Search Results: Titles starting with P from Gilt Edge Books

London: Collins, 1973. 'A Paddington Picture Book'...Book 3.The full-colour pictures on every page will delight the very young, and the simple text has been specially written for those who are just learning to read. Illustrated hardoard covers. Name to fep and ffep. Wear to spine ends and corner tips. A sound, most serviceable book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Doubleday, 1988. The grand master of the financial thriller is back with a fascinating look at the shady, heady world where Wall Street and the casinos of Las Vegas and Atlantic City collide. The story takes us from money-laundering schemes in the Cayman Islands to behind -the-scenes gambling operations. Illustrated price-intact dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Cambridge at The University Press, 1950. Henry Woods, M.A., F.R.S. Preface to the Eighth Edition by H. Woods. The general plan of this work is to give, in each group of the invertebrata, first, a short account of its general zoological features with a more detailed description of the hard parts of the animals; secondly, its classification and the characters of the important genera, with remarks on the affinities of some forms; and thirdly, a description of the present distribution, and the geological range. The account of each genus is followed by the enumeration of one or more typical species, so as to guide the student in making use of a large collection. Well illustrated (by 221 figures). The contents: Introduction.... Protozoa.... Porifera.... Coelentera.... Echinoderma.... Annelida.... Brachiodopa.... Polyzoa.... Mollusca.... Arthropoda.... List of Palaeontological works and index. Blue cloth boards... spine and boards show sunning. Title print remains bright. Wear to corner tip. Name to ffep.… Read More

Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1971. American born author of Dear Friends and Darling Romans. Mary Chamberlin has written about the eternal delights of the Eternal city - about Americans in Rome doing what Americans do and Romans doing as Romans have done for centuries. Authors second novel. A clean, bright book in a price-intact illustrated dust jacket. An entertaining read.. A scarce Book. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York: Double,Page & Company 1914 (c.1913) " The primary purpose of this book is to tell the layman the story of the Panama Canal. It is written, therefore, in the simplest manner possible, considering the technical character of the great engineering feat itself, and the involved complexities of the diplomatic history attaching to its inception and undertaking"(taken in part from the preface). A beautiful panoramic pull-out insert will be found in excellent condition, opppsite the title page. It is titled "Bird's-eye View of the Panama Canal". The book offers 32 chapters beginning with Chapter I....'The Land Divided-The World United', Chapter II.... 'Great Engineering Project' etc. through to 'The Panama-Pacific Exposition'. A generous list of illustrations provided and a list of diagrams. The many full-page photographs are on heavier semi-gloss stock....these illustrations from photographs taken by Ernest Hallen, the official photographer of… Read More

Toronto/Montreal: McClelland & Stewart, 1972. "Pandora" will enchant and delight you. Author's first novel. Margaret Laurence in her praise of this book had this to say: " Sylvia Fraser catches exactly the exuberance and the pain of childhood, the ways in which the sinister secrets of the surrounding adult world are felt and sensed fully, without being fully comprehended. This is a novel about childhood, which is about far more than childhood, for it touches upon the whole human spirit." Well illustrated with full-page drawings by Harold Town. Pale green cloth boards with an illustrated drawing to front board panel. Dark title print to spine. A bright, tight book in a price-intact illustrated dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Harold Town.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Walker and Company, 1984. A Jeremy Sturrock Mystery. This is the seventh novel featuringJemery Sturrock, a British Bow Street Runner. The Bow Street Runners were the first professional police force founded in 1748 until 1839. In this historical fiction novel, in 1815 Jemery Sturrock, detective is out to solve the mystery surrounding the death of a street urchin's grandfather, one Lord Pangersbourne. Book shows a mild bruise at the bottom of spine. Text lightly toned. Illustrated, price intact dust jacket. The book and dust jacket remain bright and most respectable.. First Edition, Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1987 (c1986) BOMC Edition. In 'The Panic of 89' Paul Erdman combines his economic expertise with sheer storytelling.... With masterful pacing and high-voltage suspense this book takes us into the rarefied world of international banking and political maneuvering at the highest level. The unfolding of this novel weaves a wholly believable and terrifying story. Name to ffep. A clean, sound book in a bright dust jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Summit Books, 1981. Stated First but is BOMC. Paper Money is a brilliant and tremendously important work. From this book the reader will understand how the age of paper money arrived, what it means, and how it has changed our lives.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

London: The Reprint Society 1952 ReprintBlue-green cloth boards. Gilt title print within a burgundy title block to spine. Minor wear to board extremities. An early reprint that follows on the heels of the first published edition (1951). No ownership detractions. Attractively bound....bright and clean.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

The Reprint Society Canada, 1952. " It is really a story of bad types - a bad type of newspaper proprietor and a bad type of editor, told by a type of columnist who is certainly not squeamish. There is a sound plot that sustains interest to the very end. One can say frankly that there are no dull periods in a book with a grim subject, but salted with plenty of strong, masculine humour." -Yorkshire Evening Post critic. Teal coloured boards, attractive spine label with gilt lettering. No ownership markings in this book! Illustrated dust jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Granada Publishing Limited, 1984. The sequel to 'Fear of Flying'. Isadora's back... and she's trying to have it all. Career, Baby, Liberated love-life. Women are liberated... or are they? This is the novel about post-feminist woman, the sexual revolution and all its empty promises, a woman's search for her ancestors... and for love that satisfies the soul and (maybe) lasts. "Most delightful... gay, witty, thoroughly uninhibited." Blue boards with matching endpapers. Small ink stain to top exterior edge. Free of inscription or previous owners name. A square bright book. Dust jacket shows small pale ink-bleed mark to top of inside flap... not large and does not interfere with print. The jacket remains bright with price intact.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: New American Library, 1984. Brimming with wit, intelligence, and no-holds-barred eroticism, it is a novel about a woman's search for her ancestors and for love that satisifies the soul and (maybe) lasts.. ISBN: 0-453-00466-0. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Modern Firsts. Catalogs: Modern Firsts.

Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1949. This is the story of the remarkable Delaney family and the colourful world of talented people in which they move, written with Miss Du Maurier's consummate skill. It is based on her knowledge of such a world and such people. Dark green cloth boards. Gilt print within a black title block to spine. Name to ffep. A sound bright book in a well illustrated dust jacket. Jacket shows wear to extremities but remains bright.. First Canadian Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. 392 pp. Story of underground in Paris during World War II. Tan boards with red lettering and black and red design to spine. Untrimmed edge. Book shows light edgewear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. In Janurary 1986, the six year battle that had divided and embittered the Bingham family of Louisville, Kentucky, came to its dramatic climax : Barry Bingham Sr., divested himself of his vast holdings, and the two great newspapers his family had owner for generations, the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times were sold. The family was more than ever at odds, their privacy was gone; their quarrels were national public property... Sallie Bingham tells the tangled Bingham history as only a member of the family could. Eighty-two b/w photographs accompany text. Light grey boards with grey cloth spine. Foredge of book untrimmed. No ownership markings. Price-intact photo dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

UK: Scope Books Ltd., 1991. Revised for 1991-1992. Confidential Registered Copy No. 8699. Dr. William G. Hill J.D. - Investigator and Consultant. The Table of Contents contain twelve parts each giving numerous chapters on the subject. Part I; Why You Need a Second Passport - Part II: How To Get Your Second Passport - Part III: Vital Statistics - Part IV: Specific Countries Examined in Detail - Part V: New Countries, Oddball Situations, Tax Havens - Part VI: Back Doors, etc. An informative body of work. Impressive padded leather boards. Gilt title print remains extremely bright. An immaculate copy.. ISBN: 0-906619-19-X. Sixth Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Passports + Tax Havens + Case Histories + Travel Diocuments + Duel Nationality + Fraud + Vital Statistics.

New York: Warner Books Inc, 1987. Andrew M Greely, author of Virgin and Martyr, Angels of September, and now Patience of A saint, in the "Time Between The Stars" novels. The author, priest, sociologist, prolific religious writer, weaves a story with all the spine-tingling elements of a first rate thriller and an unforgettable portrait of an "everyman" and a contemporary marriage. Redmond P. Kane, a popular Chicago newspaper columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner, smokes and drinks too much, neglects his kids, enjoys a mistress and has shared nothing but a bed with his wife for much too long. But soon all of that will change! A murder is to be solved as well. Price-intact illustrated dust jacket.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991. A true story that touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. The novelist, the son, full of love, anxiety, and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal (death), and as he does so, discloses his father's long, stubborn engagement with life. Against all odds Patrimony is also a surprisingly comic story. Initials to ffep. A good read. A bright clean copy.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Arms and Armour Press, 1981. Major-General Richard Rohmer vividly recreates many of the central 'theatres of action' from the Battle of Normandy. Drawing on his own experiences as a reconnaissance pilot over Normandy, as well as his years as a military commander and analyst, Rohmer follows many of the events leading up to the creation and resolution of the critical Falaise Gap. Patton's Gap presents a controversial conclusion to the Battle of Normandy, by one who saw the Falaise Gap at first hand. Illustrated with maps and photos. Bibliography and End Notes. Remainder dot to top edge. A clean copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.