Search Results: Authors starting with P from TBCL The Book Collection Library

Toronto: Ryerson, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Page, P.K. AS TEN AS TWENTY. Toronto: Ryerson, 1946. 8vo., 43pp. First Edition of the author's first regularly published collection of poems preceded only by her first appearance in Unit Of Five, 1944 & her novel, The Sun And The Moon, 1944.A fine fresh copy in like dustwrapper. Excellent example. $650.00.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. 1st Edition. No Binding. Clamshell As New/No Jacket. 1st Edition. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case, Elegant Custom Black NUBA Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, the case is decorated with gilt titles at the spine & features a sculpted cover, after the iconic dustwrapper's illustration of the soap dish and wording. A unique & beautiful Hand-Made custom case for an important Book and what then became a cult classic movie. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for over 200 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available. Book definitely NOT included. Please confirm you book's dimensions. This case is 8.5" x 6" x 0.86" but can vary with editions and if you wish to have any text added such as "SIGNED" etc.

Sausalito, California: Golden Goose Press, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo., 33pp. Plain printed stiff wrappers in a light green printed outer dustwrapper. A very good or better example.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition Limited to 400 Numbered Copies Signed by Herbert Edward Palmer. Additionally Inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Mr & Mrs Howard .... with much appreciation and best wishes for the New Year from the bard Herbert Palmer Jan 14th/61". 8vo. 143pp. A near fine copy in 1/4 beige over red and black marbled cloth, gilt titles to the spine, in a very good dust wrapper with brown toning around the edges and a few chips missing on the spine and corners. Woolmer 140. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hogarth Press, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed my Author. First Edition THE ARMED MUSE - Poetry- Inscribed by Herbert E. Palmer to fellow author/translator Basil Creighton on the verso of the half-title page. "With best wishes to Basil Creighton/From/Herbert E. Palmer" Moss Green paper boards with title label on the front printed in black, spine slightly fragile and toning to edges. 8vo. 44 pp. (5) 7 1/2" x 5". One only of 500 copies printed October 1930. Woolner (230).

London: The Hogarth Press, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition Limited to 400 Numbered Copies Signed by Herbert Edward Palmer. Additionally Inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Archie Burrie with many best wishes/Herbert Palmer". 8vo. 143pp. A near fine copy in 1/4 beige over red and black marbled cloth, gilt titles to the spine, in a near fine dust wrapper. Woolmer 140. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Livingston, Montana: Paolini International, LCC, [2002, Book Date], 2002. 1st Edition Clamshell Collecor's Case. No Binding. Clamshell As New/No Jacket. 1st Edition Clamshell Collecor's Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Custom Fitted Superb Paolini / ERAGON modern clamshell silver case with embossed dragon's 'eye' sculpted on the side. [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is title-stamped to the spine.The case is finished in smooth silver cloth & black Nuba® - a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph, that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck® leather - the interior of the case lined in soft black velour. An exquisite collector's case. TBCL latest Eragon case after our sold out limited edition. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for OVER 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1992, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). SIGNED First trade edition. The seventh in Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski series of mystery novels. Royal 8vo, pp.370. A fine copy in like dustwrapper [tiny remainder mark on bottom edge] Signed by the author on the title page. A very nice copy.

Michigan: Northeastern University Press, 1962, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this encyclopedic volume offering a detailed concordance to the fifty-six stories and four full-length novels that make up the Sherlock Holmes "canon." Arranged alphabetically, the guide offers information regarding the identity of towns, estates, railroad stations, persons and objects, attributing each to its respective story - the entries on Holmes and Watson are veritable biographies, their opinions, likes and dislikes, private persuits, favourite remarks, arcane facts about the cases, characters, and clues. Small 4to. 205 pp. A fine copy in blue cloth, black titles to the spine in two states of the dustwrapper, the usual pictorial yellow over the illustrated blue underneath both neatly price-clipped.

New York: Julian Messner, Inc., [1938], 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo, pp. 207. A fine copy in dustwrapper showing a tiny bit of wear at the spinal extremities. A very nice copy, indeed.

Boston: Little, Brown, (1983). First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Cloth. First Edition. A near fine copy in 1/4 black cloth over yellow paper covered boards, gilt titles to the spine in a lovely pictorial dustwrapper portraying Julia Strachey, Lytton Strachey's niece. 8vo. 308 pp. Black and white photographs. Inscribed "To Eva with very much love from Frances" The Eva was most probably Eva Disher who was a friend of Frances and the Bloomsbury group and was in "Friends in Focus", a book with photos by Frances Partridge. A fascinating Bloomsbury memoir. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Berlin: Bruno Cassirer n.d. [1920], 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Pascin. Pascin. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Pascin, Jules (Illustrations). [1885 - 1930]. EIN SOMMER SKIZZENBUCH VON PASCIN. Signed. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer n.d. [1920]. First Edition. Small folio, pictorial boards with plain cloth backstrip. {6] preliminary pages, 3 of these with [German] text Illustrated with 40 single-sided plates, a total of 61 illustrations (14 in colour). With a 1" 1/2 x 7" Pascin signature in blue-black fountain pen with his New York & Paris address "230 W. 39th / 3 rue Joseph-Bara", pasted to the inside front cover. Skizzenbuch is a sketchbook of, drawings & watercolors chiefly made during Pascin's vacation at the beach in Ostend, Belgium in 1912. A very uncommon publication. World War I prevented publication until 1920. A very good or better copy, the backstrip expertly restored. A very nice example. Much better than usually found.

Paris [c1920]: Pascin. 1st Edition. Framed & Glazed. 1st Edition. Framed & Glazed. Signed by Author. Jules Pascin [Julius Pinkas aka] Vidin - 1885 / 1930. known as the "Prince of Montparnasse", was a 'colourful' Bulgarian painter famous for his lively emotional life & his paintings of his fragile 'petites filles'. ALS, [Carte Pneumatique] postmarked Paris: [c. 1920]. Addressed to the writer, poet, journalist & author of French songs of Corsican origin, Francis Carco, [1886- 1958]. Postmarked Paris, A note to Carco from Pascin: "Must leave tonight and can't come tomorrow to Taverne des Moulins", but hoping to get together upon his return at the beginning of July. In friendship / Pascin". François Carcopino-Tusoli , known as Francis Carco [1886-1958]. Writer, poet, journalist & author of French songs of Corsican origin. A very nice association item linking these two greats of this important cultural period. Double glazed [Recto /Verso] & framed to an overall size of: 12" x 13" [4" 1/4 x 5" 1/2], in a… Read More

London: Elek Books, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A remarkable autobiographical essay by the Nobel Prize - winning author of Doctor Zhivago. 8vo. 304 pp. A near fine copy in black cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a bright, fresh near fine dustwrapper, spine slightly darkened. Black and white frontis of Boris Pasternak, illustrations throughout. Translated by Alec Brown and Lydia Pasternak-Slater. Inclusive of four short stories and twenty three poems Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Oxford, Lennard, [1989), 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. A fine copy in dustwrapper.

Philadelphia: Rembrandt Peale, 1857. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Signed by Author. Peale, Rembrandt. Uncommon Autograph Letter Signed, November 6th 1857. 8vo., 1 page. To H. P. Beck Esq. Dear Sir. / Learning that you are now at home, Mrs. Peale in returning the pictures you were so kind to lend her, / expresses her sincere thanks for the favor. And I must add that I am sure you will be pleased with the success of her copy. / Respectfully yours / Rembrandt Peale". "Rembrandt Peale (1778 1860) was an American artist and museum keeper, the second son of Charles Wilson Peale, A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style was influenced by French Neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his early thirties." - wikipedia.

New York: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of the author's first novel. A fine copy in red cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 150 pp. Written with respect and humour, the boyhood trials of real life forever change the relationship between a son and his father.

Suresnes: G. Richard et Husson, 1898. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Peguy's "Utopia" & his second publication in book form. Self published in an edition of 1000 copies, many of which were unsaleable due to an absent-minded binder. A fine example in the original wrappers & glassine. Rare.

Boston: Little Brown, 1901. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Pepper, Mary Sifton. MAIDS & MATRONS of NEW FRANCE. Brown, Boston, 1901. Publisher's decorative cloth. Lovely binding of light green cloth decorated with white flowers & darker green stems with lettering in gilt to the spine & upper cover. First Edition. 8vo. pp: xii, 286, [ 4, ads.]. Twenty b&w illustrations. Frontispiece with tissue guard. A splendid example of this interesting work on the women of New France with chapters on Montreal, Quebec, Acadia & the Carigan Regiment.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1971), 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of Walker Percy's third novel, nominated for the National Book Award. Percy, an American Southern novelist, noted for his deep philosophical seriousness, studied medicine at Columbia University and practiced for a year before contracting tuberculosis. Influenced by the existential philosophers that he read during his recuperation, Percy then returned home to write. The Moviegoer, Percy's first novel and winner of the 1962 National Book Award, was adapted into film. 8vo. 403 pp. All though the previous owner inscribed name on inside still a fine copy in a fine dustwrapper.