Search Results: Authors starting with P from Crow Hop Rare Books

New York: Riverhead Books, 2003. Uncorrected Proof of Packer's well-received first book, a collection of eight stories. VG+ or better in wraps (a touch of soiling and a nick to top cover edge).

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. First Edition. Jacket design by K. Chester and drawing by Edd Cartier. VG+ red boards and silver lettering (light rubbing, sticker ghost on rear pastedown) in an about VG+ unclipped dustjacket (edgewear, chipping to head and tail of spine, dampstain on verso near tail of spine).

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. First Edition. Very good +/very good. [i-xiv], 178 pp. VG+ (half speckled cloth boards) in a VG unclipped dustjacket with loss at spine ends and moderate scuffing and edgewear. INSCRIBED on ffep: “To Mildred Knopf—Try to cook this on your hot stove Robert Paris Los Angeles 4/23/60.” Mildred Knopf was publisher Alfred A. KnopfÂ’s sister-in-law, as she was married to his brother, the famous Hollywood director, writer, and producer, Edwin Knopf (The Rebel, Mr. Imperium, Rendezvous). Mildred Knopf was a cookbook writer of some esteem (thus, the inscription), publishing six cookbooks including The Perfect Hostess Cook Book in 1950 and Cook, My Darling Daughter in 1959. Robert Paris was head dramatic coach of Columbia Pictures and for Samuel Goldwyn at MGM, where he presumably would have known Edwin Knopf. ParisÂ’s pupils included Lucille Ball, Lloyd Bridges, Carol Channing, Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor, Rita Hayworth, Shelly Winters, and Shirley Temple. Not found in OCLC,… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First Edition, later printing (no "A" on copywright page) in the unclipped first edition dustjacket. VG in a VG dustjacket (1.5" loss to head of spine, rubbing, moderate edgewear). "The story of the beautiful and tragic land of South Africa, its landscape, its people, its bitter racial ferment and unrest."

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996. First Edition. Photography by Mary Ellen Mark, Karenkin Goekjian, and David Graham. Softcover. Near Fine.SIGNED by Howard Finster inside front cover in the year of publication: "Howard Finster 2-7.96.""With Paradise Garden, readers can take a magical tour through Finster's vision and experience a striking testament ot the transformative power of art."

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2005. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in Fine dustjacket. Pelecanos has been called "the poet laureate of the crime world."

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2005. Advance Reading Copy. A novel of the D.C. underworld by one of the producer's of HBO's The Wire. Fine in pictorial wrappers.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2004. Advance Reading Copy. SIGNED by Pelecanos on title page. Fine in wrappers.

New York and Washington: Frederick A. Praeger, 1966. First Edition. Near Fine in a VG+ or better clipped dustjacket. Rhode Island Senator Pell "speaks out for a dynamic 'systems approach' to transportation in our crowded urban corridors" and explores ways to modernize mass ground travel.

Poughkeepsie, NY: Father Tree Press/Warp Graphics, 1986. Portfolio in illustrated envelope, which includes a suite of 10 individual "portraits" of the wolves (plus one on cover), originally realized in charcoal pencil. 14.5" x 11". VG+ or better prints and portfolio in a VG envelope.Wendy Pini is the creator (with her husband Richard) and illustrator of ElfQuest, a wildly popular fantasy series of comics first published in 1978.In May of 1986, Pini was invited by Dr. Erich Klinghanmmer, Director of Wolf Park in Battle Ground, Indiana, to spend time sketching the wolves at the park. She and her husband, Richard, had been supporters of the park and "its aim to inform a largely unaware public of the complexities and ecological significance of the lupine social system." Uncommon--no copies in OCLC or in commerce as of October 2023.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981. Uncorrected Advance Proof in wraps. 104 pp. Near Fine. With publisher’s title sheet, 4” x 4” affixed to front cover (over Introduction by John Fowles), with original publication date 8/3/81 crossed out, and 10/9/81 written in its place. Additionally taped to ffep is another publisher promotional sheet with a write-up of Pinter’s adaptation of Fowles’s novel, which was due out in theaters in the fall starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons. On this sheet, Introduction is crossed out, as is a failed attempt at spelling Foreword. Roger Ebert called Pinter’s screenplay “simple and brilliant.”

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1958. Biographical sketch of the artist by Blake-More Godwin. Foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller. Near Fine, paper over boards, 11.5” x 15.5”. All nine prints, inspired by her time at Southern Illinois, are present in portfolio. Fuller writes, “What she paints here is the lone university of downstate Illinois, in the Abraham Lincoln lands of mid-continent North America, populated by the most cross-bred of all races in all history.”

Los Angeles: Southland Press, 1984. Near Fine, 29 [3] pp. stapled wraps with a touch of sunning. SIGNED by Porter and INSCRIBED to Pulitzer Prize winner Maxine Kumin: “Signed copy for Maxine Kumin (See p. 21) (Looking forward to hearing you at the O. Henry Patrons’ Dinner in Greensboro!) If you would like some extra copies of this, let us know.” No signed copies in commerce (as of August 2018) and only 13 copies found in OCLC.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1962. First Edition. VG+ (spine weakening) in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket with some light chipping to head of spine. First novel by the oft-divorced Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, made into a successful film three years later that marked the final screen appearance of Vivien Leigh. Alexander LaingÂ’s copy, with his ownership SIGNATURE on half-title page—“Veronica & Alexander Laing 4 April 1962.” Laing is probably best known for his science fiction and horror writing and editing in the 1930s, including The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck (1934), Dr. Scarlett (1936), The Methods of Dr. Scarlett (1937), and The Haunted Omnibus (1937). The year before PorterÂ’s Ship of Fools, Laing, who sailed around the world in 1934-1935, published American Sail: A Pictorial History. The University of Maryland, which houses PorterÂ’s papers, lists LaingÂ’s work among her documents from 1943, thus showing that Porter was aware of LaingÂ’s early writing on the sea, most likely… Read More

St. Paul, MN: North Central Publishing Company [The James F. Bell Book Trust], 1959 . 18 pages, oblong in wrappers, in Linotype Caledonia on Mowhawk Superfine Text. Near Fine. With a beautiful facsimile folding map in rear pocket of Jorge ReinelÂ’s Chart of 1534. Discusses the West African Trade and the Portuguese in Brazil.

Revere, PA: Woolmer/Brotherson Ltd., 1983. First Printing. VG+ rust colored sewn wrappers with title label pastedown (sunning, edgewear). One of 300 copies (150 for sale) SIGNED by Pound at colophon. Hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk at Francestown, NH. Laid in is a "Compliments of J. Howard Woolmer" (publisher) slip. The author was the son of Ezra Pound and the artist Dorothy Shakespear.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1984. 277 pp. VG+ in a VG+ dustjacket (edgewear, sunning to spine). Author publicity photo laid in. INSCRIBED by the author on half-title page: "Best Regards Erik Lee Preminger." The humorous story of the famous burlesque entertainer as told by her son.

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1976. First Edition. Near Fine (light bending to opening page corners) in a VG+ dustjacket with light rubbing and shelfwear at extremities. United States Naval Institute bookplate on ffep. Foreword by G.D. Penisten, Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Fifteen articles written by naval officers and policy makers “who daily make key decisions about data-processing in the Navy.” Topics include techniques in computer-aided ship design, security in computer networks, and trends in minicomputers. An early study showing how the Navy was at the forefront of computer invention and technologies.

Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1982. First Edition. Illustrations by Jean Gardner and Jerry OÂ’Brien. VG+ (lower corner bump) in VG+ dustjacket (lower edge wrinkled). Pulitzer Prize winner ProulxÂ’s first book.