The Hermit of Eyton Forest
by Peters, Ellis
New York: Mysterious Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Peters with her real name on the title page. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($15.95). Quarter black cloth with green paper on the boards, bumped at the bottom-right corner. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The fourteenth novel in Peters's Cadfael series.
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An Edgar Rice Burroughs Collector's Handbook I Version 2.0; Magazines, Hardcovers & Paper Firsts
by Peters, Harold R.
Grindstone: Silver Sun Press, 1996. Second Edition. Spiral bound. Near Fine. Limited to 250 copies signed by Peters. Near Fine. Comb-bound, some bumps to the edges, clean internally. The second edition, published six months after the first, a notebook for collectors to keep a record of the condition of books in their collection. From the collection of Joan Bledig.
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UFOs God's Chariots?; Flying Saucers in Politics, Science and Religion
by Peters, Tom
Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($7.95), lightly rubbed at the surface and edges. Blue cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, lightly soiled at the top edge, ownership signature of Tom Benson on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Peters's work that examines von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods? and the connection between UFOs and "our subconcious psycho-religious needs." From... Read More
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The Complete Works of Gaius Petronius; Comprising The Satyricon and Poems
by Petronius, Gaius
London: Fanfrolico Press, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Translated by Jack Lindsay. Illustrated by Norman Lindsay. Limited to 650 copies signed by Jack Lindsay. Good. Half-vellum, faded at the spine, scuffed and bumped at the edges, with marbled paper on the boards, equally worn. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, clean internally.
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Beyond Engineering
by Petroski, Henry
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. First printing. Near fine in a very good jacket, unclipped ($17.95), rubbed at the edges, lightly scarred at the base of the spine from a sticker. Black buckram with silver lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound. The follow-up to his successful debut, To Engineer Is Human. In this collection of personal essays, Petroski connects the literary and engineering worlds.
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Second Look Frontiers of Science Magazine November 1978-May-June 1982 [28 Issues]
by Philip, Elizabeth; Temple, Robert K.G.
Washington DC: Second Look | Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), 1982. Staplebound. Near Fine. November 1978 through July-August 1981, January-February 1982 through May-June 1982. Near Fine to Fine. Very minimal handling wear. All firmly bound with two staples, except for the first issue which is loosely bound as folded sheets. A complete run of Second Look with early issues of Frontiers of Science, which is the publication formed by the merger between Second Look and International UFO Reporter.... Read More
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The Mislaid Charm
by Phillips, Alexander M.
Philadelphia: The Prime Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated by Herschel Levit. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped ($1.75), generally toned and rubbed, soiled at the back panel. Navy cloth, bumped at the corners, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square, bound with some reading wear, clean internally.
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Hemingway and Film
by Phillips, Gene D.
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($10.95), bumped at the edges. Blue cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Phillips's work of criticism that explains the difficult adapting Hemingway's writing to film.
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Machine Dreams
by Phillips, Jayne Anne
New York: E.P. Dutton | Seymour Lawrence, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in an about Fine, unclipped ($16.95), toned at the flaps. Quarter white cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
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Tarzan and Jane's Guide to Grammar
by Phillips, Mark
New York: A.J. Cornell Publications, 2005. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. About Fine. Wraps bumped at the foot of the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. From the ERB collection of Joan Bledig.
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Worlds Within
by Phillips, Rog
Chicago: Century Publications, 1950. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Century Book No. 124. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Phillips's novel about an engineer at Lockheed who finds himself falling in love with a woman from another world.
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The Walkaway
by Phillips, Scott
Tuscon: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Limited to 400 copies signed by Phillips, this also signed by McMillan on the copyright page. Complete in the issued slipcase. Fine in a Fine jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Phillips's second novel, a prequel/sequel to his award-winning debut The Ice Harvest. `.
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Cottonwood
by Phillips, Scott
New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. With the publisher's promotional materials laid-in. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($23.95), creased at the back flap. Black paper on the boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Phillips's third novel, a hard-boiled western spanning more than 20 years and from Kansas to California. `.
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The Walkaway
by Phillips, Scott
New York: Ballantine Books, 2002. Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Phillips's second novel, a prequel/sequel to his award-winning debut The Ice Harvest.
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Dead Crazy; A Jenny Cain Mystery
by Pickard, Nancy
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Wraps lightly faded at the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. The fifth Jenny Cain mystery.
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
by Piketty, Thomas
Cambridge: The Belknap Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($39.95), faintly rubbed. Quarter black cloth with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Here, Piketty "analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns.
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A UFO Digest Exclused: Admiral G. Pinon Writes to President Nicolas Sarkozy about UFOs
by Pinon, Gilles
[n.p.]: UFO Digest, 2008. Staplebound. Very Good. 12p., rectos only. Translated by Robert D. Morningstar. Very Good. Pages bumped and lightly curled at the corners, a few stray stains, clean otherwise. A bilingual piece about the implications of extraterrestrial life on earth, with a particular focus on governing and international relations. Originally published online, though the webpage appears broken as of this cataloging. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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The Republic of Dreams
by Pinon, Nelida
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Translated by Helen Lane. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($22.95), faded at the spine, lightly bumped at the edges. Quarter cream cloth with light green paper on the boards, soiled at the bottom edge. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first English translation of any of Pinon's works.
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Gulf Music
by Pinsky, Robert
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($22.00). Dark blue buckram with bronze gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name and prize statement on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. A politically minded collection of poems by the former Poet Laureate.
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Moonlight
by Pinter, Harold
London: Faber and Faber, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket, unclipped (£12.99 net), faintly bumped and soiled. Black cloth with white ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, erratum label on the half-title, clean internally. A play about family and death from the Nobel Prize-winning playwright.
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Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
by Pirandello, Luigi
New York: Penguin Books, 1995. Paperback. Near Fine. Translated by Mark Musa. Third Printing. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed at the edges and surface. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise.
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The Fierce and Beautiful World
by Platonov, Andrei
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Translated by Joseph Barnes. Introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, clippe, generally rubbed and soiled, a few scuffs. Quarter black cloth with orange paper on the boards, lightly soiled. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the top edge, foxed at the endpapers. The first English-language publication of Platonov's works, a collection of stories written during the 1920s and 1930s.... Read More
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Finance, Trade, and Politics: British Foreign Police 1815-1914
by Platt, D.C.M.
London: Oxford University Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped (84s. net), bumped and with some shallow chips and short tears, a stain at the front panel. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, lightly soiled at the top edge, clean internally.
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The Girls of Playboy One
by Playboy
Chicago: Playboy Press, 1973. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped (no price), a chip at the back panel. Brown cloth, bumped at the corners, with bronze gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of 151 full-color photographs.
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Six Issues of British Flying Saucer Bureau Sighting Bulletin
by Plunkett, E.L.
Bristol: British Flying Saucer Bureau, 1957. Staplebound. Good. Consisting of 1-4, 6, 13. Good. Covers bumped and soiled, a few folding creases, generally clean internally. A collection of UFO sighting reports from Great Britain and the Commonwealth. No copies located in OCLC. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson. [Eberhart 9044].
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