Search Results: Titles starting with P from Grampy's Bookcase

386 pp. Clean ad unmarked text in tight and unmarred covers. Spine is not creased. Volume appears unread. From the back cover, "Charles S. Peirce was a thinker of great originality and power. Although unpublished in his lifetime, he was recognized as an equal by such men as William James and John Dewey and, since his death in 1914, he has come to the forefront of American philosophy."

232 pp. Text is clean and unmarked. Previous owner's name is on the top outside corner of the front free paper. Covers are tight. Several faded spots on the top front cover. DJ has several chips and small closed tears on the outside edges. Price is not clipped.

Text is clean and unmarked in tight, intact, and square covers. Spine is not creased. Volume appears unused. "The first year of the decade of the 1970's...was a time of frontal government assaults on the integrity and credibility of the press and the television networks under the field generalship of the Vice President, but with the Commander in Chief issuing the directives from the White House." p. 7.

180 pp. Text is unmarked in square and tight binding. Card holder attached to the back inside cover. "Withdrawn" is stamped along the outer edges of the text block with several purple lines. "6106" is written on the back cover. Several full page photos included.

80 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in tight and intact covers. Spine is not creased. Booklet was prepared by the labor Research Association. "This pamphlet...is a report on one of the tactics used by reaction against progressive movements after World war I. It illustrates how a government agency can be corrupted to the purposes of the big corporations, how it can be used to undermine constitutional rights." p.7.

101 pp Text is clean and unmarked in square and tight covers. Spine is not creased. Very slight curl to the top edge of front cover. A remainder mark is on the top of the text block. Outside edges of the text block have light foxing. From the back cover, "Langston Hughes wrote of freedom marches, sit-ins, speeches, prayers, violence, and non-violence, from Alabama to Harlem..."

383 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in bright, square and tight covers. Volume appears unused. Spine is not creased. Very slight wear along the edges of the spine. General von Mellenthin, who saw action in every theater of the European war from 1939 to 1945, follows the panzer armies through Poland, France, the Balkans, across the deserts of North Africa and the frozen wastes of Russia, to the final catastrophe on the Western front.

400 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a tight and square binding. Full page illustrations included. DJ has a chip out of the top front/spine. Several closed tears along the DJ edges. Chip and tear at the DJ bottom spine. Edges of the front free papers are crimped. From the front DJ flap, "This is the first volume to come from a great scholarly undertaking, the assembly and editing of Benjamin Franklin's complete writings and correspondence."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Card holder is attached to the back free end paper. Library stamps on the top and fore edges of the text block. Part of a label is attached to the spine. The numerals "6105" are written on the top outside corner of the back binding. This is a solid copy.

611 pp. Full page colored photos throughout. Slight crimp at the top back outside corner.

149 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in tight, bright, and square covers. Full page color plates throughout. In "As New Condition". When the Stiftung Schloss Dyck...was established in 2000, based on the concept of providing a center for the art of the garden and the 'culture of landscape' n the Rhineland, the castle and its landscaped park were its historical and artistic prerequisites...It is a great pleasure for me that the coming exhibitions will be devoted to the Rheingold Collection. They too will represent international contemporary art in the genres of painting, sculpture, photography, and video art...Schloss Dyck, April 2008." pp. 12-13.

170 pp. Highlighted passages throughout. Previous owner's name label attached to the outside corner of the front free end paper. Several page numbers written in yellow on the front free end paper. Binding is square and tight with slight discoloration along the outside edges. DJ is worn , closed tears on the spine, but intact. "Russian Social-Democracy has repeatedly declared the immediate political task of a Russian working-class party to be the overthrow of the autocracy, the achievement of political liberty." p.5.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Ony defect is age-toning to the text block and the outer edge of the binding. DJ has minor wear around the edges with a circular scrape on the front. "Russian Social-Democracy has repeatedly declared the immediate political task of a Russian working-class party to be the overthrow of the autocracy, the achievement of political liberty This was enunciated over fifteen years ago by the representatives of Russian Social-Democracy - the members of the Emancipation of labour group." p.5.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Volume enclosed in a slipcase. Slipcase is in very good condition other than fading on the outside edges. Volume appears unused. Translated by John Joseph Stoudt. A card included states, "This translation of Caspar Schwenckfeld's 'Passional and Prayer Book' comes as a gift to you as a gift of the Schwenckfelder Library. Its publication is a part of the commemorative observance in this 400th anniversary year of Schwenckfeld's death. It is our hope that this slender volume may serve to strengthen our common spiritual life."

22 pp. Text is clean and unmarked. covers are tight nd intact with very minor smudging on the back cover. "The right of self-determination has been assailed as Jim Crow and segregation...If as yet today, the Communist Party is the only organization which supports this right of the Negro people, it will not seem strange to the Negro people and to sections of their white allies that the Communists should take the lead in supporting the right of Negroes to the highest expression of equality." p. 10.

22 p. Booklet is clean and unmarked. "It is to be hoped that the publication of this pamphlet will assist in illuminating the path to the full freedom of the Negro people...it will effectively contribute to the building of a mass Communist party among the negro people as well as among their white working class allies." p. 5.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. lettering is bright and clear on the binding front and spine. Volume is a good solid copy. Printed for the Academy Classics for Junior High Schools series. Abridged and edited by Marietta Knight. Black and white illustrations throughout.

247 pp. Text is clean and unmarked. Slight bowing of the covers. Very slight foxing on the front and back free endpapers. Small narrow blue stain on a small area of the fore edge of the text bock.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. card holder attached to the back free end paper. Library stamp on the top text block. DJ has been protected in a plastic cover. Plastic cover has been taped to the inside bindings leaving tape stains on the opposite pages. From the front DJ flap, "Mr. Vallins combines profound learning with lucid exposition...He quotes entertainingly from the prescriptive grammarians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and he sets their views against those of present-day linguists with their more liberal notions of acceptability and usage."

Text is clean and unmarked. Covers are tight and square with a faded spine having slight wrinkling. Previous owner's name is on the top outside corner of the front free endpaper. From the back cover, "Eliade presents and interprets a wealth of religious data and discusses the variety of social and cultural patterns they reflect. Sky gods, the moon and sun-worship, the function of myths, are among the subjects he treats with clarity and authority."