Search Results: Titles starting with P from Books Northwest

New York: Little, Brown & Co (New York Graphic Society). first printing. Fine/fine. 75pp, grey cloth with gilt stamped lettering on cover and spine, 140 color, 22 duotone photographs on glossy stock, color photo on dj cover, slightly crimped corner on upper right of back cover and repaired 1/2"  tear on  upper right of back dj, otherwise as new in unclipped dj with mylar cover, includes postcard from 1992 photo exhibit in Santa Fe, with photo of Eliot and wife</p>

196pp. Library binding. Beautiful illustrations by Nadejen. Foxing on some pages. This 1925 first edition of "Porgy" from the Madison High School library of Madison, Florida, was purchased in the adjacent city of Greenville, the childhood home of Ray Charles. Book was the basis of Gershwin's 1935 opera "Porgy & Bess." Dog-eared by many student readers and well-read and completely legible and intact. Typical school library stamps, includes checkout card that ends circa 1967; removed from circulation most likely because of extensive use of the N-word by book characters, including black characters. An interesting copy with a deep South connection.

281pp, no dj, prev. owners sig on fep in red pencil of David W. Hahn (chess player active in the 80s/90s), some wear at ends of spine/lower right corner of cover, otherwise fine. First edition of a classic primer on chess by the famed Cuban chess master.