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YOUNG ADOLF
Edition: First printing
London: Duckworth, 1978. Black boards. 1980 ink name of a noted Canadian author to the front free endpaper, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has a new publisher's price sticker beside the clip, else fine. A novel based on the months in 1912 that Adolf Hitler is alledged by some to have spent in Liverpool draft-dodging.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 13571More details Price: USD $17.95 -
Young Hearts Crying
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, 1984. Advance uncorreted proof, light blue card covers. Creases, light soiling to covers, corner curling, just good.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 48592More details Price: USD $19.95 -
YOUNG LADY DAZINCOURT
Edition: First edition.
London: Collins, 1926. Blue cloth stamped in red. Spine very slightly sunned, nicks to tips; VG clean & unworn copy otherwise. An uncommon novel by this Anglo-Irish novelist and dramatist who from 1909-15 was driectory of the Abbey Theatre.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 4298More details Price: USD $34.95 -
YOUNG MAN
Edition: First printing
London: Heinemann, 1951. Orange cloth. Faint, shallow band of sunning to top edge of front cover, yellowing to first and last page (offset from endpapers), yellowing and minor soiling to page edges, else fine. Jacket has nicks, small rubbed spot to head of spine; two short edge tears internally mended; faint tanning to spine and rear panel; else fine, the colours bright. A sequel to her first novel BY THE LAKE, continuing the story of Robert Stairey in the years 1931-41. Dick was a very difficult, vengeful, lesbian author of talent who never lived up to her promise and managed to alienate almost all who tried to help her.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 5858More details Price: USD $29.95 -
YOUNG MEN IN SPATS
Edition: First Canadian edition
McClelland & Stewart, 1936. Red cloth lettered in black. 312 pp. Small ink name at front, light yellowing to page edges, soft vertical ridge on spine, VG jacketless copy otherwise. Printed Toronto, T.H. Best, from UK plates. The UK edition was published 3 April, 1936, and has the same stories as this Canadian edition. The US edition was published 24 July, 1936, and contained 9 of these 11 stories and added 3 new ones. This Canadian edition possibly preceded the US edition. One of PGW's better collections of short stories, including one of his personal favourites, "The Amazing Hat Mystery". McIlvaine A55a.12.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41690More details Price: USD $25.00 -
Young Men : Stories
Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2001. Card covers. Fine. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 48879More details Price: USD $7.95 -
Young Mr. Smith in Upper Canada
University of Toronto Press, 1980. Blue-green cloth, black endpapers. [32], (216) pp, numerous photos in text at front, indexed. "Not all British immigrants in mid-nineteenth century Upper Canada were 'roughing it in the bush'. This lively account of twenty years in the life of a dashing young man about town provides a firsthand description of society in early Victorian Toronto. Young Mr Smith's diaries and letters, from 1839 to 1858, have been edited by his granddaughter and deftly interwoven with her own background comments." - jacket. Fine in VG jacket.
Condition: Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 24483More details Price: USD $17.00 -
YOUNG WINTER TALES 2
Edition: First printing
London: Macmillan, 1971. Blue boards. Remains of Canadan review slip on front free endpaper, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has two half inch tears, minor use at head of spine, bit of wear to top edge of rear panel, VG otherwise. Contains on page 148 "The Beat and the Still", a poem in three stanzas by Norman Levine. Also contributions by Richard Garnett, R.S. Thomas, Anthony Thwaite, Joan Aiken, John Christopher, and others - 10 short stories and six poems.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49050More details Price: USD $18.95 -
YOUR BOOK AND MINE.
Edition: First edition
New York: Carroll Press, 1923. Light brown boards. 120, [8] pp. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard inserted. Small chip to head of spine; text paper lightly tanned; foxing to blank recto of frontispiece offset a bit onto facing blank page; gilt stamping on front cover dulled; else a VG clean and unworn copy. A collection of verse and prose.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 12314More details Price: USD $15.00 -
YOUR CUCKOO SINGS BY KIND
Edition: First UK edition.
London & NY: Knopf, 1927. Octavo, 284 pp. Grey cloth, red topstain. Damp stain to foot of spine, lower edges of covers, upper inner corner of front cover; two small rust marks to upper rear cover; light yellowing to text paper; spine gilt darkened; VG unworn copy otherwise, no owner names. Cream dust jacket is age-darkened, a bit soiled, short edge tears; good, flap price intact. Woodcut illustration to front panel by Helen Sainsbury. A novel about an eleven year old girl, by the wife of author Bonamy Dobrée.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 13618More details Price: USD $50.00 -
YOUR TURN, MR. MOTO
London: Souvenir Press, 1987. Reprint. Black boards. Page edges tanned, text paper toned, else fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50535More details Price: USD $12.95 -
YOUTH. TYPHOON. THE END OF THE TETHER. With an Introduction by Leo Gurko and illustrations by Robert Shore
Avon, CT: Heritage Press, 1972. Quarter bound in light blue cloth and colour illustrated boards, sprinkled page edges, 7 colour illustrations. Spine slightly sunned, else fine in fine dark blue card slipcase. With the issue of the Sandglass brochure laid in. 1.5 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49761More details Price: USD $17.95 -
YPRES AND THE BATTLES OF YPRES
Easingwold, York. England: G.H. Smith and Sons, 1994. Octavo, tan card covers. pp (144) + ads. Illustrated, maps, index. Ink owner name at front, else fine. Facsimile reprint of the Michelin, 1920, edition, in the series Illustrated Michelin guides to the battle-fields (1914-1918). Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Trade Paperback
Book ID: 44168More details Price: USD $15.00 -
YR EISTEDDFOD: Sef, Cyhoeddiad Chwarterol y Sefydliad Cenedlaethol. Dan Olygiaeth Creuddyfab. Cyfrol I [-II].
Wrexham: (1864-1866). Octavo. Volumes 1-2 bound as a single volume containing nos. 1-8, 1864-1866. Half-calf with marbled boards and marbled endpapers. Light rubbing to spine and some light edge-wear, very good otherwise. A Welsh language literary periodical, containing a translation into Welsh of Shakespeare's HAMLET (v.II, #6). British Prime Minister Lloyd George's copy with his distinctive "Big Ben" bookplate. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 1074More details Price: USD $150.00 -
Z FOR ZABORRA
Edition: First US edition
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966. Black boards. pp 189, [3]. VG copy. Dust jacket has nicks and small tears, spine sunning, VG otherwise, flap price intact. A spy thriller by this Finnish-Canadian author. Hubin p. 435. Neo-Nazis in Poland.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44452More details Price: USD $20.00 -
ZAPOTECAN ANTIQUITIES and the Paulson Collection in the Ethnographical Museum of Sweden. With 27 Text Figures and 32 Plates
Aktiebolaget Thule, 1938. The Ethnological Museum of Sweden, Stockholm, New Series Publication No.4. Quarto. Cream card covers. pp 196, plates and figures in text. Short tears at spine tips neatly repaired; a VG+ copy otherwise, no owner names, clean, tight & unworn. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 25881More details Price: USD $75.00 -
ZEE & CO: a novel
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971. Second printing. Brown boards. Fine copy. Dust jacket has creased to front flap, half inch tear to upper inner corner of front panel, VG otherwise. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45930More details Price: USD $14.95 -
ZENIA THE VESTAL; or The Problem of Vibrations
Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1896. Small quarto. "Second Edition" (first was Arena, 1893). Blue cloth gilt lettered, green floral endpapers. [2], vi, (7) - (356), [2] pp. Rubbing to tips of lightly darkened spine; small ink spot to front cover; light damp stains to fore margins of covers; small soil spots to rear cover; rubber stamp on front fly leaf; light tide mark to fore margin of lightly toned text; short tear at top of front free endpaper neatly repaired on verso;a good, tight and unworn copy otherwise, inner hinges not cracked. Reginald 11276. Bleiler p. 155. A supernatural novel with an occult / spiritualist theme.Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 24212More details Price: USD $30.00 -
ZESTFUL LIVES: the unusual Wrights of Strathroy 1865-1995
Edition: First Edition
Strathroy, Ontario: Author, 1997. Quarto, green cloth gilt lettered without jacket as issued. pp (xviii), 166. Many photos. Fine copy. Ontario local history. Note: 1.5kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40944More details Price: USD $30.00 -
Zinger and Me
Edition: First printing
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1979. Red boards. Fine in very nearly fine jacket. Inscribed by the author "To ____, who helped me enormously on a hectic day, with gratitude & warm affection, Jack MacLeod, 25 May '79". Also signed on the title page. A comic epistolary novel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49106More details Price: USD $24.95