Search Results: Authors starting with P from Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC

Singapore: World Scientific, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Nearr Fine. vol. 2 only. Octavo, 9" tall, xiii + 346 pages, illustrated boards. A fine, clean, neat hard cover with slight shelf wear, hinges, and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket.

New York: Chatto & Windus, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good +. Probable author's signature on the front end paper "Mary from Humphrey" but not confirmed. Octavo, 8" tall, 223 pages green boards; gilt title on spine. A very good, clean, neat copy with minor shelf wear and rubbing to the boards; hinges and binding solid, paper cream white, with light soiling to the fore-edges, plus slight cant to the spine. In a very good (minus), clean dust jacket with small chips at the folds, some yellowing to rear panel, with original price.

Ticknor & Fields, 1990. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 308 pages, purple quarter cloth with silver title on spine. A near fine, clean, neat, hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white with slight yellowing to fore-edges. In a near fine dust jacket, with the original price.

Boston, Massachusetts: Richard G. Badger, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -/Without dust jacket. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 160 pages, red cloth with gilt titles. Four B&W plates by P.O. Palmstrom. A very good minus, clean, hardcover first edition with minor shelf wear and slight soiling to the cover cloth, gilt titles on front panel bright, fading at the back strip, bumping to one corner, hinges and binding solid with a minor separation between two signatures, paper moderately yellowed (the minus is for the degree of yellowing). Lacking dust jacket. Author a former Athletic Coach at Phillips Exeter Academy and U.S. Navy Olympic Team, author of 'The Boat of Gaeta.' A rare title.

Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Without dust jacket as issued. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 367 pages, blue cloth. A fine, (unread) clean, neat hard cover first edition with minimal shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white.

Ad Mame et C: Tours, 1853. First Edition thus. Hardcover. very good minus/Without dust jacket (if issued). Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 188 pages, 8 color plates (including frontispiece) gilt fore-edges, gilt titles and decorations on embossed brown cloth. A very good minus, generally clean, with minor shelf wear, but cover cloth mottled due to foxing, paper cream white but foxed throughout with an inscription on the half-title page. Without dust jacket.

Henry Holt, 1986. First Edition, first printing. 7" Record. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 218 pages, blue quarter cloth with gilt title on spine. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with a light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine lightly worn and lightly yellowed dust jacket, with the original price.

New York, New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2002. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 278 pages, black boards with silver title on spine, gray ribbon. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine, slightly worn dust jacket, with the original price present.

New York, New York: D. Appleton & Company; NY / Doubleday, Page, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus/witjout dust jacket. Sold as a very good reading copy only. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 392 pages + 12 ads, gilt top fore-edge, gilt titles and decorations on blue cloth; previous owner's name stamp on endpaper. A very good minus, generally clean sturdy hard cover first edition over all with moderate shelf wear and rubbing to cloth at the corners, hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. Lacking dust jacket.

Harper & Brothers, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. very good/Without dust jacket. Duodecimo, 7 1/2" tall, 406 pages, decorated green cloth. A good, clean, neat hard cover with minor shelf wear, rubbing at the fore-corners; hinges and binding tight, but paper yellowed and a previous owner's name penned on the front endpaper. Without dust jacket.

Lee & Shepard: Boston, 1869. Early printing. Hardcover. Good/no dust jacket. 12mo, 7" tall, 216 pages, gilt titles and decoration on decorative red cloth. A good, generally clean, neat original hard cover edition with shelf wear and rubbing to the fore-corner tips and back strip edges, minor exterior soiling; binding solid, paper light to moderately yellowed with surface soiling and foxing to the exterior fore-edges. Without dust jacket.

Houghton Mifflin, 1975. First American edition. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 187 pages, blue cloth; includes four b&w maps. A very good, clean, hardcover first American edition, first printing, with light shelf wear to the bottom edges and to the fore-tips, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good, clean, price-clipped, moderately edge worn dust jacket with small chips at the folds, some darkening to the back strip.

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Octavo 8 1/2" tall. 273 + maps (4 pages), light blue cloth with gilt titles. A near fine, clean copy with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. A very good+, clean, lightly edge worn dust jacket with the original price present.

New York, New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Nearr Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 285 pages, brown quarter-cloth with gilt title on spine. A near fine, clean, hardcover first edition, first printing, with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket and with original price present.

Ballantine Books, 2014-12-30. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 348 pages, pale green quarter cloth with gilt title on spine. A near fine, clean hard cover with little shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good+, clean, lightly edge worn dust jacket with the original price present.

Mid Galmorgan, Wales: Seren Books, 1992. First Edition. Original Wraps. Near fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 212 pages, stiff illustrated wraps. A near fine, clean, neat soft cover original with light shelf wear, binding tight, paper white.

William Morrow, 2005. First Edition, second printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 309 pages, black and blue boards. A fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine, clean dust jacket, with the original price present.

New York, New York: Harcourt, Brace; NY, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus/Good. Octavo, 7 2/3" tall, 291 pages, brown titles on orange cloth. A very good (minus), clean, sturdy hard cover first edition over all with minor shelf wear, but light foxing to the outer cloth resulting in a light blush of spotting; hinges and binding tight, paper just moderately yellowed with light foxing to the end papers and fore-edges; with the previous owner's 'number' penned on the front free end paper (also penned on the dust jacket margin). In a good fairly rubbed dust jacket which has been reinforced on the back side by paper tape, with price clipped. Still a nice reading copy of a scarce original, later made into a movie.

William Blackwood; Edinburgh and London, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Quarto, 9 7/8" tall, xiv + 268 pages + 4 ads; marbled endpapers, gilt fore-edges, gilt titles and decorations on full, 5 banded decorative leather. A good copy only overall, front hinge cracked but holding, rubbing at the corners, top leather of the back strip cracked through at the hinge, internal binding solid, paper moderately yellowed with scattered foxing throughout. With all that, still a very impressive copy.

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press/Center for Advance Studies, 1969. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/Without dust jacket as issued. 18 pamphlets of various lengths + one 8-page explanation signed by Paul Horgan and Phillip Paul Hallie, the set contained in clam-shell red and gray cloth two-part slipcase. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 18 parts, approx 400 pages total, each pamphlet wire saddle stitched, stiff gray wraps. A near fine, clean, neat complete set with little wear, paper cream white, slight oxidation begun to some of the wire stitches. The cloth clamshell case is lightly foxed.