Search Results: Authors starting with P from Quirky Used Books & More

1939. Hardcover. Acceptable. Small, 3"x4" book, part of the "Better Little Book" series, #1427. Betcha didn't know that Mickey Rooney's given name was Sonny Yule, did you? That and so much more to be found inside this little book. Worn with darkened boards, worn and dented tips, and splitting along the spine edges. Cocked. Stained block edges. Former owner names on paste and end papers. Splitting in the gutters between several pages, so one should take care when looking/reading through the book. Toned pages, dirty text block. Unpaginated.

Replacements Ltd. , 1994. Hardcover. Good. Glossy pictorial covers are lightly scuffed and dirty. (No DJ, as printed) All tips of boards are dented, with scraping to the bottom edges. Heel and head of spine are are dented. Sound binding. Pages are lightly age-toned. 175 pages which include several pages for "notes.

Harper & Brothers, 1942. First Edition. Acceptable. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Yellow cloth boards are very worn at spine ends and corner tips. Scuffed, smudged soiled. Gift inscription on half title page, and an old ex-libris sticker on FEP. Binding is good. Perfectly readable. 204 pages.

Presses Universitaires de France, 1964. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Rubbed, creased, lightly scuffed and slightly dirty covers. Crimped and scraped edges. Light bumping of corner tips. Dinged upper and lower spine. Lightly yellowed pages. Owner name and faint pencil erasure on half title page. Binding remains intact and in good shape. Readable copy. 127 pages.

Unification Church of American, 1978. Softcover. Good. Softcover book, glued binding, not stapled. Lightly tanned covers, with dirty smudges and soiling. Darker tanning along spine Bumped corner tips, scraped edges, and bumped spine heel. Lightly aged pages. Remnants of pencil erasure on upper right of first page. Pak was the "Special Assistant" to Reverend Sun Myung Moon, founder of the "Moonies." 110 pages.

American Book Company, 1959. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket. Red and tan cloth covered boards with red and aqua printing are stained, and rubbed along spine strip and and bottom of boards. Bumped corner tips. Fading on spine. Owner name and pencil erasure at top of FFE. Darkening in the hinges between pastedowns and end pages. Many of the pages have underlining and check marks in ink. Appears to have some coffee stains within a few pages. Stained text block. 255pp. 5.5"x7.5

HarperCollins Publishers. hardcover. Good. 9x9x0. Hardback, first edition. Scuffed and scratched DJ, with crimping and nicks at spine. Pictorial boards are clean and shiny. FFE has a gratis sticker from Liberty Diversified Industries. Firm binding, with little to no usage.

Harvard University Press, 1961. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Red cloth boards. Bumped corners. Shelf wear and fading to bottom of spine. Bright gilt titling on spine. DJ is in an archival Mylar bookcover, which is scuffed. The DJ itself has wearing along the edges, heel and head and tips. Small stains on FFE. Smudged text block. Note: In cursive writing on the FFE, written in pen, is the name "Jesse I. Smith." Above that, written in pencil at the very top of the page reads: "Jesse Smith, nee: Jessie Ilfeld, daughter of Herman Ifeld, niece of Charles Ifeld." We have no way to vet this information or to assess its authenticity. Binding is firm. 431 pages.

Yonsei University Press, 1966. Softcover. Acceptable. Softcover. Faded green cloth-covered wraps. Pronounced wearing to the cloth on edges, tips and spine ends. Gilt titling is very faded. Lower corner of book block has gotten wet at some point. Significant moisture waving to the lower portion of block.Light toning to pages. Binding is good. 753 pages plus index.

1995. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Sunning to DJ. Smudged. Shelf wear along bottom edges, and corner tips. Blue cloth boards with light wear to corner tips and end of spine. Bent corner tips. Clean pages. Lightly age-toned. Very strong spine. Nice copy. 306 pages.

The Free Press of Glencoe, 1964. Softcover. Good. First Free Press paperback edition. Scuffed and rubbed wraps. Light soiling and fading . Old price sticker on back wrap. Lightly bumped corner tips. Red star stamped on top edge of text block. Lightly yellowed pages. Reading creases. Binding remains solid. 403 pp.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. Second Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. No DJ. Second edition, revised. Faded, scuffed and scratched red cloth covered boards. Dented corner tips. Worn and dented spine ends. Significant underlining and marginalia. Firm binding. 783 pages plus index.

St. Martin's Press, 1983. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover. Dust jacket is shelf-worn, scraped, nicked, scuffed and scratched. Crimped, dented. Black cloth boards are fairly clean with just a couple of small white spots, and dust in the hinge. Binding is reasonable. All pages attached, but book does fall open between page signatures. Glossy photo-stock pages are yellowed. 239 pages.

Macmillan Company, 1934. Hardcover. Good. Hardback, seventh edition. Wine colored textured, faded boards. Rubbing along edges and spine edges. Scraping to bottom edges. Dented and worn spine and corner tips. From the library of the now defunct Pember-Nuzum medical clinic in Janesville, WI. Previous owner name on FFE. Paste downs and end pages are dirty and are darkened around edges and in hinges. Dirty lower corner tips (thumb smudges). Age toned pages and text block. Nice reference book. Solid binding. 695 pages.

Macmillan Company, 1961. Hardcover. Good. Large, heavy hardcover. Faded dust jacket. Chipped with creased corners, rubbed and soiled on back of DJ. The fading to the spine is quite significant. The DJ is now protected with a mylar archival jacket. Lower corner edges of text block have thumbprint staining. Binding is in good shape. No twisting. Solid. Yellow paper cover boards with blue cloth spine have minor denting of corners, and spine ends. Gilt titling is a little rubbed, but gilt is still fairly bright.

Sintra Camara Municipal, 2005. Softcover. Good. Catalog for the exhibition of works by the Portuguese architect, designer, architectural theorist, and writer. In English and Portuguese. Dented corner tips. Name written in ink on bottom portion of front cover. Filled with colorful photo representations of Lino's work. Unpaginated.

Progress Publishers, 1974. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Second printing. Part of the Soviet Authors Library. No DJ. Mustard yellow cloth boards, with small red flower printed on upper 1/3 of book. Black titling on spine with the small red flower near bottom. Front cover has fingerprint smudges and those appear on FFE and title page, with a red smudge at bottom of title page. Back end page has a price stamp at very top corner. Corners are dented. Small yellowish stains on upper portion of text block, which is fairly clean overall. Pages are clean and unmarked. Spine is firm. Very nice reading copy. 335 pages.

Avon, 1968. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Mass market paperback. Fair condition. Translated from original French into English. Scuffed, scraped and scratched wraps. Slightly faded. Moisture spot on bottom of text-block, resulting in a small area of fading to red stain near spine. Bumped, creased tips. Reading creases along the yellowed spine strip. AGe-toned pages. Binding is in fair shape, good reading copy. 416 pages.

Houghton Mifflin , 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. This is the revised and enlarged edition. Blue embossed boards have scuffs and scratches. The corner tips are very bumped and frayed. Head and heel of spine are bumped, crumpled, brittle and worn. Gilt title, author and publisher on the spine are still bright. No Dust Jacket. Book tends to cock to the left. Tanning and yellowing on all pages, more so on the free end pages. Leaves of book are fragile. Book is in readable condition with binding still intact. Text block is yellowed. 680 pps.

The Warner Brothers Company, 1964. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardback. No dust jacket. Scuffed and dirty aqua cloth-covered boards. Gilt titling on front board. Bumped corner tips. Lightly dented spine ends. Yellowed pages with some scraping to page edges. 111 pages.