Search Results: Authors starting with P from small volume

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1931. First Edition. Cloth hardcover in a dust jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 282 pp. Red cloth, grey stamped titling w/ pictorial dust jacket. Faint soiling to cloth at joints. Chipping to jacket at spine ends and corners. Inscribed in black ink on flyleaf "To Sister Grace, from Bea and Bob." Otherwise clean and sound. Scarce biography of Garbo written ten years prior to her retirement in 1941.

Singapore: Donald Moore, 1956. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. 52 pp. Striped paper wraps. Faint foxing to wraps that continues on into the first and last few leaves. Essays on Karl Marx adapted from three public lectures delivered at the University of Malaya in 1955.

Providence: Amalia Press, 2010. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. 25 pp. Stapled white paper card wraps with red border. Very faint signs of handling to wrappers, interior clean, as new. Printed in an edition of 350, to coincide with the awarding of an honorary Doctorate of Letters to the author by Brown University on 30th May 2010. Translated from the Farsi by Sara Khalili.

Boston: John W. Luce and Company, 1936. Half Leather. Good. 12mo. [8] 74 pp. [8] Marbled paper over cream-colored leather, attractive gilt stamping and titling. General overall wear and handling, small chips to leather at spine ends, off-setting from leather to edges of endleaves. Po's name in ink to fpd, dated 1938. Poem inscribed to front flyleaf. Attractive and well-loved copy of Parsons third book of poetry.

Boston: Walter H. Baker & Co, 1889. Wraps. Good. 12mo. 18 pp, [6 pp] ads at rear. Tan paper wraps, printed in black. Lacking rear wrapper, cracking at front joint repaired with mending tape. Chipping to fore edge. Light soiling to pp 8-9. Baker's Novelties: An Entertainment in One Scene. Set during a gathering of The Old Maids' Matrimonial Club, wherein a group of single women get together to discuss marriage prospects and devise new ways of catching bachelors and widowers. Described in the stage directions is a prop called "The Electric Transform(H)er," which when used alongside any of the several elixirs given out by "The Professor" will turn even "the most abject, dried-up old maid" into a fair young lady.

Paris: Emile Hazan, Editeur, 1934. Vellum. Very Good. 12mo. [6] 51 pp. [16] Full vellum, black and red titiling along spine strip. Spine sunned, toning to vellum. Binding sound, text block clean. Marbled endpapers. One of one thousand copies bound in Vidalon Vellum, of which this is No. 919. Philosophical musings on romantic love told in the style of the Paris salons.

New York: Random House, 1956. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. 352 pp. Blue cloth in illustrated dust jacket. DJ chipped at spine ends and rubbed at folds, with split to joint of front flap and repaired by PO with clear tape. Not price-clipped. Soiling to rear panel. Light sunning to cloth of spine and front board, slight board exposure to lower forecorner. Spine ends gently pushed. Text block lightly toned but clean. Woven brand label for Harris Tweed laid in. Ffep inscribed by author in blue ballpoint to artist De Hirsch Margules.

Liege: Bibliotheque de la Faculte de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Universite de Liege, 1941. Wraps. Very Good. Small 4to. 210 pp. Printed grey paper wraps with black text and Universite de Liege Faculte de Philosophie et Lettres emblem to front wrapper. Light soiling to wraps, heaviest at spine, with small water stain and small chip to top of front joint. Slight yapping to fore edge of front wrapper. Corners gently bumped, with small crease to lower fore corner of last few leaves and rear wrapper. Small bookseller's label from Ideal Bookstore in New York City to verso rear wrapper. Text block toned but clean, with all but a few bolts remaining uncut. Thesis on the works of Pierre Janet.

New York: Hastings House, Publishers, 1969. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good +. 8vo. 51 pp. [3] Blue cloth w/ black stamped illustration and titling, in yellow pictorial dust jacket. Faint scuffing to dj panels, chipping at corners. Foxing to front board, discoloration at hinges. Binding sound. Fairy Tales retold and illustrated by Joan Balfour Payne.

New York: Sign of St. Christopher, 1942. Limited Edition of 200 Copies. 1/4 Cloth. Very Good. 20 cm x 14.5 cm. [5 pp] Silver and white floral patterned paper over boards, backed in navy cloth, gray and white title label. Printer's copy, limited to two hundred copies, privately printed at the Sign of St. Christopher. Rubbing to boards, interior margins lightly toned, po name in green ink (Mildred Smallen) to ffep. Anti-labor satire written anonymously by conservative journalist Westbrook Pegler.

New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company, 1894. Half Leather. Very Good. 9.5 cm x 15 cm. 206 pp. [2] Marbled boards over half-calf w/ gilt titling and decoration. rubbing to leather, heaviest at board corners. 6.5 cm split along front joint. Makes the argument to lean into religion in times of melancholy.

Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co, 1860. Quarter Leather. Good. Oblong 5.25 x 7 in. 216 pp. Green paper boards printed in black with decorative titling and illustration of nightingale. Backed in brown leather. Heavy wear to boards and spine, especially at corners and edges of boards, leather at rear joint. Rear board starting, fragile. Interior toned with some soiling and dampstaining, previous owner's pencil marginalia at rear, being the lyrics to the popular temperance song, "Come Home, Father," (Henry Clay Work), in which a child longs for her absent father to stop drinking and return home. A student songbook, with notations and exercises. Full Title: The Nightingale; A Choice Collection of Songs, Chants and Hymns, Designed For the Use of Juvenile Classes, Public Schools, and Seminaries; Containing Also a Complete and Concise System of Elementary Instruction.

Fresno, California: Fabian Books, 1958. Wraps. Very Good. 10.5 cm x 17 cm. 141 pp. [16] Pictorial wraps with image of a farmer after a roll in the hay. Rubbing to edges of wraps with .5 cm loss at head of spine. Fabian original novel Z-118. Last 16 pp. of text are a call to arms for readers to help Fabian Books fight Censorship laws across America.

Providence: H. H. Brown, 1845. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. 39 pp. Blue paper wraps w/ black titling. 2 cm split at foot of spine. Light soiling and ownership signature of Rhode Island Historian and author, Henry C. [Crawford] Dorr in ink and small white subject label to wrappers. Pamphlet questioning how the methods and practices of the Christian Church align with the actual teachings of Christ and his Apostles with special attention paid to Dorcas Societies and The International Fraternity of the Odd Fellows.

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Pleissner, Ogden M. & Robert Nisbet, N. A.. 4to. 193 pp. Limited to 950 copies. Green publishers cloth stamped in gilt in dust jacket. Top edge gilt. Soiling and chipping to scarce dj. Faint soiling to boards. Otherwise fine. Signed by Charles Phair on half-title. Color plates by Ogden M. Pleissner. With a foreword by RIchard C. Hunt.

[Providence, RI]: [University of Rhode Island], 1977. Wraps. Very Good. Small 4to. 55 pp. Stapled paper wraps. Some scuffing and soiling to wraps, blank bookplate sticker to first leaf, rest clean. A single issue of this college magazine, devoted to preserving the oral histories of several "New England women with different ethnic backgrounds." Articles consist of interviews conducted by female graduate and undergraduate students of the University of Rhode Island, and explore the assimilation experiences of immigrant and first-generation families.

London: J. Roberts, 1872. Leather. Very Good. 12mo. 3 volumes: 287, 266, and 263 pp. Paneled brown calf with gilt acorn embellishment to corners. 5 raised bands to spines, with gilt titling and decorative stamping. Dotted gilt board edges and turn-ins. Marbled endpapers with bookplate of Jacobus Cowan de Rosshall, Armigeri. Ex-libris stamp with initials "C.S.D." to verso ffeps. Spines and title pages dated 1723-1725, but this is a later printing. Bound by J. (John) Ramage & Co. (1836-1911) with small gilt binder's stamp. Cracking to hinges and few points in text, binding fragile but tight. Some scuffing to leather, esp at spines. Light dampstaining to prelims at bottom edge of all volumes, rest clean and sound.

New York: The New York Meeting for Sufferings, 1844. Cloth. Very Good. ...Wherein Is Shown The Nature of his Fall, And the Necessity, Means and Manner of his Restoration, Through the Sacrifice of Christ, and The Sensible Operation of that Divine Principles of Grace and Truth Held Forth to the World, by the People Called Quakers. To Which are Added Some Remarks on the Arguments of Samuel Newton, of Norwich." 12mo. 144 pp. Brown cloth w/ gilt titling. Rubbing to cloth at spine ends, corners gently pushed. Mild foxing throughout. Ownership stamp of The "Trustees Obediah Brown's Benevolent Fund" to first page of preface. Facsimile reprint of the 1793 edition printed by Isaac Collins.

Orlando, FL: Necro Publications, 1997. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. 204 pp. [4] Blue and white printed paper wraps, orange titling. Spine lightly sunned, rubbing to spine ends. Interior clean, binding sound. Numbered 39 out of 400 signed copies. Short stories from Tom PIccirilli, Gerard Daniel Houarner, & Edward Lee, signed by all 3 on the title page.

Greenwich, CT: The Seabury Press, 1954. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo. Orange, textured paper covered boards, in yellow dust jacket w/ black titling. Light rubbing along boards edges, PO inscription in ink to fpd & ffep. Faint chipping along dj edges. Signed by Pittenger in blue ink to ffep. A Christian perspective on sexual behavior in response to the Kinsey Report.