Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Boston Book Company

19. YABUTA, Shinji. NURIMONO. Tokyo: Foreign Affairs Association of Japan. 8vo., grey wrappers, string-bound; 19pp. with 1 color, 4 b&w plates. Very good.

1925. [YALE] YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE, TWO ISSUES, XC/NO. 2 AND XCII/NO. 2, NOVEMBER 1925 & 1926. New Haven: Published by the editors, 1925-26. pp. 67-110 + 10 pp. ads/pp. 39-68 + 10 pp. ads. 8vo., brown wrappers (the "Lady in Brown") printed in black with cover vignette. Book reviews, poetry, fiction. Contributors include: Arthur Milliken, John Davenport, Wilder Hobson, E. A. Davidson, John H. G. Pierson, Alfred Mitchell Bingham, R. L. Post, Howard Brown, George L. K. Morris, Paul Mellon, Eugene A. Davidson, T. C. Patterson, Dwight MacDonald, Jr., Albert Coote, Alan Olmstead, C. B. Ives, Thomas Copeland and others. Fine, minimal age toning at edges, faint dampstain to spine (covers only) of 1926 volume. Both:.

1987. Yamanouchi Kinzaburō 山内金三郎, artist. Ōtsu-e Zōhyōshū 大津絵藏票集. Gohachi 吾八. Tokyo. Showa 62 [1987]. 18 x 15.5cm small volume string-bound Japanese style, fukuro-toji with red string. Front wrapper is decorated with a color woodcut of a demon playing a musical instrument. Colophon identifies this as #36 of 50 copies, done as a reprint of the original edition done in 20 copies in Showa 35 [1960]. 12 original, color woodblock-printed bookplates. The initial page has machine printed text listing the titles of all twelve woodcuts and the final page has a similarly printed colophon. This attractive book by artist Yamauchi Kinzaburō 山内金三郎 (1886-1966) is a tribute to the tradition of Ōtsu-e 大津絵 (Pictures from Ōtsu), and the history is a fascinating one. It began as a cottage industry among families and businesses along the main roads of the Ōtsu region near Kyoto during the 1600s. Ōtsu was one of the stops along the Tōkaidō, the well-traveled road… Read More

1982. YAMASAKI, Toyoko. BONCHI. A Novel. Translated by Harue and Travis Summersgill. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, (1982). Later printing. 8vo. As new, in the dust jacket.

1970. Yamashita Keisuke 山下慶助, artist. Posuta. Privately published.. Osaka?]. 1970 - 75. 5 portfolios in paper wrappers approx 31 x 23cm with additional small pieces. Each wrapper has a yellow label printed in black and numbered in red from 1 to 5. Numbered 2 of a limitation of 20 copies. Original woodblock prints and Japanese text. There is a theme to each section, with a color folder within each color folder containing multiple-size woodcuts. Laid-in are large folded sheets with designs and white folded sheets that are similar to a pamphlet that serve as an introduction to the theme and materials within. Also included are 9 small laid-in packets with intricate woodcuts. Handmade paper and original woodblock prints throughout. Artist Yamashita Keisuke 山下慶助 (1913 -77) has created an imaginary world of lettering and images with a medieval sensibility that is simultaneously Old World, fantasy and mythical. His borders are suggestive of Celtic knots but not copies of them. Clearly he… Read More

1964. YARDWELL, Allen, Cataloguer. YUKUTAT SOUTH INDIAN ART OF THE NORTHWEST COAST. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1964. From the Art Institute of Chicago, 13 March-April 26, 1964. Wrappers. Slightly worn. Illustrated. About very good.

1957. YARMOLINSKY, Avrahm. ROAD TO REVOLUTION. A Century of Russian Radicalism. London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., (1957). First British edition. 8vo., red cloth. Slight rubbing to cloth. Overall, fine in a price-clipped, slightly worn dust jacket with a touch of soiling.

1755. Tachibana Yasukuni 橘保国、Ehon Noyama Gusa 絵本野山草 [Illustrated Book of Mountain and Field Plants] 、Osaka, Shibuyawa Seiemon 澁川清右衛門、Hōreki 5 [1755]、Five volumes in 23.2 x 16.5cm string-bound Japanese style, fukuro-toji in navy blue wrappers and housed in a modern clasped chitsu. Original, black and white woodblock prints and Japanese text, with an index to the plants and wildflowers in each. Vol 1 has 2 cho of preliminary text and 26 cho of woodcuts with text. Vol 2 has 19 cho of woodcuts with text, Vol 3 has 23 cho as prior, Vol 4 has 17 cho and Vol 5 has Delicate and lovely botanical woodcuts throughout by the important artist Tachibana Yasukuni 橘保国 1715-1792. Wear to wrappers and spots of toning throughout. Surprisingly unusual work, complete and in good condition as this one is, especially such a lovely printing. It was redone many times through the years, but this edition is easily the most lovely. Described by Bartlett and Shiohara as "one of the… Read More

1940. Fukukita Yasunosuke. CHA-NO-YU, TEA CULT OF JAPAN, Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1938. 8vo., patterned cloth, third edition, in the original colorful, cloth covered boards and printed slipcase. Many color and photo ills. xxiv, 140pp. Fine, slight soiling.

1838. YATES, Robert, and Luther MARTIN. SECRET PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE CONVENTION ASSEMBLED AT PHILADELPHIA, IN THE YEAR 1787, FOR THE PURPOSE OF FORMING THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ... INCLUDING "THE GENUINE INFORMATION" LAID BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE OF MARYLAND BY LUTHER MARTIN, ESQUIRE ... ALSO, OTHER HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, RELATIVE TO THE FEDERAL COMPACT OF THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION. Cincinnati: Alston Mygatt, (1838). xi + [1] + 335 pp. 8vo., dark brown leather stamped in gilt and blind. Leather worn and scraped, gilt spine title intact but worn, front cover bowed. Light foxing to margins. Pencil ownership to title page, pencil notes to rear endpapers. Some pencil margin marks in text. Fair to good overall; complete. Historical analysis of the making of the Constitution. Howes Y3.

1922. YEATS, W. B. THE TREMBLING OF THE VEIL. London: Privately Printed for Subscribers only by T.W. Laurie, Ltd., 1922. First edition: limited, on hand-made paper, and signed by the author. This copy is 617 of 1000. Frontisp. portrait, [2, viii], 248 pp. Octavo, publisher's binding of light blue paper boards with cream parchment back, cream spine label printed in brown; matching light blue endpapers; edges untrimmed. (Wade 133). Laid-in at the front of the volume, though previously tipped-in, is an 8 x 5 inch sheet signed by W. B. Yeats and dated April 4 1887. There is slight residue from removal of cello tape at top edge of the sheet and on the ffep. The book is fine, clean fresh, but for a small rubbed spot on upper board. In the publisher's light blue dust-jacket, with cream spine label printed in brown, that has darkened slightly, with shallow chipping at crown, and (cleanly) split along the upper spine fold.

1953. YEATS, W. B. THE COLLECTED PLAY OF W.B. YEATS. New Edition. With Five Additional PLays. New York: Macmillan Company, 1953. Prepublication/Review copy; unbound signatures, with "Publication date Jun 1 1953" stamped to title page. 8vo. Dust jacket clipped, chipped at the spine, with some loss of text, sun, creasing, closed tears and general edgewear elsewhere.

1917. [YEATS, William Butler] ed. Margaret Anderson and Ezra Pound. THE LITTLE REVIEW: A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, JUNE 1917. 35 pp. + 3 pp. publisher's advertising. 8vo., printed stapled wrappers with orange contents panel on cover. Good, edges of front cover have a small chip at fore-edge, closed tear to top edge, not affecting text. Spine split but still attached. Paper quality is such that the paper is quite heavily browned. Includes the first appearance of Yeats's poem "The Wild Swans at Coole" along with six others, "An Anachronism at Chinon" by Pound, and poetry by Wyndham Lewis, jh, Louis Gilmore, and translations of Li Po by Sasaki and Maxwell Bodenheim.

1910. YERKES, Robert M. & Daniel Bloomfield. DO KITTENS INSTINCTIVELY KILL MICE? Reprinted from the Psychological Bulletin, August, 1910, Vol. VII, pp. 253-263. Small 4to., printed wrappers. Inkstamp at top edge of front cover: "Compliments of Robert M. Yerkes." Minor edgewear, top corner bumped. Study done at Harvard's Psychological Laboratory.

1862. YERRINTON, James M. W. REPORT OF THE CASE OF GEO. C. HERSEY, INDICTED FOR THE MURDER OF BETSY FRANCES TIRRELL, BEFORE THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS; including the hearing on the motion in arrest of judgement, the prisoner's petition for a commutation of sentence, the death warrant, officer's return upon it, and the confession. Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1862. Octavo. 267 pp. Brown cloth, gilt-stamped title on spine, yellow endpapers. Binding is worn at edges, with shallow loss at heel and crown, and lower joint starting; upper board has some damp splatter and a couple of irregularly shaped gouges. Clean text but for occasional light foxing. Nonetheless, a solid and very good copy overall. Hersey was convicted and hanged for poisoning (with strychnine) Betsy Tirrell, who was pregnant with his child at the time of her death.

1922. Noguchi, Yone. KORIN. London: Elkin Mathews, 1922. String-bound Japanese-style . Brown flexible covers. 25.7 x 18.9 cm. 1 of 450 copies "for Europe". Illustrated with b+w and color woodcuts, as well as collotypes. Very good condition, all in an edgeworn, splitting and faded navy folding box, clasped, with a paper label. Excellent work on this seminal artist.

1896. YONGE, Charlotte M. THE RELEASE, or Caroline's French Kindred. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1896. First American edition. 8vo., blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Bookplate. Touch of rubbing to extremes, with the binding mildly skewed, else a very good, solid copy.

1936. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. MUSEUM OF LIVING ART. New York: New York University, (1936). 8vo., white cloth-backed, paper-covered boards. One of 1200 copies. Spine is soiled, with slight soil to boards and a touch of wear to extremes. Very good plus.

1842. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW-YORK. Albany, Thurlow Weed, 1842. NY, Appleton & Co. and Wiley & Putnam, 1843-1894. Folio. 30 volumes. Zoology in VI parts, bound in 5 volumes; Botany in 2 volumes; Mineralogy, one volume; Geology in 4 volumes; Paleontology in VIII parts bound in 13 volumes; Agriculture in 5 volumes. Maps and a wealth of lithographic plates of birds, flowers, fruit, landscape panoramas, geological sections, etc., mostly hand-colored. Boards off volume I, otherwise condition varies from good to fine. All but two volumes in original publisher's cloth with gilt vignettes. Complete descriptions and collations on request. Rare Complete.

1964. YOSHIDA, SUSUGU. Kaikaki no Eshi KIYOCHIKA. Tokyo, Ryokuen-shobo, 1964. oblong 4to. 331+ pp. Half cloth and paper over boards. An exhaustive work on Kobayashi Kiyochika, created for the 50th anniversary of his death. Text in Japanese. Important reference on this significant Meiji era ukiyo-e artist. Slight rubbing, else very good.