Search Results: Authors starting with P from Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA]

USA: The National Color Press, 1944. Soft cover. Very Good. The folio folder is folded for holding the prints. Each suitable for framing measuring 8 by 10 inches, photos are in both orientations. Holder has moderate handling wear; the photos are without flaw.. The views include Lake Odell, Oregon; Pitt River Bridge, 500 feet about the water level; Mount Shasta; Mount Lassen; Effects of Pioneer Gold Mining, Calif.; Lake Tahoe, Upper and Lower Angora; Lake Tahoe, Emerald Bay; Crater Lake, Oregon; Castle Crags and Sacramento River; Donner Lake, Calif.; Bay Bridge from Yerba Island, San Francisco; Train Engine Bucking Snow; Capitol, Sacramento; Mission San Miguel; Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco; Mission San Carlos.

Omaha, NE: Union Pacific Railroad, 1927. Soft cover. Very Good/None Issued. A travelogue of what to expect while riding the Union Pacific Railroad throughout the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska, and the Canadian province of British Columbia. Green pictorial stapled wraps embossed in blind, red, and light blue-green; 8vo; 48 pages. Black-and-white photographic illustrations throughout, 5 maps [two-color]. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Only one copy located in OCLC/WorldCat; at the Multnomah County Library; OCLC: 1048000494. Background Information: Founded in 1862, the original Union Pacific Railroad was part of the First Transcontinental Railroad project, later known as the Overland Route. Over the next century, UP absorbed the Missouri Pacific Railroad, the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, the Western Pacific Railroad, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.

[Canadian Pacific], 1941. Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Folded brochure of the daily itinerary for the 11-day cruise. opening to a color map and poster of Alaska and the Yukon. When opened measuring 16 by 16.5 inches. Some handling wear with occasional pencil notes on the itinerary and two name on a blank section for 'autographs'. One panel is toned more than others and small splits at the seam edges.. An interesting piece of transportation/maritime travel ephemera with details of the journey.

Very Good. Folded color illustrated cardstock; 6.875 by 9.5 inches. The front shows the Royal York Hotel and the rear is a collage of Canadian Pacific Hotels. Carefully handled, no flaws but minor even age-toning.. Several months prior to the Great Wall Street Crash a fine meal was served featuring Beef Wellington at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Canada. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company announced and then built the largest hotel in the British Commonwealth opening June 11, 1929.

The Bromeliad Society, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A compilation from the bulletins of The Bromeliad Society. -------- Cloth covered boards, The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with edge/corner wear.

New York: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. New/New. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality.  11.25 inches tall;  207 pages with index. Graves is unusually attuned to the phenomena of nature. A passionate interest in science led her to introduce unorthodox forms drawn from astronomy, botany, cartography, and zoology into her art. In the last decade, her intellectual pursuits have taken a more humanist course as she has recast world history into an enigmatic pictorial idiom. Graves has spoken of her desire to make art out of what she terms the "shards of art," and she has assembled a cache of images drawn from various disciplines, eras, and civilizations. Over the past twenty years, Nancy Graves has produced an extraordinarily varied body of work in an ever-expanding range of mediums, including painting, film, costume and set design, and print. In comparison to her painting and sculpture, Graves's prints have received little attention.… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1928. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good. Bindings are tight with a small shelf lean. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Dust jacket is a bit shabby with wear to extremities and some soiling. 8vo; 8.25 inches tall, 169 pages; B/W Illustrations.. Later printing of the author's nostalgic Lost Cause novel about the adventures of two 10-year-old boys' adventures in Virginia during the Civil War, and a fair amount of Southern Black dialect. Ref: Blanck-Penrod, 89

Miami: John P. Gilbert & Associates. Soft cover. Very Good. Stapled Illustrated wraps, 12 pages with printing on the wraps. 5 pages of information and numerous recipes. 8.75 inches tall. Carefully handled, no flaws to note. [no date c1970s].

San Francisco: Howell-North Publishers, 1968. Third Edition. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Photos By Phil Palmer. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. Minor, faint damp stain on the lower edge of the last three pages not affecting text or photos.. Color photo illustrated stapled wraps; 6 by 9 inches; 64 pages with b/w photographs and descriptive text.

New York: Doubleday, 1953. Book Club Edition [BCE]. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. The Dust Jacket was design by Richard "Dick" M. Powers and is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has toning on the spine and the white of the rear panel.. ".six shipwrecked humans found a Utopian colony on the planet Lucifer in association with two native species." - SFE online. The Author's Debut Novel.

New York: E P Dutton & Co Inc, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality.. In a legal thriller set in steamy southern Florida, a down-and-out lawyer is accused of murdering an informant for the Drug Enforcement Agency.

New York: Dutton, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. No Flaws or Blemishes but a remainder mark on the lower edge. First Edition, First Printing.. Set among Miami's legal, criminal, and Cuban high flyers, this stylish legal whodunit involves buried artifacts, drug trafficking, and shady politics in short, all the usual Miami fare. Attorney Gail Connor finds her happy, successful life turned upside down by a stalker who pursues and then abducts her eleven-year-old daughter and joins forces with her jealous ex-husband and new fiance+a7 to find Karen and deliver their own brand of justice.

New York: Dutton, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. New/New. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing.. Sam Hagen leads the prosecution of a group of rich, influential men charged with the rape of a seventeen-year-old model, but when a key witness is murdered, suspicion starts to turn toward his own family.

New York: Dutton, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. New/New. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing.. When Anthony Quintana and Gail Connor are asked to take on the appeal of a death row inmate, they encounter opposition from the community where the crime took place and suspect that their client is the victim of a conspiracy.

New York: Dutton, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Near Fine/New. No Flaws or Blemishes but a remainder mark on the lower edge. First Edition, First Printing.. Set among Miami's legal, criminal, and Cuban high flyers, this stylish legal whodunit involves buried artifacts, drug trafficking, and shady politics in short, all the usual Miami fare. Gail Pettis must put aside her own problems ..... a failing marriage, a looming custody battle, and a faltering legal career ..... when her sister, Renee, is murdered.

New York: Dutton, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. No Flaws or Blemishes but a remainder mark on the lower edge. First Edition, First Printing.. Set among Miami's legal, criminal, and Cuban high flyers, this stylish legal whodunit involves buried artifacts, drug trafficking, and shady politics in short, all the usual Miami fare. Accepting a potentially career-making case involving a nasty inheritance dispute and a murder, attorney Gail Connor becomes disturbed when she realizes that the case touches people close to her.

New York: Dutton, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. New/New. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing.. Cuban exile Anthony Quintera, also a Miami lawyer, provides legal counsel for the Miami Opera. A promising young singer, Thomas Nolan, is to star in Don Giovanni, but his connections with Castro's Cuba may cause trouble for the opera should they become known. From this rather interesting beginning, the plot wanders further and further afield, until the reader yearns for the inevitable murder. Politics, nostalgia of the Miami exile community, and conflicting memories or reports of Gail's fiance and friends bulk out the story

New York: Dutton, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. New/New. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing.. "Suspense builds" as a tropical storm and a crazed killer bear down on Connor and Quintana in the Florida Keys, in the New York Times-bestselling series (Library Journal).

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. 8.75 inches tall. 288 pages Illustrated with 32 photos. First Edition - First Printing.. A narrative of travels in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain prior to World War II.

Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2001. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. This history of sudden death playoffs is supplemented by interviews with over 30 major leaguers who had the opportunity to play in some of baseball's most critical and exciting games. No flaws but a very minor flair of the covers on the front edge. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean.. Covered are the sudden death games between the 1946 Brooklyn Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals, the 1948 Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians, the 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants, the 1959 Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Braves, the 1962 Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants, the 1978 Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees, the 1980 Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros, and the 1995 Seattle Mariners and California Angels. A box score is provided for every game.