Search Results: Authors starting with P from Monkey House Books

Munchen: Herausgegeben vom Goethe - Institut Referat technische Unterrichtsmittel, [no date] c.1965. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket, as issued. Werkhefte fur technische Unterrichtsmittel und Mediendidaktik. Heft 4. Text in German. Some wear to covers, pages clean & bright.

Palo Alto: Hewlett Packard Company, 1961. Stapled booklet. Good/No Dust Jacket, as issued. For Serials prefixed 015-. Operating and Service Manual. Approx. 50 pages, foldouts, parts list, specs, description, instructions, illustrations & figures, theory of operation, maintenance, schematics. Light wear.

Washington, D.C.: Washington College Press, 1940. Red cloth boards. Good/No Dust Jacket. Evaluation of various theories. Textblock solid & unmarked. 323 pages, appendix. Water staining, bleaching to covers and endpapers.

The National Trust, 1964. Stapled softcover booklet. Good. History of the historic early 18th century estate of the Earls of Onslow. The grounds include a Maori 'whare' dwelling brought from New Zealand. 24 pages, b/w illustrations. Green card covers, cover wear, slight crinkle to plate pages, slight musty odor.

New York: Random House, Inc., 1975. 22nd Edition. Hardcover, blue boards. Fair-Good/No Dust Jacket. 1014 pages, covers 141 countries. Index to cities, countries, regions. Front hinge broken, endpaper tearing, spine rather worn.

ILR Press, Cornell University, 1982. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Tucked in is an ALS from Frances Hall (Mrs. James W. Craft) on her personal stationery to Patricia Friend, President of the Association of Flight Attendants, AFL-CIO; it is Hall's own copy dated 21 February 1996 and marked in pen. The letter mentions Ada Brown, first President of the Air Line Stewardess Association (predecessor to the AFA); both Hall and Brown were key figures in the story of the first stewardess union and are mentioned throughout the book. Introduction by Alice H. Cook. 160 pages, a few b/w photos, index. New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations. Light wear to covers.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1915. Green cloth, gilt-stamped cover & spine. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrated with b/w plates by Andre Castaigne.. First printing. Being the Curious History of Jean Jacques Barbille, His Labours, His Loves and His Ladies. 360 pages, clean, binding strong. Small hole on rear joint, backstrip ends bumped. Frontispiece tissue has a small hole.

New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1947. Hardcover, blue cloth boards. Good. Story of a young woman's search for love and purpose against the backdrop of 2 world wars. 435 pages. Ex-library with card pocket, BCE, spine faded and front hinge cracked. Summary pasted down on first leaf. Keyes, 1885-1970, was married to Senator Harry Keyes, and her later works are about her conversion to Catholicism.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1907. Blue cloth boards, title label affixed to spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Frontenac Edition, Francis Parkman's Works, Volume VIII. [France and England in North America, Part Fifth] Frontispiece with tissue, Contesse de Frontenac. Illustrated with plates. 523 pages, index. Edges uncut, some unopened, text clean and unmarked. Wear to covers, especially ends and corners. Front hinge cracking.

Munich: Piloty & Loehle, 1922. Beige boards.. Good Minus./No Dust Jacket. Cover image pastedown by Carl von Marr.. A XX Century Pilgrimage to a Modern Jerusalem and a New Gethsemane. Revised and Enlarged with a Complete Synopsis of the Play, Story of the Actors, Official Photographs, Beautiful New Illustrations. July 1922. 3rd Edition. Cast list, plan of auditorium, foreword by the author. 120 pages. Text in English. Advertisement and small newspaper notice tucked in. Well-worn with losses to backstrip. Slight musty odor.

The Knickerbocker Press, 1912. Dark blue-green cloth, gilt-stamped cover and spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. That Mark where Waves of Thought Formed Crest and Broke upon the Shore of a Wayfarer's Mind. ""All matter is but surf lines, blown."" Religious poetry, scarce original edition. Top edge gilt. Lengthy inscription inked on ffep: Mary Knight Woods, Bungalow Farm, Oct. 11, 1913, with a quote by A. R. Parsons. 155 pages, clean and unmarked. Frontispiece with tissue, illustrated plates. Tipped in at title page, a tag from The Little Book-Shop Around the Corner, NYC. Ends and corners worn. Some evidence of damp to covers. Parsons, 1847-1933, was an American pianist, organist, and composer from a musical family. He was also an amateurEgyptologist, astronomer, philosopher and poet.

New York: Mason Brothers, No. 7 Mercer Street, 1864. Brown embossed cloth boards, gilt-decorated cover and spine. Good Minus./No Dust Jacket. Seminal biography of an American founding father. Begins with Part IV, about 1774. Reading copy or to complete a set. 707 pages, index. Appendix includes testimonials/encomiums by distinguished 19th century figures. Considerable wear to covers, especially backstrip, which is chipped and split. Front hinge cracked, rear hinge starting. A few dog-ears. Clear wraps added for protection.

New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, No. 285 Broadway, 1850. Brown embossed cloth boards. Good/No Dust Jacket. A new translation with historical information and notes by The Rev. Thomas McCrie. Originally published in 1657 as ""Les Provinciales; or, The Mysterie of Jesuitism."" 392 pages, binding solid. Wear and tear to backstrip, old pencil inscription.

London: Phoenix, 2001. Softcover, trade paperback. Very Good. History of the players, themes, and outcomes of the six-day Easter Rising of April 1916, considered the true beginning of Irish independence. 195 pages, b/w photo section, index. Ding/crease in back cover, else Fine.

A Sunburst Book, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988 [1969]. Softcover, trade paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Novel for young people set in London during the Blitz, in which a boy and girl have run away from their families. 133 pages, for young adults or older children.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958. Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket condition good. Based on the author's Sherrill Lectures at Yale in 1956. Gives an account for an American audience of the pretrial processes of English justice and shows the divergence of the 2 systems and greater protections offered the accused in England. Sections on general principles, interrogation, arrest & detention, and the legal process. 150 pages, index. Some pencil underlining, staining to jacket, 2x1 inch loss to back panel.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. Examination of Harvard University's Graduate School of Business/School of Business Administration, the most powerful management training institution in the country. 303 pages, b/w photo section, index. Slight age-darkening, old price sticker.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1990. Large format softcover. Good. Textbook. Extensive revision of the previous edition. Cover wear, underlining. 395 pages, index.

New York: Facts on File Publications, 1988. Trade paperback. Fine. 1000+ clear and concise descriptions and definitions of events, people, places, movements and institutions that shaped French history from 1769-1804. Alphabetical entries, chronology, bibliography, maps. 231 pages. Handy reference for the student or scholar. Light shelf/edgewear.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket condition Good . Excavation and discoveries 1963-1965 led by Professor Yigael Yadin at the Biblical-era fortress overlooking the Dead Sea. Numerous b/w photos. 216 pages. Some wear & tear to jacket.