Search Results: Titles starting with P from Elk Creek Heritage Books

Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing , Inc., 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with red boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise very good condition; not price clipped. * From WorldCat, ""Presents a conservative guide to the 2006 election season, outlining key themes, predicting Republican victory, and criticizing liberal practices in the media and a lack of Christian representation among Democrats.""

Editiorial office: New York City: Herbert Leibowitz, 2006. Soft cover. Very Good. Large softcover in very good condition. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Wraps very good with only slight hint of shelf & edge wear. Contains several sections of glossy colored plates of paintings. Concludes with a comprehensive index to Volumes 1 - 28. 423 pages.

NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated ""First Edition - 1996"" and complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition. Red boards and navy spine cloth with gold gilt spine lettering.Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Dust jacket in very good condition with a 4 inch crease line at bottom of front cover. * From the book, ""Starting with the roadhouses and mob-ruled politics of the old South, Partners in Power draws the reader into the dramatic seamy, largely hidden, world that gave rise to--and explains--the Clinton presidency. Morris weaves together three essential themes: the parallel lives and tortured relationship of the Clintons personally, the essence of the bipartisan misrule that is Washington, D.C. (how the collusive culture of our national government defeats change), and most telling, the behind-the scenes story of the making of a president in a world where… Read More

William Morrow, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing Stated First Edition in addition to complete number line including number one. Hard cover in fine condition with light teal boards, dark teal spine cloth and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; not price clipped. * From a review by Bill Moyers, "". . . caregiving is among the most universal and least understood experiences that we humans have in common. Gail Sheehy has given us a gift with this moving account of her own journey to that place of love and suffering where most of us are headed.""

NY: Broadway Books, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Stated First trade paperback edition published 2005. Soft cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight; no markings noted. Mellow age toning to the papers; light foxing to the blank pages at the end. * From the book, "" Brazenly intimate, inspiring, brutally honest .. . offers a powerful rebuff to anyone who believes that people can't change. Read [Kuffel's] memoir and you can be assured of one of two results: You will be motivated to maintain a diet, or you will think twice before judging someone for being fat.""

St Martins Press, 1994. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated: First U.S. Edition: May 1994. Includes number line including the number one. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket likewise very good; mellow age toning, especially to top edge; not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, ""....fiction writing has to shape the natural storytelling impulse into a printed book that readers will enjoy. Using a series of linked exercises, novelist and teacher Jack Hodgins challenges writers to address the central questions of their craft....""

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with red boards, red spine lettering and gold gilt spine lettering. End papers show map of Spain titled ""Spain during the Civil War - How the Tide Turned."" Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. light dust dulling / age toning to text block edges; some spotting to top text block, two marker lines on bottom text block. Contains a section of 16 leaves / 32 pages of black & white photos. Dust jacket very good with only ghost of shelf & edge wear; not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, ""The memory is alive in art and literature: Piscasso's 'Guernica,' Hemingway's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Orwell's 'Homage to Catalonia.' But what really happened in Spain from 1936 to 1939? Why did idealistic volunteers… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Portfolio, 2009. Soft cover. Very Good. Softcover in very good condition. Black remainder line on bottom text block.

New Yoirk: Viking, 2012. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing Stated: First American Edition. In addition complete number line including the number one. Hard cover in fine condition with lime green boards, deep blue spine cloth, and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; no price clipped. Overall presents as new and unread. * By the author of ""Chocolat,"" this is the third novel featuring Vianne Rocher. From the jacket flap, "". . . a multilayered story full of with and charm that promises to bewitch her readers.'

Troy, New Yoik: The Troy Bookmakers, 2011. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Signed by Author. First Edition; no other printings noted. Inscription by the author on Title Page. Soft cover, 9"" tall x 7"" wide, in fine condition. Interior text block clean & tight with no markings, no writing noted. 95 pages with each containing not only a written narrative but photos from all the places traveled to by Aunt Helen and items she collected : cloths, shoes, hats, fans, nesting dolls. . .. too many to list! Wraps crisp, shiny, tiny dog-ear crease on top front, no other tears or creases. * The author, Ellen Mnich, Aunt Helen's neice, takes on the persona of Aunt Helen and Aunt Helen's love of traveling all over the world, collecting items from everywhere, and learning about the cultures world-wide and created a program for children that became known as ""Aunt Helen's Closet: A Museum Approach to Education"" which has been featured on television and has… Read More

NY: Penguin Group, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. Shows a small crease at top and bottom of front cover and a crease along back cover. Light rubbing at edges. Former owner's 'impression' stamp on title page. * From the book, ""An excellent general history, clear in its narrative, interesting it its analysis and consistently intelligent in its judgments. Triumphantly accomplishes what it sets out to achieve. It will be a tremendous asset for teaching Latin American history and deserves as wide an audience as possible.""

New York: G.F. Putnam's Sons, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line including number one. Hard cover in fine condition with navy boards and silver gilt spine & front boards lettering. Text block clean and tight; no markings noted. End papers contain a map ""The Pentagon's New Map"" : Major U.S. Military Operations 1990-2003 (excluding humanitarian operations)"" Dust jacket in likewise very good condition; not price clipped. * From the book, ""Since the end of the Cold War, America's national security establishment has been searching for a new operating theory to explain how this seemingly ""chaotic"" world actually works. Gone is the clash of blocs, but replaced by what?"" From a review by Dr. Donald C. F. Daniel, Professor, Security Studies Program, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, ""Too rarely does it happen that someone… Read More

San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition in addition to complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Front top corner bumped. Dust jacket in very good condition; not price clipped. * From the jacket, ""The People's Business is about what ordinary citizens can do to curtail corporate power. The authors consider a wide spectrum of approaches - from fundamental shifts in how corporations are created and operate, to minor adjustments in corporate governance and regulatory fixes that directly address specific harms. While the approaches are diverse, they share a fundamental view of democracy as the antidote to corporate power - that the people, through the mechanisms of democratic self-governance, should decide the ground-rules by which the economy operates.""

Pownal, Vermont, U.S.A.: Garden Way Publishing Company/Storey Communications, Inc, 1993. Soft cover. Very Good. 4th Printing Softcover with glossy wraps in very good condition showing only light shelf & edge wear. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted.154 pages. Two interior pages have crease line where corner was dog-ear folded down.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition in addition to complete number line including number one.. Hard cover in very good condition with navy blue cloth boards, gilt spine lettering and gilt facsimile signature of author on front board. Dark gold colored end papers. Text block clean & tight with no markings, writings, underlining noted. Small, less than quarter inch, closed tear to side edge of page 245. Dust jacket in very good condition showing only ghost of shelf & edge wear. 254 numbered pages. * From the book, ""The purpose of this book,"" says the author, ""Is to talk without intermediaries to the citizens of the whole world about things that, without exception, concern us all. I am convinced that they, like me, worry about the future of our planet.""

New York: Clarkson Potter, Inc., 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 2nd Printing Second printing per number line. Hard cover in fine condition with pictorial boards of snow covered hills with Christmas trees. Petite size 7 1/4"" tall x 5 1/4' wide. 39 numbered heavy weight pages, almost every one but those for chapter headings have an illustration by the author and four or six lines of the poetry telling the story. Powder blue endpapers sprinkled with snowflakes. Interior text block clean & tight with no writings, no markings, no defects to note. Dust jacket is very good with a 1/2"" closed tear on bottom front; not price clipped. DJ is of a filmy paper that allows the illustrations on the boards to show through.* From the jacket flap, ""Abbie Zabar's delicate drawings and gentle verse pay homage to the best holiday classics. In celebrating the very things that make each of us special, she has created a back-to-basics fairy tale that will captivate children… Read More

FC&A Publishers, 2005. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Glossy hard cover in good condition. No dust jacket. Text block tight and clean. No tears or markings on cover or text. Shows normal shelf wear with light stain on top. Some age toning at edges.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Stated First Trade Edition. Black boards with gray spine cloth and gold lettering on the spine. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. End papers contain black & white map of Kindle County, USA., the imaginary setting for the story. DJ clear & crisp with only gentle shelf & edge wear. Small nick to side edge of back into plasticized coating; does not go through to the paper. Water or other liquid stain on inside (verso) of the DJ and a 1 1/4"" triangle at top of rear near spine shows through lightly to the outside.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Fromm International Publishing Company, 1993. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Originally published in German as ""Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte"" in 1814. Stated First U.S. Edition. Hardcover with deep pink boards and maroon spine cloth with gold lettering in very good condition. Text block clean and tight with no markings noted. Dust jacket is in very good condition with high gloss and no defects to note. * From the front DJ flap, ""Asked which book by another author he would most like to claim as his own work, Italo Calvino once said without hesitation, Adelbert von Chamisso's ""Peter Schlemiel."" First published in 1814, this brilliant novel is not only a precursor of Poe, Kafka, and the magic realists - it is a timeless fable with a remarkably contemporary flavor.""

NY: An Owl Book / Henry Holt and Company, 1997. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 2nd Printing Stated First Owl Book Edition. 2nd Printing per number line. Soft cover in very good condition with a beautiful pictorial cover. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Book has a magnifying glass inside back cover. * From the book, ""The breathtaking photomosaics in this book are pieced together from thousands of tiny photographs. Held at arm's length, the pages seem to compose themselves, revealing the image of an Owl, or Darth Vader, or Marilyn Monroe. And held close up, they explode in a riot of color and movement and exquisite detail.""