Search Results: Titles starting with P from Camphor Bookstore

Paper Sculpture by Tadeusz Lipski,
The Studio: London & New York, 1947. Hardcover. Dustjacket included. First Edition. Light blue cloth cover with gilt lettering front and spine.Illustrated with many B&W Photos demonstrating techniques and showing fine examples of the art. 64 Pages, 140g, 6 3/4" Tall. Book condition: Unmarked and VG+Dust-jacket: Good- with a chip or two and some soiling (see photos)

Pathways of the Holy Land; Or, Palestine and Syria. Being a Full Description of Those Countries, Their History, Antiquities, Inhabitants, and Customs, According to the Recent Discoveries of the Palestine Exploring Expeditions. With a Detailed Account of Jerusalem, Nazareth, Petra, and the other Cities of the Bible. Embracing also a Description of the Peninsula of Sinai and the Desert of the WanderingsNational Publishing Co., Philadelphia, 1875. First edition complete w color map, illustrations throughout, and a tissue covered frontis of Doré's Crucifixion. Bound in three-quarter brown morocco over marbled paper covered beveled boards. Raised bands with bright gilt embossed title in one of the panels. 1097 pp w ads in the back. Strong and square, securely bound and in VG condition with some rubbing wear to the covers (see photos).

The People of Moscow by Henri Cartier-BressonSimon and Schuster, New York, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Beige woven cloth covers. Quarto. Foreword and photographs by Cartier-Bresson. 163 B&W repros of candid photos taken in Russia during the height of the Cold War. In very good, unmarked condition - without a dust-jacket. "In 1954, he (Cartier-Bresson) was the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union after Stalin's death. His goal was to photograph human beings in the streets, in the shops, at work, and at play, anywhere I could approach them without disturbing reality.'

The Personal Papers of Anton ChekhovNew York, Lear, 1948. First Edition thus in the original jacket. Ex Library. The Notebook and Diary were translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf. The Selection of letters by Constance Garnett. The writings provide an intimate glimpse into the life and mind of Chekhov, revealing his personal struggles, relationships, and creative process. It includes his opinions on literary figures like Zola, Tolstoy and Gorky.The book is ex-library with a "Smith College" stamp on the front and back endpapers and there's a library card envelope in the back. Otherwise the jacket and book are very good and unmarked.

Personal Exposures / Elliot Erwitt
W.W. Norton, New York, 1988. First edition. Large square hardcover with 248 duotone photographs.
"Seeing what few others see, and capturing it for all of us, is the essence of Personal Exposures. For this volume Elliott painstakingly culled the work of a lifetime, rediscovering prints he had not seen in years and creating a unified whole that reflects a consistent, mature vision of photography and humanity. Here are men, women, and children in off-guard moments; old people; little girls hamming it up; and even various dogs, who have their own preoccupations. The pictures reflect a lifetime of humorous, ironic observation and sensitivity to the human condition."
Condition: The book is nearly as new, in the dust-jacket. A very faint sign of some dampness affects only the first blank page or two.
Elliott Erwitt (1928 – November 29) was a French-born American advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid photos of ironic and absurd… Read More

Hyperion Press 1936. First Edition 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. cloth. 34pp of text plus 61 lovely tipped-in platesThe book and jacket are both in very good condition - The binding is starting and pages are at risk of coming loose, there is light spotting on the front free endpaper (please see photos.)

Planisphere by John AshberyEcco / HarperCollins, (New York), 2009. First edition. First printing of Ashbery's collection of 99 alphabetically sequenced poems. 9'' x 6''. Original black and white boards. In original unclipped ($24.99) dust jacket. 143, [3] pages.Signed by John Ashbery in the front. The book and jacket are in as new condition.

The Plumed Serpent by D. H. Lawrence

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1933. Second 'trade' Edition. Hardcover - orange cloth with the titles and design in black and green. 445 pp. "paulbowles - march 1945 - new york" is written in pen, very tiny, at the top corner of the front endpaper - this copy may have belonged to the writer (please see photos) Otherwise unmarked, some discoloration to the cover boards but in good condition without a jacket. Laid-in is a ticket for "Cercle Royal Laetitia" at an address in Anvers, with a 1957 date.

About the book:

The story of a European woman's self-annihilating plunge into the intrigues, passions, and pagan rituals of Mexico. Lawrence's mesmerizing and unsettling 1926 novel is his great work of the political imagination.

Plutarch's Lives, translated from the original Greek; with Notes Critical and Historical and a Life of Plutarch by John Langhorne, D.D. and William Langhorne, A.M. in Six Volumes.Printed for J. Mawman et al., 1819. lx,394 & 532 & 526 & 453 & 532 &488pp., engraved frontis engraved portrait. Original tooled calfskin binding. A Complete set all volumes in VG condition, - any gilt or titles have completely worn off, the calfskin and the binding is sound and strong, and the books are clean, unmarked and very clear.

New York : George H. Doran, 1925. First edition, 2nd printing. Title-blocked purple cloth. Hardcover (no jacket) 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 196 pages. Condition: near fine - a particularly well-preserved vintage novel tight, bright, clean and strong. There is a prior gift inscription on the front endpaper (please see photos). About the book: The novel tells the story of Porgy, a crippled street beggar living in the black tenements of Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1920s. The character was based on Charlestonian Samuel Smalls. In some of the novel's passages, black characters speak in Gullah, a creole language that had developed among enslaved African Americans during the slavery years on the Sea Islands.The novel was adapted for a 1927 play of the same name by Heyward and his wife, playwright Dorothy Heyward. Even before completing the play, Heyward was in discussions with composer George Gershwin for an operatic version of his novel. This was produced in 1935 as Porgy and Bess.

London: Richard Bentley, 1853. 2 Vol. 3/4 Leather over marbled paper covered boards, and eppr. First English edition of Alexandrine des Echerolles' memoirs of the Revolution in France. Alexandrine des Echerolles (La Ferte Hauterive, south of Moulins-Allier) was 13 y.o. when the Revolution forced her father, aunt and brothers to take refuge in Lyon. Her father had been elected colonel of the National Guards at Moulins, but when he was threatened with imprisonment he fled to Lyon then Switzerland, and left his daughter in the care of his sister. The aunt was murdered by the revolutionary court for refusing to reveal where her brother was living, and Alexandrine found herself alone, and relied on family and relations to taker her in.