Search Results: Authors starting with P from Elk River Books

Washington DC: U.S. Geological Survey, 1916. Staplebound. Very good. Large folio (55 x 47 cm), pp. 19 plus 12 plates of charts, color maps and black and white photos. Light brown staple-bound wraps with black spine tape. S.J. Kubel, chief engraver. Rubbing to wraps and creasing to pages. Catalog writing on front wrap. Tape is lifting at edges. Shows and discusses detailed aspects of geologic, topographic and mineral properties found in the Silver City quadrangle in New Mexico.

San Juan, Puerto Rico: University of Puerto Rico, 2008. Paperback. Near fine. Slim octavo (21 cm), pp. 189. Later printing. Pictorial wrappers. Translation by Jean Steeves-Franco. Includes sections on vocabulary and critical works consulted. Cover has minor edge wear. Binding is tight, as though unread. Palés Matos is best known for creating the genre of poetry, Afro-Antillano, blending Afro-Caribbean culture with Spanish language (Wikipedia). This is a translation of his landmark 1937 book, Tuntún de Pasa y Griferia.

London: Tor, 2023. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed by author. Octavo (24 cm), pp. 288. Black boards with gilt spine titling. Red endpapers. Illustrated jacket. Promotional bookmark laid in. Bumping to spine ends and light edge wear and rubbing to jacket, else fine. The third novel in the Fractalverse Series, by the bestselling author of Eragon.

Harper & Row, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Octavo (24 cm), pp. 279 with index. Light brown boards with gilt lettering on spine. Jacket is price-clipped with dampstain and light wear. Spine is cocked. Introduction by Western and frontier historian Ray Allen Billington.

Basutoland: Morija Sesuto Book Depot, 1963. Pamphlet. Very good. Octavo (22 cm), pp. 27. Green wraps, stapled binding. Intended not as a complete list of Basutoland plants, according to the introduction, but as a classified list to aid botanists. Wraps have lines from exposure to red dust.

Powys, Wales: Peevish Bee Books, 2007. Paperback. Near fine. Signed by author on title page. Quarto (30 cm), unpaginated. Pictorial wrappers have very slight edge wear.

Bullfrog Films, 1989. DVD. New. Award-winning documentary about Vietnam veteran and Special Forces medic Doug Peacock's campaign to save the American grizzly.

Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 2006. Hardcover. New/new. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 238. Second printing. Signed by both authors on title page. Quarter brown paper over cream-colored boards. With index, color photos. Winner of the Foreword Magazine 2006 Gold Award for Nature Book of the Year.

The Lyons Press, 2009. Paperback. New. Octavo, pp. 239. Signed by both authors. Brand new. First thus (originally published as "The Essential Grizzly," presented in this format with minor revisions and additions).

Oakland: AK Press, 2013. Paperback. New. Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 175. Brand new, signed by author on title page. Revised edition with significant new material. Winner of the 2014 High Plains Book Award for Best Science Book. From the author of 'Grizzly Years' and 'Walking it Off' (as well as the model for George Washington Hayduke in Edward Abbey's 'The Monkey Wrench Gang'). Includes index.

Eastern Washington University Press, 2005. Second Printing. Paperback. New. Signed by author. Octavo (22 cm), pp. 196. Illustrated wraps. Brand new. Peacock's eagerly awaited tale brings us epic personalities, traumatizing war, grizzly bears, and wildass adventure. "Peacock's life makes nearly all of the environmental movement look like an upper class bridge tournament." --Jim Harrison

Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press, 2005. Hardcover. Fine. R. Crumb. Octavo (22 cm), pp. 200. Limited edition (500 copies). Signed by author on limitation page. Brown cloth boards with R. Crumb's drawing of George Washington Hayduke blindstamped on front board, silver spine text. Limited/numbered print of the same drawing, signed by Peacock, laid-in. Hayduke, the hero of Edward Abbey's eco-sabotage classics The Monkey Wrench Gang and Hayduke Lives!, was based on Peacock; and this memoir, in part, chronicles Peacock and Abbey's friendship.

Ventura, CA: Patagonia Books, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. New. Octavo (22 cm), pp. 304. From Publisher's Weekly: "Naturalist and explorer Peacock presents a captivating retrospective on his life in the wild. Using vivid imagery, he reflects on humanity's relationship with the natural world, his tour of duty in Vietnam, living among Grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park, and, appropriately, mortality. Each memory encapsulates Peacock's profound compassion for humans and animals alike, and his deep sense of responsibility." No jacket as issued.

New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (24cm), pp. 746. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Edges and corners of boards show slight rubbing and bumping. Dust jacket slightly curled at edges, shows rubbing. Includes color maps and family tree. Book has black cloth bookmark.

Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2012. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 445. Pictorial wraps. Includes index.

New York: Free Press, 2010. Very good/very good. Octavo (23.5cm), pp. 284. First edition thus. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Normal wear at edges.

Berkeley: Kelsey St. Press, 1979. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Very good. Signed and inscribed by author on half-title page. Octavo (23.4 cm), pp. unpaginated, [32]. Tan wraps with image of a horse and rider. Five hundred copies hand-set by Rena Rosenwater in Bembo and Centaur typefaces and printed by Patricia Diensfrey. Light reading wear, creasing to back cover, else fine.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 370. Red cloth with gilt spine titling. Decorative endpapers. Photographic jacket. Includes several plates of black and white photos. Slight bumping to spine ends, else fine.

Mexico : Fondo de cultura economica, 1969. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Sextodecimo (17cm), pp. 224. Some minor bumping around the edges and at corners.

Cles, Italy: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1989. Later Printing. Paperback. Very good. Small octavo (20.5 cm), pp. 372. Gray wraps with color photgraphic illustration. Edited by Paola Brengola. Fiction for the Nobel Prize-winning playwright. Slight reading/edge wear, previous owner's name on half-title page, else fine.