Search Results: Titles starting with P from Yesterday's Muse Books

Corning, N.Y: [City of Corning], 1938. Stapled Binding. Very Good. Horizontal center fold, rear wrapper lightly foxed and soiled with creases along edges. 1938 Stapled Binding. A collection of thirty-eight 5x7 black-and-white photographs mounted on thick but flexible paper stock, stapled-bound at top edge. Labeled Exhibit No. 21, apparently involved in court proceedings of the City of Corning vs. Erie Railroad Company, though it is unclear whether this was a lawsuit or another sort of formal proceeding related to railroad operations.

New York: Osprey Publishing, 2008. 1st Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 7x0x9. Laurier, Jim. First printing. Laminate starting, edge wear. 2008 Soft Cover. 80 pp. Known for the distinctive 'sharkmouth' decoration on their noses, P-40 fighters first saw combat in China during World War II. Their most common adversary was the Japanese Nakajima Ki-43, nicknamed 'Oscar.' Carl Molesworth describes and explains the design and development of these two foes, the products of two vastly different philosophies of fighter design. The P-40 was heavily armed and sturdy with armour protection and self-sealing fuel tanks, but paid for this with the loss of speed and a sluggish performance at altitude. The Ki-43 was a rapier to the battleaxe P-40 and the Ki-43 was immensely nimble, though with less firepower and durability. This book examines these two different fighters, and the pilots who flew them over China, with an action-packed text, rare photographs and digital artwork.

New York: Chartwell, 1980. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x8x0. Faint edge wear. 1980 Large Hardcover. The story of America's famed fighter plane that established air superiority over Nazi Germany in WWII.

New York: Metro Books, 2013. 1st Printing. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 11x10x0. 1st printing. An exceptional copy. 2013 Large Hardcover. 160 pp. Few combat aircraft have gained such a fine and enduring reputation as the P-51 Mustang. Developed in the late 1930s by North American Aviation, initially for RAF use, it quickly caught the attention of the USAAF. Once the Allison powerplant was swapped for a Packard-built Rolls-Royce Merlin, the P-51 became one of the best—arguably the best—American fighters of World War II, capable of taking on any machine the Luftwaffe could throw at it.

New York: NAL Caliber, 2010. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. An exceptional copy. 2010 Hard Cover. xviii, 489 pp. "Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. From the debacle in Bataan, to the miracle at Midway and the relentless vortex of Guadalcanal, their solemn oaths to their country later led one to the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot and the others to the coral strongholds of Peleliu, the black terraces of Iwo Jima and the killing fields of Okinawa, until at last the survivors enjoyed a triumphant, yet uneasy, return home. In The Pacific, Hugh Ambrose focuses on the real-life stories of the five men who put their lives on the line for our country. To deepen the story revealed in the miniseries and go beyond it, the book dares to chart a great ocean… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 0x0x0. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed, front jacket flap clipped with price intact. Minor spot on top page ridge. 1944 Hard Cover. ix, 405 pp. Published during war, with wartime shortage statement and 'First Printing' on copyright page. Hailey was embedded with the U.S. Navy from the Solomons to the Aleutians. Foster Hailey, New York Times war correspondent in the Pacific, here describes the first two hard years when our forces in that region were fighting odds every time they went to sea or joined the issue ashore or in the air. His account is the history of our whole Pacific naval campaign as it developed step by step. Mr. Hailey was in the front line from the Solomons to the Aleutians; yet he was not out to have adventures himself but to get the facts, and he gives a straightforward, eyewitness account of what other men did. Admirals Nimitz and Halsey, General MacArthur, John Smith and Joe Foss,… Read More

Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii: Office of History Headquarters, Pacific Air Forces, 1994. Large Softcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Covers rubbed. 1994 Large Softcover. xvii, 326 pp. Includes black-and-white photographs. The following pages chronicle the life of the command during the final years of the most destructive war in our history and on through the next five decades. Much of the information for the anniversary history comes from unit histories, particularly command histories of Far East Air Forces (FEAF) and Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), compiled by successive generations of historians in the Pacific.

Leipzig: Heinrich Graff, 1807. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Last gathering misbound but text is complete. Lacks one plate. nk name crossed out on title page. 1807 Hard Cover. xx, [2], 302, 3-6, [16] pp. Decorated paper over boards, morocco spine label, gilt titles and rules. German text, Blackletter script.

Great Britain: Collins Colour Cubs, 1976. Small Softcover. Fine. 7x5x0. Wilkinson, Barry. An excellent copy. 1976 Small Softcover. Unpaginated. Despite a thorough bath, Paddington Bear soon finds himself dirty once again, in a colorful board book adventure. For children under three.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1921. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Koerner, W.H.D. No jacket. Sticker on spine, spine slightly cocked, ink stamp on front paste-down endpaper, pencil name on front endpaper. 1921 Hard Cover. 287 pp. Color frontispiece by W.H.D. Koerner. The Pagan Madonna, one of Harold MacGrath's numerous novels, set in Shanghai, tells a story of intrigue, murder, and illicit art “collecting.” The paths of Jean Norman, a Red Cross nurse from the United States, Ling Foo, a shifty pawn shop keeper, and Anthony Cleigh, millionaire art collector, cross and recross in growing intrigue over a string of beads. It is a world where “...every move you make is governed by Chance--the Blind Madonna of the Pagan...

UK: Basil Blackwell, Ltd, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. Ink name and date on front free endpaper. 1991 Hard Cover. xvii, 397 pp. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. This is the first survey of religious beliefs in the British Isles from the Old Stone Age to the coming of Christianity, one of the least familiar periods in Britain's history. Ronald Hutton draws upon a wealth of new data, much of it archaeological, that has transformed interpretation over the past decade. Giving more or less equal weight to all periods, from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages, he examines a fascinating range of evidence for Celtic and Romano-British paganism, from burial sites, cairns, megaliths and causeways, to carvings, figurines, jewellery, weapons, votive objects, literary texts and folklore.

London: Leadenhall Pefs., Ltd, 1899. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First trade edition. Tipped in edition statement slips on front endpaper. 1899 Hard Cover. 510, 19 pp. Navy cloth boards with gilt titles and decor, top edge gilt. Illustrations, title pages, and excerpts from dozens of antiquarian children's books.

Tallahassee, Florida: Naiad Press, Inc, 1998. 4th Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x8. Fourth printing. Edge wear, ink initials on blurb page. 1998 Trade Paperback. 214 pp. Meet Jackie Frakes, a talented architectural intern. Her life has fallen into unsatisfying patterns, both personally and professionally. Renowned artist Leah Beck is exhibited in galleries nationwide. But her life has darkened with the death of her lover, Sharla. Trapped by a mountain snowstorm over Thanksgiving weekend, Jackie is rescued by Leah. The snowbound weekend in Leah's cabin shakes the very foundations of Jackie's life. As for Leah, Jackie provides renewal and inspiration for her work. But ... exhibition of Painted Moon, her new series, will reveal Leah as never before, as a lesbian artist. Their relationship increasingly torn by conflict and misunderstanding, the winter weekend together will surely be their last. Then intervention comes ... from a most unlikely source.

Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1981. Reprint. Small Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 5x0x5. Pages lightly toned. 1981 Small Hard Cover. 41 pp. 5" x 4 3/4" fan shaped hardcover. Red background with yellow, green, white and gold stitching. "Noh Fans are an essential element element of Japanese theater and this collection of fans is a rare example of this fine Japanese art. The chief purpose of Painted Fans of Japan is to present for Westerners some of the gorgeous paintings found on fans used in the traditional Japanese Non drama.

2006. Large Softcover. Near Fine. 0x0x0. Loving, Richard. Signed by author. Signed by illustrator. Signed by author/illustrator on title page with inscription, "To my dearest friend, best." Minor edge wear. 2006 Large Softcover. 48 pp. March 4, 2007 - April 8, 2007. Running concurrently in Highland Park and Evanston, Illinois. Paintings from 1977-1999: The Art Center, 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, Illinois. Paintings from 2000-2006: Evanston Art Center, 2603 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois. Essay by Sue Taylor and James Yood. Richard Loving (1924–2021) was an American artist and educator, primarily based in Chicago, Illinois. He gained recognition in the 1980s as a member of the "Allusive Abstractionists," an informal group of Chicago painters, whose individual forms of organic abstraction embraced evocative imagery and metaphor, counter to the dominant minimalist mode. He is most known for paintings that critics describe as metaphysical and visionary,… Read More

Cincinnati: North Light Books, 1988. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 10x0x10. A few spots to jacket. 1988 Hard Cover. Briefly looks at the history of murals, discusses paints, brushes, composition, and perspective, and shows a variety of decorative and surreal murals

New York: Cornerstone Library, 1965. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8x5x0. Spine and text pages lightly toned (as usual), minimal wear to corners. 1965 Hard Cover. 32 pp, with 18 full color plates. 8 1/4 x 5 1/4. 8vo. Paper over boards hardcover binding with green leaf design. Black-and-white frontispiece of Churchill. Reissue of 1950 original. Includes: The Author at his Easel Frontispiece; Painting as a Pastime; Illustrations - A Vase of Flowers; The Loup River, Quebec; Lakeside Scene, Lake Como; The Tapestries at Blenheim Palace; The Blue Room, Trent Park; Village near Lugano; Olive Grove near Monte Carlo; Church by Lake Como; The Goldfish Pool at Chartwell; The Weald of Kent under Snow; Orchids; The Mill, Saint-Georges-Motel; Near Antibes; The Mediterranean near Genoa; St. Jean, Cap Ferrat; Flowers; By Lake Lugano; Chartwell under Snow.

London: The Royal Collection, 1999. Reprint. Large Softcover. Fine. 11x7x1. A fine copy. 1999 Large Softcover. 318 pp. "Gathered over the centuries by successive British monarchs, the Royal Collection is extensive and unique. The 7,000 paintings that hang in the royal palaces and residences constitute a visual record of the tastes of patrons from Henry VIII to Queen Victoria. Christopher Lloyd moves away from a traditional chronological account of the growth of the Collection and adopts a more wide-ranging, thematic approach to the pictures. After describing the part played in the Collection's formation by the three great connoisseur sovereigns Charles I, George IV, and Queen Victoria (under the guidance of Prince Albert), he looks at the art from widely different angles. Topics include the effect of the Reformation on painting in England and the importance of the Grand Tour; animal and landscape painting; international relations, diplomacy, and warfare; informal portraits of monarchs and… Read More

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1965. 4th Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 0x0x0. Fourth printing. Two tears along edge of front jacket panel. 1965 Hard Cover. xiii, 456 pp. Includes 17 plates in color, 177 illustrations in black-and-white. CONTENTS: The Problem; Artist-Explorers and Artist-Naturalists; Seventeenth-Century Dutch and English Provincial Painting; The Baroque in America; The Rococo in America; Neoclassicism: The Ideal and the Real; Romanticism: The Second Generation, 1825-1850; The Closing Phase of Romanticism: The Generation of 1850: Luminism, Naturalism, and Sentimentalism; The Attraction of Europe: American Impressionism and Other Movements; Objective Realism: The Independents; The World of History, Memory, and Dream; The Twentieth Century: The First Generation; The Twentieth Century: The Second Generation; From the End of the Second World War to the Present.

New York: Cornerstone Library, 1965. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8x5x0. 1965 reissue. A bit smoky, edges lightly rubbed. 32 pp, with 18 full color plates. 8 1/4 x 5 1/4. 8vo. Paper over boards hardcover binding with green leaf design. Black & white frontispiece of Churchill. Reissue of 1950 original. Includes: The Author at his Easel Frontispiece; Painting as a Pastime; Illustrations - A Vase of Flowers; The Loup River, Quebec; Lakeside Scene, Lake Como; The Tapestries at Blenheim Palace; The Blue Room, Trent Park; Village near Lugano; Olive Grove near Monte Carlo; Church by Lake Como; The Goldfish Pool at Chartwell; The Weald of Kent under Snow; Orchids; The Mill, Saint-Georges-Motel; Near Antibes; The Mediterranean near Genoa; St. Jean, Cap Ferrat; Flowers; By Lake Lugano; Chartwell under Snow.