Authors starting with P from Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc.

New York: George H. Doran, 1927. First Edition. Very good plus in dust jacket. ... more information

New York: N.D.C. Hodges, 1891. First Edition. A very good copy. ... more information

Boston: Small, Maynard, 1911. First Edition. Of New England. Minute wear; a fine, bright copy. ... more information

Racine: Whitman Publishing, 1939. “Better Little Book” photoplay edition of the DeMille film which starred Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrae. Publisher’s boards; a little cocked; near fine. ... more information

Private Paddock served with the New Jersey Cavalry, 1st Regiment. He was mustered in on September 9, 1861. Writing in September of 1861 on patriotic color stationery from Camp Keystone, Washingon, D.C. [we preserve the eccentric spelling of the young cavalryman]; “...you must excues me for not wrighting to you before i have so much Bad luck that I am all most Discuredg of living any longer i had colt fore years all last spring i had him out to water and he cut up so much i could do noting with him and he... more information

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. First Edition. Fine in a dust jacket with light browning and wear. ... more information

Wash drawing on illustration board; approximately 12” tall x 9 1/2” wide; presented by the illustrator, “To Dr. McClure [headmaster of Mill Hill School]/ The New Year/ 1904.” Signed with initials in the right hand corner. This piece was in [Harmsworth’s] London magaine for January, 1903, illustrating “The Case of the Lever Key.” In the magazine, this is captioned, “ ‘Why Man Alive!’ he cried, ‘where did you get this?’ “ A little foxing, but overall in excellent condition. The boo... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1913. First Edition. Very good in a dust jacket with a small tape reinforcement inside the top of the spine. ... more information

New York: Arena Publishing, 1894. First Edition. Very good. In Bleiler. ... more information

London: Printed for J.S. Jordan, 1792. First Edition. Bound with the fifth edition of Part I (printed by Jordan in 1791). Contemporary calf; dried and worn; outer joints breaking; aside from an occasional minor spot, the contents are in excellent condition. In a custom quarter-morocco clamshell box. The first edition of Part I, suppressed by its original publisher, is so rare as to be considered unobtainable; Jordan re-issued it and published the second part, a far more important work. Paine moved to Franc... more information

New York: Crown, 1953. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket. Basis for the 1956 film of the same title which starred James Darren. ... more information

London: Allen & Unwin, 1942. First Edition. Near fine in dust jacket. The play was produced in Prague in 1939 but suppressed at the insistence of the Nazis. ... more information

London: Allen & Unwin, 1942. First Edition. Near fine in dust jacket. The play was produced in Prague in 1939 but suppressed at the insistence of the Nazis. ... more information

New York: Ray Long and Richard R. Smith, 1932. First Edition. A political fantasy; in Bleiler. Some staining; good to very good in dust jacket. ... more information

Garden City: Crime Club, 1941. First Edition. Very good or a little better in dust jacket. Hollywood. ... more information

New York: Mill-Morrow, 1954. First Edition. Goldstone bookplate; very good in a dust jacket with minor interior tape mends. ... more information

Garden City: Doubleday, 1953. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket. ... more information

New York: American Printing History Society, 1998. First Edition. Of an edition of 720 copies, this is one of only 120 printed on Hahnemuhle Biblio, and specially bound by Judi Conant. This is the printer’s copy with their bookplate on the front front free end paper, therefore lacking the samples in the rear pocket which would have been supplied by the publisher. Fine. ... more information

Andover, Massachusetts: The Andover Press, 1931. First Edition. Publisher’s half-suede and printed boards; very good. ... more information

London: Willoughby and Co., n.d.[1850]. First Edition of this Christmas story. With 10 engravings and 4 hand-colored illustrations. Bound by Root & Son in 3/4 morocco; some fading and light wear; gift inscription; very good. ... more information