Search Results: Authors starting with P from Backstory Books & Yarn, CBA

This is a very good hardcover book, signed and inscribed by the author. It is showing its age with some shelf wear, but the corners are still sharp and it is tightly bound. The dust jacket is in very good minus condition with some wear around the edges. Inside back cover of the jacket contains some choice excerpts of letters to the author in lieu of reviews. A one of a kind effort.Paul, Wolfgang. Mining lore: An illustrated composition and documentary compilation with emphasis on the spirit and history of mining. Portland: Morris Printing Co., 1970, first edition: memorial edition, 940 pp., appendices, index of names, illustrated throughout.

Very good hardcover with very good price-clipped dust jacket, in mylar. Bookplate on front end paper, front right corner slightly bumped, other corners are sharp. Binding is tight and there is little sign of wear or age.Payne, Robert. Marx: a biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968, 582 pp., appendices, index, illustrated. Stated First Printing.

Prudence Penny binding of The American Woman's Cook Book, new and revised edition. Edited and revised by Ruth Berolzheimer. Published for the San Francisco Examiner by Consolidated Book Publishers, Chicago, 1952. 856 pp.Hardcover with dust jacket. Very Good Hardcover bound in light blue cloth with red title and author on cover and spine, with Good- dust jacket. Book is tightly bound, dust jacket has numerous small chips and tears, protected in mylar. All tabs are present.

Pepper, Laurie. Art: why I stuck with a junkie jazzman. Self published/Widow's Taste, 2014, photographs, index, 370 pp.Very good paperback. No marks in text, binding is tight.

This is a very good condition hardcover copy with somewhat bumped corners. No marks, but some wear to the cloth on the spine.
Peter, Rozsa. Recursive functions. New York: Academic Press, 1967, translated by Istvan Foldes, 300 pp, appendix, bibliography, and fold out table.

This is a very good condition hardcover book with a very good dust jacket. The book has no marks and looks unread, but there is a bump on the front cover edge.
Parkinson, eds., Alan F. and Eamon Phoenix. Conflicts in the north of Ireland, 1900-2000: flashpoints and fracture zones. Dublin/Portland: Four Courts Press, 2010, 277 pp., index.

Plutarch. Plutarch's lives vol.VII: Demosthenes and Cicero, Alexander and Caesar. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949, 623 pp, 7 pp Loeb catalog. Part of the Loeb Classical Library #99. English translation by Bernadotte Perrin. Greek/English dual language text.Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very good minus hardcover in green cloth with top corners bumped. Text is clean and unmarked, binding is tight. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste down and his name and address label on front free endpaper.