Search Results: Authors starting with P from Barker Books & Vintage

Doubleday & Company, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First edition, near fine hardcover in near fine dust jacket (price at flap). 360 pages with black & whites. Nice copy of this biographical work from the legendary televison personality.

Total Sports Illustrated, 2000. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. No reference to later printing, near fine hardcover in near fine dust jacket (price at flap) with both showing just a touch of wear. 200 pages with a set of black & white plates. Still a good looking copy of this engaging look at the greatest rounds ever as told by "The Fight Doctor.

Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First printing signed by the author under his name on the title page, near fine hardcover in near fine dust jacket (price at flap) with both showing just a touch of wear. 592 pages with notes and black & whites. Good looking copy of this well regarded biography of the noted American diplomat and author.

Heyday Books, 1998. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. First printing, near fine trade paperback shows some exposure toning along spine and bumping to spine head, else tight and clean. 343 pages with black & whites and index. Nice copy of this engaging anthology of California history.

Eastern Washington State College, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good + oversized hardcover (blue with white letter) shows some mild rubbing and soil to covers but is otherwise tight, clean and unmarked. Still a nice copy of this 1962-1963 yearbook of the Eastern Washington State College now Eastern Washington University.

Image Books, 1984. Paperback. Very Good. Very good + trade paperback is tight and clean while showing some light shelf and trace wear. 193 pages. Still a nice copy of this notable look at Merton.

Dupont Book Co., 1998. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Inscribed to Dave on front endpaper, near fine hardcover in near fine dust jacket (price at flap) with both showing just a touch of wear. 396 pages. Still a pleasing copy of this "..story of young American patriot from the farmlands of Minnesota." Inscribed.

Artisan, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First printing, near fine showing some indentations to cover and light wear along spine edges in near fine jacket showing same indentations and with "IACP Cookbook Awards Winner" sticker affixed to cover. 431 pages with some illustrations. Remains an attractive copy of this "ode to American cooking

The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, 1932. Revised. Hardcover. Very Good. Revised edition, Very good + maroon cloth hardcover (no dust jacket) with gilt letter and decoration shows dulling to gilt along spine and light bit of shelf wear and soil to covers, else tight and clean. 84 pages with black & whites. Still a pleasing copy of this work on "the acquisition, restoration, and care of the house of Washington...

Michael Joseph, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First edition, near fine blue cloth hardcover shows bumping to top corners and some other light trace wear, in near fine dust jacket (Scribner's price sticker at bottom of front flap) that shows bit of wrinkling at spine tail and couple of corners. 207 pages with index and illustrations in black & white and color. Nice copy of this work that provides a "..highly readable account of the pageantry and ceremonial in which Britain is so rich...

The Pyne Press, 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Facsimile reprinting of the 1904 edition, near fine cloth harcover shows just a touch of wear, in near fine dust jacket (price at flap) that shows light rubbing and couple of wrinkles. Over 600 pages including index and with over 425 illustrations. This remains a pleasing copy of this facsimile edition of the noted issue that highlighted the work of the legendary American cartoonist.

Citadel Press, 1961. Paperback. Very Good. First paperback edition is very good with some mild she;lf and trace wear including touch of rubbing and soil to wraps and name at top of front blank. 632 pages with index. Solid copy of this work that includes a biographical essay by Foner and containing in their entirety Common Sense, American Crisis, Rights of Man, Agrarian Justice, and Age of Reason.

Random House, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. First American edition, near fine yellow cloth in very good jacket with a couple of short closed tears and a tad off center from sliding. 255 pages loaded with black & whites. Remians an attractive copy of this social history of the Empire's final years.

Random House Inc, 1997. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. 2nd printing, near fine hardcover in like jacket (price at flap) with both showing some mild shelf and trace wear including some rubbing with tiny tear at top corner of front panel of jacket. 191 pages, heavily illustrated. Lovely copy of this collection of tree portraits.

Joy Street Books / Little, Brown & Co., 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. First printing, very good + oblong hardcover shows a black remainder mark at top page edges and areas of toning to covers and some other mild trace wear, in very good dust jacket (price at flap) that shows scratches, stciker blemish at top corner of front panel and edgewear that incudes closed tears. 48 pages nicely illustrated in black & white. Solid copy of this story of wool aimed at children.

Doubleday, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First printing with couple of stamps to half title and signed by the author "Alex Drive Carefully!" as well. Near fine hardcover shows a heavy bump to bottom corner of front cover in near fine dust jacket (price at flap) showing just a touch of wear. 320 pages. Still a pleasing copy of this work from the noted author of Fight Club and others.

The Newman Press, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. First thus. Very good + hardcover shows faded stamp at front end paper, touch of shelf wear to covers and age toning to pages, in very good + dust jacket (price at flap) that shows exposure toning along spine and mild edge wear includign a couple of closed tears. 265 pages including index. Still an attractive copy of this 34th installment in the Ancient Christian Writers series.

Greenwood Press, 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Greenwood reprinting, 1969, of the work originally published in 1860 by Eyre and Spottiswoode, near fine, oversized brown cloth hardcover shows touch of pencil shadow to top corner of front endpaper and some other light shelf and trace wear including a couple of small ink spots at fore edge of beginning of further papers that is from the original, otherwise tight and unmarked. 64 pages followed by a number of maps including a full page foldout and then followed by another 75 pages of further papers with additional maps including a foldout. Still a pleasing copy of this reprinting of the noted work from the legenedary geographer-explorer presented to the British Parliament by Her Majesty in 1859.

M. G. Hurtig Ltd., 1969. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. First edition thus, near fine cloth hardcover shows a name at top of front pastedown and some other mild trace wear, in very good + dust jacket that shows some light edgewear, couple of tiny rub spots at spine edge and mild exposure toning to spine as well. 326 pages with black & white illustrations. Still a pleasing copy of this reprinting of the classic work that tells of Palliser's mid-nineteenth century adventures in Eastern Montana and Western North Dakota.

Random House, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. First edition, near fine oversized hardcover with glossy illustrated boards shows a security sticker at rear paste down and some other very mild trace wear, in very good + dust jacket (price at flap) that shows a Zagat's sticker to front panel, closed tear at bottom corner of rear panel and bit of wrinkling at bottom edge of rear panel as well. 205 pages very nicely illustrated. Still an attractive copy of this work where-in "..Palmer shares for the first time the delectable secrets of his culinary genius.