Search Results: Titles starting with Y from The Sensible Magpie

Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Powers, Richard M. . Mild shelfwear. Light rubbing to edges. Text top and fore-edges lightly spotted. Dustjacket very good. Sunning to spine. Age-tanned. A little chipping to edges but now Mylar protected. Red lettering to spine and front of blue cloth-covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. Clean, bright, tight. 304 pp. Stories from whalers out of Sag Harbor, New Bedford, Nantucket, and New London to the waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Great captains such as Pollard, Chase, Hussey, and Tilton "sail their way through the incredible tales in this book.

NEW YORK: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. N.C. Wyeth. Early printing of Rawlings's classic tale of a boy befriending a fawn in the Florida backwoods. Twelve lovely illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. Black boards with decorative paste-on depicting Jody, the fawn named Flag, seated on a skin rug before a red rocking chair. Rubbing to extremities, but very solid, unmarked copy. Decorated endpapers.

New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. SHARP CORNERS. Dustjacket near fine. Very mild shelfwear. Gilt lettering crisply debossed to spine of white cloth-covered boards. Bright red endpapers. Front jacket cover shows photographs of such journalists as Stephen Crane, Sylvester "Harry" Scovel, Joseph Pulitzer, George Rea, James Creelman, Cora Taylor Crane, Richard Harding Davis and William Randolph Hearst. Volume is clean, bright and tight. 412 pp with notes, bibliography and index. "There is much more to the phenomenon of so-called yellow journalism than the few clichès that have become part of American history. Joyce Milton tells the full story -- rich in detail, adventure, wit, humor, and tragedy -- in an absolutely absorbing narrative that brings to life some of the colorful figures to leave their mark on the cultural and social history of this nation," (jacket flaps).

New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1983. First Thus edition.. Maroon cloth. Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. Antonio Frasconi. Woodcuts: Antonio Frasconi. VERY light rubbing to extremities. Tight and bright.

Argolis,Greece: Dougherty, 1974. Paperback. Very Good. Light scuffing and wear to small white book with color illustrated front cover. Book store stamp to front endpaper. Line drawings. Clean, bright, solid binding. 61 pp. Advertisemtents to rear of book. The far-fetched story of Georgios, the donkey.

Lakemont, GA: CSA Press, 1976. Hardcover. VERY GOOD MINUS in Very Good Minus DJ. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to preliminary endpaper. Dustjacket is semi-attached to book due to the red dye of boards to bleed onto white jacket. Black and white photographs. Brick-red, cloth-covered boards. 202 pp with glossary. Clean, tight, bright. "An exposition of the philosophy behind the practice of Yoga, and a concise program of the procedures leading to liberation of the spirit," (front flap).

New York: Samuel Marks, 1824. Hardcover. GOOD PLUS. ACTUAL BOOK. ORIGINAL RED FULL LEATHER BINDING. Previous owner's notes to FPDEP. Missing preliminary pages before title page plus rear free endpaper. Foxing, heavy age-tanning to edges and text. Moderately worn leather covers with .125" inch chip from spine cap and wear to corners. Gilt lettering within red, 1" square box, double gilt lines spaced every 1", to spine. Solidly bound! 232 pp. "Calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners ; Improve the Understanding ; ...speaking the English Language, with elegance and propriety....Particularly adapted for the use of our eminent Schools and Academies, as well as Private Persons, who have not an opportunity of perusing the Works of those celebrated Authors, from whence this Collection is made. Divided into small portions for the use of reading in classes," (title page).

New York: The William-Frederick Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD IN SUNNED AND TORN DJ. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. A fast-moving story of college life and a striking argument in favor of fraternal organizations at colleges and universities. 131 pp. Sunning to DJ. Open and closed tears to DJ, notably a one-inch open tear to spine. Rubber stamp mark along with author's inscription on FFEP. Previous owner's bookplate on half-title. Slight tanning to pages. No markings.

NEW YORK: DA CAPO PRESS, 1972. FIRST THUS. HARDCOVER. NEAR FINE / NO DJ AS ISSUED. Unabridged republication of Bulletin # 110 (1932) of The Smithsonian Institution. U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology. Photographs. Musical Notations.Very minor shelf rubbing and a bit of light soiling to edge.

London: Oxford University Press, 1964. Hardcover. FINE. FINE. Frontispiece reproduction British Library MS. Cotton Galba E. IX, f. 23. Gilt lettering to spine and front of chestnut-brown, cloth-covered boards. Society's device to front board. Thin in-blind rules border front and rear board. 146 pp with commentary, glossary and index. Eight pages Officers and Council to rear of book. Clean, tight, bright. Ancient romance.