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Paul Cezanne


Rewald, John

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st US, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Several pages with underlining. Chunk gone from dj otherwise

Record # 53572


Price: $18.00 

 

Paul Cezanne


Rewald, John

Hardcover. London, Spring Books, unknown, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, translation by Margaret H. Liebman. B&W, color illustrated, 206 pages

Record # 175566


Price: $28.00 

 

Paul Eluard - Collection Saint-Denis, Musee d'art et d'histoire


Collection de Saint-Denis

Softcover. Bournemouth, Parkstone Musees, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages. Softcover. Text in French. Many black & white illustrations. Light rubbing to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611294


Price: $188.00 

 

Paul Jones, Founder of the American Navy: A History, Volumes I & II.


Buell, Augustus C.

Hardcover. New York , Charless Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1905, Volume I has 328 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Previous owner's sticker on front endpage. Pages untrimmed, some unopened. Inside is bright and clean. Volume II has 379 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Previous owner's sticker on front endpage. Pages untrimmed, some unopened. Small stain on bottom of first ~10 pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean.

Record # 852813


Price: $15.00 

 

Paul Jones


Hapgood, Hutchins

Hardcover. NY, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1st , 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages. Gilt top edge. B&W frontispiece with tissue guard. Crinkling to edge of pages. Library sticker on front end paper which has caused outline mark on front fly leaf. Some fading to spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855475


Price: $15.00 

 

Paul Klee


Grohmann, Will

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 448 pages, b&w illustrations, color tipped-in plates. Black cloth covers w/ faded spine, light soiling. Slightly water damage to inside rear cover and last page. Front hinge weak. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850979


Price: $30.00 

 

Paul Muldoon


Kendall, Tim

Softcover. Chester Springs, PA, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages. Small ink-mark to top edge, slight indentation to rear cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453079


Price: $12.00 

 

Paul Strand: Essays on His Life and Work


Stange, Maren

Softcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Light soil on page block.

Record # 2233330


Price: $19.00 

 

Paul Vel

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages, hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. FRENCH TEXT. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Light fading to spine. Minor rubbing and edgewear to boards. Light bumping to corners. Mild age toning to text block edges. Light penciling throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 952054


Price: $31.00 

Pauline Autobiography: Toward a New Understanding Lyons, George
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Pauline Autobiography: Toward a New Understanding


Lyons, George

Softcover. Atlanta, Ga., Society of Biblical Literature, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 459237


Price: $15.00 

 

Pauline: Favorite Sister of Napoleon


Carlton, W. N. C.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Harper & Brothers Publishers, Second Printing, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 371 pages. Hardcover. Frontis illustration, Princess Pauline Borghese, Portrait by Lefevre in black & white. Previous owner's inscription to front fly leaf. Publisher's navy cloth covered boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Sunfading to spine, board edges & to rear cover board. Light toning throughout with additional illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 6670144


Price: $19.00 

 

Peacock & Vine: On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny


Byatt, A.S.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A window into the lives, designs, and passions of Mariano Fortuny and William Morris. Gilted title on spine. Embossed titling to front panel. Unmarked. Bright and clean. A tight copy.

Record # 952272


Price: $23.00 

 

Peake in China: Memoirs of Ernest Cromwell Peake


Peake, Ernest Cromwell, Hillary Spurling (Introduction)

Hardcover. London, England, British Library, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful, nearly new condition. "Peake sailed as a young doctor in 1899 for a part for China where few people had ever seen a Westerner before, and his account of his subsequent career is vivid, sometimes startling, and almost entirely free of the self-righteous religiosity that makes most mission memoirs hard to read."

Record # 32165


Price: $25.00 

Pearl, The: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia Smith, Douglas
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Pearl, The: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia


Smith, Douglas

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Price sticker to dust jacket rear. Otherwise a tight copy. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 471378


Price: $19.00 

 

Peary - The Explorer and the Man


Weems, John Edward

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 362 pages. Black & white photography.

Record # 207636


Price: $12.00 

 

Peary - The Man Who Refused to Fail


Green, Fitzhugh

NY , Putnams, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 404 pages. 20 B&W plates, map on end papers. ex-lib with bookplate on front end paper, light stamping, light clear tape repair to gutter between frontis and title page, otherwise very good

Record # 300724


Price: $30.00 

 

Peggy: The Wayward Guggenheim


Weld, Jacqueline Bograd

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 493 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, in a protected sleeve. All the stories of the complicated patroness and art collector Peggy Guggenheim are assembled in this riveting biography. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Light age toning to text block edges. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. White-Out smudge to front flyleaf as well. Black-and-white photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 952511


Price: $44.00 

Pen Of Fire: John Moncure Daniel (SIGNED) Bridges, Peter
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Pen Of Fire: John Moncure Daniel (SIGNED)


Bridges, Peter

Hardcover. Kent, OH, The Kent State University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. SIGNED AN INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLYLEAF. Black and white illustrations. Tight copy.

Record # 471379


Price: $35.00 

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life Lee, Hermione
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Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life


Lee, Hermione

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 512 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Price clipped front dust jacket flap. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 470938


Price: $19.00 

 

People, People Everywhere - Footprints of a Wanderer


David, Bob

Hardcover. NY, F.A. Stokes, 1st, 1936, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. A collection of articles which first ran in the New York Sun.

Record # 55891


Price: $18.00 

 

Perfect Stranger, The - A Memoir


Kauanagh, P. J.

Hardcover. St.Paul, MN , Graywolf Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53026


Price: $18.00 

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman Feynman, Richard P.
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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman


Feynman, Richard P.

Hardcover. New York, Basic Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 486 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469915


Price: $19.00 

 

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman


Feynman, Richard P.

Hardcover. New York, Basic Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 486 pages, with b&w photographs throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456464


Price: $15.00 

 

Period Piece


Raverat, Gwen

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, previous owner's notation on front end paper. Illust. with b&w sketches by the author/ artist. 282 pgs.

Record # 101206


Price: $12.00