Search Results: Titles starting with P from Caroliniana

[New York]: Professional Golfers' Association of America, [1939]. 8vo, 163pp, yellow wrappers. Includes an essay "The Golf Professional" by George J. Jacobus, P.G.A. President, as well as "Open Tournament Golf" by Fred J. Corcoran, manager of the P.G.A tournament bureau, plus listings of golf tournament records through the year 1939. Scarce. Offsetting, rubbing and spotting to wrappers.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1923. 4to, 567 pp, original green cloth with gilt, numerous illustration plates. First edition. Ownership inscription to front endpaper of Arthur Chandler Bleakley, a prominent Augusta, Gerogia pathologist and inventor of the "Chandler Loop". A good plus copy with toning to pages, foxing to first and last few leaves, wear and staining along edges, mild soiling, toning to spine.

Boston: Abel Tompkins, 1838. First Edition. 6.25 x 4", original brown cloth with gilt cover title, 69 pp. The first book by Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo, an early American woman author who edited The Rose of Sharon annual between 1840 and 1848. The book is a moral tale for children intended to "portray the loveliness of early piety," and taking place "along the banks of the Connecticut River". 1838 gift inscription to front endpaper. Covers discolored, wrinkled and faded, binding slightly loose, foxing to pages, small splits to cloth along spine.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948. 8.25 x 5.5", teal hardcover with dust jacket, 333 pp. A sequel to King's Row, this novel follows the life of young Dr. Parris Mitchell learning the needs of himself and community as he begins his young practice in his old town. Foxing to endpapers and text block edges, light wear to edges of covers, dust jacket rubbed and soiled, very good.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Very good with hint of staining to front cover, offsetting to front endpaper, rubbing to jacket, small closed tear to upper edge of front panel of dj, few tiny chips to dj.

[Edgefield, South Carolina]: Sarah Rainsford Collett, 1951. 8vo, original blue cloth, 51pp. Collection of poems by an Edgefield, South Carolina resident. A bright copy with wear and discoloration to covers.

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1844. First Edition. Small 8vo, marbled boards with black morocco spine with gilt bands and gilt spine titles, 234 pp, illustrated with engravings. Mild toning and foxing to pages, shelf stamp to spine, ownership stamps to pastedowns, wear to covers.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1938. 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket. First edition. Very good with bit of soiling to covers, in a very good dust jacket with spine a bit faded, minor soiling and creasing, couple of closed tears to jacket.

New York: Pantheon Books, No Date, circa 1950s. Small Octavo. Charming vintage edition of this beloved romance. Decorative orange paper over black cloth boards, gilt spine title. A very good copy with rubbing and some loss to paper to edges and corners, spine sunned, pages toned. A really fun printing of this tale.

New York: Pantheon Books, No Date, circa 1950s. Small Octavo. Charming vintage edition of this beloved romance. Decorative orange paper over black cloth boards, gilt spine title. A nice copy with corners rubbed with some loss to paper, small stain to spine.

New York: Pantheon Books, No Date, circa 1950s. Small Octavo. Charming vintage edition of this beloved romance. Decorative orange paper over black cloth boards, gilt spine title. A very good copy with toning to pages, ownership signature to front endpaper, corners and spine ends rubbed with some loss to cloth and paper, spine cloth lightly faded.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, Circa 1935. Mabel Lucie Attwell illustrations. Octavo, green cloth boards with blocked image to front cover in black, in the original pictorial dust jacket. No date; circa 1935. A loverly early edition featuring seven charming monochromatic gravure plates and glassine page guards with captions. Also many partial-page designs throughout by Mabel Lucie Attwell. A lovely copy with toning to pages, bookshop stamp to front free endpaper, dust jacket with wear along edges, corners rubbed and with some pieces missing, shallow chip to lower end of spine, fore-edge with rubbing and wear. A very attractive copy.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Octavo, original green cloth, titles in gilt to front cover and spine, illustrated in color by Rackham. A wonderful vintage edition of this title. A good copy lacking front blank endpaper, ex libris bookplate to front pastedown, toning to pages, wear to cloth along spine and corners, gilt titles dull and rubbed at spine, else a nice copy.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, Circa 1925. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt image to front cover and gilt titles to spine, illustrated endpapers. This edition features full color plate illustrations by Arthur Rackham. A great vintage edition with foxing to pages, bookplate and inscription to verso of endpaper, wear to cloth at extremities, some light fading to cloth and with spine title gilt a bit dull, else a very attractive copy.

New York: Franklin Watts Inc, 1961. 4to, hardcover with dust jacket, unpaginated. First American edition of this adaptation of Peter and the Wolf illustrated by Frans Haacken. A nice copy with mild toning, bit of wear to dust jacket.

Petersburg, Alaska: Petersburg Press, 1932. 9 x 6”, grey wrappers with blue lettering, 136 pp, local advertisements throughout. A community cookbook issued by the Parent Teacher Association of Petersburg, Alaska to raise funds for a new school gymnasium. The recipes are attributed to local women, including members of three local clubs--The Women's Community League, The American Legion Auxiliary, and The Daughters of Norway. As Petersburg, Alaska is on an island, the book includes many recipes calling for local seafood like fresh crabmeat, herring, clams, and halibut. The Northern European immigrant influence is particularly evident as well, with a wide variety of Swedish and Norwegian recipes such as “Hjortetak Cookies”, “Berlina Kranse”, “Krumkaker”, “Pepperkakor (Swedish Ginger Snaps)”, “Sprutbakkelse”, and “Lute Fisk” (the latter of which is located in a section of “MenÂ’s Recipes”). Mild toning and foxing to wrappers, bit of staining to wrappers, a few tiny stains to pages, few… Read More

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1916 and 1917. 8vos, blue cloth with gilt lettering, [26], 541 pp, and [26], 539 pp, illustration plates. Two volumes. In nice condition with bumping to corners, mild wear and scuffing to covers, hint of pink staining to edge of second volume.

Minnesota, Circa 1910 to 1920. Photo album binding of suede string tied wrappers, 16 x 10", titled "Kodak" to front cover, containing 64 black and white photographs as well as 13 real photo postcards, all cornered in on album leaves. A photo album entirely devoted to images of Pokegama Sanatorium, an institution for the treatment of tuberculosis in Pine County, Minnesota. According to "100 Years in Pine County," the sanatorium, on a "beautifully located peninsula on the south end of Pokegama Lake, ensured the patients of a dust-free atmosphere...A large farm supplied the sanatorium with vegetables, meat and dairy products." The album contains 13 real photo postcards depicting the sanatorium buildings and grounds (including cabins for patients), as well as a number of vernacular photographs documenting life at Pokegama. These include images of patients posed around the sanatorium grounds, and four images depicting agricultural work on the sanatorium farm. Images in very good condition, a few detaching… Read More

Winona, Minnesota, Circa 1927. Brown leatherette photo album binding measuring 9.75 x 5.5", containing 166 pasted in black and white photographs measuring between 2.5 x 1.25" and 4.25 x 2.5". Together with an original box. The images are uncaptioned save for four laid in pieces of paper with identifying information in a later hand. These identify it as a photo album compiled by Alma Morilla Howe of Chatfield, Minnesota, documenting her time as a nursing student at Winona General Hospital Training School for Nurses, shortly before her death in 1927 from appendicitis. The album contains numerous images of nurses posing playfully and candidly on the hospital grounds, as well as going on outings, and posing humorously in a stretcher. There is also a photo of a surgery. In excellent condition with tears to box.

U.S. Virgin Islands, 1939. Black cloth portfolio measuring 22 x 17", containing 14 laid in card leaves with 60 black and white photographs held onto leaves with pins or tape, with captions in marker on each leaf. A large annotated photo album focusing primarily on the education of Afro-Virgin Islander children in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Each pair of album leaves, when placed side by side, forms a different section of the album, each with its own title. The first section is titled "Miscellaneous Pictures Virgin Islands 1939" and contains images of a visit by the Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark, and a photo of a nursery school group on St. Croix. The next pair of leaves is titled "Teachers and Pupils of St. Thomas and St. John Islands," and contains portraits of Afro-Virgin Islander students and teachers, both in front of school buildings and inside classrooms. There is also a photograph of a "Willing Workers Toy Shop" at a school, showing two girls running a toy stand sponsored by the Red Cross.… Read More