Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Byre Books

El Arquero Madrid 1966 PB Third edition. Critical and biographical essays from the Spanish philosopher on the artist Goya. In Spanish. Yellow covers marked and worn, address card pasted to ffep and half title, o/w internally clean, tight and sound, good. 111pp 0

Glasgow: Pickering and Inglis, 1980 Discoveries at Assos, Pergamum, Thyateria, Smyrna, Sardis, Philadelphia, Ephesus, Miletus, Didyma, Laodicea, Hierapolis and Colossae. Light wear to illustrative covers, no inscriptions or annotation, generally VG.

Allen & Unwin, London. 1st 1970 hdbk The desperate struggle between the ageing Manchu Empress T z'u-hsi and her young nephew the Emperor, at the close of the nineteenth century. A story told as a parable against both Japanese occupation and the Communist rule. VG in lightly edge-worn but generally VG DJ. 160pp 0

Penguin Plays 1978 PB The Countess Cathleen, Playboy of the Western World, Cock-a-doodle-Dandy Good. 218pp 0

Singapore: ITE Institiute of Technical Education, 2004 A collection of columns by Dr Tan Lai Yong based on his experiences in China working as a Doctor with the poor and training local Doctors. VG, small pen dot to front cover.

Parker, Son, and Bourn London 1863 HB A discussion on the origin of names from Celtic, Teutonic and Slavonic myth, legend and history. Dark red cloth, faded and starting to split at spine edges, corners bumped, some age-mottling, generally VG 504pp 0

Taxus Exeter 1990 PB Religious poetry. Neat name to half title, o/w VG. 48pp 0

Isle of Man: Shearwater Press, 1979 Covering political and ecclesiastical history, coinage, social and econimic changes, law and culture. Red cloth lightly worn, small name plate of Scottish writer Margaret Elphinstone to the ffep, generally VG in lightly worn DJ, generally VG.

British Council, National Book League / Longmans, Green & Co, 1968 In the series Writers and Their Work No. 202. Stapled booklet, covers a little worn and marked, portrait frontis, no inscriptions, clean and sound, good.

Collins and Harvill, 1967 Working with impoverished children in South Korea. Inscription to ffep and a piece cut from it, otherwise clean and sound, good, in edge-worn, mended, good DJ.

Centre for Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen, 1991 Social history - life and work in North East Scotland in the early years of the last century. Light wear to illustrative cover, name to front cover verso, name stamp to half-title and to the margin of one inner page, otherwise clean, tight and sound, good.