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Tokyo: Maruzen Company, 1930. [Economics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 271; [5]. With 18 folding facsimile documents to serve as examples. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Spotting throughout. Occasional black ink annotations in Japanese. Light wear and some bubbling to cloth. Very good. Extracts from British and American banking text books designed to provide examples of business English and associated banking practices for Japanese students.
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Banking, Trust and Insurance Services and Modern Commercial English. Edited as a Text-Book of Standard English for Varsity Men
by YAMASAKI, Munenao (1880-1954), editor
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Three Geishas
by YAMATA, Kikou (1897-1975), [CRAUFURD, Emma, translator]
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London: Cassell, 1956. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Octavo, pp. 187. With a colour frontispiece of 'The Geisha' by Moronobu, reproduced on the jacket. In publisher's cream cloth with red titles to spine. With original tan dust jacket. Slight reading lean; very minor chipping to head and tail of jacket spine. Very good overall. First published in French in 1953.
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Period Stuff
by YATES, Dornford [Pseudonym for Cecil William Mercer] (1885-1960)
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London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock, and co., 1942. [Short stories] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.319; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, black titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 8/6 to front flap. Top edge green. Interior bright and clean, the odd mark here and there. Some bumping to top right edge of binding. Toning to jacket spine, marking to lower. With a few tears to jacket extremities. Very good. A collection of Yates short tales, some of which first appeared in Windsor and The Strand.
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Fire Below
by YATES, Dornford [pseudonym of MERCER, Cecil William] (1885-1960)
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1930. [Adventure] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's blue cloth, black titles to upper and spine. Interior toned and moderately spotted, mostly to margins, preliminaries, and rear leaves. Small ownership inscription in black ink to first page of Chapter 1. Spot of soiling to both endpapers. Edges toned and spotted. Toning to cloth, mostly spine. Minor wear and bumping to extremities. Very good. Cecil William Mercer, initially trained as a barrister, was famous for two book series: the semi autobiographical 'Berry' books and the hair-raising 'Chandos' thrillers. Fire Below is fourth in the Chandos series.
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Wife Apparent
by YATES, Dornford [Pseudonym for Cecil William Mercer] (1885-1960)
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London: Ward, Lock and Co, 1956. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. 315; [3]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, top edge of textblock tinted yellow, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 15s to front flap. Toning to edges of textblock, light spotting to flyleaf, damp staining to publisher's cloth, tearing to edges of dust-jacket, spotting evident on inside of dust-jacket. Cecil William Mercer was an English writer and novelist whose work was often becoming best sellers during the Interwar Period.
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The Collected Plays of Jack B. Yeats
by YEATS, Jack B. [John Butler] (1871-1957), [SKELTON, Robin, editor]
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London: Secker & Warburg, 1971. [Collected Plays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[vi]; 382. Publisher's blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine, top edge of textblock tinted blue, dust-jacket designed by Clodagh Paddock with printed price £5.25 to flap. Slight wear to edges of hardcover, jacket a little frawrappeyed around edges. Fine. Jack B. Yeats was a painter, playwright and silver Olympic medalist. Contains Yeats' plays from 1901-1964.
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Reveries Over Childhood and Youth
by YEATS, W.B. [William Butler] (1865-1939)
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London: Macmillan and Co., 1916. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[x] 213; [iii]. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine and front board with gilt illustration. Colour frontispiece, in-text illustration of 'Mrs Yeats' between pp.54-55. Lovely copy, internally bright and clean, minor toning to head edge of textblock and endpapers, slight fading to spine otherwise binding in good condition. Fine. Yeats was a poet whose autobiography depicts his childhood, of being an Irishman growing up in England and the racially motivated bullying and hostility he faced, in a poetic style. Yeats was the first Irishman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, and served as an Irish Senator for two years.
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Per Amica Silentia Lunae [Through the Friendly Silences of Moon]
by YEATS, W.B. [William Butler] (1965-1939)
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London: Macmillan and Co., 1918. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.vi; 95. Publisher's gilt-embossed blue cloth designed by T Sturge Moore, edges untrimmed, in original printed dust-wrapper, priced at 4/6 net. Book is fine, jacket browned to extremities, chipped to crown and foot. Very good. A poetic exposition of Yeat's visionary worldview. One of only 1500 copies published.
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Wheels and Butterflies. New Plays
by YEATS, W.B. [William Butler] (1965-1939)
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London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[x]; 181; [1], imprint; [2], blank. Publisher's gilt-embossed green cloth, edges untrimmed, in original printed dust-wrapper, priced at 6/- net. Book is fine, jacket lightly worn to crown and foot. Generally a crisp, fine copy. A collection of five plays, all of which were performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin prior to publication.
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On Baile's Strand
by YEATS, W.B. [William Butler] (1865-1939)
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London: A.H. Bullen, 1907. [Drama] ACTING EDITION. Small octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.35 [1]. Publisher's grey paper covers, titled to front covers. Sewing split; essentially disbound. Some spotting to edges and preliminaries. Covers split to spine, and re-attached with archival tape. Good.
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Wheels and Butterflies. New Plays
by YEATS, W.B. [William Butler] (1965-1939)
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London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[x]; 181; [1], imprint; [2], blank. Publisher's gilt-embossed green cloth, edges untrimmed, in original printed dust-wrapper, priced at 6/- net. Page edges toned otherwise a fine copy of the book, in a very good wrapper, toned to spine with a shallow chip to crown. A collection of five plays, all of which were performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin prior to publication.
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The Tower
by YEATS, W.B. [William Butler] (1865-1939)
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London: Macmillan and Co., 1928. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2]; vi; 110; [2]. Advertisements to rear. Publisher's green cloth to boards, gilt pictorial designs and titles to upper and spine. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Leaves and edges lightly toned with some offsetting to endpapers. Near fine. The eponymous 'tower' of Yeats' collection is the Anglo-Norman Thoor Ballylee, which he bought and restored around 1917. The gilt cover design is also a rendering of Ballylee, executed by artist Thomas Sturge Moore.
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Autobiographies. Combines the previous works Reveries Over Childhood and Youth [1914] and The Trembling of the Veil [1922]
by YEATS, W.B. [William Butler] (1865-1939)
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London: Macmillan and Co., 1926. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[x] 477; [1], blank; [2], advertisements. Five illustrations including a colour plate by Jack B Yeats. Publisher's mid-green cloth lettered in gilt to spine and front board decorated in blind, illustrated endpapers, edges untrimmed, pictorial dust-wrapper. Tiny nicks to cloth joints, inside paper joints started, dust-wrapper a shade toned to spine else fine. An attractive copy. Yeats was a poet whose autobiography depicts his childhood, of being an Irishman growing up in England and the racially motivated bullying and hostility he faced, in a poetic style. Yeats was the first Irishman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, and served as an Irish Senator for two years.
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Deirdre
by YEATS, W.B. [William Butler] (1865-1939)
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Stratford-Upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1911. [Irish Drama] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.32. Publisher's dark grey sewn paper covers, priced at 1s. Quite roughly opened, with some marks and chips to edges. Blue pencil ownership to front cover, with moderate wear and creases to covers. Spine quite heavily toned and worn. Very good. A play first published in 1907.
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Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley
by YEATS, W.B. [William Butler] (1865-1939)
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London: Oxford University Press, 1940. [Literary Letters] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 216. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge blue. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Blue ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise internally clean. Jacket a little toned to spine, with some light wear and chipping to edges. Very good.
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The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats
by YEATS, W.B. (1865-1939)
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London: Macmillan and Co., 1934. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp. vi; 617; [1]. In publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original plain light brown dust-jacket, with titles to spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Front free endpaper cancelled. Light spotting to prelims. Jacket toned to spine with chips from head, tail and corners. Very good overall. Intended as a companion to the Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (1933).
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Plays in Prose and Verse. Written for an Irish Theatre, and Generally with the Help of a Friend
by YEATS, W.B. [William Butler] (1865-1939)
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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1922. [Plays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[12]; 447; [5]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, with blind embossed detailing to spine and front board. Pictorial print to front and rear pastedown. Untrimmed edges. Internally clean, browning to textblock top edge, spine sunned, slight bumping to lower spine and lower front corner, fading to board edges. Near fine. One of 1500 copies published. Wade, W.B. Yeats Bibliography, 136.
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Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats
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London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1952. [Plays] EXPANDED SELECTION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8] 705; [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and device to spine, frontispiece of a drawing of Yeats by J.S. Sargent, R.A., dust-jacket with printed price 18s to front flap. Textblock top edge tinted red. A crisp clean copy. Minor bump to upper left front board, dust-jacket spine slightly toned and lightly worn along top edge. Fine. This edition has five more plays than the original issue.
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Seventeen
by YOKOYAMA, Hideo (born 1957), [KAWAI, Louise Heal, translator]
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London: Riverrun, 2018. [Mystery Thriller] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.viii; 404 [4]. SIGNED by both the author and the translator, with a red stamp, to title page. Publisher's photographic paper-covered boards, priced at £16.99, with a management diagram of the newspaper to endpapers, vertical wraparound band to upper board. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front cover. Some light marks and scratches. Near fine. Originally published in Japanese in 2003, by one of Japan's foremost mystery writers.
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The Horse; With a Treatise on Draught; and a Copious Index. Published Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
by YOUATT, William (1776-1847)
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London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1831. [Hippology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.viii; 472. Numerous in-text engravings. Brown half-calf, borders blind-tooled. Marbled paper over boards. Black label containing gilt titles, as well as gilt embellishment, to spine. Edges speckled brown. Some spotting/soiling to interior and endpapers. Previous ownership inscription in black ink to title page, dated to the 1830s. Light rubbing to boards, some discolouration and scuffing to calf. Wear to spine, joints, and board extremities. Very good. A product of the partnership between the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and William Youatt, accomplished veterinarian and animal researcher whose influence reached Darwin. The SDUK (1826-1848) was a project implemented by Whig politician Henry Brougham to publish cheap educational texts for the working/middle class reader. This book comes from their Farmers Series, and covers the horse's general history, anatomy, behavioural instincts, and proper management.
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