Search Results: Authors starting with P from Dividing Line Books

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo. 341pp. First thus, with forward and recipe by Alice Waters. English translation originally published in 1960 under the title "The Days Were Too Short". Full brown cloth with gilt titles. VG+/NF. Bumping/softening at spine ends, one spot of soiling to fore-edge of textblock, slight spine twist. Unclipped "$20.00" jacket has two short closed tears at two of front panel, and two short closed tears at top of rear panel. A nice copy of this quite scarce hardcover edition.

London: University of London Press, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 156pp. First edition. Light green cloth with gilt spine titles. Light bumping to spine ends, some very faint foxing to textblock top, else near fine. Unclipped very good (+) jacket shows some browning, with very light wear at spine ends and tips. Five tales from Icelandic literature, as translated and introduced by Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards. A nice copy.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1935. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 8vo. 264pp, indexed. Blue cloth, gilt spine titles, in dust jacket. Lightly shelfworn, with bumping and a short closed tear to cloth at base of spine. Moderate foxing to textblock edges, some interior foxing to prelims. Binding strong; contents clean and unmarked. Price-clipped dust jacket shows moderate wear and soiling, with several short closed edge tears. Illustrated with black-and-white photo plates. Foreword by Edward Blunt.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 360pp. First edition. VG/VG+. Bound in full black cloth with gilt spine titles. Light foxing to top and fore-edge of text block, predominantly along the edges of the glossy plates bound in at the center of book. Boards show light soiling and a touch of fraying to cloth at top tips. Unclipped jacket shows very light edge wear and slight foxing at the tops of the flaps. A scholarly study of privately-owned madhouses in 18th and 19th century England.

Davis, CA: Swan Scythe Press, 2001. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. 48pp. Staple-bound softcover in glossy printed wraps. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Small pen notation at head of front cover, which shows some edgewear and rubbing, else near fine. Long praising blurb from Gary Snyder on rear cover.

Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 278pp. First thus. Mustard boards with matching quarter-cloth and bronzed spine titles. VG/VG+. Bumping and light soiling at cloth spine ends. A handful of pages show minor creases/dings at the corners. Unclipped "$15.95" jacket creased at ends of slightly faded spine. Light even toning to rear panel and flaps. A reprint of Peake's last novel, first published in 1954, with drawings by the author.

NY: Viking Press, 1960. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 179pp. Book club edition circa 1960s. Blue vinyl boards, black titles. Owner's name inked on front and rear pastedowns, adhesive-based offsetting to gutters, else about near fine in a very good (+) jacket showing light edgewear. Illustrations by the author.

Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Octavo; xiii + 191pp.; tan cloth, in dust jacket. Signed by Petry on the title page. Petry's memoir explores the life and legacy of her mother, the writer Ann Petry. Best known for her 1946 novel The Street--the first book by a black woman to sell more than one million copies--Petry was notoriously guarded about her private life. Not only did she tailor her own life story by "omitting information, changing details, embellishing the stories she heard as a child," but she also destroyed many of her notebooks and personal documents in later life. In At Home Inside, Elisabeth Petry mines her mother's remaining journals to paint an intimate biographical portrait of one of the most poorly understood figures in American letters. A fine copy in a fine jacket, which has a small spot of interior soiling along the top edge of the front panel, not visible on the exterior.

NY: Basic Books, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. xi+285pp, indexed. First edition. Full burgundy cloth with yellow topstain and gilt/green spine titles. Very light fading at base of spine, a couple of minor bumps to bottom of front board, else near fine. Unclipped "$7.95" jacket shows dulling to spine panel, with several short tears and small chips at spine ends and head of rear panel.

NY: Basic Books, 1970. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 153pp. Second printing. Translated from the French by Chaninah Maschler. NF/VG. Bound in full maroon cloth with gilt spine titles and dark grey topstain. Former owner's name on front free end paper. Unclipped dust jacket shows light soiling and edge wear.

London: Croom Helm, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 201pp., indexed. Blue textured paper boards, gilt spine titles. Sticker residue on front pastedown, light toning to textblock, else fine in a fine, unclipped jacket. An attempt to synthesize the seemingly incompatible philosophical frameworks of dialectical materialism and subjective idealism.

Manchester: Carcanet/Corvina, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 111pp. Black textured paper boards, gilt spine titles. First edition. Inscribed by the translator Peter Jay on the title page. A touch of wear at spine ends, else fine in a very near fine, unclipped jacket showing very light edgewear and a touch of browning along top edge. The Hungarian poet's experimental novel based his creatively fertile encounters with the American actress, Sheryl Sutton. Translated by Peter Jay and Eva Major. Scarce.

London: Eyre Methuen, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo. 138pp. Black textured paper boards, silver spine titles. First edition. Former owner's name inked on front free end paper, textblock lightly toned, else near fine. Unclipped very good (+) jacket shows light edgewear and toning.

NY: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1931. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo; 221pp.; burgundy cloth, paper spine label, in dust jacket. A fine copy, with slight pushing to spine ends and very faint off-setting to endpapers. In a very good jacket with several short closed tears and minor soiling. A collectible copy of this Pirandello play, as translated from the Italian by Samuel Putnam.

NY: Doubleday & Company, 1964. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 252pp. Blue cloth, black and gilt spine titles. Early reprint (lacks "First Edition" statement on copyright page). Light toning to textblock edges, else near fine in a very good, price-clipped jacket with light edgewear and rubbing, predominantly at the spine ends. Translated by William Weaver.

London: Dobson, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 204pp. First British edition (and only hardcover edition). Black textured paper boards with silver spine titles. Light bumping to spine ends and bottom corners, else very near fine in a near fine, unclipped jacket very lightly worn around the perimeter and a touch of soiling at base of rear panel. Jacket design by Richard Weaver.

Berkeley: Tom Plante / Berkeley Works, 1984. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Staple-bound softcover in green printed wraps. Sunning along spine, else near fine. Please see second photo for this poetry journal's full contributor list.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo. 287pp. Reprint. Very good in green cloth with gilt spine titles. Light shelfwear and bumping to bards; dust soiling edges of textblock. Textblock lightly & uniformly tanned. Jacket bears several <1" tears, with a small chip out at head of rear panel, and dulling and a couple of water spots to the spine panel. Everyman's Library no. 456.

NY: Random House, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 440pp. First printing. VG/VG. Full red cloth with white spine titles and red topstain. Very light bumping to board corners and spine ends. A few spots of foxing to prelims. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Unclipped jacket lightly sunned along spine, with slight edgewear and a diagonal crease to the rear flap. The second collection of essays, criticism, poetry and fiction culled from literary magazines. Includes poetry by Asbery, Brautigan, Dorn, Jim Harrison.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. xii+399pp., indexed. Yellow cloth. First edition. Minor bumping to spine ends and board edges, else fine in a very good "$4.95" jacket with several <1" closed tears, a small open tear along front panel hinge, and light general edgewear. Three perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from an American scholar, an Israeli Zionist, and a Palestinian economist.