Snakes: A Novel
by YOUNG, Al
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1971. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, preceded by the American edition published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston the previous year. Octavo (20cm); navy blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 149pp, [1]. Spine ends gently nudged, with a hint of foxing to upper edge of text; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, with light wear to spine ends and faint foxing to rear flap fold; Near Fine. Young's first novel, which recounts... Read More
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Lenin, Liebknecht, Luxemburg
by [YOUNG COMMUNISTS LEAGUE] "STEELE, Al" (pseud)
New York: Youth Publishers, 1934. Slim octavo (15.25cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp. Subtle toning along spine-fold, else Fine. Educational pamphlet for the Young Communist League, giving brief biographies of revolutionary leaders V.I. Lenin, Karl Liebkneckt, and Rosa Luxemburg. Apparently adapted (without credit) from the work of the same title written by Max Schachtman, while still head of the youth arm of the Workers Party of America.
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An Easy Burden: the Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America
by YOUNG, Andrew
New York: Harper Collins, 1996. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on half title: "For Elizabeth Palmer / Peace & Blessings," signed, undated but contemporary with publication. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards (hardcover) in dustjacket; x,550pp; 16 leaves of unnumbered photographic plates (halftones). Fine and unmarked in an crisp, unworn dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $27.50 on front flap), Fine.
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On My Way: Being the Book of Art Young in Text and Picture
by YOUNG, Art
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.5cm); tan pictorial cloth boards, stamped in red and black on spine and front cover; brick red topstain; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; viii,303pp, with 20 inserted leaves of plates (halftones) and 17 text illustrations. Thin, partial split along right edge of front pastedown, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.00), showing light rubbing to extremities, a few tiny nicks to crown, with shallow loss along upper edge of... Read More
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On My Way: Being the Book of Art Young in Text and Picture [Limited Edition]
by YOUNG, Art
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First Edition. First printing. Limited large-paper issue. No. 562 of 1,000 numbered presentation copies "for authors and friends of Horace Liveright." Octavo (25cm); black paper-covered boards with vellum spine and corners, titles stamped in black on spine and decorative elements in gilt to front panel; fore edge untrimmed; ix,303,[1]pp; illus. Mild toning to spine; faint foxing to endpapers; Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Well-preserved copy of the Socialist cartoonist's colorful autobiography, in a somewhat... Read More
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Broadside: Mrs. Carrie F. Young of Berkeley, Cal. will speak at 7:30 P.M. to the citizens on the subject: People's Party from a woman's standpoint and at 2 P.M. to the ladies, dates to be announced on the subject of money-famine, and why
by YOUNG, Carrie F.
San Francisco: Cubery & Co, n.d., ca. 1894. First Edition. Original broadside flyer (30x45cm.) printed in black on off-white stock; faint vertical fold, stock rather brittle and uniformly toned due to poor paper quality, several shallow losses along extremities, none approaching text. Near Very Good overall. Flyer for the People's Party, a populist agrarian political party founded in 1891 which merged with the Democratic Party in 1896. Mrs. Carrie F. Young appears to have begun her political career in... Read More
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Womanpower: A Study Group [cover title]
by YOUNG FABIAN GROUP [Frances Stewart, contributor]
[London: Fabian Society, 1966]. Reprint. March 1970 reprint. Octavo (21.5cm.); original magenta pictorial staplebound wrappers; 27pp.; tables throughout, text in double columns. Fabian membership form laid in. Fine. Young Fabian Pamphlet no. 11. Among the members of the study group was the developmenta economist Frances Stewart (described inside rear wrapper verso as "a part time economist.
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FORAGING
by Young, David
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1986. First edition. Green cloth in dust jacket; narrow 8vo. The poet's fifth collection. Published simultaneously in trade paper, the hardcover is uncommon. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
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BLACK LAB
by Young, David
New York: Knopf, 2006. First printing. Black paper-covered boarfs in dust jacket; small 8vo. A Review copy with the slip laid in of the poet's ninth collection. This copy with the ownership signature of poet John Hollander on the front free end paper. Fine in Fine DJ.
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EMBRYOYO
by Young, Dean
San Francisco: Believer Books, 2007. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers, a paperback original. 105 pp. Light creasing and moderately soiled back cover, but unread and close to very good.
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EMBRYOYO
by Young, Dean
San Francisco: Believer Books, 2007. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers, a paperback original. 105 pp. Light creasing and soiling, but unread and easily very good.
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Labor in Europe and America; A Special Report on the Rates of Wages, the Cost of Subsistence, and the Condition of the Working Classes in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, and Other Countries of Europe, and Also in the United States and British America
by YOUNG, Edward
Philadelphia: S.A. George & Company, 1875. Large, thick octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [2],864,[20](ads)pp.; illus. Light shelf wear and soil, contemporary presentation inscription to front free endpaper of the Pennsylvania chemical manufacturer Powers & Weightman to a William C. Henszey; Very Good or better.
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The Poetical Works of Edward Young (2 vols)
by YOUNG, Edward
London: William Pickering, 1852. Two 12mo volumes (17.5cm). Full polished calf, with spines and turn-ins decoratively tooled in gilt; gilt rules to board edges; page edges gilt; marbled endpapers; 334,298pp; engraved frontispiece to each volume. Leather a trifle rubbed without loss, with a few shallow scratches to boards, still a tidy, well-preserved set, Very Good or better. In the publisher's "Aldine Poets" series. The bindings are unsigned.
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The Curate's Wife
by YOUNG, E.H.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1934]. First American Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); original cloth in blue and brown decorative dust jacket, terracotta topstain; [6],333pp. Jacket extremities rather chipped and worn with some crude tape repair along extremities and spine; Fine in Good or better jacket. Interwar domestic drama by the British suffragist author.
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The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, Through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894. Third Edition
by YOUNGHUSBAND, Frank E. [Capt]
London: John Murray, 1896. Third edition. Octavo; publisher's green cloth, decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; xx,[1]-409pp; frontispiece portrait and 17 inserted leaves of plates (halftones); three folding maps inserted in the text, a fourth ("Map of the North Western Frontier of India Showing the Pamir Region and Part of Afghanistan") in rear pocket. Old (and apparently unnecessary) celo-tape reinforcements to hinges; small tape repair to rear map-pocket, but still an attractive, well-preserved copy, straight and... Read More
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The Key of Life
by YOUNG, Francis Brett
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial Art Deco dust jacket by Ronald McRae, yellow topstain; [6],279pp. Jacket extremities rather rubbed and worn with a few closed tears and subsequent creasing, pink portion of spine faded, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. English author's uncharacteristically adventurous romance novel set in Egypt along the Nile.
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A Soldier's Memories in Peace and War
by YOUNGHUSBAND, George
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1917. Second Edition. Light red cloth stamped in black; [i]-xv [16]-355,[1]pp; black and white plates. Rubbed, spine-sunned, foxed on edges of textblock, ink and pencil marks to front pastedown: around Very Good. Younghusband was a cavalry officer in the British Indian Army. [62076].
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The Ptarmigan Papers: Selected Poems & Stories from students in seven Alaskan towns; Nome, Buckland, Sitka, Wrangell, Cooper Landing, Moose Pass, Bethel
by YOUNG, Geoffrey (introduction)
Anchorage, Alaska: Beluga Press / Arts Alaska, Inc, 1977. First Edition. One of 400 copies, softcover. Octavo (24cm); white paper wrappers; [n.p.]; illus. Lightly tanned with trace shelf-soil; Very Good. Young traveled through seven Alaskan towns, teaching creative writing courses to public school children, and this collection presents some of their works alongside black-and-white illustrations. [87367].
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A Field of Horses: The World of Marshall P. Hawkins
by YOUNG, James L., M.F.H.; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, foreword
Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1988. First Edition. Oblong Quarto. Cloth boards in price-clipped dust jacket; 192pp. Author signature on limitation page. Mild signs of damping (very slight rippling to lower edges of pages), trivial foxing to margins of page, text unaffected. Textblock tightly bound but very mildly pulled at board spine. A tight, clean, unmarked copy. Jacket showing some minor creasing and external wear, including 1" closed tear to bottom edge of rear cover and 0.25" closed tear at... Read More
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Endless Tracks in the Woods
by YOUNG, James A. and Jerry D. Budy
Osceola, WI: Crestline Series / Motorbooks International Publishers & Wholesalers, 1993. Second Edition (first published by Crestline Publishing Co., 1989). Quarto (28.5cm); gray leatherette-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in metallic green on spine and front cover; 308pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout. Light shelf-wear and -soil, with trace foxing to upper edge of textblock, pastedowns, and endpapers; Very Good. Includes sections on Holt Tractor company, Caterpillar Tractor Company, diesel engines for tracklaying tractors, and motor trucks for... Read More
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Woodstock Craftsman's Manual
by YOUNG, Jean (provoked by); Duncan Syme, Shelagh Young, Phil Havey (et al) (contributors)
New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc, 1972. No statement of edition or printing. Quarto (28cm); yellow cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-253,[3]pp; black and white photographs (halftones) and illustrations throughout. Light dustsoil and sunning to boards, else just mild wear; Near Fine. Dustjacket unclipped (priced $10.00) with mild shelfwear, rubbing, and creases; Very Good+. The contributors, including Sandy Sprinkling, Betsy Sife, and David Shaw, focus on art types celebrated during the Woodstock Festival;... Read More
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A Good Man
by YOUNG, Jefferson
Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1953. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and white on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; [8],9-239,[1]pp. Previous owner's name inked to front pastedown. Light foxing to upper edge of texblock, and sunning to spine and upper edges of covers; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped (priced $3.00) with modest shelfwear and tanning, tiny tears and chips along spine ends and extremities,... Read More
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Erskine H. Childers; President of Ireland
by YOUNG, John N.; Jack Lynch (foreword)
Gerrards Cross, Bucks, UK: Colin Smythe, 1985. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth, stamped in gilt, in white pictorial dustwrapper; xiii, 224pp, 9 plates. Dustwrapper slightly toned, with minor soiling and bumps; additional creasing along joints. Interiors clean, unmarked. Very Good+. A biography of Erskine Hamilton Childers, the fourth president of Ireland. He was, of course, the son of Erskine Childers, the author and yachtsman who was controversially executed in 1922 for his role in the Irish Civil... Read More
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HARVARD RADCLIFFE 356 YEARBOOK
by Young, Kevin
Cambridge: Harvard, 1992. First Edition. Black cloth with gold titling and the school emblems in color; large 4to. 479 pp. Kevin Young's senior year yearbook from Harvard. He has signed his name in the index where he is listed as an Adams House resident. An interesting yearbook, but there seems to be little of Mr. Young in the volume. He has gone on to be one of the most distinguished graduates of the class as a writer, editor and... Read More
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BLONDIE'S Soups • Salads • Sandwiches COOK BOOK
by YOUNG, [Murat] Chic
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1947. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); pictorial front and rear cover featuring comic Dagwood and Blondie; matching dustjacket; 141pp. Light rubbing to corners and spine ends; Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped with several nicks and short tears to the extremities; Very Good+. "Murat Chic Young, the creator of Blondie and Dagwood, is a man who enjoys his food, and he made the Dagwood sandwich a by-word...he has now collected favorite soup, salad... Read More
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