Search Results: Titles starting with P from Type Punch Matrix

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this Alphabet Mystery that finds Kinsey Millhone hired by the first wife of a missing doctor, a case complicated by the discovery of fraud at the nursing home where the doctor worked. The success of the Kinsey Millhone books inspired a generation of writers to create their own casually badass heroines, to the delight of millions of readers. 9'' x 5.75''. Original cloth-backed boards. Original unclipped ($26.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 352 pages. Signed by Grafton to second blank. Jacket with "Signed Copy" sticker to front, a touch of edgewear. Clean and bright.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1977. First printing. Fine in near fine jacket.. First edition of Sondheim and Weidman's musical based on Perry's 1853 expedition to Japan, a Kabuki-influenced production with a demanding and ambitious Japanese-influenced score. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original scarlet cloth. In original unclipped ($6.95) dust jacket. Illustrated with a drawing by Al Hirschfeld and black and white photographs. 128 pages. Light edgewear and toning to jacket spine, slight rippling to jacket.

London: Macmillan, 1981. Fine.. First edition of this story told only in pictures, featuring marvelous pop-up and moveable pages of the misadventures of Paddy, a humanized pig. 5.75'' x 7.5''. Original glazed pictorial boards.

New York: Orion, 2002. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of Mountain's second book, a murder mystery centered around intrepid genealogist / sleuth Natasha Blake, who has uncovered an unexpected link behind the disappearance of a young girl and the death of Pre-Raphaelite icon Lizzie Siddal. 9.25'' x 6''. Original green boards. Original unclipped (£17.99) color pictorial dust jacket. 278 pages. Signed by Mountain to title page. Jacket with Poisoned Pen "Signed by the Author" sticker to front and price sticker to rear. Sharp.

New York: Holiday House, 1946. First edition. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. First printing of this colorful book about the history of Palestine on the eve of the establishment of Israel, with vibrant mid-century modern illustrations. 9'' x 6.25''. Original color pictorial boards. Original price-clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [28] pages. Jacket mildly sunned with a bit of edgewear, shallow crease to spine; small paint spot to front. Binding with a touch of edgewear. Tight.

(Altona, Canada): Azro press, 2010. Fine.. Signed first edition of this time-travel balloon adventure for the early grades, with an appended technical diagram and a Brief History of Hot Air Ballooning from the Montgolfier brothers to the present day. 10'' x 8''. Original glossy pictorial boards. 46 pages. Color illustrations by Poes throughout. Signed by Heller and Poes on title page. Minor edgewear.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984. First edition. Fine.. First printing of the down-under tale of how Panda and his flying lion friend met a legendary Australian bunyip, and accompanied him on a journey through the outback. THE GUARDIAN identifies Michael Foreman as "one of the best-known British writer-illustrators," in part thanks to his remarkable output: since he began his career in 1961, he has published over 300 books for children and adults. He has earned two Kate Greenaway Medals, and has twice been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. 11'' x 8.5''. Original color pictorial boards. No dust jacket (as issued). Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Sharp and bright.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1986. First edition. Near fine.. First printing of this heroic tale of how Panda and his flying lion friend help Australian firefighters battling a blaze. THE GUARDIAN identifies Michael Foreman as "one of the best-known British writer-illustrators," in part thanks to his remarkable output: since he began his career in 1961, he has published over 300 books for children and adults. He has earned two Kate Greenaway Medals, and has twice been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. 11'' x 8.5''. Original color pictorial boards. No dust jacket (as issued). Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Endpapers with a couple tiny spots of soil. Sharp and bright.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1981. First edition. Very good plus.. Signed first printing of this heartwarming picture book in which a winged lion finds out where he belongs, with help from his friend Panda. THE GUARDIAN identifies Michael Foreman as "one of the best-known British writer-illustrators," in part thanks to his remarkable output: since he began his career in 1961, he has published over 300 books for children and adults. He has earned two Kate Greenaway Medals, and has twice been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. 11'' x 8.5''. Original color pictorial boards. No dust jacket (as issued). Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Signed by Foreman to title page. Binding with a bit of bumping to corners and spine ends. Light area of abrasion across the top margins of one opening. Tight and clean.

New York: Hogarth, 2012. Fine.. Uncorrected proof of this surreal story of a girl growing up in the care system who is sent to a home for young offenders after a supposed incident of violence against a police officer - part of the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE Series. For more than ten years and over seventy installments, Powell's Books (Portland) has been issuing their semi-monthly INDIESPENSABLE series, a subscription-only selection of specially-produced, (typically) limited edition volumes from many of the most prominent names in literature (Claire Messud, George Saunders, Michael Chabon, Annie Proulx, Donna Tartt, J.M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Siri Hustvedt) and publishing (McSweeney's, Graywolf, Algonquin). Installments commonly include a specially slipcased recent release, as well as one of more promotional titles (usually ARCs or like, but sometimes, advance excerpts). 9.25" x 6" Original color pictorial wrappers. Fore-edge machine-deckle. 282 pages. Sharp and bright.

New York: Windmill/Wanderer, 1980. First edition. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. Inscribed first printing of this colorful story of how the nocturnal animals of a South American rain forest come to appreciate the noisy trickster parrot Papagayo. Gerald McDermot's lively, vibrant illustrations are immediately recognizable. He got his start in the animation industry, before landing a Caldecott Honor with his first children's book ANANSI. Many of his books draw from folklore and mythology from a variety of cultures, and have earned him a Caldecott Medal, two Caldecott Honors, and many other accolades, as well as a place on the bookshelves of children all over the world. 9'' x 7.5''. Original orange cloth boards. Original unclipped ($8.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [18] leaves. Inscribed by McDermott to dedication page, with small original drawing of a bird. Jacket with light bumping and mild rubbing to corners and spine ends, 1" closed tear to upper front joint.… Read More

New York / Joliet / Boston: The P.F. Volland Company, 1926. Near fine in very good plus box.. First edition, first printing of the seventh book in the Raggedy Ann series, featuring a Paper Dragon inspired by Chinese New Year - in the original box. First acclaimed on the scene of the Sunday comics with "Mr. Twee Deedle," Gruelle launched into fame with his Raggedy Ann series. The books were based upon a rag doll he had designed with bright red hair, though Gruelle "always considered Raggedy Ann and Andy to be, first and foremost, storybook characters, whose personas had been born and refined on the printed page" (Hall 17). Mixing the down to earth with the witty, the Raggedy Ann and Andy series also blend charming images for children with a Jazz Age sensibility. PAPER DRAGON is "a parable about fathers who leave and are later reunited with their families." This is a remarkably nice copy. 9'' x 6''. Original color pictorial boards. In original color pictorial box. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2005. First printing. Fine in near fine jacket.. First edition of Winspear's third post-World-War-I historical mystery, in which detective Maisie Dobbs searches the spirit world and the mortal plane for a missing soldier. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter navy cloth with blue boards. In original unclipped ($23.00) dust jacket. 342, [2] pages. Very faint spotting to top edge of text block. Light edgewear to jacket, faint vertical crease to front jacket flap.

New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1993. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this hilarious tale of some farm animals who have had enough of roughing it in the barn - with original drawing of a pig. Kellogg has written and/or illustrated more than one hundred children's books. He is a recipient of the Regina Medal for lifetime contribution to children's literature, and his books have won numerous awards such as the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Irma Simonton Black Award, the IRA-CBC Children's Choice Award, and the Parents' Choice Award. In 2011 he donated his archive to the University of Findlay's Mazza Museum. 11'' x 9''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($14.99) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [20] leaves. Signed by Kellogg to front flyleaf, with original drawing of a pig. Clean and tight.

Paris: Charavay Frères et Cie, 1886. Near fine.. First edition of this sweeping history of Paris, from Gallo-Roman Lutèce to the imagined future of 1987 - featuring transmission screens and flying swan-boats, the latter depicted in a stellar full-page image by Robida. Claretie's engaging urban history follows real events more or less faithfully for the first 21 centuries of Paris's existence as a major human settlement, finally bringing his readers up to the nineteenth-century modern day with the observation that nothing is surprising in the modern world; science outstrips imagination and utopias do become realities. "Jusqu'où irons-nous?" he asks, and answers himself in the final chapters. In 1987, when one wishes to visit Buenos Aires, one simply summons flying bird-boats: propeller-tailed "cygnes, ces canards gigantesques, ces aigles monumentaux, ces grues obeliscales, ces pyramidales autruches" (illustrated in-text). In 1987, live theater is dead, for every home possesses a certain… Read More

Shelburne, Ontario: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1996. First edition. Fine.. First printing of these selected exercises in logic from the Holmes canon, by mathematics professor Dorn. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original saddle-stapled pictorial wrappers. Cover illustration by Jean Pierre Cagnat. 65, [1] pages. Though no provenance markings, this copy from the library of the noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong.

n.p.: Pope R. Hill, Sr, 1947. First edition. Very good plus.. Uncommon self-published "condensation" of a longer manuscript entitled DATING SHERLOCK HOLMES, feverishly presenting the "true solution" to a problem of Hill's own discovery, if not his own devising. Hill originally published this shorter version to secure his copyright: "For years I have believed in the existence of a very important unpublished manuscript left by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and when this Personalia came along I said, 'THIS MUST BE IT.'" 9'' x 6''. Original saddle-stapled black and orange wrappers. 29, [1] pages. Though no provenance markings, this copy from the library of the noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong. Moderate edgewear, small stain to rear cover. Minor staple rust.

(New York): (William Morrow), 2002. Fine in fine jacket.. Inscribed first edition of this crossover mystery, introducing Jance's two series leads to each other: Sheriff Joanna Brady and detective J.P. Beaumont. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter blue cloth with blue boards. In original unclipped ($24.95) dust jacket. 370 pages. Inscribed ("Beaumont meets Brady") by Jance on title page. Minor edgewear. Small pen check mark to front jacket flap.

Greenfield, IN: The Old Swimmin' Hole Press, 1945. First Edition. Very good +.. First printing of these short stories and sketches set in "the imaginary swank Hotel Superba," located in "Big Town-on-the-Hudson" and host to "cranks, crooks, cosmopolites, house dicks and hicks, jackrollers, chiselers, cheaters, skippers, phonies, fakers, fourflushers." Among others. Includes a Glossary of Big Town Hotel Slang, useful in telling a Mr. Highpockets from an appleknocker, a squirrel, or a pure Dick Tracy. Hardcover. 8vo. Oxblood cloth boards, stamped in gilt. Very mild shelfwear and bumping to corners. Light soil to top edge. SIGNED by the author and numbered 871 of an unspecified number of copies constituting the "Author's First Edition." Light toning and foxing to endpapers. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Very good plus. 372pp.

London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1924. First printing. Very good plus in very good minus jacket.. First edition, in the rare original dust jacket, of this acclaimed book set in British colonial India during the rise of the Indian independence movement - often numbered among the greatest novels of the 20th century. A PASSAGE TO INDIA was the product of Forster's longstanding interest in India, intensified by his close friendship with Syed Ross Masood, vice chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh, and grounded in his own travels through India in 1912 and his 1921 position as private secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas (both later described in THE HILL OF DEVI). The most successful of Forster's novels, it inspired a 1960 Forster-approved play by Santha Rama Rau as well as the 1984 film by David Lean, and was awarded both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse. A major work on many a collector's list, it is especially sought in the original dust jacket.… Read More