Search Results: Authors starting with P from The Petersfield Bookshop

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Blue cloth Size: Octavo (standard book size). Slight wear to spine. Moderately foxed throughout. Previous owner's signature in ink. Edges slightly foxed. Category: Fiction; 1920s; .

London: The Library Association, 1984. Second Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Red cloth cloth with dustwrapper, black and white illustrations. Second revised and enlarged edition with well over 8000 items listed including pamphlets and ephemeris. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Cricket; Books on Books. ISBN: 0853659028. ISBN/EAN: 9780853659020. . 9780853659020

York: Wilton, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. inscribed by author Size: Octavo (standard book size). Category: Biography & Autobiography; Britain/UK; Modern; .

Genesis, 2014. First Edition. Pictorial hardback. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. James Patrick Page OBE is an English musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.A plethora of photographs of one of the most iconic rock legengds. Incolour and black and white. Some small bumps to corners Size: Folio. Category: Biography & Autobiography; .

Horace Cox, 1895. First Edition. Green Gilt Cloth. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. With folding map to rear of book and illustartions.Large crease to spine, corners bumped. Previous owners signature, coners bymped Size: Octavo (standard book size). Category: Travel & Places; .

Morquodale, 1932. First Edition. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. . Green cloth-covered bevelled boards, gilt tiles on leather cover label; ; top edge gilt, others untrimmed; illustrated with drawings, b/w photographs, painting reproductions, 1 in color. An update from the Club's original history of 1908 showing new members; increase & decrease of certain mayflies on the Test;2 Small marks to covers Size: Quarto. Multiple copies available this title. Category: Fishing & Hunting; .

East Sussex: The Truggery / Otherwise, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). As New. Signed by Author. Maroon cloth with dustwrapper. Signed by the author on title-page, with loosely inserted promotion leaflet. Size: Small Octavo. 192 pages. Category: Crafts & Hobbies; Rural Trades & Skills; Vocational skills & trades; Traditional trades & skills; Signed by Author. ISBN: 1999922204. ISBN/EAN: 9781999922207. Dewey Code: 746.412. . 9781999922207

New York: The Norman W. Henley Company, 1924. Hardcover. Good Condition. Second edition, revised and englarged. A fascinating early text on the subject illustrated throughout from black and white photos and diagrams. 693pp. This copy has been recently recased in maroon boards with a cloth spine and paper label, smartly done. The first first pages have a little damage, including some tape repairs but generally, although the cheap paper has browned somewhat, the book is in good condition throughout. Size: Octavo . Category: Engineering, Industrial, Trade; .

Croydon: W. D. Hayward, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Green cloth boards. In good order. Size: Small Quarto. Category: Genealogy & Local History; .

1973. No Dust Jacket. PASTORELLY, MONTE - CARLO, 1973. Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon, mais quelques fixations frottees. Avec divers illustrateurs en couleur.Peut entrainer des frais de port supplementaires.Une tache sur le capot avant Size: Octavo (standard book size). 13 volumes of the 28-volume set. Category: Theatre & Plays; .

Chronicle, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. This edition collects more than 300 of the artistic ingredients that went into making of this heart warming film, all in colour. Size: oblong. Category: Art & Design; .

London: Edward Truelove. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Original publisher's blindstamped cloth boards. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Category: Religion & Theology; .

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. This remarkable tree was first noted by 18th century explorers for their incredible girth and size and their bizarre tangle of roots sprouting forth. Filled with incredible coloured pictures Size: Quarto. Category: Natural History & Resources; .

London: Society of Genealogists, 2004. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Top right hand corner of title page missing. Otherwise very good. Size: Octavo . Category: Genealogy & Local History; .

University of Chicago Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Almost As New/As New. One of the most memorable and affecting Shakespearean characters is Edgar in King Lear. He has long been celebrated for his faithfulness in the face of his father's rejection, and the scene in which he saves his blinded father from suicide is regarded as one of the most moving in all of Shakespeare. In Poor Tom, Simon Palfrey asks us to rethink all those received ideas - and thus to experience King Lear as never before. He argues that Edgar is Shakespeare's most radical experiment in characterization - and also his most exhaustive model of both human and theatrical possibility. The key to the Edgar character is that he spends most of the play disguised, much of it as "Poor Tom of Bedlam," and his disguises come to uncanny life. The Edgar-role is always more than one person; it animates multitudes, past and present and future, and gives life to states of being beyond the normal reach of the senses-undead, or… Read More

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946. Hardcover. Fair Condition/Fair. Second impression. This copy is slightly dulled but has a complete jacket, designed by John Piper which has just a few chips and short, closed tears to the edges. Size: Octavo . Category: Fiction; .

Hindhead, Surrey: Governing Body of the St Edmund's SchoolTrust, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition. Signed by Author. Blue cloth with dustwrapper, illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed by the author on the title page. Light wear to top edge of wrapper. Size: Octavo. Category: History; Education. Signed by Author. .

London: Batsford, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Category: Crafts & Hobbies; Britain/UK; 1990s; .

Faber and Faber, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. White cloth with dustwrapper. Other Colours is a collection of immediate relevance and timeless value, ranging from lyrical autobiography to criticism of literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his friendship with his daughter Ruya to provocative discussions of Eastern and Western art. It also covers Pamuk's recent, high profile, court case. My Father's Suitcase, Pamuk's 2006 Nobel Lecture, a brilliant illumination of what it means to be a writer, completes the selection from the figure who is now without doubt one of international literature's most eminent and popular figures. Size: Octavo. 400 pages. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Prose: non-fiction; Prose: non-fiction; Literary Essays; Literature & Literary. ISBN: 0571236863. ISBN/EAN: 9780571236862. Dewey Code: 894.3543. . 9780571236862

Athens: Adam Editions, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrated throughout with full colour photos. Documents the excavation and finds at the ancient city of Dion. A little shelfwear. Size: Quarto. Category: Archaeology; .