Search Results: Authors starting with P from Flamingo Books

Ghaqda Biblika Maltija, 1970-01-01. Pamphlet. Very Good. ~IN MALTESE~1970 Rare work by Franciscan Priest and Maltese religious author Fr. Guido Schembri, Ghaqda Biblikq Maltija (Malta), Stapled pamphlet, 40 pp., 5 x 7 inches tall white covers with green lettering to front cover. Covers soiled, especially front cover, with some foxing. Front tip is curled a tad. Inside, apart from age-toning to paper and minor foxing to the title page, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked..~SS~

U.CA Pub.Geol.v.7,no.25, 1914-01-01. Paperback. Good. 1914 off-print University of California Press (Berkeley, Calif.) 7 x 10 1/2 inches tall brown paper wraps, 465-495pp. Fifteen text figures. A few unopened signatures. Chipping to edges (with tape repairs) and age-toning to covers. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean and unmarked. ~ZZ~

Combat History Division, 1946. paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. 1946 second printing, Combat History Division, AFWESPAC (n.p.), 5 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches tall stapled paperbound pamphlet in printed covers accented in red, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs and maps printed in black and red, [4], 52 pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Very slight shadow to rear cover. Otherwise, apart from a few slightly creased page tips, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this important contemporary World War II history. ~OOO~ [1.0P] A history of Corregidor, an island located at the entrance of Manila Bay in the southwestern part of Luzon in the Philippines. During World War II, Corregidor played an important role during the invasion and liberation of the Philippines from the Imperial Japanese Army.

Vanderbilt Univ, 1983. paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. 1983 Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee), 8 3/8 x 10 3/4 inches tall paperbound in pale orange printed covers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings, xx, 112 pp. Slight smoky odor. Very slight rubbing and edgewear to covers. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP47~ [1.5P] The nature of the relationship between the Zapotec and Mixtec populations present in the Valley of Oaxaca during the final centuries of the Prehispanic period has been a controversial issue in Mesoamerican archaeology and ethnohistory for more than 80 years. The author of this important work, John Paddock, has been one of the principal proponents of the Mixtec invasion hypothesis to explain cultural developments in the Valley of Oaxaca during the Late Postclassic period. In this monograph, he attempts to show that Zaachila, the Zapotec capital according to some documentary sources, had fallen to the Mixtec perhaps as… Read More

Pacific Press Pub. Association, 1939-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1939 Pacific Press Publishing Association (Mountain View, California), 5 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches tall brown pictorial hardcover, no dust jacket, orange lettering to front cover and spine, illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings, 126 pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with minor bumping to tips. Spine very slightly cocked. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~MMM~ [1.5P]

Action, 1997-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1997 signed and inscribed first edition, Action Printing / B.M. Page (Lake City, Tennessee), 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall brown faux leather hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), gilt lettering and design to front cover and spine, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs, 290 pp. Very slight rubbing and edgewear to covers. Slight bumping to fore edge of front cover. Nicely inscribed and signed on the title page by the author in the year of issue. Very slight smoky odor from interior of book. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce local history. ~II~ [3.0P] A pictorial history of the towns in the area known as the Cumberland Gap, a narrow pass through the long ridge of the Cumberland Mountains, within the Appalachian Mountains, near the junction of the U.S. states of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee. This region includes the towns of Cumberland Gap, Middlesboro, and Harrogate with Lincoln Memorial University.… Read More

Mazzotta, 1987-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. In English and Italian. 1987 Mazzotta (Milan, Italy), 8 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches tall paperbound in glossy pictorial covers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs, index, [65] pp. Slight rubbing to covers. Very slight marginal age toning. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this uncommon photography collection. ~MM~ [1.5P] '99 Photographs From the Contemporary Music World' by Betty Freeman, with text by Daniela Palazzoli. Catalog of exhibition held October 1987, at the Galleria Decalage, Milan; February 1988 at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and October-December 1988 at the Next Wave Festival of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Betty Wishnick-Freeman (1921-2009) was an American philanthropist and photographer.

The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1972. hardcover. Very Good/Acceptable. 0x0x0. B/w Illustrations, Plans. 1972 Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, Pennsylvania), 9 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches tall red buckram cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt outline of villa to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, copiously illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs, maps and drawings, 65 pp. plus 121 full-page plates and 13 scale drawings (some folding). Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Brief prior owner gift inscription to blank front free-endpaper. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a slightly rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket which has a couple of chips and edge tears and the bottom inch of the front flap was excised but the dust jacket is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international… Read More

Amer Federation of Astrologers Inc, 1983-12-01. Paperback. Good. 9x6x1. 1983 revised printing, American Federation of Astrologers (Tempe, Arizona), 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches tall paperbound in purple covers, white lettering to front cover and spine, vii, 279 pp. Slight to moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with slight shadow to top margin of front cover where a price label was removed. Slight creasing to the tips of front and rear covers. Name and date to top margin of title page. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce title. OCLC (No. 10697024) locates only three copies at institutions worldwide. ~II~ [1.5P] Lynne Palmer, an astrologer since 1957, is known as 'astrologer to the stars,' with celebrated clients such as Frank Sinatra, Mickey Rooney, and Johnny Carson.

Vantage Press, 1998. paperback. Very Good. 7x5x0. 1998 signed first edition, Vantage Press (NY), 5 3/8 x 8 inches tall paperbound, ix, 196 pp. Very slight edgewear to covers, and very slight soiling to fore page edges. Signed and simply inscribed ('Enjoy') by author on half title page. Otherwise, a near fine copy of this scarce history - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP37~ [1.0P] Author Eugene Pantano rescues a slice of early nineteenth-century American-western expansion that takes the reader on a journey which begins in Montreal, sailing down along the coast of Africa, onward to round the Falkland Isles, and finally to explore the wooded lands along the Columbia River. He introduces us to the Sandwich Islands, the various ways indigenous people execute battle and the wide assortment of foods the explorers lived on. The Tonquin was a 290-ton merchant ship owned by the American Pacific Fur Company (PFC). The ship was intended to establish and supply PFC outposts in the Pacific Northwest along… Read More

R.E. Owen, Govt. printer], 1963-01-01. Paperback. Good. 1963 First edition, New Zealand Oceanographic Institute I.R.E. Owen (Wellington New Zealand) 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall hardbound blue cloth spine over paper boards, 43pp plus three color folded maps in pocket at rear of volume. Covers stained, soiled and a bit edgeworn, especially around cloth spine, Very slight bumping to tips. Prior owners stamp to half title page. A few pages with very mild creasing, Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked.~~SP07~~ Association Copy: The prior owner, John F. Dewey is one of the world's leading tectonic geologists and considered to be the 'Father of Modern Plate Tectonics' having pioneered the field in 1970 with an article co-authored with J.M. Bind.~~SP07~~

Nooy's Drukkerij, 1974-01-01. paperback. Good. 0x0x0. In English, with an afterword, title page summary and cover flaps in Dutch. 1974 Nooy's Drukkerij (Purmerend, The Netherlands), 6 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches tall paperbound in orange printed covers, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, charts and equations, iv, 334 pp. Slight to moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with bumping and wear to the tips. Slight soiling to fore page edges. Soiling to half title page. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce title. ~JJJ~ [3.0P] Contents: An Engineer Looks at Biocybernetics; Intermezzo: Black Box Analysis of Systems; An Engineer Looks at Biocybernetics (continued); The Philosophy of Feeedback; Biosystems Analysis and Simulation; Hierarchy of Control in the Pituitary Adrenal System; On Theory, Experiment and a Parody; Study of the Dynamics of Control in the Pituitary Adrenal System; Dynamic Studies and Modeling of the Adrenocortical… Read More

F. Azzaro, 1958-01-01. Paperback. Good. In Italian, with one article in English. 1958 first edition F. Azzaro (Viareggio, Italy), 9 1/4 x 13 1/8 inches tall stapled paperbound in color pictorial covers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs and ads from local Viareggio businesses, unpaginated, approx [48] pp. Slight soiling, rubbing, creasing and edgewear to covers. Slight creasing or soiling to a handful of pages, with a half-inch edge tear to the fore edge of the final leaf. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce record of the 1958 observance of this illustrious Italian carnival. ~SP22~ [1.5P] The 1958 magazine/program/guide for the Carnival of Viareggio (Carnevale di Viareggio), a carnival event annually held in the Tuscan city of Viareggio, considered amongst the most renowned carnival celebrations in both Italy and Europe. Viareggio in Maschera ('Viareggio in Mask') has been produced every year since 1921. Founded by Giuseppe Giannini,… Read More

Roosevelt Campobello International Park, 1964. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. [1964] Roosevelt Campobello International Park (New Brunswick, Canada), oversize 11 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches tall blue faux leather bound, no dust jacket (as issued), gilt lettering to front cover and spine, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs and facsimiles of newspaper articles, unpaginated, [68] pp. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this rare commemorative of the founding of this international park in Canada and its connection to the Roosevelts. OCLC (No. 232335359) locates only two copies at institutions worldwide. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~RCL~ [3.5P] A commemorative book issued in 1964 when the U.S. and Canadian governments jointly opened the Roosevelt Campobello International Park on the southern tip of Campobello Island… Read More

The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. Acceptable. 2013 second edition, The Bureau of National Affairs (Arlington, Virginia), 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall wire spiral bound paperback in tan printed covers, mixed pagination. Former corporation library copy, with lined-out received stamp and label with call number to front cover as the only evidence of this. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to covers, with moderate creasing and tearing along spine. Slight creasing to the title page and a couple of other pages within. Despite these detractions, still an excellent reading / reference copy of this authoritative, up-to-date corporate legal reference. This 2007 second edition updated through September 2013. ~DD~ Analyzes Chapter 156D, the principal Massachusetts corporation law statute, which covers such matters as corporate organization and operation and extraordinary corporate actions. The portfolio also examines statutes treating other types of corporations (e.g., professional) that make reference to and rely on… Read More

Exposition Press, 1947-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1947 first edition, Exposition Press (New York), 5 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches tall black textured cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, 64 pp. Front board very slightly bowed. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a very slightly soiled and edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~SP29~ [1.0P] A scarce collection of poetry by Elinor Milnor Parker (1906-2001), an author of 16 books and an editor, vice president and director of publisher Charles Scribner's Sons. OCLC (No. 18498767) locates only two copies at institutions worldwide - one at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and one at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Printed for John Baker at the three Pigeons, 1683-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1683 first edition 'Printed for John Baker at the three Pigeons in St. Paul's Church Yard' (London) 4 5/8 x 7 1/4 inches tall hardbound, grey paper boards over beige cloth spine with printed paper label to spine, endpapers refreshed, [8], 359, [1] pp. Covers mildly soiled and edgeworn, with slight bumping to upper tips. Interior is near fine - clean, bright and unmarked. Altogether, an outstanding copy of this important work, in which Samuel Parker attempts to prove that episcopacy - government of the church by bishops - was the practice of the primitive Christian church. References: ESTC No. R30082; Wing (1996), P453. ESTC locates only nine institutional copies in North America. ~LLL~ Samuel Parker (1640-1688) was an English churchman, of strong Erastian views and a fierce opponent of Dissenters. His political position is often compared with that of Thomas Hobbes, but there are also clear differences; he was… Read More

Boston: Horace B. Fuller, 1878, 1878-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1878 Horace B. Fuller (Boston) 312 pp. Navy blue hardbound with rubbed, bumped and edgeworn, with fraying at spine tips and corner tips. Prior owner name in pencil to front pastedown, some soiling/foxing to occasional page. Otherwise, a very good reading copy, clean, bright and unmarked. History of four great Americans. ~L~

Steele and Peck, 1839. 6th. hardcover. Acceptable. 1839 revised and enlarged sixth edition, Steele and Peck (Buffalo, New York), 3 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches tall hardcover, no dust jacket, printed paper-covered boards over leather spine, gilt ruling to spine, 111, [1] pp. Lacking the original folding map, but otherwise complete. Moderate to heavy soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with bumping and fraying to all four tips. Prior owner name and city (Whitehall, New York) stamped to front pastedown. Scattered foxing throughout. Otherwise,a very good copy - clean and unmarked. ~M~ [0.5P] Contents: Directions to Travelers; Niagara River, its Sources and Islands; The Rapids; Goat or Iris Island; The Falls, Terrapin Bridge and Tower; Biddle Stair Case, Aeolus' Cave; The Ferry; Canada Views; Welland Canal; Brock's Monument; Burning Spring; Stair Case; Museum; Summer and Winter Scenery; River Below the Falls; Remarks of Hennepin, Tonti, Hontan; Curiosities; Mineral Spring; Whirlpool; Devil's… Read More

L. F. M. Van De Pas, 1998. 2ndEdition. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. 1998 second edition, L.F.M. van de Pas (Mosman Park, Western Australia), 8 5/8 x 11 3/4 inches tall blue buckram cloth hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), gilt lettering to spine, color frontispiece, extensively indexed, [10], 467 pp. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce history and genealogy of William 'The Silent' Prince of Orange. OCLC (No. 866770326) locates only one copy - at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~NNN~ [4.5P] Traces the known descendants of William I 'The Silent,' Prince of Orange (1533-1584), an important leader of the Dutch rebellion against the Spanish in the Eighty Years' War, and the first leader of the Netherlands. William of Orange is better known as William the… Read More