Search Results: Titles starting with P from Select Tomes

Book League Of America, New York, 1934. Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 555 pp. Text yellowed typical of age. Red tinted top edge and deckled fore edge. Front pastedown lightly discolored. Rear hinge is cracked, but intact. Prior owner attribution on front free endpaper. A collection of short stories and novelettes from contemporary authors of the era, including: William Beebe, Stephen Vincent Benet, Arnold Bennett, Henry Beston, Pearl S. Buck, Joseph Conrad, A. Conan Doyle, Edna Ferber, Ellen Glasgow, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, Don Marquis, John Masefield, William McFee, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Christopher Morley, Ogden Nash, Dorothy Parker, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Logan Pearsall Smith, T. S. Stribling, Frank Sullivan, Booth Tarkington, James Thurber, Edgar Wallace, Hugh Walpole, H. G. Wells, E. B. White, P. G. Wodehouse and Stefan Zweig. Most versions of this book are published by Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. Copies of the 1934 version by The Book League of America, Inc. publisher… Read More

World's Dispensary Printing Office, Buffalo, New York, 1895? Hardcover. Condition: Good-. No dust jacket. pp 3-1008. Missing title page and frontispiece. Text toned typical of age, clean and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. B/W illustrations throughout with four full-color plates. Full page ad for The Invalid's Hotel and Surgical Institute at Buffalo, N.Y.. A timely snapshot of medical positions at the turn of the 19th century.

H.W. Bolton, Chicago, IL, 1892. Hardcover. Condition: Good-. No DJ as Issued. First Edition. 219 pp with b/w illustrations. Pages 91-96 have three-inch tears from fore edge, but intact and readable. Text block yellowing typical of age, no discernable foxing. No prior owner attribution or evidence of being a library copy. This book is a rare compilation of anecdotes of members of the 16th Maine Volunteers during the U. S. Civil War.

Pet Milk Company, St. Louis, 1930. Softcover. Condition: Good+. No dust jacket. Looseleaf pages held together by two metal locking rings linking holes punched at spine. 80 pp with full color illustrations by Martin Kaiser. Text clean and unmarked throughout. Additional hand-written and newspaper recipes included as attached by metal rings. Remarkable condition in light of construction and age.

The Pictorial Review Company, New York, 1931. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No dust jacket issued. 463 pp. Text block lightly sunned, typical of age and materials used. Otherwise clean, unmarked with no foxing or prior owner attribution. Remarkably clean condition for its age.

Tested Recipe Institute, Inc., Long Island City, New York, 1953. Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 128 pp. Color photographs by Albert Gommi on every page. Text clean, white and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Minor shelfwear along spine and corners. Light food stain on pp 8-9. This is a scarce colorful book of cooking recipes from the 1950's.

Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1930(?). Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No dust jacket issued. (The red covered edition was issued circa 1930). 350 pp. Text clean, unmarked and lightly sunned, typical of age and materials used. No prior owner attribution. Full color frontispiece drawing. Excellent condition for its age.

Sargent, Wilson and Hinkle, 1859. Remarkable condition (Very Good) considering its age. Previous owners name on front free-endpaper with date 1860. Tight hinges. 214 pp show light foxing, but are clean, unmarked, intact and readable. Teacher's edition with instruction notes.

American Education Press. Columbus, Ohio Condition: Good+. (Copyright 1939 by The Educational Printing House, Inc., but the inside rear cover lists this book as an American Education Press publication.) Unit Study Book No. 612. Softcover. 32 pages profusely illustrated (with drawings). Ex-library copy with appropriate mark stamped on front cover and last text page. Contents are clean and bright. Early version is somewhat scarce.(Prior to WWII, The Educational Printing House, Inc. of Columbus, Ohio printed short, small paperback pamphlet books in the Unit Study Book series. The originals were often reprinted by The American Education Press, Inc. of Columbus, Ohio through 1940. The authors of the Unit Study Book series books were elementary school educators and frequent contributors of the My Weekly Reader, a popular children's periodical also published by the American Education Press, Inc. in Columbus, Ohio. After WWII, the Unit Study Book Series became the Little Wonder Series published by the… Read More

Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, Chicago, IL, 1966. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket issued. 304 pp. Childcraft's 50th year commemorative edition. Volume One Poems and Rhymes only. Every page illustrated with color or b/w photographs or drawings. Text clean and unmarked. Former library book with stampings and check-out pocket.

Racine, Wisconsin USA: Golden Press / Western Publishing Company, 1970. Hardcover. Fair condition. Gustaf Tenggren illustrations. 1942, copyright renewed 1970. This book is a forty-eighth printing, 1982. Original price, $.89. No ISBN. Clean, no writing. Pastedown cover peeling from top right edges on both front and back. Minor corner wear. Front pastedown has owner attribution. Title page torn from bottom and repaired with cellophane tape. All pages intact with no markings. A colorful readable copy.

J. B. Lippencott Company, Philadelphia and London, 1925. Believed to be First Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Good for age. Beautiful color illustration on frontispiece and 3 black and white drawings inside text by Franc Root McCreery . Book covers soiled with corners bumped and worn. Ex-library book with stamps on front pastedown and title page. Water stains on front endpapers. 350 pp Text is clean, intact, unmarked and age-typical yellowed with minimal foxing. Book served as a primer for young girls learning to cook. This book is extremely scarce.

VOLUME ONE OF TWO VOLUMES ONLY. Illustrated with numerous drawings. 255 pp plus 51 full page house plans with photographs, floor plans and prices and 4 pages of advertising. Text clean, unmarked readable and intact. Inside joints worn and cracked. Owner signature on free front-endpaper. Cover faded and water-stained.

Herman Gratz, Philadelphia PA, 1912. Hardcover. Revised Second Edition stated. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 92 pp includes seven pages of supplement added to "keeping up with the progress made in the ice cream trade." Text block clean, unmarked and lightly sunned typical of age and materials used. No prior owner attribution. A small chip marks the front spine near the top head. The book covers "explaining the freezing process, the handling of ice and salt, the keeping of ice cream...in fact everything for a man in the ice cream business worth knowing." Few copies of this 1912 version are known to exist.

The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., New York, NY, 1912. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 192 (unnumbered) pp. Text clean, unmarked with deckled outer edge. Leaves of heavy stock paper has yellowed typical of age. Corners bumped, hinges cracked. Illustrated throughout with three full color glossy plates and many b/w drawings. A reprint with 1912 copyright by Hurst & Co. Former library book with stamps and check-out pocket on rear free endpaper. Very good condition for age and usage.

The Olsen Publishing Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1927. Hardcover. First Edition. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 136 pp including seven full pages of advertising in back. Text clean and lightly sunned typical of age and materials used. Prior ownership attribution and formula notes on front free endpapers. Professor Baer served as Head of Department of Dairy Husbandry, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, School of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Station, Stillwater, Okalahoma.

The Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron, Ohio, 1907. Condition: Very Good. 440 [8] pp. Illustrated with three full page glossy b/w photographs of First Ladies Edith Carew Roosevelt on frontispiece, Ida Saxton McKinley at page 1 and Frances Folsom Cleveland at page 9 on publisher's pictorial cloth. Text block tanned but not brittle. No owner attribution or other markings. Remarkable condition for its age. 1907 version is rare.

American Book Company, New York, 1901. Hard Cover. First Edition. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 254 pp + 6 pp of publisher's advertising. Text lightly sunned with few pencil marks. Inscriptions on front and rear free endpapers, otherwise clean. Pristine copy for its age.

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972. Hardbound. Sixteenth printing. Condition: Fine (like new). Dust Jacket condition: Very Good hardboard slipcase with gold pastedown of title and author on cover and spine. Illustrated throughout with b/w original drawings by the author. 84 pp. Clean, like new crisp leaves on faux parchment. The only marking is a prior owner dedication on the front free endpaper. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death. It is one of the best selling books of all time and has never been out of print. The condition of this book is pristine and gift worthy.

MacMillan & Co., Cambridge, 1855. Strated Second Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 480 pp with 16 additional leaves of publisher advertisements. Text remarkably clean with light foxing typical of age. Original owner signature of 1856 on front free endpaper. Front and rear pastedowns contain advertisements from publisher. Contains 27 sermons delivered at the Lincoln's Inn, beginning on the 22nd Sunday after Trinity--Nov. 1, 1881. Very readable copy. A collector's volume.