Search Results: Titles starting with P from Chanticleer Books

Cincinnati: Published by the Author / Longley Brothers, Printers, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Covers mildly worn, spine label dulled, pencil margin lines bracketing paragraphs throughout text,else about very good. 246 pp, 12mo, dark blue blind-embossed cloth, gilt title label on spine. Partialism is an early doctrine (here suggested to have pagan origin) that states that while the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are each divine in themselves, only when they are together do they fully become God.

San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Covers a bit dusty, mild spotting, previous owner name and date (1915) to front blank leaf. Original textured orange paper over card covers with title and cover design in gilt; 5 x 8 inches, pp x, 13. 2 tipped-in gravure photos. The only book authored by the noted architect Bernard Maybeck, designer of the Palace of Fine Arts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Light wear to covers, slightly cocked, else very good. viii, 275 pp., 16 full-page plates from photographs, octavo, original blue cloth with gilt title. A well-writted illustrated history of parachuting.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Spine slightly faded, else fine and mostly unopened. lxix, 298 pp;, 9 full-page illustrations; quarto, blue cloth with gilt titles, top edge gilt. The first detailed study of this popular late 16th century literary miscellany which saw 10 editions published between 1576-1606. Only 9 of these survive and the illustrations here include reproductions of the title pages of all of them.

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1913. 18th revised edition. Light wear to covers, contemporary owner name to half-title page, overall about very good. Original limp red cloth stamped in gilt and blind, 4.25 x 6.25 inches, liv, 491, 58 pp. 14 maps and 41 plans

Paris: Editions Abel Rambert, (1984). First edition. Hardcover. Both cloth volume fine in fine jackets, index pamphlet fine, slipcases lightly worn. 2 quarto volumes in original cloth, index pamphlet in wrappers; 407; 375; 47 pp., 1185 illustrations, some in color. Slipcases. Definitive guide to the work of the Bulgarian artist "Pascin" - born Julius Mordecai Pincas in 1885. His early artistic training was in Vienna and Munich and he moved to Paris in 1905 where he became known as the "Prince of Montpernasse." He died in 1930. Limited edition of 2000 copies, this #709

[London]: Printed & Sold by I. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside, nd (circa 1800). First edition thus. Hardcover. Good. Oblong 8vo (5.75 x 7.25 inches), contemporary cloth and plain boards; engraved title and 52 leaves printed with copperplate engravings on versos, engravings measure approx. 2.5 x 3.5 inches. Scuffing to boards, wear to edges, old dampstain to top quarter of endpapers and margin of first and last couple pages (not affecting illustrations), old owner name to front board, bookplate of Smeathman Hatton (Virtus tutissima cassis) to front pastedown. Overall sturdy and presentable Apparently an expanded reprint of John Boydell's 1775 "Passion" which was comprised of 20 pages of text and 35 engravings. The present copy omits the text and adds 17 engravings: 14 at the beginning signed in the plate by T. Mills and 3 at the end signed Isaac Taylor. John Boydell is best remembered for his "Boydell Shakespeare Gallery" which brought together the efforts of the best… Read More

New York: Butterick Publishing Co., 1890. First edition. Hardcover. Small nick to cloth on front board, 5 or so pairs of facing pages with darkening from newsprint formerly laid in, else very good. 624 pp., a few illustrations in the text; small octavo, brown cloth with gilt titles, floral patterned endpapers. A comprehensive household cook book with detailed instructions for all sorts of recipes. Bitting p. 590, ascribing authorship of this anonymous book to Edna Witherspoon.

Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1931. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Spotting to spine and edges, . Original yellow cloth, thick octavo, xvi, 571 pp. Frontis and 28 photo plates, 7 folding maps.

Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. Limited edition. Fine in near fine jacket with slight toning and short closed tears to jacket. Unopened.. (45) pp., wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings; octavo, gilt-lettered linen spine and batik boards, jacket. Number 393 of a limited edition of 425 unsigned copies. From the library of John K. Martin (of Black Sparrow Press) with his small exlibris label to rear pastedown.

Toronto: George N. Morang & Co., 1903. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Upper corner of page xi torn away, slight discoloration to endpapers, crease to upper corner of a page of text, else a very good copy, quite clean and unworn. xiii, 319 pp., frontispiece (with tissue) and 80 illustratons from photographs, many full-page, original dark blue cloth with gilt titles. Jack London's study of the poor in London. The author worked, lived, and endured for 86 days with the city of London's unfortunates. First Canadian edition from the sheets of the Macmillan & Co. first US edition, with Morang imprint on title page and Macmillan copyright and first printing notice.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1955. First US edition. Hardcover. Very good, quite clean and unworn, in moderately worn jacket with shallow chips at spine ends and corners of boards, light soiling. [7] pp. text + 163 b/w photo reproductions; 4to, original white burlap boards. Front jacket flap states that Cartier-Bresson was the first foreign visitor to Moscow since 1917 allowed the freedom to photograph whatever and wherever as he pleased. Captions were written by Mme. Cartier-Bresson

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1914). First edition. Hardcover. Very good, lacking jacket. [7], 161 pp., 15 full-page monochrome illustrations by Flagg; octavo, original blue cloth. A novel of a mother and her grown son getting ahead in the competetive world of Madison Avenue advertising.

Sacramento: State Ofice, A. J. Johnston, Supt. State Printing., 1901. First edition. Toning to paper, else fine. Original pictorial printed wrappers, 21 pp, Records of experiments in pickling ripe and green olives by noted botaanis Frederic Theodore Bioletti (1865-1939). Bioletti arrived in California from his native Liverpool in 1878. He settledin Sonoma County. Before earning his Bachelors (1894) and Masters (1898) degrees from the University of California he worked in the wine cellar at Leland Stanford's Vina Ranch. He was UC's first Professor of Viticulture and the first chair of the Department of Viticulture and Enology. His researches in grape and olive production brought much benefit to both industries. Scarce.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. As new. 125 pp., illustrated with a colored map and 43 color plates (3 are double-page folding plates); oblong quarto (12.25 x 9.25 inches), original tan cloth with paper spine label. Views of old Hawaii by a talented artist who visited the islands as a tourist and has been largely overlooked by posterity. None of the images reproduced here have been previously published. Designed by Jack Werner Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press. Edition of 400 copies printed by Phelps/Schaefer Press.

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1975. First edition, signed, limited. Hardcover. Fine. unpaginated [68] pp. illustrated; quarto, red cloth with paper title labels on spine and front board. Limited to 500 copies, signed in the colophon by Andrew Hoyem.

New York: Fleming H. Revell, (1895). First edition. Hardcover. Spine darkened, light moderate spotting to covers, else very good. 208 pp. + publisher's 10-page catalog at rear; small octavo, decorative yellow cloth. A sort of lesson manual with charming graphics for Sunday School teachers.

NY: Moffat, Yard & Co, 1908. Second printing. Hardcover. Mild wear to cover, foxing to first and last few pages, else about very good. Original orange cloth with pictorial paper label on front cover, octavo (6.5 x 9 inches), (viii), 57 pp. + frontis and 46 b/w photo plates. .

London: John Camden Hotten, no date (circa 1870). Early reprint. Hardcover. Text and plates quite clean but binding poor: boards detached, spine ends chipped.. xvi, 368 pp. handcolored frontispiece and vignette title page, 35 handcolored plates; octavo, red morocco and boards. Originally pubished in 1830

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, (1989). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in very good jacket. xii, 260 pp., 270 illustrations, including 87 in color; quarto, original brown cloth, pictorial jacket. An in depth study of the graphic work of influential French artist Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947).