Search Results: Authors starting with P from A Cappella Books

The Franklin Library, January 1981. Limited. Leather . Very Good. Limited leather-bound edition; Privately printed and personally signed by the author; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy brown leather boards w/ immaculate gilt design/text at front and rear covers, hubbed spine; Outer edge text-block in beautiful gilt w/ silk ribbon page-marker and marbled end-papers; Pages free of markings; An exceptional copy, fit for any collector's library.

Crippen & Landru Pub, April 1998. Limited. Cloth . Very Good/Very Good. Bound in heavy dove greay cloth, lettered in [ale grey along the spine. Includes a stapled card panflet with a bonus story. Limited editon 16/200. Signed and numbered by the author. Mylar wrapped to preserve.

Doubleday. Hardcover . Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. In clean, sound jacket with lightly tanned spine, Front flap is not clipped. Red end papers. Black fabric covered spine with gold lettering. Grey paper covered boards. Foxing/dust staining top textblock edge. [269 pages]

Sweet Briar, VA: Ernest P.Edward, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover . Very Good/Fair. 2ND Edition {6' x 9'} In well edgeworn dustjacket with tears and front flap clipped. Pine green cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Tight binding [282 pages]

Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service/ Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986. Soft Cover . Very Good.

ABRAMS, February 1993. Cloth . Very Good/Very Good. The triumph of the forward-looking Impressionists over the deadwood of the French Academy is a familiar story to art lovers. Now this challenging book adds a new dimension to that period, showing that at the same time the Naturalists were shaping a different view of painting. Weisberg reveals that the Naturalists went beyond Impressionism in both technique and subject matter. 307 illustrations, 86 in full color. Folio in edgeworn jacket. Especially heavy wear at spine base. Tortilla tan cloth covered boards with red lettering along spine edge. Tight binding. [303 pages]

London & New York: Serpent's Tail, 1995. First Thus. Paper Back . Very Good. First Serpent's Tail edition. Octavo [234 pages]

London: Arms and Armour Press / Bison, 1980. Cloth . Good/Good. Folio in edgeworn dust jacket with flap cut by pinking shears with saw edge. Navy blue cloth.

Del Rey, November 1987. Mass Market PaperBack . Fair.

Oxford University Press, USA, December 1987. Trade Paperback . Very Good.

Milkweed Editions, October 2014. Hardcover . Good/No Jacket As Issued. 'In this transformative book, award-winning poet and essayist James Lenfestey makes an epic journey across the world to find the Cold Mountain Cave, a location long believed to exist only in myths and the ancient home of his idol, Han Shan, author of the Cold Mountain poems. Lenfestey's voyage takes him from the Midwestern United States to Tokyo to a road trip across the expanse of China with frequent excursions to the country's rich historical and cultural landmarks. As he makes his way to the cave, Lenfestey learns more than history or geography; he discovers his identity as a writer and a poet. Interspersed with poems by both the author and Han Shan, Seeking the Cave will appeal to lovers of poetry and travel narrative alike. '-- Cover worn, especially near edges; text on spine mildly worn off. First free end paper has previous owner's name in silver marker; half-title page has non-authorial inscription.… Read More

W. W. Norton & Company, January 2021. Hardcover . Very Good. In 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. Her achievement made her an icon, but her sister Emily, was the more brilliant physician. Together they founded the first hospital staffed entirely by women in New York City.

Random House (NY), June 1990. Hardcover . Very Good/Good. After eight years of economic polarization under Ronald Reagan, during which armies of the homeless took to city streets and hordes of the newly superrich took to yachts and country clubs, preeminent political consultant Kevin Phillips assesses the political consequences. Illustrated. Fading to the spine of the jacket.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1957. First Edition. Cloth . Very Good/Good. 12mo. in price clipped jacket worn at margins. Price clipped. 3rd printing. One inch tear bottom edge. Sticker residue. Darkening to end pages. Clean text. Green cloth with bumped top corners front & back. Silver lettering. Soiling om front board.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1960. First Edition. Cloth . Very Good/Very Good. First UK edition in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Original English price on flap. Orange cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Mild bumped corner & likewise mildly bumped spot on bottom board edge. Foxing to textblock top edge & fore-edge. Interiors clean & unmarked. Very good+ overall. 'Facial Justice' is one of Anthony Burgess' Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939. Burgess' list covers the 44-year span between 1939 and 1983.

Columbia University Press, October 2023. Hardcover . New.

New York: Arrow Editions, February 1937. First Edition. Cloth . Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo. Dustjacket is missing. Steel blue cloth with darker blue lettering along spine. Spine is browned from exposure to light. Likewise darkened top margins of boards front and back. Pale blue end pages. Darkened/dust stained top textblock edge. Review copy with 4 & 3/4' x 3' review slip laid in. From Jordan's Delight was the author's 2nd book and first book of poetry.

New Delhi, Inidia: AES, April 2009. Reprint. Hardcover . Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo. Navy blue with gold lettering & decorations. Second AES Reprint, which is facsimile of 1924 Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press edition. Printed and Hand-Bound in India. [128 pages]

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, January 1970. Cloth . Very Good/Very Good. In price-clipped dust jacket. Green Cloth with silver lettering. Top edge tinted yellow. Clean text.

1986. Leather . Very Good/No Jacket. Easton Press. Gilt-titled leather binding. Raised spine bands. All edges gilt. Silk ribbon marker. Unread condition