Search Results: Authors starting with P from Pegasus Book Orphanage

The Cresset Press, publishers, London - first edition 1965 hardcover, 7¼" x 11½", with dust jacket Jacket edges have short tears. Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket The Chinese are the only Asian people who, before modern times, used chairs and raised furniture and did not sit on mats, cushions or carpets. This book enquires into the causes, date and manner in which so remarable a change of habit came about in China at a time when there was no close contact with any people using chairs. Early pictorial and archaeological material is used to illustrate the first use of chairs. This is the first systematic study this nature. Seventeen full-page plates; numerous line drawings in text.

David & Charles, Newton Abbot, UK - 1975 hardcover, 5¾" x 8¾" (14½cms x 22½cms), with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, and barcode. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket Here is shocking story of how Greece was despoiled of much of her treasures in the early nineteenth century - the treasures that are now priceless exhibits in the great museums of the world. Lord Elgin acquired the famous marbles that bear his name, but he was not the only one to take part in a kind of free-for-all, not so far removed from modern vandalism. The author writes from the protagonists' own recollections and confessions, set against the exotic background of Turkish-dominated Greece. Book includes 24 illustrations and maps.

United Press, Melbourne & Sydney January, 1940 stapled magazine, 8" x 10½" Covers have creases and short tears. 'Wild Life' magazine, 1940, in FAIR condition 'The adaption of life to its environment is nowhere more interesting to observe than in the case of birds and their beaks', writes F J Briggs, who makes his point with Great Billed Herons, New Zealand Blue Ducks, Spoonbills, Avocets, Lesser Frigate Birds, Stone Curlews, Ibis, Pelicans and Frogmouths (all illustrated). IN THE SAME ISSUE: "Insect Jekylls and Hydes' by Crosbie Morrison, deals with Coleoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, and Thysanoptera.

McGraw-Hill, publishers, New York 1989 hardcover, 6¼" x 9¼", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, and barcode. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket As a Foreign Correspondent in China in the 1940s, Hoyt had a rare opportunity to observe and analyze the country in transition. His extensive travels in China then and in recent years has given him unique access to Chinese sources - including nearly a hundred volumes of Chinese historical studies and interviews with scholars and government insiders. This fast-paced, involving narrative brings modern Chinese history to life.

Tom Doherty Associates, Fifth Avenue, New York - 1994 paperback, 5½" x 8¼" (14 x 21cms), with card covers Felt pen mark to bottom page edges. Book in VERY GOOD condition The Luftwaffe, the most feared weapom in Hitler's arsenal, wrought havoc across the skies of Europe, from the London blitz to the air war over Stalingrad, from the destruction of Rotterdam to the ruthless violation of the Maginot Line, World War Two brought air warfare to new heights. Colorful, devious, and driven by dreams of glory, Hermann Goering was Hitler's second-in-command and mastermind behind Germany's deadliest war machine - the angels of death, the Luftwaffe. Here is the story of the ultimate military campaign and its leader, Hermann Goering. Book includes 39 b&w archival photographs.

Pergamon Press, Oxford & London - first edition 1968 hardcover, 5¼" x 8" (no jacket issued) Minor rubbing to spine. Book in VERY GOOD condition Forty-eight b&w photographs, bibliography, and index. Cash money may gradually disappear altogether with the increasing popularity of computer-generated credit transfer automation such as the National Giro Centre, the Joint Stock Banks' free credit transfer service, and the American Banker's Association's ideas of a cashless world dependent upon telephone-line money cards. Read about the history of money, and how coinage & banknotes are being replaced by scientifically derived systems. SCARCE BOOK.

David and Charles, UK 1973 Hardcover with dj Ex library copy with transparent protective cover, usual stamps, stickers.Book in VERY GOOD condition in VG jacket Reviews the growth and implementation of a new spirit of international diplomacy, both wrought and experienced by President Roosevelt from the eve of American entry into the war until the end of the Yalta Conference.

Jacaranda Press, Brisbane 1980 Hardcover with dust jacket Slash through jacket to spine cloth at top. Small jacket gap at spine head. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD dust jacket Maroon cloth-bound hardcover, 11.25" x 9.5", with gold type to spine, cream endpapers, 51 colour plates, glossary, tapestry mark IDs, index, & jacket. History of artistic tapestry & tapestry-making from its emergence in prehistory to twentieth century.

Longmans, Green and Co, Clifford Street, London - second impression 1956 hardcover, 5¾" x 8¾", lacking dust jacket. Previous owner's name to front endpaper; pencil underlining to pps.13, 92, 93. Book in VERY GOOD condition Includes illustrated frontispiece (portrait of Louis XV by F H Drouais) and two other plates (Mde de Pompadour, and Mde du Barry). This is an inspired portrayal of the French monarchy. Dr Gooch provides a clear, colourful and detailed picture of the Versailles background to the life of the King and the decline of the Monarchy.

Longmans, Green & Co, Clifford Street, London - second impression 1954 hardcover, 6" x 8¾", with dust jacket Previous owner's name, and original bookseller's label, to front endpaper. Jacket 'shadow'. GOOD book in GOOD price-clipped dust jacket This character study of Catherine the Great depicts her as an unhappy wife, an unloving mother, the correspondent of Voltaire and Grimm, the busy ruler and legislator, the enemy of the French Revolution. A long procession of Favourites, with Potemkin at their head, winds slowly across the stage. "Dr Gooch's book is entertaining as it is authoritative," - Times Literary Supplement.

Marshall, Morgan & Scott, London and Edinburgh - first UK edition 1951 hardcover, 5¼" x 7½", with dust jacket Cover has tears, creases and gaps. VERY GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket The missionary author of this book of travel and adventure spent many years in the conservative, suspicious atmosphere of the pagan Mofussil. He tells of primitive conditions, of caste oppression, of devil worship and other strange customs, and he comments shrewdly upon the possible social and religious changes which may be looked for after India's colonial liberation. He also records here several triumphs of the Light that shines in the darkness.

Hutchinson, London - first edition 1990 hardcover, 9.5" x 6", with dust jacket Clean copy with sound binding. Back jacket has small scores (no tears or gaps) VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD dust jacket Red cloth-bound boards with gold type to spine, pale blue endpapers, 35 b/w photographs, index. Complementing Donaldson's biography of Wodehouse, his letters are a joy to read (they reveal his attitudes to other writers) - full of Wodehousian expression.

University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 1962 hardcover, 5¾" x 8½", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, but front endpaper removed. GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket This is a report of a distinguished educator on the founding of an American-style university in Shiraz, Iran. It deals with the export of American educational practices to under-developed countries, and has particular topical interest as an external view of Iranian higher education and as an instance of the involvement of an American university in the US foreign aid program. 39 b&w photographs, and map endpapers.

Addison-Wesley Publishing, Reading, Massachusetts 1995 Hardcover with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers & barcode. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket This ground-breaking book is the first effort to examine the new political trial. In the high-profile, politicized trials of the 1990s, punishment became a means of self-vindication for disenfranchised groups who identify with the victims. Lawyers portray their clients as the supposed victims - under the influence of psychiatric experts, criminal evil becomes 'deviant behaviour'. With critical sophistication and a profound understanding of crimal law, George Fletcher offers sensible, realistic suggestions for reform

Delacorte Press, USA - first printing © 1972 Black cloth bound hardcover 9.25" x 6" Ex library copy with transparent protective cover, and stamps on endpapers and title page. Front hinge weakened. GOOD book in GOOD jacket Green endpapers, and dust jacket. Contains 'The Ginger Man', 'Fairy Tales of New York', 'A Singular Man', and 'The Saddest Summer of Samuel S'. Photographs by Lewis Morley, Preface (and biting Dedication) by author.

Bekking Publishers, Amersfoort, The Netherlands 1994 Hardcover, 23½cms x 17½cms, with illustrated board covers Book in VERY GOOD condition Second edition. There is no other European country in which nature, and especially water, has played such an important part as the Netherlands. The need to control water was always foremost in the minds of the Dutch, then as it is now. It isn't surprising that this area has been a target of attack from all quarters - Romans, Franks, Burgundians, and finally the Hapsburgs - have left their marks on the local culture. This book gives an outline of the history of the Netherlands from prehistory until about 1450 and then, in increasing detail, the various significant periods including up to 1813, when the present kingdom was established, until the present time. A beautifully illusted book with many colour plates.

W W Norton, Fifth Avenue, New York - 2002 hardcover, 26cms x 28½cms [10¼" x 11¼"], with dust jacket & protective covering VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket In small museums along the English coast, and in private collections, James McGuane has recorded artifacts recovered from ship-wrecks and preserved by modern conservation techniques. Taken together, these unique treasures provide a window onto the everyday life of sailors and officers in the Royal Navy of the Napoleonoc era. In this book we are rewarded with moments frozen in time: tools, clothing, utensils, weapons, and fragments of the ship itself startlingly intact. These photographs bring home to the reader - as words alone cannot - what a sailor's life in that time was really like. Book includes over 250 colour photographs. Outstanding publication!

W H Allen, publishers, London 1984 hardcover, 6¼" x 9½", with dust jacket VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket After a stint at teaching at a Quaker school and a brief trial as a book editor, Michener joined the Navy and was sent to the South Pacific. It was there, on New Caledonia, that a single dramatic incident made him decide to be a novelist. Persistence and good luck paid off with one blockbuster after another. This biography was written with Michener's cooperation, and explores his three marriages, his relationships with literary agents, editors and publishers, and the drive behind his success.

Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton, Illinois 2008 Softcover, 225cms x155cms (9" x 6") Softcover in VERY GOOD condition In this book, Oxford educated physicist and historian Farrell continues his best-selling series of exposes on secret Nazi activity. Here you will learn, in minutely-documentled detail, how the Nazis survived WWII and engaged in postwar manipulation of various manufacturing technologies, economics and whole countries! Many photographs, documents and diagrams included.

Hamish Hamilton, Great Russell Street, London 1967 hardcover, 5¾" x 9", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, & barcode. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket This collection of Mr Hartley's lectures is dominated by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Trinity College, Cambridge). Other essays consider Emily Bronte, Jane Austen, L H Myers, Sir Osbert Sitwell, Edith Sitwell and Henry James. In the title-piece, Hartley sets out to show how the climate of fiction has changed in the two hundred years since Fielding wrote 'Jonathan Wild the Great' (the redoubtable gang-leader, a villain who was 'hanged by the neck till he was dead').