Search Results: Titles starting with P from Peruse the Stacks

Los Angeles: Church of Scientology of California Publications Organization, 1977. 36x22cm, various paginations. Printed in several colors. Few revision markings in pen throughout. Bound with acco fasteners in blue plastic covers. Few tape repairs to covers, with chipping to edges. Very good. A very uncommon internal publication from the Church of Scientology, consisting of a packet of HCO policy letters and bulletins covering the detecting and handling of suppressive persons and potential trouble sources.  OCLC locates a single copy at UC, Davis.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1937. First edition thus. Small 8vo, 23-50pp. Signed by Priestley on the front cover. Staple bound in drab card wrappers backed in tape. Some toning and spotting to wraps, very good. Signed offprint from noted University of California professor of Mexican History and director of the Bancroft Library, Herbert Ingram Priestley (1875-1944).  Reprinted from The United States Among the Nations, Lectures Arranged by the Committee on International Relations, University of California, First Series, Autumn, 1936.   OCLC locates 3 holdings at UC, Berkeley, the Huntington, and The University of Texas. .

London: George Routledge, 1883. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Walter Crane. 1/4 cloth, brown paper decorated boards. Good condition with rear endpaper detached, but present. Foxing throughout.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition of this collection of ranching stories from Erickson of Hank the Cowdog fame. Introduction by Larry McMurtry, photos by Bill Ellzey. Near fine in fine jacket.

New York: Harper & Row, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Stated first edition of this Dr. Fell book from Carr. Near fine with light pushing to spine ends in like jacket with a scuff to head of spine, and lower front corner.

Butte, Montana: Miller Studio, 1919. 32x8" panoramic sepia photograph on card stock. Several creases and a few smudges. 5" tear from left margin into the photo. Good. Nice panoramic image of the Elks Drum Corps in Butte, Montana, boosters for the Victory Liberty Loan, 1919.  The group is in full dress, including a patriotic Uncle Sam at the center of the photo.  .

Saxonville, MA: Picture Book Studio, 1986. 4to, unpaginated. Illustrated by the author with several fold out pages. Signed by Carle with small drawing of a moon and star on the title page. Cloth backed pictorial boards in illustrated jacket. Light edge wear, price-clipped jacket. Nearly fine.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2003. Hardcover. Fine. Fine in full, black leather with gold design and lettering.

Birmingham, England: Short, Scary Tales Publications, 2016. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Ben Baldwin. First illustrated edition of this novel from Lansdale, signed by his ownself and Ben Baldwin, the artist. Near fine with bumped corner in like jacket. Limited to 350 numbered copies, this being #130.

Paris: François Jollain, 1689. Hardcover. Very Good. Important second edition of this seminal architectural treatise from the French theorist, Fréart. From Baroque architecture author and scholar, Frédérique Lemerle: "The special feature of Jollain's edition compared with the original edition is that it is engraved (text and images), except for the first pages consisting of the preface and the title page. At the beginning of the preface Jollain specifies that he will organize his ideas in a different way than the author's, nevertheless keeping close to his sentiments and his expression. At the end he justifies taking liberty "shortening several things that Monsieur de Chambray had said in too many words" in order to "reduce the price of this book, by avoiding printing costs". On the other hand he allowed himself to add a pedestal for each order "by the best authors". Thus the folio edition published in 1689 is revised, abridged and enlarged version of the Parallèle. It is a manual on the orders… Read More

Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Stated first American edition of this novel for young readers from English author, Walsh. Historical novel set during the plague in England, 1665. Near fine with slightly cocked spine and dusty top edge in like jacket.

New York: Viking, 1972. Second printing. 8vo, 232pp. Vignette illustrations. Inscribed by Flanner to Polly Rowles and dated in 1973 on the title page. Black cloth, spine lettered in silver, top edge stained red in illustrated jacket. Rowles' ownership signature to front endpaper, some light staining to page block edge else near fine in like jacket with minimal wear. Interesting association copy of this memoir by American journalist, Janet Flanner (1892-1978), who was the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker.  This copy inscribed to American stage and screen actress, Polly Rowles (1914-2001).  .

Stetini: Typis & impensis Georgii Rehtii [i.e. Rhetii], 1634. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Lorentz Eichstadt. Pars prima Ephemeridum novarum et motuum coelestium quinqennalis, ad annos aerae Christianae 1636. 1637. 1638. 1639. 1640. : In luminarium motibus & eclipsibus ex tabulis Danicis Christiani S. Longomontani, in reliquis planetis ex tabulis Rudolphinis Joannis Kepleri juxta exquisitas nob. Tychonis Brahei observationes constructis, debitâ diligentiâ elaborata & supputata / à Laurentio Eichstadio, med. d. & physico ordinario in Veteri Sedino Pomeranorum. Cum paedia de utendi methodo. Stetini: Typis & impensis Georgii Rehtii [i.e. Rhetii], M. DC. XXXIX. [1639, i.e. 1634] First edition, this copy with variant, misprinted title page: "Georgii Rehtii," and "M. DC. XXXIX." 4to, [24], 100, [140]. Collation same as NYPL copy (3-ONT (Ephemeridum novarum et motuum) v. 1). Engraved title, charts, illustrations. Half polished calf lettered in gilt over paper covered boards. Worming and chipping… Read More

Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Stated first printing of this collection of short works from Texas authors. Signed by Larry McMurtry on the ffep. Fine book with a touch of foxing to top edge in fine jacket.

New York: W. J. Watt & Co, 1921. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition of this mystery story, the author's only listed work in Hubin's Bibliography of Crime Fiction. Very good book with light rubbing at spine ends and corner tips in the scarce jacket, very good, with small chips from upper and lower edges of rear panel. Original price of $1.90 in tact.

San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition of this early collection of verse from Selber. Signed and warmly inscribed by her to Madeleine L'Engle on the ffep and dated in 1964. This copy comes from L'Engle's personal library. Very good with foxing to silver boards in like jacket with some foxing to underside and edges.

Quakertown, PA: Beverly Hall Corporation, 1934. Soft cover. Good. Recruiting booklet for the "Original and Authentic Rosicrucian Fraternity." 8vo, [4], 21pp. Textured beige wraps, staple-bound, and with Rosicrucian seal and lettering to front cover. Printed in black with green headers and symbols throughout. Good condition with heavy staining and waviness to front cover. Clean internally save for some acid offsetting on the first blank page. Laid in is a two page, typed recruiting letter (unsigned), from the Supreme Grand Master of the Rosicrucian Order, The SEE, Beverly Hall, and Dated Nov. 28, 1934. Also laid in is a blank, single sheet application and obligation form. Scarce.

[Pueblo]: The Franklin Press Company, 1917. First edition. 8vo, 160pp. Photographs, index. Publisher's blind ruled, dark green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Light rubbing and scuffing to boards, gilt a touch rubbed. Very good or better. Nicely printed history of Pueblo and the Southern Rocky Mountain region by Dr. Milo Lee Whittaker (1879-1942), scholar, educator, and writer at the State Teachers College.  Chapters on trapping and trading, Indian battles, railroad, industry, education, and others.     Howes W 393.

Topeka: The Kansas Historical Quarterly, 1955. Soft cover. Near Fine. Reprinted from the Kansas Historical Quarterly, Winter, 1955. Near fine in blue wraps with some light wear and toning to spine and edges.

[San Francisco]: The Book Club of California, 1982. First edition, limited to 650 copies. 12mo, 59pp. Illustrations. Cloth backed, illustrated paper boards. Some foxing to page block edge and preliminaries else nearly fine. Designed by Ward Ritchie and printed by the Castle Press.  Supported by the Dorothy and David Magee fund.