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Progress of Labor in the United States, The


Uminski, Sigmund

Hardcover. New York, House of Field, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 254 pages. A pro-union history of the labor movement. From a small library with light markings and residue to end papers, lettered numbers on spine. Internally clean, tight copy.

Record # 302943


Price: $12.00 

 

Promoters' City, The: Building the Industrial Town of Maisonneauve 1883-1918


Linteau, Paul-Andre, Robert Chodos (Translation)

Softcover. Toronto, Canada, James Lorimer & Company, 1st English, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper very good. Previous bookstore's price tag on the back cover.

Record # 32161


Price: $15.00 

Propaganda and Dreams: Photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the USBendavid-Val, Leah (Editor)
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Propaganda and Dreams: Photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US


Bendavid-Val, Leah (Editor)

Hardcover. Edition Stemmle, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458549


Price: $44.00 

 

Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800-1885


Scranton, Philip

Softcover. Philadelphia, July 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 431 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear, rubbing to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451575


Price: $30.00 

 

Prospector, Cowhand, and Sodbuster


Ferris, Ed., Robert G.

Hardcover. Washington, Dc, United States Department of the Interior National Park Service, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Brown cloth, gilt titles to front and spine. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856665


Price: $13.00 

Prospects, An Annual of American Cultural Studies, Vol. 16Salzman, Jack (ed.)
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Prospects, An Annual of American Cultural Studies, Vol. 16


Salzman, Jack (ed.)

Softcover. New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 444 pages. Softcover with minor wear and scuffing to edges and cover. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230627


Price: $23.00 

Prospects, An Annual of American Cultural Studies, Vol. 17Salzman, Jack (ed.)
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Prospects, An Annual of American Cultural Studies, Vol. 17


Salzman, Jack (ed.)

Softcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 530 pages. Softcover with minor wear and scuffing to edges and cover. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230628


Price: $23.00 

 

Protestant Temperament, The : Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America


Greven, Philip J.

Hardcover. US, Random House Inc (T), 1st, 1978-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 431 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464377


Price: $23.00 

 

Proudest Day - Macdonough on Lake Champlain, The


Muller, Charles G.

Hardcover. New York, John Day, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 373 pages. Some light underlining in Prologue. Previous owners stamp on top right corner of front endpaper. Dust jacket shows standard wear with small tears and chipping along edges.

Record # 607683


Price: $12.00 

 

Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories


Lummis, Charles F., Illust. by: George Wharton Edwards

Hardcover. NY, Century Co., Revised from 1894 ed., 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 257 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by George Wharton Edwards. Missing front endpaper. Illustrated front cover. Soil, spotting to binding.

Record # 509400


Price: $63.00 

 

Pueblo Surrender, The - A Covert Action by the National Security Agency


Liston, Robert A.

Hardcover. NY, M. Evans & Co., 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages.

Record # 300799


Price: $9.00 

 

Pump and Circumstance: Glory days of the Gas Station


Margolies, John

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Company, 5th printing, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, wrapped in protective clear, plastic brodart. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. A rich and lively celebration of that icon of American roadside culture: the gas station. Margolies traces the entertaining and significant tradition of gas station design, history, and lore.

Record # 32297


Price: $25.00 

 

Puritan Republic, The


Howe, Daniel Wait

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bowen-Merrill Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 422 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside cover and name on front endpaper. Crease to top corner of page 211-212. Small area of sticker residue at bottom of spine. Minor rubbing to cover edges. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613519


Price: $50.00 

Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of HistoryWood, Gordon S.
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Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History


Wood, Gordon S.

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press HC, The, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 323 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 460674


Price: $15.00 

 

Pursuit of a Dream, The


Hermann, Janet Sharp

NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages.

Record # 61968


Price: $15.00 

 

Quaint and Historic Forts of North America


Hammond, John Martin

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages, b&w photographs. Red cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Top edge gilt. Rough-cut pages. Hinges slightly weak. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851368


Price: $50.00 

 

Quarter Century of Progress in Manufacturing Pharmacy


Maltbie, Birdsey L.

Hardcover. New York, American Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Association, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on front and spine. Fading to spine with light soiling. Previous owner's light pencil marking on front end paper, otherwise clean.

Record # 613996


Price: $44.00 

 

Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress - Volume 37 - Numbers 3-4, - Summer-Fall 1980, The


Mohr (Editor), Frederick

Softcover. Washington, D. C. , Library of Congress, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Softcover. Includes 2 sided Flexi-disc - "A Sound Idea" - Music for Animated Films. 4 cuts: Band 1: Scott Bradley, Band 2: David Raskin - "Giddyap", Band 3: David Raskin - "Unicorn in the Garden", David Raskin - Music Score for "Unicorn in the Garden". Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611451


Price: $15.00 

 

Quest for the Origins of the First Americans


Dixon, E.James

Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2nd printing, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 156 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 458695


Price: $15.00 

 

Questions of the Day III: Our Merchant Marine, How it Rose, Increased, Became Great, Declined and Decayed with an Inquiry into the Conditions Essential to its Resuscitation and Future Prosperity.


Wells, David A.

Hardcover. New York , G. P. Putman's Sons, 1st, 1882, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages. Brown cloth cover with smudges and fraying on edges and spine. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Spine separation starting at front endpaper. Inside pages are clean and bright.

Record # 852470


Price: $15.00 

 

R. Swain Gifford 1840-1905.


Whaling Museum, Old Dartmouth Historical Society.

Softcover. New Bedford, MA, Whaling Museum, Old Dartmouth Historical Society. , 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. xvi, 113 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w with a few color plates. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Minor wear to edges, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, else like new.

Record # 805703


Price: $32.00 

Racecourse ArchitectureRoberts, Paul
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Racecourse Architecture


Roberts, Paul

hardcover. London, Turnberry Consulting ; New York, NY : Acanthus Press, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color and b&w photographs throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Includes extensive glossary. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469603


Price: $50.00 

 

Radical Origins: Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors


Rust, Val D.

Hardcover. Urbana and Chicago IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. History of the early Mormons and their origins in early American colonial history. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light fading to spine. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952512


Price: $31.00 

 

Radical Republicans and Reform in New York During Reconstruction, The


Mohr, James C.

Hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 300 pages. Rubbing, small tears, light soiling to dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851592


Price: $12.00