World of Wonder; An Introduction to Imaginative Literature
by Pratt, Fletcher
New York: Twayne Publishers, 1951. Hardcover. Good/Good. Foreword by Edith Mirrielees. Second Printing. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($3.95), generally rubbed and bumped with some small chips and tears. Blue cloth, some staining at the bottom, with blue ink lettering on the spine and front board. Firmly bound with a backward lean, clean internally. A collection of... Read More
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Double Jeopardy
by Pratt, Fletcher
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1952. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped, bumped and with some creases at the edges, soiled on the back panel. Grey boards with orange ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a few stains at the edges, clean internally. The first... Read More
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The World of Premchand
by Premchand
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Translated by David Rubin. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (£1.75 net), bumped at the top edge, a crease to the front flap. Orange cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with an orange top stain, clean internally. Published as... Read More
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When M.I.T. Was "Boston Tech" 1861-1916
by Prescott, Samuel C.
Cambridge: The Technology Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($6.00), generally toned and rubbed, a few small chips near the spine. Grey buckram with red ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Prescott's "personal report, an essay in interpretation and remembrance which is... Read More
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The World's Greatest UFO and Alien Encounters; Conspiracies, Abductions, Little Green Men
by [Alva Press]
Edison: Alva Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (no price). Glossy pictorial boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of more than 500 pages of anecdotes about supernatural, unexplained experiences.
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The New English Bible with Apocyrpha
by Delegates of the Oxford University Press
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Red buckram, bumped at the foot of the spine. Square and firmly bound, inscription inside the front board, a few instances of pencil marginalia. The first edition to feature The Old Testament and Apocrypha translated according to the task established by the... Read More
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With Nixon
by Price, Raymond
New York: Viking Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($12.95), bumped at the top edge. Quarter grey cloth with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A political memoir of the Nixon years by one of Nixon's speech-writers and friends.
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A Generous Man
by Price, Reynolds
New York: Atheneum, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Price on the title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.95), lightly toned and soiled, a crease at the front flap. Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a spotted red topstain, foxed at... Read More
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Permanent Errors
by Price, Reynolds
New York: Atheneum, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Price on the title page. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($6.50), multiple creases down the front flap, generally toned. Grey cloth, faded at the edges, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain,... Read More
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Blue Calhoun
by Price, Reynolds
New York: Atheneum, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Price on the title page. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($23.00), faded at the spine. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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The Names and Faces of Heroes
by Price, Reynolds
New York: Atheneum, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Price on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.95), lightly toned. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a blue topstain, clean internally. A collection of seven stories from the Southern author.
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Through the Heart of Patagonia
by Prichard, H. Hesketh
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good. Red buckram, toned and lightly mottled on the spine, gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square, hinges starting but firmly bound, clean internally. Illustrated by 40 plates, this is Prichard's account of his exploration that was originally intended to discovery... Read More
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Festival
by Priestley, J.B.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.95), toned on the spine. Quarter cream cloth with salmon buckram on the boards. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the top edge, clean internally. Advertised on the jacket as, "an inspiried comedy which proves that life's worth... Read More
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The Beautiful Ones
by Prince
New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Edited by Dan Piepenbring. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($30.00), lightly bumped at the edges and corners. Purple paper on the boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A posthumous work that serves as a "brilliant... Read More
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The Case of Patience Worth; A Critical Study of Certain Unusual Phenomena
by Prince, Walter Franklin
Boston: Boston Society for Psychic Research, 1929. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Red cloth, rubbed at the edges, bumped at the corners, with dulled gilt lettering on the spine. Square, bound with some reading wear, clean internally. Prince's investigation into the nature of the subconscious and potential for spiritual communication as experienced by... Read More
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The Open Road Abroad
by Prioleau, John
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illustrated by G.E. Chambers. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.00), faded at the spine, chipped at the head of the spine. Black cloth, lightly rubbed at the edges, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Prioleau's travel... Read More
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Memoranda from the Mark-P Seances No. 1
by Probert, Mark
Vista: Borderland Sciences Research Associates, [n.d.]. Staplebound. Good. 26p. Good. Covers soiled, with tape repairs at the edges. Firmly bound with three staples, minor wear at the edges, clean otherwise. The first collection of notes from Probert's seances that began in 1946 with Meade Layne taking notes. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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The Magic Bag
by Probert, Mark
San Diego: The Inner Circle Kethra E'Da Foundation, Inc, 1963. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Foreword by Martin Lattimore Lingfield. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Probert. Near Fine. Blue cloth on the boards, bumped at the corners, with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, soiled... Read More
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The Strange Disappearance of Mary Young
by Propper, Milton M.
New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. D-D code on the copyright page. Very Good in an about Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.00), bumped and with a closed tear at the head of the spine. Orange buckram, toned at the spine, bumped and rubbed at the edges and corners. Bound with some reading wear... Read More
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Barkskins
by Proulx, Annie
New York: Scribner, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($32.00), bumped at the top edge. Quarter black buckram with beige paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Proulx's epic of environmental fiction that tracks the deforestation of the New World over the span of 300 years, adapted into the television... Read More
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Postcards
by Proulx, E. Annie
New York: Charles Scribner's & Sons, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Proulx to an old neighbor on the title page. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($22.95), bumped at the bottom edge, some surface rubbing on the back panel. Quarter brown cloth with speckled beige paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.... Read More
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Terminus
by Puckett, Andrew
New York: Crime Club / Doubleday, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Puckett on the front endpaper and with a laid-in ALS by Puckett. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($14.95), bumped and rubbed at the edges. Black buckram, bumped at the corners, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound,... Read More
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Beyond Telepathy
by Puharich, Andrija
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($4.50), generally toned, rubbed and bumped at the edges, a few shallow chips at the edges. Black cloth with white and orange ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean... Read More
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Tropical Night Falling
by Puig, Manuel
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($19.00), rubbed at the back panel. Quarter purple cloth with green paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The last novel finished before Puig's death in 1990, it tells the story of two... Read More
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Philippines: Reform or Revolution? and a Socialist Action Adopted Political Resolution
by Pumarada, Roberto; Finamore, Carl
San Francisco: Socialist Action, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine, rubbed on the wraps, lightly bumped at the corners. A detailed account of politics underlying the 1986 February revolution and the election of President Corazon Aquino, ending with a call to build "a revolutionary socialist party which strives to strengthen the struggles of the workers and... Read More
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