Authors starting with P from Charles Agvent, ABAA

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. First Edition. Decorated cloth. Owner name. Near Fine. W. Glackens. Octavo in original red cloth. Designed by D. B. Updike. Illustrated with color plates by W. Glackens. ... more information

(Mansfield): M. Martino, [2000]. Reprint. Fine. Reprint of the 1901 edition (Berlin: Urban & Schwarzenberg). Cloth, thick octavo. This standard bibliography and biographical history contains 10,000 biographies providing detailed descriptions of doctors who lived and practiced during the 19th century. Entries are arranged alphabetically. For each doctor Pagel provides full name, place of birth, degrees and titles, important articles and books published, and a discussion of the historical importance of each... more information

Lunenberg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Buckram & marbled boards. Touch of sunning to the spine. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Lynd Ward. Folio (9-1/2" x 12-1/4") bound in red buckram with a vertical center strip of imported hand-made flame-marbled Cockrell paper that extends to the pastedowns; 292 pages. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 18 full-page two-color lithographs and 18 monochrome text drawings by Lynd Ward. Copy #95 of 2000 SIGNED by the artist o... more information

Lunenberg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Buckram & marbled boards. Mild sunning to the spine. About Fine in a Fine slipcase. Lynd Ward. Folio (9-1/2" x 12-1/4") bound in red buckram with a vertical center strip of imported hand-made flame-marbled Cockrell paper that extends to the pastedowns; 292 pages. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 18 full-page two-color lithographs and 18 monochrome text drawings by Lynd Ward. Of a total edition of 1500 copies SIG... more information

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1974). First Edition. fos o/w F/NF. Author's second book. ... more information

New York: Random House, (1987). First Edition. cloth. Fine in just about Fine dustwrapper. The stories behind the letters and poems left at the Vietnam Memorial during its first five years. Illustrated with photographs. ... more information

(Mansfield): M. Martino, [1998]. Reprint. As new. 630 pages. This volume contains about 1200 biographies with information taken primarily from obituaries published in the AUK from 1884-1954. Arranged alphabetically, the biographies contain much information not available elsewhere on both important and minor primarily American ornithologists. This is the first time this book has been reprinted. ... more information

New York: Time-Life, (1972). Revised Edition. Cloth & wraps. Wear to case, vols. fine.. Color photos. Octavo & Quart, 2 volumes. One of the more desirable books from this series. ... more information

New York: Morrow, (1985). First Edition. F/F. ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Fine. Uncorr. Proof. First book by this black author who left a successful Wall Street career to pursue writing. ... more information

(New York): Delacorte Press, (1979). First Edition. wraps. Fine. Uncorrected proof in gray wraps. INSCRIBED to Walter and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. ... more information

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. leather. About Very Good, lacking the slipcase. Maynard Dixon. Large octavo (6-5/8" x 10") bound in full tan saddle leather with title and decorations by Maynard Dixon burnt into the leather. Edited from the author's notebooks by Mason Wade with an introduction by him. Illustrated by Maynard Dixon with pen drawings and paintings in color. Copy #380 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. One of the more fragile books of the press, present here in dece... more information

(New York): The Library of America, (1983). leather. Fine. Two volumes, Second and Eighth Printings, attractively rebound by Asprey in full brown morocco with gilt rules and lettering, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt; 1503; 1620 pages. Includes PIONEERS OF FRANCE IN THE NEW WORLD; THE JESUITS IN NORTH AMERICA IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; LA SALLE AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE GREAT WEST; THE OLD REGIME IN CANADA; COUNT FRONTENAC AND NEW FRANCE UNDER LOUIS XIV; A HALF-CENTURY OF CONFLICT; and MONTCALM AND WO... more information

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. leather. Fine in a slightly worn chemise and a Very Good, darkened slipcase with one long split. Maynard Dixon. Large octavo (6-5/8" x 10") bound in full tan saddle leather with title and decorations by Maynard Dixon burnt into the leather. Edited from the author's notebooks by Mason Wade with an introduction by him. Illustrated by Maynard Dixon with pen drawings and paintings in color. Copy #232 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. One of the more... more information

(Mansfield): M. Martino, [1995]. Reprint. Fine. Plates & facsimiles. xii, 160 [1] pages. Only 150 copies of this catalogue of an important Victorian collection were reprinted. ... more information

New York: Morrow, 1963. First Edition. NF/VG. Plates & folding map. ... more information

Boston: Brown, Taggard & Chase, 1859. First Edition. Original brown cloth. Minor wear, small loss of cloth on rear cover. Very Good copy. Original brown cloth. BAL 17556: Binding A. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Owner inscription dated September 25, two days after the Library of Congress copy was deposited. Mrs. Partington was Mark Twain's model for Aunt Polly in TOM SAWYER. ... more information

[Hastings-on-Hudson, New Yo, 1933. First Edition. Decorated cloth. NF in VG dw. Plates. Privately printed. The authors attempt to prove that Clemens was not only Mark Twain but also Lewis Carroll and others. ... more information

London: Jacob Tonson, 1688. First Edition. calf. Near Fine, complete copy of this classic. The First Edition in English of Pascal's classic Les Pensees (1665). Octavo bound in early calf neatly rebacked at a later date in a slightly lighter shade of leather. Complete with front and rear blanks: [42], 375, [1] pages. The French mathematician and theologian, who invented the first digital calculator, wrestled with the inability of reason to understand God. His work with Fermat on the nature of probability p... more information

Bloomfield, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1971. buckram. Fine in lightly worn glassine and just about Fine slipcase. Ismar David. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-1/2") bound in scarlet and cream buckram with embossed lettering on the cover and gilt stamping on the spine; 230 pages. Printed at the Sign of the Stone Book. Translated by Martin Turnell and illustrated with decorative devices and 12 full-page multi-color drawings by Ismar David. Copy #1087 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter lai... more information