Search Results: Authors starting with P from Independent Books

Washington D.C.: The American Nature Association, 1942 560 numbered pp; HB. Compilation of 10 issues, including covers. Pages: clean, bright, tight, a.e. lt tanned, eps toned. Cover: green, gilt titles spine; v lt shelfwear, .spine/t.e. faded, slight soil. Of historical interest. Heavy.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1920 523-624 pp. + ads. Ex-Library, spine tape reinforced and title typed to that tape, a few pp loose but still hanging in there. Investigate Before You Part with Your Money, The Sinn Fein and the United States, The Advance in Railraod Rates, The Japanese Issue in California (by white supremacist Lothrop Stoddard -- a disturbing article about the "countlses hoardes of colored men threatening . . . ), more. Of historic interest.

Albany: American Sociological Soc., 1959 Variously numbered pp.; TPB. Teal wraps. 4 editions, 2 w/ PO info inked inside front cover. Employment supplement laid into one vol. Key articles: "Deviant Behavior and Social Structure", "Empirical Assessment of Values and Ideologies", "Durkheim and History", and "The Myth of Functional Analysis".

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909 156 numbered pp + 8 pp ads. Pages: clean, bright, tight, eps yellow, frontis; gift inscription in period script and dated 1910 to sfep, a.e. tanned, t.e. dusty. Cover: gray, cream/navy artwork/gilt titles front/spine; modest shelfwear, lt soil, extremeties moserately worn.

Chautauqua: The Chautauqua Press, 1919 344 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight; a.e. tanned, specks to t.e., bookseller label ffep, PO info inked front ep. Cover: brown, black titles front/spine; v lt shelfwear, extrems a bit worn, several sm stains all surfaces, lt soil back.

New York: Vintage Books, 1992 337 numbered pp +1; TPB. The ever-controversial Paglia's collection of essays. Pages: clean, bright, tight; a.e. tanned. Cover: red, photo + red/white titles front, white titles spine, black/white text back; modest edge/shelfwear, crnrs a bit worn. A ". . . ferociously intelligent volume of essays on topics that range from Madonna to Anita Hill, date rape to MTV."

Rochester: Inner Traditions, 2004 Intricately beautiful or starkly simple, amulets, and an astonishing variety of guises: stones, shells, animal tales, teeth, and claws to beads, mirrors, needles, and bells. Used alone or combined in intricate patterns, they are all part of the system of natural and magical forces that can be used to redress evil influences. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: 192 numbered pp; TPB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, full-page photo color frontis; no defects. Cover: glossy white wraps, color photo front, red/black titles front/spine; minimal edge/shelfwear.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1961 Paine's treatise on warfare, poverty, the treatment of criminals, degradation of the working class, and treatment of the aged. The Heritage Club "Sandglass" for this title is laid in. Condition notes - 269 numbered pp; HB w/slipcase. Pages: clean, bright, tight, frontis; faint spatter t.e. Cover: salmon/beige marbled boards, gilt titles to navy spineblock; no shelfwear, spine mildly sunned. Slipcase is gray; sunned on all edges; sturdy. A very nice copy indeed of this classic. Giftable.

Helsinki: Kirjapaja, 1947 In Finnish. Roughly translates to River of Life. Condition notes: 407 numbered pp +4; HB. Pages: clean, ivory, tight; eps toned, dampstain to t.e. and page waviness to second half of pages, note in possibly Finnish inked to the ffep. Cover: tan cloth, brown linework and logo front/spine brown titles spine; moderate shelfwear, extrems well worn, esp tail, cloth on back lifting a bit.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984 Companion to the exhibition of the same name at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Brooklyn Museum in 1984 through 1985. The exhibition represented the most comprehensive attempt to its date to examine the image of Buddha Sakyamuni as interpreted in the various cultural and historical contexts where Buddhism flourished. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: 331 numbered pp; TPB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, textured beige eps; smattering of foxing to top edge. Cover: deep rose wraps with French flaps, color photo plus navy titles front, navy titles spine; light edge/shelfwear, extrems mildly worn, spine, adjacent boards, and part of top edge sunned and faded, front joint creased. Large, heavy.

New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1991 From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: 208 numbered pp; TPB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, navy eps. Cover: glossy black wraps, color artwork front, white titles front/spine; very light edge/shelfwear, back mildly rubbed. Heavy.

New Delhi: Ravi Kumar, 1982 From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many his stamp to the half title. Condition notes: 67 numbered pp plus floor plans and stunning color photos of Dukhang (26 plates), Sumtsek (78 plates), Lhakhang Soma (37 plates), Lotsawa Lhakhang (six plates), Manjusri Lahakhang (4 plates); HB w/ DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, black eps; no defects. Cover: black cloth, gilt artwork front, gilt titles spine; minimal shelfwear, small area of fading to front joint near head. DJ: unclipped, glossy black wraps, photo artwork front, white titles front/spine; very light edge/shelfwear, very light rubbing, crinkle across head. Heavy.

Barcelona: Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Espana, Direccion General de Relaciones Culturales y Cientificas, 2000 In Spanish and English. Roughly translates to Nootka - Return to a Forgotten History. Many color and b/w reproduction illustrations. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. Condition notes: 206 numbered pp; PB. Pages: clean, bright, tight. Cover: black, brown artwork + black titles front, white title spine; v lt edge/shelfwear, spine crease.

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1876 Vol. I - 634 numbered pp + 1, Vol. III - 659 numbered pp; HB. Vol I and III only. Pages: clean, bright, tight, brown eps, 2-pp map frontis in vol 1, vol 3 uncut; a.e. tanned, t.e. dusty, PO info in period script sfep, both vol. Cover: reddish-brown, blindstamped front/back, gilt titles spine; moderate shelfwear, extremities worn w/heads/tails tattered, spines mildly tanned.

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1911 First vol: 1919 "Revised and Enlarged", second vol: 1911 "Second Series". Pages: clean, bright, tight, a.e.g. (mirror-like), pink-gray marbled eps, frontis; offsetting from leather to eps. Cover: red Morocco, gilt titles spine, 5 raised bands, gilt dentelles inside boards, fine gilt linework to boards edges; v lt shelfwear, leather shows wear at joints, sm hole to spine of vol 2. A gorgeous, delicate little set. Giftable.

Secaucus: Chartwell Books Inc., 1990 A practical and pleasurable introduction to the art. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: 128 numbered pp; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, light blue eps, color photo frontis. Cover: navy, dull gilt titles spine; very light shelfwear, mild wear to tail. DJ: unclipped, glossy blue color photo front, yellow/white titles front/spine; very light edge/shelfwear.

Seattle: Karma Rigdol Publications, 1975 Slim booklet. Photocopy encased in orange acetate, red slide binding. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: 12 unnumbered pp; PB; minimal wear. Scarce. About fine.

San Francisco: Kagyu Droden Kunchab Publications, 1979 In English and Tibetan. Stapled spine. Booklet. Includes: Calling the Lama from a Distance, the Prayer of the Six Doctrines, Penetrating the Mental Afflictions, and the Eight Thoughts of the Great Being. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: 23 numbered pp; PB; all edges sunned, a spot of foxing to front, backed top corner bumped. About very good.

New York: George Braziller, 1991 161 pp.; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight; slightly cocked. Cover: black boards, white backstrip, silver titles spine; no shelfwear. DJ: unclipped in Brodart, brown honeycomb, photo front, dark titles/text all surfaces; v. light rubbing. First of this renowned author's works to be translated to English from the original Turkish.

Ann Arbor: Overbeck Company, Publishers, 1948 Overbeck reprint of the Kelly and Walsh 1910 English edition, which was translated from the 1906 French original. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. His stamp to the ffep. Provenance provided upon request. Condition notes: 842 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight; a.e. lt tanned. Cover: navy buckram, rubbed gilt titles front/spine; minimal shelfwear.