Search Results: Authors starting with P from Evening Star Books

London: Secker and Warburg, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Very Good. 8vo. [6], vii-xvi, [2], 3-567, [1] pp. Red-orange cloth with gold lettering on the spine; purple topstain. Price of 42s. on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece and a few plates. Includes the errata slip. With an introduction by Professor F.A. Hayek. Slight lean and a touch of wear to the boards; yellowing to the front and the spine panel of the jacket and a few traces of chipping.

Dresden: [Greiling Cigarettes], 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. Volume one only. Beige paper wrappers printed in black with a photograph of a young woman holding a lit cigarette on the front wrapper. With dozens of cigarette trading cards mounted on orange leaves. The cards are black and white photographs of various women who won European beauty pageants in 1929 and 1930, with Miss Italy, Miss Poland, Miss Spain, and several other European countries represented in the album. Toning and minor wear to the covers.

New York: Pageant Press, Inc. [1967], 1967. First printing. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Very Good+. Slim 8vo. [8], ix-xiv, [3], 86, [5] pp. Grey cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $4.00 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by a few maps and black and white photographs. Not in Enser; Engel 1249. The diary of Edward F. Paikowski, a private with Ambulance Company 125 of the 32nd Division during World War I. Scharmach was Paikowski's niece and graduated from the Marquette University College of Nursing. After working as a nurse in Milwaukee for a few years, Scharmach volunteered for active duty in the Army Nurse Corps and was commissioned a first lieutenant. During the Korean war she was stationed in Germany for three years. Scharmach earned several honors and awards during her nursing career in the Cold War Era. WorldCat shows 7 copies held by institutions, no records in ABPC (as of July 24 2017). A scarce personal account of action by a medic in World War I. Two small tape ghosts on… Read More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo. [5], viii-xix, [2], 2-343, [5] pp. Half contemporary pebbled brown sheep over marbled boards, gilt lettering and rules on the spine; top edge gilt. Painter examines educational practices and principles from ancient civilization to the turn of the twentieth century. Four address labels on the free front endpaper and one leaf offset from a newspaper clipping.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Fine. Large 8vo. [5], vi-xvii, [2], 2-565, [7] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with six double-sided plates of black and white photographs. An informative and useful biography of the pioneering physicist. Light wear to the boards' edges, else a Fine copy.

New York: Doubleday (2004), 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [14], xv-xxii, [2], 3-233, [1] pp. Quarter brown cloth over black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $23.95 on front flap of jacket.

New York: Doubleday (2003), 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [10], 260, [2] pp. Quarter red cloth over red paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $24.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by a few photographs.

New York: Crown Journeys, 2003. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Fine. 8vo. [8], 9-175, [1] pp. Quarter yellow paper boards over beige paper boards with black lettering on the spine. Price of $16.00 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by a photograph on the title page. Slight lean with a bit of spotting to the boards; dust jacket is Fine.

New York: Doubleday (2002), 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [10], 260, [2] pp. Quarter green paper over black paper boards with green lettering and a decoration in green on the front board, black lettering on the spine. Price of $24.95 on front flap of dust jacket.

Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1795. Later edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [1], 2-443, [3]. Original smooth calf, spine in five compartments with a maroon morocco label lettered in gilt. Spine shows additional gilt tooling. Evans 29274. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Natural Theology and Natural Religion"; "Religion and Morality". Paley famous for his "watch and the watchmaker argument" for the existence of God, (to be first published in 1802) was a significant philosopher following Hume, and preceding Jeremy Bentham. Paley worked on proving the existence of God and the legitimacy of Christianity through philosophical methods. This volume examines the historical proof for Christianity and some potential objections to Paley's arguments. A Near Very Good book with the front joint starting, a small spot of loss to the title page, and two owner's names.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1872. First American edition. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo. [7], viii-xv, [3], 18-470, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Blue publisher's cloth with a gilt decoration and black borders on the front board, black border on the rear board, gilt lettering on the spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. With maps and numerous illustrations from photographs and drawings taken on the spot of the Sinai survey expedition, and C.F. Tyrwhitt Drake. Several of the maps are folding. An informative account of regions in Egypt mentioned in the Bible. Rubbing to the extremities, the folding maps each have a tear, one of the folding maps with a dampspot. A few private owner's names on the front pastedown and endpaper.

London: Faber and Faber (2007), 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [5], vi-xi, [3], 3-433, [3] pp. White paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £20.00 on front flap of jacket. Translated by Maureen Freely. Jacket has a small tape repair to its reverse.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [11], xi-xv, [5], 3-417, [9] pp. Quarter orange cloth over red paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $25.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by a full-page map. Translated from the Turkish by Erdag M. Göknar. A literary murder mystery set in 16th century Istanbul, noted for the shifting of narrators in each chapter including a tree, a gold coin, a dog, and the color red. Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [9], 10-xii, [2], 3-384, [2] pp. Quarter dark grey paper over light grey paper covered boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $26.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated by several in-text and full-page photographs of Istanbul. Translated by Maureen Freely.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [13], 3-425, [11] pp. Red paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $26.00 on front flap of dust jacket. Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely. Pamuk won the 2006 Nobel Prize for literature.

Chicago: A.C. Schulz Litho. Co, 1934. Photograph. Very Good+. Panorama Chromolithograph. 9.875" x 51.75". A panorama view of the 1934 World's Fair held in Chicago, with the following exhibits depicted: the Ford Exhibit, the Chrysler Exhibit, Home Planning, Streets of New York, English Village, Irish Village, Fort Dearborn, Belgian, Tunisian, Swiss, Mexican, and Spanish Villages, Paris, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Hollywood, Byrds Antarctic Ship, the Hall of Religion, the Hall of Science, the Adler Planetarium and the Shedd Aquarium, Christian Science, with two airplanes and two zeppelins flying above the World Fairgrounds. Lake Michigan is depicted in the background. Encyclopedia of Chicago, "Century of Progress Exposition". The 1934 World's Fair was the second World's Fair held in Chicago. It was originally intended to celebrate the city's centennial but became a broader symbol of hope and technological progress as the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression. Dubbed "The Century of… Read More

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press (1978), 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [5], 6-380, [4] pp. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine (title inset in a red rectangle). An important collection of essays in epistemology including papers by Unger, Lehrer, Sosa, Chisholm, Goldman, Harman, and the editors. Near Fine book with name written on the free front endpaper in a Very Good+ dust jacket with traces of rubbing.

New York: Delacorte Press (1988), 1988. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. viii, [1], 2-328 pp. Quarter purple cloth over blue paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $17.95 on front flap of jacket. Inscribed and dated by the author on the title page. A Near Fine book with some foxing to the top textblock in a very near Fine dust jacket.

New York: Delacorte Press (1992), 1992. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [7], x, [1], 2-370 pp. Quarter black cloth over green paper boards, silver lettering on the spine. Price of $20.00 on front flap of jacket.

New York: Delacorte Press (1995), 1995. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Fine. 8vo. [15], 2-258 pp. Quarter black cloth over yellow paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $27.95 on front flap of jacket. Two leaves have creased corners and there is a previous owner's name blackened out on the front pastedown (obscured by the jacket flap).