Search Results: Authors starting with P from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

[Chicago?]: Union Pacific Railroad, 1953. Stapled wraps. Very good. 40p. Gift message on back, corners lightly worn and edges scraped. B&w and color illustrations and photographs. (7-1/2"x5-1/4")

San Francisco: Southern Pacific Co., 1917. Stapled wraps. Good +. 95p. Wraps have chips to corners and front creased, staples oxidized. Designed as a guide to be used while seeing the sites of San Francisco and surrounding areas giving the history and points of interest with no illustrations. Directions are given for rail transportation and a section on automobile travel. B&w map. (6-1/2"x3-3/8")

New York: Record Art, 1991. Soft Cover. Very Good. 63p. Cover edges scraped. The reminiscences of the artists and musicians regarding the art work of Michael McInnerney for Tommy, Martin Sharp for Disraeli Gears, Tony Wright for The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys and Arc of a Diver, Mati Klarwein for Annunciation, Kosh for Hotel California, H.R. Giger for Brain Salad Surgery and Koo Koo, Joe Garnett for Full Circle, Margo Nahas for The Secret Life of Plants, Roger Dean for Relayer, Bob Seidemann for Blind Faith, Bill Smith for Abacab, Bob Jones for 50 Million Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong, Mick Haggerty for Breakfast in America, Bob Dylan for Self Portrait, George Hardie for Led Zeppelin, and Anton Corbijn for Joshua Tree. Oblong. Color photographs. (8-1/2"x11")

La Habra, California: Self-published, 1945. Cloth. Very good/fair. [vii], 166p. Signed by author on front endpaper. Advice for daily life by the Christian Church minister and pacifist. Endpapers toned, rubbed jacket has large chips to edges with a 3" tear on front. (7-1/2"x5-1/8")

New York: Citadel Press, 1950. (First Edition). Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 245p. Jacket has moisture stains on back and spine with a chip on top back cover and small tears and additional chips to edges. Novel of Cumberland Mountains mining community's labor struggle during the 19th and 20th century. [Rideout; p. 260 & 299] Jacket illustration by Nasser. (7-1/2"x5-1/4")

Kiev: Mucme mbo, 1988. Pictorial hardcover. Very good/No Jacket. 228p. Cover corners bumped. The history of the Ukrainian theater, contemporary accomplishments, and the architecture of the building. Text in English and Ukrainian. Color photographs. (8-3/4"x4-1/2")

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. Embossed cloth. Very good/good. [xviii], 71p. Gift message on half title page, title page has a 2" tear on top and indentation from paper clip, endpapers lightly toned, bookstore label on front endpaper, rubbed jacket has a black spot on back and chips and tears to edges, brown spots on top of page edges and holes on flap folds. (8-1/4"x5-1/2")

Rochester, New York: Certo Corp., 1929. Stapled wraps. Very good. [23p.] Wraps soiled and thumb creased. Promotional booklet for Certo with recipes for cakes, cookies, desserts, salads, and sandwiches. B&w and color illustrations and color photographs. (7"x4-3/4")

Hollywood, California: Self-published, 1938. Revised & Expanded Edition. Hardcover. Good +/No Jacket. 294p. 2nd printing. Volume 1 only. Front endpaper inelegantly removed, cover corners worn and a few pages dog-eared and lightly creased at bottom corner. From the foreword, "The author stands corrected and the present volume presents the original text with such corrections as have been made and verified. There have also been added some notes on a comprehensive economic survey of Hollywood just completed by the University of Southern California Bureau of Business Research." Palmer was a New York-born, Colombia University-trained "physician who served as Hollywood's City Health Officer in 1906." He became president of the Hollywood National Bank and Citizens Savings Bank in Hollywood. In addition to professional organizations, Palmer was a member of the Masons, University Club, and Catalina Island's Tuna Club. [Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD)] [Nunis; 1298]. 28 b&w halftone photo plates and… Read More

New York: New York Public Library, 1924. Wraps. Good +. 54p. Wrap corners creased and some chipped, top and bottom of spine paper missing. Inventory caption "Inventory of Patents, Deeds, Books, and Papers relative to the Estate of the late Stephen Van Rensselaer Esquire deceased which came to the hands of Abraham Ten Broeck Esquire as Executor of the said Stephen Van Rensselaer and now by him delivered to Stephen Van Rensselaer Esquire present Proprietor of the Mannor of Rensselaerwyck." (10"x7")

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Servello, Joe. 99p. Price clipped jacket has brown spots on inside, gift note on verso of front endpaper. A W.W. Norton Book. B&w illustrations. (9-1/4"x6-1/4")

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. Good +/good. Simont, Marc. 246p. Endpapers toned, top page edges spotted, fade spots on cover, jacket has 1-1/2" tear to front flap fold with smaller tears and chips to edges and spine sunned. "Timmy turns from a coward into a brave boy after his family move from New York to the country." Illustrator received the 1957 Caldecott award for A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry. B&w illustrations by Marc Simont. (8-1/2"x5-3/4")

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990. Hard Cover. Very good/very good. x, 175p. Jacket has slight edge wear. Includes bibliographical references. (8-3/4"x5-5/8")

San Pedro, California: Mary Star of the Sea Parish, [1975]. Stapled wraps. Very good. Unpaginated (approx. 44p) Wraps thumb creased and lightly soiled with center fold separated and spine fold scraped. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Monsignor Scott's priesthood. Includes photographs of the various parish support groups and families with contemporary advertisements of local businesses. B&w photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

Lomita, California: Our Lady of the Rosary Guild of Saint Margaret Mary Parish, [1982]. Softcover. Very good. 300p. Brown spots on top page edges. Recipes for the holidays including punch, entrees, appetizers, vegetables, salads, cakes, candies, cookies, pies, and bread. Additional features are instructions for Christmas crafts and plant care. Plastic comb binding. B&w illustrations. (6-3/8"x8-1/2")

San Diego, California: Phenix Publishers, 1968. Mass market paperback. Very good. [160p.] Cover rubbed and lightly soiled with corners creased. A Late-Hour Library Fact Book, LL758.

New York: Viking Press, 1933. First Trade Edition. Cloth. Good/good. 232p. Cover edges sunned and scraped, jacket spine and edges sunned with chips to edges. A collection of short stories. (8-3/8"x5-1/2")

Sacramento: State of California, Resources Agency, Department of Parks and Recreation, Division of Beaches and Parks, 1965. Wraps. Very good. 8p. Guide to the "nine buildings and sites that were a part of the history of early California in Monterey." Pamphlet. B&w illustrations and photographs. (9"x6")

Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers, 1942. Stapled wraps. Good. Unnumbered (approx. 64p.) Ink stamp on inside front wrap and title page, wrap corners creased and worn, scraped spine has 3" tear at bottom. B&w illustrations. (8-3/4"x6")

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. [xiv], 146p. Gift message on front endpaper, endpapers toned, price clipped jacket has a scrape on front with edge lightly worn. (7-1/2"x5-1/8")