Search Results: Titles starting with P from Michael's Pride and Joys

Hardcover, ISBN 0807817465Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, 1987 Illustrated.. Hard cover. New No dust jacket I think this is brand new It is totally unmarked. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 653 p. Contains: Illustrations. Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence, Papers & Selected Judicial Opinions, 5. Audience: General/trade. Virginia Court of Appeals; General Court; British Debt cases; US Circuit court of Virginia, High Court of Chancery; Fredericksburg District and General; sources of his practice. Illustrated.
In 1801, John Marshall became the 4th Chief Justce of The United States and was largely responsible for the development of constitutional law.
In 1807, when President Thomas Jefferson charged Vice President Aaron Burr with treason, Marshall ruled that the prosecution lacked sufficient evidence to prove treason, and charged Burr with a high misdemeanor instead. Marshall set Burr's bail at $10,000. The high misdemeanor case was later sent to a jury, who, based… Read More

BOTH volumes First English Language edition translated from the Italian Bindings are tight with jet-black end pages.. 1891 manuscript name on blank fep. Blue cloth & gilt lettering. From a university library with pockets at back. Vol 1 394 pages. Vol II 400 pagesThe condition of these two volumes is near fine for age but only vg if a modern book

by LawrenceFirst edition. Presumed first and only. Trade paperback. Maritime Testing, Dartmouth. Nova Scotia (1985) Very good. On title page is stamp of Geological Survey Commission Ottawa 187 p. Includes: illustrations, maps. Scotian Shelf, Grand Banks Why is this book so difficult to find? From Worldcat, I note that only one copy exists in all of the Canadian Libraries. Just Dartmouth N.S. Even the U.S. has only two copies.

Pictures from English Literature
by Waller Second edition. Hard cover. Cassell Pepper and Galpin (1879?) For its age this would grade near fine but is truly only very good 171 p. Includes illustrations. viii prelims 163 text pages plus 4 pages adverts. 20 PLATES 20 FULL PLATES. Hard-bound with bevelled edges to front board and bright decorative gilt. Gilt on spine. Text pages on quality paper still almost as new. Adverts on a thinner paper and toned. Tissue-protected frontis. All plates present and fine. Lovely prize plate of the Institute for the ducation of Young Ladies, Ediburg. Size 10" x 8". Plum-purple boards hightly decorated in gilt. Front hinge just slightly starting. FROM CHAUCER ONWARD. PICTURES AND TEXTUAL DISCUSSIONS. 1879 IS A BEST GUESS FROM READING DEALERS' LISTINGS

The Roving Englishman Pictures From the Battlefields London and NY: Routledge 1855. Marbled boards with three-quarter leather. 5 + 2 ridged spine with title in one panel, See on scan what appears to be a rub top right corner. A wonderful survivor. the eight engravings in top condition 259 p. Includes illustrations. 8 engravings. marbled end pages. Magnificent condition opens as "never read", Fine. No dust jacket. tight binding and 7-ribbed spine. rubbing to the leather quarters. Marbled end pages perfect

by Carlin, Claire Lfirst editionFirst edition. FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING. Hard cover. Twayne Publishers Inc., U. S, ny and londonI (1998) New in fine dust jacket. 181 p. Audience: General/trade; College/higher education. BRAND NEW BOOK IN BRAND NEW DUST JACKET. GLEAMING. FRESH, PERFECT GIFT QUALITY. two perfect copies held

1923First edition. blue pages beige wraps. Wraps. Used - Fine/Like New Fine No dust jacket as issued Virtually new with pages looking perfect and untouched Great insight into 19th c life in BC. 32 p. 1880 onward reminiscences by E.V. Sillitoe of life/times Bishop Sillitoe First Bishop of New Westminster (capital of B.C. ) Written by Violet Sillitoe, wife of Bishop Sillitoe and covers her observations during his episcopate 1880 to 1894.

Volume XXXVI. Seven impeccable new maps in pocket at backXVii plus 307 pagesshelf 4First edition. Volume XXXVI. First printing of this Part. Hard cover. University Press, Cambridge [Eng. ] (1962) Very good. No dust jacket. seven fold. maps. 23cm. Volume XXXVI. Seven impeccable new maps in pocket at back XVii plus 307 pages sh

350 pages. Illustrated. Bright and unmarked

Book is new or indistinguishable from new save for the small stain you see on top left of scan. Bound in scarlet boards with bright gilt titling. The main catalogue was produced in 1959, This supplement was published 1972; it has 25 text plates and 15 plates

Poems of Passion
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler first edition First edition. Hard cover. W. B. Conkey Co, Chicago (1883) Very good. pOOR dust jacket. 160 p. : ill.; 19 cm. Includes frontis signed portrait. This fantastic copy published by Conkey (Chicago) is a puzzle. It is in unbelievably great condition-the gilt decoration bright, brown end pages clean, page edges unmarked, no significant bumps and just pinhead-size discoloration at corners, pages clean AND unmarked, black/white portrait frontis with signature that is surely an 1mprint. AND it has a dust-jacket. It is a brown edge-damaged DJ completely severed top to bottom. But a dustjacket in 1883?
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) was a celebrated America poet whose best-known works are this one and Solitude

Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: With Memoir of the Author
by Scott, Walter, Sir xix 612 pp all page edges gilded. 8 full plates. Hard cover. Nelson, London (1873) Very good. No dust jacket. shop stamp on fep Rare edition (Nelson) with embroidered insert on decorative fron page. 6-gilt double-ribbed leather spine. A rare edition that has an oval on front with inset embroidery of flowers instead of the usual stamped illustration., full plate frontis of Dryburg Abbey. circular photo of Abbotsford on title page. full sepia plates or engravings of Melrose Abbey, Newark Castle, Stirling Castle, Field of Bannockburn. Linlithgow Palace. Loch Vennager All edges are a brilliant gilt, Spine is gilt leather with 6 gilt double ribs with title in one panel and decorative tooling in others. Name of bookseller B H Rothwell. THIS IS OUTSTANDING GIFT QUALITY and undoubtedly a special edition that must, bevause of the embroidery, have been strictly limited. SHADOW ON SCAN IS FROM THE SCANNER… Read More

NEWby Gale Group (Creator)first editionFirst edition. Hard cover. Thomson Gale (2003) New. No dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Poetry Criticism, 48. Audience: General/trade. Scan is my copy. It is new pristine perfect and first edition

First printing First edition Gift signed by author and| Fine but for corner color rubs. DJ also FINE but for color rubs. Impressive work with 26 b/w plates; 45 maps & diagrams; 24 tables; index; bibliography; glossary; list of abbrevaitions; 257 pp

design, fabrication, and installation of railroad trackwork as it was in the thirties Book is Fine for age. No dust jacket as issued .flexible leatherette boards second edition 1928 extensively illustrated with photo plates (sample shown) and with diagrams of switch stands, switches, frogs, crossings, slip switches. That shadow on blank page facing title page is a scanner effect. The page is FINE as is the binding.

Altham Principles of War London: MacMillan 1914. First edition. Very good. No dust jacket. This may be in the margins of Good/Very Good. I am no expert. It is sound, solid, one tiny corner bump. fep foxed. This is Volume One. xv plus 436 pages plus two pages ads. Volume 2 is the map volume that I do not have. It is quite expensive , Very good. No dust jacket. This may be in the margins of Good/Very Good. I am no expert. It is sound, solid, one tiny corner bump fep foxed

Book and dust jacket are brand new gleaming first editions. The bookciii+162 pages) deals with the Rules of War, Capture and Treatment, inside the Camps, Civilian Internees, Red Cross and Refief Organizations, It is the investigations into maltreatment and reprisals that is the more significant part. Also the ones Who Got Away,The Final Momths (1918) Armistice, and German POW in Britain. Conditions in each namd camp are presented

Book grades Good but if one grades taking into accout it's great age, the grade is at least VG and perhaps near fine. It is soild with no weakness. It is complete with all its pages clean and unmarked although not as bright as it would ghave been a hundred and sixty years ago. The front board is brown with blind (incuse) title and author. Spine is brown with gilt titling and publisher's name at bottom. Corners are not even heavily bumped although top right is a litlte darkened. Mild loss of the dense brouwn colour in parts of both front and back boards, but it just takes the form of a paler brown. Back end pages clean with a lovely tiny yellow label "Bound by Bradley and Co. Boston." That would have been (Benjamin Bradley (died 1862) the pioneering bookbinder in Boston, Massachusetts. He was first known binder in America to specialize in edition binding in bookcloth, the material still used today.
The book fully meets the definition "RARE": no other copy offered on the Net for over ten… Read More

Publisher: Government of Canada, 1943Used - Very Good, A booklet published by the Canadian Civil Air Raid Precautions authority. Gives guidance on poison gas. No tears. No writing. Faint sign of a crease. About like new