Search Results: Titles starting with P from Bookworks MWABA, IOBA

New York: Mason & Lipscomb, 1974 Very Good. First Edition. Large Octavo. 294 pages with appendices and index. Biography of Wodehouse, with 32 pages of photos. Purple cloth with silver lettering; yellow end sheets. Jacket is price clipped; otherwise fine..

New York/Toronto: Beaufort Books, 1983. Essential reference for any Wodehouse collector, with a brief heavily-illustrated biography and useful bibliography, including descriptions of many of their dust jackets. Stated first American edition (first printing) with full number string. Rust hardcover, gilt titling. Light wear to book, small erasure mark to free endsheet; jacket spine & part of front cover faded, light wear. Text clean; 160 pages, index, bibliographies, notes on collecting, many b/w photos.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7¾" by 10".

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921. Romance among the British in South Africa. Undated, but 1921. Hardcover, full blue cloth, black titling. Light wear to book, base of spine bumped; jacket a bit rubbed with small nick near spine on the upper front panel, light creasing at base of spine, endsheets lightly tanned. Text clean.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5¼" by 7½".

Oregon Historical Society, 1954 Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by Author. Octavo. Pamphlet, with stapled binding. 52 pages. Reprinted from the "Oregon Historical Quarterly" Sept. 1953. Inscribed by author..

Glendora, CA: Pacifica Library Associates, 1942. History & theory of anti-war ideas & ideals, objecting to the sacrifice of historical truth to wartime psychological campaigns, and discussing how pacifist aims can best be furthered. Post-bound softcover, as pictured, with typescript mimeographed sheets printed on one side only. Light wear, covers & pages lightly creased; text clean, no names or marks; [2], 137, [4] pages; brief bibliography. . First Edition. Post-bound. Good. 8½" by 11".

New York: Viking, 1990. A simple ABC with each page an illustration of the beloved bear with one object of the appropriate letter, plus a two-page spread with S objects to find, a simple quiz, and the whole alphabet, upper & lower case, on one page. Stated first American edition (first printing) with full number string; hardcover in jacket as pictured. Light wear to book & jacket; upper corner bumped. No names, no marks, text clean; 32 pages, most illustrated in full color.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by John Lobban. 8¾" by 11".

New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940. Essays on world travel, adventure, peril, and a little crime from the journalist & broadcaster, best remembered for popularizing Lawrence of Arabia. Stated second printing, SIGNED on the free endsheet by Thomas, with scarce wrap-around band publicizing that fact. Light wear to book; spine a bit foxed; jacket missing; 'autographed' band torn in half but mended with archival tape, now in a clear protector; ink name below Thomas's. Text clean; ix, [3], 284 pages + colophon. . Second Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Large Octavo.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1929 No Jacket. First Edition. Signed by Author. Large Octavo. 314 pages with bibliography. Inscribed "With Good Wishes-- Garnett Laidlaw Eskew" on half-title. History of American riverboats. With 11 illustrations. Tan cloth with gilt lettering; gilt, blue, and blind-stamped decoration; illustrated end sheets. Light wear to head and tail of spine and to corners of boards; minor stains and soiling on boards; previous owner's name on front end sheet; text yellowed but not brittle. Binding is tight..

Seattle: IASP Press, 2005. 19 articles on various aspects of assessing & treating pain in the aged, including four articles on age differences in pain & four on common painful disorders. Hardcover, full tan cloth, green titling. Light wear to book & jacket; corners bumped. Text clean; xvi, 432 pages; index, references, a few figures & tables.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6½" by 9½".

Chicago: Forbes & Company, 1917. A tract on the use of anesthetic gas during childbirth. Trained in Chicago, Davis was, according to a note in the book, practicing in Milwaukee by 1924. INSCRIBED by the author on the free endsheet, with best wishes, to one Mrs. Flora E. Lowry; perhaps the wife of a colleague - several books advertised in the back of the book are by Dr. E. B. Lowry. Stated second edition, first published a year earlier. Small hardcover, full red cloth, black titling. Light wear, no jacket, ink note opposite half-title regarding the author date & place of birth, present address, and comment that this is his first book. Text clean; [4], 164, [4] pages, tables.. Inscribed by the Author. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Small Octavo.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929 Black & white reproductions of 143 Bellows paintings, plus one in color. #954 of 2000 copies. Gray boards and white binding with gilt lettering. Wear and tear to head and tail of browned spine; corners worn and bumped; previous owner's name on front end sheet. Text is clean and binding is tight.. Limited/Numbered. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

New York/ London: Scribner & Welford/ Samson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1884 Full ochre cloth, black titling & decoration. Spine ends and corners worn & frayed, with minor loss; spine darkened; modern bookplate on front free endsheet; corner torn off rear free endsheet; pages lightly tanned. Text clean; xi, [2], 6-241 pages + 2 pages ads at rear; index, b/w plates from wood engravings. A scholarly history; the author is of Exeter College, Oxon.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 5½" by 7½".

London: William Nicholson and Sons, 1880. First or early printing of this Victorian manual on house painting, including chapters on tools, materials, and methods; graining & marbling; white-washing; paper-hanging; french polishing; recipes/formulas; a few hints for landlords & tenants. Undated, but circa 1880, based on announcements in the rear ad section. Recently rebound with paper spine label. Light wear; pages show some smudging & staining, light foxing, couple of tears. 79 pages + 17 pages ads. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4½" by 6¾".

Grand Forks ND: Author/Holt Printing Co., 1926. Anecdotes and history of these Victorian staples, and their origins in Kashmir; the author, od Scottish descent, visited weavers there in the early 20th century whom he had known in his childhood some 50 years earlier. INSCRIBED by the author to a friend; these were evidently privately printed as gifts. Laid in are four printed Christmas notes, each with a poem in Scots dialect by the Doctor, dated 1924, 1926, 1927, and 1932, along with a hand-written poem on a calling card dated 1919, and a small sprig of browned heather with another handwitten verse. Small hardcover, red cloth spine over terra-cotta boards, black titling. General wear to book, corners rubbed, minor smudging, minor damage in gutters with a couple of insignificant gaps; laid-in paper ephemera tanned & smudged, calling card with big ink spot. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 5¼" by 7¾".

Stroudsburg, PA: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Inc., 1977. Two volume set, complete. Technical studies of microfossils and their use in climatology and the dating of stratigraphic layers; Benchmark Papers in Geology volumes 46 & 47, collecting 42 papers in all. Navy hardcovers, gilt titling. Light general wear, corners lightly bumped. Text clean; xv, blank, 381, blank, [1]; xiii, blank, [1], blank, 414, [2] pages; indexes in each volume, tables figures, references.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 7¼" by 10¼".

Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992. Study of theories of meaning, in light of the theories of Pierce, Frege, Husserl, Derrida, Lyotard, Davidson, and Searle. "In Ruthrof's analysis, Pandora and Occam illustrate the opposition between the suipressed rich materiality of culturally saturated discourse and the stark ideality of formal sign systems." Hardcover, light wear to book & jacket, minor damage to a few page edges; text clean... First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

Urbana: University of Illinois, 1919 Study of efficiency of various coal extraction patterns, I think, with lots of charts & formulas; Bulletin No. 113 from the Engineering Experiment Station. Some wear, gouge on front affecting about 20 pages but no text, spine tanned, one corner creased. Text clean; 76 pages, list of other bulletins.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 6" by 9".

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. Beautifully illustrated story of a boy & his wayward dog, set in the author/illustrator's childhood region of Italy. Large hardcover, black cloth spine over illustrated boards matching the jacket. Light wear to book, some foxing; jacket shows minor edgewear, light rubbing & foxing, lower front jacket flap clipped, but $2.50 price remains on upper corner. Text clean; 32 pages, half illustrated in full color, the other half in b/w.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Bettina. 9½" by 13½".

New York: William Morrow, 1971. History of the Black Panther Party and its origins in the Black ghetto of Oakland, California, a "study in depth of the Black Panther Party - its origins, its goals, its struggle for survival"; the author was a journalist, teacher, and political activist. First edition (first printing); hardcover in jacket as pictured. Light wear to book; half-title, rear flyleaf & page edges lightly foxed/spotted; slightly off-center jacket shows minor creasing, $5.95 price intact. Text clean; [10], 308 pages; index, chronology, appendixes reprinting Panther statements. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

New York: Viking Press, 1993 Quarter Cloth. Fine/Very Good. First Edition. Signed by Author. Octavo. 356 pages. Price clipped..