Search Results: Authors starting with P from Quaker Hill Books

New YorkNew York: Vincent Parke & Co. 1908 Full Navy Blue Morocco. The Independence Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is the magnificent Indepence Edition, 10 volumes, limited to five hundred numbered sets. This is Set No. 133. Magnificently bound in full, dark navy blue morocco, t.e.g. The ribbed spines are in six compartments, lettered and tooled in gold. Pages untrimmed. A classic set in fine condition..

John West Boston, 1806. 5th American edition. full calf. Rubbed, soiled, contents moderately foxed and soiled. 8vo., 492pp..

New YorkNew York: Knopf, 1949 Red Cloth. Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 397+13pp., 76 photographs and 4 maps. The fascinating saga of an expedition to the Himalayas, Ganges, Satlej, Ladak and Sikkim in the early 30s. A very interesting look at Tibetan art and an especially revealing study of Tibetan Buddhism. A wonderful glimpse into the lives of missionaries, hermits and pilgrims in the great Himalayas. Very slight edgewear to the beautiful pictorial dust wrapper otherwise a fine copy..

New York, 1864. 3/4 tan calf. Moderately rubbed and scuffed. Very good. Engraved frontis. 8vo., Marbled boards and edges..

London:: G. Bell and Sons,, 1935. Includes sixty illustrations by Ernest Shepard of which 58 are full page. Two double page maps of London bound before the endpapers. Magnificently bound in full, royal blue crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, wil elaborate gilt decorations to the front and rear board. The spine is rendered in six compartments with raised bands, decorated and lettered in gilt. The front board depicts a wonderfully executed full figure portrat of Samuel Pepys rendered in coloured leather onlays framed in gilt. Aqua marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. The spine has faded to green. Fromer owners bookplate on front pastedown. In custom cloth slipcase.. Fine. Illus. by E.H. Shepard,. 8vo..

New YorkNew York: , 1905 Original Cloth. Near Fine. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Color frontis and numerous photo illustrations..

Boston, 1856 First edition. orig. cloth. Fair - front hinge loose, some fraying on spine. 8vo..

London, 1783 brown calf. Bcing scuffed and worn, contents moderately foxed. 8vo..

CicinnatiCicinnati: , 1865 Modern Buckram. Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. Howes P394. Some light foxing to the frontispiece and title. A highly interesting and important account of the post Civil War treason trials..

New York: Daniel Fanshaw,, 1859. Gilt-lettered Cloth. Excellent. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Based on a true story, the harrowing facts are fascinating and frightening to read. Blockson 9681.. First Edition. Excellent.

Boston:, 1907. This wonderful narrative Includes a complete roster with enlistment and muster out dates. Photgraphic frontis of Plummer and most interestingly there are fifteen black and white photographic illustrations of the regimental officers and of the State House in Baton Rouge, LA, burned in 1862. Some minor wear and soiling but still a very bright and clean copy.. 8vo..

London:: John Hogg,, 1880. Vol I. - xii; 294pp. 2 pp. publishers ads; Vol II - 312pp.; 2 pp. publishers ads after the index. Illustrated with two, striking photographic frontispieces the volume I frontis is after the famous "Stella" daguerreotype; the other in volume II is of Poe's mother. Original publishers elaborately designed pictorial gilt green cloth binding with an embossed black raven on a gold background featured on both front boards. Spines also elaborately designed and lettered in gilt. A beautiful example of late 19th century English binding. Some very light soiling to upper portion of the frontis not affecting the image. Otherwise an exceedingly bright and clean set.. First Edition. Excellent. 8vo.. 2 Volumes..

New York and London: G.P. Putnam/ Knickerbocker Press, 1902. This is the Collector's Arnheim Edition, limited to 300 numbered sets. This being No. 89. Magnificently bound in 1/2 dark maroon morocco with raised spines, and gold letting, t.e.g.,, over dark red boards. Profusely illustrated. An absolutely gorgeous set in Fine condtion.. Collector's Arnheim Edition. 1/2 Maroon Morocco.. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Concord:: Hough,, 1790. An early New Hampshire imprint of Pope's famous poem on the nature of man and his place in the universe. It includes the famous lines: Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,/The proper study of mankind is man, " and was an espedial favorite of Winston Churchill. Pope's contemporaries honored this poem above all others. Pope himself felt it to be his greatest work. Worn with some marginal tears not affecting text. (Bristol 45975). Original Wraps. Good. 8vo..

Boston:: Little Brown & Co., 1962. A lovely, near fine copy in a similar dust wrapper. Some minor rubbing to dustwrapper along edges.. First Edition. Yellow Embossed Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo..

Evans & Cogswell, Charleston, SC. (1860) First edition. orig. wraps. Lightly worn and soiled - VG 8vo., 36pp., Howes P489a. A highly interested and historically important pamphlet..

London: The Egoist Ltd.,, 1919. This is No. 88 of 100 numbered copies SIGNED BY POUND. Printed on hand-made paper with the misprint on p.34, "wherefore" corrected in manuscript to "wherefrom" by Pound. A magnificent copy.. By the Author. Signed Limited Edition. Cloth-backed Boards Tan Spine. Fine. Tall 8vo..

Dial Press. New York, 1945 First edition. orig. cloth. Lightly soiled and rubbed - Very Good., Pictorial. 8vo..

London:London:: , 1777 1/2 Green Calf. Very Good. 8vo. The sequel to Reverend Price's first treatise and published during the war with America. Price was a strong defender of colonial rights in the new world especially regarding the subject of taxation and representative government. His good friendship with Benjamin Franklin no doubt had a lot to do with his views. He was a noted and well respected author of many books on moral philosophy and economics. This is the scarce FIRST EDITION in wonderful condition. Bound in later 3/4 green calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf. Binding is rubbed around the edges. Former owner's inscription on ffep. Sabin 65444; Howes P583..

New York;New York;: , 1912 Publisher's Blue Cloth. Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo. A lovely copy with very light wear. A harrowing account of life in the Libby and Danville Prisons during the Civil War by a veteran of the 176th New York Volunteers..