Search Results: Authors starting with P from Black's Fine Books & Manuscripts

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. pp. xi, 576. 8vo. Publisher's dark-green cloth over boards, silver lettering to the spine, Marx's signature in facsimile blind-stamped to the front board. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. Bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in near fine lightly rubbed dustjacket. "Included here is a wide selection of Marx's letters to Frederick Engels, which not only sheds new light on the evolution of Marxist ideas, but also underscores their intense friendship and Marx's reliance on his collaborator for moral and financial support. There is a moving letter by the 19-year-old Karl to his father - a fascinating glimpse of the future Marx. Also, a complete section is devoted to letters to and about the brilliant Socialist theorist Ferdinand Lassalle, whom Marx both envied and admired. In addition, there are letters to his beloved… Read More

Victoria and London: S.W. Partidge & Co., Ltd. | Printed by the University Press, Aberdeen, N.D. [Circa 1889]. [Presumed] First Edition. Hardcover. pp. 160. Small 8vo., measuring 5.25" x 7.5". Publisher's charming illustrated maroon cloth over boards, black and blue lettering and illustration to the front board and spine. Engraved, captioned, frontispice of the subject (Crowther) accompanied with many additional engravings, illustrations, head-and-tail pieces. Very light touch of edgewear to the cloth extremities, pages age-toned (chiefly along the margins), light foxing throughout, text-block itself remains clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good and housed in good+ dustjacket showing some chipping, and short closed tears along the edges of the panels (now housed in protective mylar cover). Inner panels of the dustjacket list various other titles on offer by the publisher in their 'Popular Biographies' series. Overall, very good. Scarce in commerce in this edition, and state.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Found Book | Anansi, 1973. Softcover. pp. 204. Small 8vo. Illustrated silver covers. Lightest rubbing to the covers, contents clean, and unmarked; very good.

Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupine's Quill, 2001. Softcover. pp. 184. 8vo. Illustrated covers. Appears unread; as new. SIGNED in ink by the author to the title page.

Berthierville, Quebec: Privately Printed by the Author, [1970]. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 93, [1]. Slim 12mo., measuring 20 cm. Textured light-blue card covers with black lettering to the spine with folded french flaps, untrimmed page edges. Four gorgeous full-plate engravings attributed to Marcel Ducharme (all collated and accounted for). Lightest sunning to the spine, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked leaves and firm, sound binding; near fine. Accompanied with laid-in errata leaf. See OCLC #872158674 & #270760994. Scarce in commerce.

Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2020. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Unpaginated. 8vo. Appears unread; as new.

London: Printed for C. Nourse, 1787. 8th Edition. Leather Bound. pp. 120. 12mo. Recent beautiful re-bind in full dark brown leather. The spine is in compartments with title, author, and date of publication stamped in gilt. Gorgeous fresh marbled endpapers. Small circular stamp of St. Paul's College to bottom right of first blank page. Text is unmarked, although there is some typical foxing and age-toning. Table of Contents and one-page catalogue of books bound in at end. The book contains 240 pages of text, half of which is in English, and the facing half in the French translation making this, "A Work very useful to Those who desire to improve themselves in the French tongue, and containing a great Variety of Subjects." Overall, near fine. John Plairet (1697-1774) was the French teacher to three of King Geroge II's children, and wrote several French education compendiums.

New York: George Braziller, 1993. First English-Language Edition. Hardcover. pp. 196. Small 8vo. Publisher's maroon boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Remarkably well-preserved showing no detectable flaws to the extremities, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; fine and housed in fine, original, unclipped, dustjaket. Appears unread; near fine. Winner of the European Novel of the Year Award.

Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada: The Art Department | The Society of St. John the Evangelist, 1943. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 39. 16mo., measuring 3.75" x 5.75". Illustrated, twice-stapled, card covers.

Swan River, Manitoba: [Swan Valley Historical Society], 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. ix, 358. 4to. Illustrated yellow cloth over boards. Replete with black and white maps, photographs, illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, et al. Neat ink name to the corner of the ffep, otherwise the contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine.

New Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. xx, 188. 8vo. Publisher's dark-green cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine, charming pictorial endpapers depicting Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. No detectable flaws, extremities very well-preserved, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages, and firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in near fine, price-clipped, dustjacket (now housed in protective mylar cover). Overall, very good+, to, near fine. "This is a unique book about the Rajneesh Movement. It brings together the perspectives of both outsiders and insiders to the movement, in the hope that their point of intersection might provide a novel lens for looking at New Religious Movements."

New York: Syracuse University Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. pp. xviii, 287. 8vo. Lilac cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white photographs and illustrations. No detectable flaws; near fine and housed in very good+ lightly rubbed dustjacket. Series: "Women and Gender in North American Religions".

London and Boston: Faber and Faber Limited, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. xi, 207. Royal 8vo. Publisher's navy-blue boards, white lettering to the spine. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. Very light bump to the spine ends, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages, and firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in very good+, unclipped, dustjacket. "The text for this book arose from materials the author collected while making a television biography of Yehudi Menuhin. Of course, what a book cannot include is the sound of Yehudi playing, without which it might be argued no biography of Menuhin is complete. It was first transmitted on Channel Four Television in Britain, to celebrate Yehudi's seventy-fifth birthday. What follows, therefore, is not biography in the strictest sense, although it gives the illusion of chronology, and all its facts, as far as I can ascertain, are correct. Rather, it is an… Read More

Winnipeg, Manitoba: University Of Manitoba Press, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. xviii, 374. 8vo. Maroon cloth over boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Replete with black-and-white maps, photographs, illustrations, facsimiles, charts, tables, et al. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine and housed in near fine dustjacket.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Pemmican Publications, 1991. Softcover. As New. pp. 62. Slim 8vo. Illustrated covers. Appears unread.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Pemmican Publications, 1991. Softcover. As New. pp. 62. Slim 8vo. Illustrated covers. Appears unread.

Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, Canada: Les Éditions Du Blé, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. pp. x, 57. Slim 8vo. Pictorial covers. Charming black-and-white illustrations throughout. Bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; as new.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Privately Printed by the Author | Printed by the Trident Press Ltd., Winnipeg, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 35. 8vo., measuring 23 cm. Pictorial, twice-stapled, card covers bearing a black-and-white image of the Church to the centre of the front cover. Additional black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Neat ink name to the half-title page, contents otherwise without blemish; near fine. Scarce in commerce. Text in Ukrainian. Corresponds to OCLC #16018333.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Native Ministry, Mennonite Church of Canada | Pandora Press (Kitchener, Ontairo), 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 25, [1]. 4to., measuring 8.5" x 11". Illustrated card covers. Black-and-white, and colour illustrations throughout. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. See OCLC #1055458044. Not found in Peel, UoM Archives & Special Collections, LAC/BAC, et al. "Maskipiton was a 19th century Plains Cree chief who, after his encounters with a Christian missionary and a Cree elder, was inspired to live a life of peace and forgiveness. Following the example of Jesus, he decided to lead his people on a path of peace, even in the face of evil..."

London: Merlin Press, 1975. First U.K. Edition. Softcover. pp. 132. Slim 8vo. Lightest rubbing to the covers, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked leaves and firm, sound binding; near fine.