Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Capricorn Books

N.P.: Wrens Park, 2001. 255 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs. This book takes you, raid by raid, through the author's tour of operational duty over the last five months of 1944. It is a bomber pilot's story, but it is also about the grinding operational pressure, the brotherhood of the crew and fears of injury and death. It is about a squadron of Bomber Command that bore a barely-equalled burden in operational effort and losses. It is about young airmen the author knew, who lived and too often died amid the turmoil in enemy skies." Book slightly cocked.. Reprint.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Near Fine.

London: Caxton 290 pp, 6 13/16" H. Medium brown cloth with gilt lettering and art nouveau floral decoration in orange on spine and front board, top edge gilt. One of 'The Golden Poets' series, edited by Oliphant Smeaton. No date. B&w frontispiece and decorated title page, 8 plates (b&w with touches of pink and gold) by Jessie M. King (collated). Section headings: Introduction; Happy and Unhappy Love; Courtiers and Great Men; Emblems and Qualities; Gardens of Delight; Fauns and Satyres and Shepherds; Notes; Glossary; Index of First Lines. Light browning to free endpapers, light browning to frontispiece tissue - causing minor toning to frontispiece and title page, small crease to tiny crease at top corner of pages 197 to 222, creases and wrinkles to fore-edge and top corner of pages 223 to 230, small soft wrinkle to top corner of pages 231 to 238, minor rubbing to top edge gilt, light wrinkling to top/bottom of spine, very light edge wear, minor rubbing on rear board.. Not… Read More

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993. 416 pp, 8 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "W.B. Yeats included almost every sort of Irish folk tale in this marvelous compendium of fairy tales and song which he collected and edited for publication in 1892. Here are tales of the chilling wail of the Banshee, whose cry portends death, and of the fish-tailed Merrow, whose beautiful women spurn their green-haired husbands for handsome local fishermen. There are bewitched puddings, lost wishes, fairies, changelings, Leprechauns, ghosts, giants, devils and kings that touch our souls and fire our imagination. Not coincidentally, it is in the weath of symbol within Irish folklore that Yeats found the key to his personal and individual mythology - the muse of his poetic genius." The stories are gathered under the headings: The Fate of the Children of Lir; The Trooping Fairies (The Fairies / Changelings / The Merrow); The Solitary Fairies; Ghosts; Witches, Fairy Doctors; Tyeer-Na-N-Oge; Saints, Priests; The… Read More

Boston: Little Brown, 1990. Unpaginated (approx. 32 pp), 11 1/4" H. Beautiful color illustrations throughout. "This ingenious alphabet book features an assortment of elves from A to Z. Each illuminated elf presents a different letter in a unique way. Some elves are clever, some are mischievous, all are endearing. Look inside and see if you can find everything alphabetical from alligator to zipper and all that comes in between." One tiny corner bump, small bump at bottom of spine. Dust jacket has very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds. . 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good+. Illus. by Lauren Mills..

London: Martin Dunitz, 1999. 101 pp, 7 3/8' H. Contents: Introduction; Depressive disorders in women; Premenstrual syndromes and premenstural dysphoric disorder; Mood disorders associated with childbearing; Mood disorders associated with menopause; Appendices; References; Index. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - waviness through book.. Second Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good-.

Sault Ste. Marie / Grand Rapids: Young's Art Studio / James Bayne Co. Unpaginated (approx. 58 pp, excluding covers), oblong (6 3/4" H x 9" D), with string ties. No date (c1910). Title page continues: "Mammoth Power Developed and Industries Established - The Growth of Two Large Cities - In the Land of Hiawatha." Two page introduction, followed by b&w photographs with captions (some fold-out), showing the locks and their surroundings, including pictures of power houses, industries, shipping, fishing, etc. Also some 'set up' views from the poem 'Hiawatha'. Interior - most pages have a very small soft crease or curl at corners - one has a sharp corner crease, one page with a 1" archivally taped margin tear and one with a tiny repaired tear, some very light soiling to some pages, one fold-out picture has fore-edge creases another has several corner creases at fore-edge Exterior - covers have moderate edge wear, corner creases, one tiny corner piece… Read More

Mildmay, Ontario : Mother Press, 1990. 279 pp, 8vo (8 5/16" H). "Suzanne is freshly out of a squirelly marriage, doing the two-step around loneliness, rejection, lust and more mess. Three children give her reason to get up in the morning, the singles' dance provides reason to stay up late, and the interactions between dancers three sandwiches short of a picnic, are almost enough for Suzanne to lose reason altogether. To know Suzanne is to love yourself." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edgewear, small bump at top of rear hinge, slight bump at bottom of spine, slight fading and browning on spine, small ghost sticker mark on rear cover.. Soft Cover. Very Good-.

Town of Oakville, (Oakville, Ontario, c1957). 48 pp, 8vo, card covers. B&w photos, drawings. A local history of Oakville, Ontario covering the its first one hundred years - shops, houses, businesses, transportation, mayors, schools, churches, etc. etc. Interior - small name stamp on free fro nt endpaper and inside of rear cover, a few tiny light foxing spots, pages browning lightly at edges - otherwise clean and tight. Exterior - covers browning lightly at edges, very light pen mark on rear cover. VG.

Liverpool: Self-published / Printed by Ashley Printing. Unpaginated (60 pp + covers) 11 9/16" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions, map. Contents: Introduction; Woodchurch (with notes on Arrowe Hall); Upton; Greasby (with notes on the Greasby Smallpox Hospital); Irby; Frankby; Thurstaston; Dawpool. Includes some lists of villagers mentioned in a 1901 directory. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wrinkling, very light rubbing and soiling on covers, slight ink smudging on front cover decoration.. Stapled in Wraps. Very Good.

London: Edward Arnold, 1958. 64 pp, 9 1/4" H. Colour frontispiece, b&w illustrations throughout, plus music notation. "This book is written to provide lively reading matter for children who are just beginning French. If used as a course book by children of pre-grammar school age, it should ensure that, by the time the children come to a serious study of the language, they will have assimilated - almost unconsciously - a wide everyday vocabulary and a knowledge of simple grammatical construction. No vocabulary is included in this book. New words, as they occur, will generally be recognized from the pictures, or be easily guessed at by their context." An imaginative retelling of the story of Noah's Ark, with charming illustrations and songs. Interior - previous owner's name in ink and a tiny ink mark on verso of frontispiece, small ink mark at bottom of front cover, soft bump to top corner of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - very… Read More

Queensland, Nova Scotia: Self-published, 1991. 79 pp, 8 15/16" H. In dust wrapper which repeats design on front cover. Inscribed on page 5: "For ____ and ________; With the Warmest Wishes of the Author, George Young of Queensland N.S. Christmas, 2001." B&w photographs, drawing. "The Short Triangle was an area bounded by drawing a line from Cape Race Newfoundland to Cape Hatteras then, to Bermuda and, back to Cape Race. Many a fierce engagement took place in these waters and this then, is the story of one. Sometimes, convoys moved on their errands unmolested for several weeks at a time but, when the submarines of the enemy pounced, they usually did so with a vengeance. This narrative is based upon events that actually took place. The ships names are of those who were there. The author was there also." A fictionalized version of events that took place in the summer of 1942 off the coasts of New England and Nova Scotia. Interior - minor rust on staples, otherwise… Read More

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1990. 96 pp, oblong 4to (11 5/16" H x 12 3/4" D). Pictorial endpapers. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w with reproductions, drawings, photographs. "For forty years (John Young) has painted the rich pageant of colour and atmosphere which surrounds aeroplanes. Having been initially fired with enthusiasm as a child by Alan Cobham's Flying Circus and spent his schooldays under skies filled with the planes of the Second World War, he went to art school and then into the RAF for National Service. All the time he was developing his artistic skills, and taking every opportunity to combine his painting with his great love of the flying machine. In a constant search for authenticity, he has travelled across the world and flown in more than sixty types of aircraft. This book is a portfolio of John Young's finest work, with more than forty large colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations featuring aircraft from before the First… Read More

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998. 248 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "Internet addiction is real. Like alcoholism, drug addiction, or compulsive gambling, it has devastating effects on the lives of addicts and their families: divorce, job loss, falling productivity at work, failure in school, and, in extreme cases, criminal behavior. The problem has already reached epidemic proportions in the United States, and the number of 'netaholics' continues to grow rapidly as more households and businesses go on-line. (In this book the author) shares the results of her three-year study of Internet abuse. Often using the words of the Internet addicts themselves, she presents the stories of dozens of lives that were shattered by an overwhelming compulsion to surf the Net, play MUD games, or chat with distant and invisible neighbors in the timeless limbo of cyberspace. Why is the Internet so seductive? What are the warning signs of Internet addiction? Is recovery possible? Dr. Young answers these… Read More

Osprey, (Reading, 1971). 40 pp + 8 pp plates, 9 3/4" H, soft cover. Profusely illustrated with b&w reproductions, drawings, 8 pages of color uniform studies. Contents: Chronology; Regimental History; Personalities; Uniforms of the Consular Guard; Uniforms of the Imperial Guard; Guidons and Standards; Appendices - Numbers of Officers killed and wounded, 1805-15; Senior Officer casualties. Interior - light browning to margins of pages and inside of covers, light cigarette odor. Exterior - heavy browning to covers and edges of textblock, soiling on bottom of textblock, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Good.

London: William Kimber, 1967. 286 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs, maps, reproductions, colour plates. "(Brigadier Young) illustrates his theme from a wide range of engagements: fire power at Maida and Le Cateau; Marlborough putting into practice the rules for the conduct of war propounded by General Fuller; Wellington's tactics against Napoleon's strategy; light infantry in America and cavalry in the Crimea. From his pages emerge the unique qualities of the British Army, its determination and its traditional non-involvement with politics, which distinguish it from the conscript armies of the Continent. It is a fascinating survey with some original conclusions, important reassessments and a few shrewd cracks at the politicians of all periods." Bump to corners of boards, bottom of spine and top/bottom edge of rear board, boards slightly curved, small watermark on top of textblock removing dye, three blocks of pages have browning to the edges of the textblock. Dust… Read More

London: Bison, 1987. 514 pp, 8 5/8" H. B&w photographs, drawings, tables, colour section with photographs and maps. "The most comprehensive single-volume reference work on the Second World War ever published. The main body of the text is the day-to-day chronology of political and diplomatic events and developments in all the major land, sea and air campaigns, which traces events from 1919 through the whole of the war and the immediate postwar period. The second section covers the weapons used in World War II. There are Land, Sea and Air sections in which technical descriptions of the key equipment of each of the major combatants are given and their performances in action described and compared. The final section gives brief biographies of the important personalities of the war - military and political leaders, diplomats and journalists, spies and air aces." Light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light edge wear, moderate edge wrinkling - mainly on rear panel,… Read More

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode , 1956. 298 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H). B&w photographs, maps. "(T)akes you into the arcadian Minho and the grim ruins of Celt-Iberian civilization; from the fever of vintaging in the Douro, down a line of empty, upland castles, to the fado singers of Lisbon. It is concerned also with Moorish tiles, shepherds in tail-coats of sheepskin, and students in ragged, black cloaks. This is one of the most comprehensive books which have been written about Portugal. The unique Portuguese architecture, the little-known Portuguese painting, bull-fighting, food, wine, hotels, village dances and religious fesitivals, are all part of this story: the story of two people who explored a small country and discovered its greatness." Chapter headings: Once in a Blue Moon; Minho: Carnival in Arcady; Tras-os-Montes: 'Behind the Mountains'; Douro: The Yellow Cat; Port - Oporto - Portugal; Beira Litoral: The Chiselled Heart; Coimbra: The Ladies of Diverse Love ;… Read More

Paris: Centurion, 1980. 336 pp, 8 7/8" H. B&w illustrations. This is the paperback edition, rebound by the previous owner in full dark blue leather with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. The original front cover has been bound in at the front, with the flaps, spine and rear cover at the rear. Previous owner's chop mark (stamp) on one preliminary page, a 2" dia area of very light fading in centre of front board leather - also a small area at bottom of front cover.. Full-Leather. Very Good+.