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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 

 

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 LifeLee, 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. FeynmanFeynman, 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 

 

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 Exposures


Beach, Rex

New York , Harper & Bros., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Good, 303 pages. The popular novelist's autobiography. Dust jacket worn, chipped

Record # 305595


Price: $20.00 

Personal Letters of a Public Man - The Family Letters of John G. DiefenbakerMcIlroy, Thad
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Personal Letters of a Public Man - The Family Letters of John G. Diefenbaker


McIlroy, Thad

Hardcover. Toronto, Doubleday, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pgs. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with minor wear and fading to dust jacket. B&w photos

Record # 107144


Price: $15.00 

 

Personal Memories - Social, Political, and Literary


Mansfield, E. D.

Cincinnati, OH , Robert Clark & Co., 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 348 pages. Ex-lib with library bookplate. Front end paper gone. Light foxing.

Record # 305657


Price: $50.00 

 

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 

 

Personality of Jonathan Swift, The


Ehrenpreis, Irvin

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Cover boards have a touch of fading at edges, otherwise very good. Pages and edges slightly tanned from age. In beautiful condition. Book not only looks at the Irish satirist's life, but his strong points of view.

Record # 32037


Price: $15.00 

 

Personality of Thoreau, The


Sanborn, F.B.

Hardcover. Boston, Charles E. Goodspeed, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 71 pages, number 410 of a 500. French hand-made paper, printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Illustrated with one plate and two facsimiles of Thoreau's journal. Gray-green boards with a beige cloth spine with a paper label. Spine and covers darkening, light shelf wear.

Record # 412416


Price: $75.00 

 

Peter Finch - A Biography


Faulkner, Trader

Hardcover. NY, Taplinger, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 312 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photos. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 61524


Price: $20.00 

Peter Jennings: A Reporter's LifeDarnton, Kate (Editor)
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Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life


Darnton, Kate (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Ghost of pice-sticker to front cover of dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 450286


Price: $15.00 

 

Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs of a Revolutionist


Rogers (EDITOR), James Allen

Softcover. New York, Doubleday/Anchor Book, 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 338 pages. Softcover with light soil to paper wrappers. Light wear to corners and block. Wrappers faded.

Record # 2233439


Price: $15.00 

 

Peter Parley's Own Story


Goodrich, Samuel G.

Hardcover. New York, Sheldon & Co. , 2nd, 1864, Green cloth. Original embossed cloth. Gilt title and art on spine Illustrated. 1st. ed., 2nd state. Six full-page printed engraved illustrations. 320 pgs. Small 8vo. "From the Personal narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley.") Cover corners worn, top of spine frayed. Front & back hinges repaired. Sm sticker on front end paper.

Record # 186008


Price: $35.00 

 

Phantom Father, The - A Memoir


Gifford, Barry

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 252 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photos throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 54092


Price: $18.00 


  
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