Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

New York.: HarperAudio., 2005. Unabridged.. Audiobook CD. Very good in good dust jacket. Packaging has side block creases.. 1 Audience: General/trade. Award-winning bestseller in print revealed the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s, then roars through 60 years of marriage, children, and family secrets. It was Rebecca Wells's sequel to "Little Alters Everywhere". Award-winning stage and screen actor Judith Ivey performs this work, without abridgement.

New York / London.: W. W. Norton & Company., 1971. 9th printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Surface wear to cover. Top spine end minor damage to jacket. Top page block dusting.. Simon, Chris (Cover design by).. 1 Navy blue cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. 373 p. B&W line art, diagrams, charts. Appendix; Index. Audience: General/trade. Author Prefaces; Tools & Materials; Preliminary Design; The Lines; Construction & Joiner Plans; The Sail Plan; Specifications.

Garden City NY.: Doubleday & Company., 1969. First edition. 1st U.S. printing.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Jacket has tears, repaired w/ clear tape.. 1 Sturdy navy blue cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. 255 p. 22 cm. B&W photo sections. Color photo jacket, kids w/ mountain backdrop. Himalayan mountain adventurer Sir Edmund Hillary and spouse Louise introduced their children and a new yak animal friend. This is their account.

Rutland VT.: Academy Books., 1994. Trade paperback. Fine. Signed by author. Short back cover edge blemish.. 1 Illustrated paper covers in b&W w/ dark blue titles. 89 p. 22 cm. Pen&Ink artwork and photos, map. Born before the Great Depression, John Henry Francis, possessed insight about people, putting their stories into songs for his guitar and stories for his Vermont newspaper column, "I Remember Chittenden" in the "Slab City Messenger". His work is characterized by oral folk tradition, a sense of place, and pride in Vermont.

East Hebron NH / Portland ME.: Pasquaney Press / The Anthoensen Press, production., 1987. First edition. Presemed first.. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Moinor cover corner curl; Edge foxing, soil spots. Clean pages.. Stanhope, Dennis (Illustrattions by). 1 Blue sealed paper covers, white titles. xii, 227 p. 23 cm. Pen&Ink Illustrations. Index. Boston native, with printer's ink-stained hands in Vermont and New Hampshire, Edward J Bennett here has presented a collection of his experiences at various newspapers and from serving in the NH Legislature, including notes on the (shocking) practice of receiving hedgehog noses as evidence for bounty payment when serving as a junior selecman. He served as editor of both weeklies and dailies.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1960. First edition.. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket.. 1 299 p. 22 cm. Biography of geometrician, physicist, mechanical philosopher, and dreamer who designed and built the Monitor Ironclad ship (Civil War era), the first practical steam fire engine, and ingenious screw propeller, and the first locomotive to run a mile in less than a minute. Appendices: Last Will & Testament; List, Contributions to Centennial; Partial List of Ericsson Articles; Ackomwledgments; Bibliography.

Boston: Little, Brown and company, 1944. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket.. 0 xvii p., 2 l., [3]-475 p. incl. illus. (facsim. ), geneal. tables., front., ports. 22 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Portraits, Facsimiles, Genealogical tables. An Atlantic monthly press book. "Published 1944,

Yankee Books., 1980. Excerpted from larger collection.. Trade paperback. Very good. Minor cover wear. Clean inside.. 1 64 p. Illustrated paper covers. Stapled binding. 5.5x8.5in. Cooking: 100 kitchen-tested recipes, a "premium" promotional edition created from the larger, 238-page, "The Yankee Church Supper Cookbook" published in 1980. The compilation lists the contributor, church and location for each recipe. Thus, a "sampler", this edition's cover shows a white-steepled church in needlepoint by Jean MacLeod.

Yankee Publishing / Globe Pequot., 1999. 1st printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Small prior price inside, pencil mark over. Single light spine crease.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. B&W photos. Yankee Magazine Guidebook. Vintage tour guide, late 20th century. Feature: "What the Locals Know". Local travel resources, maps.26 travel writer stories. Sampler: prettiest towns.

Dublin NH.: Yankee Inc., 1977. Stated 1st.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor edgewear. Back cover moderate crease.. Orlando, Robert (Designed by).. 1 Trade paperback. 160 p. B&W photos. 23 cm. The First, the Last, the Only, the Greatest, the Oldest, the Smallest, the Coldest, the Longest, the Largest, the Strongest, and Many Other Noteworthy...Chapters: Looking Back; Ingenuity; Economic Endeavors; Ships & the Sea; Moments; Folks; Politics & Punishments; Creative Achievements; Sports & Games; Outdoors; Architectural Oddities. Cover photo: Elmer Bitgood, Votuntown CT, the strongest man in New England; d. 1938.

Dublin NH.: Yankee Inc., 1985. Wraps. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Light cover surface wear.. Brush, Jerome (Art Advising by), and Sterns, Jos. (Cover drawing by), and Tolman, Francis W P (2 woodcuts by). 1 Paper magazine cover. 60 p. Includes illustrations. Blue and white historic reprint edition. 8.5x11in. Stapled binding. Advertsiements, stories, B&W drawings, artwork. In 2010, Yankee Magazine celebrated its 75th Anniversary of its monthly periodical chronicling New England strories, poetry, people, and traditions. This edition is a facsimile of the very first publication in 1935. Special Features include: Agriculture; Textiles; America Takes Up Forestry; Shoe Industry in New Hampshire; Book Lady of the Air; Dreams and Observations. Other themes: Country Dance; Gertrude Stein (about) a satirical play; Keene NH; Concord NH; Election Day.

Dublin NH.: Yankee Publishing Inc., 1975. Premium Edition. No print line.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. Jenks, Aleta R., and Porter, J., and Tremblay, Chris (Cover deisigned by). 1 Trade PB in yellow-red-bordered covers; B&W art. Stapled binding. Grayscale photos inside. 64 p. Subtitle: "You Ask...'What's a Whatsit? ' It's a gadget, it's a gimcrack--and it's a game. Can you tell nose tongs from corn huskers? A horn straightener from a cooper's froe? Here are more than 100 photos, hints, and--for the uninitiated--answers. How many Whatsits can you name? "

Scranton PA: International Textbook Company. No date. Calculations' copyright 1903, 1905, 1942, 1943.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Top spine: fraying starting. Lower end and corners, slight wear.. 0 Includes: illustrations, diagrams. Sections by category of raw material. Each of 7 sections starts w/ page 1. Black cloth covered boards. Spine gold titles w/ decorations. Yarn & Cloth: Cotton, woolen, worsted. Mechanical calculations show detailed drawings of gears, pulleys, rolls. '1B' on title page. On back inside cover in pencil, 2 lines: 275, 8/14/47.

Reading MA.: Addison Wesley Publishing Company., 1980. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Top and bottom edge water stain to dustjacket, and to top edge inside. Does not deter from text.. Arnosky, Jim (Illustrated by, woodcut style). 1 90 p. B&W illustrations, mostly plates, some integrated with text. Bright green DJ w/boxed cover illustration, white and black titles. Red textured paper covered boards. A book about small town living, a simpler time, and agrarian chores done side by side, a boy and his father. And, there's an adventure or two with another.

New York.: J. Lowell Pratt., 1964. 1st, The American Sports Library edition, F115 (1954 Norton). Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. White marks inside cover edge (paint? ). Spine sun-faded but readable.. 1 Mass-market paperback. 184 p.; 18 cm.; 3 p. ads inside at end for Sports Library listings. Sports & Theater: Broadway Hit "Damn Yankees" from original, Motion Picture; "An authentic baseball fable..."

Philadelphia / New York.: J B Lippincott., 1976. First edition. Stated 1st edition.. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Signed by previous owner. Tightly-bound. Slight spine tilt. Former owner: Newport Clock Museum, NH., gifted to Richards Free Library.. Ruud, Ivar (Photographs by).. 1 Black sealed textured cloth over boards. 240 p. 23 cm. B&W photo plates. Audience: General/trade.

[Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1927. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Tight. Foxing to end pages, page edges, some cover. Corners bumped, not exposing boards. Minor other blemishes.. 1 xxi, 1298 p.; 24 cm. B&W photos, charts, graphs, index. Green cloth covered boards, blue titles spine & cover. Issued also as 69th Congress, 2nd Session, House Document No. 660. Agricultural Statistics: Grains, Fruits & Vegetables, Non-grain Field Crops, Farm Animals & other Animal Products, Foreign Trade, more. Fronts lists many autors who submitted reports. Secretary of Agriculture was W.M. Jardine. His introduction includes Surplus Problem, Cooperative Marketing, much more.

New York.: Alfred A. Knopf., 1973. First edition. Stated first edition.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Signed by previous owner. Pre-printed bookplate, ducks in flight. Minor sun-fade to jacket.. Hoover, Adrian (Pen&Ink drawings by), and Fishbein, Golda (Jacket design by).. 1 Brown cloth over boards w/ green drawing of deer, front. 318 p. Audience: General/trade. Nature study; Habitat; Remote Minnesota. In 1956, Helen and Adrian Hoover fled city life to make a home in the Minnesota woods. For the first 6 years, their list of Things to Do (The Innocent Years) were to cut wood, Install wiring, clear brush and paths, clear trash, running water, make a living. A second List (The Years of Change) was undertaken in 1961: get another car, clear small cabin, finish interior, inside toilet, fix roof, take a vacation. Their 16 years recorded a life of "rewarding but unceasing labors" before completing their lists. It had been an education in wilderness housekeeping,… Read More

Boston.: Little, Brown., 1959. Book Club Edition. B.O.M.C.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Darkened top page block. Else near fine. Clean pages, unmarked.. 1 Decorated cloth and paper over boards. Ross photo portrait frontispiece; Thurber back jacket portrait. 310 p. 22 cm. Pen&Ink line art. Humorist's James Thurber offers notes about 'the colorful, crusty, naive perfectionist who created the sophisticated New Yorker magazine', front cover promo. Memoir of Harold Ross by one of his discoveries and major contributors. Complete and Unabridged.

New York.: Dodd, Mead & Company / Burr Printing House., 1903. First edition. Same date, title and copyright pages, 1903.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Top front edge wear. Clean text pages. Back inside board end paper has crescent tear, repaired w/ clear tape.. Wilson, Iscai (Illustrations by).. 1 341 p. Black cloth over boards, decorated w/ large yellow titles, gray horizontal lines perpendicular to wider gray vertical block w/ tall pencil, two small crests w/ sword. Gold spine titles. 20 cm. 4 grayscale plates. Stitched binding. Edward Phillips Oppenheim (22 October 1866 3 February 1946) was an English novelist, a prolific writer of best-selling genre fiction, performance artist, sculptor, and photographer, (from Wikipedia).