Search Results: Titles starting with P from Bygone Books

London: Phoenix, 2000. Soft cover. VG+. 1842121669 Reprint ed. [originally published in 1977 by Jonathan Cape], 8vo, wraps, 332 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography, index. Condition: VERY GOOD+ with little wear.

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, , 1956. Soft cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to, stiff card wraps, unpaginated - lists 65 b/w plates of Revere silver, 1 page of Revere marks. Cover design adapted from Revere's engraving of "Landing of British Troops in Boston", 1700. Condition is NEAR FINE with slightest of edgewear. Book is composed by The Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First American edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1st American ed. 12mo, beige cloth with green titles, top edge green, 370 pages. Condition is VERY GOOD book / GOOD- jacket: front board has a faint damp stain on bottom edge with a slight rippling of the first several pages which does not affect your reading pleasure, otherwise little wear, owner inscription on front endpaper; jacket is edgeworn with 1" missing chips to spine head and tail, rubbing at folds, NOT price-clipped. Photograph of Thirkell on jacket fly.

Worcester, MA: Pearl Lodge, No. 123, Knights and Ladies of Honor, 1887. Soft cover. Fair. 12mo, stapled paper wraps, 46 pages, 1887 calendar in rear. Paper covers are missing, otherwise intact. Condition is: FAIR - GOOD: covers missing, edgewear and staining at edges and scattered stains throughout. Recipes are on the verso of each page, local business advertisements on the recto. Published in Worcester Massachusetts and includes ads for area businesses. Date is determined by the 1887 calendar on last page. Recipes cover breads, pies, cakes, puddings, pudding sauces, salads, candy, miscellaneous (beef loaf, roast rabbits, clam chowder, escalloped lobster and oyster, pickled cauliflower, green tomato pickles, etc.), herb teas, and ends with a recipe for furniture polish! These older cook books make great reading material! The Knights and Ladies of Honor was a fraternal organization from the late 19th - early 20th century. This cookbook was a fund and awareness raising publication to support their… Read More

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1922. Hardcover. VG. Charles E. Brock.. 4th printing of this edition (March 1922), 12mo, orange cloth backed in tan, illustrated endpapers, 272 pages, b/w illustrations by Charles E. Brock. Condition is VERY GOOD / no jacket: minor wear, spine is lightly wrinkled, light browning to endpapers, internally clean and tight. Papers originally published by Dent in the Wayfarer's library, these are the author's columns in "The Star" during WWI, now published with Brock's illustrations.

NY: W.W. Norton, 1953. First American edition . Hardcover. G+/Fair. 282p. First American edition. GOOD+ / Fair - : edgewear; spine ends bumped; staining and crease to front end page; owner's name; sl. yellowing to pages. DJ: staining front cover; spine darkened; large (4" x 1") missing piece on back cover at fold; chips and tears at spine ends; chipped at top, price is on bottom... (in mylar)

New York: New York University, 1977. Soft cover. VG+. Beatrix Potter. Exhibition catalogue; all illustrations copyrighted by Frederick Warne & Co. 16mo, stapled wraps, [35] pages, illustrated endpapers, b/w illustrations, bibliography. Condition is VERY GOOD+ : very sl. yellowing to rear cover. A must-have for the Potter collector....

Philadelphia: Charles j. Peterson, 1877. Soft cover. Good. Peterson's Ladies National Magazine. February Vol. LXXI, No. 2. Philadelphia, 1877. Pages 109-172, plus fashion prints, engravings, advertisements. 1 fold-out color plate: Les Modes Parisiennes, The Winter Promenade, Engraved and printed by Illman Brothers; engraving "Such a Love of a Man" painted by E. Boutibonne, Illman Brothers engravers, for the story of the same name on page 109-11 by the Author of 'The Story of an Umbrella." Foldout of design for straw embroidery on net; other fashion prints of the period and handiwork patterns. Stories included: Frances Hodgson Burnett, "The Captain's Youngest;" "Rhoda's Prisoner" by Rosalie Gray [Mrs. D. H. Mann]; "That Female Lect'rer and I" by Josiah Allen's Wife [pen name of Marietta Holley [1836-1926]; and many others. Condition is GOOD with edgewear all around, small tears and chipping, owner name on front cover["Azuba C… Read More

London: Smith, Elder, 1833. Hardcover. Collectible; VG+. 16mo, 3/4 leather (dk. green) w/ tan cloth, marbled eps and page edges. Currie & Bowman Binders; frontispiece engraving of Ellen Eskdale, painted by H. Richter, engraved by H. Cook. Professionally rebound: a linen reback with original spine. VERY GOOD+ with minor scattered soiling. Sarah Stickney, later Ellis (1799-1872) is best known for her popular advice to women and her writings: Women of England (1838), the Daughters of England (1842), The Mothers of England (1843) and The Wives of England (1843.) Pictures of Private Life, an earlier title, prior to her marriage to William Ellis in 1837, includes the introductory chapter "An Apology for Fiction.

Shelburne, VT: Shelburne Museum, 1957. Soft cover. Very Good. Museum Pamphlet Series, Number 2, on the famed (and fabulous!) quilt collection at the Shelburne Museum. 8vo, wraps, 96 pages, b/w illustrations, 1 in color, bibliography. Condition is VERY GOOD: light spotting to pages edges and on title and last page, the paste-on title label to front cover is missing,owner address label inside from cover, light pencil notation inside rear cover.

Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 1st edition, 8vo, gray cloth, 282 pages, 80 of which is a glossary of characters in all the books discussed. Condition: VERY GOOD / no jacket: light rubbing to extremities and bottom edges. Archon's "Plots and Characters series" covering various titles by Austen, Eliot and the three Brontës.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1928. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/VG-. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. 1st edition (stated), 24mo, mustard cloth, 56 pages, color illustrations by the author. Condition is VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has slight edgewear, spine head slightly tanned, internally clean and tight; jacket has a 1" missing piece from spine head, a 1/2" chip at front bottom, corners and spine tail have tiny chips, slight tanning to flaps, price is intact (in protective mylar). A very nice copy in the uncommon jacket.... a charming Field story.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Reprint ed. of 1949, c1938. 12mo, tan cloth, blue titles, map of Barsetshire endpapers, 192 pages. VERY GOOD book / FAIR jacket: book has minor wear to extremities, gentle bumping to corners, faint spine crease; jacket is edgeworn separated at front, spine sunned, price-clipped, now all quite lovely in protective mylar. "When Alice Barton, who had never been to a gathering of quite this kind before, was invited by the terrifying Lord Pomfret to Pomfret Towers, she wished she were dead." and it goes uphill from there!

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press. Soft cover. VG+. Woodcuts by An Unknown Hand. Cover says "Bound at the Printing Office Williamsburg Virginia; colophon states "The present Volume has been prepar'd, printed and publish'd at the Office of the Peter Pauper Press in the town of Mount Vernon, New York State." With a preface to the "Courteous Reader" by Paul Leicester Ford. 8vo, wraps with paper label on front cover, bound in marbled paper, 77 pages, woodcuts by An Unknown Hand. VERY GOOD+ condition with just the slightest curl to the cover corners.

Montpelier, VT: Lakd Champlain Islands Trust / George Little Press, 1979. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Douyglas Johnson, Carolyn Bates [photographs]. 8vo, stapled wraps, 56 pages, b/w drawings and maps and b/w photographs. Condition is VERY GOOD with minor edgewear, rubbing along the spine, internally clean and tight.

Burlington, VT: Queen City Printers, 1992. Soft cover. NF. Published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the establishment of Burlington's first post office in 1792. 8vo, stapled wraps, 92 pages, b/w illustrations. NEAR FINE with little wear excepting an owner label on title page.

Chicago: John C. Winston Company, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Robert Lawson. Not the Winston edition with the pictorial paste-on, this is copyright 1937 with no additional printings noted. 8vo, red cloth with black illustration and gold shield with black titles, repeated on spine, blue and turquoise illustrated endpapers, color frontispiece, 10 other 2-color full-page illustrations and additional text drawings throughout, 274 pages to include 6 pages of notes at end, preface by Robert Lawson. Condition is VERY GOOD- / no jacket: rubbing to edges and corners, a few small tears at spine head, both front and read hinge are cracked with webbing exposed but the textblock remains tight and is internally clean throughout. Better than all this sounds, and a delightful tale by Twain with Lawson's incomparable illustrations. Uncommon binding.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1978. First Edition . Hardcover. NF. 200p. 1st edition. NF/ NF : minor wear; book is unread (in mylar).

Montreal, PQ, Canada: Editions Phidal, Incorporated / Phidal Publishing, 1996. Hardcover. NF/NF. Kovalski, Maryann. 1st thus edition (French text), 8vo, white glossy pictorial boards, 32p, color illus, illus eps. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket.

Orange, MA: Minute Tapioca Company, 1927., 1927. Soft cover. G+. 32p. Color illus; 12mo stapled pamphlet. GOOD+ : light soiling; small tear at fore-edge throughout book.