Search Results: Authors starting with P from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

Barbara Brown Packer, 1990. Hardcover. Fine. A thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of Education of Harvard University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education. Quarto. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

New York: Cape Goliard Press in association with Grossman Publishers, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Fantastic collaboration between poet Ron Padgett and pop expressionist Jim Dine. Quarto. Original black cloth binding, with white titles. Mild wear to the dust jacket; otherwise near fine.

St. Cloud, Minnesota: North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc, 1996. First Edition. Trade paperback. Fine. An exploration and guide to Fitzgerald's association with the North Star State. Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul where two of the four novels released in his lifetime - This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned - were polished for publication. His third novel, The Great Gatsby, was pitched to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, in a letter written from White Bear Lake, the resort community he frequented as a youth and lived in as a young man. In addition, a score of his best short stories - "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" and "Winter Dreams" - were penned in Minnesota. Includes a detailed guide and a map of Fitzgerald's Summit Avenue homes and haunts, as well as numerous textual photographs and illustrations. Inscribed by both Page and Koblas on the title page. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A fine copy.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 25 pp. photographs. Autobiographical reminiscences of the Big Band era of the 1930s and '40s from the often overlooked viewpoint of the sideman. A clarinetist and native Texan, Drew Page traveled and worked with Red Nichols, Freddy Martin, Scat Davis, Jack Crawford, Charlie Ventura, Ben Pollack, and most notably, Harry James with whom he backed a young Frank Sinatra. Inscribed by Page on the front flyleaf. Original cloth binding. The dust jacket is a bit rubbed; otherwise very good. Inscribed by Author.

Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Textual illustrations and maps. "Books & Pamphlets Relating to the History & Development of the Silver State." Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. Some mild wear to the spine ends and corners; otherwise a very good copy of this definitive reference work.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Presents a new approach to the problems of pattern recognition and machine learning by the use of fuzzy set theory as enunciated by L.A. Zedah. Octavo. Original light brown cloth binding, with dark brown titles. Just a hint of edgewear to the dust jacket, with a minor crease to the front flap; else a crisp and clean copy.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. ...provides a complete and up-to-date review of observations, theoretical interpretations, and empirical and physical models of variations in the energy output of the Sun and solar-type stars." IAU Colloquium 143. Tall octavo: 355 p. with numerous textual figures. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. Light bump to the bottom edge; else a crisp and clean copy. Near fine.

Boston: The Vedanta Centre, 1923. Hardcover. Very good. Paramananda (1884-1940) was one of the earliest Indian teachers who traveled to the United States to spread the Vedanta philosophy and religion. In this work, he confirms the faith of the reader to free themself from affliction or ill health. Signed "with my hearty wishes & prayers" by Swami Paramananda on the front flyleaf. Small octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with dark brown titles. Mild wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good.

New York: The Dial Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Review copy, with the publisher's slip, promotional photo, and press release laid in. Inscribed by Sara Paretsky on the title page. The author's first book and the literary debut of Chicago private eye V.I. Warshwski. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with just the slightest hint of edgewear.

Princeton, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 130 roses illustrated in colour, with 32 photographs in black and white. First U.S. edition. Review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. Red cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Some general minor rubbing and edgewear to the dust jacket, with a shallow chip to the top edge of the rear panel; otherwise very good. In a Brodart dust jacket protector.

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo: 178 p. Original gray cloth binding, with silver titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine, unread copy.

Redlands, California: Moore Historical Foundation, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Annotated by Larry Burgess, Ph.D. Dust jacket art by Leo Politi, with a frontispiece portrait of the author, illustrations by Ethel Burt, and a facsimile pamphlet (housed in the rear pocket). A young lady's account of a two week journey through Southern California on the Santa Fe Railway's Kite-Shaped Track in May 1899. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titles. Very slight rippling of the dust jacket from the original shrink wrap; otherwise a pristine copy.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original green cloth binding, with decorative black and gilt stamping. Small bookplate to the front pastedown, with some mild wear to the spine ends and corners. A bright, nearly fine copy.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Review copy, with the publisher's slip and promotional material laid in. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by T. Jefferson Parker on the title page. The author's second novel, this suspense thriller takes its name from the populous Vietnamese community in California's Orange County. Octavo. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Dutton, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed and dated in the year of publication by T. Jefferson Parker on the title page, with a a handwritten note by Parker on his personal letterhead laid in. Los Angeles sheriff's deputy Charlie Hood searches for an undercover agent who has disappeared, only to resurface in a haunting series of bizarre and inexplicable video tapes. Octavo. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket.

Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the front flyleaf. "Richard Greenham was one of the most important and respected figures among the Elizabethan clergy. His contemporaries described him as the founder of a previously unknown pastoral art: the cure of cases of conscience. Despite his fame in the Elizabethan period as a model pastor, pioneer in reformed casuistry, and founder of one of the first rectory seminaries, scholars have made little use of his life and works in their study of Elizabethan religious life. This study restores Richard Greenham to the central place he held in the development of Elizabethan Reformed parochial ministry." A volume in the St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Octavo: 395 p. with a frontispiece and 4 figures. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some very light sun fading along the spine.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Robert B. Parker on the front flyleaf. Spencer investigates the murder of a news reporter who had been prying into the cocaine trade in the central Massachusetts town of Wheaton. Octavo. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. This is Number 248 of 250 specially bound copies signed by Robert Parker. Spenser goes back to school to investigate corruption in college town. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with decorative gilt stamping. A fine copy, housed in the publisher's slipcase.

New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Robert B. Parker on the front flyleaf. The author's sixth novel. A successful writer witnesses a petty killing that plunges his life into a nightmare of violence and fear. Octavo. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket.