Titles starting with P from Charles Agvent, ABAA

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1986). First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. National Book Award winner about a wounded Vietnam War veteran. ... more information

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1986). First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Fine in dustwrapper with a little wrinkling at rear top edge. National Book Award winner about a wounded Vietnam War veteran. SIGNED in 1988 by the author. ... more information

New York: Albondocani Press, 1974. First Edition. wraps. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. Pictorial dustwrapper (reproducing a photograph by Eudora Welty on the front and rear covers) sewn over unprinted black wraps. Copy #219 of 300 (of a total edition of 326) SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Welty's account of a "Pageant of Birds," a performance by African-American women in the 1930s at the Farish Street Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi. Six of Welty's photographs of the event are reproduced ... more information

(New York): Eye and Ear Theater, (1983). wraps. Some soiling. Very Good. A 12-page theater program for this theater's production of Auden's first play with sets and costumes by David Hockney. ... more information

New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1968. First Edition. wraps. Fine. Printed decorated wraps. Number 64 of only 100 numbered and SIGNED copies (of a total edition of 126). ... more information

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1873. First American Edition. cloth. Very Good. Issued in the Leisure Hour Series. Publisher's decorated cloth. Hardy's third novel and the first published under his own name. Fraying to spine tips. The light-colored cloth is foxed and soiled. The first sentence of most of the chapters have a pencil notation that seems to be the reader's response to the chapter titles. ... more information

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1939). First Edition. cloth. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with a taped tear at the bottom of the rear panel and sunning to the spine. Porter's second book containing the title novel, "Old Mortality," and the much anthologized "Noon Wine." SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper "in Atlanta" on 22 April 1939. ... more information

(Boston): (Houghton Mifflin), (1926). First Edition. Spine & corners rather worn. Good copy.. Limited to 700 copies. ... more information

(London): Editions Poetry London, (1949). First Edition. cloth. About Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper with trifling wear to tips. Cover and drawings by Francizska Themerson. Neat owner name on front endpaper. ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1873). Reprint. Decorated green cloth. Covers a bit soiled, occasional stain or tear to contents. 321 pages. BAL 19476. Original decorated green cloth; illustrated with a map and text cuts. A collection of essays on life in pre-Disney and pre-retirement home Florida. SIGNED by the author with the inscription "Trust in the Lord and Do good," dated "Hartford March 1893" on the front blank. Very Good copy. ... more information

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1993). First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. A book of poetry from this Southern novelist, INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. ... more information

Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1928. First Edition. cloth. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper. Corners bumped; spine of dustwrapper darkened. ... more information

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1978). First Edition. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: Arbor House, (1982). First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1998. First Edition. cloth. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the title page and quite uncommon thus as she primarily signed bookplates only on her tour for this book and not the book itself, as she did here. ... more information

London: Chatto & Windus, (1998). First Edition. cloth. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. First English Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Features a much different dustwrapper than the American edition. ... more information

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, (1990). First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. This first novel by a writer who was born in Spain and raised in Chile was nominated for the National Book Award. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1998. First Edition. wraps. Near Fine and uncommon. The first state of the Uncorrected Proof in quarto-sized (8-1/2" x 11") printed blue wraps. Very minor wrinkling. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1998. First Edition. cloth. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1998. First Edition. wraps. Fine. The second state of the Uncorrected Proof in octavo-sized (6-1/8" x 9-1/4") printed light gray wraps. ... more information