Search Results: Authors starting with P from THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY

SELECTED POEMS, Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press, 1964, first edition, vg+ in wraps. Uncorrected proof. From The Phoenix Living Poets series.

THE HIDDEN PERSUADERS, David McKay, 1957, first edition, very fine (the covers snap back) in fine dust-wrapper. An introduction to the New World of Symbol Manipulation and motivational Research. Sales and marketing revealed. A key book in the world of advertizing.

TWO STOLEN IDOLS, Doran, 1927, first edition., vg+ in like dust-wrapper save for some slight chipping to the head of the dust-wrapper spine and some all around light dust-soil. The wonderful pictorial front panel of the dust-wrapper can easily lead one to believe that this might have been the source book for the tales of INDIANA JONES. Great fun.

CHARLIE MCCARTHY SO HELP ME, MR. BERGEN!, Grosset & Dunlap, 1938, first edition, some light wear to the fore edge corner tips, some light rubbing to the edges of the boards, some light scattered foxing to the end-papers and paste-downs, else a near fine copy in full color pictorial boards and g/vg dust-wrapper with some wear and tear and chipping. Illustrated with both drawings and phtos.

TOMORROW AND TOMORROW in Astounding Science Fiction for January & February, 1947, Street & Smith, first edition, vg or better in full color pictorial wraps. Also contains original contributions by Murray Leinster, Bertram Chandler, Willy Ley, Theodore Sturgeon, Eric Frank Russell, Raymond F. Jones, John Campbell, et.al

THE PIPER'S SON in Astounding Science Fiction for February, 1945, Street & Smith, first edition, just about vg in full color pictorial wraps. Also contains original contributions by Fritz Leiber (WANTED-AN ENEMY), Malcolm Jameson (LILIES OF LIFE), John W. Campbell, et.al.

THE LION AND THE UNICORN in Astounding Science Fiction for July, 1945, Street & Smith, first edition, some light wear, else vg in full color pictorial wraps. Also contains original contributions by Murray Leinster (TIGHT PLACE), Eric Frank Russell, (RESONANCE), Willy Ley, John W. Campbell, et.al.

MUTANT, Gnome Press, 1953, first edition, faint moisture strike to bottom lower section of front cover, else a tight vg copy in like bright full color pictorial dust-wrapper with some slight wear.

ROBOTS HAVE NO TAILS, Gnome Press, 1952, first edition, head of spine gently creased, else fine in near fine full color pictorial dust-wrapper save for some light tape stain bleed through at the dust-wrapper spine extremities which wraps around somewhat to the corresponding sections of the front and rear dust-wrapper panels.

TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND THE FAIRY CHESSMEN, Gnome Press, 1951, first edition., fine in like full color pictorial dust-wrapper by Harry Harrison save for some light dust-soil to the rear dust-wrapper panel. Along with TOMORROW AND TOMORROW in Astounding Science Fiction for January & February, 1947, Street & Smith, first edition, vg or better in full color pictorial wraps. Also contains original contributions by Murray Leinster, Bertram Chandler, Willy Ley, Theodore Sturgeon, Eric Frank Russell, Raymond F. Jones, John Campbell, et.al

A GNOME THERE WAS, S & S, 1950, first edition., just about fine in like dust-wrapper. Uncommon in such condition.

TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND THE FAIRY CHESSMEN, Gnome Press, 1951, first edition, some light dust-soil and scattered foxing to the t.p.e.'s, else fine in vg+ full color pictorial dust-wrapper by Harry Harrison with likewise light dust-soil and scattered foxing, void of tears or chips.

THREE BLIND MICE in Astounding Science Fiction for June, 1945, Street & Smith, first edition, some light wear, else vg in full color pictorial wraps. Also contains original contributions by A. E. Van Vogt (HEIR APPARENT), Murray Leinster (THE ETHICAL EQUATIONS), Bertram Chandler (THE GOLDEN JOURNEY), George O. Smith (PANDORA'S MILLIONS), John W. Campbell, et.al.

A GNOME THERE WAS, S & S, 1950, first edition., near fine in vg+ dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear.

THE MODERN GASOLINE AUTOMOBILE - ITS DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR, West Side Y. M. C. A. Automobile School / Norman Henley, 1913, spine faded, 1/4" closed tear at the head of the spine, some light soil to covers, else a vg copy replete with 500 specially made detailed Illustrations and diagrams.

IF WINTER DON'T, Stokes, 1922, first edition., a vg+/ near fine copy in paper boards as issued.A parody of the novel IF WINTER COMES byA.S.M. Hutchinson. Quite scarce.

STORIES WITHOUT TEARS, Frederick A. Stokes, 1914, first American edition, a tight vg+ or better copy in near vg dust-wrapper save for three thumbnail size chips and other light wear. This short story collection is quite uncommon in dw.

THE NEW GULLIVER, Werner-Laurie, 1913 first edition, a solid vg copy.

THE ONE BEFORE, Scribners, 1902, first edition., a bright vg+ copy in pictorial cloth. A fantasy with golf being a strong component. Profusely illustrated.

STORIES WITHOUT TEARS, Frederick A. Stokes, 1914, first American edition, a tight vg or better copy of this short story collection.