Search Results: Titles starting with P from Cat's Cradle Books

New York: Mcgraw-Hill Book Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Cloth over boards has light shelf wear. ; Corporate history of PG&E, illustrated with black and white photographs. ; Ex-Library; 9.25" tall; 385 pages.

Rio De Janiero, Brazil: Pontificia Universidade Católica Do Rio De Janeiro, 1997. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Volume is in the Portuguese language. Square, tight binding. Clean, bright text pages. Several notes on table of contents page. Wrappers are shelf worn with edge rubbing. Scholarly essays about language, linguistics, literature, and communication. Contributors: Marcelo Secron Bessa, Cleonice Berardinelli, Luiz Felipe Baeta Neves Flores, Marília Rothier Cardoso, Marcus Maia, Sandra Bernardo, Adriana Maria de Abreu Barbosa, Marcia A. P. Martins, Ermelinda Maria Araújo Ferreira, José Luís Jobim, Jürgen Heye, Teresa Cristina Meireles de Oliveira, Maurício Matos, Lenita Esteves, Teun Van Dijk. 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 192 pages.

Sydney, Australia: Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd, 1956. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Seventh Edition. Signed by editor Robson on ffep with additional inscription. Previous owner's name on ffep. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with general shelf wear. Fold-out maps in very good condition. Many Australian advertisements. Geography, ethnology, political administration, population, history, recent developments 1940-1956, resources, economy, commerce, other aspects of the Pacific islands. Organized by island groups and territories. ; 8.5" tall; 477 pages; Signed by Editor.

Santa Fe de Bogotá: La Comisión de Superación de la Violencia, 1992. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Spanish language. Sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wraps have light handling wear. ; Addresses the issue of violence and the possibilities for peace in Colombia. ; Spanish Edition; 8.25" tall; 301 pages.

São Paulo: N. P., 1962. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Flávio Pretti. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding, although wraps are starting to pull away from stitched text block. Signed by author with additional inscription on half title page. Pages clean, tanned. Wraps have overall moderate handling wear, tanning. ; Memoir of life in the northeastern region of Brazil by Brazilian author Nelson Lustoza Cabral. Cover Art; 8.25" tall; 265 pages; Signed by Author.

Palatines to America: Columbus, Ohio, 1999. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Stapled binding is sound. Pages clean, bright. Light handling wear. ; Contents: Boyd-Rush, Tricks of the trade: things you really need to know to track down Germans. Höh, Emigrants from Höheinöd, Germany. Immigrant ancestor register. Palatines to America tour April 26-May 9, 1999 notes from tour participants. Revies, events and tours, editor's message, index to volume 24. ; 8.5" tall ; 55 pages.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary marks. Lightly circulated. Book is shaken, slightly cocked. Binding and hinges. sound. Ffep has been removed from the book. Pages clean, tanned. Tissue over frontispiece map is loose in book. Illustrated with drawings, illustrator unknown. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with heavier wear at corner tips and extremities of spine. Bright gilt lettering and design on front and spine. ; Memoir and travel guide written by Stowe about her winters in the town of Mandarin, Florida, ; Ex-Library; 6.75" (17 cm) tall; 321 pages.

Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ has light edge rubbing. ; Architectural look at the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. Many if not most of the sites described and shown in photographic plates now lie in ruins after destruction of them by ISIS/ISIL in the period 2015-2017. ; 10" (25.4 cm) tall; 223 pages.

New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Previous owner's name on ffep. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. Lettering and decorative design are clear and bright on cloth. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps. ; Fifth-grade history and geography of the Panama Canal Zone and the canal. ; 7.0" tall; 208 pages.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by John Dos Passos. First Edition. Sound binding. Previous owner's bookplate on ffep. Clean, off-white uncut and rough-edged pages. Wrappers are a bit rippled, but no water damage is evident. Spine is tanned. Signed by Cendrars and Dos Passos on page preceding title and frontispiece. This volume is number 160 of 300 numbered copies in the first edition. ; Illustrations are reproduced using photogelatine process in four-color separation. Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1887-1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement. John Roderigo Dos Passos (1896-1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy, as well as an accomplished artist. ; Color Illustrations; 9.5" tall; 156 pages.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1908. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Paul K. M. Thomas. Second Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, age-darkened pages. Black and white illustrations. Cloth over boards has bumped corners, general handling wear, some soiling especially around edges. Edge rubbed with greater wear to corner tips. ; Novel about a woman and man struggling against temptation, represented by a panther, in their love for each other. ; 8.25" tall; 91 pages.

Milano: Casa Editrice Baldini, Castoldi & C., 1899. Softcover. Poor with no dust jacket. Book is in the Italian language. Very fragile binding, some pages loose but present. Pages clean but age-darkened and worn at edges. Wraps have heavy wear, creasing, chipping soiling. Frontispiece is a black and white photographic plate of Paolo Ferrari. ; Biography of Paolo Ferrari (1822-1889) , Modena-born Italian dramatist. Drawn from autobiographical and other sources by his son, Vittorio Ferrari; 10.0" tall; 365 pages.

Richmond, Virginia: S. Whybrew, 1913. Reprint. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Reprint. Stapled binding is sound. Pages clean, tanned. Wrappers have light handling wear, fading at spine, tanning, light soiling. Protestant clergy reaction to Ne Temere, a decree issued in 1907 from the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Council under Pope Pius X regulating the canon law of the Church about marriage for practicing Roman Catholics. This publication reflects the wide criticism non-Catholics expressed in response to Ne Temere for restricting choice in family matters. ; 8.5" (18.5 cm) tall; 48 pages.

Boone, NC: Appalachian State University, 1993. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean and bright pages. Minor edge rubbing on wraps. ; English-language translation of inspirational and motivational vignettes and thoughts by successful Mexican businesswoman with Nature's Sunshine Producs Inc. 8.0" tall; 58 pages.

Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1988. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. Contents: Thompson, Preface and Introduction. Bayh, The twenty-fifth amendment: its history and meaning. Crispell, Presidential disability. Stephan, History, background and outstanding problems of the twenty-fifth amendment. Aldrich, Memory, information and denial in public life. Knorr and Harrington, Psychological considerations. Childress, Presidential illness. Thompson, Concluding observations. Annex A: Report of the Miller Center Commission on Presidential Disability and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. ; 9.0" (21 cm) tall; 202 pages.

New York: Mcgraw-Hill Book Company, 1953. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Both volumes have exlibrary markings. Bindings and hinges sound. Pages slightly off-white. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with light overall shelf wear. Many black and white photographic plates throughout. ; Correspondence of Orville and Wilbur Wright, whose airplane took flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in December 1903. Included is correspondence with French-American civil engineer and aviation pioneer Octave Chanute, who advised and publicized many aviation enthusiasts, including the Wright brothers. ; Ex-Library; 9.25" tall; 1278 pages.

New York: Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 1996. Soft Cover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wrappers have general shelf wear. Writings on the motifs of play and work in mythology and religion in different cultures. 10" (25.4 cm) tall; 128 pages.

New York: Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 2005. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Square, sound binding. Pages clean, bright. Wraps have light handling wear. Writings on restraint, science and the sacred, and footsteps of the ancestors. Poetry, epicycles, tangents, film reviews, book reviews. Many authors. ; 10" (25.4 cm) tall; 128 pages.

New York: Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 1994. Soft Cover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light shelf wear. Writings on twins in mythology and religion in different cultures. 10" (25.4 cm) tall; 128 pages.

New York: Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 1993. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light shelf wear. Writings on the theme of crossroads in mythology and religion in different cultures. 10" (25.4 cm) tall; 128 pages.