Search Results: Authors starting with P from Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC

[Chicago, 1913]. [2], 7-24 pages, plus frontispiece portrait of the author. Original printed blue wraps. [17.4 cm.] A little fading to wraps; soiling to rear wrap. Slightest hint of marginal foxing to title; tiny bit of staining to gutters of leaves near center from staple used in binding. Still very good. FIRST EDITION. Scarce. The author discusses Lincoln's gradualism regarding the abolition of slavery and offers it as a lesson to those looking to fulfill the promise of '76 in the present day. He argues against legislative action as a quick solution to issues such as Filipino independence, women's suffrage, the abolition of Jim Crow, and the ending of "industrial slavery." Herman Page (1866-1942), an Episcopalian Minster, later became the bishop of the dioceses of Spokane, Idaho, Michigan, and Northern Michigan. Monaghan 2079.

Boston: Richard G. Badger & Co., [1899]. [1] leaf, 151 pages, plus [1] page ads. Original red cloth stamped in black. [16.2 cm.] Very good plus. Tiny bump to edge of front board, minor rubbing to cloth, a few small spots to front endpapers. Faint foxing to gutters of some leaves, interior is otherwise clean and bright. FIRST EDITION.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1930. ix, [3], 63 pages. Original gray paper covered boards backed in red cloth with gilt spine lettering. [20.8 cm.] Neat marginal notes on four pages noting the inclusion of verses in an anthology, else good plus. Faint soiling to boards, modest signs of wear. Minuscule tear to fore-edge of a few leaves; faint offsetting from laid-in news clipping to two pages. FIRST EDITION of the author's first and only book of poetry. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. It reads: "To my friend, Eva Mae Grice, with Easter Greetings and warmest good wishes. From Anne Blackwell Payne. April 1949." Grice (1921-1988) was a librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She later married the author, Richard M. McKenna, who wrote "The Sand Pebbles." "Released" was the first book of poetry published by the University of North Carolina Press. "Though this North Carolina writer had often been… Read More

New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1899. [10], 472 pages. Original dark blue cloth, lettered in gold. Top edge gilt. [22.7 cm.] A bright, near fine copy with slightest rubbing to spine ends and corners, small, very faint spot to front cover, and some light offsetting, apparently from original dust jacket (not present) on two preliminary pages and the rear endpapers. Partially unopened. FIRST EDITION. American politcs, 1815 to 1840. Discusses origin of Jackson/Clay feud; Missouri Compromise; Jackson's election and rise of Jacksonian democracy; Tariff of 1832 and the Nullification crisis; National Bank; recognition of Texas; etc.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919. [16], 230 pages, plus frontispiece and numerous plates reproducing paintings by the author. Original dark green cloth, stamped in gold, with a color illustration mounted on the front cover. [23 cm.] Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, else near fine. Lacks the rare dust jacket. Minor evidence of rubbing, tiny area of light speckling to front board, still a nice copy. FIRST EDITION. Ernest Peixotto (1869–1940) was a noted American artist and illustrator. During World War I, he served as a captain in charge of a group of painters appointed by the U.S. Army to depict the war.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1895. vi, 182 pages, plus frontispiece and three full-page plates by Victor A. Searles. [36] pages publisher's illustrated ads at rear. Original publisher's pictorial cloth stamped in red, silver, and gold. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Good. Cloth is faded, especially on the spine, a bit soiled with a few stains to rear cover, and lightly worn. Name on front endpapers. Tiny bit of old marginal damping near front of book, otherwise clean internally. FIRST EDITION. Juvenile fiction describing the adventures of two boys who get lost in the Okefenokee swamp and are taken prisoner by a band of Confederate deserters. Louis Beauregard Pendleton (1861-1939), a native of Tebeauville, Georgia, was a novelist who often wrote for children, the author of a biography of Alexander Stephens, and an editorialist at the Macon "Daily Telegraph" (1899-1914). Not in Wright.

Greenville, S.C.: Shannon & Co., Printers, 1889. Printed at head of title page: "With Respects of Mrs. Governor B.F. Perry." [4], iii, [1], 397, [3] pages, plus frontispiece and one plate. Original black cloth stamped in gold on spine and in blind on covers. [23.4 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference Library with faint evidence of removed call number at base of spine, tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp on title page and plates, and number stamp on verso of title and in margin of one other leaf. Else about very good. Light wear to spine ends and corners; small nick to edge of front board; spine a little faded; some faint speckling to cloth. Just a little foxing to first and last few leaves. FIRST EDITION. This is a posthumously published successor volume to Perry's "Reminiscences of Public Men" (1883). As in the earlier volume, there are memoirs of a number of prominent politicians (44 sketches in all), but a substantial portion of this book (pp. 199-383)… Read More

Philadelphia: John D. Avil & Co., 1883. 320, iii pages, plus [1] page errata. Portrait frontispiece and three plates (one view and two portraits). Original embossed purple cloth stamped in gold on the spine. [20.5 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference Library with light evidence of call number removal at base of spine, tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp on title and one other text leaf, and number stamp on verso of title and in margin of one other page. Else about very good. Tissue guard for frontispiece lacking. Mild to moderate foxing to plates and facing pages. FIRST EDITION. Benjamin Franklin Perry (1805-1886), a noted South Carolina Unionist, was a state legislator, newspaper editor, and governor of his state in 1865. Although he was a leading voice against secession in the years before the Civil War, he served South Carolina under the Confederacy as a state representative and district judge. This volume contains memoirs of 50 prominent American politicians, including a… Read More

New York: Robert O. Ballou, [1933]. 341 pages. 90 full-page, hand-pulled photogravures (including the frontispiece, all reckoned in the pagination). Lacking the extra, laid-in photogravure, being a duplicate of one of the images in the book, that is found with most copies. Early full vellum with gilt spine and cover lettering and gilt centerpiece on the front cover. 29 x 22 cm. Near fine. The photogravures are all in excellent condition. The text shows some very faint offsetting from the plates throughout, and a half dozen or so of the text pages show moderate foxing. Tissue guards, laid-in throughout, appear to be recent replacements. Housed in a plain linen slipcase, evidently of the same vintage as the binding. FIRST EDITION. #44 of 350 COPIES SIGNED BY JULIA PETERKIN AND DORIS ULMANN. One of the most celebrated American photobooks, “Roll, Jordan Roll “provides a stunning portrait of rural African American life in the low country of South Carolina. Most of the photographs were taken at… Read More

New York: Bobbs-Merrill, [circa 1934; c.r. 1933]. 251 pages. Illustrated with 70 full-page reproductions of photographs (including the frontispiece, all printed with the text). Original red cloth with black spine lettering. 22 x 16 cm. Very good plus in very good or better dust jacket. Light soiling to top edge; free endpapers partially tanned; a little marginal soiling or foxing to the half-title; marginal smudge to one plate, not affecting image. Old gift inscription on the front free endpaper. The jacket has some light edgewear and a few tiny tears, with a few old tape reinforcements on the verso, and some rather faint soiling. Still an attractive example. The binding is sharp, the text and plates are clean, and the jacket is bright with none of the usual fading to the spine panel. EARLY TRADE EDITION AND THE FIRST BY THIS PUBLISHER. Uses the same sheets as the first trade edition published by Robert Ballou (first printing,1933; second, 1934) with a new title page.� Ballou's imprint is… Read More

Heidelberg: Carl Winter, Universitätsverlag, 1954. Issued as Anglistische Forschungen, Heft 89. 139 pages. Original printed wraps. [23.4 cm.] Very good plus. Several short creases at base of spine and several tiny nicks to fore-edge; apparently minor errors by the binder. A few minor traces of soil to wraps; trifling bump to lower corner of front wrap and first few leaves. FIRST EDITION. There does not appear to have been an English translation.

Durham, N.C.: Duke University, Center for International Studies, [1981]. [x], 145 pages. Original illustrated wraps. [22.7 cm.] Very good plus. Minor signs of use to wraps; hint of foxing to edges; internally clean. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE EDITOR, on the title page. It reads: "For Doug O'Dell, with best regards, Lee Phelps, 14 Aug. 1987." Doug O'Dell was the proprietor of Chapel Hill Rare Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Leland Richter Phelps (1918-2014) was a longtime professor of German at Duke University. The Harold Jantz Collection at Duke University is an important assemblage of German Baroque Literature and German Americana. The present volume includes the following essays: "On Collecting German Americana" by Harold Jantz; "Teutonia, Ohio, Quintessence of German-American Idealism" by Karl J.R. Arndt; "John Wesley and the German Pietists in Georgia" by Frank Baker; "The Pernicious Influence of the… Read More

[New York, 1922.] Quarto-sized pamphlet measuring 31 x 24 cm (approx. 12 x 9.5 in.). Unpaginated. [28] pages. Original printed wraps (rear wrapper printed identically to the front); verso of each wrap also printed. Good plus. Short (2 cm) tear to fore-edge of front wrap, a few other tiny tears, crease to lower corner of front wrap, minor wear to spine, some faint scuffs to wraps. Leaves are mildly age-toned but clean. Tiny tear to fore-edge throughout. FIRST EDITION. An attractive promotional piece for Channing Pollock's Broadway play, "The Fool," staged at Selwyn's Times Square Theatre. On the verso of the front wrap is a portrait of Channing with a brief sketch of his career. On pages [2-3] is an essay by Pollock under the caption: "Something Worth Reading. Channing Pollock's Own Story of His Struggle for the Success of `The Fool.' Reprinted from The New York Times of Sunday, November 19th, 1922." This is followed by a full-page composite portrait… Read More

[Sandusky, Ohio: Published by the author; printed by the Franklin Printing & Engraving co., Toledo, 1916.] 16 pages. Original printed wraps. [26.5 cm.] Good plus. Short tear to front wrap affecting two letters of subtitle, short tear to base of spine, some soiling and creasing to wraps. Internally clean. FIRST EDITION. Scarce. The second and last "Pomeroy Pamphlet," the first having been issued the previous year. In 1912, Albert A. Pomeroy issued the first volume of his book, "The History and Genealogy of the Pomeroy Family." In Jan., 1914, an article appeared in "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register" ("Genealogical Research in England," by Elizabeth French, pp. 47-64), which undermined the pedigree of Eltweed Pomeroy that Albert Pomeroy put forth in his book. Furthermore, an editor at the "Register," J. Gardner Bartlett, appended a note to the article (pp. 55-56) which attacked Pomeroy's use of evidence in his book.… Read More

Charleston, S.C.: Walker, Evans, & Cogswell, [1918]. 20 pages. Original printed wraps. 23 x 15 cm. Faint soiling and toning to wraps, still a very good copy. FIRST EDITION. In addition to the usual concerns of the U.D.C. (funding for monuments, care of veterans, publication of the "Confederate Veteran," etc.), this report discusses the organization's efforts to aid U.S. servicemen during World War I, including the endowment of hospital beds in France. Charleston native, Mary Barnett Poppenheim (1866-1936), was president of the U.D.C. from 1917 to 1919. She and her sister, Louisa, "helped bring the burgeoning women’s club movement to Charleston, as founding members and officers of the Century Club, the Civic Club, the Intercollegiate Club, and the Charleston City Federation of Clubs . . . Mary focused on the U.D.C. She was president of the South Carolina division and then president-general of the national organization . . . Mary was most interested in preserving history and… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, [1973]. xiv, [2], 269 pages. Maps and illustrations by Laszlo Kubinyi printed with the text. Original illustrated cloth. [24 cm.] Fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket is price-clipped and shows some minor rubbing. FIRST EDITION.