Search Results: Titles starting with P from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1867 8vo, xix, 20-492 pages; three frontispiece plates; folding map; numerous plates and text illustrations. Publisher's original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Eicher/ The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography 293 Few faint spots to cloth; scattered foxing to prelims and title page, brief unobtrusive numbers in red ink at rear pastedown, still a tight, attractive copy in the original publisher's binding, Very Good or better. "... an early, highly partisan account of life with the cavalry raider who was transformed into legend by this and other works. Endorsed by Mosby himself, this authorized biography sets forth the life story of the Confederate partisan ranger through the Civil War." ~David Eicher.

New York & London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1945). First edition. 8vo, xiv & 161 pages plus numerous full page illustrations from photographs. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Lightly soiled, brief wear at spine extremities & corners, modest foxing & occasional finger smudges mostly at pastedowns & endpapers, previous owner's name in pencil at first blank page, about Very Good in rubbed dust jacket with edge wear including small losses & tears, with a couple archival tissue repairs on the verso, Good or so. The author was chief test pilot for Sikorsky Aircraft during the most critical years of the helicopter's development

Springfield, Ohio: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, Publishers, [1897]. Two calendars measuring approximately 3 inches by 4 inches printed in color on card stock. Slight edge wear, otherwise near fine. Please see photos.Nicely printed bucolic scenes on the recto, months of the year for 1898 on the verso plus circulation information for the promoted magazines.

Lot of two original untitled hand-colored photos on double weight paper depicting interior views furnished in colonial style. No place [Framingham, Massachusetts], no date [circa 1915]. One measuring 3.75 inches by 5.75 inches tipped at the top to card stock measuring 7.75 inches by 9.75 inches, the other measuring 2.5 inches by 4.75 inches tipped to card stock measuring 6.75 inches by 8.75 inches. Both are signed in ink by Nutting in the mount just below the image.
Photographs slightly faded, mounts browned & soiled mostly on the verso, easily Very Good or better.
A lovely pair of Wallace Nutting's "Colonials," one depicting a seated woman amidst colonial furnishings in front of a roaring fire, the other showing three women at tea.

[Havana: National Cultural Council], 1961. Stapled paper wraps. Habana, [Cuba]: Ediciones del Consejo Nacional de Cultura, 1961. First edition. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75"), 32 pages. Publisher's printed, stapled paper wraps. Text in Spanish.A bit soiled & stained, brief edge wear, text browned, otherwise good or better. "The experience of a great historical event has been ours. It could be said that it is the second most great historical event which has taken place in Latin America in the last three centuries. And we Cubans have been participants in it, knowing that the more we work, the more inextinguishable flame the Revolution will be and the more it will be destined to play a great historical role. You writers and artists have had the privilege of being eyewitnesses of this revolution. And a revolution is such an important event in human history that it is well worth the trouble to experience one, even if just to be a witness to it ..." ~Translated from the text.

Paris: Belfond & Cie; Comite des Coiffeurs de Paris, 1892 First edition. 8vo, [2] pages of text followed by 62 lithographed plates by Westfield, concluding with a [2] page index. Contemporary marbled paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered green morocco, original illustrated wraps bound in. Text in French Spine faded to brown, edges moderately rubbed, hinge cracked at first blank page, some internal soiling, toned throughout, good or betterThe plates depict coiffure & head dress from "Antiquite Romaine" through the Second French Empire.

Modena, Italy: Franco Cosimo Panini, (1998). Two volumes, first editions. Small folios (12.5" x 9.75"), 512 pages (text & architectural elevations & plans); 699 pages (plates "Atlas"). Publisher's gilt-lettered & decorated black linen in thick plain plastic dust jackets housed in a gilt-lettered & color illustrated slipcase. Text in Italian & English.
Text block on the plate volume beginning to slip at the top of the spine (still secure), slight shelf wear, trace of soiling, otherwise near fine. Slipcase lightly soiled, production flaw causing slight creasing at the rear panel which also has a & tiny snag, otherwise better than very good.
Volume 8 of the Mirabilia Italiae series.
An elaborate production, profusely illustrated often in color & including folding plates. Additionally, the definitive treatise on the Palazzo del Te, the masterpiece of architect Giulio Romano. The "Palace of leisure" was built over a ten year period beginning in 1524 for Federico II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua.
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Goteborg, Sweden: Goteborgs Konstnarsklubb. Two issues, N: R 3, [Volume 1, No. 3], 1940; N: R 4 [Volume 1, no. 4], 1940. First editions. Quartos (11.5" x 8.5"), 24 & 28 pages, profusely illustrated. Publisher's stapled pictorial card covers. Text in Swedish.
Modest edge wear, light soiling/ staining to the covers of one issue, occasional minor foxing, otherwise Very Good.
Paletten is Sweden's oldest & longest-running art magazine, now in its eighth decade. Issued quarterly, these two magazines are from the first year of publication. One features a lithographed cover in color by Nils Wedel the other provides a dramatic black & white lithographed cover signed "T.B."

[Chicago]: Union Pacific Railroad, 1958. Single sheet measuring 21.75 inches by 31 inches folding as issued to 7.5 inches by 5.25 inches, printed recto & verso in color, presenting map on one side & 18 panels of descriptive text with illustrations mostly from photographs on the other.
Slightly rubbed, trace edge wear, couple of almost imperceptible nicks at fold intersects, otherwise Near Fine.
"Colored birds eye view of the area around the proposed Hoover Dam. Shows state boundaries, boundary of National recreation area, and approximate boundary of Atomic testing grounds, railroads, highways, some distances, cities and towns. Relief shown pictorially and by spot heights. Depth shown by soundings."
 ~Abstract courtesy OCLC.
"This vast area has become one of America's outstanding vacation and recreational playgrounds. Its many natural, and man-made, attractions annually draw millions of visitors. The equable, healthful year 'round climate, with its guarantee of lots of sunshine ... the variety of… Read More

London: S.P.C.K., 1948. Stapled paper wraps. London: S.P.C.K. [Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge], 1948. First edition. 8vo, 31 pp. Covers wrinkled, toned & lightly soiled, modest edge wear, otherwise very good. "It is frequently asserted that infallibility of the Pope has been the constant faith of the Church and the aim of this pamphlet is to show that this claim is a distortion of history ..." ~Excerpted from page 1.

[Charlestown], Jefferson County, Virginia (now West Virginia), "at the Court-House," November 5th & 8th, 1814. Original partially printed document on laid paper completed in manuscript (including corrections) measuring 7.25 inches by 7.25 inches. Signed in ink by George Hite on November 5, 1814 on the recto & by Edward McGuire & Joseph Gamble on November 8, 1814 on the verso. Old folds, moderate edge wear, some staining, otherwise Very Good. "Whereas Robert O. Grayson and Marguerite Susan, his wife, of the County of Frederick in the said Commonwealth have by their certain Deed of Bargain of sale bearing the date of November 1814 sold and conveyed unto John Yates of the County of Jefferson in the said Commonwealth and whereas Marguerite Susan cannot conveniently travel to the County of Jefferson ..." George Hite (born Charlestown, 1761 - 1816) served in the Revolutionary War as a Lieutenant in the Army attached to the Cavalry of Lee's Legion ["Light Horse Harry" Lee]. Additionally, he was the first… Read More

Chicago: Amalgamated Union Label, LIP & BA, 1936 issued to Wm. E Burns of Lynbrook, New York, 1936 Small broadside (3.5" x 7") printed recto only, with portrait vignettes of Lincoln & Washington.
A fine example. Recognizes Mr Burns as a contributor & participant "in the work of bringing about a return to the fundamental principles of our government." Interestingly, the certificate was printed by the Lithographers' International Protective and Beneficial Association, a union shop.

Boston: Printed by Joshua Cushing, 1808. Second edition. 12mo, 44 pp. Printed text only, lacking wraps (if issued).
Soiled & foxed, apparently removed from a larger volume, still good.
The second edition adds 4 pages not found in the first printing comprising "interesting documents, furnished by a gentleman lately from London."

No place, The Collector's Library, no date, (ca. 1950's). 24mo (5.5" x 4.25"), 32 pages including 3 full page explicit illustrations from photographs. Publisher's pictorial, pale blue paper wraps, stapled.
Crudely printed causing ghosting & portions of text to be light but not illegible, lightly soiled, trace edge wear, otherwise very good.
Young Betty Jean Cracker is routinely disciplined by women but, none-the-less, enjoys frequent dalliances with men.
Quite like those spurious imprints from the 40s with "illustrations from life," we have been unable to locate any other examples of this title or imprint

New York: B Martin Pedersen/ Graphis Press, (1997) First edition. Folio, 218, [3] pp, profusely illustrated from photographs (some color). Publisher's black paper over boards backed in black cloth lettered in blind on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Three corners lightly bruised, otherwise very good or better in dust jacket with a couple of tears without loss adjacent to the spine, light edge wear, & old cello tape on the verso (seemingly without purpose), about very good "It isn't enough to say that Howard Schatz admires dancers He adores them Schatz' pictures are not about dance; they are photographs of dancers as phenomenal objects: graceful and powerful; explosive or ecstatic in motion, elegant and elemental while at rest There is more to dance than bodies, but without bodies there is no dance And however much natural beauty a dancer may have, years of training and a daily regimen that might break an Olympic rower, produce human forms that are nothing less than masterpieces of kinetic… Read More

Wheaton, Illinois: Church League of America, 1965. Original illustrated broadside, folio (14" x 6.5"), single sheet printed recto only. Text in three columns.
Folded once horizontally, moderate edge wear, some creasing, tiny hole affecting a letter in Shackelford's name, lightly foxed & soiled, otherwise Good or better.
Reprints an article originally published in the Chicago Tribune on October 17, 1965. The Tribune, of course, was completely in favor of the Vietnam War & the article, while intended to stir up outrage, helpfully provides several methods of obtaining that coveted 4F draft status: "Play Homosexual," "Be an Epileptic," Bed-Wetting," etc. Rufus E. Shackelford, perhaps the largest tomato farmer in the United States, was on the Board of Directors of the Church League of America & was candidate for vice president in 1976 as the running mate of Thomas J. Anderson, a John Bircher. The ticket received a grand total of 158,724 votes.

Benjamin, Park (editor). Pauline ... as published in The New World. New York: J. Winchester, Extra series, number 31; volume II, number 7, November, 1842. Tall quarto, (12.25" by 8.25"), 32 pages. Original self wraps, sewn, with an engraved illustration at the masthead entitled "for the whole boundless continent is ours." Text in two columns.
Toned, stained, moderately tattered, shallow diagonal corner creasing throughout, otherwise good or better.
An early Dumas title riginally published in 1838, this quite possibly the first American edition & first English translation.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: [Patriotic Order Sons of America, State Camp of Pennsylvania], 1918. "Revised edition." 24mo (6" x 4.25"), 112 pages. Original stapled paper wraps. OCLC locates computer files or internet resource only for a 1925 edition as of 12/16/2023.
Moderately soiled, upper wrap with a couple of tears (now reinforced with archival tissue on the verso) small chip at the lower cover, otherwise very good.
Founded in Philadelphia in 1847, the Patriotic Order Sons of America was originally an anti-Catholic, anti-immigration Know-Nothing society. Although their principles evolved over the years, as of 1918 they were still quite anti-immigrant. Membership was restricted to "native born citizens who believe in their country and its institutions, and who desire to perpetuate free government, and who wish to encourage a brotherly feeling among Americans to the end that we may exalt our country, to join with us in our work of fellowship and love."

Pensacola, Florida: Municipal Advertising Board, no date (pre zip code, circa 1958). Single sheet measuring 17.75 inches by 14.75 inches folding to 9 inches by 3.75 inches (as issued) presenting illustrations in color from photographs & art work, descriptive text, & a whimsical half sheet color map.
Trace edge wear, otherwise Fine.
An uncommon pre-zip code promotional brochure which is not found via OCLC. The text provides information on shipping and fisheries. modern military might, seafood and other good things, old forts, health, entertainment and amusement, & more!

[Newark, New Jersey: Bureau of Moral And Hygienic Education, Inc.], 1929. First edition. 16mo (6.5" x 4.75"), 30 & [2] pages. Publisher's light card covers, stapled.
Margins sunned, internal toning, otherwise very good.
Book v in a series of "approved sex booklets" for "adults only" by the prolific Dr. Krauss who also marketed "Hygienique." Provides rather explicit instructions which do not neglect the pleasure of sex, includes a description of the rhythm method, & advocates the practice of eugenics:
"To bring children into the World is to share with God in the supreme function of creation of the race ... Science has demonstrated that the production of idiots, deformed, depraved and diseased offspring is the result of ignorance of parents of the great physiological facts surrounding the beginnings of a new life ..."