Search Results: Authors starting with P from The Bookworm

San Francisco:: Division of Mines, February, 1938.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: brown cloth, black and gilt on the spine, reinforced hinges; Very Good condition.. 8vo (about 9.25 inches tall) . Glossary, bibliography, index. Description: A technical publication. From the introduction: ''a brief description is given if each mineral preceding the list of its occurrences in California. Those minerals which occur in good crystals are best characterized by their crystal symmetry and forms. The crystal symmetry is stated where known, and the forms of crystals that have been described from Californian localities are mentioned.'' Laid in at the rear is a folded map from 1940: Index Map of the Economic Minerals in California. A catalog of publications by the Division of Mines is pasted to the rear paste-down endpaper.

New York:: Filipacchi Publishing, 2011.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: glossy red binding with white text; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good dust jacket.. about 11.25 inches tall by 8.75 inches wide . Red endpapers. Description: Profusely illustrated, primarily in color. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Throughout more than 50 years of existence, both the Corvette and Car and Driver have been dedicated t pushing the limits of the sports car's 200 mph-plus speedometer. And now, for the fir time, we've culled the very bet of the Corvette's history from our archives. On these pages, you'll se our original stories exactly as readers saw them back in the day, and so you can follow history as it was being made. Relive all the road tests of hallmark models from Sting Ray to ZR1, Corvette wit and wisdom from our columnists, and behind-the-wheel bravado from our expert testers.''

New York:: Norman W Henley, 1945.. Revised Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: burgundy cloth with black text; one corner badly rubbed, owner's name on the front endpaper; a Good book, with a Poor dust jacket.. small 8vo (7.75 inches tall) . Index. Description: From the title page: ''A most complete and practical manual explaining the construction of all parts of late model Ford automobiles with instructions for driving, servicing and repairing; Witten in simple language. Includes authoritative, comprehensive and easily understood copiously illustrated instructions treating on all V8 models from 1922 to 1940 -- valuable to all Ford owners, dealers, salesmen, drivers and repair men and to all interested in the sale, upkeep or operating of the Ford car. A universal book of reference. Illustrated by many specially made diagrams and distinctive original photographs of actual parts, furnished by the factory service department. An entirely new book.'' Originally published in 0937, this 1945 edition… Read More

Las Vegas, Nevada:: Nevada Publications, 1971.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: olive-green cloth with black text; slight bump on the bottom edge of the front board, otherwise the book is Very Good, with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. External tape repair on the front panel of the jacket.. 4to (12.25 inches tall) . Bibliographic essay, index. map endpapers. Description: Well illustrated with maps and historic photographs, and includes additional illustrations by Roy E Purcell. The first general history of early Las Vegas to be published -- carefully researched and well written into a readable narrative by Nevada's most notable historian. This is a presentation copy, Inscribed and Signed by the author: ''To Walt Mulcahy, Who has greatly encouraged me in historic efforts. Your friend always, Stanley W Paher''. Walt Mulcahy is the author of ''Forty-Mile Desert Tour Guidebook''.

Garden City, New York:: Garden City Books, 1958.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; the cellophane-like laminate is starting to come loose at the spine; Good condition.. 10.5 inches tall by 8.5 inches wide . Illustrated endpapers. Description: Retold and illustrated by Tony Palazzo. As the title suggests, various animals go 'round the mulberry bush early in the morning. The raccoon sings ''Here's the way we wash our hands''; the rooster says ''Here's the way we wake up''; the circus seals sing ''Here's the way we clap our hands''; the polar bear learns to float, etc.

Waukesha, Wisconsin:: Privately printed, 1936.. 1st Edition.. Paperbound . BINDING/CONDITION: heavy paper covers with back and white art against dark blue paper; center-stapled binding; bound with glassine sheets inside the covers; staples do not show on outer spine, so the heavy paper covers appear to be glued over the stapled booklet;; Very Good condition. The staples show their age, and are darkened, but the booklet appears to have been very little handled.. 8vo (8 inches tall) . Description: Four black and white photo illustrations (two double-sided plates). ''This is a narrative of a hunting trip, together with several poems of the outdoors. Printed privately by the author for his friends.'' Following is from Heller's American Hunting and Fishing Books (number 276): ''An extremely rare work relating the author's fruitful bear hunts in British Columbia, through on one hunt he could not, successfully conclude the trail of a giant wounded grizzly.''

New York:: Tom Doherty Associates (TOR), May, 1992.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: blue boards; a Very Good+ book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art by Paul Stinson; design by Joe Curcio. This was the author's first novel.

New York:: St Martin's Press, 1982.. 1st Edition, so stated; 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: red boards; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket design by Deborah Daly. Charles Panati is also the author of the novel Links, but he wrote primarily nonfiction books, including a series about the origins of everyday things; he has also served as science editor for Newsweek. This novel begins as an adolescent daydream: Rory Malone, a Catholic boy from Queens, mentally made love to every woman who turned him on. His doctor says his fantasies are normal, but Rory is not normal. He possesses psychic powers, and as his powers grow, his sexual fantasies are experienced by his imagined lovers. The power he possesses comes to posses him.

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey:: Prentice-Hall, 1966.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: light turquoise cloth; one stain on the fore-edge of the text, otherwise a Very Good book with a Good+ dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped.. 8vo (about 8'' to 9.5'' tall) . Description: From facts and analyses derived from many personal interviews, the author explodes the myth of the Italian male as a super-lover. Miss Parca explores love and sex in Italy, the relationship between the sexes, and the Italian double-standard.

New York:: M Evans & Company, 1976.. 1st U.S. Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green binding -- paper covered boards with darker green cloth at the spine; the top edge of the text has a faintly dusty appearance, otherwise the book and dust jacket are both Very Good; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Description: Panoramic dust jacket art by Mel Greifinger; jacket design by Joel Schick. An historical novel of the robber barons who built America's railroads.

New York:: Dutton, February, 1996.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: two color binding -- dark blue with black at the spine; a Fine book, with a Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Red endpapers. Description: Dust jacket design by John Volk. The publisher's blurb reads: ''A seventeen-year-old model alleges she was sexually attacked in the VIP room of a South Beach nightclub by three men - a drug dealer, a film star, and a wealthy player in the international fashion industry. They say she's lying. It's up to Sam Hagen, head of Major Crimes for Dade County, to decide if they should be put on trial. Hagen's ambition to become the next state attorney outweighs his reluctance to be drawn back into the moral twilight of South Beach, where his son died the year before in a tragic accident.'' This was the author's third novel.

New York:: A L Burt Company, 1915.. Reprint Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green cloth; owner's name, otherwise a Very Good- book, with a Good+ dust jacket.. Small 8vo (about 7.5'' to 8'' tall) . Description: Includes a b&w frontis plate by Andre Castaigne; the dust jacket art is also by Castaigne.

New York:: E R Herrick & Company, 1899.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: light blue cloth with black; owner's name, etc fills about half of the front free endpaper; a well worn copy; stains; Fair condition.. small 8vo (about 7.75 inches tall) . Description: The title page is printed in red and black. Frontis plate (black and white) with tissue guard; and three additional plates. Illustrations by G Bertrand Mitchell. This author also wrote as Miss M P Green. Other books include An Unwilling Bride, Or, The Curse of Rosser, Dead in the Eye of the Law Mr. Perkins of New Jersey Or The Stolen Bonds, and La Belle Creole.

Self Published, 1973.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: black boards; four tape stains on the front endpaper, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Good+ dust jacket.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Description: Six black and white photo illustrations. From the author's introduction: ''I am convinced that my obsession with angling was not acquired. I was born with it. I can still remember the frustrations and difficulties I endured through the rod-duffer stage and the hit and miss experiences while learning without direction. And so it is with the prospective notice in mind that I have written this book. I have not intended it to be a manual on fly casting or fly tying although I have touched on both. Another reason I had for compiling this information is the fact there has been too little written for the sportsman on the eastern brook trout, especially in Nova Scotia.'' Printed in Northern Ireland by W & G Baird Ltd. Foreword by Doris Ewart.

Boulder, Colorado:: Pruett Press, 1968.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: white boards with gold spine text; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 8.75 inches tall) . Facsimile shown on endpapers. Description: Includes a frontis plus a short section of black and white plates. From the publisher's blurb: ''The strange story of the young, beautiful, bewitching Donna Madixxa and the aging, lovelorn, millionaire Colorado merchant prince surpasses in interest in many respects the stories of Baby Doe Tabor and the Unsinkable Molly Brown. Their hectic love lives and bitter hatreds inspired lurid headlines in the American and European press during the eighties and nineties. The Donna, born in Madrid, granddaughter of a Spanish count, was a graduate of Boston University. In 1881 she established a school of elocution in pioneer Denver, sponsored by justices of the Supreme Court, bankers and a former governor and soon married the wealthy… Read More

Denver, Colorado:: Sage Books, 1956.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: light olive cloth with dark brown text; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good- dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 8.75 inches tall) . Index. Map endpapers. Description: The dust jacket reproduces a mural of a frontier trial by Allen True. Includes two sections of black and white plates, plus a plate with a labeled tissue overlay; this plate shows a model reconstruction of Denver and Auraria in 1860. Map endpapers show the Colorado Territory, 1861-1876. During the course of research for another book, author Forbes Parkhill discovered the files of civil cases of the First Judicial District, Colorado Territorial District Court. He then searched for, and eventually located the criminal case files as well, resulting in months of research through hitherto unused source documents. The jacket flap states that, so far as the author knows, this ''presents the first published record of the… Read More

Denver, Colorado:: Sage Books, 1956.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: light olive cloth with dark brown text; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 8.75 inches tall) . Index. Map endpapers. Description: The dust jacket reproduces a mural of a frontier trial by Allen True. Includes two sections of black and white plates, plus a plate with a labeled tissue overlay; this plate shows a model reconstruction of Denver and Auraria in 1860. Map endpapers show the Colorado Territory, 1861-1876. During the course of research for another book, author Forbes Parkhill discovered the files of civil cases of the First Judicial District, Colorado Territorial District Court. He then searched for, and eventually located the criminal case files as well, resulting in months of research through hitherto unused source documents. The jacket flap states that, so far as the author knows, this ''presents the first published record of the… Read More

Norwalk, Connecticut:: Easton Press, 1993.. Collector's Edition.. Leather bound . BINDING/CONDITION: dark brown leather with gilt; raised spine bands; all edges gilt; ribbon place marker; Very Good condition.. about 9.5 inches tall by 7 inches wide . Silk moire endpapers. Description: This Easton Press issue of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations uses the text of the 1992 fourth edition. Cover and spine designs by Christopher Simon.

New York:: Abradale Press, 2000.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: blue boards; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket.. about 13 inches tall by 10.25 inches wide . Bibliography. Description: Features over 150 illustrations; most are in color. The Last Judgment, painted in 1534 on the rear wall of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican is considered by many to be the Michelangelo's masterpiece and one of the most important works in the history of art. In this book, the newly cleaned and restored fresco is presented in all in powerful complexity. Showing the painting in its entirety and in many close up details, this offers an in-depth study of the work itself and of the restoration process.

Pleasantville, New York:: Reader's Digest, 1990.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: burgundy boards with maroon imitation leather at the spine; black and gilt text and vignette; Fine condition.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Description: This is from the Reader's Digest World's Best Reading series. Illustrations by Norman Green; afterword by Verlyn Klinkenborg. The text is complete and unabridged. This includes the publisher's insert.