Authors starting with P from Antiquarian Bookseller

Oxford: [n.d.] Small slim 8vo, 2pp. of text, 40 b/w illsutrations. Original printed wrappers. Undated catalogue perhaps for an exhibition. Preface signed K.T.P. ... more information

San Francisco: Alley, Bowen & Co., 1880. Thick 8vo, full recent calf, lettered in gilt, with raised bands. [v], vi-xvi, [17-] 676 pp. 67 lithographic portraits. Rebound, with new endpapers, otherwise a very good, clean copy. First Edition. "Contains separate histories of Anderson, Arena, Big River, Calpella, Little Lake, Round Valley...and Ukiah Townships...and biographical sketches of early and prominent settlers and representative men." Bradford 4149. Cowan (II), p. 424. Filby, p. 27. How... more information

Springfield: Illinois State Journal Co., 1877. 8vo, original brown cloth, front cover elaborately lettered and decorated in gilt & black, rear cover decorated in blind. [iv], viii, 171 pp. Shelf-rubbed, but an unusually bright and very good copy of a very uncommon book. First Edition. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Hon. J. M. Scott / from his friend / The Author." John M. Scott was a Supreme Court Justice in Illinois; and laid into this copy is an editorial from a Bloomington newspaper ... more information

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. Folio, original brown cloth backed in tan morocco, gilt-lettered russet morocco backstrip label, front cover gilt-lettered, gilt top x, 48 pp. Twenty color plates, with captioned tissue guards; with an original pencil remarque of a sleeping duck, initialed by Rickman, at foot of frontispiece. Slight discoloration to front of morocco backstrip; very good. First Edition; # 86 of 125 copies signed by Rickman. Pollard contributes an Introduction and chapters on Grouse an... more information

New York: Duffield and Company, 1921. 8vo, original patterned tan boards backed in black cloth, printed paper backstrip label, front cover lettered & decorated in gilt. [vi], 169 pp. Engraved bookplate of Hal Witter Bynner on front pastedown. Lacking dust-jacket; light wear to backstrip label; boards soiled; but a very nice copy. First Edition of Katherine Anne Porter's first book, the ghostwritten narrative of an American woman's marriage to a Chinese student and their lives in the United Stat... more information

London: Longman's, Green, and Co., 1892. 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip gilt-lettered, front cover gilt-stamped with images of ptarmigans. xviii, 268 pp. Folding map and 29 plates after photographs and sketches. backstrip lettering on backstrip dimming, some foxing, but a very good copy. First Edition. A fascinating though rather laconic account of a naturalist's expedition in remote areas of China and Tibet in quest of rare animals. Three appendices list the species of birds, reptiles, fishe... more information

(San Francisco, 1950). 4to, fine as issued. A bifolium sheet announcing a lecture about Mark Twain at the Roxburghe Club. Printed in green, brown, and black on beige paper. Printed card laid in regarding the Press's "well-known modesty." Fwiw, dinner was $3.00 and Al Shumate was the PrinterÕs Devil ... more information

Claremont: Printed for the California Bookplate Society by the Saunders Press: 1944. 8vo, original gray boards backed in gilt-lettered tan calf. xvi, 75 pp. Memorial bookplate for Louise Eugenie Winterburn tipped in as frontispiece; fifteen plates reproducing 39 royal bookplates. backstrip tips chipping; fresh and very good. First Edition; one of an edition of 350 copies. Miss Winterburn, an ardent and affluent San Francisco collector, bequeathed some forty albums of bookplates, including the 181 royal ... more information

London: Ackermann & Co., 1836-1837. Four volumes in one. 4to, later utilitarian tan buckram, gilt-lettered red morocco backstrip label, gilt edges Respectively: pictorial title-page with lettering colored by hand and 21 plates; pictorial title-page and 24 plates with captions printed in red; pictorial title-page and 27 plates, title and captions printed in red; and pictorial title-page and 26 plates (numbered 2-27); the total number of etched plates, including title-pages, is 102. All plates printed on... more information

New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. 8vo, xxi; 185pp. Five full-page black and white plates, including frontispiece. Full red cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Very good. Twayne's English Authors Series. Updated edition, originally published in 1977. Bentley, BBS, p.597: Òbrief introductory account of the writings, mostly by paraphrase and summary of themÓ. ... more information

Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977. Small 8vo, 171pp. Spiral bound review copy. Minimal signs of use. Very good. First printing. Concentrates on his themes and influence. Bentley, BB postscript, p.29. ... more information

London: Dent, 1900. 8vo, vii, 287pp. With a gravure frontispiece, and 11 plates (5 gravure). Original green cloth gilt, gilt top, a very good bright copy. First edition of this volume in the Haddon Hall Library. Binding decoration, endpapers and some chapter headings by Arthur Rackham. A comprehensive account of the sport, including fox, hare, stag, and otter hunting as well as the roles of the farmer, the master, the whipper-in, etc. ... more information

University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987. 8vo, xiv, 161pp. Burgundy cloth with gilt to backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket. As new. First edition. Bentley, BBS, p.598: Òa reading of ÔSongsÕ... as a basis for a sense of BlakeÕs psychology of redemptionÓ. ... more information

University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987. 8vo, xiv, 161pp. Burgundy cloth with gilt to backstrip. Illustrated dust-jacket. Review copy stamped to top edge. Very good. First edition. Bentley, BBS, p.598: Òa reading of ÔSongsÕ... as a basis for a sense of BlakeÕs psychology of redemptionÓ. ... more information

Phaidon: 1978. 4to, 192 pp.; with 161 illustrations including 16 in color. Original cloth, dust-jacket. First edition, nicely printed and illustrated. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, p. 182. ... more information

[West Conrwall CT: Locust Hill Press, 2002]. 8vo, pp.263-286. Offprint, stapled. Scarce article by Prof. Paley on the marginalia written by Blake in 1827 in ThorntonÕs edition of The LordÕs Prayer, Newly Translated... Inscribed by Paley to Essick: Ò(from the Grant festschrift) for Bob, with thanks, MortonÓPaley is referring to Prophetic Character: Essays on William Blake in honor of John E. Grant. Edited by Alexander S. Gourlay. ... more information

Oxford: Phaidon Press Limited, 1978. 4to, 192 pp.; with 161 illustrations including 16 in color. Original cloth, dust-jacket. First edition, nicely printed and illustrated. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, p. 182. ... more information

Stuttgart, Berlin, Koln, Mainz: W. Kohlhammer, 1978. 4to, 194pp. 116 illustrations. Black cloth with illustrated dust-jacket. Cardboard slipcase with minor edgewear. Text in German. Book as new. First edition in German, A beautifully illustrated book, well printed. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, p. 182. ... more information

Oxford: Phaidon Press Limited, 1978. 4to, 192 pp. With 161 illustrations including 16 in color. Original cloth, dust-jacket. First edition, nicely printed and illustrated. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 182 issue A. ... more information

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1969. 8vo, 115pp. Dark cloth. Printed dust-jacket. Text with ink annotations and underlining, mostly in the introduction. Good. First edition of this collection of essays by Adams, Bloom, Damon, Erdman, Frye, Gleckner, Price, Nurmi, Wicksteed, Schorer, Ostriker, and Paley. Bentley, BB, A2349. ... more information