Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

New York: Sterling, 2007. Photography by Michael Yamashita. Text by Michael Yamashita and William Lindesay. Pp.[xvi]+160, illustrated throughout in colour and occasional black & white (several full or double page), bibliography, index; oblong 4to; brown boards, lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Sterling, New York, 2007. First edition. *The Great Wall of China.

London: Lutterworth Press, 1972. The art of preserving and arranging. Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, glossary, bibliography, index; cr. 4to; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly chipped and split; Lutterworth, London, 1972. First edition..

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1971. From an old Ukrainian Folktale retold and illustrated by Yaraslava. Pp. [32], illustrated throughout in colour and black & white; f'cap. 4to; pictorial papered boards, corners lightly rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly foxed on reverse, edges lightly rubbed; upper free endpaper slightly bubbled, name in ink on upper free endpaper, the upper free endpaper faintly soiled; Hamish Hamilton, London, 1971. First U.K. edition. *The artist was born Aka Yaroslava Surmach.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1989. Foreword by Philip Mason. Pp. xxiv+228(last blank, colophon), 4 coloured plates, black & white pictorial double title page and text illustrations (several full page), 4 maps (one double page), appendices, glossary, notes, bibliography, index; narrow cr. 4tgo; navy cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper; Melbourne University Press/The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 1989. First edition. *The term 'Waler' was coined in Calcutta in the 1840s, to describe a horse from New South Wales. 'Soon horses from every Australian colony were contesting prizes on the Indian turf and carrying dragoons and troopers in the wild, disputed border regions of Queen Victoria's empire. These part-thoroughbred horses left Australia in their tens of thousands, never to return. Most people will know them as the horses ridden in the legendary charge by the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba in 1917' [wrapper blurb].

Sydney: New Holland Publishers, 1998. Pp. 128, illustrated in colour throughout, index; demy 4to; edges of boards lightly rubbed; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed; New Holland Publishers, Sydney, 1998. First Australian edition..

Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2008. Pp. xii+312(last blank), frontispiece, 20 plates, text illustrations and maps, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; qr. black paper, spine lettered in silver, red papered boards; dust wrapper; Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2008. First edition..

London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. Pp. [vi]+456; bottom fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised; top edges navy; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and creased, with closed tear at foot of backstrip extending slightly into back panel; tiny split to bottom edge pp. 385-393; Jonathan Cape, London, 1961. Reissued, with a new preface and a tribute by Henry Williamson. *Semi-autobiographical novel about pilots in a Flying Corps Squadron on the Western Front; originally published in 1934.

London: N, 1924. Pp. [ii](limitation page)+viii+46; grey papered boards with printed title label on spine, the boards a trifle sprung, spine faintly faded; spare label tipped-in at lower pastedown; long related annotation in pencil on recto of lower free endpaper; First Edition Club, London, 1924. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies. *Printed at the Curwen Press on Japon vellum.

Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1929. Pp. [iv]+38+[2](colophon, printed in red), title page vignette; qr. natural linen, with printed paper title label on spine, light blue/grey papered boards, upper board printed in black, faintly foxed, 2 tiny bruises to bottom edge of lower board; uncut; pastedowns a trifle chipped at bottom edge, the free endpapers offset, a little light foxing; The Cuala Press, Dublin, 1929. First edition, limited to 425 copies. Wade 163. *With the date misprinted as MCMXXVIV, as noted by Wade.

Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1931. An extract from a record made by his pupils: And a play in prose. Pp. [iv]+46(last colophon), printed in red & black, title page vignette, plus 2 plates; qr. natural linen with printed paper title label on spine, blue/grey papered boards, upper board lettered in black, a trifle sprung and very faintly scuffed; uncut; The Cuala Press, Dublin, 1931. First edition, limited to 450 copies. Wade 167. *The woodcut plates and title page vignette of a unicorn are by Edmund Dulac, and originally appeared in A Vision. An explanation of life founded upon the writings of Giraldus and Upon certain doctrines attributed to Kusta Ben Luka, which was privately printed for subscribers by Werner Laurie in 1925.

London: Picador, 1999. A New Life of W. B. Yeats. Pp. xx+444, 32 plates, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; dark blue cloth, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges foxed; Picador, London, 1999. First edition. *'Many know the public Yeats, but few have managed to penetrate to the inner man, or to explore the relationship with his much younger wife, George' [wrapper blurb].

Dublin: Abbey Theatre, 1939. W. B. Yeats Commemoration Number. Pp. 24(including advertisements), 4 plates; small cr. 4to; pictorial paper wrappers, staples, slightly soiled and creased; text block faintly browned and lightly creased, with a few small edge chips or splits; Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1939. First edition. *Contributors include Austin Clarke, John Masefield, Lennox Robinson and William Rothenstein, with illustrations by J. B. Yeats, Max Beerbohm and Edmund Dulac.

Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1936. Pp. [iv]+64(last colophon), the title page decoration, note about punctuation and the colophon all printed in red; qr. natural linen with printed paper title label on spine, blue/grey papered boards, upper board lettered in black, the spine label a trifle chipped; uncut and partly unopened; The Cuala Press,Dublin, 1936. First edition, limited to 300 copies. Wade, Appendix 1, 56 (page 456).* George William Russell ('AE'), poet, mystic, painter and Irish nationalist, was a pivotal figure in the Irish literary revival, and a long time friend of Yeats.

Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1920. Selected by Lennox Robinson. Pp. [viii]+82(last blank)+[2](colophon, printed in red, verso blank), decorative pressmark at centre of title page; qr. natural linen with printed paper title label on spine, light blue/grey papered boards, upper board lettered in black, faintly soiled, the spine extremities and fore-corners of boards slightly bruised; uncut and partly unopened; binder's ticket of Galwey & Co., Dublin at foot of upper pastedown; The Cuala Press, Churchtown, Dundrum, 1920. First edition, limited to 400 copies. Wade, Appendix 1, 29 (page 454). *Second volume of extracts from letters written to W. B Yeats by his father.

Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1935. Edited by W. B. Yeats and F. R. Higgins; Musical Editor: Arthur Duff. Twelve issues, January, 1935 - December 1935. Each 4 pages (not numbered), all with 2 hand coloured illustrations and printed music, plus the original loose tissue guards; tall demy 4to; small hole near gutter of No. 10, a little faint soiling and occasional slight creasing; The Cuala Press, Dublin, 1935. [See Wade 249, for the bound volume]. *Issued monthly in an edition of 300 copies each, with the bound set published in an edition of 100 copies in December. W. B. Yeats contributed three songs: The Wicked Hawthorn Tree, The Rose Tree and The Soldier Takes Pride. Others are by Higgins, Frank O'Connor, Lynn Doyle, Padraic Colum, James Stephens and Bryan Guiness [sic]. Of the 24 illustrations, 7 are by Jack Yeats. Others are by Victor Brown, Harry Kernoff, Maurice McGonigal, Sean O'Sullivan and E. C. Peet.

Barcelona: Algraf, 1989. Together two items; pp. 30+[2](subscription forms)+36 (pp. 31-66), illustrated, plus 6 hand-tipped bookplates; folio; printed stiff paper wrappers; margins lightly browned, top fore-corners lightly bruised; Algraf, Barcelona, 1989. Limited to 100 copies each. *With the bookplate of Brian North Lee on verso of upper wrapper Number 1.

Sydney: Ashton Scholastic, 1991. With illustrations by Michelle Powell. Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; med. 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Ashton Scholastic, Sydney, 1991. First edition. White (Volume 3) 602.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1984. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Pp. 112, title page vignette, text illustrations; demy 8vo; pictorial light blue paper wrappers, slightly soiled and faintly creased, with a couple of small surface grazes to upper wrapper causing some loss of titling; Andre Deutsch, London, 1984. Uncorrected proof copy. *John Yeoman and Quentin Blake have been friends since their schooldays and have collaborated on numerous volumes.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1892. Pp. x+284(last blank), frontispiece, 8 plates, with tissue guards; narrow super roy. 8vo; red cloth over bevelled boards, lettered in gilt, silver insignia to upper board, the spine faded, cloth slightly marked; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, ownership name at head of title page, a little light foxing, small chip bottom edge of lower free endpaper; William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1892. First edition. White p. 176; Sutcliffe 2/p. 164.

Melbourne: Sun Books, 1970. Translated by Tina Tupikina-Glaessner, Geoffrey Dutton & Igor Mezhakoff-Koriakin. With an Introduction by Rosh Ireland. Pp. 214; narrow cr. 8vo; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed, the upper wrapper lightly creased, backstrip slightly faded; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper wrapper, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Sun Books, Melbourne, 1970. First edition thus. *Originally published by Sun Books in two volumes in 1966. Inscribed and signed on the title page by co-translator Geoffrey Dutton and by the author, whose inscription is 'To John Shaw with my best memory about 1973 and our illegal conversation'. John Shaw, was a USSR-based foreign correspondent for various newspapers including the Washington Post and the New York Times,