Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Yesterday's Muse Books

New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. A few faint smudges to page ridges. Jacket lightly toned. 2005 Hard Cover. 258 pp. "For readers everywhere who are ga-ga for the Ya-Yas and clamoring for more and for those who are lucky enough to be discovering the Ya-Yas for the first time, comes a new book about the incomparable Sisterhood, bursting with life and funnier than ever.... An emotionally charged addition to Rebecca Wells' award-winning bestseller Little Altars Everywhere and #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, YA-YAS IN BLOOM reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and roars with all the raw power of Vivi Abbott Walker's 1962 T-Bird through sixty years of marriage, child-raising, and hair-raising family secrets. When four-year-old Teensy Whitman prisses one time too many and stuffs a big… Read More

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1895. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 0x0x0. Pritchett, R.T. Second edition. Both volumes: Minor general wear. 1895 Hard Cover. xvi, 430; xvi, 488 pp. Two volume set. VOLUME ONE CONTENTS: Introduction; Ocean Cruising; Corinthian Deep-Sea Cruising; The Evolution of the Modern Racing Yacht; Sliding Keels and Centreboards; Recollections of Schooner Racing; The Racing Rules and the Rules of Rating; Yacht's Sailing Boats; Small Yacht Racing on the Solent; Fitting Out a Fifty-Tonner to Go Foreign; Baltic Cruising; Five-Tonners and Five-Raters in the North; Index. VOLUME II CONTENTS: Royal Yachts and English Yacht Clubs; Scottish Clubs; Irish Clubs; The Thames Clubs and Windermere; Yachting on the Norfolk Broads; Yachting in America; Yachting in New Zealand; Foreign and Colonial Yachting; Some Famous Races; Racing in a 40-Rater in 1892; Yacht Racing in 1893; The American Yachting Season of 1893; The America Cup Races, 1893; Yacht Racing in 1894; Index.

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Publishing Association, 1909. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Boards lightly soiled with a couple light spots on front. 1909 Hard Cover. xii, 191 pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles. An interesting collection of first appearances: this volume represents the first book appearance of Sinclair Lewis (his contributions Behind the Arras, Exit Homo, Father Kileen, Odysseus at Ogygia, Puck, to Queen Mab, Saint Hubert, and When Viziers Speak are credited in the contents to H.S. Lewis because his real name first name was Harry), and the first appearances in print of Leonard Bacon and William Rose Benet. It was also the first published work of Robert Moses, then editor of the Yale Courant, who went on to become an extremely influential urban planner with a focus on public works. He is the subject of Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize winning biography The Power Broker. This is the third volume collecting verse by Yale students (the others were released in… Read More

New York: Penguin Books, 2011. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x1. First printing. Light edge wear, sticker on front flyleaf. 2011 Trade Paperback. xxviii, 451 pp. "Imagine you could eavesdrop on a dinner party with three of the most fascinating historical figures of all time. In this landmark book, a gifted Harvard historian puts you in the room with Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt as they meet at a climactic turning point in the war to hash out the terms of the peace. The ink wasn't dry when the recriminations began. The conservatives who hated Roosevelt's New Deal accused him of selling out. Was he too sick' Did he give too much in exchange for Stalin's promise to join the war against Japan' Could he have done better in Eastern Europe' Both Left and Right would blame Yalta for beginning the Cold War. Plokhy's conclusions, based on unprecedented archival research, are surprising. He goes against conventional wisdom-cemented during the Cold War- and… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books, 1973. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8x5x0. First edition. Minor general wear. 1973 Trade Paperback. 159 pp. Yamashita Tomoyuki, also called Yamashita Hōbun, byname Tiger Of Malaya, (born Nov. 8, 1885, Kōchi, Japan—died Feb. 23, 1946, Manila, Phil.), Japanese general known for his successful attacks on Malaya and Singapore during World War II.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1974. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x8x1. First edition. Jacket spine head and spine base bumped with minor tears. Spine pushed. 1974 Large Hardcover. 466 pp. "From the uniquely rich and varied collection of children's literature in the Library of Congress, here is a rich sampling of writings and illustrations created for young readers in America from colonial times to 1900. ...There are samples of traditional and popular tales, rhymes, riddles, and street cries, as well as chapbooks, primers, storybooks, and magazines.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publisher, 1965. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Second printing. Jacket edges rubbed with surface tears and chips. Boards soiled, page ridge foxed, ink stamp on half-title page. 1965 Hard Cover. 270 pp. "...the Yankee peddlers of early America were more than street hawkers. Enterprising, shrewd, and endearing, they were the ancestors of the nineteenth-century tycoon and the twentieth-century businessman. Carrying their wares with them, they crossed unsettled lands to reach the pioneer. ...But the peddler did more than spur commerce. He brought civilization with him from the towns to the newly settled regions. ...Dolan, in tracing the progress of the Yankee peddler over three hundred years, gives a fascinating picture of the daily life of early Americans--what they bought from the peddler, what they wore, what they ate and drank, and how they traveled." Black and white illustrations included.

Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1931. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Schoonover, Frank E. Lightly stained along base, boards lightly soiled, bottom corner bumped. 1931 Hard Cover. 317 pp. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles, gold, white, and mint green decoration on front board. Color double title page, three color plates by Frank E. Schoonover, one mirrored on front jacket panel. A beautifully illustrated vintage tale of adventure on the high seas, published in 1931. Perfect for any fan of the Hornblower series, Treasure Island, etc.

Armor Plate Press, 2010. First Edition. Large Softcover. Fine. First edition. A fine copy. 2010 Large Softcover. 248 pp. Color frontispiece. "In 1917, as the United States joined the fight against Germany and the Central Powers, the American Army had little to offer in terms of equipment or expertise. But by the fall of 1918, and the war's climactic battles, the American doughboys possessed more firepower than any other army on the battlefield. In this collection of more than 200 wartime images, photo collector Tom Laemlein examines the weapons of the Americans in the trenches, the guns that provided the catalyst for ultimate victory in the Great War.

New York: Touchstone, 2002. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Good. 98x16x148. 1st printing. Remainder mark, page ridge soiled. 2002 Trade Paperback. xiv, 353 pp. 8vo. Includes 16 maps and a section of black-and-white photographs. A full account of the American involvement in World War I, by the former U.S. Army officer and son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

New York: Touchstone, 2002. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x1x9. First paperback printing. Remainder mark on page base. 2002 Trade Paperback. xiv, 353 pp. 8vo. Includes 16 maps and a section of black-and-white photographs. A full account of the American involvement in World War I, by the former U.S. Army officer and son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. No jacket. Gilt on spine and front board rubbed, pencil name on front free endpaper. 1934 Hard Cover. 275 pp. A collection of sketches which may bring out in a way the human side of Navy life, which might be of interest to those not associated with the daily life and experiences of a naval man.

S.N, 1899. Small Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Martin, H.B. No publisher information or date (circa late 1800s/early 1900s). No jacket. Spine lightly faded, minor chip along top edge of first few pages. 1899 Small Hard Cover. Unpaginated. Red cloth boards. Floral decorative endpapers. Roster and 16 pages of ads follow text. Illustrated with half-tone photographs and original drawings by H. B. Martin. War stories from the American Civil War.

Georgetown: Georgetown University, 1925. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Light general wear. 1925 Large Hardcover. The 1925 yearbook for Georgetown University. Contents include: College; Military; Medicine; Law; Dental; Foreign Service; Graduate; Fraternities; Athletics.

New York: Bantam Books, 1985. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x1x6. Book club edition. Light edge wear, jacket edges faintly toned. 1985 Hard Cover. 342 pp. General Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all -- the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound . . .the World War II flying ace who shot down a Messerschmitt jet with a prop-driven P-51 Mustang . . .the hero who defined a certain quality that all hotshot fly-boys of the postwar era aimed to achieve: the right stuff.

New York: Penguin Books, 2014. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. First printing. Top edge of rear cover bumped, edge wear to spine head and spine base. 2014 Trade Paperback. 368 pp. Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change had come on a global scale: across Asia (including China, Korea, Indochina, and the Philippines, and of course Japan) and all of continental Europe. Out of the often vicious power struggles that ensued emerged the modern world as we know it. In human terms, the scale of transformation is almost impossible to imagine. Great cities around the world lay in ruins, their populations decimated, displaced, starving. Harsh revenge was meted out on a wide scale, and the ground was laid for much horror to come. At the same time, in the wake of unspeakable loss, the euphoria of the liberated was extraordinary, and the revelry unprecedented. The… Read More

New York: Harper Perennial, 2006. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 0x5x8. Third printing. Pages toned. 2006 Trade Paperback. xix, 394, 16 pp. "1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen. James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare’s staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599, bringing together the news and the intrigue of the times with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright. The result is an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history.

New York: A Giniger Book / Paragon House, 1982. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x5x1. Reprint. Corners bumped. 1982 Hard Cover. xxv, 478 pp. The Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October – 11 November 1942) was a battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. The First Battle of El Alamein and the Battle of Alam el Halfa had prevented the Axis from advancing further into Egypt. In August 1942, General Claude Auchinleck had been relieved as Commander-in-Chief of Middle East Command and his successor, Lieutenant-General William Gott was killed on his way to replace him as commander of the Eighth Army. Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery was appointed and led the Eighth Army offensive. The Allied victory at El Alamein was the beginning of the end of the Western Desert Campaign, eliminating the Axis threat to Egypt, the Suez Canal and the Middle Eastern and Persian oil fields. The battle revived the morale of the Allies, being… Read More

New York: Lake Union Publishing, 2018. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x1x8. First edition. Top corner of wrapper spine slightly wrinkled. 2018 Trade Paperback. 302 pp. Tracy Briggs has finally gotten her act together. She's focusing on her own life and helping her hearing-impaired son learn to talk. With her sister married and exploring a new career, Tracy has begun to run the family's magazine business and feels her life is pretty much perfect. That is, until her son's deadbeat dad shows up in Magnolia Grove asking for a second chance. Now that her son is getting the help he needs and a promising new romance with his teacher is in bloom, Tracy wants to keep her life just as it is. But her ex isn't taking no for an answer. And when a spirited elderly woman enters Tracy's life in an unexpected way, she'll have to work harder than ever to keep her new life on track. Torn between the past she knows and the uncertain future, Tracy must decide what is best for both… Read More

New York: Thomas Nelson, 2012. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x1x8. Tiny smudge to ridge. 2012 Trade Paperback. A Year of Biblical Womanhood is an exercise in scriptural exploration and spiritual contemplation. What does God truly expect of women, and is there really a prescription for biblical womanhood? Come along with Evans as she looks for answers in the rich heritage of biblical heroines, models of grace, and all-around women of valor.