Search Results: Titles starting with Y from The Bookworm

New York:: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970.. Revised Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: turquoise cloth; a Good book with a Very Good dust jacket.. Small 4to (about 10'' to 11'' tall) . Glossary. Description: Illustrated in b&w with photographs and diagrams.

San Francisco:: HarperSan Francisco, 1993.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: dark plum boards with dark blue cloth at the spine; a Fine book, with a Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) . Description: Panoramic dust jacket art by Tim Jessell. An pre-history novel set in ancient Europe. This brings to life a time when marauding nomads brought horses, male gods, and war to a Europe that had known peace for thousands of years. A tale of love and passion in the midst of intrigue and war.

New York:: Modern Library, 1939.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green cloth with black and gilt; the top edge tint is a dark shade; spine is slanted, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Fair dust jacket; the jacket is price clipped.. 12mo (7.25 inches tall) . Rockwell Kent endpapers. Description: This is book number 246 in the Modern Library series. The most recent printed date is a 1939 copyright. Using the ML dating key, this shows to be from Spring, 1954; the list of 370 titles on the verso of the jacket includes Byron, Selected Poetry; does not include Browning, Selected Poetry; the dust jacket rear panel style is h5; binding style 8.

Pleasantville, New York:: Reader's Digest, 1993.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: cream colored binding with dark green and gilt text and vignette; dark green at the spine; Very Good+ condition.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Green endpapers. Description: This is from the Reader's Digest World's Best Reading series. The text is complete and unabridged. Illustrations by Edward Shenton; afterword by Thomas DePietro. Includes the publisher's insert.

New York:: Harcourt, 2006.. 1st Edition, so stated; 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; a Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. oblong format: about 9.25 inches tall by 10.25 inches wide . Illustrated endpapers. Description: Vivid colorful illustrations by Julie Paschkis accompany this poetic 'bestiary'. As a sample -- here is the one used as the book title: ''Yellow elephant / in the jungle sun / in the day's yellow heat / trumpeting her song / and galumphing along / Oh / I think no other animal can / (I know a mosquito can't) / glow in the jungle sun / like a wild-eared / yellow elephant.'' There's also a brown mouse, black fish, red donkey, gray goose, and more.

Toronto:: Annick Press, 1990.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; owner's inscription, otherwise a Good book, no dust jacket.. 4to (about 11'' to 12.5'' tall) . Description: Open this book to reveal the inside of the yellow apartment house; the left hand side of the book has a poem about the house; the right hand side has six flaps to lift, one for the door of each apartment. Lifting the flaps reveals a short, illustrated story about the dwellers of each apartment.

Collegeville, Minnesota:: Liturgical Press, 1982.. Paperbound . BINDING/CONDITION: a trade-size paperback; Good condition.. 8vo (about 8 to 9.5 inches tall) . Indexes.

Lanham, Maryland:: Madison Books, 1994.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards; a Very Good book; the dust jacket has a hole in the rear panel (about the size of a fifty cent piece), otherwise a Very Good dust jacket; the dj is not price clipped.. Small 4to (about 10'' to 11'' tall) . Description: The author presents and A to Z guide of 100 of Hollywood's young stars. Besides a complete filmography this provides a concise profile of each star's career so far, illustrated in b&w with numerous stills and studio portraits.

Garden City, New York:: Doubleday & Company, 1959.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: navy blue cloth with gilt text and vignette; owner's name and date (writ large): a Good book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (9.5 inches tall) . Map endpapers. Description: Panoramic dust jacket art by John Alan Maxwell. An historical novel of the French and Indian Wars in New England. The publisher's blurb reads: ''High on the wind and sea-lashed shores of Cape Breton Island stood the French citadel of Louisburg - a grim reminder to English colonists huddled southward along New England's barren coast that France was ready to extend her conquests in North America. This novel tells of the courageous English Provincials who defied Louis XV's mighty empire an sent pitiful little army to besiege the great fortress at Louisburg. A story of human passions and frailties, it tells of Bartholomey Mayhew's life-sustaining dream to turn his tiny cluster of… Read More

New York:: Macmillan, 1944.. Book of the Month Club Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green cloth burgundy spine decorations; a Very Good book with a Very Good- dust jacket; the jacket art is clean with very good color.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Description: The jacket art is not credited (artist's initials ?ch); I might guess author/artist Erick Berry as the illustrator, as she was married to Herbert Best and did illustrate some of his books, but those initials don't work for her. A novel set in the Adirondack country just after the American Revolution. Three children are left on their own after their mother is killed, their house burned down, and their father disappeared into the forest. The two brothers shoulder the responsibility and the hard work, alongside their tomboy little sister called Young'un. This is a wartime edition, with the compliance statement on the copyright page.