Search Results: Authors starting with P from Yesterday's Muse Books

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003. 1st Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 9x0x12. 1st printing. Faint edge wear. 2003 Soft Cover. 126 pp. Continuously in print for more than 20 years, Abrams' Masters of Art series has always been known for its exceptional quality and value. Now these classic volumes devoted to the lives and works of the world's great painters have been newly redesigned and released in paperback for the first time. The comprehensive texts, written by distinguished art historians, provide incisive and informative portraits of the artists and perceptive commentaries on their works and achievements. Each book features 40 full-page, full-color plates accompanied by commentary on the facing page. Numerous black-and-white illustrations supplement the text.

Venezia: Presso Francesco Pitteri, Con Licenza de' Superiori, e Privilegio, 1751. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Revised edition. Rebound with new endpapers. Minor ink notes on flyleaves, modern owner bookplate on front endpaper of each volume. 1751 Hard Cover. [12], 310; 406 pp. 12mo. Cloth spines, gilt titles, paper over boards. Italian text. An 18th century guide to Venice by Pietro Antonio Pacifico, with engraved illustrations, including several fold-outs.

New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1903. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Spine, rear board, and fore edge soiled, ink name and bookplate from Tabard Inn Library -- a paid lending library with locations at general stores, designed to be used by travelers -- on front endpapers. 1903 Hard Cover. 397 pp. 8vo. Original grey-blue cloth, gilt titles with black decorations on spine, black titles and decorations with gilt accent on front board. Frontispiece by Burns, black-and-white photographs throughout text showing the various locales visited throughout the story. A work of juvenile fiction following the exploits of several young men on a whaling expedition in the Arctic.

New York: N.D.C. Hodges, 1891. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. No jacket. Boards soiled, bookplate from ship's library of U.S.S. Indiana on front paste-down endpaper, blind stamps. 1891 Hard Cover. 513 pp. Maps (including one fold-out) and photographs throughout. CONTENTS: The Physical Geography of Labrador; Who First Saw the Labrador Coast?; The Geographical Evolution of Labrador; Life and Nature in Southern Labrador; One of Fifty Days in Southern Labrador; A Summer's Cruise to Northern Labrador: From Boston to Henley Harbor; A Summer's Cruise to Northern Labrador: From Henley Harbor to Cape St. Michael; A Summer's Cruise to Northern Labrador: From Cape St. Michael to Hopedale; A Summer's Cruise to Northern Labrador: Hopedale and the Eskimos; A Summer's Cruise to Northern Labrador: The Return Voyage to Boston; Recent Explorations; The Civil History of Labrador, with a Brief Account of Its Fisheries; The Labrador Eskimos and Their Former Range Southward; The Geology… Read More

Garden City, New York: The Crime Club, Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. No jacket. ink name on front endpaper. 1935 Hard Cover. 310 pp. The crime busting character Jimmie Dale is back in yet another installment of the detective mystery novels. A wealthy playboy by day, at night he puts on inconspicuous dark clothes, a mask and a black slouch hat and becomes The Grey Seal, who enters businesses or homes and cracks safes, always leaving a diamond shaped, grey paper "seal" behind to mark his conquest but never taking anything. In this installment, he is hot on the trail of jewel thief Tom Braemer and the valuable necklace he is accused of having stolen. And the trail leads to Spike Dorlan, the notorious gangster, an encounter with whom can only portend doom for Dale and his companions...

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1938. Small Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 0x0x0. Edges a bit rubbed, pages lightly toned, pencil name and address on front endpaper. 1938 Small Hard Cover. 234, [3] pp. An adaptation of William A. Wellman's 1938 war film for young readers, with stills from the Paramount picture throughout. The film was one of the first Hollywood productions to utilize the Technicolor three-strip camera process, and the dogfight scenes were an impressive example of movie production at the time. Wellman was already well known as the director of Wings (1927), the first motion picture to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.

New York: MJF Books, 1990. 4th Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. Fourth printing. A near fine copy and a near fine jacket. 1990 Hard Cover. xiii, 656. Remarkably, this is the first full-length biography of a man often seen as the very personification of evil. Heinrich Himmler was not only head of Hitler's SS police and Gestapo, but was also in charge of the death camps in the East. The account of Himmler's life and his impact on the rise and fall of the Nazi state make a gripping and horrifying story. But more than this, it is a profound moral and intellectual inquiry into the nature of evil in the human character.

Old Saybrook, Connecticut: Konecky & Konecky, 1980. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8x6x1. Modern reissue of 1942 original. Address label on front endpaper, some pages lightly foxed. 1980 Hard Cover. 459 pp. The classic biography of the U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. This is a stirring portrait of an extraordinary American—Thomas Jefferson—third President of the United States, architect of freedom and democracy.

England: Helion & Company, 2018. Soft Cover. Fine. 6x0x9. An exceptional copy. 2018 Soft Cover. 103 pp. During the 18th Century, the Electorate of Saxony was a rich state of the Holy Roman Empire. Northern Saxony was one of most fertile parts of Germany, though fertility diminishes toward Ore Mountains of the south where Saxony long had important mineral production. The House of Wettin ruled Saxony since 1429. Between 1697 and 1763, the Electors of Saxony were also elected Kings of Poland. The Elector Friedrich August I (12 May 1670-1 February 1733), also known as “Sun King” of Saxony, was elected King of Poland with the support of Austria and the help of Russia when the former King StanisÅ‚aw I LeszczyÅ„ski, supported by France, was forced to flee after the Swedish defeat of Poltava in 1709. The Elector married Maria Josepha, sister of the Emperor Charles VI of Austria. The Emperor, having no male heirs was obsessed with the partition of… Read More

Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1961. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Former school library copy - usual marks. No jacket. 1961 Hard Cover. 223 pp. Illustrated. CONTENTS: We Meet the Dipper; Following the Dipper's Lead; The Royal Family of the Sky; Summer Triangle and Company; More "Stars of the Summer Night;" Look to the South; In the Good Old Wintertime: First-Magnitude Stars in Order of Brightness; Our Solar System; Satellites and Space Travel; Introduction to the Guides; Index.

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1975. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9x7x1. First edition. Edges lightly worn. 1975 Large Hardcover. 238 pp. Travel the greatest trains to some of the world's most fabulous resorts (as well as some rather dangerous trips) is described in this lavishly illustrated and completely entertaining book, which draws on many personal travel journals of the period.

New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1909. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8x5x2. Flagg, James Montgomery. First edition. Eleanor Foster’s copy, with her name in ink on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near U.S. Secretary of state Robert Lansing's birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). No jacket. Page ridges foxed. 1909 Hard Cover. viii, 573 pp. Green boards. Gilt title on spine and front board. Plates by James Montgomery Flagg. American author whose work fostered romantic legends of Southern plantation life. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Christy, Howard Chandler. Spine leans forward slightly, spine base lightly bumped, ink gift note on front endpaper. 1901 Hard Cover. viii, [4], 169, [1] pp. Margaret Armstrong trade binding with her initials incorporated into front board design. Tipped in color plates by Howard Chandler Christy. A novel by the author known for his Lost Cause postbellum fiction.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8x5x2. Flagg, James Montgomery. Third edition (BAL 15431), after the 1887 Scribner original and the 1889 London edition. Ink name and crossed out ink gift note on front endpaper, light spots on spine. 1890 Hard Cover. 239, [1] pp. Green cloth, cameo decoration on front board, gilt titles and rules, top edge gilt. Author's first book, comprised of stories of the American South with some associated dialect. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Thomas Nelson Page (April 23, 1853 – November 1, 1922) was a lawyer and American writer. He also served as the U.S. ambassador to Italy under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. His 1887 collection of short stories, In Ole Virginia, is Page's quintessential work, providing a depiction of the Antebellum South. Criticism of Page's works runs the gamut, largely based upon whether the critic holds traditionalist or revisionist… Read More

New York: Vintage Books, 2004. 8th Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. Eighth printing. Remainder mark, front cover creased. 2004 Trade Paperback. 257 pp. Drawing on new scholarship–her own, and that of an international group of scholars–that has come to light since the publication in 1979 of The Gnostic Gospels, Pagels shows that what matters about Christianity involves much more than any one set of beliefs. Traditions embodied in Judaism and Christianity can powerfully affect us in heart, mind, and spirit, inspire visions of a new society based on practicing justice and love, even heal and transform us.

New York: Macmillan, 1929. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Paget-Fredericks, J. [Joseph Rous]. First edition. No jacket. Two small tears along bottom edge of title page, small tear along bottom edge of dedication page. 1929 Large Hardcover. 24 pp. Red cloth boards with gilt titles on front board. Endpapers illustrated. Color frontispiece, color and black-and-white illustrations throughout by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks. The story of Miss Pert and her Christmas tree. Paget-Fredericks was a lecturer on dance and related arts at the University of California, Berkeley.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x0. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author (name written in both English and Korean characters) without inscription on half-title page. 1/4 inch closed tear to rear jacket edge, jacket faintly toned. 1965 Hard Cover. 184 pp. Original green paper over boards, black cloth spine, gilt titles. Black & white photographs, illustrated endpapers. Following her first book, September Monkey, which told of her childhood, The Hour of the Tiger is the story of Induk Pahk's struggle to open a school for underprivileged Korean boys, designed to teach students 'agri-business'. The project took Pahk across the United States and Canada on a fund-raising lecture tour, and culminated in the opening of The Induk Vocational School for Boys ('Berea in Korea').

New York: Exeter Books, 1987. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12x9x0. Department of the Navy. First edition. Jacket edges worn, small tear on rear corner, white smudges on front of book. 1987 Large Hardcover. 139 pp. Discusses the midshipmen's military training from basic seamanship to strategic planning.

New York: Pegasus Books, 2010. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x1x8. First printing. Minor general wear. 2010 Trade Paperback. xxxix, 488 pp. "On August 7, 1914, Britain fired its first shots of World War I not in Europe but in the German colony of Togo. The campaign to eliminate the threat at sea posed by German naval bases in Africa would soon be won, but in the land war, especially in East Africa, British troops would meet far fiercer resistance from German colonial forces that had fully mastered the tactics of bush warfare. Its costs were immense, its butchery staggering: well over 100,000 Allied troops died, as did hundred of thousands of civilians. Imperialism had run calamitously amok. This eye-opening account of the Great War in East Africa recounts in full the daily horrors of an ill-fated campaign alongside tales of extraordinary courage and the kind of adventure that inspired C. S. Forester’s The African Queen, William… Read More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1944. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8x5x1. First photoplay edition, probably 1944 (year of the film) despite 1916 date. Ink name to front endpaper. One inch tear to bottom edge of jacket front, half inch tear to bottom edge of jacket front, a few small chips to jacket edges. 353 pp. "This life of the beloved American humorist, by his greatest biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, is in itself a dramatic and colorful story. It is the story of one of the world's very great men--the story of Mark Twain, from which one of the truly magnificent biographical films has been made. In this narrative and in teh photoplay the American of today may trace the growth of a great nation as well as the growth of a great man.