The duty of citizens in reference to licensing the sale of intoxicating drinks. Address delivered before the Waltham Temperance Union on February 18, 1883
by Young, E.J.
N.p., 1883. 8vo, pp. 8; text printed in double columns; self wrappers, edges a bit toned, else near fine. Speech addressing an upcoming vote to "approve and sanction the sale of intoxicating drinks" in the town of Waltham. Young concludes thus: "Let, then, every one who loves this town and desires to see all its inhabitants prosperous and happy, vote, and let him persuade his neighbors to vote, NO!" It should be noted that today the city of Waltham... Read More
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Old London churches
by Young, Elizabeth, & Wayland
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1956. First edition, 8vo, pp. 332; 32 leaves of plain photographic illustrations printed on rectos and versos; original cloth in pale blue pictorial dust jacket; jacket edges a bit shelf-worn, boards a touched bowed; preliminaries heavily foxed, else very good and sound.
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Christopher Columbus and the new world of his discovery. A narrative... With a note on the navigation of Columbus's first voyage by the Earl of Dunraven, K. P.
by YOUNG, FILSON
London: E. Grant Richards, 1906. Second edition, 8vo, 2 volumes; frontispieces (that of vol. I in color), 16 plates and maps throughout set (some folding) and a couple illustrations in the text; original red cloth with heraldic shield and banner stamped in black and gilt on front covers, lettered in gilt on spines; the spines very slightly faded, some wear to extremities, soiling and spotting to covers overall but internally clean and bright; a good, solid copy. Including an... Read More
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Peking to Lhasa. The narrative of journeys in the Chinese Empire made by the late Brigadier-General George Pereira ... compiled by Sir Francis Younghusband ... from notes and diaries supplied by Major-General Sir Cecil Pereira
by Younghusband, Francis, Sir, & Sir Cecil Pereira
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. First American edition, 8vo, pp. x, 293, [1]; gravure frontispiece portrait, 2 folding maps at the back, and 32 photographic plates; near fine copy in original blue cloth, printed paper label on spine. Ownership signature of Carol H. Thomas on front free endpaper. Pereira "tried to journey from Pekin to Lhasa, and died at Kanze near Batang on his way in October 1923." Yakushi P153.
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The epic of Mount Everest
by Younghusband, Francis, Sir
New York: Longmans, Green & Co. London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1926. First edition, American issue; 8vo, pp. 319, [1]; 16 plates and two maps; hinges cracked, spine faded, else a good, clean copy in original ochre cloth stamped in brown. Yakushi Y33a, not noting this American issue: "Story of the three expeditions to Mount Everest in 1921,1922, and 1924.
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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
by Younghusband, Francis
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First edition, American issue; 8vo, pp. xvii, [3], 409, [1]; 4 folding color maps, 18 plates; original decorative green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; small spot on the upper cover, previous owner's bookplate; generally, very good, clean, and sound. "Narrative of the author's travels in the heart of Asia. The story begins his travel in Manchuria, then continued to the Gobi desert. From Yarkand he crossed the Mustagh Pass... Read More
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Among the celestials. A narrative of travels in Manchuria across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas to India
by Younghusband, Francis
London: John Murray, 1898. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [5], 261, [1]; frontispiece and 14 plates, folding map; publisher's red cloth, gilt title on spine, top edge stained red; spine sunned, text clean and sound, near fine. Yakushi Y-28A: "Abridged from 'The Heart of a Continent.'
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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, Francis
London: John Murray, 1896. 8vo, pp. xvii, [3], 409, [1]; 4 folding color maps, 18 plates; a New Zealand prize binding with gilt supralibros on upper cover of Auckland University, prize certificate on front pastedown awarding this book as a prize to E. B. R. Prideaux for chemistry; contemporary full red calf, rebacked, old gilt-decorated spine laid down, morocco label; spine darkened; good, sound, and clean. Edmund Brydges Rudhall Prideaux (1878-1946) was born in Barbados, "educated at Auckland Grammar... Read More
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The light of experience. A review of some men and events of my time
by Younghusband, Francis
London: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1927. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 305, [3]; publisher's red cloth; spine sunned, corners bumped, endpapers foxed, some scattered foxing in text, spine cocked, good and sound. Less a memoir of Younghusband's many achievements, and more a commentary on the people and events surrounding him.
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The heart of a continent. Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of his journey from Peking to India by way of the Gobi Desert and Chinese Turkestan, and across the Himalaya by the Mustagh Pass
by Younghusband, Francis
London: John Murray, 1937. Revised edition, following an account published in 1896; 8vo, pp. xvi, 246, [2]; portrait frontispiece, three plates, and folding map; original creme cloth; hinges cracked, upper free endpaper and flyleaf lacking, halftitle soiled, text otherwise clean, good, in good soiled, split and price-clipped dust jacket.
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In the durable world
by Young, Gary
Minneapolis: Bieler Press, 1985. First collected edition limited to 175 copies signed by the author (this, no. 36), 8vo, pp. [26]; original gray printed wrappers, reproduction of a 17th-century woodcut on the title page; fine. Handset, printed and bound under the direction of Gerald Lange by Emily Mason. Smith, Bieler, 42.
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In the durable world
by YOUNG, GARY
Minneapolis, 1985. First collected edition limited to 175 copies signed by the author, 8vo, pp. [26]; original gray printed wrappers, reproduction of a 17th-century woodcut on the title page; fine. Handset, printed and bound under the direction of Gerald Lange by Emily Mason. Smith 42.
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The body's logic. Poems and a woodcut by Gary Young
by Young, Gary
[La Crosse, Wisconsin]: Sutton Hoo Press, 2000. Edition limited to "around" 126 copies signed by Young on the colophon; square 12mo, pp. [24]; original black cloth; fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
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Indian frontier warfare
by Younghusband, George J., Captain & Brevet-Major
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1898. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 254; 7 maps (4 folding, 1 in color); contemporary full red buckram; spine a little sunned, but generally very good, sound, and clean. Issued as volume 3 in the publisher's Wolseley Series of military books.
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The relief of Chitral
by Younghusband, G. J., Capt., & Capt. Francis Younghusband
London: Macmillan and Co, 1895. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6],183, [1]; wood-engraved frontispiece, 3 maps (2 folding, 1 in color), 20 plates mostly from photographs; recent maroon cloth-backed red cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine; fine copy in a new binding. Yakushi Y37: "Account of the Chitral Expedition of 1895 by the Times' special correspondents.
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The story of the guides
by Younghusband, G. J., Col
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1908. Third printing, 8vo, pp. xvi, 207, [1]; portrait frontispiece and 15 plates from photographs; original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; front free endpaper excised, else a very good, sound, and clean copy. Yakushi Y39.
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Hard knocks. A life story of the vanishing west
by Young, Harry (Sam)
Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1915. First edition, second printing, preceded by the Portland edition of the same year, 8vo, pp. 242, [1] ads; frontispiece portrait, plates; original cloth, very good in the rare jacket with tape repair at spine and edges and slight rubbing. Eberstadt 105:319: "An extremely interesting narrative. The author's experiences on the border began in the 60's, and were continuously the subject of probable, sudden, and complete termination. It is a vivid chronicle of the early... Read More
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Conversations between the rabbi of the boarding house and a company of intelligent ladies and gentlemen. Being a series of conversational discussions, pro and con of the labor problem, monopolies and trusts, mission of machinery, tariff, fads in schools, official incompetency, posthumous benefices, newspapers, patent laws, the coming millennium, Sabbath observance, the silver question, single tax, paternalism, etc., etc.
by Young, H. H.
St. Paul: D. Ramaley & Son, 1893. First edition, 8vo, pp. 371, [1], [4] ads; original red cloth stamped in gilt on the spine; front hinge cracked, else very good. The rabbi converses with a banker, wagon maker, doctor, grocer, book-keeper, local editor, law student, school teacher, pianist, a landlady and the landlady's sister. The book is dedicated to Dr. W. W. Mayo. Singerman 4622.
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Victorian geographical and biographical charades. Intended as a pastime for winter evenings, combining amusement with instruction
by Young, I. S. Hunter
Melbourne: Stillwell and Knight, 1870. First and apparently only edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 100; original blue cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine, all edges red; very light foxing, a very good copy. OCLC locates only the UCLA copy in the U.S., plus 4 others in Australia and New Zealand.
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Papers of the Russo-Greek Committee. Proposal, plus Papers nos. 1-4, and 6-9
by [Young, J. Freeman.]
[New York: J.W. Amerman, 1862. 8vo, pp. 4; 32; 16; 32; 16; 34; 27; 36; 24; contemporary half brown morocco, marbled boards; scuffed and rubbed, but sound. A series of papers designed to explain various rituals, doctrines, positions, attitudes and controversies involving the Russo-Greek Church with the Catholic Church and others, in America, Britain, and elsewhere. The preliminary 4 pages are "Proposals ... to Issue a series of monthly papers..." Papers of the Russo-Greek Committee include, No. 1: Documentary... Read More
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An address to Congress on the protection of American Labor
by [Young, J. S.]
Portsmouth, N. H., 1845. 8vo, disbound, pp. 24; mild fold through the middle of the block, lower cover lacking, very good in a new clamshell box. With an unattributed signature of the author on title page.
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Bookbinding & conservation by hand: a working guide. Illustrations by Sidonie Coryn. Photographs by John Hurt Whitehead III
by Young, Laura S.
New York: R. R. Bowker Co, 1981. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 273, [1]; illustrated throughout; original pictorial orange cloth; fine.
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Waiting to be fed
by Young Bear, Ray A.
Port Townsend, Washington: Graywolf Press, 1975. Edition limited to 225 copies, 8vo, pp.[16]; sewn in brown paper wrappers; fine.
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Hmong forum
by Young, Stephen B., editor
[Minneapolis: Haiv Hmoob, Inc, 1990. 2 volumes, small 8vo, pp. 57, [1]; [2], 76; original tan wrappers printed in red and black; fine. Apparently, only these two numbers were issued. Designed and printed by Allan Kornblum at the Coffee House Press. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded the Toothpaste Press and Coffee House Press. "Hmong forum is a publication of Haiv Hmoob, Inc., a non-profit corporation, organized for the purposes of... Read More
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Hmong forum
by Young, Stephen B., editor
[Minneapolis: Haiv Hmoob, Inc, 1990. 2 volumes, small 8vo, pp. 57, [1]; [2], 76; original tan wrappers printed in red and black; fine. Only these two numbers were designed and printed by Allan Kornblum at the Coffee House Press. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded the Toothpaste Press and Coffee House Press. "Hmong forum is a publication of Haiv Hmoob, Inc., a non-profit corporation, organized for the purposes of preserving, promoting,... Read More
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