Search Results: Authors starting with P from Old Bookshelf

New Orleans: Southern Pacific, 1910. Soft cover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Shana Valeska . 59pp. Pictorial stiff wraps. Light wear to cover, small rubber stamp to cover and title page, text is clean. A compact narrative of the attractions and the benefits of visiting New Orleans. A promotional booklet issued by the Passenger Traffic Department of the Southern Pacific. Illustrated throughout.

Salem: Peabody Museum, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 88pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering. Covers are clean and sound with barely a trace of a stain at top edge. Contents are clean and unmarked and binding is tight. One of an Edition of 500 copies on Ragston paper printed by The Anthoensen Press, Portland , Maine.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1920. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 297pp. Green cloth, gilt lettering. Ex-library wwith all the usual markings, inner hinge cracked but holding. contents all sound. Reading copy.

Boston: Chapple Publishing Company, Ltd., 1925. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 40pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering. LIght corner wear, contents are evenly toned. INSCRIBED in verse, and SIGNED and dated on front free endpaper by author.

Venezia: Edizioni Daria Guarnati, 1948. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. 82pp text, 98plates. Illustrated stiff wraps. Covers lightly soiled and faded, some chipping and tearing to spine, but mainly intact, contents are clean.

Paris: Établissement Papeghin. Soft cover. Near Fine. Oblong 16mo. Stiff red printed boards. Texte en français et anglais. 20 bound post cards of views of Villandry Chateau. Dated inscription on rear cover. Text in French and English.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xxvii, 324pp, 16 color illustrations, 170 black and white illustrations. Tan buckram, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, rough-cut edges. Cover is clean and unworn, endpapers lightly foxed, a very occasional spot in margins, contents are overall very clean and sound, binding is tight, some pages still unopened. A very nice copy of a handsome publication. Dust jacket is heavily soiled, chipped and missing a large piece from rear panel.

Bridgeport, CT, 1949. Soft cover. Very Good. Oblong 8vo. 44p. unpaginated. Yellow card stock wrapper. Light soil to cover and mild toning to contents. Souvenir program of the first Barnum Festival, illustrated. Laid-in is a Festival bulletin listing some of the events taking place during the Festival from June 10-14, 1949.

Leesburg, Virginia: Potomac Press, 1958. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 123pp. Grey cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. Book is clean and sound, spine sunned, contents are clean and unmarked.

New York: Charles Wiley, 1825. Second Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 228pp. Green contemporary paper-covered boards, rebacked in cloth, paper spine label. Wear and scuffing to boards, contents age-toned, scattered foxing, faint novitiate stamp on front endpapers and title page, former owner's name on front free endpaper, occasional light pencil notes in margins. Satirical narrative by an English tourist in America.

Wien: Wiener-Philharmonischer Verlag A. G., 1928. Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 72pp. Mit zahlerichen bild und notenbiegaben. Pictorial paper over boards. Wear to edges, spine chipped, some soiling. Contents sound, old price stamped on front free endpaper.

New York: Dance Horizons and Dance Books Ltd., 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 380pp. Gold foil boards. Book is in clean and unworn condition. Dust jacket has light wear and a 1 1/2 inch tear mended with archival tape, overall clean and sound.

Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum, 1937. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 209pp. Marbled boards, black spine, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, slipcase. Corners lightly rubbed, spine lettering mildly sunned, contents are clean and some pages still unopened. Slipcase is lightly edge-chipped. One of 481 copies printed on Hazelbourn paper by The Southworth-Anthoensen Press.

Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1836. Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. x, 374 +6pp ads. Brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine title. Covers dampstained, portions of text mildly dampstained and slightly wavy, but text is overall sound, with an occasional margin spot. Binding is tight. Covers Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mississippi,Michigan, and the territories of Wisconsin and Arkansas, and adjacent parts. Howes P-171, Graff 3235.

Somerville, MA: Somerville Journal Print, 1908. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 217pp. Brown paper over boards, gilt lettered, suede spine. Light wear to cover, text mildly toned but clean. Inscription on front free endpaper reads :"To Mrs. Sarah J. Elkins with best wishes from the author." Author's travels through Europe. Visits to Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Malta, Egypt and more. Illuatrated

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. Fourth Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 343pp. Tan buckram. Darkening and mild spotting to spine, covers otherwise clean and sound, contents mildly toned, inscription and date on front free endpaper. This edition contains a preface by Mrs. Pennell.

Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomss, 1796. Hardcover. Good. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. 596pp. Full calf, leather spine label. Fourth Worcester Edition. Edges rubbed, label chipped though mostly readable, joints cracked, no endpapers, some signatures slightly protruding, contents tanned, partial clippings pasted to pastedowns.

Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1885. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Green flexible boards. 32pp, 24 double-page maps. Cover and contents are in very well-preserved condition, showing very light wear.

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1935. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Unpaginated 32pp. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on front free endpaper. Blue cloth with pictorial paste-on. Covers are bright and clean, spine mildy faded, contents are clean and slightly toned, inscription on front pastedown. In very nice condition.

New York: The Viking Press, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Pierre Petitjean Photographer. Unpaginated approx. 130pp. Black cloth, silver spine lettering. Book is in near fine condition, unclipped dust jacket shows very slight wear. Wonderful behind-the-scenes photos, personally described by the photographer.