Search Results: Authors starting with P from Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969 One of 100 numbered copies, handbound by Earle Gray, and signed by the author and both translators. Clothbacked decorative boards. Quarto. A fine copy in fine acetate dust jacket.

Warsaw: Die Stiftung der Polnischen Kultur/The Foundation of Polish Culture, [1989] Black and white pictorial boards. Quarto. With color reproductions of film and theatre posters produced from 1977-1989. A couple of scratches on back cover. Otherwise in excellent condition. Without dust jacket, apparently as issued. Uncommon. With contributions of: W. Marczewski, A. Wajda, P. Szulkin, J. Majewski, K. Kieslowski, and J. Machulski.

New York: Norton, 1993 First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Catalogue of 423 items, all illustrated, 78 illustrated in color. Fine in fine d.j.

London: Samuel Palmer…and Field & Tuer, 1870 First edition. Publisher's half calf over marbled boards. Gilt spine. . Quarto. Frontispiece map, text illustrations. Index. Binding extremities lightly rubbed. Very good. "It is now nearly a thousand years since the parish of St. Pancras was founded, and yet during the whole of that lengthened period no complete history of the parish has been published" (preface).

New York: Bantam Books, [1990] First edition. Cloth. Fine in fine d.j.

New York: Published by the Century Co., [1927] First edition. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. Facsimile plate. Very good in good dust jacket. Jacket is chipped at binding extremities and lightly browned at spine.

London: Strahan and Co., 1868 First edition, presentation copy. A book of poetry and prose based on the author's travels in France. . Publisher's blue cloth boards stamped in gilt. . Top edge gilt. Neatly recased preserving original brown endpapers. . Octavo. With a frontispiece and eight plates. Spine darkened. Some soiling to endpapers. Bookplate (ca. 1903) to front pastedown. Author's presentation inscription to front flyleaf, as well as a separate gift inscription (of Caroline Fletcher Smith, gifting this book to the South Place Ethical Society in 1902). Some dampstaining to edges of leaves. Faint marginal toning. A good copy of a book that is scarce in commerce, presented by the author "To Sarah Lewin, from her affectionate friend," dated 1868. Bessie Parkes-Belloc (1829 – 1925) was a writer, journalist, and women's rights activist who advocated for women's employment opportunities. Emily Faithfull, Victoria Press founder and Queen Victoria's official printer, credited Parkes-Belloc as the… Read More

London: Methuen, 1904 A remarkably fine facsimile of the first major horticultural work printed in English. . Gray cloth spine with printed paper label over blue-green boards. . Folio. Reproduces the text and illustrations, including the engraved title-page, portrait of Parkinson, garden diagrams, and numerous botanical plates. Front and rear boards have very minor soiling. Light foxing. Library ink stamp to margins of about fifteen pages. Pages untrimmed. A very, untrimmed good copy. Paradisi was the first work published on English gardening, and has descriptions of nearly 1,000 plants, with many of the entries giving evidence of cross-breeding. It describes the proper cultivation of plants and is divided into three sections: the flower garden, the kitchen garden, and the orchard garden. At the beginning of each section, Parkinson (1567-1650) provides instructions on the "ordering" of each type of garden and advises the reader on various topics, including the layout of gardens, tools, soil,… Read More

Berkeley: University of Califorrnia Press, [1999] First edition. Boards. Quarto. Fine, but lacking d.j.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [1992] Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

[n.p.:] Privtely Printed, 1928-33 First editions, limited to sixty-six copies of each volume. Volume I inscribed by the author to Dickens bibliographer Thomas Hatton, dated "1st March, 1929. Full red pebbled morocco, gilt single-rule borders on covers, gilt-lettered spines. Top edge gilt. . Two volumes, large octavo. Photogravure frontispiece and twenty-four full-page illustrations in the first volume, nine full-page illustrations in the second volume. Errata slip laid in Volume I; notice from the author, dated 1933, in the second volume. Endpapers lightly foxed, light wear at foot of spine of Volume I. A near fine set. "A fine catalogue of the best and largest collection of Dodgsoniana and Carrolliana in private hands" (Williams, Madan and Green, Part III, Number VIII).

London: Constable, 1936 First edition. One of 150 copies. Cloth. Quarto. Fine in very good d.j. D.j. has a couple of small tears and is price-clipped.

New York: Scribners, 1925 First edition of the book that is generally considered the most outstanding example of the art of Parrish's book illustration. Parrish's biographer, Coy Ludwig states: " the illustrations, printed in rich colors...were the highest quality reproductions that could be had." (Ludwig, p. 48). . Original black with pictorial onlay on front board. . Large quarto. Full and partial-page color illustrations throughout, pictorial endpapers (twenty-six illustrations in all). Light shelfwear, light foxing to first and last few leaves. A very good, bright copy

Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1962 Cloth. Quarto. 140 full-page illustrations, mostly in black and white, but a few in color. Fine in very good d.j. Jacket has minor soiling.

Paris: Librairie Henri Leclerc, L. Giraud-Badin, 1925-7 First edition of an exhaustive bibliographical study with extensive critical notes by Albert Maire of the Sorbonne. Each volume focuses on an aspect of Pascal's work. Original printed wrappers, uncut. . Five volumes, octavo. . A few light chips to wrappers. A very good copy of this fragile set, in five cloth chemises, housed in matching cloth open-end slipcase. Volume I: Pascal savant; ses travaux mathématiques et physiques. Préfaces de m. Émile Picard...et de Pierre Duhem; Volumes II-III: Pascal pamphlétaire; les Lettres provinciales. I. Les éditions. II. Les documents; Volume IV: Pascal philosophe; les Pensées. Les editions, les critiques, les travaux; Volume V: Opuscules, lettres, biographie et iconographie de Blaise Pascal. Les éditions, les critiques, les travaux.

Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1978 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876 First edition of Pasteur's groundbreaking book on fermentation. Though lacking the ads, which are an indication of state, this book has the scarce ads for Pasteur's Etudes sur la maladie des vers a soie (1870) at the rear. Contemporary or slightly later quarter red calf over marbled boards, rubbed at extremities. . Octavo. Twelve lithographic plates, woodcuts in text. A little light foxing. Inscribed on the half-title to Pasteur's nephew, J. Vichot, with "affectionate remembrances, L. Pasteur." This book has been cut down slightly for binding, and portions of several letters in the inscription are shaved. Otherwise very good. In this work, Pasteur "described a new and perfected method of preparing pure yeast [and] emphasized that yeast occasionally required small quantities of oxygen in order to retain its 'youth' and its capacity to germinate in oxygen-free environments. Having now achieved a new appreciation for the importance of oxygen in brewing, and especially the… Read More

London: Hutchinson's University Library, 1951 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Former owner's ink signature. Very good in lightly chipped, partially faded very good d.j.

London: Allen & Unwin, [1955] First American edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good dust jacket. Spine of d.j. lightly soiled.

A Avignon: Chez le Veuve Girard, Impr. Libr. À la Place St. Didier, 1763 First edition. Contemporary tan calf with gilt-tooled spine. Edges stained red. . Three volumes, twelvemo. . Engraved folding frontispiece and two folding diagrams in Vol. I and engraved headpieces and initial letters; three engraved folding diagrams in Vol. II. Binding extremities lightly rubbed with slight scuffing and soiling to boards. Very minor foxing and light toning in Volume I. A few leaves unopened in Volume I. Title-page of Volume II has a small marginal chip. Page 331 of Volume III has a hole in the gutter, affecting text, but with no loss. Several leaves in each volume have small creases, affecting some letters, but with no loss. A very good set. Aimé-Henri Paulian (1722-1801) was a French physics professor at the Jesuit College of Avignon and a natural philosopher. He wrote several works on natural science, including Système generale de philosophie; Dictionnaire des nouvelles decouvertes en physique; and… Read More