Search Results: Titles starting with P from Ernestoic Books

California: Benchmark Publications LTD, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing, Measuring approximately 11" x 8.75" with 296 numbered pages. This book is in very good plus condition. Minor bumping to both ends of spine. Gilt lettering and design on spine and front board is still full and vivid. Interior pages are bright and clean. Dust jacket is in very good plus condition. Minor bumping to both ends of spine. This book tells the story of the 3-foot gauge Pacific Coast Railway. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N9-106).

London: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1969. First Edition, Third Printing. First edition, third printing. Measuring approximately 11" x 8.75" with 286 numbered pages. This book is in good condition. Moderate bumping to both ends of spine. Heavy sunning to spine that bleeds into both boards. Minor staining to all edges of textblock. Front and rear hinges is cracked. Interior pages are bright and clean. Page opposite of 129 is creased down the middle by previous owner. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N8-108).

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc, 1950. First American Edition. This book is a first American edition. This book measures approximately 8.75" x 5.75" with 32 numbered pages and 18 color photographs of paintings. This book is in good minus condition. Minor bumping and sunning to the spine. Moderate staining to both front and rear boards. Minor foxing to all edges of textblock. Churchill didn't pick up a paintbrush until the age of 40 but found a passion that was to remain his constant companion. This book explores this passion that allowed him peace during his dark days. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N4-21).

1965. No Binding. Very Good. For sale is a signed pamphlet by esteemed Hematologist Dr. Philip Levine to Dr. Elias Cohen of the Roswell Park Memorial Institute, now the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York. The pamphlet is about Dr. Levine receiving the first Franz Oehlecker gold medal at the German Embassy "in recognition of [his] scientific contributions in the area of blood transfusions". The pamphlet is signed in the upper right corner in blue ink. The pamphlet is in very good condition. Light wear and soiling. Dr. Philip Levine was a Hematologist and was the first to identify the RH hemolytic disease in 1939. This led to the creation of Dr. Alexander Wiener's procedure called an Exchange Transfusion in 1946. At the time, the procedure was able to save over 200,000 lives. An intramuscular injection of anti-RHD immunoglobulin was created in 1964 and is still in use today, saving the lives of over 20,000 babies each year in the USA alone. Please view the many other rare titles… Read More

Puerto Rico: Ediciones Mirador, 1963. This book is volume I only. Measuring approximately 8.5" x 6" with 401 numbered pages. This book is in good minus condition. Minor bumping on both ends of spine. Heavy staining to spine and both boards. Moderate foxing to all edges of textblock. Moderate staining and foxing to front pastedown and endpaper. Front hinge is cracked. Dust jacket is in good condition. Moderate chipping to both ends of spine. Moderate chipping around all edges. Minor scuffing to both panels. Minor staining to both panels. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N6-27).

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1908. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Paul K. M Thomas. The Panther: A Tale of Temptation" by Anne Warner. Second edition, published by Small, Maynard & Company in Boston, 1908. 5.75'' x 8.25'', 91 pages. With the original dust jacket and black-and-white illustrations by Paul K. M. Thomas throughout. The dust jacket is in good minus condition. A stain on the front panel towards the bottom right corner. Paper loss to the spines and edges of the panels. The illustration and text are toned but bright and complete. Smudging to the text of the rear panel. Writing in pencil on the cover illustration. The book itself is in very good condition. Minor shelf wear to the spine and little to no bumping or scuffing to the corners. There is a moisture stain on the top left portion of the front board. The cover design and gilt lettering to the spine and front board are bright, clean, and well-preserved. The text block and illustrations are very well-preserved, slightly… Read More

Boston: Faber and Faber, 1984. First Edition. This book is a first edition. Measuring approximately 8.75" x 5.5" with 191 numbered pages. This book is in very good plus condition. Minor bumping to the head of spine. Minor staining to front board. Dust jacket is in very good plus condition. Minor bumping to both ends of spine. Small stains on spine and both panels. Original 7.95 price on front flap. The protagonist in the novel is Wilfred Barclay, a curmudgeonly writer who has a drinking problem, a dead marriage, and the incurable itches of middle-aged lust. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory# (N4-144).

London: Miles Flesher for Jacob Tonson, 1688. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. Peter Paul Bouche, M. Burghers. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books" by John Milton. First Illustrated Edition. Published in London in 1688, by Miles Flesher for Jacob Tonson. Engraved Frontispiece with an additional 11 full page engravings (Lacking an engraving). Fourth Edition; First Illustrated Edition. Binding measures 13.75 by 8 1/2 inches in a modern half leather binding with marbled boards. Pages measure approximately 13.25" x 8.25" (34cm x 21cm). Possibly the large paper copy, also carrying the watermark of grapes on the title and at least one other page. Text is continuous despite erratic pagination; one of three imprint variants of this edition. Frontis portrait (plate) of the author signed: R. White sculp. Some plates signed by M. Burghers and Peter Paul Bouche. The most important work by one of England's most important poets - with striking and beautiful large format engraved illustrations. The publisher… Read More

United States: Catholic Book Publishing Co, 1942. New Edition Corrected and Expanded. Limp Leather Binding. This book is written in polish, measuring approximately 4.5" x 2.75" with 220 numbered pages. This book is in good condition. Moderate scuffing to both ends of spine and around all edges of book. Gilt lettering and design on spine and front board faded. Interior pages are bright and clean. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(O1-16).

Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon and Company, 1841. First Edition. First edition. This book measures approximately 7" x 4.25", with 255 numbered pages. This book is in good condition. Heavy chipping and wear to the boards and spine. Front hinge cracked. Annotations on front pastedown. Moderate foxing throughout textblock. Previous owner's signature on the title page. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N3-84).

New York: Feldheim Publishers, 1949. Illustrated by Kafra. The Illustrated Hebrew Manuscript Reproduced with an English Translations. Text in Hebrew with English translation pamphlet laid in. Measuring approximately 12" x 10" with beautiful colored illustrations. This book is in good plus condition. Dust jacket inside flaps taped to book. Moderate staining to both panels. Interior pages are bright and clean. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # (O2-85).

Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1940. Copyright 1913 but this is a circa 1940 reprint with black and white illustrations. Measuring approximately 9" x 7" with 340 numbered pages. This book is in poor condition. Heavy chipping to both ends of spine. Top of spine is missing and underneath binding is showing. Heavy scuffing to both boards. Rear board has multiple stains and drawings in pen. Front and rear hinges are cracked and exposing mesh. Interior pages are clean. The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum is a children's novel, the seventh in the Oz series. Characters include the Woozy, Ojo "the Unlucky", Unc Nunkie, Dr. Pipt, Scraps (the patchwork girl), and others. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N9-8).

New York: PLS Press, 2001. Measuring approximately 10" x 8". This book is in good plus condition. Minor bumping to all edges of book. Minor scuffing to all edges of textblock. Interior pages are bright and clean. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(O1-105).

London: Bowles & Carver, 1800. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good. Paterson's British Itinerary Being a New and Accurate Delineation and Description of the Direct and Principle Cross Roads of Great Britain in Two Volumes" by Daniel Paterson, Esq. Second edition. Printed by Bowles & Carver, London, c1800. The volumes measure 5" x 7.75", 403 and 230 pages (633), respectively. Illustrated throughout with numerous maps and charts. Both volumes have been rebacked with a new cloth spine with their original boards. The books are in good condition. Wear and soiling to the boards. Previous owner's signature on the front paste-downs and endpapers with a stamp on the paste-down of Vol. I. The textblocks are clean and well preserved. The bindings are sound. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(G7-10).

Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea's Son & Co, 1883. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The Pathology and Treatment of Venereal Diseases" by Freeman J. BumsteadM. D., LLD and Robert W. Taylor A. M., M. D. Fifth and revised edition. Published by Henry C. Lea's Son & Co., Philadelphia, 1883. Measures 6" x 9.5", 906 pages including Index. With additional 32 pages of publisher's advertisements. Illustrated throughout with medical drawings. Bound in its original calf with black label and gilt tooling on the spine. The book is in very good minus antiquarian condition. Wear to the boards and spine, with insect damage on the front cover. Previous owner's signature in ink on the front endpaper. Some instances of soiling and creasing throughout the textblock. The textblock is largely clean and bright. The binding is sound. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(H1-31).

New York: Doubleday, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition, First Printing. Measuring approximately 9.5" x 6.25" with 371 numbered pages. This book is in very good condition. Moderate bumping to both ends of spine. Minor staining to all edges of textblock. Small inscription in pencil on front pastedown. Dust jacket is in very good condition. Moderate bumping to both ends of spine and around all edges of jacket. Original 22.50 price on front flap. The story begins with the assassinations of two ideologically divergent Supreme Court Justices. Both murders are committed by Khamel, the most wanted hitman in the world. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N6-135).

New York: Blur Ribbon Books, 1930. This is a Blue Ribbon reprint circa 1930. Measuring approximately 8.25" x 5.75" with 344 numbered pages. This book is in very good condition. Minor bumping to both ends of spine. Moderate staining on both boards. Previous owner's name and date on front endpaper. Dust jacket is in good minus condition. Heavy chipping and paper loss to head of spine. Minor chipping to tail end of spine. Minor chipping to edges of dust jacket. Penguin Island is written in the style of a sprawling 18th- and 19th-century history book, concerned with grand metanarratives, mythologizing heroes, hagiography and romantic nationalism. It is about a fictitious island, inhabited by great auks, that existed off the northern coast of Europe. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N4-96).

London: The Penny Magazine, 1834. January - June 1834. This book measures approximately 11.25" x 7.25" with 154 numbered pages. This book is in poor condition. Heavy chipping and scuffing to spine and all edges of book. Front hinge is cracked. Heavy staining to front pastedown. Many torn & pages with text loss at rear. Heavy foxing to interior pages. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N6-136).

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by the author Robert B. Parker on the title page. First edition, first printing with full 1-10 number line on the copyright page. This book measures approximately 9.25" x 6.25", with 271 numbered pages. This book is in very good plus condition. Minimal bumping to both ends of spine. Small stain on front board. Minor foxing to top and fore edge of textblock. Author's signature on title page. Dust jacket is in very good plus condition. Minor bumping to both ends of spine. Minor chipping and creasing to edges of dust jacket. Original $19.95 price on front flap. This novel is a mystery thriller written by Robert B. Parker. It was called a "Rattling good mystery" by The New York Times. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N3-14).

Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1980. Near Fine Condition. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.