Search Results: Authors starting with P from Bygone Books

Worcester, MA: Pearl Lodge, No. 123, Knights and Ladies of Honor, 1887. Soft cover. Fair. 12mo, stapled paper wraps, 46 pages, 1887 calendar in rear. Paper covers are missing, otherwise intact. Condition is: FAIR - GOOD: covers missing, edgewear and staining at edges and scattered stains throughout. Recipes are on the verso of each page, local business advertisements on the recto. Published in Worcester Massachusetts and includes ads for area businesses. Date is determined by the 1887 calendar on last page. Recipes cover breads, pies, cakes, puddings, pudding sauces, salads, candy, miscellaneous (beef loaf, roast rabbits, clam chowder, escalloped lobster and oyster, pickled cauliflower, green tomato pickles, etc.), herb teas, and ends with a recipe for furniture polish! These older cook books make great reading material! The Knights and Ladies of Honor was a fraternal organization from the late 19th - early 20th century. This cookbook was a fund and awareness raising publication to support their… Read More

Washington, DC: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1962. Soft cover. NF. 1st printing, 8vo, stapled wraps, 35 pages plus 16 b&w plates, bibliography. Condition is NEAR FINE: owner name inside front cover.

Norwich, UK: Railway Development Society / Jarrold and Sons,, 1987. Soft cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Foreword by James Towler, introduction by the Editors, Philip Ralph and Mike Crowhurst; essays by various authors. 8vo, stiff wraps, 80 pages, illustrated with b/w photographs, maps and drawings. Condition: NEAR FINE: appears unread, tiny crease to front lower corner of cover.

Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Daye Press, 1934. First Edition . Hardcover. G+. 1st edition [NAP], 12mo, green check boards with original wrap-around paper advertising with spine title, 90 pages, [6] pages local adverts, b/w illustrations [old engravings]. GOOD+ with some light soiling and scuffing to boards, paper-wrap is faded, internally clean and tight.

NY: Frederick Warne, 1968. Hardcover. VG+/VG-. Christine Price.. No additional printings noted; unpaged; 5 1/2" oblong; pictorial boards; reinforced binding (but NOT a former library book); VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD- jacket: sl. edgewear at spine head and tail; jacket has lt. edgewear, spine tail has a 1/4" missing chip; a few sm. closed tears.

NY: Harmony Books / Push Pin Press, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. NF/NF. Designed by Barry Zaid. 1st edition [stated and number line], square 12mo, red cloth, illustrated endpapers, 45 pages, color illustrations. Condition is NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: book is like new. Includes illustrations of children and their toys dating from 1907 to 1932, representing the finest artists of the early 20th century, with some reprinted here for the first time.

NY: Old Print Shop/ Harry Shaw Newman, [1957]., 1957. Soft cover. VG+. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo, [8p.]. Stapled pamphlet wraps. Includes listing of items with one illus only on title page. VERY GOOD+: lite soiling at edge.

Jane Austen Society of North America, 2003. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Published by the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) for their Annual General Meeting held in Winchester, England, October 2003. 8vo, illustrated paper wraps, 18 pages, b/w illustrations. Condition is NEAR FINE, with no visible wear, appears unread. A terrific guide to the sites in Chawton and Steventon where Jane Austen lived, worshiped, and wrote.

Palm Desert, CA: Dean Publications, 1974. Soft cover. Very Good. Palm Desert, CA: Dean Publications, 1974. 4to, stapled wraps, 49 pages, 3-color illustrations. Condition is VERY GOOD+ with little wear, clean and tight. Includes the Park history, information on hiking, camping, geology, plants, animals, fishing and boating, seasons, facts of life, a road guide and park map, family fun games and an index - what's not to like? An excellent and fun guide.

Boston, MA: Priscilla Publishing Co., 1913. Soft cover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. An Illustrated Journal Devoted to Art, Needlework, Fashions, Home Decoration, and other Household Matters." Published monthly. Original price of 10 cents. Folio, illustrated wraps, 34 pages + covers. Condition: VERY GOOD- with some edgewear, light soiling. Cover of two women around a fountain, one is embroidering; contents include the usual collection of fashion, embroidery, ideas for picnic luncheons and afternoon teas. Story by Annie Page Jones "The Blue Lady," illustrations by Philip Lyford, Henry Vallely, and others; the usual fabulous advertisements to help you improve your hair, your face and body, and fashion patterns of all kinds. [Annie Page Jones was born on 23 May 1867 in New Store, VA, she died on 05 Apr 1950; married Matthew Joel Cox on 31 Dec 1913].

Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing, 1926. Soft cover. Very Good. The covers title reads: "The Circus Drawing and Painting Book." Folio, stapled pictorial stiff paper wraps, [24] pages, b/w drawings to be colored in, color illustrations as examples. Condition: VERY GOOD: light edgewear to covers, rubbing to spine, internally clean and tight excepting a slight toning to pages, and a 1" closed tear to last page. Nothing has been colored in. Delightful illustrations of clowns, circus animals, carriages, and all manner of circus antics.