Search Results: Titles starting with P from Evening Star Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [4], v-xii, [4], 3-403, [1], i-xvi, [4] pp. Half green cloth over beige cloth with a gold decoration on the front board, gold lettering and black decorations on the spine; black topstain. Illustrated with twelve plates of black and white photographs. Jacket is price-clipped, mildly toned, and has traces of edge wear.

New York: St. Martin's Press (1991), 1991. First printing. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [12], 364, [6] pp. Brown paper boards with red lettering on the spine. Price of $18.95 on front flap of dust jacket.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux (1986), 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. [12], 3-209 pp. Quarter black cloth over orange paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $15.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. First printing of the first edition. A very attractive copy of the author's second novel, a surpise winner of the National Book Award. A remainder mark on the bottom textblock and a touch of foxing to the top textblock.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. 8vo. [6], 7-124, [4] pp. Blue cloth with Paddington in brown on the front board, brown lettering on the spine. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several in-text drawings by Peggy Fortnum. Jones 224. Seven fresh and lively adventures of Paddington Bear, who is one of the most adored characters in children's literature, deservedly so. A push to the pageblock, binding is secure; jacket has a large tear to its front panel.

New York: Viking (1994), 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [6], 282 pp. Quarter brown cloth over black paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $20.95 on front flap of jacket. First issue dustjacket (Clarke misspelled as Clark on spine). A sharp copy of this Booker Prize winning novel. A Near Fine book with a small spot of discoloration on the fore-edge of the textblock in a very near Fine dust jacket.

[New York]: Harper [2014], 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [16], 3-299, [5] pp. Black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $27.99 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a full-page map. A chronicle in The Saxon Tales, featuring Uhtred of Bebbanburg.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons [1954], 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [8], ix-xix, [3], 3-361, [3] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Bright and attractive illustrated endpapers and pastedowns, with several full-page drawings. Inscribed without personalization by the author on the half-title page. An Italian travel narrative with a special focus on its museums and art history. A small inscription on the free front endpaper; jacket is price-clipped but presents beautifully.

New York: Henry Holt and Company [1929], 1929. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Large 8vo. [4], vii-xiv, [2], 3-314 pp. Bound in grey cloth with the title and the publisher blocked in navy cloth and embossed in gold lettering; grey topstain. Illustrated by a frontispiece portrait of Henry M. Shreve and by a few additional photograph plates. Decorations by Nancy Beatty Eskew. A Near Fine book with a contemporary owner's name written in pencil on the free front end paper and on the verso of the frontispiece.

New York: The Viking Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [17], 18-206, [2] pp. Quarter brown cloth over brown paper boards with brown lettering on the spine. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several colorful paintings by Beatien Yazz. Yazz also did the dust jacket art. The sequel to Spin a Silver Dollar, which told the story of a young Navajo boy's childhood. Beatien Yazz was an accomplished Navajo painter and his illustrations are what make this book beautiful. A bookplate on the free front endpaper; jacket with light edge wear and rubbing.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1975), 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [8], 3-121, [1] pp. Quarter white cloth over blue paper boards with brown lettering on the spine; yellow topstain. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With several in-text and full-page illustrations. A crease and some offsetting to the front flap, the reverse of the jacket with some offsetting.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo. [5], ii-iii, [2], 2-227, [1] pp. Brown pebbled publisher's cloth with black rules to the boards and spine, a gilt decoration on the front board, spine lettered in gilt. Black coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with five plates bound at the end of the volume. The majority of the images on the plates show spearheads and other palaeolithic implements from Middlesex, one plate shows images from a palaeolithic cave in Europe, the other images are that of weapons from hunter-gatherer tribes in New Guinea, Australia, with some tools used by Inuit peoples. A large portion of the book is devoted to scholarly archaeology and geological studies of Great Britain, with the use of evidence excavated from burial mounds and other historic sites, and with the use of written sources (Caesar, Tacitus, etc.). At the end of the volume, the author considers several different written sources on hunter-gatherer tribes… Read More

New York: Delacorte Press [1987], 1987. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [8], 256 pp. Quarter blue cloth over grey paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $15.95 on front flap of dust jacket. The first printing of the first edition.

New York: Little, Brown and Company (2011), 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. Large 8vo. [4], v-x, [4], 3-548 pp. Black paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $27.99 on front flap of dust jacket.

Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [4], vii-viii, 1-527, [3] pp. Publisher's green cloth with beautiful gilt decorations and lettering on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. With its green linen dust jacket lettered in gilt on the spine. Title page printed in orange and black. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with several plates done in black and white, along with a folding map and a few maps in color at the end of the volume. A beautifully illustrated travel narrative of Palestine with additional anecdotes concerning Israel. Fulton here writes about Nazareth, Bethlehem, the River Jordan, Herod's Palace in Jerusalem, the Mosque of Omar, the Golden Gate, and several other biblically relevant tourist spots. Very light wear to the extremities, a beautiful example.

New York: Delacorte Press [1981], 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. 8vo. [8], ix-xviii, [4], 330 pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Remainder spray to bottom textblock; dust jacket is price-clipped.

New York: Delacorte Press [1981], 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. [10], ix-xviii, [4], 1-330 pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine; all edges gilt. Housed in a maroon cloth slipcase with Vonnegut's signature embossed in gilt on one side. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Copy 486 of 500 limited edition signed copies. Signed by Vonnegut on the limitation page. A beautiful copy. A touch of rubbing to the spine, overall a lovely copy.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1978), 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [11], 3-175, [5] pp. Quarter green cloth over green paper boards with a decoration stamped in blind on the front board, silver lettering on the spine; lime green topstain. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 006b. A touch of foxing to the textblock and a faded spot on the rear board; jacket is lightly toned and has a tiny spot of edge wear on its spine panel.

Los Angeles, California: Sherbourne Press, Inc. [1965], 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. 8vo. [11], 12-283, [3] pp. Yellow cloth with a black decoration on the front board and with black lettering on the spine. Price of $6.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with eight black and white plates of photographs. The story of one of the key players in the Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa was known for his personal magnetism and wily behavior. A scuff to the rear board and a name stamp on the front pastedown; jacket is price-clipped with minor edge wear.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1971], 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [6], vii-xv, [3], 1-125, [1] pp. Quarter green cloth over black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Sheehy's investigative reporting into the murder of Alex Rackley. Rackley's killing led to negative publicity for both the FBI and the Black Panthers. Sheehy's book details the history of the interactions between the police, the FBI, and the Black Panther Party up to the murder of Rackley. She and a Black photographer, David Parks, spent one summer in New Haven investigating the events leading up to the Rackley murder and they investigated the attitudes of the local Black community towards the Black Panthers. A touch of foxing to the top textblock.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [13], xiv, [3], 2-236, [4] pp. Quarter blue cloth over grey paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $15.95 on the front flap of the jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of Susy and Samuel Clemens and with several full-page black and white photographs from the Clemens Family's life. Edited with an introduction by Charles Neider. A biography of Mark Twain written by his oldest daughter, Susy Clemens. This edition marks the first time the biography was published in its entirety. The bottom textblock remainder sprayed, else a sharp example.