Authors starting with P from Glenn Books

Springfield, Baltimore: Charles C. Thomas, 1942. Ex-libris copy with ink call letters on spine. Printed in August 1944. Library stamps. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper. A classic of Plastic Surgery. Illustrated throughout. By the inventor of a dermotome still used today. The author was Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. 149pp.. Second Printing. Blue Cloth. Minor Wear and Soiling./No Jacket.. Tall Octavo. ... more information

London: W. Clowes and Sons, John Murray., 1876. All edges gilt. British Royal Coat-of-Arms as gilt vignette on both covers. Single gilt fillet borders. Panelled spine with gilt lettering. Inner dentelles. Miniscule wear at corners and spine extremities. Minor foxing to a few preliminary pages. Note inside front free endpaper "Bound for Queen Victoria at Osborne". The book contains a listing of officers on active duty in the Royal Navy, seniority dates, retirements, prize money, and other statisti... more information

New York: Coward-McCann, 1928. Black and white illustrations by ROCKWELL KENT (Hogarth, Jr.). Kent-designed book-plate of Joe E. Kennedy on front pastedown. See Late Bookplates, p.73.. First Edition.. Yellow Paper-covered Boards.. Moderate General Wear/No Jacket. Sextodecimo. ... more information

Minneapolis University of Minnesota (1961).. Cloth-backed marbled boards. A fine copy. Limited to 750 copies.. ... more information

Kansas City, Mo: Fratcher Printing Company, 1910. Paper title onlay on front cover. Stamps of the Department of Wefare on front endpapers and title-page. Reports on the Work House and Municipal Farm including property inventories, listing such things as kitchen and house supplies, blacksmith tools, farm implements and livestock, clothing and food for prisoners. Tables, lists, ordinances. An interesting look at the local penal community in 1910.. First Edition.. Black Cloth. Minor Wear and Soiling./No Jac... more information

London: David Nutt, 1896. Illustrated by Archie MacGregor. Free endleaves browned and previous owner's small stamp on half-title. Fold map of Butterscotia with small closed tear. A nice copy of one of the popular series of titles written by Judge Parry. See Quayle 175 and Osborne 377. 170pp. + adverts.. First Edition. Tan Pictorial Cloth.. Light Edge Wear.. Octavo. ... more information

San Francisco Paul Elder & Co. 1950.. Pictorial red cloth. Small ink stamp on pastedown, else fine. Illustrated with photographs and engravings by Mallette Dean. Ltd. to 950 copies, inscribed, signed and dated by the author.. ... more information

Camden, Maine: International Marine Publishing Company, 1979. Replete with photographs and diagrams, boat plans. This book shows how to construct six plywood craft known as Instant Boats. "A fine initiation to the world of plywood boatbuilding". 136pp.. First Edition. Lime Green Cloth. Nearly Fine/Nearly Fine. Octavo. ... more information

London: Etchells and Macdonald, 1925. Tan linen spine. Reprint of the 1636 edition, this being #200/625. . Limited Edition.. Blue Paper-Ccovered Boards. Light Wear and Soilinjg. /No Jacket. Small Quarto. ... more information

New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1888. Gilt Indian brave with drawn bow on the front cover. Contains a large number of miscellaneous poems and the epic poem, "The Rhyme of the Border War". 329pp.. New and Revised Edition. Brown Cloth. General Moderate Wear./No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

London: Grafton and Company, 1913. Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. A clean copy throughout. Extensive bibliography and a very hepful index of Latin names of towns and their vernacular equivalent. 89pp.. First Edition. Green Cloth. Minor Wear and Soiling.. Thin Octavo. ... more information

Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1936. Spine cloth almost imperceptably wrinkled in mid-portion. Top edge gilt. Eight illustrations including frontispiece of "Cowboys Painting the Town Red". Much material on Texas cattle trails, cow towns of Kansas, the Dakotas, Extensive bibliography and index at the conclusion. Appendix of cattle brands from the Wyoming Stock Growers' Association. 351pp. See Howes P187, Herd 1778, Reese 6 Score 87.. First Edition.. Red Cloth Lettered in Gil... more information

Iowa City, Iowa: Iowa State Historical Society ., 1917. Top edge gilt. Light waterstaining affecting first 12 pages. Contains many first hand accounts based on diaries and journals. See Howes P-188, Rittenhouse 459. 282pp.. First Edition. Maroon Cloth. Moderate Edge Wear./No Jacket. ... more information

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1925. Finely printed and illustrated throughout. Color portrait frontispiece. In slipcase with paper label. The slipcase shows moderate edge wear. 372pp. . First Edition. Maize Cloth. Nearly Fine./Light Edge Wear. Large Quarto. ... more information

New York, London: Macmillan & T. Fisher Unwin, 1920. "A study of the art today with technical suggestions". Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. A total of 407 illustrations through the text. 432pp. . First Edition.. Tan Cloth.. Almost No Wear./No Jacket.. Large Quarto. ... more information

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1962. "The story of Bill, a man whose whole life is devoted to the craft of poaching, a romantic though nefarious trade". Fine text illustrations in black and white. 133pp.. First Edition.. Green Cloth. Nearly Fine./Price-clipped Dust Jacket. Illus. by Michael Lyne. Octavo. ... more information

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. Green cloth, cover vignette and title in gilt. All edges red. Covers designs in black. Brown endpapers. Front cover vignette and title in gilt.Covers lightly rubbed. Spine extremities just a bit frayed. Pressed four-leaf clover on dedication page with inscription dated Aug. 12th, '84. Paper discolored at start of text suggesting another pressed plant once resided there as well. Otherwise generally clean. Contains 47 poems, including the title poem. 192pp.. Earl... more information

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920. Ink inscription front cover "Wm. L. Stryker, Capt. Inf. U.S. Army". TLS laid in to Mr. Stryker from J.P. Showhill, Field Examiner, Veterans Administration dated May 24, 1935. Sixteen plates with five additional maps laid-in. 96pp. plus maps. . First Edition. Heavy Manila Wrappers.. Chipped, Soiled.. Octavo. ... more information

London: Macmillan London Limited, 1977. Spine extremities show minor bumping without any loss of substance. Rear panel of dust jacket just slightly soiled near the bottom. Fresh and completely clean throughout the text. This is the first episode in the Brother Cadfael saga! A Mediaeval Whodunnit by Edith Pargeter, using the nom de plume of Ellis Peters. Cadfael serves as gardener for the Benedictine Abbey in Shrewsbury and solves complicated mysteries as an avocation. 192pp.. First English Edition. Orange ... more information

London: Macmillan London Limited, 1981. Minor soiling rear panel of the dust jacket, almost inperceptible. This is the fourth chronicle of Brother Cadfael of the Benedictine Monastery in Shrewsbury where he serves as the gardener and solver of murders. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. 220pp.. First English Edition. Green Boards. Fine/Fine.. Octavo. ... more information