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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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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Marketing Marianne: French Propaganda in America, 1900-1940
by YOUNG, Robert J.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004. First Edition. Octavo. Paper-covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 4247pp. Tight, unmarked, Near Fine copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper; near-new.
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Not for Children
by YOUNG, Roland
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. Small folio (31cm). Pictorial yellow paper over boards, backed in black cloth; black endleaves; unpaginated; color and black and white illustrations. Rubbed with mild wear at edges and corners, a few small spots to boards, binding cracking in center of book, but complete: Good. Nonsense verse and pictures by the noted actor Roland Young (1887-1953), nominated for an Oscar for his work in Topper (1937) and honored with two starts... Read More
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Young Worker. Issue for April, 1971
by [YOUNG WORKERS LIBERATION LEAGUE] RISTORUCCI, Roque, ed
New York: Young Workers Liberation League, 1971. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 23pp; illus. Text slightly toned, else Near Fine. Official organ of the YWLL, youth arm of the CPUSA beginning in 1970 (preceded by the WEB Du Bois Clubs); the magazine was aimed at advanced high school and college audiences. This issue with articles on the Peace Movement, African Americans and the Draft, Apartheid in South Africa, Fascism in Greece, etc.
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Black Blues and Shiny Songs: Poems
by YOUNG, Tommy Scott
Charlotte, NC: Red Clay Books, 1977. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers; 72pp. A Fine, unread copy. The Blair, SC native's first book, a collection of poems paying homage to the rich oral tradition of African-American storytelling. Young, a poet, playwright, educator, and sculptor, was founder and director of the Kitani Foundation, which from 1977-1983 was responsible for enabling school children in South Carolina to experience nationally acclaimed performing artists.
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Souvenirs Pieux
by YOURCENAR, Marguerite
Paris, France: Gallimard, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo (20.5cm); dustjacket; 302pp. Text in French. Pictorial card laid-in, with gift inscription written in French and dated 1976. Lightly tanned with light shelf-wear, and creases to right margin of text; Very Good. Dustwrapper, lightly tanned, with light shelf-wear, sticker residue to lower rear panel, and tiny tears to lower spine panel; Very Good. Memoir by first woman elected to Academie Francaise (1980). Winner of French literary award, Grand Prix... Read More
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Labor's Wage Policies in the Twentieth Century
by YOUTSLER, James S.
[New York]: Twayne Publishers / Skidmore College, [1956]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in green and orange decorative dust jacket; 344pp.; illus. Light wear to jacket extremities, else Near Fine. "A survey of American labor's wage demands from the 'living wage' of 1900 to the guaranteed annual wage of today" - upper jacket cover.
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Yasuda Yukihiko
by YUKIHIKO, Yasuda, ed.; Kawakita Michiaki, text
Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition. Large Quarto (34cm x 26.5cm). Beige cloth boards (hardcover) with Japanese titling embossed in gold on spine; 70pp + 97 plates; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and tight. A retrospective volume of the work of Japanese painter Yasuda Yukihiko: a major figure in painting of the Taishō and early Shōwa periods and one of the founders of the nihonga painting technique. 97 color plates,... Read More
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The Coolie Speaks; Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba
by YUN, Lisa
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. First Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's light brown linen spine over pale paper covered boards, titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xxiii]; 311pp. Some very light wear to the extremities of the dustjacket, and a small price sticker to the lower rear panel, internally clean, otherwise a very good copy indeed. A intensively researched and academic history of the lives of Chinese laborers in 19th century Cuba, their experiences and struggles with African... Read More
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Moment in Peking: A Novel of Contemporary Chinese Life
by YUTANG, Lin (novel; preface)
New York: The John Day Company, 1939. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); orange cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in black and gilt on spine; maroon topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 815pp; illus. Modest shelf-wear and soil, with light indentation to upper front board, and light rubbing to board edges; Good. Dustwrapper has modest shelf-wear, 1" chip to base of spine, tiny chips and creases to extremities, and foxing to verso of spine panel; Good. Yutang's novel explores... Read More
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Trotskyism; the inside job. An analysis of the Young Socialist Alliance
by ZAGARELL, Mike
New York: Yong Workers Liberation League, N.d. [1970]. First Edition. 4to; staple-bound wrappers; 15pp. On newsprint. Slight toning to text, else Near Fine. Anti-Trotskyist, anti-YSA tract by a YWLL organizer. "Trotskyism, which has for some years now wormed its way into the peace movement, has become a major obstacle on the path ahead...
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Coastlines 19 (Vol.5, No.3) - Anti-War Issue
by ZAHN, Curtis (editor); BLY, Robert, Kenneth Patchen, Carl Larsen, et al. (contributors)
Santa Monica: Coastlines, 1962. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); illustrated wrappers; 96pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, faint foxing to text edges; Very Good+. Laid into this copy is a 1-page mimeographed leaflet from guest editor Curtis Zahn, promoting the long-awaited Anti-War Issue, and soliciting support; a few folds and creases, mild toning, with rubber-stamp "From the Desk of Walter Lowenfels" at upper margin. With contributions by Robert Bly, Kenneth Patchen, Walter Lowenfels, Carl Larsen, Estelle Gershgoren, and many others.... Read More
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![[Text in Russian] Voina i Mir: Glazami Khudozhnika, 1941-1945. Zhivopis', Grafika, Skul'ptura, Diorama](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/050/537/1257537050.0.l.jpg)
[Text in Russian] Voina i Mir: Glazami Khudozhnika, 1941-1945. Zhivopis', Grafika, Skul'ptura, Diorama
by ZAITSEV, Evgenii
Moskva: TOO "Passim, 1995. First Edition. Slim folio (34cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 183pp.; color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, spine rather toned, old price sticker to rear panel, else Very Good or better. Exhibition catalog of Soviet artistic works produced during World War II. Text almost entirely in Russian, with an English-language summary on pp. 5-8.
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Youth in the Soviet Union
by ZAITSEV, Vladimir
New York: International Publishers, 1934. First American Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial paper wrappers; 61pp; photo illus. A clean, Very Good or better copy, tightly bound, unmarked. Includes chapters on trades, education, military service, juvenile offenders, etc; all clearly intended to contrast the opportunities available to Soviet youth against the dead-end future awaiting young Americans during the Great Depression. With a terrific modernist photomontage wrapper design, uncredited.
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Untitled". Lithograph, ca. 1960
by ZAJAC, Jack
N.p.. No. 113 of an edition of 150, signed and numbered lower left; signed in plate lower right. Printed in black on tan chain-laid paper. Sheet size 13-1/2" x 10"; printed area 12" x 8-1/4". Fine, unmatted and unframed.
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![Foreman Training in a Growing Enterprise [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/005/953/1269953005.0.l.jpg)
Foreman Training in a Growing Enterprise [Inscribed and Signed]
by ZALEZNIK, A[braham]
Boston: Division of Research / Graduate School of Business Administration / Harvard University, 1951. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in grey decorative dust jacket lettered in red; xv,[1],232pp. Chipping and toning along jacket extremities, corners bumped, else Very Good, internally sound. Bifolium abstract laid in. Inscribed and signed "Abe" to the author's mother and father.
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Films and Film-makers: in Czechoslovakia
by ZALMAN, Jan [Antonín Novák] (text); George Theiner (translation); Alena Sestakova (editor)
[Prague]: Orbis-Prague, 1968. Softcover. Small octavo (16cm); white paper wrappers; pictorial dustjacket; [4],5-99,[1]pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations. A Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper has light shelf-wear; Very Good+. Czech film critic and previous editor for Film a doba, Zalman, explores films and artists in Czechoslovakia. [86372].
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![The New Soviet Fiction: Sixteen Short Stories [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/626/069/1011069626.0.l.jpg)
The New Soviet Fiction: Sixteen Short Stories [Review Copy]
by ZALYGIN, Sergei, ed
New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, [1989]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; 396pp. Jacket spine a bit toned with small chip at foot, else Very Good to Near Fine. Review copy with promotional packet laid in.
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