Search Results: Authors starting with P from Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library

1976 USGS Circular as pictured. Stapled binding is intact. Owner's stamp on front cover. Text is clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

1914 hardcover as pictured. Binding is firm. Deep green leather bound boards with gold stamping on front and spine are worn, particularly along edges with chips at top and bottom of spine. Front hinge partially cracked. Book plate inside front cover. Text appears clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s (AR)

1952 hardcover as pictured. Ex-library with minimal library markings. Binding is firm. Blue cloth boards with silver stamping are soiled and show some edge wear. Front hinge is slightly cracked at title page. Edges of text block are soiled. Text itself is lightly tanned but clean and unmarked. No dust jacket.Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

1954 hardcover as pictured. A story of the French and Indian War in Massachusetts from the European perspective. Binding is firm. Gray boards with red stamping show light edge wear. Pictorial endpapers with penciled price marking at front. Text is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is rubbed and scuffed with small tears and chips at edges. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

1930 hardcover as pictured. Binding is firm. Green cloth boards are faded. and show light edge wear. Pastedown labels on front and spine. Endpapers tanned with pencil notations at front. Text block rough cut. Text appears clean and unmarked. Includes 13 woodblock illustrations by Micheal Mac Liammoir. Dust jacket is soiled and rubbed with many small tears and chips. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

2005 softcover as pictured. A collection of papers discussing the politics of environmental legislation. Binding is firm, spine uncreased. Covers are rubbed with bumped upper corners. A few pages of text have notations. Text is otherwise clean. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

2010 hardcover as pictured. A very nice book documenting the story of the Al-Marah Arabians of Tucson Arizona. Binding is firm. Green cloth boards with gold stamping are clean with minimal edge wear. Text is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is rubbed with some wear at edges. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

1904 hardcover as pictured. This is a despicable and unabashedly racist text which seeks to rationalize jim crow policies in the south and perhaps even slavery itself. It is nevertheless an important historical document as the views presented are being promulgated still today by white nationalists. This copy is ex-library with typical markings. Maroon cloth boards with gold stamping are lightly soiled and show a little fraying at head and tail of spine and at corners. Binding is intact. Rear hinge cracked. Text is lightly tanned. Some pages are mottled, some with notations. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small public library. s AR

1929 hardcover as pictured. Binding is firm. Blue cloth boards with gold stamping are rubbed and lightly soiled with some edge wear. Pictorial endpapers with map of the Northwest Territory. Penciled inscription on front endpaper. Front hinge cracked. Text is lightly tanned but clean and unmarked. Includes over 30 illustrations. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s (AR)

1937 hardcover as pictured. A biography of the Prussian General who aided the colonies in the American war of independence. Binding is firm. Blue cloth boards are soiled but show only light edge wear. Endpapers tanned with pencil notation pn FFEP. Text appears clean and unmarked. Includes two fold out maps. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

1734 hardcover set as pictured. Please note that this set includes 7 of the 8 original books, volume 2 is not included. This is a marvelous set, "Giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: And discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts, (especially that of France) continued from the year 1637, to the year 1682." The set has seen considerable wear but remains in reasonable shape given its age. Bindings are intact in all. Full leather boards with gold stamping on front and rear. Head and tail bands. Spines with raised bands, gold stamping and paste on labels, most of which are missing. The leather is dry, rubbed and scuffed with cracking at hinges and noticeable edge wear. Each volume has two bookplates from previous owners, the most recent of which was placed in 1891. Several volumes have writing on the endpapers including a note about the author in volume 1. Volumes 5 and 8 have water staining of the endpapers. The… Read More

Published in English 1987, originally published in Italian, copyright 1982 by Societa Editrice II Mulino, Bologna. Ex library book with usual markings: library ticket pocket on back endpaper, library stamp on text block (head, tail & and fore-edge). Jacket as shown with this listing has an acetate cover and is in good condition. Edges are aged and text is tanned, binding is firm. Would be listed as good but for the library marking - price reflects this. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (AR)

1988 hardcover as pictured. This is an examination of the life and influences of Nikolai Chernyshevsky, journalist, critic and political activist in mid 19th century Russia. Includes an appendix with texts in Russian, extensive notes and index. Binding is firm. Black cloth boards show only light shelf wear. Edge of text block is mottled. Inscription on title page. Endpapers and text appear otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is tanned with several small chips and tears at edges. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

Undated hardcover as pictured. This is a beautifully bound and illustrated volume. Binding is firm. Quarter bound with cloth spine and printed paper boards, with a string binding. Boards are soiled and tanned with bumped corners. Green endpapers are faded at the edges. Pencil markings on title page and rear fixed endpaper. Last page of text has a few fingerprints but the text is otherwise unmarked. The book includes a chapter on book binding in the manner of this volume. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

Published 1975. Paperback, cover as shown with this listing is slightly scuffed. Edges aged, text appears unmarked, binding firm. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (AR)

1900 hardcover as pictured. L'Aiglon is a play in six acts by Edmond Rostand based on the life of Napoleon II, son of Emperor Napoleon. The title of the play comes from a nickname for Napoleon II, the French word for eaglet. This book is based on the translation as presented at the American premier in 1900. The cast list for the premier is included. Binding is firm. Embossed blue cloth boards with gold stamping have a small stain at front and show light edge wear. Rough cut text block with gilt top edge. Endpapers and text appear clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

Undated hardcover as pictured. A beautifully bound volume. Binding is tight. Beveled edge red cloth boards with black and gold designs on front and spine are soiled, stained and worn with fraying at top and bottom of spine. Corners are bumped and slightly frayed. Front hinge is partially cracked at title page. Owner's name stamped on FFEP. Text block with gilt edges. Text is age tanned but clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

1908 two volume set as pictured. These handsome books are volumes 8 and 9 of Francis Parkman's Works. Bindings are firm. Green cloth boards with gold stamping show light edge wear. endpapers are mottled. Pencil notations on FFEP of volume 1. Gilt top edges of rough cut text blocks. Text itself is clean and unmarked. The last few pages of volume 2 are folded at upper corner. Text includes many map engravings and several tissue guarded portraits as well as an extensive index. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sO2

1895-1907 9 volume hardcover set as pictured. Ex-library with usual markings. A nicely bound set. Bindings are firm. Brown cloth boards with black embossed design and gold stamping on spine are rubbed and worn with fraying at head and tail of spine and at corners. Several covers are stained. Hinges cracked on 4 volumes. Text is lightly tanned. The 2 volumes of Montcalm and Wolfe are water stained along the top edge of text block. The stains extend into the affected pages but do not affect readability. The set includes many maps, a number of which fold out. Price reflects condition. Because of weight additional mailing costs will apply. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s (O-03)

1974 two volume set as pictured. A vast collation of British colloquialisms, catch phrases, solecisms and vulgarisms. Bindings are firm. Blue boards with gold stamping are lightly soiled with slight edge wear. Edges of text blocks lightly tanned. Texts are clean and unmarked. Dust jackets are rubbed with a few small tears along edges. Price includes extra shipping costs due to weight. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s
OH4