Seven Red Sundays
by SENDER, Ramón J. (novel); Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell (translation)
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1936. Octavo (20cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; maroon topstain; dustjacket; 439pp. Minor rippling to spine cloth, with a small streak of topstain dye to right edge of textblock and some bleed-through from same to upper edge of endpapers; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly edgeworn and spine-sunned, with a few small tears, and corresponding bleed-through and damp marks on verso; Very Good. Revolutionary novel of the early days of... Read More
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Starry Messenger (Caldecott Honor)
by Sis, Peter
New York: FSG, 1996 Blue paper boards with blind-stamped design in a color pictorial dust jacket. Biography of the famed astronomer, Galileo with magnificent illustrations by Peter Sis. Scientific American Young Readers Book Award, Caldecott Honor Book, IBBY Honor Books, School Library Journal Best Books of the Year.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Peter Sis. 4to.
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Autograph Sentiment Signed
by POTTER, Peter
("Peter Potter") boldly penned in blue ink on vintage album leaf. 5 7/8" x 4 1/4", very good. Signed and inscribed: "To Dale - My best to you, Night Owl - Peter Potter.". Signed by Author(s). No Binding. Very Good.
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Koko - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Straub, Peter
New York: E. P. Dutton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0525246606 . An attractive first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket with minor edgewear; Winner of the 1989 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Peter Straub's most acclaimed and biggest-selling novel set in Vietnam; 8vo; [viii], ix-xi, [xii-xiv], [2], 3-562 pages .
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Neil Leifer's Sports Stars. Text by Peter Bonventre...Foreword by Roone Arledge. Designed by J.C. Suares
by Leifer, Neil
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1985 First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Color illustrations throughout. Fine in fine d.j. Presentation copy, inscribed: "Dear Nell & Herb, Sorry that my pictures are still, 'still.' I promise you that they'll be 'moving' very soon. Until then please enjoy the shots in my book I'm very proud of them. That you for being so very special to me. With best wishes, your friend...
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The Tax Inspector - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Carey, Peter
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library. As New. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Full-Leather. A special first edition/first printing preceding the trade edition in unread As New condition. SIGNED by author Peter Carey; The Catchprices of suburban Sydney, Australia, are a family of misfits coming apart at the seams. Sixteen-year-old Benny seems to be the only one who cares that the family auto dealership is near collapse, despite some creative bookkeeping. Things get even more interesting... Read More
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Margaret Ogilvy
by BARRIE, J.M.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition. Gray papercovered boards decorated in white and gilt. Top edge gilt. Modest age-toning on the boards, else near fine. Barrie's successful early novels which romanticized Scottish small town life, including *The Little Minister*, drew heavily on his mother's memories. Generally considered one of the best efforts by the inventor of *Peter Pan*, it is particularly noted for its humor and lack of Victorian reticence.
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FOLLOW THE DREAM
by Sis, Peter
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this simple story of Christopher Columbus's career, with fantastic illustrations by Peter Sis - winner of the NEW YORK TIMES Illustrated Children's Book Award. Hans Christian Andersen Medal-winning artist Peter Sis's entrancing, joyful, and detailed illustrations mix technical prowess with a love for the medium. His work boasts man accolades, including seven NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Best Illustrated Book... Read More
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The Tax Inspector - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Carey, Peter
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library. Fine. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Full-Leather. A special first edition/first printing preceding the trade edition in unread Fine condition, minute scrape separating it from As New. SIGNED by author Peter Carey; The Catchprices of suburban Sydney, Australia, are a family of misfits coming apart at the seams. Sixteen-year-old Benny seems to be the only one who cares that the family auto dealership is near collapse, despite some creative bookkeeping.... Read More
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5,000 years of textiles
by Harris, Jennifer
Washington [D.C.]: Smithsonian Books, 2004. Softcover. VG. Ilustrated wrap covers. 320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps. Originally published: London : British Museum Press, 1993./ Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-311) and index. Contents: Survey of textile techniques / Jennifer Harris -- Mediterranean / Joan Allgrove McDowell -- Central and northern Europe / John-Peter Wild -- Sassanian textiles ; Early Islamic textiles / Joan Allgrove McDowell -- Byzantine silks / Anna Muthesius -- Safavid Iran (1499-1722) ; Ottoman Empire... Read More
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MADLENKA'S DOG
by Sis, Peter
New York: Frances Forster Books, 2002. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this charming story of how Madlenka and her invisible dog make lots of canine friends, with help from the fond memories of her neighbors - with original doggy drawing. Hans Christian Andersen Medal-winning artist Peter Sis's entrancing, joyful, and detailed illustrations mix technical prowess with a love for the medium. His work boasts man accolades, including seven NEW YORK TIMES BOOK... Read More
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Smilla's Sense of Snow - 1st US Edition/1st Printing
by Hoeg, Peter
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0374266441 . A handsome US first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with some wear to lower spine and minor soiling to lower edge of book. In Fine dust-jacket. Translated from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally; Smilla's Sense of Snow is a novel about a girl named Smilla Jorgensen who moves to Copenhagen to be with her... Read More
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Amadeus
by SHAFFER, Peter
(London): Andre Deutsch, 1980. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Publisher's errata slip is tipped onto page 109 of text (as issued by publisher). Fine in fine dust jacket. Shaffer adapted his own play for the Milos Forman film which won them both Academy Awards, as well as Best Picture and Best Actor for F. Murray Abraham (co-star Tom Hulce was also nominated in this category for the title role).
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English Music - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Ackroyd, Peter
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library. As New. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Full-Leather. A special Limited first edition preceding the trade edition in As New condition, never taken out of its original shrink-wrap. SIGNED by author Peter Ackroyd directly on the limitations page; When Timothy is a child, Clement Harcombe frequently takes his young son to Hackney Square to see the monuments of John Bunyan and William Blake. When faced with separation from his father... Read More
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The African Queen (Original photograph from the 1951 film)
by John Huston (director, screenwriter); C. S. Forester (novel); James Agee, Peter Viertel, John Collier (screenwriters); Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1951. Vintage reference photograph from the 1951 film, showing actor Humphrey Bogart in costume, in the rain. Based on the 1935 novel by C. S. Forester, which follows the crew of a steamship ferrying supplies to villages in East Africa during World War I. A classic masterpiece of an adventure tale, in which a boozy Bogart and an uptight Katharine Hepburn find romance in the face of wartime adversity. Winner of an... Read More
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Gallows View (First Edition, inscribed)
by Peter Robinson
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. First American Edition, preceded by the First Canadian Edition published in 1987 by Viking Canada. INSCRIBED on the title page: "To Frances / Best wishes / Peter Robinson / Pasadena '91." Author's first novel, winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Light offsetting to the endpapers. Jacket flaps moderately toned along the edges.
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The Best of I.F. Stone
by STONE, I.F. (Introduction by Peter Osnos)
New York: Public Affairs, 2006. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Edited by Karl Weber. Introduction by Peter Osnos. Corners lightly bumped, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife Elena by Peter Osnos on the title page.
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Peter and Alexis (The Modern Library of the Worlds' Best Books, ML 175)
by Merejkowski, Dmitri; Guerney, Bernard Guilbert
New York: The Modern Library, 1936. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. 1936 printing of Toledano 175.1, binding/jacket style 7f, orange Rockwell Kent endpapers. Very good in good jacket. A few light spots on fore edge, pages lightly toned, jacket edges rubbed with two closed tears along edges, jacket toned (especially spine). vi, 591, [6] pp. Translated from the Russian with an introduction by Bernard Guilbert Guerney. Merejkowski was part of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry, an... Read More
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Naked Once More - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Peters, Elizabeth
New York: Warner Books. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0446514829 . A Fine first edition/first printing with some light foxing to the page edges in a Fine dust-jacket, signed "Best wishes" by the author Elizabeth Peters directly on the title page; Naked Once More is the story of a woman's return to her body and her search for self-understanding. After a debilitating accident leaves her unable to clothe... Read More
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Benedict Arnold; Son of the Havens (inscribed By the Author to James D. Horan)
by Decker, Peter
New York: Antiquarian Press Ltd, 1960. Quarto. Later printing. Inscribed By the Author to James D. Horan, 534p. index. bibliography. illustrated. This important work is profusely illustrated with over seventy-five illustrations including pictures never before published of Maj. Gen. Theodore Stephenson (Arnold's great-grandson), Maj. David s. Franks (Arnold's military aide), and many others. The author spent ten years of research and his visits to the locations makes this the best-written and most important account on the nature of... Read More
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The collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. American paintings to 1945 (2 volumes)
by Conrads, Margaret C.
Kansas City, Missouri: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007. Hardcover. Both volumes fine/fine. Both volumes: slate cloth/boards; silver lettering. Color-illus. dust jackets with white lettering on red title block; Mylar covers. Volume 1: 559 pp.; Volume 2: 280 pp.; both volumes with color frontis and color/bw plates and figures throughout. Heavy at 13 pounds and will require extra postage. Showcasing one of the nation's finest collections of American art, this remarkable two-volume set features 267 exceptional paintings reproduced... Read More
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Six Anti-Nazi One Act Plays
by (BRECHT, Bertolt, Peter Bernt, Jerome L. Schwartz, H.S. Kraft, Peter Nikl, and Wiliam Kozlenko). MOORE, Stephen, edited by
New York: Contemporary Play Productions, 1939. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Small octavo. 108pp. Gray wrappers printed in red. Slight age-toning, just about fine. Six plays, the best known being Bertolt Brecht's *The Informer*. Other contributors include Peter Bernt, Jerome L. Schwartz, H.S. Kraft, Peter Nikl, and Wiliam Kozlenko.
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Visions and Ruins
by RUSSELL, Peter
(Kineton, Warwick): Saint Albert's Press/ (Printed by The Roundwood Press Limited), 1964. Softcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Foreword by Kathleen Raine. Quarto. 27pp. Near fine in string-tied wrapper with light corner crease and bumped corner in about very good soiled dustwrapper with moderate edgewear, including several chips. Inscribed to the English biographer: "Robert Payne, with best wishes Peter Russell." Limited to 750 numbered copies. This is copy number 325.
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The Heaven Tree
by Edith Pargeter [a.k.a. Ellis Peters]
London: Heinemann, 1960. Very Good/Very Good. London: Heinemann, [1960]. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket by Peter Edwards retaining original price (18s); [6],364pp. Very light shelf wear to jacket margins, brief soil to rear jacket panel and verso, textblock margins rather foxed, else a Very Good and sound copy in bright and attractive jacket. Historical novel set in the age of King John by the author best known for her historical mysteries published... Read More
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Barbara Morgan
by Morgan, Barbara; Introduction by Peter Bunnell
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: A Morgan & Morgan Monograph, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. SIGNED. Quarto [27.5 cm] Dark red spine and boards. Spine ends and corners of the covers lightly rubbed. In a worn dust jacket, with large losses from the edges, and several tape repairs to the reverse. "While Morgan is best known for the vibrancy of her dance photographs, equally characteristic of her diverse work is her ability to capture ephemeral gesture. In the mid-1930s, her... Read More
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