Titles starting with Y from William Dailey Rare Books Ltd ABAA

New York: H. M. Duhecquet,, 1833.. 8vo, xiv, (2), 98, (2) blank. Brown cloth, gilt lettered, blind blocked ruled borders and ornamentation, chip at spine head, light wear to extremities, some spotting, lt.-moderate foxing, overall very good.. 'This work first appeared in England, without name, perhaps because some of the allusions might there be considered personal, and libelous' (NUC). Indeed. Watts (whose only other book was Paradise Lost, or The Great Dragon Expelled), brings Swift's creations, the b... more information

New York: Bramhall House,, (1964).. 8vo, 270pp, frontispiece, misc. b&w text illus. Cloth, dust jacket, fine in near very good dj.. First Edition, second printing. ... more information

Tucson: The Archeological Society,, 1925.. 12mo, 69pp, frontispiece, 17 b&w photo-illus. Flex-bound leather-grained stamped cloth, internally tight and clean, otherwise very good.. First Edition. ... more information

New York: Harrison Smith,, (1932).. 8vo, 373pp. Red cloth, gilt lettered, very good in like dj.. First Edition. ... more information

Los Angeles: [Ward Ritchie Press],, 1938.. 16mo, 16pp, 9 decorative woodengraved vignettes by Paul Landacre. Printed on paper handmade by Dard Hunter. Green paper wrappers, printed label, very good. . Edition limited to 150 copies. Scarce. Lehman p.175. Ritchie 13. ... more information

Tulare, CA: N.p. [the author],, 1952.. 8vo, 224, (2) blank, (18) as poems by the author, frontispiece, 37 b&w photoplates. Brown cloth, gilt lettered, illus. endpapers, mild shelfwear, owner's signature, otherwise fine.. First Edition, signed by the author. A history of California's San Joaquin Valley, between its initial settlement and contemporary development. ... more information

London: Macmillan,, 1976.. 8vo, xvii, 322pp. Blue cloth, white lettered on black label, Dust jacket. Very good.. First Printing. Explores the extent of Yeats' involvement with the occult based on his papers. ... more information

London: Macmillan,, 1974.. 8vo, x, 322pp. Black cloth, gilt lettered, Dust jacket w/ pink lettering on black.. First Printing. Yeat's involvement with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a phantasmagorical fraternity. ... more information

Cambridge: Houghton Library,, 1994.. 8vo, yellow wrappers. Very good.. ... more information

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company,, (1899).. 12mo, (6), 55pp. Original boards printed in yellow wall-paper design, with black lettering. Signature on the endpaper. A very nice copy of a fragile book.. First Edition of a masterpiece of feminist literature - the story of a woman's terrifying mental breakdown. The story arose out of the author's own post-partum experience when she bore her only child in 1885 and S. Weir Mitchell had prescribed a rest cure for her 'inappropriate ambition.' The story was origi... more information

York/London: William Simpson/Bull, Hunton,, 1855.. 8vo, viii, 276pp, frontispiece, 5 engraved plates, 1 text map,1 foldout map. Publisher's original brown cloth, gilt lettered and ornamented spine, gilt lettered front board with blindstamped decoration, bookplate, some sunning, wear, otherwise very good.. First Edition. Scarce. ... more information

London: A. & C. Black,, 1907.. 8vo, x, 148pp, plus 31 color plates with tissue guards & folding map at end. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Very nice copy. . Second edition, first issued in 1904. ... more information

Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Charles T. Dillingham,, 1880.. 8vo, 19 leaves printed on rectos only (except for copyright page), 16 woodcut illus by Smillie. Original green cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in black, gilt title on front & spine, beveled edges, a.e.g. Very good.. Only Edition. Bruce (1844-1914) was a Scot who travelled to the States in the 1870's. Besides this volume extolling the beauties of Yosemite Valley he wrote a poem and a guidebook on the Hudson River. The illustrator, Ja... more information

San Francisco Graphic Society, [, 1992].. 4to, 272pp, illus. in color throughout. Cloth, dust jacket. Very nice.. First Edition. ... more information

New York: G.A. Baker,, 1935.. 8vo, 195pp. Cloth. Very good.. First Edition, one of 1000 copies. Foreword by H. L. Mencken. ... more information

London: Margin Secker,, (1915).. 8vo, 317, (3, ads), 16 (ads)pp. Orig. cloth. Slight rubbing to spine & bumping to corners, still very good, with the bookplate of Paul Jordan Smith.. First Edition, the author's dedicatory poem to Lady Ottoline Morrell initialled and dated in his hand. Gilbert Cannan (1884-1955), intimate of Lady Ottoline, is recorded by Sandra Darroch, in her biography of Morrell, as piquing the jealousy of Lytton Strachey, who frets over Morrell's interest in Cannan. Canan, who had been... more information

London: Macmillan,, 1895.. 8vo, (7), 277pp. Orig. cloth, slight wear & soiling, barest foxing to edges, a very good copy, with the bookplate of Paul Jordan Smith.. First Edition of the first issue of the author's first book. The American 'Edition,' which appeared in December, 1895, consisted of English sheets with a cancel title. A second issue (Oxford: Blackwell, 1909) was bound in red cloth instead of blue and had new preliminaries. This volume is notably scarce. ... more information

New York: Walker,, 1968.. 4to, plates. Illustrated cloth with dust jacket. Very good. . First Edition in English, comprising a facsimile of the 1894 edition. ... more information