Search Results: Authors starting with P from Chartwell Booksellers

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1961. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (406 pages). As-new Review Copy of the First American Edition, in a dust jacket that has darkened slightly with age along the spine, else fine. The original publisher’s review slip is laid-in.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1960. First American Edition (Second Printing) . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (374 pages). A very good Second Printing copy of the First American Edition, in a dust jacket that is edge-chipped and darkened at the spine, else fine.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1970. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (435 pages). As-new copy of the First American Edition, in an unclipped dust jacket.

Paris: Gallimard, 1943. First French Edition . Paperback. Very Good. 8vo (721 pages). A very good copy of the First French Edition, in printed wraps, as issued, with a faint inkstamp on the front free endpaper, else fine.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1957. First English Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (313 pages, 8 illustrations, 4 maps, notes, appendix, map endpaper). Italian revolutionary, executed in 1858 for attempting to assassinate Napoleon III. A very good copy, spine faded, slightly shaken, in worn & chipped dust jacket.

London: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2023. First English Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (238 pages). A brief book for such a massive topic -- Winston Churchill’s inveterate letter writing has certainly helped keep us in business now for 40 years. Most welcome, nonetheless. New, in dust jacket.

New York: Norman W. Henley Publishing Company, 1929. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (855 pages; illustrated with black and white photographs; figures). This is a very good copy of the First American edition without dust jacket.

New York: Pantheon, 2005. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (252 pages). A virtually mint copy of the First American edition, in an unclipped dust jacket, signed by the author in blue ink on the title page.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (393 pages). The book is in good condition, with a little shelf ware, the top & bottom of the spine has been repaired, the back end paper has a small tear to the hinge, the front end has the ex owner name plate on it.

New York: Library of America, 1995. First Printing . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo. As-new, in publisher’s original shrink-wrap. The definitive American literary series encompassing all periods and genres of American writing, published in exceedingly handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute.

New York: Doubleday, 2010. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (180 pages). As-new copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket.

New York: Doubleday, 2002. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (262 pages). As-new copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket. A clipping of the New York Times review, dated September 12, 2002, is laid in at the rear.

New York: Doubleday, 2007. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (324 pages). As-new copy of the First American edition, in an unclipped dust jacket.

New York: Doubleday, 2004. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (234 pages). As-new copy of the First American edition, in an unclipped dust jacket.

New York: Doubleday, 2003. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (262 pages). This is a very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket, signed by the author in black ink on the title page. There is a tiny stain near the lower right corner of the the jacket frontis. Else fine.

New York: Doubleday, 2008. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (198 pages). A virtually mint copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket, signed by the author in black ink on the title page. A “Snuff Book Tour 2008” red inkstamp also appears on the title page with a red cupid/heart inkstamp and a green inkstamp created for the main character Cassie Wright.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 4to (302 pages). Volume 1 of Blake’s Illuminated Books, in facsimile. This is a very good copy of the First American edition in dust jacket.

San Rafael, CA.: Presidio Press, 1978. First American Edition . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo. An examination of the reasons for and effects of the Vietnam War. A very good copy, in a lightly shelf worn dust jacket, chipped at head of spine and rear panel. Small tape shadow on front paste down.

Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1933. First American Edition . No Binding. Very Good. 8vo (396 pages, 41 illustrations, index.). A newsman in Alaska, the Philippine Rebellion, the Boxer Rebellion, the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. A very good copy, spine head & tail somewhat worn, without dust jacket.

Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1972. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (282 pages; 3 illustrations, 5 maps, 3 genealogies). This is a very good copy of the First American edition in a price-clipped dust jacket. There is considerable edgewear and rubbing to the jacket. There is a short, closed tear on the front free endpaper; contents fine. A well researched account of the most intense phase of the Hundreds Years War and the diplomatic negotiations between England and France that eventually led to the signing of a tenuous peace treaty in 1396.