Search Results: Titles starting with P from Lansdowne Books

8 full page colour plates plus the paper covers, with a colour illustrations on boards. Other illustrations in text. Original papered hardcover boards with some wear, linen spine, pages are tight with some light markings. No tears. No dust jacket issued. Pepita & Pip the Mice and their family through an elegant Christmas Party.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. Author's first novel. Hard cover binding. Fine in fine dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover. Well-preserved with pages clean and tight. Overall a very good copy."The American historian Henry Adams is looking for Miriam Talbot. No one at her given address has seen her. Adams soon discovers that Miriam's disappearance is somehow involved with the great Panama Affair that threatens to engulf France. Historical Thriller

Paper Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine (in mylar). First Edition. Pages tight and very clean and sound with minimal wear. Overall a fine copy.
Subjects Mar, M. Elaine, 1966- | Chinese American women -- Biography. | Chinese Americans -- Biography. | Denver (Colo.) -- Biography. | Hong Kong (China) -- Biography.

Cloth cover with pages clean and tight and 249 marginal sketches. Dust jacket (price-clipped) with a few chips and now in a protective sleeve. A light hearted autobiography.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean A diplomat takes his two daughters out of school in England to be with him in India. Once they get there however, he spends almost no time with them and it transpires that they are merely cover for his affair with a Franco-Indian woman he has employed as their governess

London : Folio Society, 1997. First Folio Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth, in a slip-case. Pages tight, bright, clean and strong. Never Read. Overall a Fine copy. Physical description: xii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23cm.

1st edition.Reprinted 1953. Very good copy in the original colour printed boards and dust jacket no in protective mylar. Well-preserved; tight, bright, clean covers and pages.Pookie has an adventure beyond the wood, finding himself captured by gypsies and made to perform in their circus, before eventually making his escape and returning home

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression. 1914 Condition: V.G+ . Beige cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Some yellowing to pages due to age. 13 tipped-in colour plates, and frontispiece of HRH Princess Mary. Other b/w drawings throughout. 'All profits from sale are given to The Queen's Work for Women" Overall a very nice copy.British Great War fund-raising album assembled with the approval of Buckingham Palace and directed at children. Princess Mary was the only daughter of King George V and was 17 years old when the Great War began. Her portrait was pasted-in as the frontispiece of the book. The fourteen tipped-in color plates include:'So nobody can quite explain Exactly where the rainbows end' (Arthur Rackham)'True Spartan Hearts' (Edmund Dulac)'The Ant Lion' (E.J. Detmold)'A Holiday in Bed' (W. Russell Flint)'.