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ZUR HEIDE, Karl Gert.
Deep South Piano. 1970
£25
First Edition. A title in the important “Blues Paperbacks” series edited by Paul Oliver.
Octavo. Original light card wraps. Numerous illustrations to the text. Wraps a little rubbed, else very good. Read more
ZUR HEIDE, Karl Gert.
Deep South Piano. 1970
£45
First edition. A title in the important “Blues Paperbacks” series edited by Paul Oliver, this example one of the extremely uncommon hardback issue.
Octavo. Original black boards in dust jacket. Numerous illustrations to the text. Very good, the jacket a little rubbed and with a few splits. Read more
ZENDER, Bob, & Charles Cleveland.
Winning Golf. 1985
£45
First Edition, First Printing. With Zender’s signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper.
Octavo. Original black and green boards, titles to spine in yellow. With the dust jacket. Illustrated. An excellent copy in the nicked dust jacket. Read more
(YUGOSLAV PARTISANS)
The National Liberation Movement of Yugoslavia. 1944
£125
First and only edition. “The purpose of this Handbook is to provide a summary of all information on the Yugoslav Partisan Movement received down to and including March...
Octavo. Original printed light card wraps. Wraps a little browned, marginally, spine slightly chipped, but overall very good. Read more
YU-LAN, Fung.
A History of Chinese Philosophy. 1952 & 1953
£175
First edition of volume II, second edition of volume I.
2 volumes, large octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spines gilt. With the dust jackets. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper of volume I,... Read more
YOXALL, J. H.
The Girl from St. Agneta’s. A fantasia on a fugue. 1902
£21
First Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Contemporary dark brown half morocco, titles and decoration to spine, blue cloth boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Previous owner’s bookplate to... Read more
YOUNGHUSBAND, Sir Francis.
India and Tibet. 1910
£375
Second Impression in the same month as the First. An intriguing character, protégé of Lord Curzon, soldier, explorer, and Forward Policy exponent of the Great Game, whose...
Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt. top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece of the Dalai Lama and 25 other plates, 2 folding coloured maps at the rear. Light browning... Read more
YOUNG, G. F., Colonel.
The Medici. 1926
£375
Third Edition, Sixth Impression. Leather book-labels of Frank J. Hogan to the front pastedowns. Hogan, founder of the Washington legal firm of Hogan & Hartson, president of the...
2 volumes, octavo. Contemporary tan crushed morocco, single gilt fillet panel to the boards, raised bands, similar panels in compartments enclosing gilt Fleur-de-lis... Read more
YOUNG, Filson.
Titanic. 1912
£500
First edition of the first instant book. Young pitched this book to Grant Richards in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, and the book was on the shelves just 37 days later. It...
Octavo, original grey-brown cloth, title in black to spine and to the upper board with gilt block of the Titanic. Coloured frontispiece of the sinking from a work... Read more
YOUNG, Edward.
Pre-Raffaellitism; 1857
£350
First Edition of this book-length critique of the pre-Raphaelites and Ruskin’s critical writings.
Octavo. Original pink morocco-grain cloth, sides blocked in black with wide borders enclosing central oval, spine with leaf motifs at head and tail in black, lettered... Read more
YOUNG, Edward.
The Works of the Author of The Night-Thoughts. 1802
£75
Second edition in three volumes. Includes The Life of Dr. Young by Mr. Herbert Croft
3 volumes, octavo. Contemporary tree calf, black sheep spine labels, spine gilt-ruled in compartments and decoratively blocked in blind. Frontispiece portrait and... Read more
YK (Cornelis van).
De Nederlandsche Scheeps-bouw-kunst Open Gestelt. 1697
£6,500
First edition, ?second issue. “The first book in Dutch on practical shipbuilding. Van Yk was a ship builder at the VOC shipyard in Delfshaven.” (Landwehr) Van Yk was...
Folio (315 × 203 mm). Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine at a later date, faded. Engraved allegorical title page by Jan Luyken - a female figure... Read more
(YELLOW BOOK)
The Yellow Book. 1894–97
£1,250
Later issues without the advertisements. This famous and epochal periodical prints work by all the great figures of the 90s including Beerbohm, Beardsley, Henry James, Siemens,...
13 volumes, octavo. Original pictorial yellow cloth, fulsomely illustrated and titled on both boards and spines in black. Illustrations throughout. A little browning... Read more
YEFREMOV, Ivan.
Andromeda. A Space-Age Tale. [1959]
£500
First edition in English, first printing. With the author’s signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper to the author C. P. Snow.
Octavo. Original purple cloth, decoration to upper board and titles to spine in pink, top edge stained pink. With the pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated. A fine copy... Read more
[YEATS, William Butler] MASEFIELD, John.
Some Memories of W. B. Yeats. 1940
£175
First Edition, First Impression. One of 370 copies.
Octavo. Original linen-backed blue boards, titles to upper board in black, white paper title label to spine printed in black. An excellent copy. Read more
(YEATS, William Butler, ed.) ALLINGHAM, William.
Sixteen Poems. 1905
£275
First edition, first impression, of Yeats’s selection from Allingham’s poetry. One of 200 copies.
Octavo. Original linen-backed blue boards, white paper title label to spine printed in red. Binding a little tanned but a very nice copy. Read more
YEATS, William Butler.
Dramatis Personæ. 1935
£450
First edition, with hand-drawn monogram of Lady Ottoline Morrell and accompanying letter.
Octavo. Original cream quarter cloth, over blue paper-covered boards, front side lettered in black, white paper spine label lettered in black, edges uncut, blue... Read more
YEATS, William Butler.
Dramatis Personae. 1935
£350
First Edition, First Impression. One of 400 copies. With the errata slip laid in.
Octavo. Original linen-backed blue boards, titles to upper board in black, white paper title label to spine printed in black. Spine very lightly tanned but an... Read more
YEATS, William Butler.
Pages from a diary written in nineteen hundred and thirty. 1944
£275
First Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Original yellow boards with grey cloth, titles to upper board in black, titles to label on spine in black. Light dusting otherwise near fine. Read more
(YEATS, W. B.; POUND, Ezra) FENOLLOSA, Ernest.
Certain Noble Plays of Japan: From the Manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa, Chosen and Finished by Ezra Pound, with an Introduction by William Butler Yeats. 1916
£325
First edition, one of 350 numbered copies - the entire edition. Fenollosa was an American academic who became Curator of the Imperial Museum of Japan and Curator of Oriental Art at...
Octavo. Original tan cloth backed grey boards, printed titles to cover, grey endpapers. Label on front pastedown “Bound by Galwey & Co. Eustace St. Dublin”.... Read more
(YEATS, W. B.; POUND, Ezra) FENOLLOSA, Ernest.
Certain Noble Plays of Japan: From the Manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa. 1916
£375
First edition, one of 350 numbered copies - the entire edition. Includes a card advertising a book of extracts from the letters of John Butler Yeats to W. B. Yeats. Fenollosa was an...
Octavo. Original tan cloth backed grey boards, printed titles to cover, grey endpapers. Label on front pastedown “Bound by Galwey & Co. Eustace St. Dublin”.... Read more
(YEATS, W. B.) GANCONAGH.
John Sherman and Dhoya. 1891
£2,500
First edition, first impression
Tall octavo. Original yellow wrappers printed in black. In a marbled solander case. Ownership inscription to upper wrapper dated 1891, with the author’s real name... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
Dramatis Personae 1896-1902: 1936
£45
First UK edition thus, first American edition published in the same year. Dramatis Personae first published in 1935; Estrangement 1926; The Death of Synge 1928; The Bounty of Sweden...
Octavo. Original cream quarter cloth, dark grey and cream patterned boards, spine lettered in gilt, side and bottom edges uncut. 6 engraved illustrations including... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
Eight Poems. 1916
£1,250
First edition. From a total printing of 200 numbered copies this is one of 122 on Italian hand-made paper.
Folio. Original white wrappers printed in black. Housed in a quarter black morocco box. Designs by A. O. Spare. Wrappers lightly marked but an excellent copy. Read more
YEATS, W. B.
Essays by W. B. Yeats. 1931 to 1936. 1937
£375
First, limited edition, one of 300 copies published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Cuala Press on paper made in Ireland.
Octavo. Original cream quarter cloth over blue paper-covered boards, front side lettered in black, white paper title label to spine lettered in black, edges uncut,... Read more
