Search Results: Authors starting with P from Meteor Books

Fair-plus condition softcover, Craig Textor Associates, 1970; 24 pages, stapled binding. No names, notes, underlining, highlighting or other marks. No dogeared pages. Covers bright but show moderate wear and several light stains. 30 fondue recipies, including appetizers, sauces, main courses & desserts. We ship within 24 hours in most cases.

Very good softcover; published and SIGNED by the author, Juneau, Alaska, 1979. Drawings by the author. Stapled binding. Covers still bright with foxing/age-spotting at the edges and a small spot where there was once a price sticker. Inside pages are clean: No notes or marks. [The author was also a noted wildlife artist and woodsman. He passed away in 1990. Mount Parish, near Tenakee Springs, Alaska, is named for him.] We ship within 24 hours in most cases.

Bantam Skylark Books, 1991. Soft cover. Good. Good-Plus condition; Binding solid & square; Covers have light to moderate wear; Half-inch tear at bottom of spine; Owner's name inside front cover in small neat letters; Otherwise clean throughout: No notes, stamps, stickers or other marks. Pages are slightly age-tanned at edges. We ship within 24 hours in most cases.

Near Fine condition hardcover: Metallurg Alloy Corp, 1981. A hint of shelf-wear to covers. Clean throughout: No names, notes, stamps, stickers or marks. We ship within 24 hours in most cases.

Little, Brown and Co., 1939, hardcover, no dust jacket. Good condition with moderate wear: green cloth covers; corners are bumped; Lettering on spine is faded. Decorative bookplate with owners name inside front cover, along with some pencil marks; but otherwise clean. We ship within 24 hours in most cases.

Near Fine hardcover in Very Good+ dust jacket. St. Martin's Press, NY, Feb. 2002. Dust jacket has light crease at top edge. Clean throughout: No names, notes, stamps, stickers or other issues. No remainder mark. We ship within 24 hours in most cases.

First American Edition, W.W. Norton & Co. 1955, Acceptable condition. Red cloth covers with beige strip at the spine. No dust jacket. Binding is solid & square. Beige strip has small spots/stains. Top of spine is chipped. Corners bumped & fraying. Light purple stain inside front & rear covers. Pages creased. Two end papers at back of book have a one-inch closed tear. Small price notation in pencil on first end paper. No other marks. No names, notes, stamps or stickers. A decent reading copy. We ship within 24 hours in most cases.

Very good-plus condition hardcover: Que Corporation, 1997. Clean throughout: No names, notes, stamps, stickers, or other marks. Covers have very light shelf wear. Includes two CDs in protective sleeves inside rear cover: Windows 95 Shareware (Que ISBN: 07897-0797-7) and Ziff-Davis PC Benchmarks (Winstone 97 / WinBench 97). Functionality of CDs not guaranteed. We ship within 24 hours in most cases.

Very Good condition softcover: W.H. Sadlier, Inc., 1970. By Reverend James Peterson. Covers show very mild shelf wear; one corner has a small crease. Clean and bright throughout: No names, notes, stamps, stickers or marks. We ship within 24 hours in most cases.

Near Fine hardcover in Good-Plus to Very Good dust jacket. Oxford University Press, 1981. Green cloth boards with gold lettering. Dust jacket has edgwear and three (half-inch) tears. Clean throughout: No names, notes, stamps, stickers or other issues. No remainder mark. We ship within 24 hours in most cases.

Good condition Ex-Library book with minimal library markings, in protective clear plastic wrapper over good+ original dust jacket. Binding is solid & square. Green cloth covers sun-tanned with a bit of fraying at the edges. Inside library markings are limited to a library stamp inside front cover and discard stamp on flyleaf. All inside pages clean: no names, notes, highlighting or writing. We ship within 24 hours in most cases.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1986. Soft cover. Near Fine. Essentially new & unread, but covers have some very light shelf wear. We ship within 24 hours in most cases.

Good-plus paperback. 5th printing (1972). Clean throughout: No names, notes, stamps, stickers, or other marks. Binding solid & square. Cover has a crease & moderate wear. We ship within 24 hours in most cases.

Juta and Co. Ltd., Capetown & Johannesburg, 1935. Good-Plus softcover. Foxing to page block and title page. Binding is good but appears to have been reinforced with bookbinder's tape inside front cover. Hinge is just beginning to split between pages 66 and 67. Book is in very good shape otherwise. Clean throughout: No names, notes, stamps, stickers or marks. (Contains many sepia-tone photos.) We ship within 24 hours in most cases.
Note: Edith Lena Prance (1874-1957) was quite an adventurer. She drove ambulances in both world wars, serving in France, Greece and Serbia. In 1940, at the age of 66, she narrowly escaped the Nazis. She was awarded the British Victory Medal and the British War Medal.