Search Results: Titles starting with P from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

Virginia Beach: The Donning Co., 1990 1st ed. SIGNED by both authors on a special plate attached to rear pastedown. 192pp. illus. green cloth 4to: Fine in a Fine dj. This is No. 1003 0f 3250 copies of this limited edition.

London: Macmillan. 1988 1st ed. 184pp. illus. oblong hardback 4to: Fine in a Very Good dj [dj = small tears @ spine head & adjacent top edge of front cover; else VG] A crisp copy featuring over 100 original designs for mural and trompe l’oeil decoration.

New York University Press, 1971. 228pp. illus. red cloth sm 4to: Very Good in a Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover [some light top edge foxing; first several pp. have a vertical crease; else VG; dj = p-c; else VG] The 1968 Wrightsman Lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with 200 black & white illustrations and seven color reproductions.

New York: Norton, 1993 1st ed. thus. INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 70pp. paperback 8vo: near Fine [small faint coffee-type stain bottom edge; else a clean and crisp copy] A very nice signed copy of this volume of over 40 poems by the award winning Georgia born poet Smith (b. 1947).

New York: Knopf, 2008 1st Am. ed. 400pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [hint of top and fore edge foxing; else a nice crisp copy] A marvelous account of a modern traveler following in the steps of the U.S. Army’s progression through northern Europe in 1944-45.

New York: Crown, 1974 2nd ptg. 308pp. illus. red cloth sm 4to: Very Good+ in a near Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover [dj = spine sunned; else nrVG] Includes 755 photographs, 73 diagrams and 20 color plates.

New York: Walker & Co., 1968 1st Am. ed. 64pp. illus. blue cloth 12mo: Good in a worn dj that is price-clipped; blue covers are faded; else a clean, complete & tight copy]

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1977 1st ed. 211pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Very Good in a Good+ dj [some age darkening of top & fore edges; else VG+] A paean to the City of Light by the American novelist Shaw (1913-84) with wonderful Searle (1920-2011) endpapers and illustrations.

London: Batsford. 1961 revised reissue. 187pp. illus. paperback: Good+ [text is age browned; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy]

London: Oxford Univ. Press. 1966 1st ed. unpaginated [32pp] illustrated hardback sq sm 4to in pictorial boards quarter bound in purple cloth: near Fine in a near Very Good dj [dj = slightly torn @ spine ends; else nrVG] An entertaining large format primer on the institution of the British Parliament by the long serving Guardian parliamentary correspondent Norman Shrapnel (1912-2004), marvelously illustrated by the sometime Guardian political cartoonist William Papas (1927-2000).

New York: Random House, 2006 1st ed. 361pp. hardback sm 4to: near Fine in a Fine dj [top corners are bumped; else a nice clean and crisp copy]

privately issued, 1980 1st ed.  INSCRIBED by author. 82pp. illus. paperback tall 8vo: Very Good [bit of age browning; else VG] Life in the parsonage by the wife of a United Methodist Church minister.

New York: Doubleday, 1992 1st ed. 72pp. illus. brown cloth 16mo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.

New York: Touchstone. 1984 1st ed. thus. 575pp. illus. paperback sm 4to: Very Good [some age browning of edges; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A popular history of the Spanish Civil War featuring such larger than life characters as Orwell, Hemingway, Malraux, Dos Passos, Koestler, Gellhorn, et al. A Canadian volunteer told Wyden: "Everybody was there but Shakespeare!"

New York: Universe Books, 1977 1st ed. 71pp. illus. paperback sq 8vo: Very Good+ in a Good+ unusual paperback dj that is price-clipped with some top edge chipping. Literary bits about sheep with handsome illustrations.

New York: Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, 2004 1st ed. INSCRIBED briefly on title p. by Pollak and signed boldly on title p. by Conroy. 283pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. A very nice Conroy (1945-2016) signature as well as that of the co-author.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004 book club ed. 798pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. A significant reexamination of a sometimes lightly regarded theater of the Second World War.

New York: Bantam, 1966 2nd ptg. 184pp. paperback: Good [text is age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A crime mystery set in England by the prolific American writer Carr (1906-77).

New York: Ballantine, 1970 2nd ptg. 160pp. paperback 8vo: Good+ [some spine creases; else G+]

Charleston: Arcadia, 2003 reprint. 128pp. illus. paperback tall 8vo: Fine.