Search Results: Authors starting with P from Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books

Novara, Italy: Uffizi Press. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Small volume with many B&W reproductions of well-known paintings of Paris. Overall VG, with a couple of faint stains to rear board, some bumps and wear to board edges and spine. Binding intact, pages clean.

Volt Books, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Perfect unread copy, fine in a fine jacket. First printing.

New York: Doubleday, 2007. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A nice first edition of this offering from the somewhat controversial novelist. Minimal wear to jacket at head and foot of spine, a touch of soil to front cover, slight lean to book.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1962. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Hard to find alphabet book featuring, um... monkeys. Boards badly rubbed, ex-library with expected markings. One front endpaper perhaps removed. Binding has tape reinforcing to spine. Some soil and staining to pages.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1951. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Third impression--a novel presenting a possible history of the relationship between John Singer Sargent and Isabella Gardner. This copy is somewhat odd in that the previous owner has laid or pasted in various clippings related to this pair, including a Life magazine article about Mrs. Gardner. Other than these...enhancements? Third impression. This is VG, no jacket save for rear flap, with a little discoloration to endpaprers where protective plastic covering was affixed with acidic tape.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Palmer passes along several timeless lessons in this book. This is a second printing, VG (foxing to top edge and foredge, small bump to top edge of front board) in a VG jacket (some wear to head of spine and top corners, front flap creased, not price clipped). Binding sound, pages unmarked and clean.

New York: Clarion Books, 2004. First Edition . Pictorial Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Downing, Julie. Signed by authoron the title page. A first printing of a beautiful picture book by a Newbery Award -winning author. . When Sang-hee's father can't light the fire that lets the king know all is well in the land, will Sang-hee light it? Or will he keep it dark so he can finally see the soldiers?

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2003. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Fine copy in a very good jacket, this is a first printing. Jacket has some creasing to rear panel, a little additional shelfwear.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2003. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Fine copy in fine jacket, this is a Book Club Edition. No flaws.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Arcade Pub, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Very nice copy of the author's collection of essays on authors from Dante and Voltaire to Borges, Sebald, and Rushdie. First U.S., fine in a near fine jacket (small crease to front panel of jacket near spine).

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Carolrhoda Books, 2002. First U.S. . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A touching tale about a young tiger who is resentful of his younger sister, until she becomes stuck in a tree. Large format hardcover, no jacket (perhaps as issued). Fine, with no notable wear. First U.S. Printing of what seems a U.K. paperback original.

New York: Harper Collins, 2007. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Novel from the author of the popular Bel Canto. Second printing, fine in a VG+ jacket--shiny spot on front panel from removal of bookstore sticker, faint scratch to back panel.

New York: Dial Press, 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Curious memoir of a cross country drive with the pathologist who performed Einstein's autopsy, and made off with the great man's brain. Journalist Paterniti persuades the pathologist to return the brain to Einstein's heirs, and recounts the tale of their trip. First printing, fine in a near fine jacket.

Dial Press, 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Curious memoir of a cross country drive with the pathologist who performed Einstein's autopsy, and made off with the great man's brain. Journalist Paterniti persuades the pathologist to return the brain to Einstein's heirs, and recounts the tale of their trip. First printing, fine in a fine jacket.

H&S Co, 1940. Soft cover. Very Good. Stolp, Nell. Charming little pamphlet in velvet-textured paper wrap, with color illustrations throughout. No date provided, likely about 1940. Neat gift inscription from 1963 on pictorial cover under green wrap. A touch of wear to front cover, but overall in excellent condition for its age. Gold cord and tassel binding

Publisher's Company, Inc., 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume 5 in the International Library of Negro Life and History series, concerning the the fine arts. Ex library, but with minimal distractions. White numbering to spine, stamp to page ends, pencil notation to inside front cover, pocket on rear free endpaper. Text clean, no other markings. Cover somewhat rubbed, pages beginning to brown. From a non-circulating school reference library.

Publisher's Company, Inc., 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume 2 in the International Library of Negro Life and History series, concerning the theatrical arts. Ex library, but with minimal distractions. White numbering to spine, stamp to page ends, pencil notation to inside front cover, pocket on rear free endpaper. Text clean, no other markings. Cover somewhat rubbed, pages beginning to brown. From a non-circulating school reference library.

New York: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Collection to benefit literacy foundation edited by noted children's author Paulsen. Stories having to do with books by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Ellen Conford, Joan Bauer, others. First printing, fine in a very good + jacket. Jacket has some wear to top rear edge, top front flap, but no tears. Book itself fine.

Delacorte Press, 1990. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Copyright date of September, 1990. Book and jacket are near-fine, with only minor bumping to top of spine and minor ding to the bottom edge of the front of the dust jacket.

Simon and Schuster, 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing with complete number line. From the author of An Instance of the Fingerpost. Fine in a nearly fine jacket--small crease to front inside flap.