Search Results: Authors starting with P from Caroliniana

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. Large 8vo, blue cloth, 389 pp. Reprinted from the works of Thomas Paine volume II. Very good with soiling and foxing to covers, mild foxing and toning to pages.

Palo Alto, California : Heritage West, Publisher, 1981. First Edition. Large 8vo, hardcover, 312 pp, photographic frontispiece of Carrie L. Bailey and illustrations from drawings within text. Reprints the diaries of two girls from Elmore, Lamoille County, Vermont. This copy is signed by the editor, Mariam Parr. Laid in is an additional booklet of poetry by the editor. A nice copy with mild toning.

London: John Camden Hotten, 1861. Second edition. 8vo, 156pp, illustrated by Leech, Tenniel, Phiz and Portch, frontispiece by Cruikshank, in a fine morocco binding with gilt decoration, stamped "Bound by Morrell for John Wanamaker" to front endpaper. Likely sold in the rare book department of a John Wanamaker Department Store in Philadelphia or New York. A 1911 book by the firm notes that "every year Wanamaker book collectors make their pilgrimages" to English bookstores to purchase illustrated works by such "master artists as Cruikshank, Leech, Rowlandson, Crowquill and Phiz" before having them bound in London by "such masters of the art as Zaehnsdorf, Riviere and Morrell" before being imported to America and sold in the stores. A very good copy, foxing to pages, offsetting to endpapers along edges, crumbling to leather along corners and edges of binding, mostly along spine.

London: Calder & Boyars, 1970. Octavo, orange hardcover with dust jacket, 192 pp. First English language edition of La Comtesse Saglante (1962), a novel about the life of supposed female vampire Elizabeth Bathory. The novel led to the creation of the first major film about Bathory, Countess Dracula (Hammer, 1970), starring Ingrid Pitt. Foxing to text block edges, endpapers, and dust jacket, owner inscription to front endpaper, chipping along upper edge of jacket, damage to covers along upper edge.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1946. Hardcover, no dust jacket, 278 pp, illustrations plates. Memoir of Hungarian gardener Eleanor Perenyi, regarding her marriage to her Hungarian noble husband and the impact of World War II on life in rural Hungary. A good copy with foxing and toning to pages, wear to corners and edges, owner inscription to front endpaper.

Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1917. 12mo, 100pp, orange and purple cloth, with original patriotic dust jacket. A moral story calling for social unity during World War I, written by a pastor and rotary club member from Council Bluffs, Iowa, with a foreward by the international president of the Rotary Club. This copy with a lengthy inscription to front endpaper that reads in part "I gave a copy of this little book to the Captain of Unit 330 of the Ill. Vol Corps...may it help the boys guard the country with honor and keep the home fires burning." Very good with soiling and fading to edges of covers, bit of foxing to pages, dust jacket toned and soiled, bit chipped at corners.

Greenville, S.C.: Shannon & Co, Printers, 1889. 8vo, original cloth with gilt spine lettering, [4], iii, [1], 397, [3] pp. A collection of sketches of politicans, together with speeches and addresses by the reconstructon era Governor of South Carolina, Benjamin Franklin Perry. This copy with Perry's clipped signature affixed to lower margin of title page, also with an 1889 presentation inscription from Mrs. B.F. Perry to James W. Howarth to front endpaper. Additional circa 1850s engraving of North Carolina judge William Gaston laid in loose. Damp staining to first couple of leaves, rear hinge cracked, covers worn at corners and spine ends, with minor soiling and staining, minor foxing and toning to pages.

Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, Circa 1813. Sixteenth Improved Edition. Octavo, wood boards with leather spine, 180 pp, illustrated with engraved frontispiece and engravings in text. An early American spelling book, which includes a section of illustrated "moral tales and fables for the instruction of youth," including "The Old Man and His Ass," "The Naughty Girl Reformed," etc. One inch tear to margin of one leaf, small hole to another, quarter sized hole to another leaf. Lacking blue paper that would have covered the binding, leaving the wood boards exposed. "Spelling" inked to spine of book. Frontispiece pasted down to front cover. Upper half inch of front cover lacking. Damp staining to first half of text. This copy inscribed "Mary Mason's Book Princeton Nov 30th 1813" to rear endpaper.

New York: Carlton Press, Inc, 1974. Hardcover with dust jacket, 45 pp. Collection of nature themed poetry by a Camden, South Carolina resident and prominent nature photographer, illustrated with her own photos. Very good with foxing and a few tears to jacket.

Clerkenwell: Bye and Law, 1799. 8vo, original tree calf with gilt and morocco spine label, xxxi, 301, [1] pp. Owner nameplate to verso of title page, owner inscription to front endpaper. An attractive copy with front joint starting to crack, mild wear along spine, toning to pages.

Sacramento: The Sacramento Valley Expositions Commission, 1915. 8vo, stapled booklet, 96 pp, many photographic illustration plates. Very good with bit of yellowing to covers and wear along spine.

Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010. Hardcover with dust jacket, 217 pp. Near fine in a fine jacket.

Cincinnati: U.P. James, Circa 1860. 5.75 x 4", blue printed wrappers, illustrated. Copyright 1836, but this edition likely circa 1860. In excellent condition with minor toning and foxing.

New York: W.J. Widdleton, 1870. 8.75 x 7", brown leather binding with gilt titles, marbled endpapers, text block edges gilt, 176 pp, illustrated. An antique copy of Poe's poems in a lovely leather binding. Foxing to pages, wear to covers, joints and edges of binding retouched.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1971. 8.5 x 6", hardcover with dust jacket, 150 pp, illustrated by Arthur Rackham. A very attractive copy with foxing to text block edges and edges of jacket, bit of rubbing to jacket spine, bit of soiling to rear panel of jacket, bit of sunning to jacket spine.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1975. 4to, brown leather decorated with gilt. Brand new and still sealed in original shrinkwrap.

Philadelphia: Henry T Coates and Co, [1900]. Octavo, original green cloth boards, gilt and red design and titles to front cover and spine, top edge gilt. A beautiful vintage edition of this collection of Poe tales. Featuring The Murders in Rue Morgue, Gold Bug, Fall of the House of Usher, Tell-Tale Heart and many others. An excellent copy with just a hint of toning to pages, page edges rough cut, and with just a touch of bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends, ownership signature in pencil to front endpaper.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1930. First Edition. Quarto, tan cloth with white vellum spine, gilt spine lettering, ix, 183 pp, 14 tissue guarded color plates by illustrators Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace. Copy number 21 of a limited edition of 150 signed by the author. A very good copy with a pair of early bookplates to front pastedown, scuffing to cloth.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. Hardcover with no dust jacket, 250 pp. In very good condition with foxing and toning to pages, owner inscription to front end paper.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1930. Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. A sound copy with wear and discoloration to covers, foxing to text edges and endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, owner inscriptions to title page and front endpaper.