Search Results: Authors starting with P from Irving Book Company

Paris: Société d'Édition Les Belles Lettres, 1961. Second Edition. Paperback. Fair. Upper cover nearly detached but present, rear cover detached.. 8vo. 175 pp. Original plain orange wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his 3/3/91 ownership signature to first page.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in very near fine unclipped jacket, red element faded at spine panel.. Royal 8vo. 6 x 9.375 in. xiv, 598 pp. Blue buckram, titled in gilt on spine; in plain buff dust jacket printed in black & red. Revised & prepared for publication by R.D. DAWE & J. DIGGLE. An exceedingly fresh copy.

London: Faber and Faber, 1964. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Near fine in very good price-clipped jacket. Previous ownership signature to half-title. Some edgwear to edges of jacket, with slight toning to spine panel. Binding sound, text crisp.. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. 372 pp. Original light plum cloth, in attractive turquoise typographic dust jacket. First published in 1954, this is the 1964 Fourth Printing, a Reprint of the corrected 1961 Third Printing. A nice copy overall.

Bruxelles: Hayez, Académie Royale de Belgique, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Light wear to text.. 8vo. 6.625 x 10.25 in. 129 pp. Uncut. Rebound in red cloth, with original cover bound in. Text in French, with Greek. Mémoire présenté à la Classe des lettres et des sciences morales et politiques, dans la séance du juin 1912. Deuxième Série, Tome XI of the Académie Royal de Belgique Mémoires, Collection in-8vo.

Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1948. First Thus. Hardcover. Good indeed.. 8vo. 231 pp. Original rust cloth. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his ownership signature to front flyleaf, and light pencil annotation.

New York: Grossman, 1976. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good indeed in good unclipped jacket. Covers lightly splayed. Moderate wear, toning, and soiling to jacket. Binding tight, text otherwise clean.. 8vo. 123 pp. Original brown quarter-cloth over light red boards, in pictorial dust jacket. Translated by WILLIAM ARROWSMITH. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his 3/5/84 ownership signature in green marker to front flyleaf, a couple pencil notes to rear flyleaf, sparse pencil annotation, a couple laid-in scraps with notes and an ink drawing.

New York: Modern Library, 1928. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Very good indeed. Lightly edgeworn; Arthurian bookplate to front pastedown. Binding sound, text otherwise clean.. 16mo. 4.25 x 6.625 in. 201, [1] pp. Toledano Binding Style No. 4, in hunter green limpcroft leather, with gilt Bernhard torchbearer device on upper cover; Bernhard endpapers. Illustrated 'with thirty-two reproductions in the aquatone process'.

New York: Modern Library, 1934. Early Modern Library Printing. Hardcover. Very good in like dust jacket. John Koenig Jr's attractive Dr. Johnson bookplate ('Sir, a desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind.') to front pastedown; 1935 note in ink to front flyleaf; some offsetting to pp. 15 and 89. Gutter cracked at rear, in the midst of advertisements. Jacket heavily toned at spine panel, with light edgewear and a touch of soiling. Binding square and otherwise sound. Text otherwise unmarked.. 16mo. 4.375 x 6.625 in. xvi, 330 pp. + adverts. Toledano Binding Style No. 7 in chocolate brown balloon cloth, Kent torchbearer device in gilt to upper cover, titled in gilt on spine; orange Kent endpapers; publisher's orange-banded typographic dust jacket, with 225 titles advertised on verso.

(Macon, Georgia): Mercer University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very near fine in very near fine jacket, with a touch of shelfwear. Light spotting to top edge. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. 8vo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. Original grey imitation leather in glossy blue dust jacket. A collection of 17 scholarly essays focussing on Kierkegaard's Postscript.

Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Moderate spotting to preliminary pages, otherwise near fine. Light traces of soiling & toning to margins. Binding square & tight; text with some scattered, light pencil annotations, but overall clean & bright.. 8vo. 6.125 x 9.25 in. ix, 384 pp. Neatly rebound in beige linen cloth, with original printed title label affixed to spine. Includes an appendix of Heraclitean influences in Ecclesiastes, the Book of Wisdom, and early Christian literature. Text in German and Greek. Scarce.

(New York): Pantheon, 1962. First American Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's bookplate sticker to half-title, else nearly fine in very good, unclipped jacket. Light edgewear to jacket, with moderate toning to spine panel.. Demy 8vo. 5.25 x 8.25 in. 181, [1] pp. Original terra cotta cloth, titled and ornamented in gilt, in typographic jacket by JOHANNES TROYER. Translated from the German by RICHARD and CLARA WINSTON. A nice copy overall.

New York: Pantheon, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good unclipped jacket. Top fore-corners lightly bumped. Previous ownership signature to front flyleaf, top corner excised; some annotations in pencil. Moderate edgewear to jacket.. Demy 8vo. 5.625 x 8.25 in. xi + [i], 106, [6] pp. Full bluish green cloth stamped in gilt, in blue typographic dust jacket. Uncommon.

Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Moderate edgewear, a touch of soiling. Binding tight, text unmarked.. 8vo. 6 x 9.25 in. 261 pp. Original glossy pictorial wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; unmarked.

(Paris): GF Flammarion, 2003. First Edition. Paperback. Very small, closed tear at foot of spine, else nearly fine. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. 12mo. 4.25 x 7 in. 316, [4] pp. Glossy white pictorial wrappers. Introduction, translation, and commentary of Plato's dialogue, the Statesman ('Politicus') by LUC BRISSON and JEAN-FRANÇOIS PRADEAU. Text in French. Signed by Luc Brisson and Jean-François Pradeau on half-title. Scarce thus.

New York: Modern Library, 1940. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Bookplate to front pastedown & previous ownership signature to front free endpaper, else very near fine in very good, lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Moderate toning to spine panel. Attractive 2006 Katherine Anne Porter stamp affixed to title page. Binding square & tight, text otherwise unmarked & bright.. 12mo. 5 x 7.125 in. [x], 285 pp. + adverts ML Binding Style 8, vivid green cloth, top edge sumikuro, with Kent endpapers; in pink & black illustrated dust jacket, with 95 cent price & 274 titles advertised on verso. A nice copy of this Modern Library First, featuring a new introduction by Katherine Anne Porter and including the additional four stories.

American Philological Association, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Top fore-corner lightly bumped; very light shelfwear. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright.. Large 8vo. 6.875 x 9.75 in. xvi, 333 pp. + black & white plates. Original forest green cloth. Published as Number XVIII of the Philological Monographs published by the American Philological Association, edited by JOHN L. HELLER.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in very good original slipcase.. Two-volume set in slipcase. Large 8vos. 6 x 8.75 in. xxi, [i], 328; xvii, [1 blank], 307 pp. Second printing of The Heritage of the Cathedral: A Study of the Influence of History and Thought upon Cathedral Architecture, together with presumed first printing of The Voices of the Cathedral: Tales in Stone and Legends in Glass. Full black cloth in publisher's slipcase, with large pictorial onlays affixed to each side. Uncommon in slipcase.

St. Louis: B. Herder, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Superficial cracking to inner hinge, otherwise near fine. Light browning to endpapers. Binding remains firm, text clean.. 8vo. 5.625 x 8.625 in. 403 pp. Publisher's full light red cloth. Contains a Preface concerning mental prayer, Daily Meditations according to the liturgical calendar, and also meditations for Feast Days and Days of Recollection. Rev. Prindeville's meditations, here directed toward seminarians, are brief, sharp and practical. One of Prindeville's scarcer titles. Rev. Cardinal A. Prindeville, C.M. was a Doctor of Sacred Theology.

[Paris]: Enfantimages / Gallimard, 1979. First Thus. Hardcover. Very near fine. Very light edgewear.. Thin 8vo. 5.625 x 7.75 in. [20] pp. Glossy illustrated boards. Fully illustrated with reproductions of color drawings by ELSA HENRIQUEZ. Text in French. Publisher's folded advertisement sheet laid in.

[Paris]: Enfantimages / Gallimard, 1982. First Thus. Hardcover. Good. Some yellowing & gloss separation, especially to rear board; lightly edgeworn & soiled. Binding tight, text clean & bright.. Thin 8vo. 5.625 x 7.75 in. [20] pp. Glossy illustrated boards. Fully illustrated with reproductions of color drawings by ELSA HENRIQUEZ. Text in French.