Search Results: Titles starting with P from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

Los Angeles: Rafu Shinposha / Los Angeles Japanese Daily News, 1933. First Edition. Trade paperback. Near fine. An example of kokumin gaiko, or people's diplomacy, in support of the Japanese Army's occupation of China. Dodo was the editor of Rafu Shimpo, the largest Japanese daily in Los Angeles, and according to newspaper accounts at the time, a frequent lecturer in support of Japan's activities in China. This book, published for a Japanese American audience, justifies the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and Shanghai as a necessary response to Chinese provocations (the Mukden Incident). It also seems aimed at providing Japanese Americans information for discussions with White Americans. Each chapter, in Japanese, is followed by an extensive bibliography of sources and references, mostly in English. The book is titled in Japanese at the front and in English at the back. The Japanese subtitle, not included as part of the English language title in the book, translates as "A Study of Far Eastern… Read More

Canberra: Australian National University, 1970. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. x, 1292, 10 pages. Pacific Linguistics, Series C, no. 13. Third printing (1978, corrected). A near fine hardcover copy in a very good, slightly spine-faded dust jacket.

Loughton, Essex, England: Piatkus, 1983. First hardcover edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. One of the scarcest Clive Cussler books, the first hardcover edition of this Dirk Pitt novel which was published in the US as a massmarket paperback. This was the sixth Pitt novel to be published, but it is first in chronological order. 247 pages. First edition (first hardcover printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The pages are tanned, as usual and the spine ends are a bit bumped, and the top edge is a bit dusty. The jacket is near fine but for a bit of fading to the title on the spine.

New York: Beacon, 1961. First Edition. Mass market paperback. Very good. Anita was a virgin-till the hipsters got hold of her! An uncensored novel of love among the Beats, where every man does as he pleases-and every chick aims to please." B-387; 35 cents on cover. 155, [5] pages. Juvenile delinquent (JD) title. First edition (first printing; no later printings noted). With a half-inch split at the base of the front cover, else a very good copy in wrappers (paperback).

Washington, DC: V. H. Winston & Sons, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. With an introductory commentary and editorial contributions by Harry J. Jerison. Translated by Harry J. Jerison and Irene Jerison. vii, 340 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. This copy with Stephen Jay Gould's ownership signature. This copy came from Gould's Harvard office library, with a posthumous bookplate denoting the provenance. Gould seldom signed his name in books, except in examples like this one, where someone else's name was in the book already.

New York: Random House, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. One of the most enduring memoirs of Hemingway. Hotchner spent much time with Hemingway-traveling, hunting, and fishing-during the last 14 years of the Nobel Prize-winning writer's life. Still in print today. First edition (stated first printing). A near fine copy in a dust jacket with light edge and corner wear. Inscribed by the author, "To Harold from Hotch. With thanks for a good Denver visit. April 1966.

New York: Picture Book Studio, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A picture book with many fold-out pages. First edition (first printing, with no additional printings noted). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Inscribed by Carle "For Alec" with a drawing of a moon. One of the fold-out pages has a two-inch tear; a couple of others have creases. Uncommon signed.

London: Head of Zeus, 2016. First British edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. A collection of short fiction, including the title story which won the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. The US edition is the true first of this book. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket but for a few spots, visible in raking light, where the lamination has come off. Signed by Liu on a tipped-in sheet.

Bellamar, Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones El Fortín, 2016. 4 pages (a single, folded sheet) in an envelope. 4 by 5-1/2 inches. The edition size is not stated, but it was perhaps as small as 10 copies. A chapbook with a single short poem, in English and Spanish translation, designed by the author. The poem, titled "The Angel and the Sea" is about Ernest Hemingway's suicide. Estévez, Cuba's greatest book artist, died in 2023. OCLC: FHM (under the title "Un poema de Rolando Estévez para Ernest Heminway (sic)"). Fine.

New York and Archer City, TX: Simon and Schuster and Three Dog Books, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is one of 50 numbered copies, signed by McMurtry, and issued by his local bookstore. For a number of years, Three Dog Books put out these limited editions using the trade edition of the book to which they added an ink stamp limitation statement. This is, I think, the smallest limitation of any title they did. Paradise is one of McMurtry's late, enigmatic non-fiction books, here described on the dust jacket as "an inviting travel book [about a voyage to Tahiti] and an insightful reflection on his parents' marriage." On its face, not the most promising of premises, but it's useful to remember that McMurtry was a fine writer. Your cataloguer's wife, herself a novelist and non-fiction writer, read Paradise on our recent trip to Tahiti. Her first response was, "Well, I guess if you are Larry McMurtry and you write 30,000 words on Tahiti, they let you publish it as a book." A few months… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. Uncorrected Proof. Trade paperback. Fine. This is a proof copy, issued in printed yellow wrappers prior to the first edition. Paradise is one of McMurtry's late, enigmatic non-fiction books, here described on the dust jacket as "an inviting travel book [about a voyage to Tahiti] and an insightful reflection on his parents' marriage." On its face, not the most promising of premises, but it's useful to remember that McMurtry was a fine writer. Your cataloguer's wife, herself a novelist and non-fiction writer, read Paradise on our recent trip to Tahiti. Her first response was, "Well, I guess if you are Larry McMurtry and you write 30,000 words on Tahiti, they let you publish it as a book." A few months later, when the book came up in conversation, she added to her initial assessment: "That book on Tahiti is fucking amazing." 159 pages. Fine paperback, with the publisher's information sticker on the front cover.

New York: Viking, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. The second novel by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Orphan Master's Son. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. With a Barnes & Noble stamp on the bottom edge of the page block and a promo letter addressed to B&N manager about the book laid in.

Tolworth, Surrey, England: Telos, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 79 pages plus ads. A horror novela. The author, based in Austin, Texas, has won the Bram Stoker and Lambda Literary awards. This is one of an unspecifed (ca. 100) number of signed and numbered hardcover copies. Fine. Signed on the limitation page by Thomas and Simon Moore, who drew the frontispiece illustration.

(New York): Joanna Cotler Books, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 216 pages. A novel about a poor Chicano boy trying to find his way. Winner of the National Book Award. The late, great Victor Martinez was the first Latino to win the National Book Award. This is the uncommon library issue, bound in full green cloth and with a $14.89 price on the jacket. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed and signed "To Scott" on the title page by the author.

New York: M. L. Holbrook, 1881. Hardcover. Near fine. Fourteenth edition "enlarged." A guide to painless childbirth, which seems to rely mostly on baths, a fruit diet, and a good attitude. The book was very popular, being reprinted every year for more than a decade. 159, [9] pages. A near-fine copy in terra cotta cloth. While this is not a particularly scarce book, this copy belonged to Elmira Y. Howard, one of the first women physicians in Ohio, with her dated ownership signature on the title page.

Santa Fe, NM: Channel Photographics, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Black and white images of Angkor Wat. 12-1/4 by 9-3/4 inches (oblong). First edition (stated). A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Izu on the half-title page.

Aldershot, England: Ashgate Variorum, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Thirteen essays by Bedini, reprinted from academic journals. Illustrated in black and white. First edition (first printing). Fine in publisher's cloth (hardcover) binding. No jacket, probably as issued.

London: United Posters, 2004. First Edition. Ephemera. Fine. A poster, designed by Ralph Steadman, promoting an exhibition of anti-war art at the Aquarium in London, from March 16 to April 17, 2004. The event was sponsored by the Stop the War Coalition. Printed offset in black and red. 16-1/2 by 23-1/4 inches. A fine example. This copy is inscribed in ink by Steadman to Kurt Vonnegut on December 31, 2003. Most likely, Steadman signed this at the request of Joe Petro III, who printed silkscreen posters for both Steadman and Vonnegut. He told your cataloguer that he had some items signed. Apparently, this one never made it to Vonnegut, and instead it went to a collector in Texas and from there to me, and next you!

San Antonio: Wings Press, 1999. First edition. Trade paperback. Fine. 42 pages. A chapbook in the Poesía Tejana series. This entry was selected by Bryce Milligan and Sandra Cisneros. One of 500 signed and numbered copies, the entire edition. Fine in wrappers. Signed by the author.

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Limited to 400 numbered copies. 72 pages. 5-3/4 by 8-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing). One of 400 numbered copies signed by Straub.