Search Results: Authors starting with P from Dark and Stormy Night Books

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923 210pp. Biography of Thomas Nelson Page (1853 - 1922), an American writer of "postbellum fiction", whose works exemplify the "Lost Cause" ideology of the justification for slavery. He also served as Woodrow Wilson's ambassador to Italy. Inscribed and signed by the author to the front free endpaper: "To W.Frank Smyth Esquire, with the best respects of the author, Rosewell Page. July 2nd 1923 - Tom Page was a great friend of yours". Condition: Covers dust-soiled and showing some wear to the corners.. Signed by author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

New York: The Classics of Ophthalmology Library, 1992 Facsimile of the 1875 original, printed in a limited edition, this being number 5003/5000 (!). With the publishers leather bookplate of the original subscriber, Frederick C. Blodi, M.D., a famous ophthalmologist in his own right. In publisher's maroon morocco covers with elaborate design in gilt and two raised bands to spine. Folio (10 ¾"x 8 ⅜"). Condition: About Fine. Contains parallel text in English and the original German. With 38 full pages of plates at the end of the text. *** Hermann Pagenstecher (1844-1932) was a German ophthalmologist who, aside from treating Queen Victoria, was famous for continuing his brother's work in pioneering cataract surgery.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Fine.

Köln: Taschen, 2021 Hard cover, quarto, 95 pp., measuring 8 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches. A celebration of the art of Japan's premier practitioner of the woodblock print, Hokusai (1760-1849). Featuring many fine colorful reproductions, essays on his life and development of his art, as well as a useful bibliography. Condition: Fine.. English Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1859 Hard cover, 8vo., in publisher's brown stamped cloth with title in gilt to spine. 361 pp. plus 3 pp. adverts. In English. Small inscription in old ink to ffep. This is a scarce to market title, penned near the end of the career of this popular historian. Author Julia Pardoe (1806-1862) is well known for her books on the French court in the 16th and 17th centuries. Here, she chronicles the stormy relations between the Empress Josephine and Napoleon, conveyed with no small amount of melodrama. Condition: Very Good. Sutherland, p 488.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Minneapolis: Ross and Haines, 1967 Hard cover, 8vo, in brown cloth with titles blocked to spine in brown, xii plus 379 pp. Folded map laid in. An un-numbered Limited Edition facsimile of the original publication of 1838. In original, price-clipped dust jacket and protective mylar. Condition: Fine. D/J is Very Good Plus with sunning to spine. **The Massachusetts-born Author, Rev. Samuel A.M. Parker (1779-1866) was the first Presbyterian missionary in the Northwest. He trained at the Andover Theological Seminary, the training ground of a number of notable Christian missionaries despatched in the nineteenth century from Massachusetts to places such as China, India and other far-flung locales. The volume describes his travels begun in 1835 under Fontenelle of the American Fur Company. His observations are described as a valuable resource on the tribes he encounters, the descriptions of the land, its agriculture, animal life and geology. The map shows the earliest representation of interior Oregon. (The… Read More

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1855 [1863] Hard cover, 8vo, (6 x 9 1/2 inches) in brown pebbled cloth with blind stamped decoration, titles to spine in gilt, (xxiv), 632 pp., Third American Edition, with copyright of 1851, title page date of 1855. The 1863 edition is surmised from two details: the signature in old ink by Author Francis Parkman, dated Nov. 16, 1863 on the ffep., as well as the four-page Publisher's Catalogue (dated March 1859) bound in at the front. Sabin lists the 1863 edition; Blanck, Wolff and OCLC do not. Contains two fold-out maps at p. xxiv and 187, as well as two additional full page maps at p. 187 and 512. The work is indexed, and has a number of original documentary source appendices. The continued addition, over the years, of new original sources, taken from diaries, government papers and other sources collected here and abroad, is the basis of the re-release of this work into at least six editions. [Washington journalist Ben: Perley Poore is mentioned in the… Read More

Vien: Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Otto Pächt, Publisher, 1974 First Editions, 1974 and 1977. [4 VOLUMES IN 2 SLIPCASES ALTOGETHER] In German. Französische Schule I: Taffeln, mit 375 Abbildung und 8 Farbtafeln, (unpaginated); Textband mit 110 Abbildungen, (198 pp. plus illustrations.) Französische Schule II: Taffeln mit 424 Abbildungen und 9 Farbtafeln, (unpaginated); Textband mit 110 Abbildunge. (240 pp. Plus illustrations.) Hard cover, 4to., (measuring 8 1/2 x 12 1/8 inches) in red publisher's cloth with titles in gold to front board and spine. The two red cloth-covered slipcases each have a color reproduction to the front. Condition: books, Near Fine, very clean, tight and bright, glossy paper, spines slightly sunned. Slipcases Very Good, with slight soiling and sunning, otherwise very sound and attractive. ***Illuminated Manuscripts and Incunabula of the French School at the Austrian National Library of Vienna, Vols. I and II, published by the Austrian Academy… Read More

Wien: Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Otto Pächt, Publisher., 1975 First Edition. [2 VOLUMES, together in slipcase] In German. Textband: 153 pp., 31 pp. Photos. Tafelnband: mit 334 Abbildungen und 9 Farbtafeln (unpaginated) und Liste der Abbildungen. Hard cover, 4to. (measuring 8 1/2 x 12 1/8 inches), in red publisher's cloth with titles in gold to front board and spine. The red cloth covered slipcase has a color reproduction to the front. Condition: books, Very Good , very clean, tight and bright, glossy paper, spines lightly sunned. Hinges have been taped. A few small stains to rear of one volume. Slipcase is Very Good, with slight sunning.****Illuminated Manuscripts and Incunabula of the Dutch School at the Austrian National Library of Vienna, published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Memoranda, Vol. 124, Herbert Hunger, series editor, Otto Pächt Publisher, Vienna, No. 3 in series. This item consists of a set of two books in a slipcase. The… Read More

New York: Spiegel & Grau (Random House), 2009 Hard cover, (measuring 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches), 594 pp. In black and red paper-covered boards with gold titles, the original pictorial dust jacket, now in mylar. Condition: Fine. D/J Near Fine and unclipped (a bookseller's barcode sticker is taped to bottom of d/j.) The acid-free paper remains bright. The story works backwards from 1909 London to 1867 Europe, and concerns the career of an arms dealer and financier. Part mystery, part love story, "Stone's Fall is an intricately plotted puzzle -- an erudite wedding of history and fiction that feels utterly true and uncannily timely---and marks the return of one of the world's greatest storytellers." (blurb). Called the "best historical mystery ever written." (Boston Globe) It was short-listed for the 2010 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction.. First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

Washington DC: US House of Representatives, 1842 pp 595 + 118. With bookplate of Julia Groesbeck Fowler, Ex Libris Hon. W.S.Groesbeck. William S. Groesbeck was a US Representative 1857-1859. Condition: Back endpaper missing. Covers show wear/cracking wih loss of gilt. Scarce.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+.

New York: Grove Press, 2023 First Edition, Hard Cover, 296pp. Condition: Fine (like new). A feminist re-examination of the history of philosophy, highlighting hitherto under-recognized contributions of a handful of remarkable women, including Mary Astell, Damaris Marsham, Mary Wollstonecraft and Catherine Cockburn. " ...Petaluna blends memoir, biography, and criticism to tell these women's stories, weaving throughout an alternative history of philosophy as well as her own search for love and truth." (blurb). . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1895 Hard cover, octavo, in blue cloth with titles in black to front and spine. (6) 328 pp. plus 16 pp. publisher's adverts. Condition: Good. Ex-library with old paper label to spine and vintage library bookplate to the pastedown. Exterior soiled at edges, with moderate rubbing. Interior is moderately browned but otherwise firm and only occasionally soiled. The novel describes some of the tensions in post-Civil War Georgia, showing new sorts of conflict between the newly disenfranchised, their former slaves and northern carpetbaggers. Among the memorable characters in this inland, cotton-growing town, are Reba Lawrence, a formerly-gentrified young woman forced by poverty to take in sewing from her family's former slaves to survive. Which suitor will solve her matrimonial and monetary plight? An educated black man, "The Professor," is the recipient of her family's books in payment for the laundry his mother offers to continue doing in lieu of other payment. The morally… Read More

Chicago: A.C.McClurg, 1920 117pp. Signed by author to front free endpaper. Condition: Covers dust-soiled and showing wear to corners. A short study of President Abraham Lincoln, based on a speech on Lincoln given by the author.. Signed by author. Hard Cover. Good.

Miami: Historical Association of Southern Florida, 1962 Soft Cover, 8vo, in green paper wraps with titles printed to front and spine, 78 pp. Condition: Very Good Minus.Sunning to wraps, occasional stain within, bright and firm. Felt pen to cover and one page in text.**This offprint of the log of the original journey taken by the Author in 1885, tells the story of a hunting exploration of Florida's Ten Thousand Islands area, off the south-west coast. Pierce's sloop, the Bonton, was hired by "an old Frenchman," M. Le Chevalier, for the purpose of collecting pelican and flamingo skins and plumes. They end up hunting, camping, sailing through squalls, fighting alligators and negotiating injuries in the wilds. A fellow vessel contains a taxidermist.**The Author of this log, Charles William Pierce (1864-1939) settled in newly-incorporated Boynton, Florida with his parents, having relocated via Maine and Illinois. He was home-schooled, and an avid hunter as well as Postmaster. William B. Robertson rounds… Read More

Rome: Tipografia Poliglotta, 1896 Hard cover, 12mo., 94pp. In publisher's blue/gray cloth binding with gold lettering to spine. Condition: Very Good. Some shelf-wear and marks to covers. Pages age-toned. Covers have lightly bumped corners. Bookplate to front pastedown from the library of "Francisci de Neapolis, Ducis Campobelli". ** A collection of heraldic mottos in various languages, with their associated family names. Italian introduction. OCLC 269889419.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Coward -McCann, Inc., 1962 Hardcover, 8vo, in green cloth with pictorial dust jacket in mylar cover, 256 pp. Featuring: Great Caves of the World, Cave Lore, Cave Diving, Cave Fauna, Famous Explorations and Rescues, Maps and Surveying, and Cave Photography.Includes information about the National Speleological Society, and many pages of black and white photography. Beside his interest in spelunking, Author Roy Pinney was a photographer, journalist and noted herpetologist. He collaborated on two nature television series, and was also a former curator of entomology at the Brooklyn Museum. Condition: Near Fine, with Very Good Dust jacket. . Second printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York: Abbeville Press, 1995 Hard cover, folio, 200pp. Survey of the great estates of Brazil. Translated from the Portuguese. Lavishly photographed by Nicolas Sapieha. Condition: Fine in like dustjacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Norwood, Massachusetts: Privately Printed, The Plimpton Press, 1931 Hard cover, 8vo, in red cloth, gilt with the state symbol of Hawaii to front board, titles in gilt to spine, top edge stained red, with tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and other black and white reproductions, 167 pp. (The Limited Edition is not numbered.) Condition: Near Fine. One spot to rear board. Inscribed in old ink by the Author on the ffep, dated 1931. One page corner turned and written on in preface in old ink. One pinhead sized rub-through to top edge front board. One plate with small soiling at one edge. Generally very clean. At least one page unopened. **An introductory family genealogy lays out Mr. Pitman's descent, on his mother's side, from a line of Hawaiian chiefs and monarchs dating back hundreds of years. His father, Benjamin Cox Pitman (1815-1888), sailed to Hawaii from Salem, Massachusetts, in the 1820's, first running a chandlery catering to the whaling fleet, establishing the first Volcano House tourist… Read More

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1923 Hard cover, 8vo, in blue cloth with gold titles and blocked in blind, 248 pp. plus 6 pp. publisher's adverts. Condition: Good Plus. Lacking d/j. Spine sunned, with moderate fraying at head and foot, top edge dusty, several cracks to interior pages.** The Shetland Pirates referred to here are the Great and Arctic, or Richardson's, Skuas, the aggressive shore birds of the Shetland Islands of Scotland. Other chapters dwell on other wildlife of the area, including Pine Martins, Polecats and Scottish Wildcats. Includes many photographic plates taken by the Author Frances Pitt, a pioneer of wildlife photography. This is an early, scarce work of the Shropshire-born, British naturalist Author Frances Martin (1888-1964,) reworked from magazine articles into book form in 1923. OCLC 1548897.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus. Illus. by Frances Pitt, wildlife photographer.

Milano: Ariel, 1950 Hard cover, 4to, (8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches) in half vellum with cream paper-covered boards with title and colored coat of arms in gilt to top board, top edge gilt, 107 pp. with slipcase. 22 color reproduction illustrations laid in. In English. This appears to be a gift or momento book celebrating the northern Italian luxury hotel on Lake Como, complete with a breezy recounting of the original inhabitants, famous-- and infamous-- guests, and views of its expansive gardens. (This is not the Villa D'Este near Rome, however, with an even more famous renaissance garden). Condition: Very Good Plus in a Very Good slipcase. Tanning to the vellum spine, and light age toning to the pages. A former owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Some small wear to slipcase.. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus.