Search Results: Authors starting with P from Shamrock Books

Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911 Hardcover. Quarter leather and black pebble cloth. (Touch of wear to the corners, rubbing along most extremities, two-inch tear to top of spine gutter, minor dust soiling to covers), 4to. 451pp. Top edge gilt, marbled foredge and lower edge. Tight. Illustrated throughout with full-page portraits of Texas personalities, family portraits, (with much on the Sloans, Campbells and others) archival photographs of the period and most impressively,the tissue-guarded frontispiece a steel-point engraving of the author B.B. Paddock.(1844-1922) Fort Worth businessman and promoter. Born 1844 in Cleveland, Ohio; died 1922 in Fort Worth, Texas. Paddock served as a captain in the Confederate Army and studied law in Mississippi before moving to Fort Worth in 1872. His interests included banking, investment securities, railroads, and real estate. He was publisher of the Fort Worth Democrat, later editor of the Fort Worth Gazette, founder and president of the Fort Worth and… Read More

1989: Washington, D.c., 1989 First Edition. Full cloth; 4to.,288pp.Nice d/j with just a very faint half-dollar size stain rear panal, else Fine in V.Good+ D/j

Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, 2002 Softcover, (4to), 399pp. Tight. No names or other markings. Illustrated throughout. Fine.

London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1963 Hardcover. Large 4to. Unpaginated. Tight. No names or other markings. Introduction by Colin Wilson. Nice d/j with just a thumbnail size chip top of spine panal, else Fine in V.Good, unclipped D/ in jacket protector.j

New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 2nd Printing. Cloth & bds; (trivial trace of discoloration bottom edge front cover), Large 8vo.,126pp. Illustrated throughout. Fine in Fine D/j.

Abingdon; Nashville, Tenn. n.d.(1969). First edition, 1969 Cloth; small 8vo.,224pp.D/j with cup-ring faintly, else a Fine, Signed copy in V.Good D/j.

New York: A Fireside Book/Simon and Schuster, 1989 Reprint. Softcover; (large p/b), 244pp. Algebraic notation. No names ot other markings. A Fine copy.

New York: A Fireside Book/Simon and Schuster,, 1991 Reprint. ISBN:`. Softcover, (large p/b), 202 pp. No names or other markings. A Fine copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011 Hardcover. bulky 8vo. 860pp. No names or other markings. Hinges just a trifle weak. Still, V.Good in Fine D/j.

New York: Rizzoli Publications Full cloth: Large 4to: 264pp. Over 300 illustrations, mostly in color. No names or other markings. An otherwise fine d/j with a few scrapes,including a two-inch irregular, partly open packing tear rear panal, still, Fine in V.Good d/j and most presentable in mylar jacket protector.

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press,, 1999 Softcover. Pictorial wraps: (4to softcover), 461pp. Illustrated throughout. No names or other markings.Everything one wants to know about the history and lore of the piano. Fine.

James Pott & Company: New York 1902., 1902 Navy-blue ribbed linin cloth; G.t's & decoration, bright and most elaborate to spine panal, Top edge gilt.,12mo.,496pp, uncut and unopened.Frontispiece engraving with the tissue. Fine.

Los Angeles, Ca.: Firsts Magazine, 1992 Softcover monthly magazine in the two-staple format published as a resource to "Collecting Modern First Editions". This issue featuring: Sara Paretsky, with an informal check list and values (1992) of her principle works. Also contributions on or about, collecting Mystery Paperbacks. Also, Article on the publishing house of Gtosset & Dunlap. Fine.

Carlstadt, New Jersey:: Rainbow Books, 1979 First Edition. Full cloth; 4to.,476pp. No names or other markings.(Two tiny spots of light soiling top edge), Nice D/j with short but partly open edgetear bottom edge and very shallow chipping top of spine panal, else V.Good in V.Good D/j

Albany, New York: The University of New York Press, 2000 Softcover, 218pp. No names or other markings. (Tiny spot of trivial soiling foredge, still, Fine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968 Full cloth; 8vo.,208pp. No names or other markings.Illustrated with drawings by Robert Osborn. Nice d/j with a few tiny edgetears, else Fine in V.Good D/j.

Snyder, Texas: Ranch Headquarters Association Pictorial softcover in the stapled format: (4to), 54pp. #1182 of a Limited edition of 1,500 copies. Photo illustrated throughout with archival images in entries that include: "The Head of Tobacco" by Edna Miller, (Fluvanna, Texas); "Tom Love: Rancher and Sheriff" by Aline Parks, (Snyder Texas: "Cisterns" by Ophelia Blackard (Snyder), "Dora Roberts: Howard County Pioneer" by Leslie Kelley, (Big Spring, Texas), "Seven Wells" by Mattie Hines, (Colorado City, Texas), "Windmills: Legacy of the West" by Billie Wolfe, (Lubbock, Texas, "Sweetwater Creek": "Greene Springs" by Johnnie Herod: (Snyder, Texas: by Mayme Barton, (Sweetwater, Texas) : "Dunn: A watering Place" by Jean Everett, (Snyder, TExas): "Camp Springs" by Jane Gilmore Rushing, (Lubbock, Texas): "Rough Creek" by Aline Parks, "Deep Creek" by Dudly Cramer, "Homestead on the… Read More

Crowell: New York, n.d.(1965). First Printing. Full cloth; 8vo.,276pp.Soft pencil notation front endpaper, (In priciple, we don't erase). Nice D/j with two short edgetears, else Near Fine in V.Good D/j.

London: John Wiley and Sons, 1957 Previous library book from Coronado High School in Lubbock with stamp on inside front cover and two names written. Also noted school stamp inside the back cover. Binding is intact with looseness at the spine creases. Seller inventory: D 1195

New York: Philomel Books, 1991 Glossy pictorial boards; 4to.,Unpaginated. Photography by Bob Peters. Grouchy old man can't find his hat - story told via clay animated figures. No names or other markings. Fine.