Search Results: Authors starting with P from Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB

VA, 1864. A little faded but still very good, folded, minor soiling and tearing along folds.. [3] pp. Bifolium. 7 x 4.5 inches. Dated July 9th, 1864. O.D.P. [no name given] writes to his brother, Albert, beginning "In the Trenches Near The Appomattox River" telling him of the woes of keeping paper and stamps handy; and joking about his inability to swim, "Tell Frank & Herby that they can both bet me that they can swim, for I can't. So it would not do for me to go in the water with them, for they would keep laughing at me." Then he ends: "They keep up a steady popping last night at Petersburg. They do most every night, with now and then a big gun. We can hear the musketry quite plane here. We are going to be relieved for 24 hours this morning."

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1842. Revised edition. Quarterbound morocco over marble paper-covered boards. Spine ends and boards rubbed, tear to rear free endpaper, endpapers foxed, leaves clean, impressions crisp, binding tight; a nice copy and about very good.. 643 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings and maps. 24mo. Copyright statement is dated 1838 and this title was listed in American Sunday-School Union catalogues from 1840 to at least 1893. Not in Checklist American Imprints. Founded in Philadelphia in May of 1817, the Union began as a coalition of local Protestant Sunday school groups. "American Sunday School Union (ASSU) provided the materials and training by which many frontier adults and children learned to read while promoting the establishment of Sunday schools throughout the nation. The Union's goals were to promote the establishment of Sunday schools and to provide local communities with libraries and materials for religious instruction. From the beginning, this was a… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Library, 2004. First edition. Paper wrappers. A near fine copy.. 133 pp. 4to. Josephine Packard, contrib. Harvard Library Bulletin. New Series Fall-Winter 2004 Volume 15 Numbers 3-4. Discography of mainly 20th poets.

Paris: Payot, 1935. First edition. Three quarter navy blue morocco over marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in. A few crease to pages else a near fine copy. A beautiful binding.. 322 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w map. 8vo. Maurice Soulié, trans.

Lima: Imprenta del Estado, 1872. 2. ed. corr. y aumentada. Quarter morocco over marbled boards. Boards and spine well scuffed, edgewear, bookseller ticket on front pastedowns, owner's stamp on free front endpapers or titles, one volume with blank spine label, one with partial label, Vol. III with margin worm hole on fore edge of first 23 leaves, tear and marginal chip to last leaf, neither affecting text, bindings solid, contents very good.. cxxvi, 461, viii pp.; [462-1080],xvi pp.; 608 pp. Sm. 4to. Pagador expanded the original and anonymous 1848, 108 page pamphlet into a three volume work. "D. Mariano Pagador, coronel graduado de infantería de ejército, ante V. E. con el debido respeto digo: que desde el año 1847 he estudiado, acopiado y publicado algunos dato» históricos sobre nuestra emancipación y existencia política, habiéndome decidido últimamente lí reimprimir, corregida y aumentada, la Floresta Española Peruana, que publique' en 1848, dividiendo este trabajo en tres épocas ó… Read More

Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1994. First edition. Cloth. Fine in a near fine dj with small closed tear on upper front edge.. 163 pp. 200 b/w and color photos. Obl. 8vo. Photographs by Iain McGowan. Historical and contemporary Chichester.

Washington [D.C.]: F. & J. Rives & Geo. A. Bailey, 1870. First edition. Self wrappers. A very good unopened (uncut) and untrimmed copy, mail fold.. 15 pp. (1 sheet folded). 8vo.

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy with light soiling on the wrappers and a small tear on the rear.. xii, 210 pp. Illus. with 4 color plates, 78 b/w reproductions, 12 figures and 1 map. Sm. 4to. Catalogue of an exhibition at The Pierpont Morgan Library, Dec. 1978-Feb. 1979. 78 items illustrated and discussed.

Veracruz: Imp. de la Sria de I.P. y B.A., 1915. First edition. Stapled marbled paper wrappers. A good copy, rust at staples, small chips at spine ends, first blank detached, corners creased throughout.. 86 pp. Sm. 8vo. Felix F. Palavicini was one of the intellectuals of the Mexican Revolution. Not in Ramos: Bibliografia de la revolucion mexicana. Palau 210085.

Caracas: Ediciones Macanao, 1993. First edition. Paper wrappers. Gift inscription on half-title else fine.. 202 pp. 8vo. "Alfredo Boulton (1908-1995) was Venezuela's foremost cultural and aesthetic observer. An art critic, cultural historian, and photographer, he was highly influential in the development of modernist art and discourse in Venezuela and the surrounding region," (Ariel Jimenez).

n.p., 1913. First edition. Cloth. Boards show remnants of former brown paper covering, mostly but not completely removed, otherwise tight and clean, gilt bright, owner's bookplate, overall very good or better.. [76-84 pp]. Sm. 4to. In Russian. Extracted from a journal. Nice bookplate of A.I Ward; bound by Weilen and Goos, with their label. With plant list.

Buenos Aires: Ediciones del '80, 1980. Later printing. Loose sheets in paper portfolio. A very good copy, edges browned... [4 pp.]; 52 plates. Illus. with 52 plates. Folio. Facsimile reprint of a work originally published: Buenos Aires: Litografía Pelvilain, 1864. 52 views: Argentina (44), Brazil (4), Chile (2), Bolivia (1) and Uruguay (1).

Washington, D. C.: NASA, 1974. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy.. 222 pp. Illus. Trade format.

Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Universitaria, 1920. Paper wrappers. A very good unopened (uncut) copy, spine ends and last leaf chipped, contents clean.. 58 pp. 8vo. OCLC locates no copies of this and only six copies of the 1919 printing with the same pagination.

Göteborg: Gothenburg Ethnographical Museum, 1939. Reprint. Paper wrappers. A very good copy, shadow of old tape removal along spine, sunned wrappers, contents sharp.. 136 pp. Illus. with 58 b/w photos and in-text figures. 8vo. Walter Kaudern, ed. Inscribed by the author. Reprinted from Ethnological Studies, 8, 1939 from the Gothenburg Ethnographical Museum.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1950. First printing. Cloth. A very good copy in a good edgeworn dust jacket with tears and chips to extremities.. viii, 318 pp. Illus. with 312 b/w photos. 4to. Extensive listing of clockmakers plus glossary, bibliography, and short introduction.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1919. Third & ninth impressions. Cloth. Spine ends a little worn, owner's book plates in both volumes, boards and spine on 1906 volume, heavily scuffed; a good to very good set.. xi, 546 col; 726 col. 12mo.

London / New York: Art and Book Co. / Benziger, 1900. Revised edition. Cloth. Extremities worn with some loss at the spine ends and corners, edges of boards faded, interior clean, plates bright, overall still a good or better copy.. 61 pp., [34] leaves of plates. Illus. with uncolored copper plate engravings with tissue guards. Folio (39 cm). W.R. Brownlow and J. Spencer Northcote made a number of changes to Palmer's original (1859 & 1885), mainly in the area of accuracy of the illustrations (Palmer had sometimes rendered a painting as a sculpture if he thought the composition better).

Iowa City: Friends of the Univ. of Iowa Libraries, 1967. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy with a sunned spine, some soiling on the front wrapper, otherwise clean.. xi, 244 pp. 8vo. Includes gift card from the publishers.

México: Publicaciones de la Secretria de relaciones exteriores, 1926. First edition. Rebound in red cloth with gilt titles. A very good copy, a few institutional markings and blind stamp, spine rubbed from label removal. No dust jacket.. xxvii, 262, [1] pp. 8vo. Archivo Histórico Diplomático Mexicano. no. 19. Antonio de la Peña y Reyes, prologo. The Congress of Panama organized by Simon Bolivar with the intention to create a unified Latin America against Spanish aggression and a working treaty organization met with failure. The U.S. did not send any delegates as the South was incensed over the inclusion of Haiti.