Search Results: Authors starting with P from 100 POCKETS

Toledo, Spain: Luis Arribas, 1970. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. 1970 First Edition, First Thus; issued w/o ISBN; ISBN: 8440059299 assigned to 1973 printing. LAID IN: Folded Map (New) to Toledo w/thick outline surrounding the proposed itinerary for the suggested one-day-tour; once tapped to title page has left trace scar. Toledo, set on a hill in central Spain, known for the medieval Arab, Jewish, Moorish & Christian monuments within its walled city once home to artist El Greco. Historical notes precede this one-day-tour in the 1970s for those short on time. 100 pgs, followed by un-numbered color photos to rear.

Minnesota, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2018. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Alicia D'Amico (Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright w/sticker-removal scar to rear cover verso. First Edition, First Printing. Beige linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF; sound w/2 tiny red spots to lower front (publisher's flaw?) & sticker removal shadow to lower back. Anthology of 38, bi-lingual (Spanish & English), prose poems by Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet, diplomat and politician.Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973). The House in the Sand faces the sea. Known to many Neruda's favorite home was on Isla Negra facing the Pacific. 11 poems can be traced there. The great love was the sea, of which he wrote: "The sea sings and beats; it's not in its right mind. Don'it tie it down. Don't lock it up. It is still being born.". So it it is, through the sea he is sings of folklore, history, scientific inquiry, biography, diaries, and of life itself as an endless… Read More

Lincoln, NB: Cliffs Notes, 1994. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF. Prepatory review for Advanced Placement Examination for students entering college. Realistic practice exam with grading key included. Detailed review of basic concepts and terms, samples of essay responses and pointers in analysis of multiple choice questions make the volume a handy reference guide in the study of biology. Fine copy.

Scholastic, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/Fine. Text/NEW & Bright. Collectible 2004 First Edition, First Printing. Gilt embossed, illustrated boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. Collection of 10 dramas from English playwright, poet & actor William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) who wrote some 39 in all. Here, as re-told narratives by Tina Packer, trained at the London, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and, 1978 founder of the American Shakespeare & Company of Lenox, MA., devoted to performance of plays of "social and political significance". Ms. Parker produced all 10 plays in this volume, each illustrated by a contemporary artist. 192 pgs w/illustrators are: 1, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Gail de Marcken); 2, Hamlet (P.J. Lynch); 3, Much Ado About Nothing (Mary GrandPre); 4, Macbeth (Barry Moser); 5, The Tempest (Mark Teague); 6, Othello (Kadir Nelson); 7, As You Like It (Barbara McClintok); 8, Romeo and Juliet (David Shannon); 9, Twelfth Night (Chesley McLaren);… Read More

New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1916. Soft Cover/Sheet Music. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/As New. Softcover/VG; sound w/closed tears to edges & showing faint discoloration. Piano score. Melodie, from the "Chants du Voyageur," op. 8, no. 3. Polish pianist, composer and politician Ignace Jan Paderewski (1860 - 1941). 6 pages. This Schirmer No. 26755 is edited by Andor Pinter.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW. Red linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/NF w/trace rub to upper front corner tip. DJ/VG; Strong & sound with nips, chips, & small losses to upper edges & showing faint discoloration. An examination of the life of Harold Adrian Russell "Kim: Philby (1912 - 1988), high ranking British intelligence officer who served as an operative of the NKVD (predecessor to the KGB) and KGB, and member of the Cambridge Five. Based on hundreds of interviews in the Western world. Authors Page, Leitch and Knightley are members of the Insight Team of The Sunday Times in London. As le Carré points out the political motive of Kim Philby remains elusive; it is said that Stalin suspect him of being a "triple agent". Much lore surrounds Philby, giving rise to various interpretations in fiction and film. His is a fantastic tale, and this is journalism at its best. Fine copy in a lesser dust jacket.

Chicago, IL: Benjamin H. Sanborn, 1925. 4th Revised Edition, Printing of 1925 . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/Near New w/faint margin discoloration. Embossed blue linen boards w/gilt lettering/VG w/lights rubs to corner tips & upper/lower spine edges. DJ/None. Gift dedication to fEP. 965 pgs plus xviii (18) pgs of prefatory matter. First published 1904; this the 1925 printing of the revision of 1910 (4th Edition per Preface). This 4th Edition adds an Index of First Lines. Poems arranged chronologically (or, when information lacking, by first published date) under each author. Bibliography of reference works precedes the poems. This formidable collection includes works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Landor, Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browing, Robert Browning, Clough, Arnold, Rossett, and Morris, Swinburne.

New York, NY: Norman W. Henley Publishing, 1942. 2nd Revised & Enlarged Ed, First Thus . Hard Cover/Stitched. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/Bright, clean, As New. Gilt embossed faux-leather maroon boards/Fine. DJ/None. Frontispiece: Four pursuit-interceptor fighters produced for Army Air Forces by Lockheed, Bell, Curtiss and Republic. 2nd Revised & Enlarged Editon. Basic aviation fundamentals written for students, mechanics and non-technical people. Treatise on princioles of construction and operation of all types of aircraft with illustrations and photos. 14 chapters: I, Facts About Aircraft & Industry; II, Lighter-Than-Air Craft; III, Heavier-Than-Air Craft; IV, Direct Control Autogiro; V, Airplane Construction; VI, Airplane Construction & Design; VII, Engine Types & Inspection; VIII, Airplane Propeller Types; IX, Airplane Control Methods; X, Airplane & Engine Instruments; XI, Blind or Instrument Flying; XII, General Inspection Procedure; XIII, Maintenance for the Private… Read More

New York, NY: DK Publishing, 1995. First American Edition, 6th Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/None as Issued. Dave King & Geoff Dann (Photographers); John Woodcok & Simone End (Illustrators). Text/BRAND. Illustrated boards/VG; strong & sound w/edge wear, loss to upper edges, tape to covers verso. PO name to fEP. Geology. Exploration of animals from the inside out. Lucid text supported by some 200 superb color photos and graphic illustrations. Exploded views and cutaway photos reveal all parts of animal anatomy.

Montpelier, France: L'Impriemerie Cooperative/L'Abeille, 1978. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated, yellow softcover/VG; sound w/light edge & surface rear. Fold-out map to rear (also, BRAND NEW). Inked page references to Table of Contents --- a convenient cross-reference. Vintage (1978) tour guide to historical sites of Montpellier, southern France on the Mediterranean Sea, which has gained historica stature with passage of time. 91 pgs with archival photos. A history of Montpellier from the 10th to the 20th centuries preceeds text in 7 parts: I, Ses Monuments; II, Ses Jardins; III, Ses Musees; IV, Ses Vieux Hotels; V, Son Nouveau Centre Ville; VI, Son Parc Zoologique; and VII, Son Expansion.

Unity, ME: Five Star, 1997. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/Fine. BRAND NEW Copy w/bookstore label to front cover verso. Stated First Printing of August 1997. Writer of Western fiction who writes under many psuedonyms Lauran Bosworth Paine (1916 -) pens his own name to this tale. San Ildefonso lies on the border of New Mexico and Mexico. Now that soldiers in blue, bandoleros, marauding Indians and ruthless gun slingers are of the past, the town is quiet and its inhabitants few. Suddenly it finds itself under seige by renegages south of the border bent on taking possession of conquistador treasure burried in the village!

Unity, ME: Five Star, 1998. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. New/Fine. BRAND NEW Copy w/bookshop sticker to front cover verso. Stated First Edition, Printing of November 1998. Prolific Western fiction uses many psuedonym Lauran Bosworth Paine (1916 -) pens his real name to this story. Spurred by friendship, loyality and a sense of justice, a superb gunsmith George Mars fashions a Colt revoler that fires on it's half cock for a wounded friend. But the gun is stolen from shop. The craftsman's name is engraved on so is identifiable --- so as it passes from "hand to hand, his identity becomes as much a mystery as why possession of it skews the odds in any gun duel.

New York, NY: Walker & Co, 1992. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. COLLECTIBLE - Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Text/BRAND NEW. Yellow boards/Fine. DJ/Fine; under mylar. Bookdealer sticker to rear cover verso. Two white men, had lived as one with Indians in isolation for years. They had taken Indian wives and sired children. But times have changed --- both widowed, their children gone, and more whites were intruding on the land. A tale of survival and shifting loyalties. Fine copy.

Thorndike, ME: Five Start Western, 1996. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. Stated First Edition. BRAND NEW Copy w/A Western novel. Author Lauran Bosworth Paine (1916 -) who often writes under many a pseudonym pens his name to this tale. Story of Montana rangeman Cuff Lockwood's thwarted attempts to quit bitter winters in favor of New Mexico and its far reaching consequences.

London, UK: W. Foulsham & Co for The Fireside Press, 1960. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Navy linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/VG w/loss to upper/lower spine, and nips to corner tips; check marks to inner back flap; under mylar. Published w/o ISBN; ISBN subsequently assigned. Chiefly known for Western fiction Lauran Bosworth Paine (1916 -) delves into records to tell the story of General Armstrong Custer (1839 - 1876) and how it he came to lose his life the Battle of Little Big Horn, 1876.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ Press, 1957. 1st Paperback Edition, 9th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & bright. Soft cover/NF w/trace discoloration. Brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to upper & leading text edges. First published in 1940; this is a 1974 reprint. Discourse on the knightly system of Medieval France, and its attendant religious, moral, and social codes. Contents are: Part I, The Nobles of France (introductory essay); II, Feudal Chivalry; III, Religious Chivalry; IV, Courtly Love; and, V, Criticisms & Compromises followed by Index. Fine copy.

New York, NY: Oxford Univ Press, 1988. Paperback Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. Science history. First published in 1986; this copy is the First Paperback Edition (with corrections) of 1988. Commencing with two accidental discoveries (X-Rays, Roentgen; "uranic rays", Bequerel), physicist Abraham Pais (1918 -) reaccounts the history of the physics to its present atomic age. It is a story of science and of the steps forward, mis-steps, and accidental discoveries along the path as human intellect explored the way towards the heart of matter. Fine copy.

New York, NY: Random House, 1985. First American Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Yellow linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/light edge wear & faint creasings to upper front. Published, also in 1985, in the U.K. under the title: The Noonday Sun. The Edwardian era refers to the reign period of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910, but is sometimes extended to include the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, the start of World War I in 1914, war's end in 1918, or signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. This is the story of Brits of all pursuasions, in this elastic moment in time, who ventured out into blazing noonday suns (title from Noel Coward's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen") of Africa, India and jungles of Malaysia. ... some renouce cricket, some refuse home leave, some go native, and others? A humorous look at the sunset days of the British Empire from ownership of near one quarter of Earth's surface when Edward took to the throne in 1901.

London New York Paris San Diego: Academic Press -- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. First Edtion, First Thus . Hardcover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. Collection of 13 papers presented at the International Seminar held at the Polytechnic of Central London, Sept 20-24th, London, UK. The book is aimed at both researchers and practitioners." [Preface, 1983] The three Part headings (and number of papers under each) are: Part I, Expression, Specification & Analysis of Synchronization of Distributed Processes (7); II, Programming Languages for Distributed Processes (3); and III, Local Area Networks and Distributed Systems (3). 305 (+ xii) pages, with figures, and Subject Index.

Munchen, Germany: Goldmann Verlag, 2003. Paperback. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. German language text. American novelist and journalist "Chuck" Palahniuk's (1962 -) award-winning debut novel, Fight Club (1996), was adapted to film. This, his second novel, also known as "Survivor", was first published 1999; this is a reprint. Autobiographical in form, the book's chapters and pages are uniquely numbered backwards --- that is to say, it begins with Chapter 47 page 289, and ends on page 1 of Chapter 1. Protagonist Tender Branson, last surviving member of the Creedish Church, committed to suicide at his God's bidding. Now alone in a hijacked 747 doomed to crash in hours; in the time left, he tells his story to the black box.