Search Results: Titles starting with Y from David Brass Rare Books, Inc.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. A Fine First Edition of 'The Yearling' - Winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. Decorations by Edward Shenton. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition, first printing with Scribner "A" and seal printed on the copyright page. Octavo (6 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 209 x 143 mm.). [viii], 428 pp. With 34 woodcut chapter-headings (including illustration on title-page). Publisher's cream linen over boards, front cover decorated and titled in green,spine lettered in green. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with just a couple of tiny closed tears on the lower edge. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1895-1953) was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, is about a boy, Jody Baxter, who becomes friends with a young fawn after his father kills the fawn's mother. It was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1938,… Read More

London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1920. Harry Clarke Illustrates from Hilaire Belloc to William Butler Yeats Twelve superb color plates, Twelve tinted plates and twenty-two black and white Vignettes [CLARKE, Harry, illustrator]. [WALTERS, Lettice d'Oyly, compiler]. The Year's at the Spring. An Anthology of Recent Poetry Compiled by L. d'O. Walters and Illustrated by Harry Clarke. With an Introduction by Harold Monro. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.,1920. First UK trade edition. Quarto (10 7/16 x 8 inches; 265 x 203 mm.). [1-4], 5-127, [1] pp. Twelve full-page color plates, twelve full-page black and white plates, and twenty-two black and white vignettes. Publisher's light tan cloth over boards, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in black and red. Neat name and date (1922) on front paste-down. A fine copy. Contains poems by Hilaire Belloc, Rupert Brooke, G.K. Chesterton, W.H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, Alice Meynell, Harold… Read More

London: Reprinted and sold by all booksellers in town and country, 1791. Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy In a Wonderful Turn-of-the Century Inlaid Binding by Salvatore David DAVID, Salvatore, binder. STERNE, Laurence. Yorick's Sentimental Journey though France and Italy, &c. London: Reprinted and sold by all booksellers in town and country, 1791. Later edition. Four parts in one twelvemo volume (6 11/16 x 4 inches; 170 x 101 mm.). [ii], 279, [1, blank] pp. Six plates including frontispiece engraved by Stothard. Two stipple portraits 'Maria' and 'The Monk' engraved by Taylor after S. Shelley. Bound ca. 1900 by Salvatore David (stamped signed "S. David" on front turn-in). Full dark green crushed levant morocco, covers richly bordered in gilt with an inlaid red morocco strip surrounding an elaborate floral and basket-weave design inlaid in red morocco and stamped in gilt. Sine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments with inlaid… Read More

London: T.C. Newby, 1847. Illustrated by George Cruikshank with Four Full-Page Etched Plates and Two Glyphographs CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. [CHAMEROVZOW, Louis Alexis]. The Yule Log, for Everybody's Christmas Hearth; showing where it grew; how it was cut and brought home; and how it was burnt. By the author of "The Chronicles of the Bastile." Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: T.C. Newby, 1847. First edition. Crown octavo (6 3/8 x 4 inches; 162 x 101 mm.). [iv], [1]-190. Four full-page etched plates and two glyphographs (one full-page). Late nineteenth century half blue morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Gilt on spine a little dull. The etched plates very lightly foxed. A very good copy. Louis Alexis Chamerovzow (1816-1875). Anti-slavery campaigner and author. Secretary of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, transformed the memoirs of an illiterate black… Read More