Search Results: Authors starting with P from Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

Croydon; 1922-1933: The Croydon Advertiser/The National Rose Society. Hard Cover. Octavo. 12 volumes, each volume approx. 250-300 pages including several advertisements at the rear, illustrated throughout with color and black and white photo illustrations; bound in green cloth decorated in blind, lettering black. The National Rose Society was founded in December of 1876. The membership is by subscription and the society holds various seasonal exhibitions. A very nice collection with hardly a trace of wear; a couple of spines with light fading; internally clean, with no markings of any kind. Several flyers are laid into the 1922 volume, relating to National Rose Society events. Very good to near fine.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1917. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good. Octavo. TWO VOLUMES. Bound in contemporary 3/4 blue leather with raised bands and gilt panels on spine. Expert repair to one hinge, marbled end papers.

New York: Harper Collins, 2009. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY SARAH PALIN ON HALF TITLE PAGE without personaliation. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 413 pp.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. 342 pages; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $15.95 on front flap. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on the title page to mystery collector Arthur H. Parson thus: "To / Arthur - / Truly an honor to be on your shelf. / T. Jefferson Parker" - First edition, stated, with full number line. Mr. Parson's name and date on FFEP. A lovely copy of the author's first book.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY ROBERT B. PARKER without personalization. 182 pp. Dust jacket with price of $12.95 on front flap. Small check marks by some titles on author's list of books page.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE BY ROBERT B. PARKER. A near fine copy with armorial bookplate ffep in a near fine dust jacket. Author's first book. 186 pp. A very nice copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/About Fine. Octavo. 181 pages; SIGNED by the author on title page. Dust jacket with price of $7.95 on front flap. First printing, with full number line on copyright page; owner name and date on FFEP.

Moscow: Co-Operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in The USSR, 1932. Very Good+. Very Good+ in original printed wrappers with minimal age toning, small scuff to front wrap. 12mo. 62 pp.

Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1861. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Offered is a Very Good+ complete hardback Comptus Rendus Vol. LII, 1861, with articles located at pp. 344-347, pp. 1142-1143, and pp. 1260-1264 bound in contemporary black buckram spine and marbled paper boards with gilt lettering on red leather spine labels. Marbled endpapers. Minimal scuff spine label. Mild cover edge wear. Light occasional foxing. 4to.

Paris: Victor Masson, 1857. Hard Cover. Very Good++. Offered is a Very Good++ hardback ex-library Volume XLIX of Annales de Chimie et de Physique in maroon buckram binding with gilt lettering spine. Library stamp and number in ink ffep. No other library markings. 8vo. Noted in DSB Vol. 10 p. 411 as one of Pasteur's most important papers on molecular asymmetry.

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1942. First Edition. Near Fine/About Fine. octavo, unpaginated; oatmeal dust jacket, printed in orange and green, $1.00 price on front flap. A lovely copy, internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind; light off-setting from dust jacket flap to end papers.

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1942. First Edition. Near Fine/About Fine. octavo, unpaginated; oatmeal dust jacket, printed in orange and green, $1.00 price on front flap. A lovely copy, internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind; light off-setting from dust jacket flap to end papers. Dust jacket with just a hint of wear at extremities.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. Tall Octavo. First Edition limited to 2000 copies. A very good+ copy bound in black cloth with red printed title label spine and front cover, minimal cover edge wear, neat owner inscription half title page. In a very good dust jacket with edge wear and age toning. 185 pp. Kenneth Patchen was a beat generation poet who incorporated painting, drawing and jazz music into his work.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. 451 pages; SIGNED AND INSCRIBED thus on title page: "Art - / James Patterson" - first printing with full number line. Dust jacket with price of $22.95 on front flap.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. 283 pages; SIGNED AND INSCRIBED thus on title page: "Arthur / James Patterson." Price of $17.95 on front flap of dust jacket.

Croydon: H.R. Grubb, Ltd, 1931. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine. Thick Small Quarto. PART II ONLY. 740pp. Illustrated throughout with many photos. Beautifully bound in a pristine green pictorial gilt cloth, large folding chart at rear, in original glassine wrapper. This is the second part after part I, Medical (1929). An important work in beautiful condition.

New York (1928): Liveright Publishing Corp. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. Octavo. Second American Edition, apparently preceeded by the International Publishers Co. edition, of the same year. Twenty-five Years of Objective Study of the Higher Nervous Activity (behavior) of Animals. Bound in publisher's red, vertically ribbed cloth. 8vo. 414pp., frontispiece and 9 illustrations. Translated from the Russian by W. Horsley Gantt, M.D. Pavlov's epochal work presentation his theories concerning human behavior and the nature of thinking. A lovely copy in a very good clipped dust jacket with slight fading to the spine.

Stanford NY: Henry & John F. Hull, 1803. Full-Leather. Good+. 12mo, 210 pages; bound in contemporary full brown calf, red leather label on spine, printed in gilt; endpapers browned and stained, half inch x 2 inch loss to front pastedown; title page is browned at edges, small chip at fore-edge, 1 inch closed tear. Text uniformly age-toned, with a brown spot here and there. Front hinge with a 1 inch crack.

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1907. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Quarto. color frontispiece, 411pp., 2 large folding color maps at rear showing Perry's route, 96 photographic illustrations by the author; bound in black pictorial gilt cloth. Very minor wear to spine ends, internally clean and bright with no markings of any kind.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1907. First Edition. Hard Cover. Quarto. xx, 411 pages, with 95 photographs by the author and colored frontis; two folding maps at rear. Bound in original green cloth with globe and eagle in red, white and gilt on front panel; top edges and spine lettering gilt. (Artic Bibliography 13226) A fine, bright copy, with no markings of any kind.