Search Results: Authors starting with P from Back of Beyond Books

Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Pack, Frederick J. Lake Bonneville. University of Utah Press, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. 112 pages. Green boards with with gold design on front board. Ex-library with markings on all three edges, ffep, and title page and Dewey decimal number in white on spine. Bumped corners. Rubbed. Bottom half of title page torn off and replaced. Bottom, right corner of page 51 torn off. Brochure deals with Lake Bonneville and the data was gathered principally from the author's own experience. Drawings by L.A. Ramsey.; Book; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. Cloth. Brown cloth over boards with paste down label on spine. Book is missing microfiche insert from rear cover corner pocket. Some scuffing and mild soiling to boards. The three volume set (of which this is Volume 2 ONLY) comprises Volume 31 of the University of California Press' California Studies in the History of Art series. Meticulously constructed and published in a limited run of 1000 sets, the portfolio is printed on 60-lb. St. Lawrence Matte acid-free paper. The binding features Iris, a 100 percent solvent-free rayon cloth made from natural fibers applied over binder's board of .098 thickness with a neutral pH. The title page display type is taken from the letterpress proofs of Jan van Krimpen's Romulus, designed for the Monotype Company in 1936. This volume contains some 600 illustrations including new photographs of the Forum of Trajan and reproductions of drawings made… Read More

New York: Harms Inc.. Good. 1926. Sheet music. Sheet music is in good condition. Minor soiling and toning on wrappers. Chip on bottom front, store stamp on front of wraps. ; 9" x 12"; 7 pp .

Montpelier, VT. Good. 1842. First Edition. Softcover. Yellow wraps with tied binding. Wraps show soiling, chipping and creasing near edges and corners, and the booklet has a vertical crease from folding. Foxing to pages and the top corners are dog-eared. Pages are starting to separate from top edge, but binding is intact. Signed by the Governor on the front wrap. The Governor's message on the state's business. One of 200 copies printed for use of the Senate. Paine was the 15th Governor of Vermont. No copies in OCLC. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 12 pp; Signed by Author .

Cincinnati, J. A. & U. P. James, 1847. First Edition, First Issue. 8vo. 189pp. Hardcover. Good. Rebound in full leather with gilt lettering on spine and housed in custom clamshell box (modern); original wrappers are not present; no errata sheet. First issue; no textual changes to page 31 and 121 and “Publisher’s Advertisement” as single preliminary leaf. Previous owner’s signatures on front endpaper (contemporary). Modern boards and clamshell box in fine condition; text block is heavily rubbed around edges and has moderate foxing and light soiling throughout; page iii has a 2 ½” tear, affecting content, first leaf has archival repairs where bound in, and last leaf was torn in half and detached from binding but has been repaired. Overall good. A well-used, unsophisticated copy of the “most reliable of early guides to Oregon; in addition the best narrative by a participant in the overland migration of 1845, which more than doubled the population of… Read More

Very Good. 1909. Photo album with 25 silver-gel photographic prints of Muir Woods, California taken in 1909. Album covers are brown burlap with title label on front; covers measures 11 ½" x 7 ¼"; black album leaves, all have been used. Photos measure between 3 ½" x 3 ½" and 6 ½" x 4 ¼"; a few have captions on the photograph or underneath it in pencil; most have good contrast and detail, but a few have poor contrast and focus. Album covers have light wear to edges; photos have light silvering to moderate silvering or deterioration. Overall very good. This album belonged to Virginia and Thomas Palmer-Mitchell. Most of the images depict a group of young men and women posing in Muir Woods, all looking carefree and happy among the iconic Redwood trees. Noteworthy images depict the party on the "Gravity Train" up Mount Tamalpais, and another shows a cabin in the woods. The log cabin was built in 1905 and was… Read More

Approximately 120 pages of neatly written manuscript entries.11¾ x 10¾ inches cloth boards. Covers worn and nearly detached, spine perished; some stray markings within; internally very good. Phenomenal manuscript volume kept by Rev. George Pannebecher (aka Pannebecker) , which spans five decades from 1923 to 1973. The Pennsylvania-born clergyman attended the University of Pennsylvania and Central Theological Seminary and was a hard-working itinerant preacher in the Reformed Church. Over the course of some 50 years, this noted preached delivered more than 4,100 sermons and gave another nearly 400 talks, each one painstakingly logged here. Each engagement is meticulously logged including the title of the sermon, date, time, place, number in attendance, biblical relevance, remarks, etc. Even the prevailing weather on the day of the sermon or talk are provided by Rev. Pannebecher, who visits churches of many denominations, rescue missions, school cafeterias, hospitals, grange… Read More

Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 8842807761 . From the library of late evolutionary biologist, paleontologist and science historian, Stephen J. Gould. Blue boards with title on the spine, light bumping on top and bottom edge. Pictorial dust jacket has very light edge wear. Signed by author and inscribed to Stephen J, Gould. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 282 pp; Signed by Author .

Mexico. Good. 1929. Sheet music. Sheet music is in good condition. Wear to wraps. Previous store stamp on front. Toning to wraps and pages. In Spanish. ; 10.25" x 13.5" .

Weiser, ID: Signal-American Printers. Very Good. 1955. Softcover. Grey paper wraps with black lettering and illustration on front, perfect bound. Signed by author on title page. This book contains the account of old timer, John Routson, a pioneer of the West in the late 19th century. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 65 pp; Signed by Author .

Washington, D. C.: A. O. P. Nicholson. Good. 1861. Map. Map No. 2 From the Pimas Villages to Fort Fillmore, disbound from the map volume XI of the Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, from 1854-5 surveys. Light browning, fold splits, several small archival repairs. Good detail of southern Arizona, with gold placers and "meteororic" iron labeled. Wagner-Camp 266c. ; 24 1/2" x 39" .

Washington, D. C.: A. O. P. Nicholson. Good. 1861. Map. Map No. 1, From San Francisco Bay to the Plains of Los Angeles, disbound from the map volume XI of the Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, from 1854-5 surveys. Light browning, fold splits, several small archival repairs. Good detail of the coast ranges of California and original wetlands. Wagner-Camp 266c. ; 29" x 35 1/2" .

Poitiers, France: Wizlov. Good. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio with maroon leather boards and title label on front. The book is housed in its original, pictorial box which is then housed in the publisher's box. The volume has significant damage to the binding; the signatures are all attached but very loose. The pictorial box has tears at corners and the publisher's box has heavy wear. This illustrated volume is a tribute to legendary Jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker. The text is in both English and French, and the photos and documents seen in the book were preserved by Parker's partner, Chan Parker. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 412 pp .

Very Good. Cabinet card depicting a rocky canyon scene along the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad, likely in Arizona. Black and buff card measures 5 ¼" x 8 ½". Photographer's imprint on verso: "Parker, Photographer, 740 Fifth Street, San Diego, Cal." Card has light soiling; photo has light yellowing and foxing. Francis Parker (1827-1920) was active in California, Arizona and Texas throughout from the 1870s to about 1910. He worked out of 740 Fifth Street, San Diego from 1878-80. The Atlantic & Pacific Railroad had two disjointed segments, one in the Midwest, and one in the southwest, connecting New Mexico to Southern California. .

Lancaster, NH: Dawnland Publications. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictoral dust jacket with photograph on cover, mylar-wrapped & not price-clipped, minor tear at spinal head; otherwise in very good condition. Red clothboards with title in gilt lettering. Tight binding, clean interior. A biography of the daughter of a chief who became a healer & a basket weaver, and who lived to be 108 years old. Trudy Ann Parker was her great granddaughter. ; 8vo 6" - 8.5" tall; 276 pp; Signed by Author .

Gelatin silver photograph measures 8 x 10 inches. Photograph was likely taken in the first half of the 20th century (1925-45) and later printed from the original negative at the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives. On verso there are stamps from the Museum of New Mexico, the photographer’s name stamped near the bottom edge and in pencil, “San Juan Potter '' and the number "22674 ". Photograph has a slight wave, else very good condition. Although little is written about Maria de los Reyes (Aquino) Trujillo, you can see from this image that her pottery was quite beautiful. The photographer of this image, T. Harmon Parkhurst (1883-1952), was self-taught, worked at the Palace of the Governors with Jesse L. Nusbaum and Charles F. Lummis, and had his own studio in Santa Fe (Palace of the Governors Photo Archives). .

Washington D. C.. Very Good. 1853. Hardcover. A collection of three periodicals using the phonetic alphabet edited and compiled by Henry Parkhurst. This book contains: The Ploughshare, Volumes 4-5, Numbers 11-33, Jan. 1852 to Nov. 1853; The Cosmopolitan, Volume 1, Numbers 1-2, 1853; The American Reporter, Volumes 5-6, Numbers 16-31, Jan. 1852 to April 1853. Each periodical is paginated separately: 172pp, 8pp, 68pp. Faded purple boards with blind embossed border and phonetic symbol on spine. Boards have moderate sunning and wear; text block has light foxing and soiling; a poorly executed wood block is located on 4pp. These periodicals use the phonetic alphabet, a standardized representation of sounds of the spoken languages devised in the mid 19th century, and was sometimes used as a teaching mechanism to learn how to read. The Cosmopolitan periodical is written entirely in a strange set of symbols, titled "the Cozmofonetic Alfabet" (a portion of this periodical happens to be the… Read More

Chicago: T. S. Denison & Company. Good. 1918. Pamphlet. Pictorial gray wrappers with title and designs in red, staple bound. Wrappers have moderate wear and soiling, and all edges have wear. Text block has light soiling and light pencil marginalia from previous owner. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 65 pp .

Seattle: University of Washington Book Store. Good. 1927. First Edition. Softcover. Yellow wrapper over cardstock is in good condition. Toning on all sides of wrapper ; booklet looks brown. Cracking on edges and spine. Fading on back of wrapper. Interior clean. ; University of Washington Chapbooks; Vol. 5; 7.25" x 5"; 27 pp .

Seattle: University of Washington Book Store. Very Good. 1927. First Edition. Softcover. Yellow wrapper over cardstock is in very good condition. Fading on spine. In original glassine wrapper. Glassine wrapper has cracks along the edges. ; University of Washington Chapbooks; Vol. 5; 7.25" x 5"; 27 pp .