Search Results: Authors starting with P from Ray Boas, Bookseller

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1963. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) small closed tear jacket. illustrated by the author. Through the centuries, the elegant, stately swan has held a special place in myth, in history, and in man's affections..." designated by the British crown as 'royal birds.' 164pp.

Urbana, IL: Phoenix Publishing, 1994. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). color illustrations. ISBN 1886154015 62pp.

Knoxville: University of Tenn. Press, 1981. HC. very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0870492969 454pp.

Corning, NY: George Nichols Packer, 1893. HC. good, blue cloth (hardcover) (darkened spine). HOW CORRECTED BY THE GREGORIAN. RULES FOR FINDING THE DOMINICAL LETTER, AND THE DAY OF THE WEEK OF ANY EVENT FROM THE DAYS OF JULIUS CAESAR 46 B.C. TO THE YEAR OF OUR LORD FOUR THOUSAND--A NEW AND EASY METHOD OF FIXING THE DATE OF EASTER. HEBREW CALENDAR; SHOWING THE CORRESPONDENCE IN THE DATE OF EVENTS RECORDED IN THE BIBLE WITH OUR PRESENT GREGORIAN CALENDAR. ILLUSTRATED BY VALUABLE TABLES AND CHARTS. 149pp.

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1988. HC. fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W and color illustrations. ISBN 0870210068 To mark the 400th anniversary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, the distinguished naval historian Peter Padfield has written a comprehensive account of the greatest sea battle of the Tudor age. 208pp.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1984. HC. very good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) SEE NOTE. B&W illustrations. ISBN 0060152648 NOTE - original owner tells me his cat's claw caught the spine of the dustjacket, thus a tear. Closed up nicely with dustjacket protector now on it. 524pp.

Calais, VT: Z Press, 1979. PB. good, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0915990172 131pp.

New York: Adventures in Poetry, n.d.. PB. good, side staple sheets (softcover) bump top corner. Some outlined toning on front cover from exposure to sun. Small bump top corner unpaginated.

Salem, MA: Peabody Museum, 1950. HC. very good, blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket. B&W illustrations. NO DUSTJACKET. 88pp.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. HC. good, gray paper covered boards (hardcover) wear to boards. B&W illustrations. 165pp.

Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 1989. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). color illustrations. ISBN 0895990245 All perspectives of birds are thoroughly explored in this book. 288pp.

Concord, NH: N.H. Historical Society, 1973. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. Catalogue of exhibition held June 28, 1973 to September 29, 1973 of ceramics, furniture, glass, metals, paintings, silver and textiles. 64pp.

Mexico: Reproducciones Fotomecanicas, 1994. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). color illustrations. ISBN 9686963111 Fantastic look at the archaeology works in Mexico supported by the government. Foreword by Carlos Salinas de Gortari (Constitutional President of Mexico) with his presentation card laid in. 297pp.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1937. HC. good, red cloth (hardcover). Must American Women Send Their Men to Fight in Europe or Asia?" 278pp.

Keene, NH: Hist. Soc. of Cheshire Cty, 2003. PB. fine, wraps (softcover) inscribed by author's daughter. B&W illustrations. ISBN 0972447849 46pp.

New York: Crescent Books, 1979. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W and color ill.. ISBN 0517307014 Besides a study of the orgins of a great people, this book presents the Indians of the various regions: the Northeast, Southeast, Plains, Southwest, Pacific Northwest, Great Basin and California. The way they lived, their customs and laws, their agriculture, the mysteries of their medicine, their beliefs, their authentic and refreshingly original art, etc. is all explained in a vivid and readable style. 171pp.

London: Collins, 1946. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). 12 color plates, B&W ill.. 48pp.

Rockville, MD: A Victor Kamkin Book, 1970. HC. fine, blue cloth (hardcover). ISBN 094067013X Turgenev has been customarily cast under the traditional rubric of "realist." This is probably a result of the fact that critics base their opinions of him primarily on his novels; that these novels were written in a period (1855-1876) during which the novel of realism was at its height and that Turgenev himself gave an impetus to such opinions when he referred to himself as a chronicler of the times. 224pp.

Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1910. HC. good+, green cloth (hardcover) owner's name TORN from FFEP. 282pp.

Editorial Leyenda, S. A., 1945. HC. very good, blue cloth (hardcover) inscribed by the author 1947. B&W and color illustrations. Text in Spanish. 263pp.