I, Scheherazade: Memoirs of a Siamese Cat
by Douglass Parkhirst
Englewood Clifs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. SIGNED BY BOTH THE AUTHOR AND THE ILLUSTRATOR on the half-title. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1963 1st edition. Solid and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 112 pgs., nicely illustrated thruout by James Pearsall. Signed by Author.
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Education on the Dalton Plan
by Helen Parkhurst
Bath, England: Cedric Chivers Ltd, 1966. Very Good/Very Good +. INSCRIBED BY HELEN PARKHUST (44 years after publication!) on the front free endpaper. A bright, very presentable copy to boot of this handsome 1966 UK re-issue. Solid and VG (light spotting and offsetting along the pastedowns and endsheets) in a crisp, VG+ dustjacket, with very light waviness to... Read More
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Demography and Roman Society
by Tim G. Parkin
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Very Good. A crisp, clean copy of the 1992 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a bright, VG+ dustjacket, with mild darkening along the spine. Octavo, 225 pgs.
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A Treatise on Roads; Wherein the Principles on Which Roads Should Be Made Are Explained and Illustrated, by the Plans, Specifications and Contracts Made Use of by Thomas Telford, Esq. on the Holyhead Road
by Sir Henry Parnell
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1833. Bevelled Cloth. Very Good. A solid, well-preserved copy of the 1833 1st edition. Tight and VG in its dark-green bevelled cloth, with very light soiling to the panels and one small closed tear along the spine crown. Very mild spotting at the preliminaries, otherwise very clean internally. Thick octavo,... Read More
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The Knave of Hearts
by Louise Saunders (Maxfield Parrish)
Racine, Wisconsin: Artists and Writers Guild, 1925. Original wraps. Very Good +. Maxfield Parrish. A bright, well-preserved copy of the 1925 1st paperback edition. Clean and VG+ in its spiral-bound pictorial wrappers, with just a touch of light creasing --and very light soiling-- to the panels. Internally, clean as could be, with no writing or markings and nothing... Read More
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Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters (2 Vols.)
by Lev Alburt and Larry Parr
Norton Company, 1997. Hardcover. A handsome copy of this 2 volume set. 1st editions, 1997. Both volumes Fine in Near Fine, price-clippped dustjackets. Vol. 1: Fundamentals of the Game and Vol. 2: Beyond the Basics. Octavos, 512 pgs. all told.
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A Puritan Outpost: A History of the Town and People of Northfield, Massachusetts
by Herbert Collins Parsons
New Ork: The Macmillan Company, 1937. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 1937 1st edition. A bright, clean VG/VG+ copy. Thick octavo, 546 pgs.
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The Descendants of William Andrew of Cambridge, Massachusetts
by Craig Partridge
Penobscot Press, 1995. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine. A very sharp copy of the 1995 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in its dark-red cloth, with bright gilt-titling along the front panel and spine. Octavo, a number of vintage photos complementing Craig Partridge's text.
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A Dictionary of the Underworld: British & American (Signed by Eric Partridge)
by Eric Partridge
London: Theodore Brun Limited, 1950. Full leather. Very Good. The 1950 Limited Deluxe Edition, which was issued simultaneously with the trade edition. 250 copies were issued in the Limited Deluxe Edition but this copy specifically is among the first 100 copies in the limitation (#21), which were the only ones Eric Partridege signed. Bound in a full dark-leather... Read More
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Pensees de M. Pascal sur la Religion & sur Qualques Autres Sujets
by Pascal
Paris: Guillaume Desprez and Jean Desessartz, 1715. Full leather. Very Good -. The 1715 "nouvelle edition', in its original full leather. 5 raised bands, gilt-tooled compartments. Spine label missing, a bit of chipping at the spine ends and very light cracking of the leather along the panels. Interior very clean, with bright, crisp pages and lovely marbled endpapers.... Read More
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Ferme La Nuit
by Paul Morand (J. Pascin)
Paris: Edition NRF, 1925. 3/4 leather. Near Fine. J. Pascin. Bound in a sumptuous, custom 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, with the original dark-red wrappers bound-in. A clean, Near Fine example of the 1st thus (the 1st appearance of the J. Pascin illustrations), with just a touch of light scuffing along the spine. Wonderfully illustrated throughout, with the... Read More
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Tombeau de Pascin
by Pierre Mac Orlan (Jules Pascin)
Paris: Textes & Pretextes, 1944. Original wraps. Near Fine/Near Fine. Jules Pascin. A lovely copy of the 1944 1st edition. #130 OF ONLY 150 COPIES ISSUED "SUR VELIN PUR FIL DU MARAIS". Clean and Near Fine in its light-brown wrappers. And in a crisp, Near Fine example of the publisher's glassine/wax dustjacket. Folio, 8 original gravures by Jules... Read More
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Three Plays (The Garbage Man: A Parade with Shouting; Airways, Inc; and Fortune Heights)
by John Dos Passos
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1934. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good +. Handsome copy of the 1934 1st edition. Solid and VG+ (2 small former-owner stamps at the front free endpaper) in a crisp, price-clipped, VG+ dustjacket, with vey light chipping along the spine ends and the tips, and mild darkening to the spine. Octavo, lengthy Introduction... Read More
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Nineteen Nineteen (With an Original 2 Pg. Ink Drawing by Reginald Marsh)
by John Dos Passos
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. The 1946 re-issue of the second installment (originally published in 1932) of Dos Passos's formidable "USA" trilogy. THIS COPY INCLUDES A LAVISH 2 PG ORIGINAL INK DRAWING FROM ITS ILLUSTRATOR (THE FIRST-RANK PAINTER REGINALD MARSH) OF A FRENCH SOLDIER AND A WOMAN AT A TABLE HAILING A WINE-BEARING WAITER. A... Read More
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Manhattan Transfer
by John Dos Passos
London: Constable & Co, 1927. Cloth. Very Good. A solid copy of the 1927 1st British edition. Tight and VG in its russet cloth, with very light streaking along the spine. Offsetting at the endsheets and pastedowns, decorative bookplate to the front pastedown. Lacking the dustjacket.
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Cesar Pelli: Buildings and Projects 1965-1990
by Mario Gandelsonas and John Pastier
New York: Rizzoli, 1990. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. A nice Presentation copy: WARMLY INSCRIBED BY CESAR PELLI TO FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB, AFTER WHOM THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE WAS NAMED. An all-but-pristine copy to boot of the 1990 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket, with very mild fading along the... Read More
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The Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen
by Kenneth Patchen
San Francisco: City Lights, 1960. Cloth. Near Fine. A crisp, very sharp copy of the 1960 1st edition, in its infinitely less common hardback. Clean, tight and Near Fine to Fine in its pink boards. Internally pristine as well, with no writing or markings of any kind. 16mo, the 13th title in the legendary City Lights Pocket Poet... Read More
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The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen
by Kenneth Patchen
New York: New Directions, 1968. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good +. A handsome copy of the 1968 stated 1st edition. Tight and VG+ (very light offsetting at the pastedowns and endsheets) in a crisp, price-intact ($12.50), VG+ to Near Fine dustjacket. Thick octavo, top-edge bright red. Very important collection of Patchen's poetry, "the publication of this volume a... Read More
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Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas (2 Vols.)
by Walter Pater
London: Macmillan and Co, 1892. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. A solid copy of the 1892 3rd printing, complete in 2 volumes. Both vols. clean and VG in their dark-green cloth, with bright gilt-lettering on the spines. Octavos, 511 pgs. all told.
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Fanny Dunbar Corbusier
by Patricia Y. Stallard, Ed
Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY EDITOR PATRICIA Y. STALLARD on the half-title. A pristine copy to boot of the 2003 1st edition. Fine in a bright, Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 348 pgs.
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The Thomas Berryman Number
by James Patterson
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1976. Boards. Very Good +/Near Fine. A very sharp copy of the 1976 stated 1st edition of James Patterson's Edgar Award-winning first published book. Tight and VG+ (light creasing at the panels) in a bright, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of mild creasing along the spine ends. Octavo, dustjacket design... Read More
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The Shaker Spiritual
by Daniel W. Patterson
Princeton University Press, 1979. 1st. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Review Copy with Review Slip laid-in. 1979 1st edition. A VG+ copy in a bright, VG+ dustjacket. Thick quarto, 562 pgs.
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Moses Supposes His Toeses Are Roses
by Nancy Patz
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. Pictorial boards. Near Fine/Very Good. Nancy Patz. NICELY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR NANCY PATZ (WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING IN HER HAND) on the half-title page. A sharp copy to boot of the 1983 stated 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with two closed tears (both with... Read More
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Taxi Driver (The English Language Edition)
by Paul Duncan, Editor / Steve Schapiro, Photographe
Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2013. Pictorial boards. Near Fine. An all-but-pristine copy of the 2013 English language edition (with German and French text at the rear) of this sumptuous celebration of the seminal 1976 film "Taxi Driver". Issued by the great Taschen publishers in a very impressive folio edition, and including a Foreword by Martin Scorsese. Clean and Near... Read More
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Hitler and the Forgotten Nazis: A History of Austrian National Socalism
by Bruce F. Pauley
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1981. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A very sharp copy of the 1981 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine (small ghost of a former price-sticker at the front pastedown) in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, 265 pgs. plus Bibliography and Index.
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