Search Results: Titles starting with P from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, 209pp., clothbacked boards Author's second novel for which he won the National Book Award. "A novel of such terrific power, it puts Heinemann in the company of the finest American writers. You have never read anything like Paco's Story - Gloria Emerson."

New York: Penguin Books, ( 1987 ). First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo, 209pp., clothbacked boardsjim Author's second novel for which he won the National Book Award. "A novel of such terrific power, it puts Heinemann in the company of the finest American writers. You have never read anything like Paco's Story - Gloria Emerson." WITH a new Foreword by Heinemann.

New York: Privately Printed, 1928. Subscriber's Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimo, 78 pages, quarter linen, blue boards, untrimmed. Publisher's slipcase waterstained at the open end - very slightly affecting the sides of the spine of the book, and beginning to split at heel of case Copy no. 142 of only 645 numbered copies for subscribers, printed on Utopian Laid Paper. This is an English translation of Bonneau's scholarly 1892 work, LES CADENAS ET CEINTURES DE CHASTETE. With 5 illustrations.

Paris: Isidore Liseux, 1892. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo, 104 pages, vintage half polished calf, green morocco spine label Illustrated with 5 figures.

New York: Oxford University Press, ( 1960 ). Second Edition, later printing. Hardcover. Good. Octavos, 510, 442, 374 pages, dark blue cloth, bookplate Translated by Gilbert Highet. " I present to the public a work of historical research dealing with a subject hitherto unexplored. It treats paideia, the shaping fo the Greek character, as a basis for a new study of Hellenism as a whole." - Preface.

Springfield, IL: Springfield College of Music, ( 1918 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo, 184 pages, green cloth, signed on the endpaper by the author in 1918 Bookish essays on Izaak Walton, Cervantes, Poe, Campion, Villon, Michelangelo, Rabelais, Boccaccio etc. Allen taught in Springfield and Bloomington, Illinois. Laid in is a bookmark detailing his classes in psychology and literature. Allen wrote, "To best appreciate an old book one should be wearing old slippers."

NY: Dutton, (1983). First edition. Paperback. fine, wrappers. 8vo, 412 pages Advance Uncorrected Proof

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ( 1975 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Duodecimo, 121 pages, quarter cream linen, blue boards; short tears to dj, some toning at top Charts the erratic course of the social history of Modern Art with a sharp attack more upon the critics than the painters themselves.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1919. First Edition. Quarto, 41 pages, dark blue cloth; x-library with stamps (no spine numerals). This is a supplement to his book on DRAWING AND PAINTING, 1912. It is an attempt to explain the System of the Spectrum Band with Complementaries in Corresponding Values. ... The student who follows carefully the indications and directions given in this book ouight to be able, in due time, to set his palette correctly and to use it properly." - Preface.

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1959. First Edition. stapled wrappers. Very Good. Small 4to, 45 pages, green wrappers Here are 27 Rivera paintings from 1909-1917. Each is illustrated with a full-page plate; but, more especially, each item is priced in ink for its hammer price. Preface by Oswald Goetz.

New York: DELACORTE, (1987). First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Octavo, blue cloth & boards; dj bumped at head of spine

New York: Hyperion, ( 1996 ). First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Quarto, quarter cloth, pink boards Inscribed to Davida by Wasserstein on the pictiorial free endpaper. Illustrated by Andrew Jackness, who designed scenery for Wendy's musical, "Isn't It Romantic?"

Philadelphia: J. Murray Jordan, 1901. First edition. Paperback. Fair. Oblong 4to, 52 pages, wrappers chipped and separated from the booklet. Offered "as is". Scenic viewbook of the Exposition at Buffalo, NY, in 1901. The Midway included "The House Upside Down", which was one of the 42 exhibits. The Inuit in the Eskimo village look uncomfortable in their furs. Issued in Jordan's International Souvenier Series.

New York: International Universities Press, (1958 ). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 340 pages, cloth; dj rubed Orson Welles would have loved chapter 3, "Radio Communication in Relation to Morale and Panic" "This work is concerned with panic and morale, but treats mainly of morale. It is implicit, or at least assumed, that the two bear an antithetical relation, that good morale impedes panic, and that poor or bade morale favors it. The basic problem revolves then about morale: what is it, by what critereai can it be recognized, and how can it be guaged?"

New York: Macmillan Company, ( 1965 ). Second printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, 469 pages, red cloth A history and analysis of 12 of America's most dramatic financial disasters. "Most occurred as 'moments of truth' after periods of financial self-deception."

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Octavo, 246 pages, purple cloth; dj chipped, dj heel of spine re-attached with archival tape What Fowlie learned about life he learned from the circus. He fell in love with France

Warren, MI: Squadron / Signal Publications, ( 1976 ). First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Quarto, 95 pages, pictorial red & black wrappers Illustrated by Don Greer.

New York: Random House, ( 1966 ). First printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good. photos. Octavo, 304pp., two-tone cloth, tight; dj has tiny tear at front lower right, inch tear at top of rear joint. Hotchner knew Hemingway during the last 14 years of his life, but, as a journalist, he recorded Hem's reminiscences of his life, in Paris and elsewhere. Photos. .

[ Brookings, SD]: South Dakota State University.Printing, (1980). First Trade edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo, 106 pages, brown cloth Butler was a Chicago mogul in paper who later raised polo ponies and Hereford cattle on two ranches in South Dakota. Butler's Natoma Dairy at Oak Brook Farm substantially became the town of Oak Brook, Illinois.

Chicago: The Blue Sky Press, ( 1904 ). First, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo, unpaginated, charcoal cloth This is an unnumbered copy of a 250 copy limitation, of which this is on Italian hand-made paper. Provenance: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, with traces of damp and soot from the fire suffered at his home at Ravinia, north of Chicago. :" A Script Concerning Robert Piere Mourer, called Fortulaise, Poet and Lover: written by Antoine Rudelle, sometime his Pupil, and now first set into English."