Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Borg Antiquarian

Berkeley: Ten Speed Press < Random House, 2005. First Edition, Later Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. Photos by De Mello and Peterson. SIGNED with "Happy Holidays!" by the Chef-Author on a bookplate, 4to (8 1/4" x 10 3/4"), purple cloth with white lettering on spine and front cover, profusely illustrated with color photos by John De Mello and Scott Peterson, photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with red tail of fish, green endpapers, [vi] + 242 pages. Roy Yamaguchi (born 1956) is the chef and founder 30 Roy's Restaurants, the Tavern by Roy Yamaguchi and Eating House 1849. He is revered for his culinary skills and respected as the innovator of Hawaiian inspired cuisine, an eclectic blend of California-French-Japanese cooking traditions created with fresh ingredients from the Islands. He was honored with the James Beard "Best Pacific Northwest Chef" Award in 1993, and many other honors. SIGNED & in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION in all respects with gorgeous… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. INSCRIBED Presentation Copy by the Author, 8vo, brown quarter cloth with light brown lettering over light brown boards, Mylar-protected photographic brown dust jacket (unclipped) image by Ken Light, 287, [288] pages. PRISONERS OF WAR was Shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award of (2005). Steve Yarbrough (born 1956) is an American author and academic, who teaches at Emerson College. Author of Visible Spirits (2001) and The Realm of Last Chances (2013), which won the 2014 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Fiction. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally! Nice crisp dj.

New York / London: Sterling, 2007. First Edition, Second printing. Cloth with picture. Very Fine/Very Fine. Eric Puybaret. Oblong quarto / 4to (10 3/4" H x 11 3/4"W), green cloth with gold lettering on spine and inset glossy picture of Puff on the front cover, illustrated with entrancing pictures by Eric Puybaret, map endpapers of Honalee, N.P. ~ [24] pages + CD embedded into rear pastedown with 4 classic songs ("Puff" et al.) by Yarrow & Lipton. Weight: 1 lb. 6 oz. The charmingly illustrated, dreamy adventures of a boy and his gentle and lovable dragon buddy. IMMACULATE COPY with a VF sealed CD in rear "cup." Peter Yarrow (born 1938) is an American singer and songwriter who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Yarrow co-wrote (with Leonard Lipton) one of the group's greatest hits, "Puff, the Magic Dragon". This unique edition contains an immaculate CD with two versions of "Puff, the Magic Dragon," plus the… Read More

Chicago: Contemporary Books / A Bernard Geis Aoociates Book, 1990. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. INSCRIBED by the Author on the front free endpaper, tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over black boards, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a dripping pen above a Will, 353 pages. Shelby Yastrow is the retired general counsel, executive vice president and secretary of McDonald's Corporation. He is also author of four books (three being mysteries): Under Oath, Bad Lies, Vision to Legacy.<br/><br/>INSCRIBED and in VF/F (or better) Condition: tight, bright, clean copy in comparable dust jacket (unclipped) with faint edgewear.

London: Country Life Ltd, 1942. Early Reprint during WW-II. Cloth. Good +/Very Good. Chiang Yee. Tall 8vo / Royal 8vo (8 7/8" x 5 3/4"), gray cloth with black lettering on spine & front cover (using English & Chinese), Preface by Herbert Read, illustrated with frontispiece and 12 B&W brush paintings with Chinese & English captions, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), 66, [67] pages. Chiang Yee (Jiang Yi) (1903 - 1977), self-styled as "The Silent Traveller," was a Chinese official, poet, author, scholar, American professor, teacher, painter and calligrapher. <br/><br/>Formerly the governor of several districts in Nationalist China, he left China for England in 1933, and began a distinguished career as a deeply perceptive author and painter of special locations around the world. <br/><br/> He taught at Columbia University, was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences & Royal Society of Arts, and… Read More

Gordonsville, VA: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Near Fine. Yezerski. INSCRIBED and SIGNED with an engaging sentiment by Author on title page ("May your towpath lead to a good day's work and a couple bowls of stew"); oblong quarto (10 3/8" x 9 1/4"); russet 1/6th cloth with gold lettering on spine over light blue boards; illustrated throughout with color pictures by Thomas F. Yezerski; russet endpapers, 32 pages. Fictional story of the Morris Canal, where a young lad learns how to handle himself, his mules with a "full hand," and how to tow a good line. "Thomas F. Yezerski (born 1969) is an author and illustrator of books that teach, amuse, and warm the heart."--Facebook. He has "written and illustrated four books, and illustrated a dozen by other authors, including picture books, chapter books, and easy readers. His only non-fiction book, Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story, was a New… Read More

New York London Toronto Sydney Singapore: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2012. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. Derek Anderson. SIGNED Presentation Copy by the Illustrator with a DRAGON SKETCH, 4to, pictorial glossy full color boards repeating the dj's picture, profusely illustrated with reproductions of paintings by Derek Anderson, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket by Anderson, decorative endpapers, [30] pages. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION and RARE with the DRAGON SKETCH SIGNED by the gifted ILLUSTRATOR. Wonderfully bold, colorful, and sweet illustrations combine with a delightful narrative about how slumbering dragons wake up slowly, tumble out of bed, brush their teeth to avoid "Dragon breath," eat pancakes with syrup with delight, and then engage in further aerial adventures--all very suggestively for the little boy in armor who might want to pattern his behavior after his companion :-). (This adventure reminds me a lot of Disney's… Read More

Freeport, Ilinois: Freeport Press, 2004. First Printing. Paperback. Fine/None. Sketches, maps, diagrams, and schemas. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by both Co-Authors on the title page, 8vo, glossy pictorial wrappers with full color grid of wildflowers on both covers; illustrated with several B&W images of barns, garden diagrams, layouts, and maps; Appendix (listing species involved), Bibliography, 185 pages. Ten years of restorative environmental work on 82 Illinois' acres. Sadly, Annette (age 69) died of cancer in November, 2005; she was survived by her husband, Gerald Estes.<br/><br/>SIGNED & INSCRIBED & in FINE CONDITION.

[Los Angeles, CA]: AMMO / American Modern Books, 2008. First Edition. Pictorial cloth. Very Fine/Near Fine. SUNG YOUNG YOO. Oblong quarto (9 1/4" x 12 1/4"), red cloth with white lettering on spine and drawings of two "red" shoes [in white], illustrated throughout with gorgeous B&W curvacious delineations by Sung Young Yoo, pictorial B&W endpapers depicting a vairety of shoes, [32] pages. Based on the original story by Hans Christian Andersen.<br/><br/>SUPERIOR COPY of this extraordinarily graceful illustrated retelling of the Andersen classic tale. Tight, bright, clean with no entries by previous owners or remainder marks.<br/><br/>Brilliant illustrations by pen-&-ink artist Sung Young Yoo! This is the California-based illustrator's first book. She is not the South Korean golfer, Yoo Sung-young.<br/><br/>Dust jacket has a 3/8" clean line at the upper right of the front panel that may become a tear.

New York: Delacorte Press, 2018. Exclusive Collector's Edition [Barnes & Noble]. Cloth. Fine/Fine. SIGNED by the Author in purple ink on a front endpaper, 8vo, golden cloth with black lettering on spine and blind-stamped solar pattern on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with art by Dominique Falla, all page-edges stained purple for protection and impact, 346 pages + [28] Exclusive collector's edition bonus material [includes double-spread B&W love map for Natasha & Daniel]. Nicola Yoon (born 1972) is a Jamaican-American author. She is best known for writing the 2015 young adult novel Everything, Everything, a New York Times best seller and the basis of a 2017 film. In 2016, she released The Sun Is Also a Star, a novel that was also turned into a film. Originally published by Delacorte Press in 2016 using a different format. This copy is SIGNED with Extra Text by the Author. Condition: Cloth is in Fine condition with Very slight wear… Read More

Tokyo London New York: Kodansha International, 1992. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Near Fine. Quarto, red quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over black boards, illustrated with frontal matter includes a battle scene as frontispiece, Heraldry images [1p.], Measurement of Time in Medieval Japan [1p.], and double-spread map of "Central Japan in the Sixteenth Century" [2pp.]; archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) depicting Samuraii warriors fighting on horseback and on foot, map endpapers of "The Empire of Japan," 926 pages. Weight: 3 lbs. 6 oz. Eiji Yoshikawa ( , Yoshikawa Eiji, 1892 - 1962) was a highly honored Japanese historical novelist. He often condensed and retold older classics such as Tale of Genji, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Thus, Yoshikawa abridged Taiko ki originally in 15 volumes to only two volumes (here published as one). For his magisterial novels, he was awarded the Cultural Order of Merit in 1960… Read More

New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Fine. Jennifer Dewey. INSCRIBED by the Author on free front endpaper, small 8vo, blue cloth with silver lettering on spine over off-white boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by Jennifer Dewey who also provided numerous full-page B&W drawings & vignettes throughout the book, xi, [xii] + 296 pages. Louise B. Young is an environmentalist and geophysical scientist. She is the author of numerous books, including Earth's Aura, The Unfinished Universe, Sowing the Wind, and The Blue Planet, which won the Carl Sandburg Literary Arts Award.--jacket SIGNED & in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally! ("Marjorie Fisher," the person to whom Louise Young presented her book MAY have been the noted philanthropist Marjorie S. Fisher [d.2016].).

London: Oxford University Press, 1934. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. Numerous illustrations. Tall 8vos, 2 vols., navy blue cloth with gilt-edging, 137 & 67 illustrations & 2 frontispieces; 414 & 558 pages. 4+ Lbs. A Brilliant Collection of Essays by experts on Early Victorian England: a Classic! EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! Clean, bright, and tight with No internal markings. Pages clean and bindings tight, though corners are bumped on both volumes. Previous owner's signature on ffe Vol. 1.

Beverly Hills, CA: GM Books, 2019. First Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Fine. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, beige cloth with red & black lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a corpse's feet, 278 pages. Weight: 1 lb. 6 oz. "Max Conit, a genius, but understood scientist was convinced his invention, a smart synthetic hydrogel, would help treat patients and possibly save lives. But with nefarious intentions, inexplicable deaths and a puzzling investigation, has the perfect crime been devised?"<br /> <br /> Michael J. Young, M.D. is a Chicago-based author/surgeon/author who writes true crime thrillers suggestive of Michael Crichton.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2010. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Mint/Mint. 8vo, blue cloth over gray boards, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket, 278 + [1] pages. Exceptional war and survival thriller in exeptional condition: a debut novel by a much honored Air National Guardsman who flew many missions in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Highly praised by Frederick Forsyth as "Gripping and impressively authentic"; as well as by Gen. Anthony Zinni, W. E. B. Griffith and William E. Butterworth IV, and other military experts. When a U.S. transport is shot down over the Hindu Kush with a high value Taliban POW aboard and rescue impossible because of the weather and terrain, its three survivors--one being the prisoner--struggle to survive against nature and an implacable enemy.

New York: PublicAffairs, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Like New/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2"), gold quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over black boards, illustrated with 8 pages of B&W photographs, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with portrait of M. Yunus, Index, 261 pages + [3] About Author +[2] Ad for PublicAffairs. Muhammad Yunus (born 1940) is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance.<br /> <br /> SIGNED and EXCEPTIONALLY FINE "As New" CONDITION! No previous owner or remainder marks.