Search Results: Authors starting with P from Legacy Books

George Willig & Co. Book. Good. Soft cover. (1885), Sheet Music, large 4to, 9pp. Printed wrps. Tape repair to spine, light soiling, else G..

New York: Riverhead Books Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2003, ix, 238pp. Very light wear, else VG+ in VG+ dj. Inscribed, signed, and dated by the author on the title page. The first edition of the author's first book. Packer, being an articulate, young black woman who published her first story when only nineteen years old, is eminently qualified to tell the stories of the young black women we are introduced to in this collection of short stories..

McKinley Music Co. Book. Good. Soft cover. N.D., ca 1880's, Sheet Music, large 4to, 6pp. Printed wrps. Light soiling, else G..

Louisville: The Filson Club Book. Good. Soft cover. pp23-27. Removed from THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY, Vol 31, No. 1, January, 1957. In report covers. G. May include a first or last copied page. Pikeville is located in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. The schoo0l was established in 1889 by Presbyterian ministers. It was the first such school in the Big Sandy Valley. It offers baccalaureate degrees in many fields and graduate level courses..

Cleveland: Published by the author Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). (1901), 131pp, illustrated. Signed by the author on the frontispiece portrait, under her printed signature. Covers are dampstained, and slightly bowed, there is very light staining at the bottom margin of the last ten pages or so, not affecting text, hinges tight and contents generally G+..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons Book. Good. Hardcover. 1892. First Separate Printing, 53pp, illustrated by W. T. Smedley. Decorative cover design. Light to moderate soiling, else G. MARSE CHAN appeared first in Page's first book, IN OLE VIRGINIA. Thomas Nelson Page, (1853-1922), was born in the ancestral plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, of an aristocratic family. Two of his great-grandfathers were governors of Virginia and one was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. But the family was financially ruined by the Civil War and Reconstruction; and, it is said that Page drew on the romantic notions of the pre-war south, coupled with the gallantly borne misfortunes of the post war period, for much of his writing. His writing is sentimental by today's standards, but he had a good ear and is remembered for his depiction of black dialect..

Chicago: Union Book Company Book. VG. Soft cover. 1901, pp210-220, illustrated (generally only 1 or 2). Removed from WITH THE WORLD'S GREAT TRAVELLERS, Edited by Charles Morris and Oliver H.G. Leigh. May include a first or last copied page. VG. From the introduction: "Paget's HUNGARY AND TRANSYLVANIA, is the source of our present selection, we having chosen, from his many pictures of Hungarian life and people, a description of the famous Eszterhazys, a family renowned particularly for its jewels, which have been gathering for centuries in the castle of Forchtenstein".

Penguin Books Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. (1960). Second Edition, corrected, large 8vo, xviii, 316pp, index, plus one hundred seventy three plts. Ex-lib, dj flaps taped to covers in library fashion, else G+ in G+ dj. Volume VIII in the Pelican History of Art series..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp453-456, plus four plates. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1948. VG. In plastic report covers. From the introduction: "Most westerners are inclined to see in Japanese art a mere reflection of influences from the art of China. The Chinese, on the other hand, feel that Japanese art is disagreeably different. Common sense should indicate the natural conclusion that Japanese art is something distinctive, that its roots may have been transported from China, but its blossoms have developed a new variety in a new environment.

London: Oxford University Press Book. VG+. Hardcover. 1924, 12mo, xiii, 496pp, index of first lines, index of writers, all edges gilt, bound in full leather with raised bands, gilt designs, and lined decorations, decorative pastedowns and endpapers. VG+. A beautiful example of the bookbinder's art..

Milwaukee: The Young Churchman Company Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1912, 303pp, index, illustrated. TEG. Light wear, else G+. Inscribed and signed by the author. Gilbert, of the Protestant Episcopal faith, was born in Morris, New York, March 23, 1848. Because of health problems he was forced to curtail his education and spent two years in Florida attempting to recuperate from pulmonary problems. He worked in Minnesota and Montana for a number of years, and in 1881 was called to the rectorship of Christ Church in St. Paul. He also established missions in White Bear, Fort Snelling, Merriam Park, and Randolph Street. He was deputy to the general convention in 1886 and elected assistant bishop of Minnesota the same year. He died in 1900..

Milwaukee: The Young Churchman Company Book. Good. Hardcover. 1912, 303pp, index, illustrated. TEG. Light wear, else G+. Gilbert, of the Protestant Episcopal faith, was born in Morris, New York, March 23, 1848. Because of health problems he was forced to curtail his education and spent two years in Florida attempting to recuperate from pulmonary problems. He worked in Minnesota and Montana for a number of years, and in 1881 was called to the rectorship of Christ Church in St. Paul. He also established missions in White Bear, Fort Snelling, Merriam Park, and Randolph Street. He was deputy to the general convention in 1886 and elected assistant bishop of Minnesota the same year. He died in 1900..

Kansas City: Unity School of Christianity Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1948, Vol. LIV, No. 3., 4to, 36pp, illustrated. Wrps. VG. A sort of literary magazine for juveniles which included fiction and non-fiction articles, poems, and activities..

Kansas City: Unity School of Christianity Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1948, Vol. LIV, No. 5, 4to, 36pp, illustrated. Wrps. VG. A sort of literary magazine for juveniles which included fiction and non-fiction articles, poems, and activities..

Berkeley: University of California Press Book. Good. Soft cover. 1952, pp271-412. Wrps. G. There is a dime sized splotch at the bottom of the front cover, light wear and soiling, else G+. Reprinted from the University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Volume 36, No. 10. In German, except for the introduction, which is in English. Includes 1900 entries. As is the case with so many of the bibliographical texts I have seen, I am amazed at the amount of time and effort that goes into such a project..

New York: Privately Published Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1955, 52pp, signed (first name only), and with an inscription by the author. Extremities lightly worn, else VG. There is a clear plastic dj in G condition, that may or may not have been issued with the book. Mrs. Winthrop Palmer, (1900-1988), was an American educator, author and poet. A graduate of Columbia University, she and her husband, businessman Carleton H. Palmer, were influential in the development and growth of Long Island University's C. W. Post Campus, where Mrs. Palmer was assistant professor of literature and fine arts..

Iowa City: Friends of the University of Iowa Library Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1967, xi, 243pp. Stiff wrps. VG+. This bibliography is limited to writers born in Iowa who have published five or more original books..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp361-375, plus nine plates. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1938. VG. In plastic report covers. Over the years, extensive studies of animals living in regions far away from their original habitats and posing a threat to the native species, have revealed many such cases. One example was the presence of the Chinese mitten crab, which had spread into the North Sea and into the Baltic countries..

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers Book. Good. Hardcover. (1945), vii, 202pp. G+ in lightly chipped dj, which has a small tear at the bottom of the spine. No price on the dj but doesn't appear to be a Book Club edition. From the dj: "When George Papashvily landed in this country from Georgia in Russia he thought of America as a place where anything can happen - and in twenty years he has not changed his mind. It is possible to describe the book in a dozen ways, all of them true. It is the story of the making of an American. It is an adventure story. It is a book of delicious humor. It is folklore. It is an illustration, in vivid colors, of the things that American democracy has accomplished and also of the ways in which it has occasionally failed.".

Cincinnati: C. J. Krehbiel Company Book. Good. Hardcover. 1958, 16mo, 36pp, four illustrations. Several numbers are written in ink on the front cover, and a few on the front pastedown, else G. Mrs. Frances Trollope, the mother of novelist Anthony Trollope, went to America in 1828, where she and her husband failed in a business venture in Cincinnati, Ohio. As a result of that experience and her other travels in America, she wrote the book DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS, which was a scathing account of American life. This little book is an account of her experiences in Cincinnati..