Search Results: Authors starting with P from Alba's Books

New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1951. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Sextodecimo. Edward Gorey. Cover art by Edward Gorey for this Anchor Original. A clean, unmarked, bright copy in a Mylar paperback cover.

George S. Davis, 1890. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo. An important pioneering work on the subject, this copy if from the library of renowned Chicago neurologist Dr. Bernard Fantus, founder of the Fantus Clinic in the Illinois Medical District, and bears his stamp and his personal designer bookplate is laid in. The paper covers have been professionally remounted, the text being fine.

The Aryan Theosophical Press, 1919. New and Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Photographs. Publisher's black buckram with gilt titles and decorative symbols and decorated endpapers. A massive work of Occult scholarship. Madame Blavatsky was a Russian and American mystic and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. She gained an international following as the leading theoretician of Theosophy through works such as THE SECRET DOCTRINE. A fine set, clean, bright and unmarked. Extremely scarce.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Single date on copyright page. A major, groundbreaking study in Astrophysics by a renowned expert in the field. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked, in a Mylar plastic jacket cover.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1925. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Folio. Scarce.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1984. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with no dedication words. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Mylar jacket cover.

Virginia City: Privately Printed, 1962. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo. Sindy Cosens. Out of print. Binding is stiff wraps.

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photographs. The definitive biography of the Russian Symbolist poet. A clean, unmarked copy.

Chicago: Poole Brothers, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photographs and Charts. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with a very warm 9-line inscription to his secretary. Important work in the field of ultra-violet therapy. A clean, unmarked, tight copy. Extremely scarce.

Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo. Out of print. Binding is cloth.

New York: Harper & Row, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Photographs. Stated first edition with the '1' in a number line. The biography of a renowned Civil Rights lawyer who defended, among others, American senator Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, and gangster Frank Costello. Much material on Senator Joseph McCarthy and the McCarthy era. A clean, unmarked copy.

Philadelphia: Paul B. Hoeber Inc., 1925. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. Quarto. Photographs and plate illustration. The legendary turn-of-the-century medical journal which published many pioneering articles by noted authorities in the medical fields, including in this volume articles on Mark Twain and Tobias Smollett containing vignettes not found elsewhere. The full-page plates are quite striking. Clean, unmarked copies free of tears in a clothbound slipcase. Scarce.

David McKay, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. In Brodart.

David McKay, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Out of print. Binding is cloth.

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Plate Illustrations. Out of print

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart jacket cover.

Farrar, GStraus & Giroux, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart jacket cover.

Philadelphia: Dorrance and Co., 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo.

Random House, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Out of print.

New York: Harper Collins, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with a 6-line autobiographical inscription. With the '1' in a full number line. Page was a Black journalist for the storied Chicago Tribune newspaper. A fine copy, clean, unclipped and unmarked.