Search Results: Authors starting with P from The Sensible Magpie

New York: Scribner's, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Clinedinst, Benjamin West. FIRST EDITION. Cocked with notable spine lean, but fresh and clean. Front hinges starting, rear hinges broken. Top and bottom spine and corners worn. Corners nudged. Scuffing and soiling to board surfaces. Age-tanned. A little staining to endpapers and text block edges. Gilt lettering debossed to spine and front of green cloth-covered boards. Burgundy, black and gilt debossed illustration to front. Illustration to frontispiece with tissue overlay. Eleven black and white illustrations. Clean. 584 pp. with advertisements to rear of book. Chapter 1 - In which there are several introductions. The old Gray plantation, "Red Rock," lay at the highest part of the rich rolling country, before it rose too abruptly in the wooded foothills of the blue mountains away to the westward. As everybody in the country knew, who knew anything, it took its name from the great red stain, as big as a blanket, which… Read More

Uplifting Press, 2007. REVISED EDITION. Paperback. Near Fine. 55pp. 8.3 x 3.7 x 0.6 inches Discover why drinking the liquid crystal known as hexagonal water can provide superior hydration, enhancednutrient absorption, more effective detoxification, increased metabolic efficiency, and improved cellular communication.

New York: Macmillan, 1972. Paperback. Very Good Plus. Light ripple. Complementary Copy stamped to title page. Mild shelfwear to extremities. Exercises, tests, and answers. Clean, bright, solid. 188 pp. This teaching guide is broken down into five elements : small steps, active response, immediate reinforcement, self-pacing and low error rate. The book is organized into eleven units. At the end of each unit is an objective test for your use and after completion there is a comprehensive examination at the back of the book.

Los Angeles, California: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1977. Paperback. Very Good Plus. Catelog of Exhibition showing October 17 - 23, 1977. Sotheby's opened in 1955, is the largest fine art auction house in the United States, is located in New York, and attracts collectors from all over the world. Auction (October 24 - 27) included Textiles, Tapestries, Oriental Rugs, Carpets and Porcelain; English, American and French Furniture, Decorations and Silver; Japanese Netsuke, Lacquer, Inro, Porcelain and Works of Art. Unnumbered, but shows 1143 lots, and has a chart for estimated prices. Very light edgewear and light scuffing to cover surfaces. Color illustrations to front and rear covers, solid binding, clean.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. SHARP CORNERS. Foxing to top and fore-edges. Very mild edgewear to spine. Dustjacket very good plus. Mild edgewear to orchid-color jacket. Gilt lettering to dark brown boards. Clean, tight, bright. 348 pp with bibliography and index. "This study of one century of Renaissance Poetry (1575 -- 1675) may be regarded as a sequel to [Partridge's] earlier volume in The Language Library on Tudor to Augustan English. Its purpose is primarily analytic, and the analysis in tripartite : rhetorical, literary and linguistic", (preface).

Marlboro, Vermont: Marlboro Press, 1986. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. SHARP, CRISP VOLUME. Previous owner's name, in ink, to front free endpaper. Tiny red dot to page 1, else clean. Dustjacket very good plus. Sunning to spine and a lit of top edgewear. Silver metallic lettering to spine of aubergine-color, cloth-covered boards. Clean, tight, bright. 134 pp. Translated from Italian by John Shepley. Five stories contained in this volume are extracted from Alì Dagli Occhi Azzurri. "It is no exaggeration to say that his characters emerge from the prose like Michelangelo's Slaves from the partially carved stone," (rear flap).

New York: John Felsberg, 1946. 1st Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Staple-bound booklet in well crafted custom pamphlet sleeve. Dark brown paper cover lightly faded and light wear to booklet itself. Mild pipe aroma. A little bit of spotting to interior of sleeve and light shelfwear to exterior. Brown leather boards, paste-on title to spine, dark chocolatey brown taffeta lining and four-fold wrap for laid-in booklet. Only 2,500 copies, printed on good quality tweedweave laid paper, text in red and black. 32 pp. A collection of poems often with dark and bizarre imagery and a bit of God mixed into the theme. "It cannot blur. Light my God is on the leaves. Under their fingers birds build pyramids. The lovers. He is. All other men are somewhere, wrong."

Sydney: William Collins, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good. Digby, Desmond. INSCRIBED by Illustrator, with initials D.W.D. The classic poem beautifully illustrated. Not a very happy story, but a classic nonetheless. Illustrations are lively with a realistic feel and aptly flesh out the sad verses. 34 pp with a glossary of terms to last page. Inscription of previous owner to FPDEP, very light wear to extremities. Black lettering to spine and front board, color illustrations to boards. Clean, tight, bright.

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1949. Hardcover. Good. THIRD PRINTING. Tale of the exploits of a rebel spy during the American Revolution. Philip Van Dorn risks life and limb to aid the colonists, working behind the frontlines to uncover valuable intelligence and unmask an enemy spy. Ex-Library copy with usual markings. Black tape to all edges, corners, spine. Spine lean. There is no dustjacket, but the inside panels have been attached to front and rear boards.

Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press, 1967. Paperback. Good Plus. Previous owner's name to FFEP. Mild wear and scuffing to extremities and surfaces. Mild creasing to sunned spine. Occasional underlining and marginalia, in pen. Three pps black and white photographs. White titles to spine, black titles to front of blue and gray covers. Bright, solidly bound. 369 pp. with notes, bibliography and index. "...a new exploration of one of the most significant developments in recent Amrican history -- the creation by conservative congressmen of a pattern of cooperation that continues to exert a potent influence upon the course of legislation, (rear cover).

Peoria, Illinois: Manual Arts Press, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. Slight spine lean. Mild shelfwear to surfaces. Spinecaps and corners worn. Bottom corners bumped. Black lettering to brick-red, cloth-covered boards. With 159 figures. 176 pp with index. Chapters include : The Correlation of Metalwork and Design ; Copper ; Alloys of Copper ; Metal Gages ; Coloring and Finishing Art Metalwork ; Etching, Soft Soldering ; Etching, Straight Bending, Lapping, and more

Paperback. Very Good Plus. Limited to 500 copies. 40 pp. staplebound pamphlet. Foreword by Norman D. Stevens, Afterword by Tom & Enid Schantz, Illustrations by Rob Pudim.

New York: Facts on File, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Slight shelfwear. A tiny ding to lower spine, front upper corner lightly bumped. Yellow lettering to green spine. Black, yellow and red lettering to glossy white boards, portrait of FDR to front board. Very clean, tight, bright. A number in interesting illustrations throughout. 480 pp with selected bibliography and index. "A fact-filled resource written in an accessible A-to-Z format. Biographical entries cover the key personalities connected to the administration; a chronology spans the history of the period; and a sizable appendix includes important documents and tables listing the members of the White House staff, cabinet members, members of the House and Senate, and more," (rear cover).

Paris, France: Librairie Delagrave , 1947 . Hardcover. Very Good Minus/Very Good. Deluermoz, H. . FIRST EDITION. French-language volume contains a number of animal stories, with stylish black and white illustrations and design. 202 pp. Quarter red leather boards with multicolored casing, gilt lettering to spine. Boards lightly cocked. Light bumps to three corners. Very light spine lean. Small chips to edges of several pages. Moderate age-tanning to pages. Light rubbing to extremities. Light soiling to edges. DJ archivally protected. 5 inch, 2 inch, and half-inch closed tear to front DJ panel. 2 inch closed tear to rear DJ panel. Light DJ edgewear elsewehere. Light creasing to DJ spine, front panel. Dime-sized spot to rear DJ board. A bit of light soiling to DJ surfaces.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good Plus. Light sunning to lower edge of book. Tiny chips along DJ top edge, about .25 x 1" chip to upper DJ spine, shelfwear and age-tanning to DJ panels. Gilt lettering in a red block on spine, gray cloth-covered boards. Pictorial endpapers showing the State Museum model of Denver in 1860. New plastic covering to DJ. Unmarked text. 624 pp with acknowledgements, bibliography and index. Foreword by Gene Fowler. illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. Perkins chronicles the history of a great western city and its newspaper, from the early pioneer days of the Rocky Mountains with its mountain settlers, Indian marauders, Horace Greeley, the new railroads and famous American journalists like Damon Runyon and Lowell Thomas. Tales of corrupt politics, wide-open gambling towns, and colorful eyebrow-raising events in a time where newspapermen usually kept a six-shooter on his desk!

Norman: Univ of Oklahoma Press, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 276pp. 9 x 6 x 1 inches. One bumped corner. Inscribed by author "...with admiration for your fine organization and work... Marjorie Perloff, May, 1993".

Philadelphia, PA: Deacon and Peterson, 1869. Leather_bound. GOOD. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Moderately scuffed and worn. Edges and corners worn and frayed. Pages faintly age-tanned. Foxing to endpapers and a bit throughout text. Occasional page with smallish edge tears. Page 717 detached, but present. Two color plates missing. Numerous black and white illustrations, some with tissue guard. Bound in 3/4 leather with rust, green and black marbeling. Red and black title labels on worn leather spine with gilt lettering and gilt rules. Gilt rules near head and foot of spine. 864 pp. The complete year of The Lady's Friend Magazine. Includes patterns, fashion-plates, music, "receipts", short stories, poetry and much more. Engravings by Illman Brothers.

Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Minus. FIRST U.S. EDITION, originally published in Moscow as "Primeneniye Teorii Grupp v Kvantovoi Mekhanike". After developing the theory of groups and of their matrix representations, this volume applies the theory to a variety of physical situations, mostly quantum mechanical in nature. 318 pp. Green topstain. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Light spine lean. Boards slightly cocked. Very light bumps to two corners. Some light foxing to text edges. Slight stain to very top edge of rear pastedown. Just a bit of slight creasing to DJ extremities. Light scratching to DJ panels. Just a bit of very slight soiling to DJ panels, spine.

University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. SHARP CORNERS. Dustjacket very good plus. Very light sunning to fold edges. Gilt lettering debossed to maroon, cloth-covered spine of ivory, cloth-covered boards. With 69 photographs and illustrations. Clean, tight, bright. 455 pp with notes and index. The son of "the" Joseph Pulitzer who established the Pulitzer Prize. The second Joseph Pulitzer was "a man of even temperment and measured administrative style", unlike his colorful father. This biography "shows him to have been one of America's most important newspapermen, ranking with Adolph Ochs, William Allen White, and Robert R. McCormick," (front flap).

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1929. Hardcover. VERY GOOD in Fair Dustjacket. Very light shelfwear to boards. Center hinge started. Dustjacket fair. Large chips to edges but now Mylar protected. Lightly age-tanned. Worn gilt lettering to purple cloth-covered spine. Orange boards with gilt "cob webs". 50 pp. Clean and tight. "Memory is a storehouse of enriching thought, memory as an aid to success, memory as a cause of pain through misuse, self-conscious memory as a divine act of creation, but are a few fascinating phases of memory which [the author] treats of in his enlivening little volume," (front flap).