Search Results: Authors starting with P from West of Eden Books

New York, Berkley, 2012, trade paperback, 232 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, New. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, bump to top corner, in pictorial card covers. The author of 'Pug Hill', 'City Dog', and 'A Pug's Tale' makes her nonfiction debut with a collection of essays detailing the life of a young New Yorker and her dog.

Sutton UK, Chess Ltd, circa 1974, hardcover, 315 pp, No previous printings noted, Very Good in Poor dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, spine-end and corner bumps. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, rubs, edge chips, surface loss to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. Based on Pachman's original German work (1967) this book covers the main lines of the Nizmo-Indian, the Queen's Indian, the King's Indian, the Gruenfeld, and the Benoni. Profusely illustrated throughout with visual examples.

Washington DC, New Republic Books, 1979, hardcover, 151 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good+ in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end wear. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, edge nicks, small edge chips, short closed edge tears, displays well in new Brodart sleeve. In Telling Lives seven of the most honored biographers of our time examine the joys, limitations, and challenges of defining a life. Contributors include; Leon Edel, Justin Kaplan, Alfred Kazin, Doris Kearns, Theodore Rosengarten, Barbara Tuchman and Geoffrey Wolff. Appended: Notes on the Contributors. ISBN 9780915220540

Don Mills ON, Harlequin Mira, 2014, trade paperback, 269 pp, Advance Reading Copy (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers. A man faces his personal guilt and grief on a trip to India after narrowly avoiding the 9/11 disaster and losing his entire family in the 2004 tsunami.

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1979, hardcover, 218 pp, First Edition, First Printing stated, Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight touches to spine ends. Dustjacket unclipped with original price, edge nicks, small scratch to front panel, one very short closed edge tear, in new Brodart sleeve. The first Robin Dana novel from the well-known writer and naturalist. ISBN 9780672526084

Provo UT, New World Archaeological Foundation/Brigham Young University, 1980, trade paperback, xii-119 pp, edition not stated, no previous printings noted, Very Good+ in plain gray card covers. Straight, tight and clean with no markings. An overview and compilation of the findings related to this ancient site and environs on the Pacific coast of the state of Chiapas, Mexico from the first reconnaissance in 1948 until the date of publication. Profusely illustrated throughout with black-&-white photos, sketches, maps, plan views, and statistical tables. Appended list of References.

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917, hardcover, 295 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good condition. Straight, tight and clean, slight spine-end and corner wear, tiny nick to bottom edge of front board and interior front hinge, page edges and endpapers age-toned, tidy original owner's name to front pastedown, in clear, glassine dustwrapper. A collection of turn of the century sports stories featuring the teams and students of Yale University. Illustrated with drawings on 4 black-&-white plates.

American Fork UT, Covenant Communications, 2012, trade paperback, 224 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, Signed by the author on the half-title page, New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in embossed card covers. Just weeks before her dream wedding a young woman finds her near-perfect life thrown into turmoil and receives unexpected support from her kind yet mysterious neighbor.

Garden City NY, Doubleday, 1978, hardcover, vii-134 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Near Fine in Fair dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine end bumps. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge nicks, visible closed tears to top front panel affecting title, in new Brodart sleeve. The inspiring true story of a specialist in rehabilitation medicine, confined to a wheelchair, yet more active in his field than many who enjoy the full use of all their limbs. Illustrated with 8 pages of black-&-white photographs. Foreword by Dr. Howard A. Rusk. Appended: List of Program Services and other Services in the U.S., listed nationwide by state. ISBN 9780385121170

New York, James Pott & Company, 1901, hardcovers, xxiv-314, xv-364, xvii-366 pp, First American Edition, First Printing, Good condition, no dustjacket as issued. Straight tight and firmly bound, front and rear hinges on vols 1 and 2 just starting but very strong, vols 1 and 2 appear to have had a blank, free front endpaper carefully removed, a few random spots to boards and spine with a bit of disturbance to embossed gilt spine titles, gilt Fleur-de-lis to front boards, top edges gilt. Tissue-protected frontisportraits of; Francis 1, King of France, The Chevalier Bayard, and Diana of Poitiers. Each volume contains a Preface by Adolphe Cohn. An elegant set despite a few flaws.

Sussex UK, The Book Guild, 1993, hardcover, 400 pp, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end bumps. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light edge and corner nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. A well-documented account of the series of events begun in 1941 with the Battle of Crete, the capture of Samos and Leros, and the debacle of September, 1943 when the American forces failed to capture the island of Rhodes and secure a route to Turkey, which would have brought Turkey into the war and forced Hitler to defend a 3,000 mile front from Finland to Istanbul. Illustrated with contemporary drawings and documents significant to the author, 48 black-&-white plates, and six maps. Appendices, Index.ISBN 9780863327889

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018, hardcover, 353 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, Signed by the Author without inscription on a publishers bookplate affixed to the half-title page, New. Straight, tight, and clean with no markings, slight spine-end and corner bumps, in new unclipped dustjacket bearing original price. The bestselling author of The Room of White Fire and more than twenty other books returns with a story of international intrigue as a private investigator teams up with an FBI agent to find the mysterious killer of CIA drone operators who has been leaving cryptic clues at every crime scene. ISBN 9780735212695

Prospect Heights IL, Waveland Press, 1994, trade paperback, xiv-113 pp, Second Edition, First Printing by numberline, Near Fine condition in pictorial card covers. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light corner bumps. A look at the economic development of the Giriama of Kenya where traditional customs are sometimes at odds with the needs and desires of the individual, enterprising farmers. Illustrated with statistical tables, reproductions of black-&-white photographs, and a map. Appended: Bibliography, Index. ISBN 9780881338027

Nashville, Thomas Nelson, 2020, trade paperback, 336 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, New. Straight, tight and clean with no markings in bright, pictorial card covers, slight bumps to front cover. The awardwinning author of The Gwen Marcey novels and four other works of fiction presents a new stand-alone suspense novel featuring an elementary school art teacher who becomes entangled in increasingly strange events relating to a long-buried tragedy in her past. ISBN 9780785239857

New York, Greenwillow Books, 2020, hardcover, 336 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, new, pictorial dustjacket. The bestselling author of A Wolf Called Wander returns with a first-person account of two young whales who become separated from the pod and must survive the deadly challenges of the ocean to find their way home. Profusely illustrated throughout with drawings by Lindsay Moore.

Don Mills ON, Ontario Publishing, 1973, hardcover, ix-77 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, Signed and dated without inscription by the Author on the front endpaper, Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Straight tight and clean, errata slip affixed to title page and errors corrected in the poet's hand in text. Dustjacket, slight edge nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. The ninth book of poetry, mostly reflections on his island home, from the Newfoundland-born lawyer and Master of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland. Jacket illustration and frontispiece by Reginald Shepherd.

London, Robert Hale, 1986, hardcover, 188 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good+ in Near Fine dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, gift inscription (non-authorial) to front endpaper, light bump to heel of spine. Dustjacket, light edge bumps, in new Brodart sleeve. A portrait of this compact area of the Midlands, known for its history of coal mining and the Industrial Revolution. Illustrated with 24 black-&-white plates and a small map. Appended: Bibliography, Index. ISBN 9780709025740

Raleigh NC, Month 9 Books, 2017, trade paperback, 306 pp, edition not stated, no previous printings noted, Signed by the Author on the dedication page, New. Straight, tight and clean with no markings in bright, pictorial card covers. In this first book in the Joining of Souls series an Irish royal empath beginning the search for his elusive soulmate in order to cement his family's political standing is drawn to an Indian-American high school student against the wishes of both families. Signed bookmark and promotional card also included.

New York, Horace Liveright, 1930, hardcover, 264 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good condition in publishers brown cloth with maroon decoration, gold lettering, embossing to spine, decorated endpapers, and red topstain. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light spine-end and corner wear, some of first 100 pages showing evidence of dampstain to bottom edge, faint spots to boards. The Canadian-American journalist, novelist, political philosopher, and one of the three founding mothers of American libertarianism, along with Rose Wilder Lane and Ayn Rand, continues the theme of two other novels she wrote in the 1920s, The Singing Season (1924), and The Fourth Queen (1926), each shows how cultures are shaped by an underlying set of moral and political principles.

Bridlington UK, Peter Haddock, 1990, large format hardcover children's picture book (8" x 12"), 18 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, Fine condition, no dustjacket as issued. Straight, tight and clean with no markings. Orange sees a Monster through his telescope and the Dumpies rush to defend their world. Beautifully illustrated throughout, in full-color, by the author. ISBN 9780710504920