Search Results: Authors starting with P from Austin's Antiquarian Books

Brooklyn: P. F. O'Brien, Carpenter Builder, 1866. Only Edition. Very good. Printed Bill Head measuring 8.5" x 4.5" O'Brien was located at Skillman St, between Myrtle & Park Avenues and 192-194 Henry St. The bill is dated March 9, 1866, to a Mr. O. Gorman, and states that this is for "Mason work...repairing iron shutter...& galvanized gutter. A nice example.

Talahassee: University Presses Of Florida, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Octavo; pp; xi, (i), 436, index; Maps, diagrams, charts; decorated burgundy pebbled cloth lettered in silver in a black field in a dust jacket;. Deals with Minnesota's modern Chippewa Nation.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (5.75" x 8.75), red cloth, gilt, with photographic paste-on illustration. 310ppIllustrated with black and white photographs. Light wear and a bumped corner. A lengthy gift inscription on the half-title by a couple to another couple who were also on their honeymoon journey at the same time. They all read Parker's book "An American Idyll" on that trip, and the Fleischers have sent them this title of hers to enjoy. A book of European.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1911. First Edition. Wraps. edge wear else very good;. Octavo; pp; 9; original printed blue paper wrappers lettered in black;. Scarce. Parker was at Harvard.

Baltimore: R. H. Woodward Company, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Duodecimo; pp; 508; Profusely illustrated in black and white; pictorial decorated red cloth, gilt. Very Good, a bright copy;. The US would emerge from the Spanish American War a fledling World Power. TR would be the first modern American President.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/a very good. Quarto; pp; (xvi), 767, index; illustrated with fifty-five maps and other photographs; cream cloth lettered in red in a dust jacket;. Photographs, glossary, chronology, tables, plans, maps, bibliography, indexed, a very substanial reference work.

(New York: Privately Printed, 1880. Wraps. wear at extremities else very good. Octavo; 9.25" x 5.25"; pp; 32; original printed paper self wrappers;. An economic and societal argument from a Southerner. He discusses labor and capitol and is predicting unrest. . Scarce, OCLC locates just four copies. Endorsement on last page by Peter Cooper. William Henry Parsons was a newspaper editor, legislator, and Confederate colonel from Texas.

Newark NJ: Spratts Patent Limited, 1903. Wraps. A good or better copy with some edge wear. 24mo; pp; 100; illustrated; original prited pictorial pink paper wrappers;. Essentially a 30pp. sales catalogue of pet supplies after 70pp of remedies for various animal ailments. Quite scarce.

London: Henry Colburn, 1826. First Edition. Hardcover. Joints started but the binding is holding well and is still quite supple; a previous owner has written a long note in a faint pencil on the page preceeding the title page and on the title page, else very good;. Duodecimo; pp; iv, (ii), 353; three quarter brown morocco and marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers, spine lettered in gilt;. "Late in his life, Peter George Patmore, the periodical essayist, Regency man of letters and father of Coventry Patmore, recalled walking arm in arm through the streets of London with William Hazlitt. Hazlitt, he remembered, was overjoyed: not only had Patmore (then Secretary of the Surrey Institution) secured him a commission to deliver a series of lectures, but he had also promised him a positive review in the last place he expected it, Blackwood's Magazine. Recent criticism has drawn a polarized image of the magazine culture of the period, with the culturally, politically and socially conservative… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. very good in a good or better jacket with some toning to the jacket spine and chipping at the spine head;. Octavo; pp; x, (ii), 255; illustrated with black and white line drawings and photographs; green cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. An unusual find in a jacket.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; x, 214, index; red cloth lettered in gilt in a dust jacket;. Henry Steele Commager's copy, with his distinctive signature in pencil with the date 1976 on the front free endpaper. Some marginalia from Commager. A discussion of the "Philosophes" and their eventual social awareness.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. Second Printing. Hardcover. Book plate and name of previous owners on the paste-down and front free fly leaves else a very good in a very good jacket. Octavo; pp; (viii), 159; frontispiece portrait of TR plus seven black and white plates; embossed blue cloth lettered in gilt in dust jacket;. A volume in the True Stories of Great Americans Series.

New York: Viking Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto; pp; xiv, 298, index; illustrated with color photographs by Alex McLean; glossy white boards lettered in red in a pictorial dust jacket;. In addition to a wide range of delicious recipes for brunches, barbecues, hors d'oeuvres parties, late-night suppers, holiday dinners, ethnic feasts, and weddings, this delicious cookbook and entertaining handbook features ideas for buffet table designs and festive occasions throughout the year.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; vii, (i), 309; Folding color map as a frontispiece; two toned green cloth, gilt, patterned endpapers; Bookplate of the Holy Cross College Library with no other markings with the exception of a single call number. Spine is clean. Bookplate states that volume has been released; Very good, minor rubbing. Irish Politics, the Land Act and much more.

Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; (viii), 152, index; illustrated in color; black cloth lettered in blue in a pictorial dust jacket;. Featuring Favorite Recipes From The TV Series.

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Lucy Fitch Perkins. octavo; pp; viii, (ii), 106, (ii); illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins, twenty-eight full page black and white plates; pictorial quarter terra-cotta cloth and tan boards, lettered in red, spine lettered in white;. Nicely illustrated and unusual.

Paris: Club Alpin Francais, 1932. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Small quarto; pp; (vi), 337-384 (vii-xii); illustrated with photographs; original printed pictorial wrappers;. Articles on mountaineering, interesting ads;.

(London): The Linnean Society by the Academic Press, 1981. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; xi, (i), 193, index; charts and graphs; red cloth, gilt in publisher's glassine;. A very nice copy.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, blue cloth, gilt. x, (ii,) 279pp. Illustrated. Frontispiece plus nine black and white plates. Very good. Volume four of a series, "America In The War"

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co, 1942. Special edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto; pp; xvi, (ii), 41; illustrated with 192 monochromatic & color plates; beige linen, top edge stained blue with a pictorial paste-on title tile and a black spine tile lettered in gilt;. A fairly common book but a core piece for any C & I collector. This special edition was printed as a bonus for members of the Book Of The Month Club. It is a favorite of ours and a very well made book.