Search Results: Titles starting with Y from The Kelmscott Bookshop

China National Academy of fine Art Press, 2001. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Hardcover. 4to. White cloth boards with gilt title to front board and spine. Minor rubbing to boards. Interior is clean and bright and filled with color illustrations. Text is mostly in what we believe to be Chinese characters as well as an introduction, a preface, and chapter heads in English. Blue illustrated dust jacket with silver title to front panel and to spine. Minor rubbing to panels and scuffing to spine of jacket. 103 pages + appendix. Asian Art. ASART/052908.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good + in Very Good Minus DJ. Hardcover. 4to. Very good+ in very good- white illustrated dust jacket with red title to front and spine panels. One small closed tear to the top edge of the front panel of dust jacket. Else is very good. BOB/030512.

Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Hotel, 1941. Paperback. Very Good in Wraps. Paperback. 12mo. Red and off-white paper wrappers with red title to front wrapper. Minor rubbing and soiling to exterior. Very light writing in pencil to front wrapper. Interior is clean and bright. 96 pages. BALT/121212.

New York: The Grolier Club, 2000. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover. Number 207 of 250 copies signed and numbered by the author. This is the catalog for an exhibition held at The Grolier Club of books from the collection of William Butler Yeats scholar, Marion W. Witt, that Gatch expanded and built to include printed works by Yeats's father, brother and sisters. The catalog provides descriptions of all oIf the works exhibited, and has eleven color plates. Bound in gray cloth with tan cloth spine with a white title label. Printed in Founder's Caslon Type on Mohawk Ticonderoga paper at The Stinehour Press. In near fine condition. Measures 6 x 8.5 inches. v-vii, 82 pages + unnumbered plates. BOB/122723.

Los Angeles: Knapp Press, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Nf/Nf Dj/folio/illus. throughout/208 pp. China. Oversized. CHI1/2132.

New York: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Very good in blue cloth covered boards with orange title to front board and gilt title to spine. Illustration to front board. Minor browning to edges of boards and to spine. Minor bumping to spind ends and corners. Minor browning to pages though text remains clean and bright. 235 pp. Children's Literature. CHI111271.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1965. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. The main source of these letters is the Bowerswell Papers, acquired by the Pierpont Morgan Library from Effie Milliais' grandson, Sir Ralph Millais. Effie married John Ruskin in 1848 when she was nineteen, and she secretly left him and had the marriage annulled 6 years later, before marrying John Everett Millais. These letters describe the Ruskin's time in Venice, as well as hint at the difficulties in the marriage. Octavo, maroon paper boards, with some smudging; previous owner's name stamped to bottom of page ends. Gilt titling on spine. No dust jacket. 354 pages, including index. PRERAPH/050422.

New York: Robert M'Dermut, 1806. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Theater owner and playwright, Augustin Daly's copy, with his bookplate to front pastedown. Early edition. Bookplate of Franklin Johnston to facing page. "Master Betty" (1791 - 1874) was a famous English child actor, before leaving the stage at age 17 to attend college. Bound in three quarter tan leather over marbled paper covered boards with red label "Stage Biography" and green title / author label beneath. This is part of a series of books Daly had bound in a matching style, all labeled "Stage Biography." Rubbing, pulling, and wear to leather. Heavy chipping to head of spine. Dampstaining to boards and interior. Tears to a few pages. Top edge gilt with marbled endpapers. Bound by R.W. Smith. Includes three illustrations. Auction record number 230 written in pencil to front endpaper with note "Augustin Daly Collection;" however, record is not present. 140 pages. DRA/031419.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo. FIRST EDITION. Autonym Library Series. Beige cloth boards with blue title to spine and front board. Minor foxing to first and last few pages and writing in pencil to first free endpage, else interior is clean. 188 pages plus ads. LIT/032106.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed "Gladys Hanon with the author's best wishes February 19: 1916. Evelyn Sharp." Story of a young girl trying to fit in at a boarding school and having a difficult time. Bound in red cloth boards with gilt title to spine and black title to front cover. Black and gilt illustrations to cover and spine. Slight fading to spine and bump to foot of spine. A newsclipping of the author's obituary is paper clipped to the title page and is dated in pen 6/21/1955. Offsetting from newsclipping to facing pages and minor foxing to endpapers. 326 pages plus 10 pages of advertisements. CHILD/051314.

New York: McBride, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good + in Very Good + DJ. Hardcover. Robert Nathan (1894-1985) was an American novelist and poet who published prose and poetry for 56 years, with his last novel appearing in 1975 and his last published poetry in 1973. His novels The Bishop's Wife, One More Spring, and Portrait of Jennie were converted into films. In the early 1940s, he became a screenwriter for MGM. Youth Grows Old was Nathan's 3rd publication, and his first of poetry. Read in sequence, the poems within give the spiritual and emotional autobiography of a young man. First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Small light spots of discoloration to the rear board and minor bumping to spine ends. Interior is clean and bright. Maroon dust jacket with black title to front and spine panel. Light wear to dust jacket includes fading to spine and one small spots of discoloration to front panel. 54 pages. Poetry. POE4/02061.

Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on the front free endpage: "To my dear friends Genev[???] and Forest / The Author. Johnson Brigham June 19.1934." Includes a selection of quotations about aging from over 200 noteable people (mostly authors) including: Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett (Browning), Hilaire Belloc, William Blake, Chaucer, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Jefferson, Sir William Rothenstein, Rembrandt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Walt Whitman. Red cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Light spotting and scuffing to spine and boards. Offsetting to endpages, else clean interior. Literary Anthology. LIT/110512.

New York: Printed for Adrian Van Sinderen by William E. Rudge's Son, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Limited to 525 Copies. A Christmas book with color photographic illustrations from a years worth of vacations, mostly state parks. Red cloth boards with small white stars to spine and blue title in shape of a tree to front board. Fading to spine. Minor browning to margins and offsetting to endpapers, else clean. 68 pages plus plates. PRI/031023.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Nf/Nf Dj/8vo./illus/463 pages. Music. MUS1/2152.