vo, embossed publishers cloth; light wear First edition. More advice from a man of the cloth. ... more information

Philadelphia: David McKay, circa 1890. 320 pages. Illustrated with wood-engravings. 8vo (7 x 5 inches); gilt-pictorial brown cloth; a bright copy. A later printing of this popular work. Based on the palm reading systems of d'Arpentigny and Desbarrolles, "with some account of the gipsies [sic.]." A particularly attractive binding with the spine showing a cherub holding a slate with a picture of a hand and the front cover showing a hand with the lines of "the fortunate. ... more information

San Antonio: The Naylor Company, (1959). 168 pages. 8 1/2 x 6 inches. Green pictorial cloth; with chipped dust jacket. First edition. Needless to say, politically incorrect... ... more information

Boston: Otis, Broaders and Company, 1839. 195 pages. Frontispiece of a youthful Queen Victoria + numerous steel and wood-engraved plates. Small octavo (6 1/4 x 4 inches); calf backed yellow boards; gilt spine; some foxing and light wear. An attractive copy of this gift book, with a grandmothers inscription on flyleaf. Thompson p.163. Foxon 881. ... more information

Bruxelles: Marco Marcovici, Circa 1919. A series of 10 oversize gravure postcards showing the ruins of this great building. 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Bound in printed, brown wrappers. ... more information