Search Results: Titles starting with P from Arches Bookhouse

Bernard Tauchnitz, 1874. Editio Stereotypa. Hardcover. GOOD. 16mo, printed orange paper over boards backed in brown cloth. Latin text with critical introduction. Tips worn, some penciling, sound and square otherwise.

The American Philosophical Society, 1968. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/Very Good. xvi, 112 pp. Owner name to FFEP, sharp and clean otherwise. DJ clipped.

Oxford, 1912. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. xxviii, 743 pp. Frontispiece Caxton facsimile, date in pen to FFEP, penciling in margins to Chronological List of Authors, some light rubbing to extremities, a few splotches to front board, sound and unmarked otherwise.

Oxford University Press, 1986. Trade Paperback. FINE. Complete in three volumes, each entirely clean and sharp.

Charles C. Thomas, 1955. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Very Good. xxiv, 736 pp. 53 b/w plates in text. Green marbled boards, gilt spine lettering. Owner stamp to FFEP, a bit of foxing, some rubbing to extremities, spine leaning, sound otherwise. DJ toned, a few chips and tears.

F. A. Davis Company, 1953. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. xviii, 440 pp. Maroon finished cloth, gilt lettering. 184 Illustrations. Owner name to FFEP, some rubbing to extremities, very sharp and clean otherwise.

Charles C. Thomas, 1954. Paperback. VERY GOOD. 50 pp. Stapled binding in paper wraps. Owner stamp to half-title, wrappers toned, some foxing, sound otherwise.

Putnam’s, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. GOOD. xxi, 229. Black and white images, deckled fore edge. Owner name to FFEP, front hinge starting, rear hinge cracked, foxing, some staining to boards, spine sunned, some penciling, sound otherwise.

Bible Society of Micronesia. Hardcover. FINE. 12mo, burgundy buckram, gilt stamped lettering. Worn, scant highlighting, title page and TOC page severed but present, rearward lilt to spine. Undated printing.

Pakistan Publications, 1969. Popular Edition. Paperback. GOOD. 256 pp. Illustrated throughout with color and b/w in-text illustrations. 4to, sewn binding in color printed wraps. Wraps and tips worn, sound and unmarked otherwise. Occasional stains and pen notes. Geographical, political, cultural, and historical essays by various writers accompanied by extensive photos. Exceedingly scarce. OCLC lists 1 copy.

Manohar Book Service, 1973. First English Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/Very Good. [8], 352 pp. 12mo, black finished cloth, gilt spine lettering. Owner's name to FPEP, pristine copy otherwise, entirely clean and sharp. DJ price clipped with some loss to blurb, tips rubbed, peeled spot to front, now wrapped in mylar. First appearance in English of a major work by one of the foremost Bengali writers of the 20th century. First published in Bengali in 1943, Panchagram narrates a farmers' cooperative between five villages attempting to resist increasing land tax. "Their struggle to realize the social utopia dreamed of by so many people in the early thirties is not an unfamiliar theme to readers of Western literature. But the nature of the utopia, the characters and their perceptions belong to Bengal. Tarasankar's unusual gift for depicting the village scene and presenting its people in vivid portrayal is in full evidence in this work. An intense picture is given of the political and… Read More

Harvard University Press, 1971. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/Very Good. x, 434 pp. Rubbing to extremities, some splotching to fore edge, sharp and clean otherwise. DJ clipped, some shelf wear.

Harvard University Press, 1968. Loeb Classical Library 323. Hardcover. GOOD. Ex-lib. Slightly bowed. Rubbing to cover. Binding sturdy. No dust jacket.

Alexander MacLehose, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. 461 pp, frontispiece. 8vo, blue cloth, deckled fore and tail edges. Clean, tight copy.

Harper and Row, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. NEAR FINE/Very Good. 124 pp. Deckled fore edge. Some light rubbing to extremities, sharp and clean otherwise. DJ a bit of shelf wear.

Fleming H. Revell, 1905. Hardcover. GOOD. 128 pp. Maroon boards, gilt lettering. Foxing, owner name to FFEP, some underlining and marginalia, white pen to spine, clean otherwise.

Cambridge University Press, 1951. Hardcover. FINE/Very Good. xvii, 289 pp. Orange cloth, gilt spine lettering, fold out map. A pristine copy. DJ faintly sunned, lightly foxed, two short tears.

Pilgrim, 1971. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. 172 pp. Owner stamp and ticket to FFEP, very sharp and clean otherwise.

Oxford, 1962. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Very Good. Some light rubbing to tips, very faint foxing, owner stamp to FFEP, sharp and clean otherwise. DJ a few chips and tears, toned.

John M. Watkins, 1912. Second Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. 151 pp. 16mo, navy cloth, gilt lettered spine and front cover, gilt head, decked fore and tail, frontispiece 'The Eternal Wisdom' B/W woodcut of Atlas figure beholding elevated crucifix. 1912 second printing of the same year's first. Extremities rubbed, corners bruised, a few dog-eared pages, isolated pen marking to p. 96. Clean and sound otherwise. A presentable copy of Underhill's third book. A scarce early printing.