Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)

[Auburn, Cayuga County, New York, 1885-1910; 1924 and 1949]. [200]ff. and [203]ff. Two Ledger Books. 16¼ x 11 inches. Full suede sheep; leather spine labels: "Association" and "Board of Managers;" marbled endpapers; all edges marbled. Approx. [120]pp and [395]pp of manuscript, respectively. With laid and tipped in related letters, newspaper clippings, ephemera, etc. Some wear to spine and boards; very good. Two large ledger books containing handwritten minutes and reports from the Young Men's Christian Association or YMCA of Auburn, New York, 1885-1910. These two separate manuscript volumes preserve the records of the general membership "Association" and its "Board of Managers," each volume appropriately titled. The Auburn YMCA was founded in 1859 and is one of the oldest YMCAs in the country. "The Young Men's Christian Association of Auburn New York, Formally opened their new Building Nos. 64 & 66 Genesee Street on Friday Evening December 18th 1885. The Services were as follows. Singing: "All hail… Read More

[New York. May, 15, 1903]. Two folio-sized typewritten leaves with manuscript additions, stapled along top to printed cover sheet. Transmittal folds, cover sheet with closed tear along one fold line; light wear, overall, very good. The prefatory text of this legal document states: "In the Matter of Acquiring Title by The City of New York to certain lands and premises situated on the southerly side of: South Fourth Street, on the northerly and : southerly sides of South Fifth Street and : the northerly side of Broadway, between Havemeyer Street and Driggs Avenue; on the westerly and easterly sides of Roebling Street, and on the westerly side of Havemeyer Street, between Broadway and South Fourth Street, in the Borough of Brooklyn, in the City of New York, duly selected, according to law, with other lands as a site for the construction and permanent location of a Suspension Bridge over the East River between the Cities of New York and Brooklyn, now the Boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, and Approaches… Read More

[Charlestown and Cambridge[port?], Massachusetts, ca. 1866-1886]. Eight wrappered notebooks, the smallest measuring 5 x 3 inches, the largest 6¾ x 4 inches. The notebooks are largely unwritten in; collectively, there are approximately 150 pages in manuscript. In very good to near fine condition. Eight handwritten notebooks kept by Dr. Edward Young White recording family memoirs, religious and scriptural notes, and genealogical research. The White Family were Scottish immigrants who settled in Worcester and Middlesex Counties, Massachusetts in the 1730s. Dr. White's genealogical notes record data going back to the 17th century. Births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, biographical information, and a family tree linking his father and mother, Samuel White and Susannah née Young White, are recorded. In one notebook, White records his own memoirs, e.g., "I once in Littleton (about the year 1850 it might have been earlier) in the old burying ground asked the old Sexton John Pushee as he was digging a grave,… Read More

Salem, (Massa.) Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun. 1802. 47, [1]pp. Hand-stitched into contemporary tan drab waste-sheet wraps. Spine reinforced with expert tissue mend. Very Good. An attractive copy of this scarce 1802 New England edition of Young's Poem as printed by the ever-enterprising firm of Nathaniel Coverly. Three poetical "endorsements" prefaced Young's poetic text. Two are written by Oxford dons and one is written by Joseph Bank, the English naturalist and botanist. AAS records a defective copy with Coverly's price of 12½ cents beneath the imprint. The present copy does not print a price. See OCLC, under various accessions: Huntington, AAS, Columbia, Peabody Essex, Brown. Shaw and Shoemaker 3603, adding Detroit Public Library.

Woodstock: The Overlook Press, (1993). 207, [1]pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Near fine in dustwrapper in like condition. First edition [so stated], first printing and preceding the Adams edition. The story of Nico and her final years including her wild 1980s world tour and her encounters with John Cale, Allen Ginsberg, John Cooper Clarke, Gregory Corso and others.

[Geigertown, Pa.: Young Ladies' Bible Class, St. Paul's Methodist Church, c.1951]. [44]pp. 8¾ x 5¾ inches. Illustrated wrappers. Spine rubbed; staining and wrinkling to wrappers and leaves; but all legible and complete: Fair only. Community cook book issued by women of St. Paul's Methodist Church in Geigertown, Berks County, Pennsylvania. With numerous advertisements for food, cooking, and related services from such towns as Reading, Geigertown, Birdsboro, and Morgantown. Unrecorded in OCLC.

St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1929.148pp. Publisher's cloth; without dust jacket. Half tone illustrations from photographs. Slight abrasion to front free endpaper abrasion; about 7 leaves with very small stains at edges of top margins; very good. First edition of this autobiography of this Alabamian and influential Southern educator and "planter" considered the "Mother of Black Lutheranism in Central Alabama." Young is noted for her advocacy for education poor children in the rural South. Deeply personal and spiritual, Young documents her struggles as an educator and theologian working in the South, and of the relentless persecution she faced: "One preacher announced that he would be a wasp in my garment as long as I lived; but the poor man is dead now. They held meetings and councils one after another against me. They never held a service or an annual meeting but what there was something mean said about me. The enemy hung out my name at evil's door. Preachers stood up and proclaimed from… Read More