Search Results: Titles starting with P from Crooked House Books & Paper

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Yellow cloth covered boards backed in blue cloth, 8vo, 256 pages, small line drawings throughout. Top corners turn in slightly, light tanning in pictorial endpapers; Edge worn dust jacket with chipping at extremities, toned spine with light water spots, now in protective mylar cover. Recipes and menus featuring West Coast foods with a special section on Hawaiian dishes.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Binding designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman, not signed. Hardcover, ivory cloth spine over red cloth-covered boards, gilt decorative lettering to front cover and spine, gilt botanical rule at edge of white cloth to front and rear boards, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, red paper-backed cloth dust jacket with gilt lettering to spine, 9-1/2" tall, 374 pp., illustrated with photographs and drawings. A few light spots of discoloration to front cover, dust jacket has some fading to spine, some soil spots to front cover.

New York, NY: Modern Library, 1920. Hardcover. Good/Good. Reprint, Toledano binding style 7, burgundy cloth, kent endpapers, interior of dust jacket lists 253 titles, 310 pages; damp stain to bottom edge of front cover, faintly visible through page 13, lighter damp stain to rear cover and visible along bottom edge of last few pages; dust jacket is damp stained and quite edge worn, now protected in mylar cover.

New York: Theo Audel & Co. Publishers, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Flexi black leather with gilt titles on spine, 16mo, 430 pages plus advertisements; a well kept copy. Fold out color wheel is in great condition, a unique vintage gift for any crafty person.

William Edwin Rudge, 1927. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine/Very Good. Minor discoloration to spine panel of DJ. Inscribed by Albert Maurice Bender, a patron of the arts who later helped fund the printing of a collection of poetry by Field and her partner C.E.S. Wood.

New York: Viking, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Schreiber, Georges. First published April 1947 noted on copyright page, illustrated tan cloth, 4to, 63 pages, illustrated by George Schreiber, pictorial endpapers. Spine ends turn in, hint of fading along board edges; Dust jacket with price of $2.00 on front flap, rubbed and worn along extremities, a couple of tiny edge tears and a one inch closed tear at top rear edge. Set in Paris a few months after the end of World War II, the story follows Charles's quest to makes crepes for his little sister for Mardi Gras. Newbery Honor book of 1948.

Atheneum, 1962. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Red cloth boards under brown & orange DJ, 8vo, 87 pp. Slight toning to top edge of inner flaps.

New York: hawthorn Books, Inc, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). First edition stated; signed and inscribed by De Paola on half-title page and dated '90; full green cloth, small 4to (7 1/4 x 7/14 inches), illustrated by the author. Dust jacket edge worn with a bit of chipping along extremities, now in protective mylar cover. Parker Pig, Esquire tries to clean up his act, and his tiny house when friends come for a visit.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Signed by author (name only) to front endpaper. Flexible red leather covers with gilt lettering to spine, gilt initials to front cover, top edge gilt, title page ruled in red & black with red central device, 7-1/4" tall, 190 pp. Minor slant, light wear to edges of covers and tips. One of the most beloved of all bookish novels, it is as fun to read today as when it was written. A lovely leather-bound edition, uncommon signed.

The Outing Publishing Company, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Full red cloth boards with gilt lettering, page edges untrimmed, color frontispiece, photographic plates. Previous owner has made one marginal note in pencil about their own pigeon & a note on the front endpaper "A fascinating & beautiful book"; no other pencil markings found but they might be lurking. Toning to half-title from laid in article about pigeons--it is now in a clear plastic sleeve. Not really worth anything, but this and a couple other clippings laid in.

William Morrow, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition with review slip laid in. Grey cloth spine over printed paper-covered boards, 8vo, 221 pp. Rubbing to rear panel of dust jacket. Cadell's 24th romantic adventure.

Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Lyon, Norma Madge; Price, Harold L. Illustrated tan cloth boards; 4to; unpaginated. Near fine copy in a modestly toned DJ, tanned at spine; original price of $1.50 intact; dust jacket now protected by mylar sleeve. One of America's greatest legends, Paul Bunyan had a keen appeal to the Pacific Northwest because of the logging industry, and this is a nice Oregon imprint of the title. Colophon states first edition of which 500 are numbered, this copy is not numbered.

Oxford University Press, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, matching dates, NAP. Full red cloth binding with gilt letters on spine, under yellow & red jacket. Minor toning to edges of DJ, appears unread. Additional postage required for international shipping.

Cornell University Press, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. Burgundy cloth boards under grey dust jacket. Sticker residue to jacket.

Hamish Hamilton, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Brick-colored boards with silver lettering under grey & blue pictorial dust jacket. A very nice copy with minor smudging, DJ has light wear to head of spine panel, price-clipped. A novel based on autobiographical letters Simenon wrote to his son.

New York: Junior Literary Guild/Scribner's, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Blue cloth with a little raccoon on front board, 8vo, 169 pages, black and white illustrations by Barbara Cooney. Dust jacket a bit toned and edge worn with chipping at extremities, two small scuff marks on front spine edge, now in protective mylar cover. The story of a boy and his pet raccoon, based on the author's son and his own pet raccoon.

New Directions, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Full blue cloth boards with gilt lettering under brown paper dust jacket, 8-3/4" x 5-3/4", 273 pp., $3.50 price intact on front flap, rear flap has no mention of "Rock Drill". Minor toning to edges of covers, offsetting from flaps to endpapers, minor toning to front panel of jacket, very shallow chip to top edge of front panel; a nice copy of this fragile jacket. First edition thus.

Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2006. Hardcover. Fine. 11x11x0. Fine copy in pictorial boards, 11-1/4" square. Extra postage required for international or priority shipping, please inquire.

Mount Vernon, New York: The Peter Pauper Press, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Eisler, Albert. 62 pages, two tone illustrations throughout; light shelf wear, clipped dust jacket with mild wear and a bit of chipping at extremities as well as a small tear at head of spine and some toning to top edge, jacket now in protective mylar cover. An attractive copy of one of the beautiful Peter Pauper Press vintage books.

Little Simon, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to - over 9. Signed by Author(s). First edition stated with full number line, signed by Robert Sabuda on introductory pop-up flap.