Search Results: Titles starting with P from Monroe Bridge Books

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1894 This FIRST EDITION hard cover is in GOOD + CONDITION. 32 pages bound in decorative cloth with blue lettering and picture of a young man with fowl. Slight edge/corner wear with slight surface soiling and some bubbling to cloth. HAS WONDERFUL BROWN AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS. Pages are heavy stock, glossy paper. BINDING AND HINGES STRONG AND TIGHT. A SWEET LITTLE NOVEL, TAKING PLACE IN THE NEW HAMPSHIRE HILLS. GOOD TIGHT COPY. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS OR MARKINGS.

Indianapolis: Eli Lilly and Company, 1959 [2], 99-128, printed on fine glossy paper, staple bound, with stiff glossy covers. Page 108-112 , The Doctor and The Detective, being an article about Dr. Joseph Bell, and one of his students, Arthur Conan Doyle.

Signet Book from New American Library, 1973 This soft cover is in VERY GOOD CONDITION. Terra+Ythri+Avalon = WAR! SEEMS LIKE THE BOOK HAS NEVER BEEN OPENED.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936 This FIRST ISSUE, has POETIC INSCRIPTION and SIGNATURE BY THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN POET LOUIS UNTERMEYER, on ffp. Includes pasted in envelope addressed to Untermeyer in back. 245 pages bound in green cloth, with gilt lettering, in VERY GOOD ++ CONDITION. DJ in VERY GOOD CONDITION, with edge chipping and surface darkening, protected in mylar cover. Book has light page yellowing, paper clip mark on 2 ffp and light foxing on end papers and top page edges. BINDING AND HINGES STRONG AND TIGHT. See our other Wheelock books addressed to Untermeyer.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956 This FIRST EDITION, is INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR on ffp, with INSCRIPTION TO THE AMERICAN POET LOUIS UNTERMEYER. In VERY GOOD CONDITION, with dust jacket in same, protected in a mylar cover. Inscription reads "For Louis in affection and admiration-from his old friend Jack. June 18,1956. For Louis Untermeyer-" Includes 3 newspaper articles tippped in. See our other Wheelock books inscribed to Untermeyer. 203 pages bound in tan cloth, with gilt lettering on spine. Has paper clip mark on ffp, paste mark on back end paper, with light foxing on endpapers and top page edges.

New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1879 This SECOND EDITION, hard cover, is in VERY GOOD CONDITION. 681 pages, bound in marbled paper over boards with leather tips and spine. Title is worn off spine, but the gold gilt floral designs are still bright, and has raised bands. There is some corner/edge wear with a nick in the lower spine edge. End papers are marbled, as well as the page edges all around. Owners signature on fly page - Jane Grifeth Healley. Frontis engraving of Lord Byron, with wonderfully detailed engravings throughout. BINDING AND HINGES STRONG AND TIGHT. SEEMS LIKE THE BOOK HAS NEVER BEEN OPENED! Includes a biography of Lord Byron by Alexander Leighton. PAGES STILL BRIGHT.

London: The Daily Sketch and Sunday Graphic Ltd. IN FAIR TO GOOD CONDITION. Circa 1940. Stapled book, oblong format, unpaginated, with color front cover of a bagpipe player. Front endpaper shows advertising for Blondie by Chic Young "The domestic adventures of Blondie and her husband (Dagwood) will amuse you every morning in The Daily Sketch". The Pop Annual is a series of military cartoons during WWII.

London: The Daily Sketch and Sunday Graphic Ltd. IN GOOD CONDITION. Circa 1942. Stapled book, oblong format, unpaginated, with color front cover of a soldier with a swastica. The Pop Annual is a series of military cartoons during WWII, "POP provides a daily laugh in the Daily Sketch". Cloth tape backstrip.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1982 This FIRST U.S. EDITION, hard cover, is in AS NEW CONDITION. Dust jacket in Very Good++ Condition, with a few small edge tears and pen mark on back, protected in mylar cover. 290 pages bound in paper/cloth, with gilt lettering on spine. Fascinating account of the discovery and recovery of the trove of Boswellian materials, some of which was found various castles, stored in such unlikly places as a croquet box and a stable loft. CLEAN, TIGHT COPY. See our other Boswell books, search under keyword "Boswell".

New York: MacMillan Co., 1904 This hard cover is in VERY GOOD CONDITION. 341 pages with 6 pages of Pub. ads, bound in red decorative cloth with white stamped design and lettering on cover. The white lettering on the spine has flaked off. Slight surface soiling. Owners signature on flypage - E.W. Peterson 1905. GOOD TIGHT COPY. NO FOXING.

Freeville, New York: Self Published, 1952 Held June 29th to September 7th, 1952, with the Program listing the Speakers and Mediums presenting throughout the ten week period. Unpaginated, [20pp], stapled booklet, with a presentation label on the back cover. SPIRITUALIST.

Washington D. C.: Army Ordnance Association, 1931 8pp, in original stapled stiff wraps, with the schedule of the meeting listing: Demonstrations of various Guns, Mortars, Howitzer M2, Ballistic Range Experiments, 11:50 Luncheon, then Air Corps Demonstration, Exhibition of Antiaircraft Bombing, Attack of Ground Targets, 5:00 Dinner, then Demonstration of Antiaircraft Night Firing by the 62nd Coast Artillery and much more. With a map of the Aberdeen Proving Ground on the back cover. In a protective mylar cover.

Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1971 This FIRST EDITION, hard cover, is in NEAR FINE CONDITION, with a crease on the ffp. DJ in GOOD ++ Condition, with edge wear/tear, price clipped, and surface darkening, protected in a mylar cover. BINDING AND HINGES STRONG AND TIGHT. Interior clean, no markings, labels or inscriptions. BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., 1993 This book was purchased from the estate of Olin J. Stephens II (1908-2008) American Yacht Designer, and associated with America's Cup races. Ask about our other maritime books purchased from this estate. 179pp, printed on fine glossy paper, bound in teal cloth, with floral endpapers, binding and hinges tight, photographs throughout. The Dust Jacket is NOT price-clipped. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988 IN NEAR FINE CONDITION. ASSOCIATION COPY - from the personal collection of Francis O'Brien, author and legendary Maine bookseller. Inscription on ffp reads "A Little Diversion for your stay at Mercy - June 6, 1888, Frank P. Wood. With signature of F. M. O'Brien and note "A gift from Frank Wood 6/12/88." ALSO - laid-in is a strip of paper with O'Brien's notes. xiii [1] 247pp, bound in original green cloth with bright gilt lettering, binding and hinges tight. Slight bow to front cover. ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT.

Somerville, TN: Jack Truett SCARCE. Circa 1995-1999. Includes undated Issues and the Fourth through the Seventh Editions. Typed letter by Jack Truett, Signed, and laid-in. "We Publish Truth For Those With Courage Enough To Read It and Think About It". Include b/w nude photos.

Paris: Calmann Levy, 1893 Septieme Edition. vi, 345pp, bound in 3/4 leather and marbled paper, raised bands on gilt decorated spine, binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington Limited, 1890 IN GOOD CONDITION. Xii, 126pp, ii publishers advertising, complete with 23 b/w plates, as called for, in a library binding. NO LIBRARY MARKINGS ON THE PLATES. Hinges tight, inner joint split.

New York: Scribner and Welford, 1890 IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. COMPLETE with 21 plates as called for. Half title, xv [1] 131pp in a library binding, showing bumped corners. BINDING AND HINGES TIGHT. No library marks on the plates ( ink stain on the back of one plate with slight bleed through).

Boston: Henry Hoyt, 1859 viii, [5], 14-239pp, bound in blind stamped red cloth, with gilt decorated spine still bright, binding and hinges tight. With 18 tissue guarded plates, which includes the frontis-piece. Preface dated November 1858, with the date of 1859 on the title page. Early penned inscription on the front free endpaper. Book appears to have been restitiched.