Search Results: Authors starting with P from LaCelle Rare Books

New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1915. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. New York: A.L. Burt Company, (1924). Early reprint. Very Good in Good+ Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; slight wear; dust jacket is somewhat worn with a few small tears and chips; a couple small tape repairs to reverse. Scarce mystery in jacket. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS.

New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1924. Hardcover. Good+/Good. New York: A.L. Burt Company, (1924). Early reprint. Good+ in Good Dust Jacket. Front hinge cracked else tight binding; clean pages; several ownership stamps to endpapers; moderate wear; small scuff mark to front cover; dust jacket is somewhat worn with a few small tears and chips; a couple small tape repairs to reverse. A Biblio-Mystery.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1925. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING      with correct copyright statement, correct jacket blurbs, etc. Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages; name stamp on endpapers; moderate wear; dust jacket is worn with some tears; a few tape repairs on reverse; price not clipped ($2.00). Very scarce war novel. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: Random House / Beginner Books, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Fayman, Lynn (Photographs by). New York: Random House / Beginner Books, (1962). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, FIRST ISSUE matching all issue points, including correct list of titles as per Zielinski.  Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; a couple of light bumps and light wear; dust jacket is pretty clean with light wear; price not clipped (195/195). Scarce first edition of a classic Beginner Book authored by the wife of Dr. Seuss.  .

New York: Oxford University Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. New York: Oxford University Press, 1939. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with correct $3.50 price on front flap of the dust jacket and 1939 date on title page. Very Good+ in Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; browning to endpapers; contemporary owner's name on front endpaper; only very slight wear; dust jacket is worn with small tears and chips along edges; foxing and scuffs; price not clipped ($3.50).  One of the 100 best non-fiction books of the 20th Century, according to Modern Library, highly influential in the intellectual community. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Szekers, Cyndy (Illustrated by). New York: Simon & Schuster, (1969). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Very Good. Tight binding; clean pages; a little scribbling on half-title page; light wear; no jacket.  A cool vintage monkey story for children. Scarce. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

(Lynchburg, VA: J.P. Bell Company), 1900. Hardcover. Good. (Lynchburg, VA: J.P. Bell Company, 1900). FIRST EDITION. Original  cloth, lettered in gilt. 96 pages (including ads). Illustrated. Good. Hinges a bit cracked else tight binding; some pages have a light stain along edges; front endpaper detached; some soiling to covers.  A very scarce history of the University of Virginia.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: Prentice-Hall, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/Fair. New York: Prentice-Hall, (1952). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with correct $2.95 price on front flap, dust jacket blurbs, and lack of later printings noted on copyright page.  Good+ in Fair Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages; contemporary owner's name on front endpaper; some wear; dust jacket is worn with small tears and chips and with tape along all edges and folds; price not clipped ($2.95).  Scarce first edition of Peale's classic book on positivity and success.  SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1917. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1917. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING      with correct 1917 date in roman numerals on title page, lack of later printings mentioned on copyright page, and correct jacket blurbs.  Very Good+ in Good+ Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; only slight wear; dust jacket is fairly clean with a couple of small tears, a couple of very small chips, and a small chip to middle of spine.  Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès (3 September 1859 - 31 July 1914), commonly referred to as Jean Jaurès (French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒɔʁɛs]; Occitan: Joan Jaurés [dʒuˈan dʒawˈɾes]), was a French Socialist leader. Initially a Moderate Republican, he later became one of the first social democrats and the leader of the French Socialist Party in 1902, which opposed Jules Guesde's revolutionary Socialist Party of France. The two parties merged in 1905 in the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO). An… Read More

Philadelphia, 1899. Paperback. Fair. Philadelphia, 1899. FIRST EDITION. Original cloth. 35 pages. Illustrated. Fair. Binding shaken; all pages loose; several tears; a few notes on margins; covers very worn.  Very scarce. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Frankfort: Printed for the Author, 1824. Hardcover. Good. Frankfort: Printed for the Author, 1824. FIRST EDITION. 54 pages. Samuel L. Mitchill's copy with his signature on title page - Mitchill was a well-known physician, naturalist and politician who was connected with Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, and other notable personalities of the time. Good. Rebound; tight binding; exlibrary with usual marks; Samuel L. Mitchill's signature on title page; some wear. A very scarce pro-Andrew Jackson campaign book. Jackson would lose this election to John Quincy Adams but defeated Mr. Adams in the 1828 election. .

London: Printed for the Author, 1785. Hardcover. Fair. London: Printed for the Author, 1785. FIRST EDITION. 200 + 151 pages. Fair. Binding shaken; just about broken in middle; covers  detached (seem to be from a different book); spine reinforced with tape; covers worn; clean pages. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1949). Much later printing. SIGNED AND INCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER WITH A SMALL DRAWING. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; only very slight wear; dust jacket is clean and bright with a couple of very small tears; price not clipped ($12.95). A signed copy of the great Caldecott Medal Winner.   SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with 1885 date on title page, etc.    SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON SLIP OF PAPER          "Oct. 29th 1873 / David D. Porter / Admiral U.S.N." Original cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Frontispiece. 357 pages + ads. Very Good+. Tight and square binding; pages very clean; covers clean; very little wear to covers; one of the best available on the market, most would grade it Near Fine.  A beautiful example of an important title by the Civil War Admiral, very scarce, especially with signature.  David Dixon Porter (June 8, 1813 - February 13, 1891) was a United States Navy admiral and a member of one of the most distinguished families in the history of the U.S. Navy. Promoted as the second U.S. Navy officer ever to attain the rank of admiral, after his adoptive brother David G. Farragut, Porter helped improve the Navy as the Superintendent of… Read More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1921). FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, FIRST PRINTING. Color Illustrated.  Very Good+ in Good+ Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages; light browning to endpapers; dust jacket has light chipping at corners; price clipped. First French edition of Potter's children's classic, very scarce in dust jacket. .

University of Nebraska Press, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. University of Nebraska Press, 1950. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING      with correct publisher imprint, no later printings noted, etc.  SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. 69 pages. Very Good+. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; only very slight wear; lacking the rare dust jacket. Quite scarce, especially signed.  Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 - June 30, 1964) was an American legal scholar and educator. He served as Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1903 to 1911 and Dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936. He was a member of Northwestern University, the University of Chicago Law School and the faculty at UCLA School of Law in the school's early years, from 1949 to 1952. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Pound as one of the most cited legal scholars of the 20th century. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1942. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING      with correct publisher imprint, no later printings noted and correct $2.00 price on front jacket flap.  138 pages. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages; only slight wear; dust jacket is slightly worn with a few small tears and light foxing; price not clipped ($2.00).  Quite scarce.  Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 - June 30, 1964) was an American legal scholar and educator. He served as Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1903 to 1911 and Dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936. He was a member of Northwestern University, the University of Chicago Law School and the faculty at UCLA School of Law in the school's early years, from 1949 to 1952. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Pound as one of the most cited legal scholars of the 20th century. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1938. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING      with correct publisher imprint, no later printings noted, $2.00 flap price, etc.  SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. 188 pages. Very Good+ in Good+ Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; only slight wear; dust jacket is a bit worn with light soil and a few small tears; price not clipped ($2.00). Quite scarce, especially signed.  Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 - June 30, 1964) was an American legal scholar and educator. He served as Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1903 to 1911 and Dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936. He was a member of Northwestern University, the University of Chicago Law School and the faculty at UCLA School of Law in the school's early years, from 1949 to 1952. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Pound as one of the most cited legal scholars of the 20th century.… Read More

New York: Robert Carter, 1870. Hardcover. Good. New York: Robert Carter, 1870. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Original cloth, lettered in gilt. Illustrated. 202 pages. 6 1/4" x 4". Good. Tight binding; moderate foxing; covers worn; some splitting to cloth.  Very scarce. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Indianapolis: W.D. Pratt, 1901. Hardcover. Fair. Illustrated. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait and Co., 1848. 408 pages. 9 1/2" x 6 1/2". Illustrated with portraits. Fair. Binding shaken; a couple of pages loose; covers detached from textblock; exlibrary with usual marks; spine torn and chipped; covers very worn. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .