Authors starting with P from Bartlebys Books

Paris printed London reprinted for J. Ashley, [1796] One of several 1796 editions. 8vo. 8 pp. Not recorded by the NUC or OCLC; Gimbel Collection, page 39. Disbound pamphlet; closely trimmed with some loss along top and fore-edges. ... more information

New York:: G.P. Putnam's Sons,, 1914.. First edition. 8vo. xxvii, 439 pp. Plates, folding maps. Neate 595: "Principal work on the Selkirk range." Original white and gilt-stamped decorated navy cloth, top edges gilt. A very good copy. (835) ... more information

Waukesha, WI:: Printed privately by the author for his friends,, 1936.. First edition. 12mo. 39 pp. Illustrated, plates. Original illustrated stiff blue wrappers. Fine. ... more information

Waukesha, WI:: Printed privately by the author for his friends,, 1936.. First edition. 12mo. 39 pp. Illustrated with two plates from photographs. Heller 276: "An extremely rare work relating the author's fruitful bear hunts in British Columbia, though on one hunt he could not successfully conclude the trail of a giant wounded grizzly." Very good. Illus. blue wrappers (rubbed, somewhat soiled), stapled. (#4264) ... more information

Winchester, England:: Warren & Son, ,, 1920.. First edition. 8vo. (8), 56 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Diary of an August - November, 1920, visit to the United States by an educated, informed woman: New York, Niagara Falls, Philadelphia, and Boston, society and the sights. Inscribed by the author in 1926. OCLC locates one copy (Hampshire County [England] Public). Original gilt-stamped green cloth. Some foxing, especially to endpapers, else very good. (1945) ... more information

Folio. One page, approximately 125 words; docketed on verso. Parker, a native of Ohio, opened a law office in St. Joseph, Missouri, on the eve of the Civil War, served as city attorney there during the war and as a judge for the first time there, 1868-1870. After a brief career in congress, 1871-1875, President Grant appointed him judge of the western district of Arkansas where he served until his death, bringing law and order to the Indian territory while passing 162 death sentences for various crimes, ea... more information

Asheville, NC:: Stephens Press,, (c1950).. Later printing. 8vo. (8), 122, (4) pp. Illustrated, plates, portraits, double-page map. Signed by the author at the head of the title page. Thornton 10456. Decorated stiff wrappers (rubbed). Very good. (3477) ... more information

Leeds, (England):: Printed for Wm. White & Co. by Edward Baines & Son,, nd [ca. 1827 and 1829].. 4to. Large hand-colored folding map of each county, plus three folding charts ("Table of the Reciprocal Distances of the Principal Towns of Great Britain and Ireland," "Table of the Reciprocal Distances of All the Market Towns in the Four Most Northern Counties of England," and "Population Returns of England"); bound in ahead of the original front wrapper are additional lar... more information

St. Louis, (MO):: Western River Transportation Dept.,, 1864.. Printed handbill, 9 3/4 x 7 15/16 inches, 35 lines printed in six paragraphs, employing several sizes and styles of type, title and author bold, establishing rates to be charged for transporting military personel on steamboats, in the face of "unreasonable and extortionate prices"; signed in type "Lewis B. Parsons, Col. and Chief Quartermaster of Western River Transportation." Not recorded on OCLC. Some soiling, folded for ma... more information

Newbury-Port:: Printed and sold by John Mycall,, 1778.. First edition. Small 4to. 68 pp. Signed in type at the end "Peter Coffin" (i.e., Theophilus Parsons). Sabin 58906. Evans 15858. Eberstadt 166, 70: "A seriatum list of eighteen controversial points in the proposed Constitution, with objections expatiated. The sense of the convention was to exhort the electorate to 'unanimously vote their disapprobation of the constitution.'" Original printed self-wrappers, stitched. Short te... more information

Wake Forest, NC:: Wake Forest College,, 1935-1943.. First edition. 8vo. 3 volumes: viii, 681, (3); viii, 532; viii, 539 pp. Illustrated, plates, portraits. Thornton 10468. Volume one two-tone cloth, volumes two and three black cloth, gilt spine titles, printed dust jackets. Very good. (3479) ... more information

Tuskegee Institute, AL::: The association,,, 1943.. 8vo. 28 pp. Original printed blue stiff wrappers, stapled. Very good. . First edition. "To provide educational opportunity for a region and a state, to prevent duplication, and to enable the development of a program which can be fully warranted and financed." Not in Blockson Catalogue. OCLC locates two copies (Auburn, Tuskegee Institute) ... more information

New York:: James Eastburn & Co.,, 1817.. First edition. 12mo. Two volumes bound as one: (2), 254; (2), 260 pp. With the ownership signature "Theodorick Bland, 1818" on the front pastedown; Bland (1776-1846), a native of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, and a lawyer, moved to Maryland where he held local offices, served as a state and federal judge, and held the post of state chancellor, 1824-1846. BAL 15693. Clark Old South II, 228: "The tour was entirely within Virginia ... a patriotic, info... more information

Garden City, NY:: Doubleday, Page,, 1918.. First edition. 8vo. xxiv, 393 pp. Plates, maps. Card of presentation, with inscription by the author, pinned to title page. Haynes 13799. Work, p. 426. Blockson Catalogue 486. Original gilt-stamped burgundy cloth (spine faded), t.e.g., others untrimmed; recipient's brief pencil note on title page, his pencil annotations on rear endpapers, but a very good copy. ... more information

London:: John Murray,, 1913.. First edition. 8vo. xix, (1), 291 pp. Illustrated from photographs and paintings, plates, map. Czech "Africa," p. 100: "Both a scientific and sporting examination of the lion, this title offers natural history and hunting of the big cat the length and breadth of Africa. Pease offers his own hunting experiences as well as those of other famous sportsmen of the era, with an interesting chapter on the history of lion hunting." Small Rowland Ward bookseller'... more information

Columbus, OH:: Crisis Print [for] The Democratic State Executive Committee of Ohio,, [1868].. 8vo. 16 pp. Original printed self-wrappers, untrimmed. Very good copy. ... more information

Philadelphia:: Printed and published by Joseph Crukshank,, 1783.. First Published about the Middle of the Last Century, by Isaac Pennington. First American edition (the Penn title first published London, 1696). 8vo in fours. 66, (2), iv, 98, (2) pp. Separate title page for the Pennington; publisher's ad leaf. Evans 18081. Contemporary leather-backed boards (partly eroded); lacking all endpapers front and rear, some old browning and staining to text, but a good solid copy. ... more information

Paris:: P. Didot,, 1809.. First edition of this important study of the villas of Rome. Folio. (2), 72 pp. 77 engraved plates; half-title. The plates illustrate 24 Roman villas, including the Aldobrandini, Borghese, Mattei, Panfili, and Villa Albani, with plans, elevations, and perspective views of the buildings and details of their gardens. Brunet: "Tre-bel ouvrage." Later green quarter-morocco and marbled boards (rubbed, corners and edges bumped), gilt spine title. Foxed, considerably in places,... more information

Boston and NY:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1934.. First edition. Large 8vo. xvii, 261 pp. Illustrated, plates. Original green cloth, paper labels on spine and upper board, publisher's glassine dust jacket (very worn, now protected), publisher's slipcase. Very good. ... more information

Cleveland, (OH):: For private distribution,, 1899.. 8vo. viii, 246 pp. Plates, frontispiece portrait. Original gilt-stamped decorated blue-green cloth (soiled, spine dull), edges untrimmed. Very good. First edition, 1/100 copies. With the editor's card affixed in front endpaper and with two separate notes by a recipient indicating that the book had been a gift from Bingham in the year of publication. Howes P-250 ("b"): "Contemporary accounts, here first printed, of hunting expeditio... more information