Authors starting with P from Thorn Books

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1979. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine. Yes. First edition, first printing. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped; light wear at edges; else fine as well. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper.... more information

Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Carnelium Haak, 1752. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Yes. 8vo. (iv),(i),530(46)pp. Bound with: Christian Muller, "Christiani Muller satura observationum philologicarum :maximam partem sacrarum", Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Joannem Le Mair, 1752. (vi),196,(iv)pp, this second work bound without title leaf. Original full vellum over boards, ink title on spine. Minor repair to hinge and lower part of spine, some old ink spots on first few pages, a marginal thin and a few m... more information

London: Tegg, 1876. Later edition. Hardcover. Fine. Profusely illustrated with engravings, many full page, and including a fold-out map of the Anglo-Saxon Empire. Green cloth, ornately gilt spine and top board, with the pattern repeated in blind on the rear board. All edges gilt. A fine, bright copy.... more information

London: John Murray, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Yes. Plus [2]pp. of ads. Engraved frontis; engraved title; 6 engraved plates. Original spotted cloth with gilt vignette; gilt title. Slight spotting else a very good copy with clean text and plates. Palliser was a young man from England who chronicles his first trip to the New World, primarily a hunting trip on the Plains. His adventures include a meeting with General Tom Thumb, Indians and a great variety of wild aniumals. Very scarce in ori... more information

Baltimore: Joseph Robinson, 1843. First US edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Yes. The eight tracts, in the form of letters to Cardinal Wiseman, protesting the 'Romanization' of the English church. Palmer wrote the Protestant view instead of Newman, who was then in seclusion prior to joining the Catholic Church in connection with the Oxford Movement. Each letter has its own title page and pagination. New cloth in period style, printed label. Marginal stain at beginning and end else a fine copy.... more information

Livingston, Montana: Paolini International, LLC, (2002). First edition, first printing. Very good. Wraps. Yes. 8vo. The rare privately-published first printing of author's first book, and the first in the Inheritance Cycle, later issued by Knopf in a hardbound trade edition. Wraps. A few bottom corners lightly bent, including the upper cover, and trace of soil on the edges else a near fine copy. Inscribed by the author on the half title: To David, Christopher Paolini. Housed in a custom velvet-lined ... more information

Guadalajara: La Aurora, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Yes. 8vo. 219,(5)pp. Publisher's purple cloth, spine with gilt title and rules, boards blocked in blind. Decorated endpapers. Cloth sunned to tan at edges and on spine else a very good copy. Inscribed by the author on the copyright page to Sr & Sra Sanches and Srta. Rosario. Scarce. Index, errata page. In Spanish.... more information

London: A. E. Newman & Co., 1817. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. Engraved frontispiece showing the Death of Mungo Park. Original marbled paper boards sometime rebacked in black leather. Leather spine label, gilt. Frontispiece has offset lightly onto facing title page else a nice copy.... more information

London: n.p., 1667. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Yes. (London), 1667. 4to. 5-1/2 x 7-1/2'. 32pp. Bound to style in quarter leather; maroon lettering label, gilt; marbled paper boards in a Stormont design. Light blindstamp of a seminary library on title and marginal acquisition number, two tiny closed marginal tears on the title, one of the affecting the 'e' of 'Printed', else a very good copy. Wing T.2471. ESTC R23832.... more information

Chicago: Lucy E. Parsons, 1903. Second edition, expanded. Hardcover. Near fine. xxviii,(i),315pp. Second edition, greatly expanded from the first edition of 1889. Original red cloth blocked in black and gilt. Illustrated with full page engravings and photographs. Light wear to head and tail of spine, spine lightly sunned, former owner initials in pencil on upper edge of text block, inner hinges neatly repaired else a near fine copy. Includes sketches on A. Spies, Geo. Engel, A. Fischer and Louis Lingg. Im... more information

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1824. Hardcover. Very good. Thick 8vo. 17th edition. xvi, 673,(1) pp. 8 folding pages bound in at read containing 11 plates (maps), lacking the frontispiece general map and with the Holyhead Road late, to have been bound at p. 179, not in order with the other plates in the rear. Originally bound by Chivers of Bath, with his binding label on the read pastedown, but now rebacked retaining the original full calf boards and spine tooled in gilt. Rebacked, spine darkened,... more information

Basel: n.p., 1675. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Yes. 4to. 16pp. Engraving of two coins on the title page, bearing the profiles of Caesar and of Plato. Woodcut initial and headpiece. Bound to style in leather spine, red leather lettering label, gilt, marbled paper sides. A fine copy. Patin (1633-1693) was a French physcian and numismatist, publishing several numismatic works. In Latin with occasional Greek.... more information

Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons, Publishers to the University, 1902. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. 343pp. Folio. Original cloth, gilt. Frontispiece, 24 full page plates, 437 in-text illustrations. One of 320 numbered copies of the Large Paper Edition. Bookplate of Sir Charles Cayzer, Bart. Cloth worn at edges, inner hinges partially cracked, else a very good copy with text and plates in fine condition.... more information

London: George R. Harrap & Company, [1921]. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. (iv),160pp. One of 35 numbered copies in full vellum, gilt, signed by the artist. Top edge gilt. Color printed endpapers. Four pp. of color frontismatter embellished with gold ink; 12 color plates and numerous line drawings and decorations printed in either black or brown. Trace of soil else a fine, bright copy. The first Paul-illustrated edition, being one of only 35 copies printed on vellum paper, bound in vellum and... more information

Stuttgart & Lubingen: J. G. Cotta, 1814. Hardcover. Very good. Small 8vo. xx, 379,(i)pp. Early, probably original, paper over boards, hand-written spine label. Handwritten ownership label on front free endpaper, occasional faint foxing, else a very good copy. In German.... more information

Leipzig & Gera: Wilhelm Heinsius, 1798. Hardcover. Very good. 2 volumes. Small 8vo. lxviii,271(i); viii,342,(ii)pp. Early, probably original, speckled paper over boards, small lettering label, gilt. Light wear to the edges and hinges, else a very good copy. Text in German.... more information

Madrid: Manuel Minuesa de los Rios, 1878. First edition. Wraps. Very good. Yes. 8vo. (viii),244pp. Large folding map in rear: Mapa Interior del Maestrazgo y Provincias Limitrofes. Printed wraps, cloth spine. Closed marginal tear to map (not affecting image) has been artfully repaired; wraps lightly soiled and worn else a very good copy and mostly unopened. A fairly scarce discussion of the Ejército del Centro by the captain-general of Madrid. He was instrumental in defeating Emilio Castelar in 187... more information

London: W. S. Orr & Co., 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Yes. 8vo. xii, 280pp. Contemporary half leather; spine gilt with titles and floral ornaments; marbles paper boards. With 49 engraved plates. 4 plates are or garden designs or ornaments; three of them are colored and all are moderately foxed. The remaininng plates are all of flowers, all are hand colored and two are folding plates. Many orchid species are represented. Most of the plates are in fine, unfoxed condition; in the few where ... more information

Madrid: Diana, 1946. Hardcover. Very good plus. 8vo. Second edition. 450,(1)pp. Brown cloth, gilt spine titlle. Documentos de las negociaciones de Flandes, Holanda y Bruselas, y papeles genealógicos, 1506-1795. Con undice de títulos nobiliarios por Angel de la Plaza. A near fine copy. In Spanish.... more information

Chicago: Mid-Continent Publishing, 1892. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. Full leather embossed on the boards in a decorative design. Top edge gilt, fore-edge red. Illustrated. This is a salesman's sample, with examples of text from several chapters and including illustrations. The final book was offered in three bindings: morocco, blue cloth, brown cloth. The front pastedown has a flap with spine samples of the brown and blue cloth, as well as a full front cover of brown cloth embossed in the same design a... more information