Search Results: Authors starting with P from Abacus Books

London: Leonard Parsons, 1924. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Good. Small 8vo hardcover, 62pp. Paper over printed boards with a photographic portrait of the author on the front. Signed by author on ffep. Some toning and light shelf wear to covers otherwise very good.A graduate of Cardiff University, Wales Minnie Pallister was a Feminist, Socialist and Peace Activist, renowned for her rousing and thoughtful oratory, whose promising career was curtailed due to ill health at a relatively young age after which she concentrated upon her writing.Contained in The Orange-Box are her views on the necessity and nature of socialist propaganda particularly with a view toward the new woman voter.

New York: Ernst Kaufmann, 1920s. Hardcover. Very good. 64pp. 8vo, Illustrated pastedown over grey cloth hardcover, containing thirteen stories of missionary work in the American south, China, Africa and among the Apache. Collected and published by W.G. Polack, then curator of the Concordia Historical Institute, and notable for a certain political incorrectness. Very good with a pencil gift inscription to front paste down and a little rubbing to edges.

First edition, third printing. Hard cover. Octavo. Inscribed and SIGNED by author on title page in blue ink "My greetings to J----- V--- / Philip Pullman" Clean and unmarked with a very tight binding. Carnegie Medal sticker to front of dust jacket which shows minor shelf wear and is intact.
In this, the first book in his compelling "His Dark Materials" trilogy, Philip Pullman has created a powerfully original universe, remarkable for its combination of electrifying action and heart-stopping emotion. - from the dust flap.

First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover. Octavo. Inscribed and SIGNED by author in blue ink on title page "Best wishes to J----- V--- / Philip Pullman" Hard cover. Clean and unmarked with a very tight binding. Minimal shelf wear to intact dust jacket.
Second volume in the highly acclaimed "His Dark Materials" trilogy.

First U.S. Edition, Second Printing. Inscribed and SIGNED by author in blue ink on title page "For Judith, with / my best wishes- / Philip Pullman" Hard cover. Clean and unmarked with a very tight binding. Minimal shelf wear to intact dust jacket.
First book in the author's highly acclaimed "His Dark Materials" trilogy.