Search Results: Authors starting with P from PIERIAN SPRING BOOKS

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 2003. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. As New/As New. Immediately went into later printings, this is a FIRST PRINTING with a complete number line that ends in "1" and a FIRST STATE dust jacket (without the Today Show logo). A BEAUTIFUL COLLECTOR'S COPY. NO remainder marks, NO bumped corners, NOT price clipped, NEVER read. The dust jacket is in an archival grade Brodart protector. Carefully wrapped in both white plain paper and bubble wrap to prevent shipping damage.

Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research & Mormon Studies (FARMS), 1996. First Softcover Edition . Soft cover. Fine/None Issued. 403 pages. Oversize softcover. Great bibliographic guide to Book of Mormon research. Contents not included on any electronic database. A slightly abridged version of the hardcover version. Originally published at $20.

Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.: Deseret Book Company, 1990. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Small name stamp on first free endpaper and foredge, but no other markings in book. No tears or dust jacket but some rubbing and small area at top of spine where surface color layer has been scrapped away leaving small white marks. Dust jacket in archival mylar Brodart cover. OUT-OF-PRINT AND VERY DIFFICULT TO FIND. This dictionary style guide to symbols from the scripture is an unparalleled instant reference to hundreds of terms used in gospel and scripture study. Many book dealers have long waiting lists for this one. The first section includes references to nearly 400 symbols, ranging from the common to the obscure. The second section includes 250 entries for the names and symbols for deity. The third section includes short definitions for another 250 theophoric and symbolic names. An example of one entry follows: "Cherubim. Cherubim are angels. In the Garden of Eden, cherubim were… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, 1996. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. NF/Fine. Dust jacket in archival grade mylar Brodart. NO remainder marks, NOT price clipped, NEVER read. Light creasing at the top corner of a few pages. All books are carefully wrapped in BOTH white plain paper and bubble wrap and packaged to PREVENT shipping damage.

London: Headline, 2001. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. As New/As New. As new conition, with dj in archival protector. Just-published SEQUEL to Tathea. Headline's British edition of Tathea became an instant collectors' item, raising in price to $100 or more in just a matter of months after it was published. A publication date for the U.S. edition has not even been announced. SFX Magazine praises it as "Nothing short of amazing. This is an innovative, well-written, intriguing novel, far removed and far above the norm." Perry is author of more than forty books, but calls this book "the most important story I shall write." There are no plans to publish an American edition until at least the fall of 2003.

Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.: University of Utah Press, 1996. Softcover Edition . Soft cover. As New. As New, still in publisher's shrink wrap. Winner of Evans Biography Award. An outstanding biography or an extraordinary Mormon historian. All books carefully wrapped in paper and bubblewrap to PREVENT shipping damage.

Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.: Utah State Historical Society, 1997. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. pages, Part of the UTAH CENTENNIAL COUNTY HISTORY project. OUT-OF-PRINT, this is the most difficult book of the 29-vol. set to locate.

Kelso Associates, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. 500 copies printed. Signed by Canadian author/compiler. RARE. Interesting historical narrative of the early Mormon period, presented largely through the journals and memoirs of British Americans, Mormons who migrated from or later settled in eastern Canada. Pollock uses lengthy quotes from original accounts of many early Mormons whose writings are otherwise unavailable in published form. The book is long out-of-print, received very little distribution in the US, and is only held by 3 Utah librariesUSU, Weber State, and the Church History Library. Romriell, MORMON HYPERMODERN #33. Written and compiled by Canadian Gordon Pollock, whose Ph.D. dissertation on Mormonism was published as In Search of Security: The Mormons and the Kingdom of God on Earth, 1830-1844 (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1989) (also out-of-print and rare).

New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989. Only Printing . Hardcover. Fine/None Issued. Scarce Mormon history in near new condition. No dj was issued by the publisher. Part of Garland's "Dissertations in Nineteenth Century American Political and Social History." Carefully packaged to prevent shipping damage.