Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1965. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author “To Beverly, Affectionately, Cecil.” A penciled note indicates that the recipient was Beverly Nichols.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1959. First Edition. Some damp spots; very good in dust jacket. Presentation copy; inscribed on the front free endpaper in ink by the author to one of his doctors, “Happy Year to The Werners. James Thurber.”

New York: McBride, Nast & Co., 1915. First Edition. Some waterstaining; good in a trimmed, later publisher’s dust jacket.

New York: Macaulay, 1935. First Edition. Very good in a good dust jacket with a large mend at the bottom of the spine.

New York: Random House, 1958. First Edition. Previous owner’s ink notations on the blank verso of the front free endpaper; very good in dust jacket.

No place of publication, c. 1880s. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth portfolio (one ribbon tie lacking), 13 x 11 inches, enclosing nineteen albumen print photographs on original mounts, seventeen of which are titled in pencil in a 19th c. hand on verso, and one of which has a printed title on recto and verso (image size varies; approx. 9 x 7 inches). [With]: Great Reduction in Prices. Gustav Fagersteen, for Seven Summers in Yo Semite Valley [trade card], formerly mounted inside the rear cover of the portfolio; Currey & Kruska 109. The trade card is known to have been printed on both sides, listing "Table of Altitudes at Yo Semite Valley;" but the verso of the present example, if ever printed at all, was lost in the course of removing it from the rear panel and is present in facsimile only]. Berlin-born Gustavus Fagersteen was active in Texas by 1858; Louisiana by 1863, and various locations in California by 1871. He was working in Yosemite Valley as early as 1876, and in 1880 was granted… Read More

Boston: N.Y.G.S., 1979. First Edition. Signed by Adams on the half-title. Nearly fine in dust jacket.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937. First Edition of this Pulitzer Prize winning play. A very good copy; presented to Zeppo Marx by Hart, “For Zeppo - For being born on this day, for being Zeppo and for many other things. Moss. February 25, 1937.”

No place of publication (Universal City): n.p. [Universal Studios], 1942. Duplicated screenplay, dated April, 1942. Apparently unproduced, produced under another title, or perhaps incorporated into another screenplay. The writers often wrote for Abbott and Costello. Bradbound; front wrapper detached; very good.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944. First Edition. Very good in a dust jacket with slight chipping.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1918. First Edition. A fine copy in a dust jacket with a large chip across the top of the front panel. Signed by the author.

London: Max Parrish, 1960. First Edition. Near fine in dust jacket. Inscribed by Mitchison, "Eric, with love from the author.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1920. First Edition. Very nearly fine in dust jacket. A fragile book; especially difficult to find in such excellent condition.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1920. First Edition. Ownership inscription on the front free endpaper; very good in a chipped and splitting dust jacket.

London: Ward, Lock, 1908. First Edition. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, apparently upon publication, “With the regards of Robert Barr May 16 1908.” This was in a group of books inscribed to his secretary, Irene Davison.

New York: Mason Publishing, 1930. First Edition. Some foxing; very good in a very good dust jacket with some small chips.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1912. First Edition. Aside from a little spotting, a fine copy in a dust jacket with very minor wear. Uncommon in this condition.

New York: Harms, 1934. The cover features the Broadway stars of Anything Goes. Very good in wrappers.

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1902. First Edition; presumed second issue (11/02) publisher’s catalogue. Ownership signature; cloth bubbling a little, else about very good IOne of those stories is “Heart of Darkness.”

New York: Appleton, 1924. First Edition. Minor stains; very good in a dust jacket with some chips and tears. Signed by Fairbanks and Mary Pickford in 1932.