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Yanks Paint Brits - From Benjamin West to Nelson Shanks, From King George III to The Princess of WalesFeld, Stuart P./Gregory Hedberg/Hirschl & Adler Galleries
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Yanks Paint Brits - From Benjamin West to Nelson Shanks, From King George III to The Princess of Wales


Feld, Stuart P./Gregory Hedberg/Hirschl & Adler Galleries

Softcover. New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Full color and black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613813


Price: $19.00 

 

Yard, Street, Park: The Design of Suburban Open Space


Girling, Cynthia L. and Kenneth I. Helphand

Paperback. New York, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages, paperback. Insightful analysis of the history of suburban planning. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light bumping to lower spine. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951245


Price: $19.00 

 

Year of the Barricades, The - A Journey Through 1968


Caute, David

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. 514 pages.

Record # 63485


Price: $11.00 

 

Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture 1895


n.a.

Hardcover. Washington, DC, GPO, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust.

Record # 55905


Price: $20.00 

 

Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture 1912


N/A

Hardcover. Washington, DC, GPO, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 8 color plates fruits, pecans, avacado. Black & white plates. 784 pages.

Record # 61496


Price: $25.00 

 

Years of an Old Vermonter - Some Biographical Jottings (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Comings, Herbert C.

Softcover. Richford, VT, Herbert C. Comings, First Edition, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 29 pages. Softcover INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Brown wraps with black printed titles and stapled binding. Small tears to top of spine edge. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 751378


Price: $38.00 

 

Yellow Magic: The Story of Penicillin


Ratcliff, J. D.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Random House, First Edition, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 173 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with ivory & yellow textblock & black printed titles to cover & spine. Thin line of sunfade to board edges. Light toning throughout, some tanning to gutter at endpapers. Clean illustrations in black & white. Original dust jacket with age toning, small tears & chips to edges, now protected with a plastic cover. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 5560149


Price: $25.00 

 

Yesterday in the Hills


Watkins, Floyd C. and Charles Hubert

Softcover. Athens, GA, The University of Georgia Press, 1st thus, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. Black-and-white frontispiece. Minor wear and sun-fading on spine. Small spot on rear cover. A little damp stain on front cover and last few pages. Light mark on fore edge. A few scratches on bottom edge. Good, unmarked copy.

Record # 856296


Price: $13.00 

 

Yesterday's Rules - The Making of the British Colonial Service


Heussler, Robert

Hardcover. London, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st UK, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 260 pages. Dj price clipped Previous owner's signature front fly leaf

Record # 60097


Price: $25.00 

 

Young Hamilton, The - A Biography


Flexner, James Thomas

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 497 pages, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 60159


Price: $18.00 

 

Young Patriot in the American Revolution, A


Greenwood, John

Hardcover. Westvaco, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Black & white illustrations. Slip case edition. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607924


Price: $20.00 

 

Zakros - The Discovery of a Lost Palace of Ancient Crete


Platon, Nicholas

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 345 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket spine faded. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611739


Price: $15.00 

 

Zanzibar Chest, The: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands


Hartley, Aidan

Hardcover. New York, NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 414 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Tan cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Some light foxing to top edge. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. The story of the Hartley family in Africa, an enthralling narrative of men and women meddling with, embracing, and ultimately being transformed by other cultures.

Record # 32164


Price: $15.00 

 

Zurbaran


Baticle, Jeannine/Yves Bottineau/Jonathan Brown/Alfonso E. Perez Sanchez

Softcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art , 1st, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Shallow crease with light curling to right edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610724


Price: $31.00 

A Journey to Alaska by: Teichmann, EmilEditor: Teichmann, OskarForward by: Gruening, Ernest
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A Journey to Alaska by: Teichmann, Emil Editor: Teichmann, Oskar Forward by: Gruening, Ernest

Hardcover. NY, Argosy - Antiquarian Ltd., 2nd pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages, hardcover. Blue cloth covers with gilt text and Alaskan state are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. The top edge of the pages are colored black. Limited edition, only 750 copies of this type were printed. This book is Emil Teichmann's diary, chronicling his journey to Alaska in the late 1860s to establish a firm hold on the fur trading industry for his employer. Clean copy. Record # 33784
Price: $50.00 

A Lifetime of Vermont People [SIGNED COPY] by: Miller, Peter
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A Lifetime of Vermont People [SIGNED COPY] by: Miller, PeterA Lifetime of Vermont People [SIGNED COPY] by: Miller, Peter

A Lifetime of Vermont People [SIGNED COPY] by: Miller, Peter

Hardcover. Colbyville, VT, Silver Print Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages, hardcover. Brown cloth covers with gilt text and paste-on photography are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book presents documentary photos and text, excavating the daily social life and customs of the real people of Vermont. Peter Miller's signature is present on the title page in black pen. This is a large-format volume, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34557
Price: $235.00 

A Secular Age by: Taylor, Charles
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A Secular Age by: Taylor, Charles

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 874 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, black cloth covers with gilt text, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid, though the spine cloth is indented. This book, which won the 2007 Templeton Prize, explores how a goodly chunk of Western society changed from a world where belief in God was the unquestioned default, to one where faith is merely one option among many. It redefines secularism not as the mere removal of religion, but as a fundamental shift in the "conditions of belief". Clean copy. Record # 34574
Price: $20.00 

 

All-Night Party - The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem 1913-1930 by: Barnet, Andrea

Softcover. Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages. Softcover. Clean, tight copy. Record # 612665
Price: $12.00 

 

America's Lighthouses - Their Illustrated History Since 1716 by: Holland, Jr., Francis Ross

Brattleboro, VT, Stephen Greene Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Black & white illust. 226 pages + index. Dust jacket torn, chipped, worn. Record # 62052
Price: $12.00 

 

American Automobile, The by: Stein, Ralph

Hardcover. New York, Ridge Press Book/Random House, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 252 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. Record # 612117
Price: $12.00 

 

American Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I, Painters born by 1815 by: Gardner & Feld, Albert Ten Eyck & Stuart P.

Softcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalogue featuring American paintings in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 292 pages fully illustrated with black/white reproductions of paintings. Good condition, some edge wear and rubbing to the covers, old price tag affixed to the back cover. Interior pages very clean. Record # 805561
Price: $12.00 

 

Americans From Africa: Old Memories, New Moods by: Rose, Peter

Hardcover. New York , Atherton Press , 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 452 pages. Gilt titles on spine and decoration on front cover. Foxing to edges and dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 857221
Price: $12.00 

 

Americans From Africa: Slavery and Its Aftermath by: Rose, Peter I.

Hardcover. New York, Atherton Press , 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 459 pages. Gilt titles on spine and decoration on front cover. Foxing to dust jacket and top and side edges. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 857241
Price: $12.00 

 

Barcelona by: Hughes, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 573 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white photographs and reproductions. Clean, tight copy. Record # 510554
Price: $12.00