Search Results: Authors starting with P from Walkabout Books

Buffalo, NY: E.H. Hutchinson, 1889. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 87 pp, in original printed wrappers. Mild soiling. The author was an attorney and Principal of the Buffalo Classical School. He traveled to Oregon, Washington, Alaska (primarily Sitka), and British Columbia in 1888, reporting back in a series of articles for his local newspaper, the Commercial Advertiser. This is their first appearance in book form. Includes interesting letters on indigenous crafts in Alaska, the Russian population in the Sitka area, and the Sitka mission, along with sketches of Portland, Astoria, and the Puget Sound region. Tourville 658; Wickersham 1987; Not in Smith or Arctic Bibliography.

Christchurch: Mount Cook National Park Board, 1959. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 64 pp, illustrated with maps (one folding), photos, and line drawings. Stapled binding. Minor handling wear, clean and sound. First edition of this nicely illustrated popular guide to the natural history, attractions, and recreational activities at Mount Cook (the highest mountain in New Zealand). The maps are: Walks Near the Hermitage, the Hermitage Terrace, and Mount Cook National Park and Adjacent Region.

Guadalajara, 1942. Softcover. Very Good. vii, 114 pp, with illustrations, index, in original illustrated wrappers. Mild handling wear and soiling to wrappers; text clean. Text in Spanish.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. First Edition. Softcover. Good. pp. 482-600 + 130 pp (advertisements). Some general wear to wrappers including sticker damage and rubbing to back cover and tears to spine, amateur re-sewing of spine; contents clean and complete. Portrait of Grand Duke Nikolas (Russian General Nicholas Nikolaevich) on front cover. Articles on the war on the Eastern Front, the cost of war, "A Day in the Belgian Relief Stations," "How Capital Brings Trade," and more.

London: J. Murray, 1791. First edition in English. 8vo. Vol. I: xiv, 2-289, with folded aquatint frontispiece; Vol. II: iv, 261, [3] (ads). Ex-library copies in recent three-quarter leather and marbled boards, new endpapers. Library ink stamps on three pages in each volume, foxing to first and last few pages of Vol. I and first few pages of Vol. II, otherwise sound and clean. "Pagès, an officer in the French Navy, was posted to Santo Domingo in 1766. The next year he apparently received a commission to search for a northwest passage by way of the eastern coast of Asia. He sailed first to New Orleans and proceeded to explore the Louisiana territory by traveling up the Mississippi and then taking a canoe up the Red River to Natchidoches. He traversed Texas on horseback to San Antonio and Laredo, then crossed Mexico, visiting Saltillo, San Luis Potosi, Mexico City, and Acapulco. From that port, Pagès sailed on the Manilla galleon to Guam and to the Philippines. This work offers much information on the… Read More

Las Vegas, NV: Nevada Publications, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Presumed first edition (no additional printings noted). 48 pp, in original orange cloth boards. Illustrated with photographs. A fine copy in a finedust jacket with original $4.95 price intact. Includes a map, a section on desert travel, and a reading list.

Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 1996. Soft cover. Near Fine. 195 pp plus ads. Clean, tight, and unmarked, with mild cover wear. Articles on measures of suicidal risk; self-mutilating adolescents in confinement and institutional response systems; counseling offenders; process evaluation in corrections-based substance abuse treatment; the role of leisure participation in prisons; sex offender treatment; prisoners' perspectives on strategies for release, and more.

Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press. Hardcover. Very good. Undated early reprint, copyright 1929. 10.25" x 7.5", 314 pp, with 16 color plates. Bound in bright red cloth with gilt decoration, illustrated endpapers. Very light rubbing to extremities, light bump to one corner, small tear to margin of one page (Preface), light soiling to lower margin on one plate, not affecting image. Overall a very attractive copy.

New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xiv, 433 pp, illustrated. Three-quarter black leather over marbled boards. Leather well rubbed at extremities. Ownership stamp ("Benton House") on 4 pages, scattered foxing; otherwise unmarked, binding sound. The first 257 pages relate to California. Palmer, a doctor, arrived in San Francisco in 1849 and spent worked for a year as the city physician. Cowan (p. 471) says "his sketches are rather different from those of many of his fellow-sojourners." In 1851-52 he was a surgeon in the East India Company's navy and participated in the mutiny of 1857 (Smith, American Travellers Abroad, P11).

Philadelphia: Franklin Printing House, 1883. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 27 pp, in original printed wrappers. Near fine, with a few tiny chips. Pancoast was a Philadelphia lawyer who traveled to Dakota Territory in 1882 with an Episcopal Mission and spent a month visiting the Sioux Agencies. Upon his return, he and his traveling companion, Herbert Welsh, founded the Indian Rights Association, a primarily white organization dedicated to promotion equal protection under the law, education, citizenship, and land ownership for Native Americans. In this pamphlet, Pancoast offers a narrative of his travels and lays out his reasons why "civilizing" the Indians -- "making them self-supporting, industrious, and peaceable" -- is a "national necessity" and can best be accomplished through education.

Köln: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1964. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Translation into German of the work published by Harry Abrams under the title Tomb Sculpture. 319 pp, with 446 illustrations, bibliography, index. Very light bumped front bottom corner, light spot of wear to rear bottom corner; else fine. Minimal wear and soiling to dust jacket. In slipcase, which has some wear and tears. Text is in German. An overview of tomb sculpture from Ancient Egypt through Bernini. Due to size, shipping charges will be more than standard for priority or international orders.

Muenchen: Kurt Wolff, 1924. Hardcover. Very good. 1.-3. Tausend. Two volumes in one. 180 pp text with 137 b/w plates. In a variant binding of dark red buckram. Minor scuffing to boards; internals unmarked. Tissue guard for one plate loose, otherwise clean and sound. No dust jacket. An important work on medieval German sculpture. Oversized: shipping will be more than standard for priority or international orders.

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 10 x 7.5", 282 pp, with 24 color plates, in publisher's blue bloth with blind stamped decoration, gilt on spine. Top edge of boards and head of spine are faded, and there is some insect nibbling to the cloth. Spine cloth lightly suned. Binding sound, text generally clean, but with some scattered foxing. In the scarce original dust jacket, which is lightly toned and has some chipping to the head of the spine.

San Antonio, TX: St. Mary's Church, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 227 pp + v (index), 6 (advertisements), with frontispiece. Black fabricoid over boards with black cloth spine. No lettering on cover or spine. Light fraying to cloth at head and tail of spine, very mild spine slant, chippingto first two leaves near spine, otherwise sound and clean. Parisot arrived in Texas with other French missionaries in 1852. This book is something of a pastiche - in addition to his reminiscences of his experience in Mexico, Louisiana, and Texas, 1852-1867, there is some basic history of these areas. The latter part of the books is focused on Europe. His recounting of his American experience includes much interesting detail. Howes P67; Graff 3182.

Melbourne: Printed and Published by the Mining Standard for the Tasmanian Government, 1937. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 8.5 x 10.5 inches. 148 pp, with b/w illustrations, maps, and ads. A scarce promotional work, with text offering descriptive and statistical information on tourist attractions, hydro-electric development, mining, timber resources, agriculture (fruit, sheep, hops, dairy, honey, tobacco), shipping and ports, fisheries, shipbuilding and whaling, railways and scenery, recreational opportunities, etc. Spine has been covered with clear tape, which extends about two inches onto each cover, and covers are somewhat edgeworn. Binding is sound and text clean.

New York: Mason Brothers, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 522 pp, with portrait and facsimile letter, bound in later three-quarter leather over pebbled cloth boards. Fine copy, tighly bound and clean.Choate was an American lawyer, orator, and Senator who represented Massachusetts as a member of the Whig Party. He is regarded as one of the greatest American lawyers of the nineteenth century.

Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint, 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint of the 1925 original. 123 pp + b/w illustrations from photographs, with illustrations. Some sunning and light shelf wear to wrappers; contents clean and sound.

Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint, 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint of the 1924 original. 42 pp, with illustrations, in original wrappers. Some sunning to spine and edges of wrappers, title hand-written on spine; contents clean and sound. Description of of Zuñi scalp ceremonials in 1921 and 1891, with a section on changes in the ceremonials over time.

New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 316 pp, with frontis portrait, 19 illustrations and 2 maps (1 folding). Green cloth boards with gilt decoration. Spine cocked, brief gift inscription on front free endpaper, else very good. Good served as a Presbyterian missionary in West Africa from 1882 until his death in 1894. He traveled extensively in the region, learning the Bulu language and making a study of native religious beliefs. He also collected entomological specimens on behalf of W.J. Holland of the Western University of Pennsylvania, who contributed an Appendix to the book.

Softcover. Very Good. No publication information provided. v, 160 pp, with b/w illustrations from photographs, in original wrappers. Sunned spine, light handling wear; text clean. Signed with short inscription by author on title page. "My goal in this book is to take a look, sometimes admittedly an extremely sentimental one, at personalities prominent in our work and at what the Lord has done through them and through hundreds of other women throughout Mississippi during the past century" (Foreword). Covers the century spanning from the 1870s to the 1970s.