Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Austin's Antiquarian Books

Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999. Second Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Quarto; pp; xiv, (ii), 293, index; profusely illustrated with black and white photographs, cartoons; tan cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. When Babe Ruth pitched and slugged the Boston Red Sox to a six-game World Series victory over the Chicago Cubs in 1918, there was every expectation that the team would continue to dominate the national pastime. It would be another eighty years before fans were delivered from the Curse of the Bambino. Now they -- and baseball fans everywhere -- can relive that glory season as told by the sportswriters and cartoonists of the day. This lavishly illustrated work offers illuminating detail on the games, the players, and the times, and it contains a treasure trove of baseball lore. Readers will find out why and when the Star Spangled Banner (before it was the national anthem) was played before games and they will learn why the threatened player strike over… Read More

New York: Brentano's, 1920. First Edition. Full leather. Very good. Harry Clarke. (1920). Smalll quarto (8" x 10.75"), full blind stamped leather with gilt spine title and title embossed on cover, with embossing imitating clasps. Top edge gilt. 127, (1)pp. 12 color and 12 in black and cream plates by Clarke. Many tailpieces. The plates are all clean and bright. There is a thumbprint size stain in the margin of page 52, not affecting any illustration or text. The corners and fore-edge are a little worn, but the head and tail and spine are sound and undamaged. A stunning piece of printing with illustrations by Harry Clarke. Contributors to the poetry include: L. D' O. Walters; H. H. Abbott; HIlaire Belloc; P. R. Chalmers; G. K. Chesterton; Frances Cornford; W. H. Davies; Walter De La Mare; John Drinkwater; Rose Fyleman; W. W. Gibson; Robert Graves; Ralph Hodgson; Teresa Hooley; Margaret Mackenzie; Irene R, MacLeod; John Masefield; Alice Maynell; Harold Monro; Sarojini Naidu; H. D. C. Pepler; James… Read More

Norman: University Of Oklahoma Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto; pp; xv, (i), (2), 3-287, index; profusely illustrated with black and white photographs and maps; terra-cotta cloth lettered in gilt on the spine with a inset title label on the board in a pictorial jacket;. The plates chronicle the changes in points within the Park photographed over a century. An indispensable addition to any Yellowstone Collection.

Portland: Frank Amato Publications, 1992. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very good. Quarto; pp. 96 with bibliography; profusely ilustrated with color photographs, and a map; pictorial paper wrappers. Color plates of the best flies to fish the river.

New York: The Macmillan company, (nd). A Chanticleer Press Edition. Quarto. Good in good or better jacket. Boards splayed. Small soil specks on boards. Top edge foxed. Text block tight. Jacket lightly scratched wtih light edgewear at head and tail.. Illustrated with numerous photographs by Charles Steinhacker and others.. yellow cloth in dust jacket.

(New York): Basil Blackwell, 1986. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; (vi), 202, Index; black cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. Translated from the Italian, this work captures Freud in his younger years in the milieu of late nineteenth-century Vienna.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1941. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Quarto; pp; 80-102, summary, bibliography; Illustrated, map, chart, plates; original printed green paper wrappers; Ex-Reading Museum with just a call number upper right of wrapper, no other markings what-so-ever. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries Volume 50, bulletin 36.

New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1945. Wraps. Very good. Octavo; pp; 37, index; Illustrated with photographs; original printed pictorial paper wrappers;. Advice for new parents.

Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1989. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; xx, (iv), 268, index; green cloth lettered in gilt in a dust jacket;. Greene was a compulsive letter writer. Yet as a great writer his letters are compelling. An interesting and lively collection of the popular British novelist's letters to the press as published over more than four decades, often caustically responding to critics or merely expounding on various themes and ideas.

Boston: Perry Mason & Company, 1904. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Quarto. pp; 393-400; illustrated; Within some brief News of Adm. Peary; Previously folded, now smoothed, very good. Primarily a TR Related Cover.

Boston: Perry Mason & Company, 1906. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Quarto; pp; 73-84; illustrated; Hepburn Railroad Act & Oklahoma Statehood; Previously folded, now smoothed, very good. Primarily a TR Related Cover.

Boston: Perry Mason & Company, 1905. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Quarto. pp; 593-604; illustrated; Previously folded, now smoothed, very good. Primarily a TR Related Cover.

Boston: Perry Mason & Company, 1907. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Quarto. pp; 49-60; illustrated; Interior news on the Brownsville Affair, & the Panama Canal. Previously folded, now smoothed, very good. Primarily a TR Related Cover.

Boston: Perry Mason & Company, 1905. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Quarto. pp; 333-340; illustrated; Interior news on Peary's Expedition. Previously folded, now smoothed, very good. Primarily a TR Related Cover.

Boston: Perry Mason & Company, 1905. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Quarto; pp; 175-184; illustrated; Also a tale by Jack London; Previously folded, now smoothed, very good. Primarily a TR Related Cover.