Search Results: Authors starting with P from Select Tomes

Outdoor Life, New York, 1946. First Edition. Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 142 pp including 31 fullpage full color drawings by Francis Lee Jacques, a foremost artist of the outdoors. Other illustrations are smaller b/w etchings of wildlife also by Jacques. Each depiction of game is described by one of the era's most distinguished authorities on wildlife. Text is clean and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Red outer cover contains a black seal with a gilted title and small gilt outline of a deer stag's head. Covers have light water stains that do not affect interior text.

Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., Garden City, New York, 1930. First Edition. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 289 pp. Text sunned typical of age, clean and unmarked except for prior owner attribution on front free endpaper. Faded rent tint on top edge and deckled outer edge. This story has a great twisty plot full of disguises and smugglers and murders. It's set in New York City and on Long Island during prohibition. Dale and his fiancee make up a sort of vigilante team bringing crooks to justice when they've managed to elude the cops. Last page is a plea to the reader not to reveal the ending.

J. B. Lippencott Company, Philadelphia and London, 1925. Believed to be First Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Good for age. Beautiful color illustration on frontispiece and 3 black and white drawings inside text by Franc Root McCreery . Book covers soiled with corners bumped and worn. Ex-library book with stamps on front pastedown and title page. Water stains on front endpapers. 350 pp Text is clean, intact, unmarked and age-typical yellowed with minimal foxing. Book served as a primer for young girls learning to cook. This book is extremely scarce.

The NFL Punt Pass and Kick Library, Random House, New York, NY, 1965. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No dust jacket. 175 pp. ivory pages, clean, unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Illustrated throughout with b/w drawings by Fran Chauncy. Front cover and spine sunned at binding and along top edge. Corners crisp and hinges tight. "This book has been written to teach boys how to play football. All the instruction material comes from expert authorities: coaches, and players of the NFL." A book of football fundamentals as they existed in 1965.

Visual Method Publishers, Detroit, Michigan, 1941. First Edition. Softcover, hole punched and held together with metal clasp. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 31 pp. Text leaves have illustrations, some colored with crayon and star stickers on many pages and on inside rear cover. Pages are otherwise clean, with no foxing or marking. No prior owner attribution. Page 31 contains a tuition receipt record showing dates, tuition costs, music costs and teacher initials. "This book is written for elementary beginning students. The lessor on the back of the piece is for the purpose of testing the knowledge of musical fundamentals gained from previous pieces." Very few copies of this book have survived, making this a rare, out-of-print treasure.

World's Dispensary Printing Office, Buffalo, New York, 1895? Hardcover. Condition: Good-. No dust jacket. pp 3-1008. Missing title page and frontispiece. Text toned typical of age, clean and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. B/W illustrations throughout with four full-color plates. Full page ad for The Invalid's Hotel and Surgical Institute at Buffalo, N.Y.. A timely snapshot of medical positions at the turn of the 19th century.

Sargent, Wilson and Hinkle, 1859. Remarkable condition (Very Good) considering its age. Previous owners name on front free-endpaper with date 1860. Tight hinges. 214 pp show light foxing, but are clean, unmarked, intact and readable. Teacher's edition with instruction notes.

The Platt & Munk Co. Inc. Publishers, New York, 1930. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. 21 pp. Text white on high-grade paper. Leaves 6-7 have brown crayon circled text. Other pages have light pencil initials. Top one-and-a-half inches of spine is missing. Rear cover is lightly soiled and has a waterstain in lower outer edge. Overall, very good condition for a children's book from this age that has been used.

Ballantine Books, New York, NY, 1997. Stated First Edition, November, 1997 edition. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket condition: Near Fine. 223 pp. Clean, white, unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Dust jacket has no chips or shelfwear and is not price clipped. Each page contains a small photo in the bottom outer edge, which when fanned allows the reader to watch the perfect drive. "Just flip the lower right-hand pages and watch Slammin' Sam in action!"

Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York and London, 1939. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 877 pp. Text clean and unmarked on ivory colored paper. Top edge tinted blue. Front inside hinge cracked, but fully intact. No prior owner attribution. Light wrinkle in top of spine. March 1939 seventh printing of the 1937 rewritten, revised and reset edition. Illustrated with B/W photogtraphs and "facsimiles of social forms." Depicts a close examination of the social situations and the manners expected during the early 1930s. Excellent condition for its age.

American Book Company, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago 1913. Hardcover. First Edition. Condition: Very Good +. No dust jacket as issued. 647 pp. Text white and clean with no foxing. Some pencil marking and underlining in text with inscription in pencil on rear free endpaper. Prior owner attribution on front free endpaper and pastedown. Full color frontispiece and b/w illustrations throughout. Two page, full color map of England showing all counties. Remarkable condition for a book of this age.