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Photography and the American Scene


Taft, Robert

NY, Dover, Rep. pbk, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A reprint of the 1938 book. 322 black & white illust. 546 pages. Paperback.

Record # 66881


Price: $15.00 

 

Pictorial and Family History of Waterville, Kansas, A


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Hardcover. Waterville KS, Bicentennial Committee, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Illustrated endpapers and fly leaves. Illustrated front cover. Faint odor, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857295


Price: $25.00 

 

Pictorial History of Architecture in America, A


Kidder Smith, G. E., Illust. by: G. E. Kidder Smith

Hardcover. New York, American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, A set of 2 volumes that strive to create a comprehensive account of American architecture as a whole. Includes buildings from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, all of which the author personally visited. Fully illustrated with hundreds of black/white photographs. Both volumes are in fine condition; hardcover slipcase has very slight wear to the corners and slight rubbing.

Record # 804823


Price: $18.00 

 

Pictorial History of Jazz, A - People and Places from New Orleans to Modern Jazz


Keepnews, Orrin and Bill Graves, Jr.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 5th pr., 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 625 black & white illust. 282 pages. Dj edgeworn, spine faded.

Record # 61530


Price: $18.00 

 

Pictorial History of the American Circus


Durant, John/Alice Durant

Hardcover. New York, A.S. Barnes, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 328 pages. Illustrated with mainly black & white photographs. Dust jacket has interior tape repair at bottom of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608585


Price: $50.00 

 

Pictorial History of the American Theatre 100 years 1860-1960


Blum, Daniel

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chilton, Revised Ed., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, New enlarged edition with added years: 1860-1900, 1956-1960. Over 5,000 photographs. A terrific book with one major fault - it smells musty

Record # 61534


Price: $40.00 

 

Pictorial History of the Western Reserve 1792-1860


Butler, Margaret Manor

Cleveland, OH, Western Reserve Hist. Society, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Many black & white illust. 151 pages plus bibliography and index. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 68941


Price: $25.00 

 

Pictorial Life of General Washington: Embracing a Complete History of the Seven Years' War, the Revolutionary War, the Formation of the Federal Constitution, and the Administration of Washington


Frost, John, L.L.D.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, W.A. Leary & Co., 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 588 pages w/ appendix. Brown leather w/ raised bands on spine, outlined in gilding. Spine cracking and worn. Edge wear. Colorful marbled end pages. Engraving of G. Washington pictured on frontispiece. Inscription in pencil on prelim page dated 1954. Blue design on top/bottom/sides of pages. Corners of boards have gilt design. B/W sketches throughout. Some tissue guards.

Record # 803716


Price: $64.00 

 

Picture History of the Brooklyn Bridge, A


Shapiro, Mary J.

Paperback. NY, Dover, 1st wraps, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 black & white illustrations, 122 pages.Paperback.

Record # 175855


Price: $18.00 

 

Picture History of the U.S. Navy - From Old Navy to New, 1776 to 1897


Roscoe, Theodore/Fred Freeman

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. illustrated with black & white photographs, drawings and paintings. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 219984


Price: $19.00 

 

Picture Story and Biography of Marquette and Joliet, The


Kelly, Regine Z., Illust. by: W. T. Mars

Chicago, LoFollett, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illust. by W. T. Mars. SIGNED BY KELLY on title-page. Lives of Father Jacques Marquett,a Jesuit priest and Frenchman Louis Jolit met in New France and explored the Mississippi River in the 1670's.

Record # 65846


Price: $18.00 

Picturing Old New England: Image and MemoryTruettner, William H./Roger B. Stein
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Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory


Truettner, William H./Roger B. Stein

Hardcover. Washington, National Museum of American Art, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Full color and black & white illustrations throughout. Clean unmarked text.

Record # 750077


Price: $25.00 

 

Pilgrims, The


Noble, Frederick A.

Hardcover. Boston, Pilgrim Pr, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 483 pages, with b&w illustrations. Gilt titles and top edge. Ex-library residue on rear fly leaf and sticker on spine, light spine edge fray, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 4779


Price: $13.00 

Pine and the Palm Greeting, The; or, The Trip of the Northern Editors to the South in 1871, and The Return Visit of the Southern Editors in 1872Hotchkiss, Maj. N. H., N. J. Watkins,(Ed.)
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Pine and the Palm Greeting, The; or, The Trip of the Northern Editors to the South in 1871, and The Return Visit of the Southern Editors in 1872


Hotchkiss, Maj. N. H., N. J. Watkins,(Ed.)

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, J. D. Ehlers & Co's Engraving and Printing, 1st, 1873, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt design stamped to front cover, 144 pages. B&w frontispiece of Hotchkiss, 2 folding railroad maps. The first map is of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, the second is another, larger map of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad a radius map covering 600 miles from Jordan Alum Springs in color, and advertisement for the Jordon Alum Springs in Rockbridge County, Virginia on the back. Probably rebound as it appears the original cloth has been pasted to matching pebbled cloth covers. A few nicks to the edges of the front otherwise tight and clean. Maps in very good condition.

Record # 411957


Price: $235.00 

 

Pioneer in Northwest America, A


Unonius, Gustaf

Hardcover. Minneapolis, University of Minn, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, memoirs of a Swedish pioneer in Minn. 1841-1858 ex-lib, vol 1 only

Record # 1647


Price: $15.00 

 

PIONEER IRON WORKS


Clarks, Mary Stetson, Illust. by: Joshua Tolford

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chilton Book Co., 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 85 pages. History of Saugus Iron Works of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Illustrated in b/w by Joshua Tolford. 8vo. Color pictorial and white cloth. Minor foxing to endpapers. Brown spotting in small section of spine. Very Good. Matching pictorial dust jacket. Tear in front near top of spine. Minor browning. Some wear and small tears around edges.

Record # 219860


Price: $13.00 

 

Place of the Pretend People - Gifts from a Yup'ik Eskimo Village


Kremers, Carolyn

Anchorage, Alaska Northwest Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, 238 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear to spine.

Record # 176223


Price: $18.00 

 

Place: Neon Rose


N/A

Paperback. San Francisco CA, Stecher-Traung-Schmidt, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 215 pages. Edgewear. Vol. 3, No. 1.

Record # 511127


Price: $13.00 

 

Plain and Fancy: Vermont's People and Their Quilts As a Reflection of America


Cleveland, Richard L., Donna Bister

Softcover. Gualala, CA, Quilt Digest Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. Softcover. Wrapper excellent. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Pages and edges clean. In great shape. Through quilt masterpieces, the life of America is reflected in this nostalgic look at the lives and creative work of a spirited, freedom-loving people.

Record # 31897


Price: $23.00 

 

Plains Indians of the Twentieth Century, The


Iverson (Ed), Peter

Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 277 pages. Light rubbing to corners. Dust jacket with very light soiling.

Record # 506398


Price: $13.00 

 

Plantation Negro As a Freeman - Observations on His Character, Condition, and Prospects in Virginia, The


Bruce, Philip A.

Hardcover. Williamstown, Corner House Publishers, Reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 262 pages. Hardcover. Light foxing to edges. Dust jacket with fading, moderate wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612490


Price: $19.00 

Play the Devil: A History of Gambling in the United States from 1492 to 1955Chafetz, Henry
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Play the Devil: A History of Gambling in the United States from 1492 to 1955


Chafetz, Henry

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 475 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Very minor normal wear to cover, otherwise clean and tight copy. Inscription from previous owner on front end papers. "Library of George Murphy" impressed into front end paper.

Record # 2230852


Price: $15.00 

 

Playships of the World - The Naval Diaries of Admiral Dan Gallery 1920-1924


Shenk (Editor), Robert

Hardcover. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover. Remainder dot on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613179


Price: $25.00 

 

Playships of the World: The Naval Diaries of Admiral Dan Gallery 1920-1924


Shenk, Robert (Ed.)

Hardcover. Columbia, SC, University of South Carolina Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover. Small remainder mark on bottom edge. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Indicative of the adventurous, carefree, and relatively risk-free period between the world wars was the early career of a young navel office, Dan Gallery. He would eventually achieve the rank of admiral and garner international fame for capturing a German submarine during World War II.

Record # 32220


Price: $19.00