Authors starting with P from Dawson's Book Shop

Packard Publications, Santa Fe, 1970. Good. 12 x 9 inches, 47 pages, wrappers. ... more information

Maureen Paley, Surrey, England, 1980. First Edition, Limited edition: 97/500. Good. 6 x 8 inches, 39 pages, wrappers, Signed by author. ... more information

N.p., N.p., 1948. Very good. 9 x 6 inches, 80 pages, wrappers, sunning to spine and outer edges of covers. ... more information

Edwin O. Palmer, Hollywood, 1938. Second Edition. Very good, slight acid stains to front and rear endpapers. 9 x 6 inches, 294 pages, gold-stamped fabricoid, Dust Jacket (chipped at top edge, tape repairs to interior side), Signed by the author on preliminary blank, Palmer traces the history of Hollywood from prehistoric times to his day, and while his account of the geologic formation of the city is likely conjectural, and Palmer admits that much of his information comes from his own memory and that of H... more information

Fraenkel Gallery/Bedford Arts, San Francisco, (1989). First Edition. Fine. 11 x 11 inches, 219 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket, Unopened in original cardboard shipping case. ... more information

Interface California Corp., Eureka, (1976). Good. 9 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches, 134 pages, wrappers, sunning to spine and wear covers,, Inscribed by the author: "Come see the wonder and the mystery that haunt the heart of things", For Robert A.Weinstein, Peter E. Palmquist, 28 Mar 1977, #30/50", With a modern print from a Freeman negative pasted to the dedication page. ... more information

Alta California Print, San Francisco, 1878. Good. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, 142 pages, cloth, wear to spine extremities, corners bumped, sunning to spine. ... more information

The Macmillan Company, New York, 1924. First Edition. Good: somewhat shaken, moderate wear and spotting to binding; scattered pencil underscorings . 11 3/8 x 8 3/8 inches, xxii, 401 pages, gold-stamped black cloth, Chapter 11, entitled "The Mediterranean Model," includes discussion of California domestic architecture, along with illustrations of houses in Altadena, Montecito and Pasadena. ... more information

University of Chicago Press, Chicago, (1945). Limited edition: No. 190 of 500 copies, signed by the author and illustrator. Very good. 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 200 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket (lightly edgeworn), With woodblock illustrations by Paul Landacre. ... more information

Penguin Books, New York, (1974). Very gooding, foxing around edges. 10 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches, 95 pages, wrappers, light foxing along edges, slight soiling on back. ... more information

University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, (1961). First Edition. Very good. 9 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches, cloth, Two volume set in the original slipcase. ... more information

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago, 1925. Very good. 6 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches, xxiv, 239 pages, dark green cloth, top edge gilt, light silverfishing to top edge, Lakeside Press Classic for Christmas, 1925, neat owner signature on front endpaper, folding map. ... more information

Studies on the Left, Inc., Madison, 1959-1966. Good. 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches, cloth, ex-library with a few stamps and off-setting from former labels, off-setting to spines from former call letter labels. ... more information

Castle Press, Pasadena, 1999. Limited edition: One of 500 copies. Fine. 10 x 6 1/2 inches, 63 pages, cloth. ... more information

Privately Printed, San Francisco, 1916. Very good, very light occasional foxing. 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 50 pages, cloth spine with paper label, minor discoloration, Includes frontispiece portrait and other photographic portraits, geneological tables, Printed at the Philopolis Press in San Francisco. These are letters regarding the Gold Rush era in California. ... more information

Harper and Brothers, New York, 1847. First Edition. Good (hinges loose, sunned covers and spine, lightly foxed throughout) . 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches, blindstamped cloth, Two Volumes. Owner's signature in ink. ... more information