Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Peter Harrington

London., 1907. British Yachts and Yachtsmen A Complete History of British Yachting from the middle of the 16th century to the present day London: The Yachtsman Publishing Co. Mount size: 390 x 410 mm. Photogravure. In fine condition. On India paper, minor foxing.

London., 1907. British Yachts and Yachtsmen A Complete History of British Yachting from the middle of the 16th century to the present day London: The Yachtsman Publishing Co. Mount size: 390 x 410 mm. Sepia photogravure. In fine condition. On India paper.

London., 1907. British Yachts and Yachtsmen A Complete History of British Yachting from the middle of the 16th century to the present day London: The Yachtsman Publishing Co. Mount size: 390 x 410 mm. Photogravure. In fine condition. On India paper.

New York: First Second,, 2006. First edition, first printing, hardcover collector's issue. Yang's classic exploration of the Chinese American experience was the first ever graphic novel to be a finalist for a National Book Award. Among numerous other accolades, it received the 2007 Eisner and Michael L. Printz awards. A modern rendition of the 16th-century novel Journey to the West, American Born Chinese "blends Chinese and American cultures in inventive, unexpected ways... Gene Luen Yang has created that rare article: a youthful tale with something new to say about American youth" (Vizzini). A television series adaptation of the comic book was released on Disney+ in 2023. Octavo. Original black half cloth, spine lettered in gilt, yellow pictorial board sides, black silk bookmarker. Colour illustrations throughout in the comic-strip format. Very light rubbing to rear cover: a near-fine copy. Ned Vizzini, "High Anxiety", New York Times, 13 May 2007.

Shanghai: Zhonghua xin jiaoyu she,, 1922. First edition thus, first printing, following the very scarce first edition of 1878, of this biography of Zhuge Liang (181-234), heir to the military legacy of Sun Tzu and the greatest strategist of the Three Kingdoms period. The text is accompanied by diagrams of the elaborate, highly flexible troop formations which defined Zhuge Liang's contribution to military theory and made his writings essential reading for generations of commanders including Mao Zedong. Octavo. Original green limp card wrappers, white thread xianzhuang stitching, front cover lettered in black. With 13 military formation diagrams in text. Contemporary "China" ink stamp on rear cover. Wrappers well-preserved, covers and contents toned and lightly bumped at fore edge. A near-fine copy.

Tokyo: Kenkyusha,, 1935. Arthur Waley's copy First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Arthur Waley, Esq. With compliments of the Editor. June 1936." Here, Eliot's essays are printed in English, accompanied by a 53-page introduction and extensive notes all in Japanese. Yano Kazumi (1893-1988) was a poet and scholar who translated several Western authors into Japanese and corresponded with W. B. Yeats. Waley received this copy three years after he published the final volume of his Genji translation. Small octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front board with publisher's device in blind, silver ribbon markers. With dust jacket. With tissue-guarded frontispiece after photograph of Donald Hastings's bust of Eliot. Binding clean with just a few negligible marks, lower tips of boards and leaves bumped, top edge somewhat dusty, text clean, ribbon markers detached; jacket with toning and chipping, couple of neat Japanese tissue repairs, jacket… Read More

London: Printed by R. Everingham for the author, and are to be sold by T. Parkhurst and N. Simmons,, 1677. First edition, in which Yarranton, an engineer and agriculturalist, "proposed many schemes of improvement: fire prevention, establishing linen manufacture, ironworks in Hampshire, a land bank to finance trade, and public granaries. He suggested making the Warwickshire Stour navigable up to Shipston and the Cherwell to Banbury so as to shorten the distance for carriage of goods between navigations in the Severn and Thames catchments. Another proposal concerned the River Dee up to Bangor Bridge, Flintshire. These to some extent anticipated the great changes brought about a century later by the development of still-water canals. His ideas came partly from his observations abroad in 1667, especially in Holland and Flanders" (ODNB). A second part followed in 1681. Quarto (194 x 145 mm). Contemporary unlettered mottled sheep. With 8 folding copper-engraved plates. Spine ends worn, front joint cracked,… Read More

[1970s]. Photograph of Harold Wilson meeting Mike Yarwood, who was famed for his Wilson impersonations, inscribed "To Lady Falkender, sincerely Mike Yarwood". Yarwood was one of the leading television personalities of the Wilson era. The photograph was taken 29 September 1973; the inscription must follow Falkender's elevation to the Lords in 1974. Marcia Falkender was Wilson's political secretary and closest aide; the photograph has been acquired directly from her estate. Black and white photograph (253 x 204 mm), mounted on paper. Rather creased, backing paper soiled; in good condition overall.

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons,, 1888. One of the last flashpoints of the Great Game, inscribed by the author First edition, presentation copy, inscribed to Richard Assheton Cross, first viscount Cross, on the verso of the half-title: "Viscount Cross with the Author's Kind Regards. 11 June 1888", also with the engraved armorial bookplate of the Cross family on the front pastedown. This is a first-hand account of a crucial period in the Russian conquest of Central Asia and The Great Game. "The book describes the activity of the commission by a British officer, in 1885 in northwestern Afghanistan and then their long travel back to Lahore through Afghanistan. The closing chapters deal with the return of the mission in 1887 for the actual demarcation of the frontier" (Yakushi). Yate also outlines the Panjdeh incident, an armed engagement between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the Russian Empire in 1885. Hopkirk described the Pandjeh incident as one of the last "flashpoints" of the Great… Read More

Boston: Joseph W. Hamilton,, 1887. First edition, inscribed by the author to a fellow Maine suffragist on the front free endpaper, "Mrs. Ann Greely, with kind regards, the author, Dec. 25 1890", with Greely's book label to front pastedown. This edition is now uncommon, especially inscribed, the present copy in notably attractive condition. The recipient, Ann Jarvis Greely (1831-1914), would have been known to Yates through their shared engagement in the suffrage lecture circuit. Greely was active in her local suffrage movement and organised a series of suffrage lectures and a "woman's rights" ball in Ellsworth in 1857, which included Susan B. Anthony as a speaker. From her mid-20s she was, like Yates, an avowed and outspoken temperance worker and was active in the anti-slavery movement. In 1851 she opened the Old Stand, a millinery shop on Main Street, thereby becoming one of the first recognized businesswomen of Maine. Yates (1857-1942) was licensed to preach by the Methodist Episcopal Church and… Read More

Hong Kong: Cathay Limited,, 1952. First edition, first printing, of this scarce, chatty handbook affirming Hong Kong's reputation as a Mecca for travellers in the post-war tourism boom. Of particular interest are the large number of advertisements offering a feel for life in the territory during the early 1950s. Copies of the first edition are seldom encountered in commerce, and WorldCat notes just two institutionally (British Library and Toronto Public Library). In her guide, Helen Eva Yates (1900-1993) purposefully adopts a relaxed tone perhaps better suited to the emerging middle-class travel market than some other contemporary guides. "Perhaps you hope to have a brocade evening coat made to order? Or a summer Shantung suit? A handsome camphorwood chest is just what you want to store your treasures in. Dad has long wanted a carved ivory chess set. Or you may be plotting to take home a heavenly trousseau set of silk lingerie for your sister's wedding. And you have always longed to own a dinner ring… Read More

London: Smith, Elder, and Co.,, 1843. A talented Scottish medic in Egypt First edition of this spirited and engaging account, illustrated with simple but appealing illustrations, lithographed by Hullmandel from Yates's own sketches. "A very interesting work by a medical man who travelled extensively in Egypt c. 1840... Yates also provides an extensive general commentary on political events in Syria, Crete and Egypt in addition to the ordinary account of his travels" (Blackmer). The Scottish doctor William Holt Yates remains a frustratingly shadowy figure. We do know that he was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society (admitted 1834) and president of both the Royal Medical and Royal Physical Societies of Edinburgh, and senior physician to the General Dispensary at Aldersgate in the City, during a time when the young David Livingstone was taking extracurricular studies there. The publication of his book was timely as there was growing interest in Egypt following the Oriental Crisis of 1840, when… Read More

Dublin: Cuala Press,, October 1943. Signed by Yeats's wife First Cuala Press edition, limited issue. Number 40 of 50 copies, and, though uncalled for, this copy is signed by "George" Hyde-Lees, (1892-1968), the author's wife. Mosada was Yeats's first published work, and was first published in 1886 as an offprint from the Dublin University Review. That edition, of around 100 copies, is now "exceedingly rare" (Wade p. 18). Yeats's wife was originally known as "Georgie", until Yeats declared the name insufferable. George managed the Cuala Industries with Yeats's sisters Lily and Lolly after her husband's death, increasingly on her own as Lily's health failed and Lolly died suddenly in 1940. The second separate printing of the text, it is based on the text as it appeared in The Wanderings of Oisin (1889), and incorporating the corrections that were made by the author in his own copy. Octavo. Original cream card wrappers, titles to front wrapper in black. With the original glassine jacket. Frontispiece… Read More

Dublin: The Cuala Press,, 1941. First edition, first impression, presentation copy from Georgie Yeats, number 17 of 500 copies. This copy has a Cuala Press compliments slip inscribed "Sent at the request of Mrs W. B. Yeats" and also two pieces of Cuala ephemera: one Cuala Press advertisement for the Broadsides New Series, and a card reprinting from A Broadside "The Midland Toast: Long road and stoney ditches / And here's to nice girls / And to hell with riches" beneath a coloured woodcut by Jack Yeats. This publication is a collection of letters from Shaw and Yeats to Florence Farr (1860-1917). Farr was an actress, director, journalist, women's rights activist, and chief adept of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. She attended Queen's College, the first woman's college in England, and alongside this work and a second novel published several academic texts on occult history and literary theory, and a feminist treatise, Modern Woman: Her Intentions, in 1910. Octavo. Original white cloth-backed blue… Read More

London: Elkin Mathews; Elkin Mathews and John Lane,, 1892 & 1894. First editions, sole printings. The Rhymers' Club was founded by W. B. Yeats in 1890 as an informal poetry society that met at the Cheshire Cheese pub in Fleet Street (where Samuel Johnson, in an earlier age, also used to drink). This set includes both volumes published by the group, featuring poetry by Yeats and 12 other contributors: Ernest Dowson, Edwin J. Ellis, G. A. Greene, Arthur Cecil Hillier, Lionel Johnson, Richard le Gallienne, Victor Plarr, Ernest Radford, Ernest Rhys, T. W. Rolleston, Arthur Symons, and John Todhunter. The collections include the first book appearance of Yeats's "Lake Isle of Innisfree", and the first British book appearance of the quintessential poem of the decadent 1890s, Ernest Dowson's "Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae" (with its refrain..."I have been true to thee, Cynara, in my fashion"...). The print run for the first book was 450; for the second, 500 were issued in the UK and 150 in the… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, , 1949. What can be explained is not poetry First edition thus, number 48 of 375 copies signed by the author, including Yeats's complete poetical output, and a variorum of the his textual changes. Published posthumously, though with pages signed by the poet before his death included, the edition was personally overseen by Yeats's widow, Georgie. Throughout the 1930s, Yeats had scrupulously worked to collect, revise, arrange, and edit his complete poetry for an Edition de Luxe to be published by Macmillan. This project was abruptly terminated by the author's death and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. The editorial work, however, did not go to waste, and the present edition, using Yeats's proofs, came to be known as "definitive". 2 volumes, tall octavo. Original green cloth over bevelled boards, spines lettered in gilt, author's monogram on front covers in gilt, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edge untrimmed. Housed in the publisher's brown card slipcase.… Read More

London: Lawrence & Bullen, Limited,, 1897. Sir Hugh Walpole's copy First edition, first issue binding with "Lawrence & Bullen" at the foot of spine. This copy is from the library of Sir Hugh Walpole (1884-1941), with his Brackenburn gilt-embossed dark red paper book label on the front pastedown. Walpole and Yeats moved in the same literary circles in London; both attended the literary gatherings of Sylvia Lynd, the poet and fellow judge for The Book Society club, established by Walpole in 1921. With The Secret Rose, Yeats was at the height of his powers as a prose mythographer, bringing together the two key loci of his imagination, the Celtic folklore of his native Ireland and the alchemical mysteries with which he became familiar through his interactions with the Golden Dawn in London and Paris. These are represented by two characters, later the subject of their own books but here appearing for the first time: Red Hanrahan, the wandering poet (or "gleeman") whom Yeats stirringly remembered in The… Read More

Dublin: The Cuala Press,, 1927. Caught in that sensual music all neglect / Monuments of unaging intellect First edition, first impression, one of 350 copies, including the first appearance in print of the author's celebrated poem "Sailing to Byzantium". Octavo. Original quarter linen, white paper spine label printed in black, pale blue paper boards, front cover lettered in black, blue endpapers, untrimmed edges. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Tiny chips to spine label, boards lightly rubbed, a couple of gatherings unopened. A very good copy. Wade 156; Ransom, p. 241.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.,, 1889. And like a sunset were her lips, / A stormy sunset o'er doomed ships First edition of the author's first book of poems, including "The Stolen Child", "Down by the Salley Gardens", and the eponymous epic romance, in which the ancient Irish hero Oisin travels to the land of Faerie with his supernatural lover, Niamh. In 1938, Yeats wrote that the book was "published by subscription, John O'Leary finding almost all the subscribers"; Symons suggests this resulted in a print run of around 500 copies. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, publisher's device in blind to rear cover, black coated endpapers, untrimmed edges. Ticket to rear free endpaper. Cloth bright, lifting slightly on front cover, rubbed and lightly frayed at extremities, gutter cracked between a few gatherings, else clean and sound within. A very good copy. Hayward 295; Symons 1; Wade 2.

London: T. Werner Laurie, Ltd,, 1922. Signed limited issue First edition, signed limited issue, number 387 of 1,000 subscribers copies signed by the author and printed on handmade paper. The Trembling of the Veil was the second of Yeats's seven autobiographical works, and was described by Arthur Symons as "an absolute masterpiece: far & away the best thing [Yeats] has ever done" (Ross, p. 559). The following year, Yeats was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature. Yeats's memoirs were collected in 1935 as The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats and consisted of Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1914), The Trembling of the Veil (1922), his Nobel Prize lecture, "The Irish Dramatic Movement" (1923), The Bounty of Sweden (1925), Estrangement (1926), The Death of Synge (1928), and Dramatis Personae, 1896-1902 (1935). This copy is from the library of Virginia bibliophile and historian Christopher Clark Geest, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Octavo. Original japon-backed green boards, titles… Read More