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"Wyndham Lewis in Canada", comprising most of Canadian Literature no. 35, Winter 1968
Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 1968. Card covers. Fine copy. Articles by J. Stanley Murphy, Anne Wyndham Lewis, C.J. Fox, Sheila Watson, Lorne Pierce, W.K. Rose, and Wyndham Lewis. ; Tall octavo; 100 pages
Book ID: 55166More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
WYNDHAM LEWIS: the early decades. September 18 - October 26, 1985
New York: Washburn Gallery, 1985. pp [8], including covers. Colour reproductions. Exhibition catalogue. Fine copy.; Octavo
Book ID: 55157More details Price: USD $11.95 USD $10.76 -
WYNDHAM LEWIS THE NOVELIST.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1976. Tan cloth. 189, [3] pp. Fine copy, no previous owner marks, in a VG dust jacket.
Book ID: 16477More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
YELLOW GENTIANS AND BLUE
Edition: First printing
New York: Appleton, 1927. Cloth & boards. Slight yellowing to page edges, else fine. Dust jacket has a three inch closed tear to upper inner corner of front panel and minor wear to spine ends, VG+ otherwise, attractive. A short story collection by this Wisconsin writer who won a Pulitzer Prize for he dramatization of her novel MISS LULU BETT.
Book ID: 43215More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
YOSHE KALB. Introduction by Isaac Beshivis Singer. Translated from the Yiddish by Maurice Samuel (THE SINNER)
Edition: First of this edition
New York: Harper & Row, 1965. Black cloth. Very light yellowing to fore edges, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. First published in English in 1933 as THE SINNER.
Book ID: 46359More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWN. Stories.
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 7085More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
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.
Book ID: 13571More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
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.; Octavo 0385292694
Book ID: 48592More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
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. ; Octavo
Book ID: 4298More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
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.
Book ID: 41690More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
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.
Book ID: 12314More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
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; Quarto
Book ID: 49761More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
ZLY SMIECH. Powiesc
Warsaw: Bibljoteka Groszowa, 1928. First Polish edition of DARK LAUGHTER (1925), translated by Barbary Zanowny. Pictorial wrappers with yapp edges. Yellowing to first and last page from offsetting; nicks to yapp edges; original tissue wrapper present (yellowed, small chips & tears); rubber stamped date (Dec. 18, 1929) above imprint on title page; VG+ copy otherwise, text clean and fresh.; Octavo
Book ID: 24318More details Price: USD $39.95 USD $35.96 -
ZOLA. Translated from the French by Mary Balairdie Green and Frederick C. Green.
Edition: First UK printing
London: Dent, 1932. Light blue cloth. 279 pp + 7 plates. Slightest of spine darkening, else a fine, jacketless copy. A study of the great French novelist by another noted French novelist.
Book ID: 3925More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
ZULEIKA DOBSON. Illustrations by Michael Kirkham
London: Folio Society, 2008. First edition with these illustrations. Illustrated boards in slipcase, colour illustrations. Fine copy. Slipcase has slight soiling, VG otherwise. ; Octavo
Book ID: 47891More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46