Search Results: Authors starting with P from Warwick Books

San Francisco: Southern Pacific Railroad, no date. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Stapled eight-page booklet about prune growing and how to do it. Large type and very basic information. Fine condition. No date but early 20th century. Includes two photo illustrations and some recipes. Fine condition. 32 mo.

London: William Clowes, 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor. Hardcover in blue blindstamped decorated boards. No dust jacket. First edition. Front board is detached. Spine is missing a two-inch piece, though the title, in gilt, in intact. Interior of the book is fresh and bright, with no markings and no foxing. Plates and tissue guards are intact and complete. Plate from the Carberry Tower Library affixed to front pastedown page. If and when rebound, a fine copy. Small 8vo. 149 pp. Scarce.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Last page is creased. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright, with small chips at top and bottom of slightly tanned spine. A handsome, collectible copy of Pangborn's first science fiction novel. The following year Pangborn went on to win the International Fantasy Award for Best Fiction for "A Mirror for Observers" 8vo. 219 pp. Jacket art by Dick Powers. In protective Mylar.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. First Thus. Paperback. As New. Softcover in illustrated wraps. First Princeton Classic Edition of book first published in 1943 in two volumes, here presented as one. Fine, As New condition, unread and unmarked. Large section of black-and-white 325 illustrations at the end. Large 8vo. 317 numbered pages including a bibliography, an appendix, an index of persons, and an index of works.

Colmar, Germany: The Musee Unterlinden / Editions Artlys, 2015. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Softcover in illustrated wraps with flaps. First printing. Book is in Fine condition, crisp and clean. Details of the altarpiece via color plates throughout and a few pages at the end devoted to contemporary artists in the museum's collection. Text is in English. 4to. 128 pp.

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Center, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Softcover in illustrated glossy wraps. First edition. Published to accompany a 2008 exhibition of the same name at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in Malibu, CA. Book is like new, clean, crisp, unmarked, unused. Lush color plates throughout. 4to 186 pp. including biographical references and index.

Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing. Fine condition in Fine dust jacket (tiny nick at spine). The book evolved from a workshop at the Getty Institute entitled Lasting Impressions: The Art of Wax Sculpture. Includes a translation of Julius Von Schlosser's "History of Portraiture in Wax." Profusely illustrated. Small 4to. 328 pp. including index.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is As New, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Dust jacket is fresh and bright. Includes musical notations. 8vo. 187 pp. including index.

New York: Thames & Hudson, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition. Thirty-two color plates of Louis Wain's fantasy cat paintings. Many more in black and white. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition, clean, fresh, and unmarked. Price-clipped jacket. Square 8vo. 79 pp.

Aldershot, UK: Gale & Polden Ltd, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition. Near fine condition: A few water spots on front red board and a large clipped corner on the front flap else Fine, clean, crisp, and solidly bound. Illustrations are in black and white but laid in are some color photos of the items as was the wont of Canadian military collector Donald Skinner, from whose estate the book comes. 8vo. 341 pp. In protective Mylar.

Rohnert Park, CA: Pomegranate Art Books, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover in glazed illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. First edition. Fine, As New condition, with all pop-ups in fine working condition. Beautifully produced pop-ups based on well-known Parrish paintings. 4to. Unpaginated.

Usk, WA: Aviation-USK, 1993. Paperback. Fine. Softcover in illustrated wraps. Fine, As New condition, crisp and clean and unmarked. The autobiographical story of Jack Parsonson, flyer with the South African Air Force during World War II, who was shot down three times. Illustrated throughout. 4to. 127 pp.

Paris: Editions Scala, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. As New condition, crisp and clean. Jacket is fresh and bright, is a whisper of wear at top edge. Former owner's name inked lightly on title page. Covers Archaic Greek, Classical Greek, Hellenistic, Etruscan, and Roman art. Color plates throughout. Small 4to. 86 pp.

New York: Pantheon, 1958. Early edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very good. Hardcover in dust jacket. First published in the U.S. in September 1958, with two printings prior to publication. This copy was printed in October 1958, the fifth printing of the first edition, (51st-65th thousand). Book is in very nice condition, clean, unmarked, sturdily bound. Unclipped dust jacket with price of $5 at top is intact with some loss at top of spine and some light spotting on the spine. Overall a handsome copy of Pasternak's celebrated novel. 559 pp., including the poems of Yurii Zhivago. With author's photo on rear. In protective Mylar.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Hardcover in original red textured boards. First edition. No dust jacket. Book is straight, clean, and tightly bound. Slight wear at top of spine. Frontis photo of the author, a noted Australian bush poet (he wrote "Waltzing Matilda") and a war correspondent during the Boer War and later an ambulance driver in World War I. Bookplate affixed to first free endpage. Laid in are are some folded maps in poor condition (Battle of the Alma, Battle of Balaclava, and one more whose title is obscured) left in in case they are of interest. 8vo. 212 pp. From the estate of Donald Skinner, Canadian military collector extraordinaire.

Cody, Wyoming: Flintlock Publishing Company, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. SIGNED, inscribed, and dated by the author on the dedication page. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright, with a touch of wear. Illustrated with photos. Map endpapers. 4to. 178 pp. including index. In protective Mylar. Laid in is an 8"x10" glossy photo of three cowboys on horses taken "about 15 miles east of old Shaw ranch new Jewell Springs," reproduced from a 1905 photo by Bill Hovey. The men on horses are identified in ink on the back of the photo.

New York: Viking Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright, with very light wear. Bottom textblock has some kind of doodle on it. Illustrated with photos. 8vo. 211 pp. In protective Mylar.

London and New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright, with a few tiny chips at corners and $4.95 price at top corner. Illustrated with photos. 8vo. 285 pp.

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. SIGNED and warmly inscribed by Peck to his literary agent. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright. with a crease on front flap. 8vo. 229 pp.

London: John Murray, 1814. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. Original half calf and Florentined paper binding. Second edition (1814). Binding is a bit wobbly, but holding. Backstrip is present but there is no indication of a title. Affixed Bioscope is intact and in fine condition. Inked ownership name on title page. One endpage is loose. Internal text pages are clean, fresh, and unmarked. The book gave the world the word "Bioscope," which lived on in the world of cinema. On the origin of the word in Granville's text, the Bioscope, a defunct blog on early and silent cinema, explains it this way: Granville Penn's book included a separate card on which was illustrated a dial marked from nought to seventy, marking the ages of man from childhood to decay in decades, with eternity waiting before and after. A pointer was attached for the reader to mark out his current age, and hence to contemplate the lessons in Penn's book on the allotted span of human life and to avoid the belief ‘that life is a… Read More