Search Results: Authors starting with P from AJ Scruffles

London: Jonathan Cape, 2009. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Called his most ambitious novel since Fight Club, Pygmy is cult author Palahniuk's tale of a diminutive secret agent who leaves his totalitarian homeland to inflitrate the US as a foreign exchange student. Written in the stunted english of the agent nicknamed Pygmy, he describes his endeavours with a middle income, mid-west family. Most minor bumping to DJ, otherwise as new.

Stockholm: P. A. Nordstedt, 1970. Hardcover. Good. Quarter cloth. In SWEDISH. With b/w images and fold out map to rear. Mild foxing to page edges. Contents clean and tight. Good+

New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1976. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. Ex-Technical library. With tags and stamps. Mild creasing to spine and shelf-wear. Contents clean and tight. Good.

London: The Harvill Press, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Good. First English edition of the esteemed Russian/soviet novelist's account of a child and his village in post war Russia, called Serioja originally. Dust jacket is toned with small tears to top spine. Contents clean and binding tight, Good.

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1984. Hardcover. Good. Guide to the significant collection of Whistler's works held by the freer gallery. With numerous colour images. 4to. Some staining to page edges, not affecting text. Contents otherwise clean and tight. Good.

London: The Folio Society, 2009. Hardcover. Good. A Folio Society selection of some of the best writing by Dorothy Parker. Silver cloth covers. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some mild sheflwear. Peculiar creasing to cover, most likely a production fault. Volume is pristine. Good overall.

London: Quartet Books, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Collection of Parkinson's photographs of women, taken for various publications. Subjects range from Twiggy and the Queen Mother to more artistic pieces. DJ has rubbing to edges, sunning to spine. Contents clean and prim. Good+

London: Macmillan & Co., 1905. Hardcover. Fair. From the New Library Edition of Parkman's work, featuring the latest revisions. Top edge gilt. With maps. Water damage to top edge with some staining within, waving to pages. But binding sound. A fair reading copy.

London: Macmillan & Co., 1907. Hardcover. Good. From the New Library Edition of Parkman's work, featuring the latest revisions. Top edge gilt. With tissue guarded frontispiece and maps. Bumping to edges. Tanning and light foxing to page edges, otherwise clean and tight. Good.

London: Macmillan & Co., 1909. Hardcover. Good. From the New Library Edition of Parkman's work, featuring the latest revisions. Top edge gilt. With tissue guarded frontispiece and maps. Previous owners name to ffep. Bumping to edges. Contents clean and tight. Good.

London: Macmillan & Co., 1909. Hardcover. Good. From the New Library Edition of Parkman's work, featuring the latest revisions. Top edge gilt. Bumping to edges. Contents clean and tight. Good.

New York: Macmillan, 1922. Hardcover. Good. Compact Macmillan pocket edition of Parkman's classic account of his two month journey through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas in the mid 19th century. Some rubbing and mild bumping to edges. Previous owner's bookplate to ffep. Contents clean and tight. Good.

London: Macmillan & Co., 1908. Hardcover. Good. From the New Library Edition of Parkman's work, featuring the latest revisions. Top edge gilt. With maps. Bumping to edges. Tanning to page edges, otherwise clean and tight. Good.

London: H. F. W. Deane & Sons, 1960. Soft cover. Fair. Actor's edition. Owner's/Actor's notes and name to cover. Used but still usable. Fair condition.

London: John Murray, 1951. Hardcover. Good. First reprint of Fermor's first book, an insightful and sensitive account of his travels around the caribbean after WWII. With numerous b/w plates to the rear plus map. Some mild shelf-wear and dulling to gilt. Contents clean and sound. Good/very good.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1905. Hardcover. Good. First biography of the prolific historian, James Anthony Froude. With frontisportrait. Top edge gilt. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Foxing to page edges and front matter. Toning to spine. Contents and binding sound. Good overall.

Oxford: Oxford Publishing Co., 1981. Soft cover. Good. History of the saffron walden line, with numerous b/w images. Some general shelf-wear to covers. Clean and tight. Good.

London: Samuel French, 1938. Soft cover. Fair. Acting edition. Soft covers. Owner's/Actor's notes and name on cover. Used but still usable. fair/ Good.

London: Hutchinson, 1951. Hardcover. Good/Good. Reprint edition of this generously illustrated account of Elizabeth II's early life, with colour and b/w images. Dust jacket has some bumping and rubbing to edges. Previous owner's inscription. Volume slightly cocked. Yellow cloth boards are clean and binding tight. Contents bright and prim. Good/very good condition.

London: Penguin Books Ltd, 2001. Soft cover. Very Good. Pearson's influential biography of the British Prime Minister and author. Some rubbing to edges. Tanning to page edges. Contents clean and tight, Very good.