Search Results: Titles starting with P from Supercalifabulistic Books

New York : E.P. Dutton & Company, 1927 Book. Fine. Hardcover. F/NJ This blue hardcover is in fine condition. Strong, straight spine with cris, unmarked pages. Slight shelf wear at corners and base of spine. Beautiful Art Nouveau designs in light green on the flyleafs reading in olde English: "Everyman, i will go with thee, & be thy guide in thy most need to go by thy side." There is a stunning two page spread Illumination design on the title page and opposite, with a quote from the author in the center: "I have the happiness of the passing moment, and what more could mortal ask" ~George Gissing Everyman's Library Edition (possibly the First) printed in September 1927 .

Doubleday, 1997 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. NF/NF, stated first edition with appropriate number line. Clean, tight, no marks, signatures, stains, or smells. Price of U.S. $26.95 on DJ. White and light green boards, gilt titles. .

The People of the WhirlpoolMabel Osgood Wright1903library editionVG, no dust jacketMacmillianFirst Edition

New York & London: Norton, 1997 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Stated First edition on fourth line of copyright page. Also indicated by number line, 1234567890. Fine/Fine. Tight, clean copy. Unread. Slight shelf wear to cover. Red, grey ad white glossy pictoral dust jacket. Photo of author Sebastian Junger on back. "The Perfect Storm is a real life thriller that leaves us with the taste of salt air on our tongues and a breathless sense of what it feels to be caught ,helpless in the grip of a force of nature beyond our understanding or control. We know, on the strength of this stark, and compelling journey into the dark heart of nature, what it feels like to drown.".

Messner, New York
NF Boards, VG Dust jacket
Not price clipped. Price of $3.50
NF dark grayish green boards. No dings, no bumping, clean, no marks, no p o's, no book plates, no stickers. Tight bindings.
DJ is in very good condition. Shelf wear, tiny tears along all edges.
Great B&W photo of the author on back sitting at a table in jeans and tennies with her feet propped up. "Grace Metalious is the most surprising new novelist of the year. In Peyton Place this Pandora in blue jeans lifts the lid off a small New England village, in the most explosive novel since Kings Row.Made into a motion picture and became a cult classic t.v. series.

Lippincott, 1942 .
Near Fine. Hardcover, 1st Edition. Fine blue boards with title and author in darker blue on spine. Book appears to be unopened - tight tight tight! One small 1/4 diameter circle drawn at top of inside cover with ink pen. Otherwise no marks, stains, etc. DJ has chipping and 3 small closed tears. Price of $2.00 on dj. Harper Magazine: " A masterpiece of suspence....a phantom alibi...vivid writing with few characters and a taut plot. It'll be in the reprints years from now"..

VG sturdy library edition, with orange boards.
The pages are full of Beautiful watercolor paintings by Taro himself.
Taro and his wife Mitsu, real names Jun Iwamatsu and Tomoe Sasako, were antifascist activists in addition to artists; they met in the Japanese Proletarian Artists' League. After being arrested and tortured by the Japanese government for their activism, they fled to America; they took on their pseudonyms when they were hired by the Office of War Information, and later the Office of Strategic Services, to protect their family still living in Japan. They produced anti-military propaganda for Japanese consumption in various forms throughout World War II, including illustrating handbills for dropping over battlefields. After the war, Taro and Mitsu wrote PLENTY TO WATCH and their other children's books to tell their American-born daughter Momo about life in Japan before the war. Based on Taro's childhood in a small village, this story brings to life all of the active workshops and… Read More

New York : Double day & Company, inc., 1950 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. NF/NF Stated First Edition Blue grey hardcover in near fine condition. Square with sharp corners, 377 crisp pages and a strong spine. No marks inside or outside, the "route of the Mayflower" maps in the flyleafs are in pristine condition. Almost no apparent shelf wear. Gilt titles on spine are partially rubbed in places. Dust Jacket in Near Fine condition. beautiful water color image of the Mayflower sailing into a sunset spreads from the front cover across the spine. Price clipped, slight shelf wear, and a one inch by two inch chip at the base of the spine. "A chronicle novel of those forgotten people whose spirit brought life to a new world". (From front cover) "The Plymouth Adventure, based on careful and imaginative research, is a fresh and dramatic narrative of one of the most courageous ventures in history, the Mayflower voyage and the establishment of a colony in the new World." jacket synopsis… Read More

New York: T.Y. Crowell & Co Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. VG/none .No date. "Oct '92" is inscripted on second fly leaf. A printed dedication to Michael William Rosetti is dated 1870-1881, so my guestimate is that this printing was made between 1881 and 1892. Beautiful cover. Light brown boards with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Gorgeous gilt design of angel flying with a young child on her back on the front cover and gilt leaf/flower design with harp on spine. Corners slightly bumped and edges worn. The boards have a few small stains on the back and one on the front left corner.The interior of the book is tight and in excellent condition. Pages are edged in gilt. "A New Edition" is printed on the title page. .

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. F/ None First Edition Dark blue boards of this hardcover are in Fine condition, pristine with hardly any shelf wear on the corners or spine. Square book, crisp and unmarked 467 pages. Gilt titles, page edges, and cover design. Portrait of the author across from title page. Former owner's ex libris sticker on inside front cover. Page one has been removed. "A word in prose to my gentle reader. This book is intended only for you, because you alone will keep it with you long enough to feel it's meaning. . . What I have seen and felt and dreamed beyond the horizon of prose, yet ever in the most real world, is here interpreted in verse. And if it speaks to you, gentle reader, it is yours as much as mine." ~Henry Van Dyke.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1949 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1949 same date to copyright and title pages. NF/none. Tight, clean copy. No marks, tears or smells. 559 uncut pages. Beige buckram boards with a gilt rectangular design standing on edge. Spine has gilt titles on blue with gold and blue lines parallel to bottom of spine. Prolific author John P. Marquand is unrelenting to upper crust of society. He is also unsparing in his own scorn for academics, particularly illustrated in this novel..

NF/NF


Polgara the Sorceress is a fantasy novel by American writers David and Leigh Eddings, and the twelfth in the setting of The Belgariad, The Malloreon and Belgarath the Sorcerer.

Simon & Schuster, 1955 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Fine ivory boards with gilt title and bright green spine also with gilt. No marks, tight clean edition with PO's book plate on the first page. Colorful, paper DJ with an elephant, title, author and embellished with green and red. "Pondoro" means "lion" in Chinyungwe. It was the natives' name for John Taylor when he first began to hunt in Africa, on the lower Zambesi. Actually it is a shortening of the more formal title Chimpondoro, meaning "the lion-like one" or "the roaring of the lion." For more than thirty years Taylor - Pondoro- has been a professional hunter, often out of touch with civilization for as long as three and four years at a time. " I did not learn of World War ll", he says, "till some of my men went in for provisions and brought back tea and salt wrapped in old newspapers. Where I am there is no radio and I never see another white man." Bookin' it does not endorse ivory hunting. Proceeds to support elephant rehab.

William Morrow & Company, Reading Rainbow Book 1985 VG/none issued.Has been read with love. A few light marks on cover, Inside pages are clean, no previous owner's signature, no other marks. Binding tight. Beautiful illustrations of an adorable puppy. The cheerished idea of a boy bringing a puppy into a boy's home to live happily ever after.