Search Results: Authors starting with P from Boston Book Company

1966. PADDOCK, John, ed. ANCIENT OAXACA. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1966. 8vo., olive cloth. Dust soil to top edge, else, fine, in a mildly worn dust jacket.

1949. PAGE, Thomas Nelson. ON LINCOLN. A speech delivered by him at the Masonic Temple in Washington DC, at the Lincoln Memorial Celebration on Feb. 4, 1909. A paper read before the Massachusetts Historical Society on November 13, 1947 by Frederic Haines Curtiss. Boston: T.O. Metcalf, 1949. 8vo., stapled pamphlet; 23 pp. Just a touch of soil; near fine.

1924. PAGE, Thomas. THE RED RIDERS. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. First edition. 8vo., red cloth. Near fine in dust jacket with light edgewear and sun to spine and extremes. [Ku Klux Klan].

1876. PAGET, James, ed. William TURNER. LECTURES ON SURGICAL PATHOLOGY DELIVERED AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1876. Fourth edition. xix + [1] + 844 pp. + 16 pp. publisher's catalogue. 8vo., red pebbled cloth stamped in gilt and blind, sunned to brown at spine. Spine and corners worn, light pale spotting to cloth. Front hinge starting. Ex-library with no external marrkings. Ink ownership to title page dated 1881. Text clean and tight, with numerous b/w illustrations.

1939. PAINE, Robert T., Jr. TEN JAPANESE PAINTINGS in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Privately printed for the Japan Society of New York, 1939. 1/1000 copies. Large 4to, ii + 72 pp., with 4 color and 6 b&w plates. Beige cloth. Slight soiling. Very good.

1955. PAINE, Robert Treat, and SOPER, Alexander. THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF JAPAN. (Harmondsworth, England): Penguin Books, (1955). The Pelican History of Art volume, large 8vo, xx + 316 pp., with 173 pp. plate section; maroon cloth, slightly worn. Very good.

1939. PAINE, Robert T., Jr. TEN JAPANESE PAINTINGS in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Privately printed for the Japan Society of New York, 1939. 1/1000 copies. Large 4to, ii + 72 pp., with 4 color and 6 b&w plates. Beige cloth. About fine.

18. [FAN PAINTING] Murata KAGEN, artist. An unmounted fan painting by Kagen [d.1849], an Osaka artist mentioned in both Hillier's UNINHIBITED BRUSH and his 2 vol. work on ehon as a book designer and book illustrator. A lovely simple Shijo^-style composition of flowers in light ink and muted colors. Signed and sealed. In near perfect condition.

18. [PAINTING ALBUM] TOSHINDO, artist. [A HUMOROUS ALBUM OF INDELICATE LADIES, c. 1880] 22 x 13.8 cm, Orihon folding album in raw silk covered boards. Shibata Toshindo was married into the Shibata family, her original family name was Niwa and birthplace Nagoya. The brother of one artist and married to another, she became a student of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi and developed her skills as a painter of beautiful women. In this album she has turned her brush to a more humorous angle. In a series of 12 double page paintings she has recast the traditional "farting scroll" genre to the feminine side. Feats of strength, wrestling, games, even the ultimate farting contest, performed by robed and (hopefully) perfumed ladies. Fun and obviously irreverent. In very good condition. Quite skillful with a sure line.

1880. (PAINTING). A TREATISE ON PAINTING. In four parts. By John Burnett. New edition. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1880. 4to., red cloth; 73pp. + 22pp. + 45pp. + 61pp., with 25 b&w and 8 hand-colored plates. Spine detaching, binding shaken, ex-library. As is.

1953. (PAINTING, Japanese). JAPANESE PAINTING AND SCULPTURE. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and at other locations, 1953. 4to, 207 pp., fully illustrated in b&w. Name on flyleaf, else fine, in printed wrappers.

1978. PAL, Pratapaditya. THE IDEAL IMAGE: THE GUPTA SCULPTURAL TRADITION AND ITS INFLUENCE. Washington, DC: The Asia Society in association with John Weatherhill, Inc., 1978. 144 pp. Oblong 4to., beige cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. Near fine, ink ownership to front flyleaf, gently bumped corners. Dust jacket in good condition with one 3 inch closed tear to front panel, a few nicks to edges and sunning to spine. B/w and color photographs.

1944. [ISRAEL]. UNITED PALESTINE APPEAL. [FUNDRAISING APPEAL FOR REFUGEES, OVERSEAS NEEDS, AND PALESTINE ISSUED BY THE UNITED PALESTINE APPEAL, CIRCA 1944.] A fundraising packet comprised of five pieces stored in a pictorial envelope, 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. 1.) "The Redeemed become the Redeemers," a broadside plea for contributions; printed on the reverse is a New York Times article from January 15, 1944. NY: United Palestine Appeal, n.d. 2.) The Facts about Palestine. By Arthur Lourie. NY: American Zionist Emergency Council, n.d. 20 pp. Pamphlet format: paper wrappers, stapled. 3.) The Future of the Jews. By Dorothy Thompson. NY: United Palestine Appeal, n.d. 14 pp. Pamphlet format: paper wrappers, stapled. 4.) An American Soldier in Palestine. NY: United Palestine Appeal, n.d. Illus. [20] pp. Pamphlet format: paper wrappers, stapled. 5.) "Sabbath Eve on the Palestine War Front," a photograph showing a young woman, dressed in military uniform, lighting the Sabbath candles. The photograph is also printed… Read More

1917. BRITISH PALESTINE COMMITTEE. PALESTINE. The organ of the British Palestine committee. The British Palestine committee seeks to reset the ancient glories of the Jewish nation in the freedom of a new British dominion in Palestine. Brittian: British Palestine Committee, Vol. II. No. 16. November 24th, 1917. First edition. 12mo., pamplet format, 26 pp.. Lightly dogeared with some discoloration to the upper wrapper. A very good copy. Judaica.

1854. PALEY, William. THE WORKS OF WILLIAM PALEY, D.D. ARCHDEACON OF CARLISLE. Complete in one volume. Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, 1854. New edition. 604 pp. + 2 pp. publisher's advertisements. 8vo., green cloth stamped in gilt and ornamented in blind. Very good plus, some foxing to edges of bookblock and edges of frontispiece engraving. Small closed tear to rear flyleaf. Early printed bookplate on front pastedown. Overall a very attractive copy, bright and clean externally with minimal shelfwear, and clean and tight within.

1847. PALEY, Dr. William. PALEY'S WORKS; CONSISTING OF EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY, MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, NATURAL THEOLOGY, AND HORA PAULINA. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1847. Complete in one volume. var. pag. 8vo., blue cloth (quite faded) stamped in gilt and blind. Some pages unopened or roughly opened. Ex-library with usual markings. Good overall. Animal mechanics and Paley's theory of an "intelligent designing mind", the watchmaker analogy, religious doctrine, natural philosophy, teleology.

1875. PALLISER, Bury, Mrs. (Fanny). A HISTORY OF LACE. Third edition. London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875. Profusely illustrated; 16 colorplates and numerous text figures, some of which are full-page. x,454 pp. Octavo. Red three-quarter morocco, red cloth sides, gilt title and some decoration at spine, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Spine is sunned, top joint just starting, with some superficial rubbing at bands and joints, and general light soiling overall. Text leaves and illustrations are clean. A solid and very good copy of this history of lace and lace-making; it includes a bibliography of pattern book for lace and embroidery from 1527 through 1784.

1910. PALLISER, Mrs. Bury, ed. M. JOURDAIN & Alice DRYDEN. HISTORY OF LACE. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Ltd., 1910. 4th edition (see above). xvi + 536 pp. 8vo., pale cloth stamped in red, black and gilt. Gilt edges. Cloth soiled, corners and spine show moderate shelfwear. Hinges cracking. Foxing to endpapers through list of illustrations, and edges of text. Ink ownership to front flyleaf. With 266 b/w illustrations.

1932. PALMER, Cuthbert A. THE MAN WITHOUT A NAVEL. Illustrated by Sammie A. Abbott. Ithaca, NY: The Dragon Press, 1932. One of 500 copies for the Dragon subscription series. 70 pp. 8vo., red cloth with paper spine and cover labels. Very good, spine sunned, light edgewear to spine label. Faint scratch to cover label. Endpapers lightly tanned, bottom edge of frontispiece, title and next page roughly opened. B/w surrealist frontispiece and illustrations.

1837. PALMER, J. Horsley. THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE PRESSURE UPON THE MONEY-MARKET; WITH A STATEMENT OF THEACTION OF THE BANK OF ENGLANDFROM 1ST OCTOBER, 1833, TO THE 27TH DECEMBER, 1836. London: Pelham Richardson, 1837. Small 8vo. 65pp. Three-quarter dark blue leather over marbled boards. Hinges starting, lightly rubbing to extremities.