Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Better Read Than Dead

New York and London: Routledge, 1998. Softcover octavo in illustrated wraps, 358 pp. Very good, lightly worn with minimal hi-lighting observed (/No dust jacket.

New York: Shamal Books, 1986. Perfect-bound, 5 3/8" x 8 1/8", in glossy pictorial wraps, 221 pp. Very good, lightly worn spine ends, wear and rubbing to corners and edges, lightly soiled wraps with large crease to rear and sticker residue to cover.. The memoir of James Yates published in 1986 by Shamal Books. Yates was born to sharecroppers in Quitman, MS in 1906 and left for Chicago at the age of 16 where his interest in labor politics was intensified through his involvement with organizing the Dining Car Waiters Union, a landmark in black trade union history. By 1935, he joined up with demonstrations against Mussolin's attack of Ethiopia which encouraged Yates to raise money and medical supplies to distribute in country during this time of conflict. Shortly after his anti-fascist views were fully catalyzed into his volunteering to overthrow Franco in Spain. He joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in which he fought for three years in the Spanish Civil War---the focus of this memoir---and then his… Read More

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1938. First English language edition. Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket. Speckled blue cloth boards with maroon lettering. 340 pp. Very Good. Slight bow to boards and gently pushed corners. Mild spots of toning to edges, back top fore corner frayed. Light foxing to text block. Previous owner signature and book plate to front free end paper. Good jacket only, price clipped and with significant chipping to edges, creasing and rubbing, but with nearly all material present.. Proclaimed as the "first Tibetan novel", Miram was written by Lama Yongden with the encouragement of adopted matron Alexandra David-Neel. Finding foreigners' (mainly 'European Orientalists') descriptions of Tibetan customs and people to be erroneous and misleading, Yongden vowed upon returning to his home to explain to readers as truthfully as possible the authentic Tibetan way of life. He chose the form of the romantic drama and this novel, Mipam is the result. Translated by [Bernard… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. First edition, third printing. Hardcover 6 1/2" x 9 1/2", quarter orange cloth boards with speckled brown paper and maroon lettering and decoration in pictorial paper dust jacket, 1198 pp. Very good, gift inscription in pen on first page with top corner cut diagnoally, otherwise minimally handled./Good dust jacket, mildly rubbed seams and considerably chipped spine ends with close tears and chipping around perimeter, though preserved is well-framed bright cover image and rear author photo. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.

New York City, NY: Resistance, 1947. Softcover 8.75 x 11.25", unbound newsprint folded in B&W illustrated wrappers, 8 pp. Very good, wear and rubbing to spine of cover wrappers, light chipping and wear to perimeter aspects of paper edges. Resistance was an anarchist review collectively edited and published, printing voluntary contributions from the anarchist left as a theoretical-literary review. Contents include "Poor Pablo" reprinted from The New York Post; essay on American trade unions politics; report from the industrial trade unions in Detroit; more.

New York City, NY: Resistance, 1948. Softcover 8.5 x 10.75" magazine unbound folded in B&W illustrated wrappers, 16 pp. Very good. Resistance was an anarchist review collectively published and printing voluntary contributions from the anarchist left as a theoretical-literary review. Contents of this issue include an essay on anarchism's relationship to vegetarianism; post-World War II perspective on separation of church and state; translation of E. Armand's, editor of L'Unique, The Future Society, a contribution to the [Anarchist Encyclopedia] appearing in French in the 1920s; poetry; more.

New York City, NY: Resistance, 1947. Softcover 8.75 x 11.5", unbound newsprint folded in B&W illustrated paper wrappers, 8 pp. Very good. Cover comic by Jack deMoreland. Resistance was an anarchist review collectively edited and published, printing voluntary contributions from the anarchist left as a theoretical-literary review. Contents include cover comic by Jack deMoreland; essay on free speech; travel essay on segregation in the South U.S.A.; review of Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped at Eboli; more.

New York City, NY: Resistance, 1947. Softcover 8.75 x 11.5", unbound newsprint folded in B&W illustrated wrappers, 8 pp. Very good. Resistance was an anarchist review collectively edited and published, printing voluntary contributions from the anarchist left as a theoretical-literary review. Contents include cover comic by Jack deMoreland; essay on free speech; travel essay on segregation in the South U.S.A.; review of Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped at Eboli; more.

New York City, NY: Resistance, 1947. Softcover 8.5 x 11", unbound folded in B&W illustrated paper wrappers, 16 pp. Very good, light wear and rubbing to fold of wrappers and text block, light chipping and tearing to top right corner, similar wear to paper edges and corners. Resistance was an anarchist review collectively edited and published, printing voluntary contributions from the anarchist left as a theoretical-literary review. Contents include "Portrait of Power," a biopic essay on trade union organizer John L. Lewis; report on the conference of The Committee for Non-Violent Revolution; essay on communal living in Macedonia; more.

Cairo, U.A.R. [Egypt]: Permanent Bureau of Afro-Asian Writers, 1971. Signature-bound, [quarto], pictorial wraps, 218 pp. Very good, wraps worn, rear cover top edge tear.

Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. Hardcover, octavo, glossy illustrated boards, no dust jacket, 464 pp. Near fine.

New York: The John Day Company, 1939. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, framed gilt spine titles, brown cover decoration, no dust jacket, 815 pp. Very good book, rubbed cloth edges, boards lightly soiled, text block toned, gutters foxing, front paste down ex libris. Flat signed in pencil to front free end paper.