Robert Pack and Jay Parini Writers on Writing [Price: $7.00] Hanover, New Hampshire, Middlebury College Press, pub1991, Hard Cover Fine/Very Good jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 294 pgs (DJ has edge chipping.) Vance Packard --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (1) The Pyramid Climbers [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Saul K. Padover The Complete Madison: His Basic Writings [Price: $5.00] New York, Harper & Brothers, c1953, Ex-Library Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 361 pgs (Usual library markings. Spine taped.) Thomas Nelson Page --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (1) John Marvel, Assistant [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) George A. Panichas The Reverent Discipline: Essays in Literary Criticism and Culture [Price: $15.00] Knoxville, Tennessee, The University of Tennessee Press, c1974, Ex-Library Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 462 pgs (Usual library markings.) Jay Parini The Norton Book of American Autobiography [Price: $50.00] New York, W.W. Norton & Company, pub1990 c1990, Trade Paperback Fine/No jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 711 pgs Eric Parker A Book of Comfort [Price: $6.00] New York, Harper & Brothers, pub1944, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 24mo (5.00-5.75 in. tall), 320 pgs (Previous owner's name marked out on front pastedown.) Sir Gilbert Parker --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (3) CHECK READING LIST (3) The Weavers [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) You Never Know Your Luck [Price: $14.00], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) C. Northcote Parkinson --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (2) In-Laws and Outlaws, Robert C. Osborn, illustrator [Price: $10.00] Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Riverside Press, pub1962 c1962, Hard Cover Fine/Fair jacket, 1st ed, 1st prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 238 pgs (DJ has spine edge wear with small tear top corner and 1-inch tear upper spine.) Eric Partridge A Charm of Words: Essays and Papers on Language [Price: $10.00] New York, The Macmillan Company, pub1961 c1960, Ex-Library Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, stated 1st American ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 190 pgs (Usual ex-library markings. Light blue cover worn with ink marks.) Alan Paton --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (3) CHECK READING LIST (1) Cry, the Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation [Price: $9.00] New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, c1948, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 278 pgs (Picture of the author on back dj cover. Dj has a tear in spine which has been taped. Dj shows some wear with rubbing, bumping & some small tears to the edges. Some discoloration to back end papers. Inside pages clean, bright & unmarked.) James Patterson and Peter de Jonge --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (1) The Beach House [Price: $6.00] Boston, Little, Brown and Company, c2002, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 358 pgs (A little corner bumping, minor soiling to boards, light edge rubbing. Gentle shelf wear to dj. Picture of author on back dj cover.) Michael Pearson Those Damned Rebels: The American Revolution As Seen Through British Eyes [Price: $20.00] New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1972, Hard Cover Very Good/Fair jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 446 pgs Theodore Calvin Pease The Story of Illinois [Price: $10.00] Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, pub1959 c1949, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 4th 1959 prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 284 pgs (Usual ex-library markings. Blue cloth cover scuffed and bumped with edge wear.) Donald Culross Peattie Green Laurels: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Naturalists [Price: $10.00] New York, The Literary Guild, c1936, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 368 pgs (Boards and edges soiled and faded. Previous owner's name on inside.) Immortal Village: (adapted from Vence, the Story of a Provencal Town Through Two Thousand Years), Paul Landacre, illustrator [Price: $5.00] Chicago, University of Chicago Press, pub1945 c1945, Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, 2nd prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 201 pgs (Cover soiled. Page v has 1-inch closed tear at top.) Morse Peckham Beyond the Tragic Vision: The Quest for Identity in the Nineteenth Century [Price: $10.00] New York, George Braziller, pub1962 c1962, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 1st prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 380 pgs (Corner bumped with slight wear to spine head and tail.) Stephen C. Pepper The Basis of Criticism In the Arts [Price: $8.00] Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, pub1946 c1945, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 2nd prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 177 pgs (Black cloth cover with spine slightly worn.) Anthea Peppin People in Art [Price: $15.00] Chippenham, United Kingdom, Merlion Publishing, pub1993 c1991, Hard Cover Fine/No jacket, 3rd prtg, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 48 pgs (Pictorial cover.) Walker Percy --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (4) CHECK READING LIST (2) The Last Gentleman [Price: $8.25] New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1966, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, stated 1st prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 409 pgs (Some rubbing, bumping and sunning to cover and spine. Water stain on bottom text edge. Some page yellowing, but text is clean. Binding tight.) David Perkins A History of Modern Poetry: From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode [Price: $10.00] Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, pub1977 c1976, Hard Cover Fair/Fair jacket, 2nd prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 623 pgs (FFEP missing otherwise very good. Boards and DJ have edge wear.) Noel Perrin A Passport Secretly Green [Price: $10.00] New York, St. Martin's Press, c1961, Hard Cover Good/Very Good jacket, possible 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 181 pgs (Usual ex-library markings. Wrapped in mylar.) Clay Perry English Country Villages, Text by Ann Gore and Laurence Fleming [Price: $15.00] New York, Viking, pub1986 c1986, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 1st American ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 160 pgs Laurence J. Peter --- CHECK READING LIST (1) The Peter Prescription: How to Be Creative, Confident, & Competent [Price: $3.00] New York, William Morrow & Company, Inc., c1972, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 224 pgs The Peter Prescription: How to Be Creative, Confident, & Competent [Price: $5.00] New York, William Morrow & Company, Inc., c1972, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 7th ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 224 pgs Harry T. Peters Currier & Ives: Printmakers to the American People, Design and typography by A. P. Tedesco [Price: $10.00] Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., c1942, Hard Cover Good/Fair jacket, Special ed, fo. (12.00-15.00 in. tall), 41 pgs (192 plates, some in color, including frontis, portraits, & facsimiles. Some soiling to book cover and edges. DJ is soiled and ripped in several places.) Roger Tory Peterson A Field Guide to the Birds: Giving Field Marks of all Species Found East of the Rockies., Text and Illustrations by Roger Tory Peterson [Price: $20.00] Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, pub1962 c1947, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 29th prtg, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 290 pgs (Second Revised and Enlarged Edition. Sponsored by National Audubon Society. 60 plates, some in color. Previous owner's name on front endpapers. Front endpapers slightly wrinkled. Some rubbing and bumping to boards & spine. Clean text.) Wilferd Arlan Peterson --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) The Art of Living, Day by Day [Price: $10.00] New York, Simon and Schuster, pub1972 c1972, Remainder Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 1st ed, 1st prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 411 pgs (Remainder mark on text bottom. Top sunned. Some spotting on text edges.) George A. Petrides A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs, Illus. by Petrides (leaves/twigs) & Peterson (flowers, fruits, silhts) [Price: $20.00] Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, c1958, Hard Cover Very Good/Fair jacket, 7th prtg, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 431 pgs (Field marks of all trees, shrubs, and woody vines that grow wild in the northeastern and north-central US and in south-eastern and south-central Canada. Part of Peterson Field Guide Series. DJ ripped & wrinkled. Writing on inside cover.) A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs: Part of Peterson Field Guide Series [Price: $20.00] Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, c1958, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 2nd prtg, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 431 pgs (Field marks of all trees, shrubs, & woody vines that grow wild in the northeastern and north-central US & in south-eastern & south-central Canada. Mild soiling to text edges. Some wear to top and bottom of spine.) William Lyon Phelps --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (5) CHECK READING LIST (1) As I Like It [Price: $20.00 signed & dated w/ unpersonalized inscription] New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, pub1924 c1923, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 236 pgs (Blue cloth with slightly worn spine label. Pages begining to brown.) Judy E. Pickens The Freelancer's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Selling Your Freelance Services [Price: $6.00] Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., pub1981 c1981, Remainder Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 135 pgs Edward Motley Pickman The Sequence of Belief: A Consideration of Religious Thought from Homer to Ockham [Price: $15.00] New York, St. Martin's Press, c1962, Hard Cover Very Good/Poor jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 741 pgs (DJ back has large open tear) Rosamunde Pilcher --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (2) CHECK READING LIST (2) Coming Home [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) September [Price: $7.00] New York, St. Martin's Press, pub1990 c1990, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 536 pgs (Jacket has minor rub marks with top edge slightly bumped.) Belva Plain --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (2) CHECK READING LIST (2) Evergreen [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Edgar Allan Poe --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (39) CHECK READING LIST (9) The Works of Edgar Allan Poe [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Rien Poortvliet The Book of the Sandman and the Alphabet of Sleep [Price: $25.00] New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., pub1989 c1988, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 121 pgs Alexander Pope --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (817) CHECK READING LIST (3) The Complete Poetical Works of Pope, edited by Henry W. Boynton [Price: $10.00] Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, c1931, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 8th prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 672 pgs (DJ is worn and creased with edge wear.) Sylvia Porter --- CHECK READING LIST (1) Sylvia Porter's Money Book: How to Earn It, Spend It, Save It, Invest It, Borrow It-- . . . [Price: $5.00] Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., c1975, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 1105 pgs Sylvia Porter's New Money Book for the 80's: Volumes 1 and 2 [Price: $10.00] Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., c1979, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, 76-20725 prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 694 pgs (Slight soiling to DJ back and text page edges.) Chaim Potok --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (4) CHECK READING LIST (3) My Name Is Asher Lev [Price: $7.00] New York, Alfred A. Knopf [distributed by Random House], c1972, Hard Cover Good/Good jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 373 pgs (Some soiling to book cover. Dj is faded and shows signs of wear, especially around the edges. Picture of author on back dj cover.) Stanley Pottinger The Fourth Procedure: A Novel of Medical Suspense [Price: $8.25] New York, Ballantine Books, c1995, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, 2nd ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 550 pgs (A little rubbing, a little bumping, and minor soiling to ffep. Otherwise, a clean, bright, tight copy in a very good dj. Price not clipped on dj. Picture of author on back inside dj cover.) John Potts Beyond Initial Reading [Price: $15.00] New York, Schocken Books, pub1976 c1976, Hard Cover Very Good/Poor jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 115 pgs (DJ has edge wear, tears and chipping.) Frederick H. Pough A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals [Price: $20.00] Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, c1960, Hard Cover Very Good/Fair jacket, 3rd ed, 6th prtg, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 349 pgs (Part of the Peterson Field Guide Series. Some color plates. DJ ripped and wrinkled in several places.) A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals [Price: $6.00] Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, c1960, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, stated 3rd ed, stated 1st prtg, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 349 pgs (Part of the Peterson Field Guide Series. Some color plates. Slight soiling and bumping to corners and spine ends.) Anthony Powell --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (2) CHECK READING LIST (1) The Strangers All Are Gone: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell: Volume IV [Price: $9.00] New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, pub1983 c1982, Ex-Library Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, 1st American ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 208 pgs (Usual ex-library markings. Wrapped in mylar.) John W. Pratten Portrait Painting for Beginners [Price: $8.00] New York, Watson-Guptill Publicationis, Inc., pub1955 c1955, Hard Cover Good/Fair jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 112 pgs (Endpapers foxed. Spine bumped. DJ stained with several small open tears.) John Press Poetic Heritage: A Sunday Time Anthology of English Verse fromthe 16th to the 20th Century [Price: $10.00] London, Andre Deutsch Limited, pub1957 c1957, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, possible 1st ed, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 128 pgs (previous owner's name on FFEP, DJ price clipped with handwritten notes on backflap) John Boynton Priestley --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (3) CHECK READING LIST (2) The Image Men [Price: $8.00] Boston, Little, Brown and Company, c1969, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 605 pgs (Previous owner's name inscribed on ffep.) V.S. (Victor Sawdon) Pritchett Selected Stories [Price: $10.00] New York, Random House, c1978, Hard Cover Fine/Very Good jacket, 2nd ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 332 pgs Alan Pryce-Jones The New Outline of Modern Knowledge: The Arts and Sciences of the Twentieth Century Interpreted and Translated . . . [Price: $12.00] New York, Simon and Schuster, pub1956 c1956, Hard Cover Good/Good jacket, 1st prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 621 pgs (Pages aging slightly. DJ price clipped with edges chipped.) Mario Puzo --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (5) CHECK READING LIST (3) Fools Die [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Ernie Pyle --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (2) CHECK READING LIST (3) Brave Men [Price: $10.00] New York, Henry Holt and Company, pub1944 c1944, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 4th before pub prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 328 pgs (Inscription on ffep. Cover soiled. Corners and spine ends bumped and worn)
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