Slovar’ inostrannykh slov, voshedshikh v sostav Russkago iazyka [Dictionary of Foreign Words Used in the Russian Language]
by Pavlenkov, F.
N’iu-Iork (New York): Izdanie knizhnago magazina M. N. Maizelia, 1918. Hardcover. Third edition; 7 3/4 x 5; pp. 714; cloth-backed, brown paper over boards; paper strip to cloth; hinges reinforced with contemporary strips of linen; wear along edges; fading and some scratches to boards; previous owner’s signature to first blank leaf; foxing mostly to first and last few leaves, else pages clean; good to very good condition. Based on Pavlenkov’s Encyclopedic Dictionary and containing approximately 28 000 foreign words and... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Manuscript Book - Banking System of the United States
by Paxton, S. D.
S. l. : By the author, 1893. Very good. Manuscript; 8 1/2 x 6 3/4; pp. [18], text to rectos only; loose, lined sheets, tied with strings; title page trimmed shorter that the rest; age-toning and a bit of wear to last page; overall in very good condition. Eloquently presented, although appearing somewhat unfinished, the manuscript followed the United States banking system, from the chartering of the Bank of North America in 1781, through several financial crises, to the... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Frightfulness in Retreat
by Payelle, G., et al.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1917. Soft cover. Very Good. First English edition; small booklet; pp. [4], 5-76; original olive printed wraps; very slight horizontal ripple through middle of book and a faint spot to lower right corner, else clean and bright; frontispiece and two other b & W photos of captured German documents; very good. Tipped in printed note: "With the Compliments of Professor W. Macneile Dixon (University of Glasgow). He was a British author and academic. ... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Washingtons Denkmal zu Baltimore / Das Grabmal Washingtons
by Payne, Albert Henry
Leipzig: s. n., 1850. Very good. Broadisde, etching with engraving; sheet 7 3/4 x 10 3/4, plate mark 6 3/4 x 9 3/4; edges trimmed a bit unevenly; minor spotting to verso; in very good or better condition. Created by Albert Henry Payne (1812 - 1902), renowned engraver, printer, and illustrator born in England, but living and working through most of his life in Leipzig, the three side-by-side images depicted the Washington Monument, a portrait of George Washington, and... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Reflections of a Clown
by Payne, James A. (Tiny the Musical Clown)
S. l. (Santa Cruz [?]): By the author, 1981. Soft cover. Very Good. First edition presumed, n. d. (ca 1981); 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. i-vi, [2], 1-80 including text to last page; pink wraps, decorated in black; spine slightly faded; a few minor spots to upper margin of front cover; profusely illustrated with photographs, cartoons, and drawings; very good. James A. Payne was born in the early 1900s in Ithaca, NY. He entered the entertainment business... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Collective Farm "Trud"
by Pazukhina, Eudoxia
New York: International Pamphlets, 1932. Good. First American edition, n. d. (ca 1932); 7 1/4 x 5; pp. [2], 3-63, [1]; off-white wraps, printed in red and black and decorated with a portrait; illustrated with a frontis photograph; text block a bit wobbly; slight repairs to tips of spine; previous owner's signature to front wrap and a bookshop label to title page; in good condition. A splendid example of Soviet propaganda, the booklet contained the testimony of a poor... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Daleko li do Saigatki?
by Perfil'eva, A.
Moscow/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1948. Hardcover. First edition (presumed - OCLC lists only a later 1962 edition); 7 x 8 3/4; pp. [2], 3-219; [5]; clothe-backed pictorial boards; some wear and rubbing along edges and a few spots to margins of covers; foxing to first and last page only, else clean; small personal stamp and a number to endpaper and title page; illustrated in b&w by B. Vinokurova; overall in good to very good condition. Published in a relatively... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Provisional Certificate of Vaccination
by Perramore, Dr. E. L.
San Francisco: Health Office, New City Hall, 1897. Very good. Printed document, partially filled in manuscript; 3 1/2 x 7 1/2; faint stain through middle section, causing rippling to paper (not affecting readability); small nick to top edge; in about very good condition. History indeed repeats itself, as evident by this uncommon piece of 19th-century vaccination history. The San Francisco Health Office, founded in 1865, was initially tasked with administering vaccinations, reporting deaths, and handling internment permits. Later, its... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey No. 129. Earthquakes in California in 1894
by Perrine, Charles D.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1895. Soft cover. Very Good. First edition, staple-bound 5 3/4" x 9"; pp. i-vi publisher's advertisement, [8], 9-25, including index to back cover verso; original printed wraps; minor wear to covers-small nick to upper fore-edge of front cover; slight rust spots around staples; note"earthquakes-1894" in red to upper margin of front cover; pages clean; very good. A report of the Department of the Interior on the documented occurrences of earthquakes, in chronological order, during... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
The Gourmet
by Petrini, Frank
(San Francisco): Petrini's, 1950. Very good. First edition, n. d. (1950s); 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [1], 4-46; pictorial wraps in pink, red, and white; illustrated with small drawings; light age-toning to margins of wraps and minor cresing; small rubbed spot to lower right corner of back wrap (removed bookshop label); in about very good condition. It has been said that Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, etc. specialty grocery stores in the Bay Area "all owe at least some... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Sovremennye Puti Razvitiia Nauki o Lechebnom Pitanii [Contemporary Developments in the Science of Clinical Nutrition]
by Pevzner, M. I.
Moscow: Pravda, 1949. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 19; stapled printed wraps; faint age-toning and minor wear to edges; near fine. Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo po Rasprostraneniiu Politicheskikh i Nauchnykh Znanii (The All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge) replaced the League of Militant Atheists, also called The Union of the Godless, in 1947. The League had been formed in 1925, by the Communist Party, as an atheistic and anti-religious organization of common workers and... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
![Spring and Summer 1913 [Trade Catalog]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/312/836/1456836312.0.l.jpg)
Spring and Summer 1913 [Trade Catalog]
by Philipsborn
Chicago: Philipsborn, The Outer Garment House, Chicago, 1913. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 9 1/2 x 7; pp. 2-160, [4]; pictorial wraps by Charles Warde Traver (1870 - 1945); illustrated in black and white; a few minor spots to wraps and tiny nicks to tips of spine; two leaves (pp. 143 to 146) tipped-in - appear to have never been properly bound; overall in very good condition. Remarkably-well preserved, the catalog presented the spring and summer fashions of... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Jalomiczathal (Bucsecs.) Siebenburgische Karpathen
by [Photogravure by] Paulussen, R. v.; [Original photograph by] Dechy, M. v.
Wien, 1892. Soft cover. Good. First edition; oblong (recto only) 9 1/4" x 12"; heavy cream stock; few minor spots of foxing along margins; heavier foxing to verso (not affecting the print); good or better condition. A beautiful photogravure of the Bucegi (Bucsecs) Mountains - the Easternmost range of the South Carpathians in Romania. It depicts a stunning view of the mountains and a few of the local peoples. The art is from the series the Jahrbuch des... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Singer Sewing Library [In 4 Volumes]
by Picken, Mary Brooks; et al.
S. l.: Singer Sewing Machine Co., Inc., 1930. Very good. Complete set in original slipcase, early editions (first published in 1928); 8 1/4 x 5 1/2; stapled pictorial wraps; illustrated with numerous drawings and patterns; generally mild wear with occasional creasing and mild age-toning; slipcase in gilt, red, and black - in fair condition, with rubbed spots and bottom panel perished. Written for Singer by prolific author of books on needlework, sewing, and textile arts Mary Brooks Picken (1886... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Women Poems
by Piercy, Marge; et al
N/A, 1973. Softcover. First edition, n.d. ca 1973 (small note to upper margin of front cover "rec'd 5/73"); 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 53; mustard wraps illustrated and printed in black; faint fading along margins; thin closed cut to tail of spine; internally clean; very good to near fine. An apparently unrecorded anthology of poems by various well-known female poets, activists, and educators including Marge Piercy, Nikki Giovanni, Rita Mae Brown, Sylvia Plath, etc.
Offered by ZH Books
Konsolidatsiia i T. Zv. Neperedrishenstvo
by Pihido, Fedir
New Ulm, Germany: Ukrains'kikh Vistei, 1958. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 8; pp. 20; beige wraps printed in black; minor age-toning and spotting to margins of wraps; faint vertical crease line; very good or better. Fedir Pihido - Pravoberezhnii was a Ukrainian historian and cultural activist. He was also a high-ranking official of the UNR (Ukrainian National Republic) - the predecessor of modern Ukraine. Pihido emigrated to Germany at the end of the Second World War. He would head the... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
![Nesostoiavshaiasia gazeta Pushkina. "Dnevnik" (1831 - 1832) (Pushkin's Failed Newspaper. "A Diary" [1831 - 1832]) [An Association Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/208/227/1459227208.0.l.jpg)
Nesostoiavshaiasia gazeta Pushkina. "Dnevnik" (1831 - 1832) (Pushkin's Failed Newspaper. "A Diary" [1831 - 1832]) [An Association Copy]
by Piksanov, N. (Nikolai)
S.-Peterburg (St. Petersburg): Tipografiia Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 1907. Very good. First edition in book form; 9 3/4 x 6 1/2; pp. 1-45; rebound in blue buckram, with original wraps bound-in; gilt title to spine; occasional minor wear to pages; in very good to near fine condition. Signed and inscribed by the author to title page. Nikolai Kiriakovich Piksanov (1878 - 1969) was a scholar, author, critic, educator, and member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Most of... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Thirty Years a Detective. A Thorough and Comprehensive Expose of Criminal Practices of All Grades and Classes. Containing Numerous Episodes of Personal Experience in the Detection of Criminals and Covering a Period of Thirty Years’ Active Detective life
by Pinkerton, Allan
New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, 1884. Hardcover. First edition, sold only by subscription; 8 x 5 1/2; pp. 616; embossed pebbled brown cloth over boards; title and decorations in gilt and black; rubbed spots and fraying to tips of spine and corners; illustrated with 24 steel engraved plates, including frontis (plates numbered according to illustrations' index and corresponding facing page with plate 280 erroneously numbered 279) and vignettes at beginning of each chapter; hinges strong; signatures slightly... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Picnic Time
by Pinkham, Lydia E.
Lynn, Massachusetts: Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, 1920. First Edition. Very good. First edition, n. d. (ca 1920); 7 x 4 1/2; pp. 2-32; stapled pictorial wraps; illustrated with drawings; small nicks to tips of spine; uniform age-toning to text block; in about very good condition. Lydia Pinkham was a herbal medicine manufacturer and the creator of some of the best known patent medicines of the 19th century. She began brewing her potions at home and distributing them for... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Slavic Americans in the Fight for Victory and Peace
by Pirinsky, George
New York, NY: American Slav Congress, 1946. Softcover. First edition; 5 x 7 3/4; pp. 61; illustrated brick-red wraps; small rubbed spots to spine; illustrated with photographs; very good to near fine. In late 1941 and early 1942, with the German army invading Russia and the US entering the Second World War, a huge all-Slavic convention gathered in Detroit on April 25 to 28, 1942. Thus, the American Slav Congress was founded with the purpose of operating as an ally... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
La republique de Platon, ou dialogue sur la justice [In Two Volumes]
by Plato
Paris: Chez Humblot, Libraire, 1765. Very good. Mid-18th-century edition; 6 3/4 x 4; vol. I pp. [3], iv-ciij, [2], 2-259, [1], vol. II pp. [5], 2-406; full speckled roan; five raised bands and gilt title and ruling to spine; illustrated with woodcuts and historiated initials at the beginning of each volume; rubbed spots to corners and chips to tips of spine; vol. II with small loss of leather to lower margin of front board; in good to... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Kaiser ushel generaly ostalis (The Kaiser Goes, the Generals Remain)
by Plivier, Teodor (Plievier, Theodore)
Leningrad (St. Petersburg): Ogiz - Lengikhil, 1933. Very good. First Russian edition, 1 of 5250 copies; 7 3/4 x 5 1/4; pp. [3], 4-275, [1]; black paper over boards with a Constructivist design by V. Sveshnikov; beginning of each chapter illustrated with a black and white drawing; small rubbed spots with minor loss to tips of spine; a bit of wear to edges and corners; bookplate of previous owner - author Leonid Wolmer - to title page verso;... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Otchet o kapitalnom remonte Spaso-Nereditskoi tserkvi v 1903 i 1904 godakh. Materialy po arkheologii Rossii, izdavaemye imperatorskoiu arkheologicheskoiu kommissieiu, no. 30 (Report of the Major Repairs of the Spaso-Nereditskoi Church in 1903 and 1904. Materials on the Archaeology of Russia, Published by the Imperial Archaeological Commission, No. 30)
by Pokryshkin, P. P.
S.-Peterburg (St. Petersburg): TipografiiaGlavnago Upravleniia Udelov, 1906. Hardcover. First edition; 15 3/4 x 11 1/2; pp. [6], 1-36, [56]; bound in morocco-backed, black, pebbled cloth; 5 raised bands and gilt title to spine; illustrated with 26 of 27 plates (it appears plate No. IX has never been properly bound), including 12 plates of plans and diagrams (some hand-colored), 13 halftones from photographs, and a tipped-in color plate of a fresco; also included 13 in-text drawings; rubbed spots to corners;... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Vecher Sv. Nykolaia. Stsenichnyi obrazok v 1. akti (St. Nicholas' Evening. A Stage Scene in 1 Act)
by Polianskyi, Amvrosii
Jersey City: Z drukarni "Svobody", 1930. Very good. Presumed first edition published in the US, n. d. (ca 1930); 6 3/4 x 5; pp. [1], 4-15; yellow wraps, printed in black and illustrated with a small vignette; mild age-toning and creasing to margins; in very good or better condition. A short play, it was written by Ukrainian Bishop, social figure, and educator Amvrosii Polianskyi (1878 - 1932). He would tragically die, while in exile for his political activities, in... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Heneral W. Shpyhunska povist (General W. A Spy Novel))
by Polianich, Boguslav (pseud. for Luzhnytskyi, Hryhorii)
Filiadelfiia: Populiarna biblioteka v-va "Kyiv", 1951. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 x 4 1/4; pp. [2], 5-249, [5]; pictorial wraps in green, orange, and white; a small spot to spine cover and mild wear to edges; in very good condition. Hryhorii Luzhnytskyi (1903 - 1990) was a Ukrainian poet, author, scientist, publisher, and theater critic and historian. Immigrating to Philadelphia after WWII he continued writing, including his current book on the murder of the Polish communist general... Read More
Offered by ZH Books