Search Results: Authors starting with Y from McBlain Books

Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd, 1964. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. color illustrations, 262p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj. Red card clipcase. 34cm. Jacket has two closed tears at base of backstrip. Modest scuffing and soil on slipcase.

South Pasadena: William Carey Library, 1974. Paperback. Very Good. 185p. Wrapper. 23cm. INSCRIBED by Yamamori.

n.p., 1964. Paperback. Very Good. illustrations, (20)p. Original pictorial wrapper. 31cm. Edge-wear on rice paper interleaving before first page and after last page. Some cover rubbing and wear. Booklet (or program) for a 15 scene Japanese stage entertainment titled Sakura Odori which was produced by Mr. Yamamoto and presented at the House of Japan at the New York World's Fair in 1964.

Vercelli, Italy: White Star Publishers, 2006. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. color photos, 447p. Original Decorative boards. dj. Square 25 cm. Minor damage from adhesion on last two leaves. Consists almost entirely of captioned color photos.

London: Dent, 1931. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, photos, folding map, index, xi, 288p. Original cloth. 22cm. Spine slightly sloped. Backstrip lightly sunned. Former owner's name. No jacket.

Lahore: Al-Biruni, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. plan, folding map (NW Frontier of Afghanistan) in pocket, index, viii, 430p. Original black binding. dj. 21cm. Reprint of the 1888 Edinburgh edition. The other folding map (Sketch map of Parts of Afghanistan) found in the pocket of the original edition was apparently not reproduced in this Al-Biruni edition.

Nizhni Novgorod: Center for Economic and Political Research, 1994. Paperback. Near Fine. 208p. Wrapper. 29cm.

Zao Ying lu Chaoyang District, Beijing: Agricultural Publishing House, 1987. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. color photos, 328p. Original cloth. dj. 26cm. These annual English editions began publication with the year 1985.

Zao Ying lu Chaoyang District, Beijing: Agricultural Publishing House, 1988. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. color photos, 328p. Original cloth. dj. 26cm. These annual English editions began publication with the year 1985.

Churchtown: E, C. Yeats at the Cuala Press, Churchtown, Dundrum, County Dublin, 1915. Very Good. Jack W. Yeats. Each number consists of a single sheet folded to form four pages. The final page is blank on all issues. Issues generally feature three illustrations, with the smaller 2 usually hand-colored and the largest in black and white. The larger picture is one of the two handcolored in three of the numbers present. One issue has four small hand-colored illustrations and no large one, colored or uncolored. 28 cm. Tear in right margin and another in left margin on both leaves on one issue -- Fifth Year, No. 2 (July, 1912). Chipping and soiling in top margin one issue -- Seventh Year No. 5 issue (Oct., 1915). Also some other lesser soiling, browning and wear but overall a nice group of these highly collectible Cuala Press publications. These were found by us in a worn portfolio in blue cloth, and lacking the ties, with a small (and now chipped) handcolored illustration (a pirate playing a mandolin)… Read More

Washington: Ethiopian Research Council, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. vi, 219p. Wrapper. 23cm. Edited by Wosene Yefru.

Izmir: Ege Universitesi Matbaasi, 1969. 2nd ed. in English. Paperback. Very Good. pams and plans (some folding), photos, 105p. Original black and white wrapper. 20cm. Some scuffing. SIGNED by Yenim in 1972. Izmir was an eastern center of Greek culture and was historically known as Smyrna until Turkey gained control of the area after World War I.

New York: Who's Who in Colored America, 1942. Hardcover. Good. numerous photos (four-to-a-page in black and white), index, 607p. Original green cloth. 27cm. No Jacket (as published).Covers worn. Ex lib. (Pittsburg Public Library). Library markings include ownership stamps (and a lesser number of discard stamps) on endpapers, title-page, and page edges, Endpaper and cloth had split along rear hinge area which has been rather heavily reglued to make this a sound copy. Internally sound and clean. An important biographical resource. Seven editions were published between 1927 and 1950. The Sixth edition was the only edition published during America's direct involvement in World War II.

New York: Who's Who in Colored America, 1937. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. photos, index, 608p. Original green cloth. 27cm. Spine lettering dulled. No Jacket (presumably as published). An attractive copoy of an important biographical resource. Seven editions, of which this was the fourth, were published between 1927 and 1950.

Singapore: Select Books, 1989. Paperback. Near Fine. xiii, 57p. Softcover in original wrapper. INSCRIBED on title-page by Yeo ("For John a wonderful meeting in Boston Robert May 93"). Poetry.

Singapore: Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) Ltd, 1977. 1st ed. Paperback. Very Good. 47p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19cm. Poetry. Foreword by Ee Tiang Hong.

Singapore: Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) Ltd, 1977. 1st ed. Paperback. Very Good. 47p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19 cm. Modest spotting on front cover. INSCRIBED (but not Signed) by Yeo ("To John, for being crazy enough to publish this"). Poetry. Foreword by Ee Tiang Hong.

Singapore: Yang Publishers, 1993. Paperback. Near Fine. . viii, 144p. Softcover in original wrappers. 22cm. Laid in is a SIGNED note from Yeo (signing as "Robert") in which he explains why he co-published this book.

Yokohama, 1880. Paperback. Very Good. 4p. report on a single folded sheet. 25cm. Later folds (probably for mailing). Report on the outer pages. One inner page contains a list of "Subscribers for the past years"; the other is blank.

Baltimore: Linguistic Society of America, 1950. 96p. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Language Dissertation No. 45. Published as Supplement to Language Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, Vol. 26, No. 3, Suppl. (July-September, 1950).