Search Results: Titles starting with P from Uncommon Sense

A peculiar long poem about a visit to an odd planet. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, with a date 0f 1876. An early fantasy book. POD reprints are easy to come by, but the original volume is uncommon. Original rust cloth with gold printing on spine. Picture available on request.

Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, 1937. First edition. One of the scarcer books from this well known publisher. The book was printed posthumously in an edition of 100 copies for the friends of the author. Van Vliet was a teacher at the Katherine Branson School in Marin County, CA; the second item included is a selection of Latin texts from Cicero, mimeographed for the students at the school. The book is slightly smoke-damaged at the top and bottom of the front cover (from a 1968 fire), and the paper label on the spine has browned into illegibility and has partially flaked off. The interior of the book is clean except for the name of the previous owner, who has also written her name in the front of the Cicero chapbook. The latter has many words underlined and many numbers circled, but no translations or glosses as far as I can tell. Two uncommon items.

A reasonable copy for a collector of this excellent collection of Phil Dick's best short stories. Signed by Dick on the inside front cover. Very uncommon signed. Reading crease on front L edge, reading mark on spine, small chip on back cover (see pictures), A note on provenance: This copy has the rubber stamp of Miriam Chown, a Bay Area librarian and collector of SF. Both she and Dick were at the small convention Octocon in Santa Rosa in 1977; I think I sold her this copy at that convention so she could get Phil's signature, but it being 45 years ago I'm not certain. She eventually sold this copy back to The Other Change of Hobbit, which is why I have it. In any case: I know when (within a couple of days) it was signed, and that the previous owner actually had the opportunity; and the signature looks just like the ones on 4 books I had Phil sign for me.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A very nice copy of this uncommon novel, basis of an award-winning film. First printing with full number line, unclipped jacket, very light edgewear and bumping (happened in shipping from original publisher); small closed tear on front panel of DW going from the edge to the last E in the title (this is almost invisible in the jacket protector). Tight and unread. TW