Search Results: Authors starting with P from Chanticleer Books

n.p.: Southern Pacific Lines, [1928]. First edition. Rubbed and retouched area at center of rear board, else fine.. Original reptile-skin patterned boards, oblong quarto ( 8.75 x 15 inches), 20 leaves printed on rectos only. 9 large group photographs, several portrait photos of SP executives. Laid in loose are 1 5.5 x 9.5-inch cyanotype photo print of a locomotive works and 1 vintage 6 x 8.5-inch silver print photograph of a coal-fired locomotive and crew. Also laid in is a typed letter dated San Francisco, July 3, 1929, signed J. N. Clark to Mr. O. B. Schoenky presenting this album. Dated ink stamp recording receipt of Southern Pacific Co., Los Angeles, Cal. July 5, 1929 at top of sheet. Both sender and recipient are pictured in the management portraits portion of the album. Founded in 1865, 1929 was Southern Pacific's heyday, with 13,848 miles of their own track. A fine piece of railroading history.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. Revised and enlarged edition. Hardcover. Very good. Original green cloth with titles in gilt, lace decoration on front cover and spine in white; quarto (7 x 10 inches), pp xvi, 536. Frontispiece, 89 plates, 177 illustrations. All edges gilt. Spine decoration rubbed; foxing to title page and tissue guard, else very good. 1902 reprint of the 1901 fourth edition. A superbly illustrated history of lace.

San Francisco: Paul Elder and Co. (Printed by John Henry Nash at the Tomoye Press), 1909. Limited first edition. Hardcover. Fine. 38 pp., original blue boards with gilt title and ornament, printed on Fabiano hand made paper, fore and bottom edges untrimmed A beautifully printed book of verse dedicated by the author to her daughter Henrietta. Limited edition of 250 copies.

Stockton, CA: Occidental Publishing Co. (Formerly Monarch Book Co.), 1894. First edition thus. Moderate soiling to boards, watermark to top margin of title page and frontispiece (not affecting image), leaves browned, else very good.. 527 pp. (pagination, but this a sampling of about 100 pages), frontispiece photograph, engraved text illustrations. Quarto, original white oilcloth pictorial boards stamped in black, floral endpapers. Prospectus and subscription blanks at rear. Scarce salesman's dummy for this popular cook book. 12 sales recorded on subscription blank - mainly for Sacramento customers. For the published book, Axord, Bitting, and Brown all list the Chicago edition only. Axford p. 429 (for Chicago, 1901 ed.), Bitting p. 354 (for Chicago 1901 ed.), Brown 567, 576 (Chicago, 1894, 1901). Stockton imprint not listed on OCLC. Salesman’s dummy not recorded.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, (1983). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in moderately worn glassine jacket. 112 pp., 25 sepia-toned photographic plates, oblong quarto, original natural linen cloth over boards, pictorial inset on front cover. At time of publication only 26 copies of the 1884 original Cherry edition of Redwood and lumbering were known to exist, of which "no two contain the same illustrations." Peter Palmquist has selected the 25 most striking images from the original editions to reproduce here, together with a catalogue of all the images. Designed and printed by James Robertson at the Yolla Bolly Press in a limited edition of 600 copies.

Rome: Agapito Franzetti, [1816]. Light foxing to margins, faint tideline to upper right corner just touching image, overall very good.. Original copperplate engraving, image size 7.25 x 9.25 inches on 10 x 15 sheet. Matted. Engraved by Filippo Palmucci. Signed in the plate. Caption text also in French.

Rome: Agapito Franzetti, [1816]. Light foxing to margins, faint tideline to upper right corner just touching image, overall very good.. Original copperplate engraving, image size 7.25 x 9.25 inches on 10 x 15 sheet. Matted. Engraved by Filippo Palmucci. Signed in the plate. Caption text also in French.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4 volumes, octavo, original dark blue ribbed cloth with gilt spine title; xvi, 331; xii, 390; xi, 399; xiv, 446 pp. Complete, with all frontispieces, folding maps, and plates. First translation into English of the Figueroa manuscript of Fr. Francisco Palou's "Noticias de la Nueva California" the first general history of the founding of Alta California. Palou's account was written over a period of 10 years (1773-83) in Monterey and San Francisco. Palou had accompanied Fr. Junipero Serra first to Baja and then to Alta California, eventually succeeding Serra as president of the Missions. Minor spotting to covers. All volumes signed on front free endpaper by Herbert Bolton, 4th volume signed and dated October 8, 1935. Front fixed endpaper in each volume with ink ex-libris of Daniel A and Josephine L Ryan. Rear endpapers in each volume with bookseller sticker of John Howell, San Francisco. Cowan, p. 471, Howes P55

Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Small nick to edge of spine, slight fading to covers, else about fine. Original red cloth with title in silver, oblong folio (16 x 12.5 inches), unpaginated. Japanese and English text. 51 full page color plate reproductions of paintings by 51 different artists of scenes in the National Parks of Japan, each with 1 preliminary page of descriptive text (text mainly in Japanese, with artist name and title of painting in English) map, several b/w photos.

New York: Bernard Ackerman, (1945). First edition. Hardcover. Minor fading to edges of covers, else very good in moderately worn jacket. 124 pp., original burgundy cloth, jacket. 10 chapters present a variety of magic tricks.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1937. First edition, signed, limited. Hardcover. Near fine. Lacking slipcase. 202 pp., illustrated from engravings by Lynd Ward; octavo, original blue cloth with title and cover ornament in silver. 24 essays exploring nature and science.

NY: Hacker Art Books, 1970. Reprint of 1917 edition. Very good; a clean, unworn copy. No d/j.. Original beige cloth, octavo (5.5 x 8.5 inches), 154pp. A fascinating history of drinking in America, including customs, laws, liquor traffic, and temperance societies.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press and Dallas: Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University, (1996). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket. xiii, [2], 197 pp., profusely illustrated with reproductions in color and b/w; quarto, brown cloth, jacket. A scholarly study of early Bibles, as well as a catalogue of the exhibition organized at the Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University and shown at the Yale Center for British Art, the Houghton Library and Widender Library at Harvard University and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University.

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in price-clipped, lightly soiled dustjacket. 223 pp., octavo, original blue cloth. A thoughtful and well-written analysis of the ills of the Protestant church in pre-World War II United States. A native of Newfoundland, the author was a Presbyterian minister who lived most of his life in New York. Scarce.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Spine gilt dulled, else fine. xi, 142 pp. + [5] pages publisher advertisements at rear; octavo, original dark blue cloth with gilt title. "Dalcroze Eurythmics" was developed in the late 19th century by Swiss music educator Emile Jaques-Dalcroze as a method of early music training based on integrating rythym and body movement.

New York: Arco Publishing Co., (1984). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in pictorial jacket with slight fading to jacket spine. 336 pp., illustrated; quarto, original black cloth. An encyclopedia of 20th century book illustrators with examples of their works.

Sacramento: California State Printing Office, 1929. First edition. Fine, entirely clean and unworn. Original printed wrappers, 7 x 10 inches, 80pp. 30 b/w photo plates of grapes and grape leaves. This prohibition-era ampelography aims to sort out and identify the many black wine grape varieties found in California. Plates show leaves and fruit bunches. tables classify the grapes by juice color and described vine growth habit and berry shape and size. Many of the varieties are just now being reintroduced into California's wine industry. Scarce. Gabler (2nd ed.) 33590. Scarce.

London & New York: Alexander Strahan, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. Old rebacking preserving original spine and endpapers, moderate wear to covers, internally very good. xv, 428 pp., 2 frontispieces (tinted lithograph views of Chicago in 1831 & San Francisco in 1846), octavo, original blue cloth with gilt spine title. Both covers embossed "Foreign Office" in black ink. A statistical and commercial analysis of the state of commerce in the United States along with projections for the future. The author was British M. P. for Bristol.

NY: Walker, (1968). First US edition. A very good set, both volumes clean and unworn, in very lightly worn dustjackets. 2 volume set, original grey cloth, quartos (9.25 x 11.5 inches), pp 256; 288

Paris: Jouve, 1949. First edition. Paperback. Sunning to spine and edges, else fine. 132 pp., illustrated with 3 engraved plates, 1 photographic plate, 8vo, original printed wrappers with engraved grapevine ornament on front wrapper. A scientific study of the vine and wine by a doctor of pharmacy. 2-page errata list at front, extensive bibliography. Scarce.