Search Results: Titles starting with P from Collectible Books

1. PLEASE NOTE. This is the first edition of 1880 and NOT the 1881 2nd edition. Very scarce. The author is Henry Calderwood a Presbyterian Minister who lived from 1830 to 1897. Published in London by Macmillan. 443 pages + 1 advertisement page. The spine is sunfaded and shows letters and horizontal lines in gilt. Corner tips are lightly rubbed. Maroon cloth covers have impressed borders. On the half-title there is a fine inked inscription dated Sept. 8 1880. NO loose pages, cracking, tears, stains, writing, or marks.

1. 1977 Knopf. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Binding tight. Pages clean, tight, bright and square. Appears unread. Unclipped dustjacket has a 2"" backtaped tear along the top front spine edge. Light tanning on and behind dj flaps and on pastedowns, likely from pastedown glue.

1. SIGNED (not inscribed) by the author on the front endpaper. Bobbs-Merrill Company, Stated first printing. 1979 Hardcover. Near Fine pictorial dust jacket designed by John Sposato and faulted only by a 1/4 inch closed tear to back top edge. Book has slight lean otherwise Fine. . .

1. !! NOT 1886, 271pp!! 1884 printing with 202 pages. Great condition for this scarce early American edition published by White Stokes and Allen. Green cloth with pressed gilt floral design on front cover. Spine letters and top edge gilt. Side and bottom edges rough cut. 6.6 x 4.5 inches. Cloth lightly soiled. Red print and design in on title page. Floral endpapers. NO cracking, tears or writing. Clean, tight and bright.

1. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Stated first edition 1981. Unread, clean, bright and tight. Like new but for very faint surface rub to dustjacket.

1. "Power of Mind Over Body"" by David V. Bush. 1st ed. 1924. Self-published in Chicago, Illinois. 112pp. Light brown staple-covered wraps. Lightly tanned with black letters on spine and front cover. Binding tight with glue to front wrap loosened forward from hinge, exposing front staples; easily re-glued. Still secure. Subjects include: Imagination, Suggestion, Nature cures, Hypnotism and Physiological Change, Mind Healing for a variety of illnesses, Surgery and Mind, Stigmatists, Thought and Body Chemicalization, and many examples of healings.

1. "Compiled principally from his correspondence and that of his eldest daughter, SISTER MARIA CELESTE, Nun in the Franciscan Convent of St. Matthew, in Arcetri."" Boston: Nichols and Noyes 1870. Solidly bound in dark green cloth with gold spine lettering and embellishments, blind-stamped lines bordering the covers. 5 x 7.5 inches. 300 pp. Very Good+ condition.