Search Results: Titles starting with P from Turn and Temper Books

Pantheon, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lonni Sue Johnson (Jacket Illustration); Louise Fili (Jacket Design) (illustrator). 1st American Edition. 376 pp. Solidly bound copy that feels unread with some slight foxing on the top and dj with scuffs on the spine, otherwise unmarked. Crisp pages and clean text.

The Perry-Nalle Publishing Company, 1912. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. History. Red cloth covers rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped, spine darkened with title barely readable. Interior text is clean. Scarce original printing.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. 175p., Fine first edition in cloth boards and Fine lightly-worn unclipped dj in protective mylar sleeve. Autobiography by the fourth child of Thomas Mann who escaped to America when the Nazis came to power. She lost her husband when their boat was torpedoed.

HarperCollins, 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Gently used hardback and jacket. Only slight wear. No owners' names or labels. Dust jacket is enclosed in a clear protective cover. Text is clean, unmarked. Binding is tight. First edition, 1st printing. Full number line ending in "1".

Dodd, Mead & Company, 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. W. Heath Robinson. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Robinson, W. Heath (illustrator). First Edition. Copyright, 1961 by Dodd, Mead & Company. Midnight blue full cloth boards, black impressed spine titles, light shelf wear. Pages fine; no writing except for a touching inscription on front free endpaper from parents to child. Frontispiece color plate in subdued hues of small ones arriving at night house castle of stone: "They reached the house where the light was burning." Bind fine; hinges intact. Scarce original dust wrapper, light shelf wear on tips and base of spine; unclipped 5.95. Illustrated throughout with the enchanting imagery of W. Heath Robinson. The fairy tales of the master Charles Perrault are presented here in a complete collection that includes the classics, but three originally in verse - "The Ridiculous Wishes," "Donkey-Skin" and "Patient… Read More

Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Condition: Fine. Dustjacket: Good. Tight and clean binding. Previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper and penciled name/code. Pages are clean and binding feels crisp. Boards are without scuffs, dents, or marks. Price-clipped DJ has significant chipping on base and top, as well as several smaller tears at base or top throughout.

Modern Library, 1948. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Book in solid, tight condition, unmarked aside from small owner name opposite fly leaf and minor pencil underlining. Dust jacket price intact, with wear to corners/spine ends and front.

Delacorte Press, 1952. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. A Nice Clean Tight Book, No Marks Or Inscriptions. Purple Cloth Covered Boards In Excellent Condition With Gilt Title On Spine. Excellent condition.

Pantheon Books, 1989. First Edition ?. Hardcover/Hardback. Fine/Very Good. FIRST PRINTING of the First American Edition (stated). A study of several centuries of outstanding diaries and diarists, often those of leading artists, writers, and intellectuals, reflecting a unique literary art form in and of itself, providing fascinating insightful portraits into their lives, times, and contemporaries. Near Fine hardcover with Very Good dust jacket, illustrations, sources, 388pp. Unclipped price, no tears or blemishes on dust jacket or boards. A very nice copy. First American Edition (stated). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Henry Holt and Co., 2014. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper. Tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered.

Random House, 1944. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Lewis, Allen. Hardbound Clothbinding. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book pages and covers are clean, with separating of spine at the table of contents page. Dust jacket very good with mylar cover. Illustrated Modern Library edition.

Doubleday, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine DJ. First Edition Stated. Doubleday 1988 First Edition Stated Fine/Near Fine DJ Also Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Bright illustrated pages a few full color illustrations. LARGE HEAVY ITEM 2.5. Pounds. Size: 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 x 3/4 inches. No Expedited.

White House Historical Association with the cooperation of the National Geographic Society, 1986. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing stated, no writing, marks, underlining, or bookplates. No remainder marks. Spine is tight and crisp. Boards are flat and true and the corners are square.Two-volume bound set in matching slipcase - green with embossed gold lettering. Author William Seale states, " In these two volumes I have completed a history of the interaction between the building and the people associated with it, beginning with Pierre Charles L'Enfant who would have built a presidential palace, and shows how George Washington finally had to wrest himself free from this dreamer and place the project in the hands of a practical builder." Gilt quality with paste down pictorial of White House on front of slipcase. A remarkable journey from its origins through to the George W. Bush years.… Read More

Harvard University Press, 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover book in fine, pristine condition with matching fine condition of DJ. Price is intact on the DJ.

Harvard University Press, 1990. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine, Clean & Unmarked. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A very nice, clean & tight copy. Unclipped dust-jacket has light sunning to spine, otherwise fine. Nearly new. 113 pp.

The Macmillan Company, 1946. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. Stated Third Printing. "A distinguished teacher writes of the fun of learning", with the author's style being a very human and humorous account of life in the educational world. Also noted as an autobiography of American education. INSCRIBED by author on front free endpaper.