Search Results: Titles starting with P from Mary Riversong Books

Michael Bond. Illustrated by Fred Branbery. Paddington At The Tower (A Paddington Bear Book) Random House, NY, Copyright 1975. 1978 Stated First American Edition. Random House, NY. Number Line 34567890. Used. Good Condition. No DJ issued. 32 pages 6 ¾ X 8 3/8. HARD TO FIND. .

Judy Blume. Illustrated by Irene Trivas. The Pain And The Great One (Permabound). Two delightful Tales by America's Greatest Storyteller. A Picture Yearling Book. Dell Publishing. 1985 1st Impression Thus. Square binding. 9 1/8 X 9 1/8. Unpaginated. Used. VG/ No DJ included. RARE in VG condition perma-bound format.

017MacleodPalace. THE PALACE GUARD, by popular Canadian author Charlotte MacLeod. ISBN 0385175337. Published 1981, by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City NY. STATED FIRST EDITION. SIGNED WITH BLUE PEN BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. USED. VG/ VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. AUTHOR PHOTO ON BACK PANEL. Summary: " A Peacock screams. A dark something falls past them from the floor above. Serenity turns to pandemonium as the oldest guard sprawls dead among the hyacinths..." 5 ¾ X 8 ½. Will ship from Oregon.

Henri Charriere. Papillon. 1970 William Morrow First U.S. Edition. USED. VG/G Unclipped $8.95 Dust jacket. "An international sensation – the #1 bestseller in France, England, Germany, Italy, Spain and other countries" 434 pages 6 ½ X 9 3/8. Former owner signature on title page.

SPANISH LANGUAGE FIRST EDITION. PARA NACER HE NACIDO. Circulo de Lectores, Bogota, Columbia. Copyright 1978, published 1979. PABLO NERUDA. Para nacer he nacido (To Be Born). Used. Good- Condition/ No dj included. Please see stock photo for typical condition. "Pablo Neruda is one of the most influential and widely read 20th-century poets of the Americas. "No writer of world renown is perhaps so little known to North Americans as Chilean poet Pablo Neruda," observed New York Times Book Reviewcritic Selden Rodman. Numerous critics have praised Neruda as the greatest poet writing in the Spanish language during his lifetime. John Leonard in the New York Times declared that Neruda "was, I think, one of the great ones, a Whitman of the South." Among contemporary readers in the United States, he is largely remembered for his odes and love poems."

Partners in Crime (#6848) Tommy & Tuppence Beresford. 224 pages, First Dell Printing, February 1963. 4 ¼ X 6 3/8 USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION.

H. Rider Haggard, Longmans Green & Co., London. The People of the Mist: First Edition September, 1894. Reprinted January, 1895. USED. Good+/ No DJ Included. Green boards with gold gilt titling , jagged mountains and red diamond graphic design. Spine has darkened somewhat. 5 x 7 1/2. 357 PAGES plus adverts. ADVENTURE FICTION ROMANCE. VICTORIAN NOVEL. Summary: "The People of the Mist is the tale of a British adventurer seeking wealth in the wilds of Africa, finding romance, and discovering a lost race and its monstrous god." By the author of "She" and "King Solomon's Mines".

Peril at End House (#50439) Hercule Poirot. HERCULE POIROT. 15th Pocket Books printing February, 1965 Pocket Books, NY. 178 pages. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION. 4 ¼ X 6 3/8

Ransome, Arthur: Peter Duck. 1933 Junior Literary Guild Edition, J.B. Lippincott. Used. Very Good Condition/ No DJ included. Black cloth boards with green titling and ornamentation. 5 6/8 X 8 ¼. Green decorative front map endpapers are intact. Summary: " Metafiction. Peter Duck the third book in the Swallows and Amazon series by Arthur Ransome. The Swallows and Amazons sail to Crab Island with Captain Flint and Peter Duck, an old sailor, to recover buried treasure." A clean, solid copy.

Duvoisin, Roger. Petunia, STATED FIRST EDITION, COPYRIGHT 1950 Alfred A, Knopf. Exlib. Good-/No dust jacket is included. A clean, solid copy. Rare bright orange paper-covered boards show shelf-wear at edges and spine. Uncommon find. Summary: After finding a book, Petunia the goose starts to believe that she is incredibly wise and thus begins to dish out wild advice to her fellow farm animals. Comical line drawing illustrations by Roger Duvoisin. Please see our photos.

Oscar Wilde. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. 1944 Books, Inc., NY First Printing, December, 1944 in its original dust jacket. RARE THUS. Victorian Horror/Fantasy novel. USED. VG Condition/ Good- dust jacket. Jacket is missing the bottom half of its spine. Front cover illustration of a beautiful young aristocratic man and a large green face of the hideous, debauched monster he was later to become in the background. Cover art by RA. Jacket states: "A life with great possibilities that ends in disaster and tragedy – a great classic." Back panel lists "Midnite Mysteries" series titles. 220 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾. Source material for the 1945 Warner Bros. horror film.

Johnson, Crockett: A Picture For Harold's Room, A Purple Crayon Adventure. First Edition, Harper & Brothers 1960. Ex-lib. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Rare/scarce. 64 pages 6 1/4 X 8 3/4

Peel, H.M: Pilot The Hunter. Franklin Watts, Inc., NY. First American Edition, 1962. Used. VG/VG original dust jacket. YOUNG ADULT. EQUESTRIAN. A clean, solid copy.

Norris, Frank: The Pit, Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc. Stated First Printing Thus. Published February,1903. Used. Very Good-/ No Dust Jacket included. 421 pages. Red boards with gilt titling and wheat motif ornamentation. All gilting is still in nice shape. pages. HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT. STOCK MARKET. An attractive used copy.

Shapiro, Harry L. The Pitcairn Islanders (aka The Heritage of the Bounty) Simon And Schuster, First Clarion Printing Thus, 1968. USED. Good condition. Softcover. CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY. POLYNESIA, SOUTH SEAS, TAHITI. "An account of the colony which the nine mutineers of the H.M.S. Bounty founded on Pitcairn Island in 1790. Provides an in-depth analysis of culture contact between the English and Tahitians. Written with thoroughness and candor." VERY hard to find in USA. 297 pages Indexed, 5 3/8 X 8 ¼. We are in USA.

Pocket Full of Rye (#4653) (A Jane Marple Murder Mystery) Pocket Books, Inc., NY. 3rd Pocket Books Printing August, 1963. USED. VG Condition. 182 pages. 4 ¼ X 6 3/8

Pocket Full of Rye (#4653) (A Jane Marple Murder Mystery) Pocket Books, Inc., NY. 3rd Pocket Books Printing August, 1963. USED. VG Condition. 182 pages. 4 ¼ X 6 3/8

Poirot Investigates (Bantam H3052) MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY 11 stories featuring the Little Belgian Detective, Hercule Poirot. Used. GOOD Condition. Bantam Publishing. 5th Printing Thus. 1967. 167 pages. Toning. 4 ¼ X 7.

Poirot Investigates (Agatha Christie Mystery Collection) Black faux leather binding. First Edition Thus, Bantam Books Inc., NY, April, 1985. Number line: 0987654321. USED. As New. Summary: "Poirot Investigates is a short story collection written by English author Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in March 1924. In the eleven stories, famed eccentric detective Hercule Poirot solves a variety of mysteries involving greed, jealousy, and revenge."

Poirot's Early Cases. By Agatha Christie. Ulverscroft December 1990 First Large-Print Edition. Short story Anthology. Complete and unabridged. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 5 ½ X 8 ¾. 470 pages. Summary: In this collection of eighteen stories Hercule Poirot begins his celebrated career in crime. Includes The Double Clue, The Adventure of Johnnie Waverley, and How Does Your Garden Grow, 15 others. A HARD TO FIND ITEM IN THE UNITED STATES.