Search Results: Authors starting with P from Parker's Rare Books

Venetiis: In Insula S. Lazari, 1823. HB. Full brown leather, gilt lettering on red panel on spine, gilt borders on front and rear covers, all edges of text block gilt, 16mo, 422pp. plus index of languages at rear, marbled endpapers, engraved title page. Polyglot set of prayers in 24 languages from the press of the Mekhittharist Congregation, a Benedictine abbey of the Armenian Catholic Church founded in 1717 on the island of San Lazzaro, Venice. Owners inscription ffep dated 1830, no other marks in book, binding tight. Covers show light edge wear. Book condition VG.

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1955. First Edition. HB. Quarter red cloth over black cloth boards, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, 8vo, 248 pp. Top edge of text block stained red. Author's memoir of his experiences during World War II as a soldier in the 115th Panzer Grenadiers first on the eastern front, and later transferred to Italy, where he was captured by Americans. Sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Illinois, he escaped near the end of the war, ran a bookshop in Chicago until discovered by the FBI in 1953, and returned to Germany. Pabel later opened a successful book selling business in Hamburg that is still operational today. SIGNED by the author top of FFEP. Owner's name, inked out, on FFEP, owner's label bottom of ffep, no other marks in book, binding tight. Covers clean, edges of text block show very light soiling. In an unclipped ($3.50) dust jacket that shows light chipping and edge wear. Book condition VG in VG- DJ.

Venezia: Eleca Editrice, ND. HB. Blue cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, square 4to, 300 pp. Profusely illustrated with black & white and full-page color plates. No marks in book, binding tight. Covers show very light edge wear. In a colorful dust jacket that shows shelf wear, one 1/2" closed tear. Book condition VG in VG- DJ.

New York: Devin-Adair, 1916. HB. Green cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, colored Irish flag on front cover, 8vo., ix, 427 pp. + ads at rear. Edited by Maurice Joy. Frontis photograph of Padraic Pearse, plus 26 full page plates in text, lacking, as is common, the College of Surgeons plate. Booksellers stamp on ffep only mark in book, binding tight, covers clean. Light rubbing to spine lettering. Book condition VG.

London: Printed for J. Murray, No. 32, Fleet Street, 1792-1793. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. HB. Three volumes complete, uniformly rebound in quarter brown leather and tan marbled boards, gilt lettering and 5 raised bands on spine, 8vo. xx, 320, xii, 268, xxii, 303 pp. Large fold-out "Metereological (sic) Table of a Voyage towards the North Pole" at front of Volume I. Volumes I and II dated 1793, Volume III dated 1792 and is a first edition. Translator's preface in Volume III signed I. I. All three volumes in a custom-made slip case with matching marbled paper. "PAGES, PIERRE MARIE FRANCOIS DE (1748-1793). Pierre Marie Francois de Pages, French naval officer, world traveler, and writer, was born of a noble family in Toulouse in 1748. Following the settlement of the Seven Years' War and the relaxed French-Spanish rivalry in North America, Pages crossed Texas on the first lap of a journey around the world. Leaving his naval vessel at Santo Domingo on June 30, 1767, he sailed to New… Read More

New York: Henry Holt, 1929. later. HB. Blue cloth, dark blue lettering on front cover and spine, 12 mo., 260 pp. including vocabulary. Edited by Frank Otis Reed and John Brooks. Introduction in English, play in French. Minor underlining of text. Owners name ffep. Covers clean, binding solid. Book condition Good.

Curtis, Nebraska: The Curtis Enterprise, 1935. HB. Light blue cloth, black lettering on front cover, 8vo, 192 pp. A series of articles dealing with Nebraska history by Paine (1872-1955), who from 1931-1949 served on the Nebraska Supreme Court. Frontis portrait of Spotted Tail, Chief of the Brule Sioux Tribe. With a foreword by Addison E. Sheldon. No marks in book, binding tight. Covers show very light edge wear. Book condition VG. Adams "Six Guns" 1670.

Chicago: T. S. Denison, c. 1915. HB. Dark green cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, large 12 mo, 370 pp. + ads at rear. No marks in book, binding solid. Gilt lettering bright. Covers show minor edge wear, edges of text block somewhat soiled. Book condition VG-.

New York: Random House, 1993. HB. Brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 4to, 304 pp. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated edition with abridgment of original text. No marks in book, binding tight. Front lower corner bumped. In unclipped dust jacket with minor small tear bottom of spine. Book condition VG in VG- DJ.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc, 1934. HB. Blue cloth, gilt lettering on red panels on spine, 12mo, xii, 354 pp. Owners name front pastedown, no other marks in book, binding tight. Covers show light edge wear at corners and top and bottom of spine. Text in French. Part of the Century Modern Language Series. Book condition VG.

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 1968. Wraps. Tan stiff paper wraps, black lettering on front cover and spine, 8vo, 92 pp. text plus 42 pp. varias cartas facsimilares at rear. X-library with usual flaws, but a good reading copy of a scarce work. Covers show some minor soiling, chipping head of spine, some pages show a crease at bottom corner. Book condition Good+. Text in Spanish.

Hamden, Conn: The Shoe String Press, 1973. HB. Red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo, 329 pp. X-college reference library, with usual markings, but a good reading copy. Binding tight.

Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1854. 1st. HB. Quarter brown leather over brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 12 mo., 348 pp. + 4 pages ads at front. Covers show edge wear, shelf wear, fraying top and bottom of spine. Book plate of the Vermont Historical Society on front end paper, presented by E. C. Palmer, and dated Jan. 1878, library stamps on ffep, rear end paper, and title page only marks in book. No library markings on covers. Text clean, binding solid. Uncommon title. Book condition Good+.

Boston: Little Brown, 1990. Proof. Wraps. Blue paper wraps, 8vo., 402 pp. UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF. Very slight soiling to covers. No marks in book. Book condition VG.

Montreal: Dawson Brothers, 1866. HB. Three-quarter red leather over marbled boards, gilt lettering with five raised bands on spine, 8vo, 160 pp., marbled endpapers, TEG. Cuoq (1821-1898) was a Catholic missionary at Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes where he studied the Algonquin and Iroquois languages. This is his classic work which includes commentaries on the works of Schoolcraft and Duponceau. The "Par N. O." on the title page is in reference to his Indian name. Several lines of annotations on ffep, no other marks in book, binding tight. Ffep partially detached but holding. Small historical society label bottom of front paste-down. Covers show some scuffing and edge wear, small sticker bottom of spine. Book condition VG. Text in French.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. HB. Quarter brown and tan paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo, xix, 473 pp. No marks in book, binding tight. Small scuff to top edge of front cover. Lacking the dust jacket. Book condition VG.

Concord, N. H: Printed And Published By White & Fisher, 1835. HB. Green cloth, gilt lettering on red title label on spine, 12 mo, 276 pp. Early rebinding with the original backstrip laid down, and with the woodcut plate showing deer hunting as a frontis with tissue guard. Lacking the second plate. . Important early account of Texas by A. A. Parker (1791-1893), New Hampshire lawyer and judge and son of a U.S. senator. Parker graduated from the University of Vermont in 1813, was editor of the New Hampshire Statesman in Concord, and "traveled through Texas just prior to the Texas Revolution. He spent a little over a month in Texas, visiting San Augustine, Nacogdoches, HallÕs Ferry on the Brazos, and Brazoria, among others. He gives particular attention to the land, noting the types of crops that could be grown, and also discusses various animals of Texas, including alligators, panthers, bears, deer, buffalo, and mustangs. In 1836, a new edition of this work was released, in which… Read More

Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1919. HB. Quarter black cloth and tan paper covered boards, black lettering on front cover, paper title label on spine, 8vo, 190 pp., TEG. Frontis photograph of Carleton H. Parker with tissue guard. Owner's name front pastedown, no other marks in book, binding tight. Front cover shows some offsetting. Covers show some edge wear and light soiling. Book condition VG-.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921. 8th imp. HB. Quarter brown cloth over tan boards, 8vo., 190pp. TEG. Covers show soiling, edge wear, owners name ffep, otherwise clean book. Book condition Good+.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955. HB. Red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, small 4 to., 69 pp. x-reference library, but a very clean copy. Book condition VG.