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Pancho Villa and John Reed: Two Faces of Romantic Revolution


Tuck, Jim

Hardcover. Tucson, Ariz., Univ of Arizona Pr, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 252 pages, b&w photos. Clean, tight, unmarked copy. Price clipped dust jacket with only minor wear.

Record # 454108


Price: $12.00 

 

Pancho Villa


Lansford, William Douglas

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Sherbourne Press, 1st , 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Spine with slight slant. Dj with small hole in spine

Record # 53867


Price: $28.00 

 

Papers of Adlai E.Stevenson, The - Vol I: Beginnings of Education 1900-1941


Stevenson, Adlai E.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, proof, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ed. by Walter Johnson and Carol Evans. Light wear. 588 pages + black & white illust.

Record # 57719


Price: $23.00 

 

Papers of Benjamin Franklin, The - Vol. I: January 6, 1706 through December 31, 1734


Labaree, Leonard. W. (editor)

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in b&w with fold out color center plate. Front cover slightly soiled. Previous owner's inscription in pencil on front flyleaf.

Record # 509981


Price: $21.00 

 

Passion of Abby Hemenway, The: Memory, Spirit, and the Making of History


Clifford, Deborah Pickman

Hardcover. Montpelier, VT, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 346 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 2230375


Price: $19.00 

 

Passions and Politics: A Biography of Versailles


Barry, Joseph

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company Inc., Reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 538 pages. Hardcover. Ivory canvas covered boards with black titles to spine. Deckled edge, illustrations in black & white, clean inside and out with maps to endpapers. Dust jacket with edgewear, light toning & price-clipped. A nice copy.

Record # 6670078


Price: $23.00 

 

Passions of Andrew Jackson, The


Burstein, Andrew

NY, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages, b&w illustrations, Like new in a dust jacket.

Record # 601561


Price: $15.00 

Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson (SIGNED COPY)Gabler, James M.
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Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson (SIGNED COPY)


Gabler, James M.

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Bacchus Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 411303


Price: $15.00 

 

Path to Power, The


Thatcher, Margaret

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 656 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471249


Price: $23.00 

 

Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation


Smith, Richard Norton

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 424 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Incisive and revealing look into Washington the man, and his times. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951905


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 RussiaSmith, 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 

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 

 

Peron - His Rise and Fall


Owen, Frank

London, Cresset, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 251 pages. Black & white photography. Previous owner's signature on inside of front cover.

Record # 207044


Price: $15.00 

 

Perry's Victory Centenary, The: Report of the Perry's Centennial Commission, State of New York.


Emerson (ed), George D.

Hardcover. Albany, NY, J. B. Lyon Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages of text. 73 pages of b&w illustrations throughout. Slightly oversized, brown embossed cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Bumped corners, some wear to edges. Slight foxing to pages. Diverse content, a nice copy.

Record # 852680


Price: $28.00 

 

Personal Reminiscences of the Anti-Slavery and Other Reforms and Reformers


Powell, Aaron M.

Hardcover. Plainfield, Anna Rice Powell, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Minor stains along top edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612438


Price: $38.00 

 

Philosopher Pickett


Powell, Lawrence Clark

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 178 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Three black-and-white illustrations, plus frontispiece. Tanning along spine of dust jacket. Water stains on front and rear dust jacket covers, cloth cover and front and rear end paper and flyleaf. Also some water staining along top edge and on frontispiece and title page. Light foxing on front and rear end paper and flyleaf and fore edge. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 856128


Price: $44.00 

 

Photographing History - Mathew Brady


Komroff, Manuel

Chicago, Britannica Books, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 192 pages. Great Lives for Young Americans Series

Record # 66234


Price: $11.00 

 

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 

 

Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa -From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh


Elder, John

Hardcover. Chrarlottesville, University of Virginia Press, First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. Mustard cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated dust jacket with only light marginal wear to edges. Clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751201


Price: $19.00 

 

Plain Mr. Knox


Whitley, Elizabeth

Hardcover. London, Skeffington, 2nd, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Color postcard of Knox's house laid-in. 223 pages. Dj with light edgewear.

Record # 61259


Price: $20.00 

Playboy's illustrated treasury of gamblingCarroll, David
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Playboy's illustrated treasury of gambling


Carroll, David

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460024


Price: $15.00