Search Results: Titles starting with P from The Book Shed

Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Lightest shelf wear to the book and jacket. First printing, no others noted. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hard Cover. "The Consolidated PBY Catalina is a flying boat and amphibious aircraft that was produced in the 1930s and 1940s. In Canadian service it was known as the Canso. It was one of the most widely used seaplanes of World War II. Catalinas served with every branch of the United States Armed Forces and in the air forces and navies of many other nations. The last military PBYs served until the 1980s. As of 2021, 86 years after its first flight, the aircraft continues to fly as a waterbomber (or airtanker) in aerial firefighting operations in some parts of the world. None remain in military service."--Wikipedia. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hallen, Ernest (illustrator). Touch of wear to the upper right corner of the front cover, less to the other tips and corners; no jacket. A clean bright copy. First printing, same date. Frontis (no tears or splits) is fold-out color birds-eye view of the canal, many illustrations and diagrams, indexed, 2 pgs ads. Frederic Haskin, an accomplished journalist and world traveller of his time, was best known for his information column, The Information Bureau, that appeared in 100 or more newspapers. Readers would send in a question and his team of researchers would provide aresponse. The column which ran for 33 years received and answered over 25 million questions. It was in a sense the Google of the early 20th century. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Lightest wear to tips, corners and edges of the book and jacket, touch of sunning to the spine, some finger marks to the outside page edges, else clean and unmarked. First printing, no others noted. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Light shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book; jacket is edgeworn with closed tears, small chips, creases, price clipped. In brodart protector. Clean and unmarked. First printing / edition stated. Drawings by Vladimir Bobri. Beard's fifth book, scarce in first printing with dust jacket. The book was written with British journalist Alexander Watt. Beard, who was just coming to prominence, did his bit to introduce American audiences to French cuisine. Gastronomic tour of post-war Paris with recipes from each of the restaurants written about. "The long cherished, secret recipes of sixty great Parisian chefs."--from the jacket. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

New York: Eastern News Co., 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good+. very light wear, looks to be unread. Interview with Anthony Powell by Michael Barber who would later write Powell's biography. Also includes a reproduction of a page of typescript which appears to be a draft for The Acceptance World. Lilley E.11 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Trade paperback. We speialize in the works of and about Anthony Powell. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

New York: Catholic Book Publishing Co., 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine. About As New in all respects. Clean and unmarked. The St. Joseph edition. Pebbled black cloth with red and gilt decorations, all edges gilt. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

Rome & Tournai: Société de Saint Jean l'Evangéliste Desclée et Cie, 1926. Hardcover. Fair. Covers quite worn, spine clumsily repaired, previous owner initials to front cover and bottom page edge,name and address to half-title page, pages browned. A congregant's Gregorian Hymnal for the Mass. Includes The Ordinary of the Mass (Ordinaire de la Messe) in Latin. Text based on the Vatican edition and musical notation by the Benedictine monks of Solesmes Abbey. The Société de Saint Jean l'Evangéliste Desclée et Cie a press founded by the Desclee brothers of Tournai, Belgium in 1882 was one of three principal Roman Catholic music publishers of the day. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hard Cover.

Columbia Records, 1966. lp_record. Very Good. Original early vinyl pressing. All lp's cleaned and played. Any sticks and skips will be noted, nothing significant. Sounds great. Vinyl is clean and shiny with no visible scratches. Cover shows wear with ring mark to the front and back, name tape, edge worn. The record is in the original inner sleeve with a split along the bottom edge. From Wikipedia: "Many critics have considered it a breakthrough in recording for the duo, and one of their best efforts. "Homeward Bound" had already been a top five hit in numerous countries and "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" performed similarly. The album peaked at number four on the Billboard Pop Album Chart and was eventually certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America....In 2003, Rolling Stone listed the album at number 202 on their list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list." Every effort is made to ship… Read More

New York: The Penguin Press , 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. lightest wear to the book and jacket, about as New in all respects. Footnoted with index. First printing, full number line. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 2 only. First edition. Light shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, scattered foxing throughout, 19th century bookplate of a small Vermont town book club. First printing, same date. True first edition of the Note-Books which would be reprinted by Fields and Osgood and Houghton Mifflin. Quite scarce, virtually unobtainable in any way but 21st century reprints and POD editions. The WorldCat locates one copy, volume one of the Houghton Mifflin later edition none at all of volume two. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Shelburne, VT: Chapters, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Diaz, David. Signed. Light shelf wear to book and jacket. Author's inscription to front free endpaper, 8vo, 320 pp.. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: Henry Holt, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. About As New in all respects. Inscried by the author to a colleague. First printing, full number line. Parini's second novel. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!  Hardcover

London: John Murray, 1947. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Light shelf wear to the book, page edges spotted; jacket faded with a stain to the front panel, price clipped with publisher's price sticker. A bit whiffy. First published in England in 1909. A part of the Wisdom of the East series edited by J. L. Cranmer=Byng a noted "Orientalist" or now a scholar of Asian Studies as was Barnett.Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

New York: The Modern Library, 1952. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/good. light wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, a bit more to the bright, priced jacket which is rubbed with small creases, spine sunned a bit, previous owner's 50s'ish bookplate else clean and unmarked. Red and black cloth, Rockwell Kent torchbearer on spine front cover and endpapers which are in the repeating ml pattern. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book and jacket. First printing, no others noted. "Mormon Warenski examines the women of the Latter Day Saints from what she calls an "academic and philosophical" rather than a "political" perspective. The "plight" of these women, she contends, is to be torn between the dictates of a patriarchal and increasingly reactionary religion, which considers women as (at best) helpmates, and the stirrings of feminism, which Warenski oddly regards as a "spiritual" movement."--Kirku Reviews. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Chapel Hill: University Of North Carolina Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. About As New in all respects, clean and unmarked. Professor Decredico teaches the History of the U.S. South, American Civil War at the US Naval Academy. The manuscript won a writing award from the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Among her other works is a brief biography of Mary B. Chesnut which was called: "A very good and much needed introduction to Mary Chesnut's life and writings." First printing, full number line. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. 

New York: Soho Press, 2002. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. lightest wear to the book and jacket. First printing, full number line. Third in the Everard Naval Series. First published in the UK in 1978. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/no jacket. Shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of book, covers rubbed, spine illegible; no jacket. Clean and unmarked. "Brigham's study of Revere as an engraver justifies the years which have been devoted to its preparation. It will be an essential reference tool for Americanists and of great value to political and social historians of the Revolutionary period." From the review published in the New England Quarterly upon publication of this important work. First printing, no others noted. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. From the library of Anthony Powell with his bookplate. Copy of a typed errata slip, possibly Powell's, laid-in. Lightest shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book and jacket which is sunned on the spine, price clipped with a bit of the pricing showing. First printing, no others noted. From her Guardian obituary: "Lesley Blanch, writer, adventurer, journalist and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has died aged 102, leaving us 11 highly coloured volumes of biography, travel, autobiography and cookery, plus, despite her protest that "I can't invent," a single novel."--May 10, 2007. "Lesley Blanch takes the reader on a uniquely romantic journey to the settings where lovers have come together for a moment, a night or a lifetime. Chosen carefully from those places in her travels where she has come upon a story that has fired the imagination, Blanch writes of Nelson and… Read More

Albany: J. Munsell, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Light shelf wear to the book; scattered staining to covers and spine; second blank page, title page and a few others dog-eared; library stamp to the title page with no others markings; rear hinge cracked. 272 pages, 12mo, indexed, no pasted in photo of the author in this copy. Publisher's green cloth, First printing, same date. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!