Search Results: Authors starting with P from Stellar Books & Ephemera, ABAA

1988. [Militaria] [Civil War] [Manuscripts] [Maps] [Guns] Research for an Article Debunking Civil War "Hero" Archibald Hopkins by a Los Angeles Lawyer and Historian A great group of manuscripts, research materials, photographs and publications authored and collected by Los Angeles attorney and historian Robert Palazzo for an article on Civil War Colonel Archibald Hopkins. The article was published in "The Gun Report" magazine, Vol. 33, No. 11, April 1988, and a copy of the issue is present. Archive includes typed article drafts, handwritten notes, copies of archival documents, original and copy photographs, a pristine folded oversized map and publications. Most materials 8.5" x 11", a few pages of notes 11" x 14". All very good or better with just a touch of toning and edge wear. Robert Palazzo was a licensed attorney for 43 years and a member of the arbitration committee for the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He taught business law for nearly 20 years at Moorpark College and was loved by his… Read More

[Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo] Manuscript for Possibly Unpublished Essay "Juan Rodrigues Cabrillo--Discoverer of California" Plus Notes and Additional Cabrillo Related Manuscript Materials Collection of approximately 80 pages of typed and written manuscript sheets. Light toning and evidence of use with scattered dog-eared pages, paperclip marks and light wear. Very Good Condition. Archival collection in folder simply titled "Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez" Likely a compilation put together by a collector of Cabrillo related material. The set consists of the following: --Typed and written manuscript plus notes for "Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo: Discoverer of the Coast of California". The Book Club of California published a similar title by Henry Wagner but this appears to be a different essay, likely by California historian Marion Parks. The finding aid for the papers of Marion Parks at the Claremont Colleges state: "Marion Parks, a talented and resourceful personality in Los Angeles during the early 1900s,… Read More

Cannes, France, 1870. Very Good/None. French CDV album circa 1870 with wood inlay front board with Cannes printed on back board. Leather tooled spine. Gilt edges to leaves. One metal clasp missing. Very Good. 5 original watercolors by A. Vincent (one damaged at top third) and 18 CDV's from several French studios. Photo included of the several back stamps. Comes with full written provenance of the Arthur W. Parsons family with wife Helen and children Edward and Grace.

[Los Angeles]: Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, 1965. Good condition/None. The Best from APA L, 1965, Fred Patten and Tom Gilbert (editors), Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, [Los Angeles], (Salamander Press Publication, issue 108), 1965. 11 x 8.5 inches. Unpaginated. Staple bound, yellow and blue wraps with b&w illustrations. Table of contents is paginated until 124pp but leaves are unpaginated. Some color illustrations. Previous owners' names written on title page and on the inside of the rear wrap. Wraps have moderate creasing and soiling. Good condition. APA (Amateur Press Association) L was patterned directly from the APA F group in New York with the intention as being a vehicle of communication between publishing and non-publishing members of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (LASFS). This issue contains favorite illustrations, letters, reviews, musings and science fiction and fantasy tales from previous issues. Some of the authors in this issue include John Trimble, Bruce… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First. Hardcover. Good/None. African Adventures, Frederick B. Patterson, G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, London, 1928, vii, 83 pp., 10¼ x 7 ⅞ inches. Red cloth with gilt titling to spine and gilt pictorial of lion to front board, corners bumped, sunning to cover and spine, shelf wear to bottom edge, top edge gilt with soiling to all edges, deckle fore edge, uneven cut, pages toned, in protective mylar. First edition. Good condition. Author's adventures in Africa. It recounts his five month long photographic and hunting safari in Kenya in early 20th century. Chapters: Africa of Today, Into the Unknown, The Great African Circus, We Meet Lions...and Elephants, The End of the Trail, etc.

London: White Lion Publishers Limited, 1972. Hardcover. Very good/Good. The Secret War, Gerald Pawle, Foreword by Nevil Shute, White Lion Publishers, London, 1972, 297 pp., 8½ x 5⅝ inches. Red boards with gilt titling to spine, top front corner lightly dinged, light soiling to top edge pages, clean interior, tight binding. Very good condition. Dust jacket shows wear at top front cover, minor edgewear, sunning to spine, location identification sticker on head of spine, from private library with markings, mild scuffing to both front and back. Good condition. "This is the story of a group of naval scientists, the story of a department in the Admiralty which had no exact counterpart in the whole complex Allied machine which waged the Second World War against Germany and her confederates -- the fascinating, often hilarious and frequently almost incredible story of The Wheezers and Dodgers.

Six Alaska and Yukon 5 x 7 Inch Glass Plate Negatives 1914-1918 by Rev. Louis H. Pedersen All six glass plate negatives in Very Good Condition or better. 5 x 7 inches. One has small piece missing from corner. Typical emulsion flaking at edges. All identified in the negative; most dated in the negative. Great contrast and sharpness to images. Each photo in paper sleeve with photo information in pencil on five of the sleeves. Two sleeves imply the images were reproduced as RPPC's with the postcard brands Noko and Azo noted. We have digitally converted the negatives into positives--the set for sale all are original glass plate negatives. Outstanding collection of Alaska and Yukon glass plate negatives from the Reverand Louis H. Pedersen. Pedersen images are mostly seen today as real photo post cards or lantern slides. Several institutions hold Pedersen collections including the Library of Congress, Alaska State Library and University of Washington. The Pedersen Glacier in present day Kenai Fjords… Read More

Camden, SC: Premier Press, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/None. Atlantic Salmon Fishing, Charles Phair, Premier Press, Camden, South Carolina, 1985, xxiv, 219 pp., 12¼ x 9⅜ inches. Dark blue cover with gilt title to cover and spine, five bands on spine, all edges gilt, clean exterior and interior, binding tight, Limited Edition, copy #535/3000. Fine condition. Please refer to pictures for condition. Book about Atlantic salmon fishing including chapters on tackle, fly tying, choosing a guide, casting, wet and dry flies, greased line fishing, protecting salmon rivers, etc.

Liverpool, England: F.D. Richards, 1856. Good/None. Marriage and Morals in Utah, an Address Written by Parley P. Pratt, One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints, and Chaplain to the Council of the Utah Legislature--Read in Joint Session of the Legislature, in the Representatives' Hall, Fillmore City, Dec. 31, 1855, by Mr. Thomas Bullock, Chief Clerk of the House, Parley P. Pratt, F.D. Richards, Liverpool, England, 1856. 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 8pp. Staple-bound pamphlet in good condition. Loss of paper at top edge, hole punch to left corner. Light soiling. Several dog-eared corners. Infamous speech of Parley Pratt as read before the Utah legislature, December 31, 1855, in Fillmore City, Utah. Fillmore served as the territorial capitol for only one session. Speech originally was printed in the Deseret News and now printed in pamphlet format. This 8-page pamphlet is Flake 6599a printed by F.D. Richards and not Orson Pratt, as Flake 6599 is. This edition is more… Read More

1913. Photograph Album Showing a Woman's Trips to Germany, Niagara Falls, Virginia and Monroe, New York, with a Historical Bent, 1911-1913 5¾" x 8" flexible fabric album with 83 photographs adhesive mounted to construction paper leaves. Most photos around 3½" x 2½", 6 are larger, and nearly every page is captioned in a fine hand. Very good condition overall. Covers are lightly scuffed and worn, one leaf is loose, and around 24 images appear to be lacking, including a few excised. A few photos faded, a few scattered small stains. The last 7 leaves are blank. This album was compiled by Lillian V. Polak of New York. She and her husband Edwin were co-directors of a brokerage company, along with William Ehrenhaus, a German immigrant. This album features 9 shots on board the "Cleveland" in 1911 (mostly women on the ship) and 22 throughout Germany. The images are captioned in both English and German, and we begin to see Lillian's interest in history; she noted the "Ruins of the Castle of Konigstein -… Read More

Burlingame, California, 1931. [San Francisco Earthquake] A Bit of Forgotten History--The Navy at San Francisco, April 18-23, 1906 Manuscript document (8 x 10.5 inches) in duplicate consisting of 63 typed pages, recto only retained by two brads at top. First leaf loose as is back wrapper. No front wrapper. Archive also includes two photographs (6 x 8 and 7 x 9.5 inches) and one newspaper clipping from 1956. Typed manuscript in very good condition except for first detached leaf which is dog-eared with tears at top. Multiple erasure marks are evident which removed notes in pencil, plus there are several corrections in pen. Folded newspaper is worn and fragile at folds. Photos are in very good condition. Riveting first-person account, (albeit written 25 years later, based on John Pond's retained notes and records), of the San Francisco earthquake and the crucial role the United States Navy played in saving waterfront piers and ferrying emergency supplies from Oakland. John E. Pond served on the Navy… Read More

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1931. 1st. Hardback. Very Good/Good. John Jacob Astor, Kenneth W. Porter, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1931. 2 volume set, 585 and 768pp. 8.5 x 6 inches. Blue dust jackets with chipping to edges; flyleaf to volume one almost separated. Light soiling. Jackets now protected by mylar covers. Red cloth with gilt on spine. Top edge gilt, fore edge and bottom edge lightly soiled. Interior clean and bindings holding well. Volume one has bookplate on endpaper, "With the compliments of Viscount Astor and Major John Jacob Astor from the Harvard University Press." Jackets in good condition; books in very good condition. Slight glare from mylar jackets in photo. Exhaustive biography of one of America's early barons of wealth, based primarily on the business records of Astor and his various companies. A look at the myriad details of policy and management of the Astor empire. Multiple documents and sketches reproduced throughout. Sets… Read More

Bill from Rowland's Mill, Rancho La Puente to Juan [John] Temple/William Potter--March 21, 1853 Thin light blue paper with previous folds; about 4.75 x 7.75 inches. All in manuscript--half pen half pencil. Docketed on verso. Good Condition. A special little document with a trifecta of prominent early Southern California names including John A. Rowland, Juan [John] Temple, and Rancho La Puente. Specifically, this is a receipt for grain (bran and corn) milled at Rowland's Mill located at Rancho La Puente. Juan Temple appears to have been the customer with a William Potter acting as agent for John Rowland and his mill. In early 1842, Rowland (also known as "John Roland" or "Juan Roland") petitioned for a land grant and received the 11,740-acre Rancho La Puente. Rowland left his land under the keep of William Workman (another notable name) until 1847, when Rowland built the first private grist mill in the Los Angeles region, Rowland's Mill. John [Juan] Temple was a Californian ranchero and merchant,… Read More

Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1893. Good. Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1888-89, John Wesley Powell, Government Printing Office, Washington D.C., 1893, 11.5 x 8.5 inches, 822 pp. Dark olive green boards with gilt stamped illustration of an Indigenous person in a feathered headdress to front, gilt stamped lettering to spine, and blind stamped border to front and back boards. Spine and all corners bumped, moderately rubbed; light scuffing to front and back boards; top edge of text block and endpapers lightly foxed. Good condition. The United States Congress established the Bureau of Ethnology in 1879. Directed by surveyor, geologist, and U.S. Army Major John Wesley Powell, the Bureau collected European-American knowledge about Indigenous nations, motivated by the false "vanishing race" theory that Indigenous cultures and ways of life were naturally fading out of existence - though in reality they were being displaced by… Read More

Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1897. Good. Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1893-94, John Wesley Powell, Government Printing Office, Washington D.C., 1897, 11.5 x 8.5 inches, 366 pp. Dark olive green boards with gilt stamped illustration of an Indigenous person in a feathered headdress to front, gilt stamped lettering to spine, and blind stamped border to front and back boards. Newspaper clipping from an 1898 paper named "The Sun" laid in to first free endpapers; the clipping is of an article titled "Gala Day at Columbia", and recounts the 144th commencement ceremonies. A paragraph about cash prizes awarded for best books published in archaeology, ethnology, and philology is framed and underlined in black ink. Spine and all corners bumped and rubbed; moderate scuffing to front and light scuffing to back board; front and top edge of text block and endpapers foxed. Good condition. The United States Congress established… Read More

Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1896. Good. Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-92, John Wesley Powell, Government Printing Office, Washington D.C., 1896, 11.5 x 8.5 inches, 462 pp. Dark olive green boards with gilt stamped illustration of an Indigenous person in a feathered headdress to front, gilt stamped lettering to spine, and blind stamped border to front and back boards. Spine and all corners bumped, moderately rubbed; light scuffing to front and back boards; 4 inch tear to first free endpaper. Good condition. The United States Congress established the Bureau of Ethnology in 1879. Directed by surveyor, geologist, and U.S. Army Major John Wesley Powell, the Bureau collected European-American knowledge about Indigenous nations, motivated by the false "vanishing race" theory that Indigenous cultures and ways of life were naturally fading out of existence - though in reality they were being displaced by the… Read More

Salt Lake City, Utah: A. [Abinadi] Pratt, 1880. Very Good Condition/None. Angel of the Prairies; A Dream of the Future, Elder Parley Parker Pratt, Published by A. Pratt, Deseret News Printing and Publishing Establishment, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1880. 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches, 24pp. String-tied pamphlet in very good condition. Light soiling. Supposedly one of the earliest "fictional" pieces printed by the Church. In the preface, Abinadi Pratt states, "while purporting to be written under the similitude of a dream or vision, we will state that no such dream or vision was had by the writer, the whole manuscript having been written at Nauvoo, in the Winter of 1843-4. This manuscript was read...in the presence of the Prophet Joseph Smith, but never appeared in print until last spring, in the "Northern Light", when it became at once the admiration of all the Saints who had the privilege of its perusal." Early Mormon literature from one of the twelve apostles, Parley Pratt. Flake 6559.

Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico: Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times, 1957. Fine. [Mormon] The Rolling Stone Magazine: A Reprint of Numbers 3 and 4, Excerpts From "Priesthood and Church Government" The Standard L.D.S. Textbook By John A. Widtsoe And Critique of Them, Noel Pratt, Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times, Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico, circa 1957, 8.5 x 11 inches, 14 pp. Staple-bound zine; appears to be a facsimile reprint; fine condition. The Rolling Stone was a semi-official, monthly publication for circulating teachings of the Church of the Firstborn of the Fullness of Times, a polygamist offshoot of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It was mimeographed and edited by Noel B. Pratt, son of Parley Pratt, who was a first-generation leader of the Church of Latter-Day Saints. Noel B. Pratt left the Mormon Church and joined the Church of the Firstborn in 1955. He worked on The Rolling Stone starting in 1957, and included many of his own ideas in the… Read More

London: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/None. Graham, Lady Helen. Through Trackless Labrador, H. Hesketh Prichard, Sturgis & Walton Company, London, 1911, xv, 244 pp., 10¼ x 8 inches. Red boards with title in gilt on cover and spine, deckle fore edge, cloth fraying on spine edges and pulling away from spine, foxing throughout, toned pages, sewing exposed at hinge otherwise tight binding, pasted in nameplate inside front cover. First edition. Good condition. Prichard was an explorer, adventurer, big game hunter, marksman and writer. He explored territory never seen before. Detailed in this book is his exploration of the interior of Labrador, specifically recounting the journey up the Fraser River. There are illustrations throughout book.

1930. Archive of Southern California Playwright Leo Bryan Pride, 1928-1930, undated 12 typed manuscripts, 1006 pp. total. Eleven are brad-bound, one is loose in a folder. Three have faux leather covers and five have paper covers. Some manuscripts with light edgewear, a bit of light dust-soiling and a few small stains. Very Good condition overall. This is a collection of manuscripts for plays by noted Southern California playwright Leo Bryan Pride. Pride was born in Marion, Illinois in 1897. He graduated from Yale in 1928 and was living in Los Angeles the following year when he was awarded top prize in a drama contest sponsored by the Graham-Paige motor car company. He wrote "The Shadow of the Mine and Other Plays of the Coal Fields," published in 1929. Per the publisher, Samuel French, the book contained "seven remarkable one-act plays dealing with the lives of miners in the Southern Illinois coal fields" and described Pride as a "young playwright with a genuine gift for character." Pride also… Read More