Search Results: Authors starting with P from Rulon-Miller Books

London: Conway Classics, 1997. Facsimile reprint, 8vo, pp. ii, [8], 206, [2], civ; reproduction of engraved portrait frontispiece, illustrations, text printed in three columns; publisher's boards in blue dust jacket; light shelf wear to jacket edges, else very good. Facsimile of the original, Antwerp, 1885 edition.

Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb [Knowles & Vose, printers, Providence], 1839. First edition, slim 8vo, pp. 48; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; the spine a bit flaked, else a very good, sound copy. Inscribed by Pabodie to "Hon. Job Durfee, with the respects of the author." Durfee was the Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, himself a poet, and the jurist who first called the Dorr Rebellion illegal and treasonable. American Imprints 57752; not in Bartlett.

Chicago: Curt Teich & Co, 1900. Oblong 4to, unpaginated; 23 full-p. sepia illustrations, mounted (including a folding double-page panorama), map, two pages of text containing illustration descriptions; tan pictorial wrappers lettered in green & gilt, paper label illustration mounted on upper cover, ribbon ties at spine; covers a bit toned and lightly chipped at edges, illustrations clean & bright, overall very good. A picturesque view-book of scenery from the Golden Gate to the Great Salt Lake.

Chicago: Curt Teich & Co. for the Van Noy Inter-State Co, 1900. Oblong 4to, unpaginated; 25 full-pg, illustrations in color and mounted, two pages of text containing illustration descriptions; tan pictorial wrappers lettered in black & gilt, color illustration mounted on upper cover, ribbon-bound; covers a bit toned at edges, corners creased, illustrations clean & bright, overall very good. A picturesque view-book of "the most interesting views seen along the route," of Utah, Nevada and California.

Philadelphia: J. Dobson, 1839. First edition, 8vo, pp. 56; removed from binding, wrappers perished; old historical society rubberstamp at the base of the title page, deaccessioned. Packard graduated from Harvard in 1814 and edited the Hampden Federalist in Springfield for ten years, and was a member of the state legislature in 1828-9. In 1829 he moved to Philadelphia, and from then until his death he edited the publications of the American Sunday-School Union, some 2,000 of them in all, more than forty of which he wrote or compiled himself. In July, 1849, he was elected president of Girard College, but declined. He also edited the Sunday-School Magazine, the Sunday-School Journal, and the Youth's Penny Gazette, afterward known as the Child's World, "projected the first child's paper in the United States" (CAB). He also edited the Journal of Prison Discipline. A humble and unassuming man, he often wrote anonymously, as here. American Imprints 57755; Sabin 58114.

New York: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc, 1925. 8vo, pp. xxii, 334; #156 of 1000 copies; frontispiece, plates, illustrations in the text, index of names (partially unopened); minor & faint dampstaining along edges, some notations in index, extremities lightly worn, small section of lower spine chipped, uper cover a bit warped; overall a good copy in original blue cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine.

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1839. First edition, 8vo, pp. 522; large folding frontispiece map engraved after C.E. Ely, from the Adriatic in the NW to the Persian Gulf in the SE, text in double column, a few other illus. in text; contemporary full calf gilt, red morocco label on spine; extremities quite rubbed, but the binding is sound; some foxing.

[Seattle]: The Seal Press, 1983. Limited edition of an unspecified number, 8vo, pp. [20]; fine, in original gray wrappers printed in red and black. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. This copy signed "Christina V. Pacosz / Bumbershoot, 1990." Pacosz (b. 1946) is a Detroit born Polish-American author. This is her second book and likely signed at Seattle's arts and music festival, Bumbershoot.

[New York]: Adventures in Poetry, 1972. First edition limited to 200 copies, 4to, [8] leaves printed from typescript on rectos only; original pictorial front wrapper, back wrapper unadorned; side-stapled; near fine.

[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 2011. 7½" x 11" poetry broadside printed on the occasion of the leadership transition from Allan Kornblum to Chris Fischbach, includes blue art/stamp.

[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 2011. 7½" x 11" poetry broadside printed on the occasion of the leadership transition from Allan Kornblum to Chris Fischbach, without blue art/stamp.

London: Strange Faeces Press, 1971. Staplebound chapbook limited to 250 copies, 13" x 8", pp. [40]; the first appearance of most of these poems outside of the US; mimeo text, pictorial paper wrappers; water stain to bottom inch of upper wrapper and first leaf, very good.

West Branch, Iowa: The Toothpaste Press, 1983. Edition limited to 600 copies (this, no. 335), signed by the author and artist, square 8vo (6¾" square), pp. [24]; printed in red and black; 5 full-page illustrations by Trevor Winkfield; fine copy in original black Canson wrappers with printed label; handset by David Duer, printed by Allan Kornblum and David Duer.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1967. 4to, pp. x, [2], 362; frontispiece, and lithographic illustrations throughout by Lynd Ward; fine in quarter blue cloth over paper-covered marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine, publisher's slipcase (very lightly scuffed at top edge), The Heritage Club monthly newsletter laid in. Selections from Jefferson's personal, philosophical, and epistolary writings.

Glasgow: Robert Stuart & Co, 1847. First edition, 8vo, pp. [viii], 198; 21 plates, 1 folding map; pages browned, several signatures starting, hinges cracked, publisher's ad on front endpaper, corners rubbed, spine ends slightly frayed; in original blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine and upper cover. Ex-MHS.

Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1838. First separate edition, 8vo, pp. 22, [2]; self-wrappers; slight soil and spotting; very good. Apparently an offprint from the annual proceedings of the American Institute of Instruction. Tyron & Charvat, Cost Books of Ticknor and Fields, A 24b (5,982 [!] copies printed): "The Institute frequently distributed, 'gratuitously,' to those interested in the advancement of education, these offprints of the principal addresses." American Imprints 52107. See DAB for a sketch on Page, a gifted teacher and educator whose career was cut short by his untimely death at age 38. The present address was incorporated as a chapter in Page's widely read Theory and Practice of Teaching (1847). "He analyzed more minutely the defects and imperfections of poor teaching than any other educator of his time, and no other has ever surpassed him in his touching plea for the earnest and conscientious teacher which he made in the chapter on the 'Moral Duties of Teachers and Parents'."-J.M.… Read More

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1963. 8vo, pp. 315-321, [1] (i.e. 8 pages); 8 illustrations on rectos and versos of 2 plates; original printed wrappers, side-stapled; fine. Reprinted from the Smithsonian Report for 1962.

[Washington]: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1967. 8vo, pp. 45; numerous black and white photographs, line blacked out on p. 17, extremities lightly soiled, else very good in green and beige pictorial wrappers.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. Third edition., 12mo, pp. [8], 239; etched frontispiece by W. L. Sheppard; orig. green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, embossed cameo on upper cover; else very good.

[New York]: Mallard Press, 1989. First American edition, 4to, pp. [6], 647, [1]; profusely illustrated throughout, much in color; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Not just the war, but the social scene, home front, weapons, with many eye-witness accounts.