Search Results: Authors starting with P from Cat's Cradle Books

Normal, IL: Illinois State University, 1971. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, tanned pages, no writing or marks. Wrappers are age-darkened and edge rubbed. ; Contents: Pease, "Law, Empire and Race: Kipling as a Social Theorist"; Otten, "Action in Wordsworth's 'Lucy' Poems: A Reading"; McCaffrey, "Pioneers of the American Ghetto"; Hadded, "Jordan's Civil War of 1970-71 in Historical Perspective"; Miller, "Huckleberry Finn: The Kierkegaardian Dimension"; poems "Lost Town" by Westerfield; "Portrait" by Mood; "To My Students," by Harrod; "Il Cortegiano" by Butrick. 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 64 pages.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Exlibrary markings. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have general handling wear, wear to top of spine. ; Corporate history by the vice-president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary marks. Previous owner's book plate on front pastedown. Binding and hinges sound. Pages clean, tanned, deckled. Cloth over boards is shelf worn with edge rubbing, bumped corners, wear to extremities of spine. Gilt lettering on front and spine is darkened but visible. ; Laudatory biography of Robert E. Lee by Page (1853-1922), whose body of work extolling the Old South is consistent with his view here. ; Ex-Library; 7.75" tall; 312 pages.

New York: Viking Press, 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has light overall shelf wear. ; Examination of the Gospel of Judas, a fragmentary writing of the early Christian church. ; 8.5" (18.5 cm) tall; 224 pages.

Savannah, GA, U.S.A.: Georgia Historical Review, 1992. Ephemera. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Stapled with front and rear wrappers from the Georgia Historical Quarterly. Pages clean, bright. Wrappers have shelf wear, light handling wear. ; Article exploring social history of the slave South. 9.25" tall; 19 pages.

Notre Dame, IN: Sorin Books, 2020. Softcover. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers display no evidence of wear. ; Aims to cultivate wonder and gratitude through intimacy with nature. ; 9.0" tall; 139 pages.

Rio de Janeiro: Numen Editora, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. First Edition. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean, tanned pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. ; Feminist literary analysis of Brazilian women´s poetry. ; 7.0" tall; 219 pages.

Beograd: Sryska Akademija Nauka I Umetnosty, 2002. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Serbian language (Cyrillic alphabet), with title page in both English and Serbian. Square, tight binding, light shelfwear to exterior. Pages clean & bright, no evidence of reading wear. Essays in honor of Serbian novelist Borislav Pekic. Contributors: Milan Radulovic (Aesthetic and autopoetic contemplation of Borislav Pekic), Jovan Delic ((Auto)poetical leve in Borislav Pekic's "New Jerusalem"), Novo Vukovic (Atlantis in the context of Pekic's mythological semantics), Jasmina Lukic (Parallelisms and mise en abyme in the novel "Golden Fleece"), Petar Pijanovic (One example of intertextuality in Pekic's "Golden Fleece"), Mihajlo Pantic (Middle-class novel of Borislav Pekic), Predrag Palavestra (Were the Pekic's "Builders" eaten by rust?), Vladeta Jankovic (Plans and Preparations fo rthe unwritten novel "Silver Hand"), Milena Markovic (Bibliography of Borislav Pekic). 9.5" (24 cm) tall; 223 pages.

Beograd: Sryska Akademija Nauka I Umetnosty, 2003. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Serbian language (Cyrillic alphabet), with title page in both English and Serbian. Square, tight binding, light shelfwear to exterior. Pages clean & bright, no evidence of reading wear. Essays in honor of poet Ivan V. Lalic (1931-1996), whose symbolist poetry evoked Byzantine and other ancient themes. Contents: Jovan Delic (Dialogical Nature of the Poetry and Poetics), Svetlana Seatovic-Dimitrijevic (The Development of the Inter-Textual in the Poetic Works of Ivan V. Lalic), Vladeta Jerotic (Love Messages or the Byzantium of Ivan V. Lalic), Bogdan A. Popovic (Critiques and Essayistic Writings of Ivan V. Lalic), Jelena Novakovic (Ivan V. Lalic et la poesie francaise), Aleksandar Stefanovic (On Reception of Lalic's Poetry in Italy), Svetlana Velmar-Jankovic (The First Poem from the First Canon by Ivan V. Lalic), Ljubomir Simovic (Lalic's Philosophical Journeys to Holland), Pavle Zoric (The… Read More

New York: New York Historical Society, 2004. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have very light handling wear. ; Special focus on Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America. ; 10.0" tall; 150 pages.

New York: New-York Historical Society, 2004. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. Contents: Paley, interview with Louise Mirrer. Various articles on treasures from the N-YHS collection. Rading and teaching history, programs and acquisitions. ; 10.0" tall; 156 pages.

London - New York: J. M. Dent & Sons - E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1944. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, age-darkened pages. Previous owner's name on ffep. Cloth over boards is faded at spine, with overall edge rubbing, shelf wear, and bumped corners. ; Poetry by British author Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897). ; Everyman's Library; Vol. 96; 7.0" tall; 428 pages.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Revised Edition. Book is in the English language. Clean, bright pages. Sound binding and hinges. Bumped corners of paper over boards. DJ has edge wear, overall shelf wear. Revised and enlarged based on the sixth Italian edition (published in 1975). 9.2 X 5.6 X 1.0 inches; 317 pages.

Sewanee, Tennessee: University of the South, 1948. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, tanned pages. Wrappers have dampstaining along spine, edge wear, tanning, overall shelf wear. ; Contents: Tate, Editorial note. Stevens, John Crowe Ransom: Tennessean. Lytle, Note on a traditional sensibility. Lowel, John Ransom's conversation. Jarrell, John Ransom's poetry. Matthiessen, Primarily language. Brooks, The Doric delicacy. Nemerov, Summer's flare and winter's flaw. Stauffer, Portrait of the critic-poet as equilibrist. O'Connor, The world as body. Stallman, John Crowe Ransom: a checklist. Vivas, Two notes on the new naturlaism.M Morris Roberts, The notebooks of Henry James. Henry Rago, The discomforts of storytelling. Robert Daniel, No place to go. Laurence Lesage, Three translations from the French. David McDowell, The Renaissance of Thomas Wolfe. ; 9.25" tall; 177 pages.

Durham, NC: Institute for Parapsychology, 2001. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wrappers have slight edge rubbing. Contents: Palmer, "Introduction"; Rhine, excerpt from "A Brief Introduction to Parapsychology"; Dalton, "Modern Psi: Ganzfeld & DMILS"; "Institute for Parapsychology"; "Summer Study Program"; Palmer, "On Becoming a Parapsychologist"; "Parapsychology Pointers"; "Suggested Reading"; "International Directory"; Feather, "Afterword."; 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 69 pages.

Durham, N.C.: Parapsychology Press, 2004. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Signed by one of the authors with additional inscription on p. 217. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear including slight curling. ; Contents: Carpenter, First sight: part one, a model of Psi and the mind. Braithwaite et al., In search of magnetic anomalies associated with haunt-type experiences: pulses and patterns in dual time-synchronized measurements. Edge et al., Two cognitive DMILs studies in Bali. Vassy, A study of telepathy by classical conditioning. Sartori et al., Physiological correlates of ESP: heart rate differences between targets and nontargets. Roe, Interpersonal Psi: exploring the role of the sender in Ganzfeld ESP tasks. Stahl, Permutation-based methods for examining confusion data in experiments. Díaz-Vilela, Differences in paranormal beliefs across fields of study from a Spanish adaptation of Tobacyk's RPBS. Reviews. 9.25" tall; 449 pages; Signed by Author.

Chelmsford, Essex: Arlequin Press, 2001. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Illustrated by John Busby. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Minor shelf wear to wrappers. ; Arranged geographically with maps, some photographs, and drawings. Arlequin Press Birdwatching Guides; Cover Art; 8.25" tall; 120 pages.

Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editôra, 1968. Eleventh Edition. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Eleventh Edition. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean, slightly tanned pages. Wraps have light handling wear. ; Novel by Brazilian writer Mário de Ascenção Palmério (1916-1996). ; Coleção Sagarana; Vol. 5; 7.25" tall; 298 pages.

Ann Arbor, MI: Ann Arbor-Humphrey Science Publishers, 1970. Hard Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary markings. Square, tight binding and hinges. Cloth over boards is shelfworn, with bumped corners and library labels. Text pages are clean and bright. Contents: general properties of protactinium; analytical chemistry of protactinium and protactinium compounds; detection of protactinium; quantitive determination of protactinium; separation of protactinium from accompanying elements. Bibliography, index. Ex-Library; 9.75" (25 cm) tall; 233 pages.

Fairfax Station, Virginia: George Mason University, 2010. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have general handling wear. Contents: feminist fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. Contributors: Michele Coppola, Elizabeth De Sa, Helen Klonaris, Lauren Schmidt, Marcia Arrieta, Jan Ball, Simki Ghebremichael, Sarah Marcus, Virginia Schnurr, Laurie Blauner, Maureen C. Ewing, Emari DiGiorgio, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Emily Scudder, R. C. Smith, Maya Sonenberg, Joy Lanzendorfer, Amir Shahlan Amiruddin, Lindsay Herko, Joan B. Bevelaqua, Jesse Lefkowitz, Vanessa C. Vargas. ; 8.5" tall ; 84 pages.