Search Results: Authors starting with P from Grampy's Bookcase

405 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Black and white maps included. Previous owner's name and date "1974" are written on the top outside of the front free end paper. DJ has slight wear along the outside edges including several small closed tears and a chip out of the bottom outside corner.

377 pp. Faded covers but tight and square. Previous owner's names on the front and rear free endpapers. Foxing throughout. Small chip in the bottom corner of the last page of text.

384 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Only library markings are library stamps on the outside edges of the text block and a small label on the back free end paper. "8106" is written on the back cover. Previous owner's name is written on the top corner of the inside back binding. "The formation of the Constitution, which British prime Minister Gladstone once described as 'the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man,' is a story of great historic drama." p.15.

30 pp. Text is clean and unmarked. text block has small tears at the outer edges and at the spine. Front and back covers are chipped at the top and bottom. "1934" has been penciled in on the front cover. Last page featuring an ad has a chip and closed tear. "Today we can see where this 'correction' of Marxism in the interests of the bourgeois regime has led. Step by step all the gains of the revolution have been thrown away. Step by step Social-Democracy has helped the bourgeoise to consolidate its power." p.25.

288.pp Clean and unmarked text in a square and tight binding. Only library markings are two library name stamps, one on the title page and one at the top of the text block, and the number "195142' stamped on the title page. A memorial gift label is attached to the front free end paper. This volume appears not to have been circulated. Plastic covering has kept the DJ in fine condition. The plastic cover has been taped to the boards which has left several small and light tape stains.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Volume appears uncirculated from a library's reference section. The only library markings are a stamp on the top of the text block and a small bar code label on the top back binding. From the Introduction, "The purpose of this volume is to relate the history of black people in America through the words of those who participated in or witnessed this great drama of human events, The documents have been chosen, primarily, because they reveal the dramatic aspects of the struggle for equality - the trials and tribulations, as well as the achievements and contributions."

309 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. DJ is worn with the front detached from the spine. Previous owner's name is on the front inside cover. Volume from the Liberty Book Club Edition. From the front DJ flap, "On March 25, 1931, nine Negro boys, unemployed and looking for work, were riding on a train that was passing through a Southern town. They got into a fight with some white hobos and knocked off the train. To get even, the whites reported that the Negro kids had raped two white prostitutes whom they knew to be riding on the same freight train. Thus began the Scottsboro case."

578 pp. Additional glossary and notes section included. Text is clean and unmarked in bright and tight covers. previous owner's name is on the outside corner of the half title page. "&/06" is written on the top outside corner of the back cover. No other defects. Spine is not creased. From the Preface, "The story of American politics is a compelling one. It is about the struggle of real people to find mutually beneficial ways of living together. The title of this book...is a recognition of this struggle and its lofty goal - a government of and for all the people."

276 pp. Frontispiece photo of Charles Payson included. Some foxing. Front cover is loose at the bottom but is attached. Top and bottom of the spine has some wear.

95 pp. Color illustrations throughout. Pearlstein's art from 1940-2008.

386 pp. Clean ad unmarked text in tight and unmarred covers. Spine is not creased. Volume appears unread. From the back cover, "Charles S. Peirce was a thinker of great originality and power. Although unpublished in his lifetime, he was recognized as an equal by such men as William James and John Dewey and, since his death in 1914, he has come to the forefront of American philosophy."

36 pp. Clean, bright, and unmarked text in tight and unmarred covers. Full page plates included. "Lecture in the series 'Constructive Horizons: The Latin American perspective', a research and art loan program sponsored by the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, and the center for the Study of Modernism of the University of Texas, Austen". p. 36.

307 pp. Underlined passages and notes throughout. Binding is tight ad square with slight curling on the bottom outside corner. Spine is not creased. Signed, " To Edie & George effective fighters against racism Victor Perlo".

64 pp. Clean and unmarked text in tight covers. Written in "collaboration with Labor Research Association".

280 pp. Signed by the author. Underlining throughout and margin notes in a tight and square binding.

16 p. Clean and unmarked booklet. From the title page, "Opening statement to the Court and Jury in the Case of the Sixteen Smith Act Victims in the Trial at Foley Square, new York."

448 pp. Light spotting on the top edge of text block. Owner's name on the front free endpaper. Otherwise the text is clean and unmarked with a tight, square, and bright binding. DJ has a chip on the top front edge and slight edge wear.

247 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Book was withdrawn from a university reference section. Several library stamps and labels are present. DJ has been protected in a plastic cover and has been taped to the boards. Volume contains 133 statistical tables. Front cover states, " Separate vote history of each election, each state, each historical party; Analysis of each 'hairbreadth' election; Convenient, indispensable aid for political leaders, journalists, students, historians - and ALL libraries.

Text is clean and unmarked in bright and intact covers, Card holder is attached to the inside back cover. Library stamps on the outside of the text block. label attached to the bottom of the spine. Volume is a bright and solid copy. From the back cover, "'Into the Cauldron' reviews Guard deployment in civil disorders over the past several years in the Introduction and cites some of the dilemmas facing these citizen-soldiers when they take their place alongside the policeman and fireman on the violence-wracked streets of a city literally under siege."

Only several notes in the margin and underlined passages. Binding is bright, tight, and square. DJ has very little wear. A solid volume which appears hardly used. Previous owner's book plate is on the inside front binding. From the front DJ flap, "This descriptive and critical survey of the American novel up to the year 1820 seems certain to gain recognition as the definitive work on its subject. Prompted by an awareness how unevenly the predecessors of James Fenimore Cooper have been studied and made accessible to the modern reader. Mr. Petter has completed a work of literary historiography that lucidly and systematically deals with an astonishing amount of information."