Titles starting with P from Lorne Bair Rare Books

London: Editions Poetry, 1946. First Edition.. Linen-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 188pp; illus. Mild foxing to endpapers; brief gift inscription (dated 1948), brief bumps to board corners; Very Good. In slightly rubbed pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped, lightly worn at spine ends. Articles by Max Jones, Charles Wilford, Frederic Ramsey, Charles McCarthy, others; 24 illustrations from photographs. ... more information

Austin: Cold Mountain Press, 1973. First Edition.. 12mo. Folding sleeve holding ten signed broadside poems (5" x 6-1/2"), loose as issued, comprising the entire "First Series" of the Cold Mountain Press Poetry Post Cards. Fine condition. The sleeve prints Neruda's "Ode To Some Yellow Flowers;" the signed broadsides include William Stafford's "Over the Miles;" Linda Pastan, "Paperweight;" Donald Hall, "Oh, said Kate;" Denise Lever... more information

Seattle: Superior Publishing, 1959. First edition.. Quarto. Gray cloth (hardcover); 192pp. Mild foxing to dustjacket and endpapers; bookplate; internally clean and unmarked. Slightly musty from long attic storage. ... more information

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970. Second printing.. Large octavo. Cloth boards, 1005pp. Very good in good dustjacket. Slight dusting to upper page edges, brief ownership signature, otherwise no markings. Chipping and wear to edges of dustjacket, with original price clipped off. ... more information

New York: Henry Holt, 1929. First edition.. Octavo. Tan cloth boards; dustjacket; 314p; illus. Stain to front board; slightly musty, else a good, tight copy in the original dustjacket, complete but slightly wrinkled at edges, soil visible to lighter portions. Original price intact. ... more information

Washington DC: United States George Washington Bicentennial Committee, 1931. First Edition.. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial wrappers; 42pp. Light wear and soil, else Fine. ... more information

Hammondsworth: Penguin Books, 1954. First Edition.. Quarto. Red cloth (hardcover); 253pp text + 192 plates. Tight, unmarked copy, Clean, tight copy, slightly rubbed in lightly soiled & edgeworn dustjacket. ... more information

Penguin Books: Penguin Books, 1953. First Edition.. Red cloth (hardcover); 270pp text + 192 plates. Clean, unmarked copy, lightly worn, VG+ in VG dustjacket. Nice copy. Pelican History of Art series. ... more information

Hammondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971. First edition.. Quarto. Red cloth (hardcover); 554p text + 300 plates. Clean, tight copy, about Fine in mildly rubbed & edgeworn dustjacket and pictorial slipcase. In the Pelican History of Art Series. ... more information

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. First Edition.. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 374pp; illus. Clean, tight and unmarked, about Fine in lightly rubbed jacket. ... more information

Long Beach: McDonnell-Douglas Corporation, 1984. Quarto. Pictorial glossy wrappers (softcover); unpaginated. Mild cover wear, else Near Fine. ... more information

New Haven: HRAF Press, 1957. First Edition.. Octavo. Original printed wrappers (softcover, as issued); 222pp. Exhaustive bibliography of the subject. Ownership signature neatly inked out at top of title page, else a clean, solid, and unmarked copy. ... more information

London: Frank Cass, 1984. First Edition.. Original pictorial wrappers (softcover); 217pp. Spine and corners rubbed; internally Fine. ... more information

New York: Praeger, 1969. First Edition.. Blue cloth (hardcover); 244pp; bibliog. ... more information

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1931. First Edition.. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 312pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in nearly Fine dustjacket. Very attractive copy.English society romance; one of at least four titles in the "Pam" series, begun in 1905 by Baroness von Hutten, nee Bettina Riddle of Erie, Pennsylvania. ... more information

Washington DC: Pan American Union, 1942. First printing.. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial wrappers; 14pp; folding map. Bright copy, with folding map in fine condition. ... more information

Paris: Jean-Baptiste Coignard, 1751. Second edition.. 12mo. Full contemporary mottled calf; 435pp. Mild scuffing & wear to binding; scattered soil & faint stains to contents; easily Very Good overall. Collection of Father Segaud's panegyric & funerary essays, mostly for Jesuit luminaries: Francis de Sales; Francis Xavier; Francis Regis. ... more information

Los Angeles: Title Insurance and Trust Company, 1953. First Edition.. Quarto. Tan cloth (hardcover); unpaginated (ca. 150pp). Printed by Ward Ritchie. Foxing to endpapers, mild soil to cloth; text clean and unmarked. Uncommon in cloth. ... more information

New York: David McKay Company, 1970. First Edition.. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 231pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Minor soiling to jacket; else bright and textually unmarked copy in very good dustjacket. ... more information

New York: Angel Hair Books, 1968. First, Limited Edition.. Quarto, 29cm (11" x 8-1/2"). Number 6 of 15 special copies, signed by both Fagin and Schneeman (of a total edition of 300). Original pictorial xerographic wrappers, side stapled; [25] leaves.Terrific cover graphic by the New York painter and graphic artist George Schneeman, a frequent Angel Hair contibutor. Necessarily scarce thus. ... more information