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Our Vanishing Landscape


Sloane, Eric, Illust. by: Eric Sloane

New York, Funk, 3rd, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 107 pages. Black & white illustrations by Eric Sloane.

Record # 208124


Price: $20.00 

Out in the Blue: Letters from Arabia, 1937 to 1940: A Young American Geologist Explores the Deserts of Early Saudi Arabia (SIGNED)Barger, Thomas C.
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Out in the Blue: Letters from Arabia, 1937 to 1940: A Young American Geologist Explores the Deserts of Early Saudi Arabia (SIGNED)


Barger, Thomas C.

Hardcover. Vista, CA, Selwa Press, 2nd, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Tight copy. Black & white images throughout. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF.

Record # 470828


Price: $38.00 

 

Out of the West - The Beyond the Mississippi States in the Making


Wilson, Rufus Rockwell

Hardcover. New York, Wilson-Erickson, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with 19 black & white drawings. Previous owners bookplate on inside cover, shelving number on endpaper. Sun fading to spine. Lightly bumped/worn corners. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 509595


Price: $15.00 

 

Outer Banks of North Carolina, The 1584-1958


Stick, David

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, Univ. of N.C., 7th pr, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white drawings by Frank Stick

Record # 51499


Price: $20.00 

 

Outlines of the Geography, Natural and Civil History and Constitution of Vermont. Also the Constitution of the United States, with Notes and Queries, by Pliny H. White and the Declaration of Independence


Hall, S. R.

Hardcover. Montpelier, VT, C. W. Willard, First Edition, 1864, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages. Hardcover. Embossed boards with gilt titles to brown leather spine. Scuff marks to spine edges. Moderate wear & fraying to board corners. Frontis illustration, State Capitol, Montpelier in black & white and Map of Vermont, "Recommended by the Board of Education of Vermont, For Use in the Schools of the State." Tight binding, illustrations in bw, toning to edges throughout. Otherwise, clean & unmarked.

Record # 751243


Price: $50.00 

 

Over the Dead Line, or Tracked by Blood-hounds


Dufer, S.M.

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Free Press Association, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 pages. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering. Age discoloration on front end paper, foxing on fore edge.

Record # 408369


Price: $50.00 

 

Over the River and Through the Years - Book One


Blaisdell, Katharine

Paperback. Bradford, VT, Journal Opinion, 1st wraps, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. 183 pages. Paperback. Black & white photography and illustrations. Cover spine sunned. Previous owner's gift inscription on title page.

Record # 208064


Price: $15.00 

 

Overland to California with the Pioneer Line


Gordon, Mary McDougall

Stanford, CA., 2nd, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations and photos. Map on end papers.

Record # 201316


Price: $15.00 

 

Oxford History of India, The


Smith, Vincent A.

Hardcover. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 3rd, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 898 pages. Edited by Percival Spear. 20 black-and-white text-figures (including one fold-out map). 40 black-and-white illustrations. Small spot and chipping on dust jacket spine. Minor stain on rear dust jacket cover. Some soiling on dust jacket covers. Light sun-fading on dust jacket flaps. Slight foxing on top edge. Previous owner's signature and pencil notes on front flyleaf. Pencil and pen markings throughout. A little spotting on first few pages. Good, tight copy.

Record # 856159


Price: $19.00 

Painted Voyage, The: Art, Travel and Exploration, 1564 - 1875Jacobs, Michael
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Painted Voyage, The: Art, Travel and Exploration, 1564 - 1875


Jacobs, Michael

Hardcover. London, British Museum Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. 64 color and 42 black & white illustrations. A tight copy.

Record # 471564


Price: $31.00 

 

Paintings and Drawings by Fitz Hugh Lane at the Cape Ann Historical Association


Cape Ann Historical Association

Softcover. Gloucester, Cape Ann Historical Association, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages. Softcover. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611754


Price: $23.00 

 

Paintings in the Studiolo of Isabella d'Este at Mantua, The


Verheyen, Egon

Hardcover. New York, NYU Press/CAAA, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages of text followed by section of black & white plates. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611916


Price: $50.00 

 

Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s


Jacobs, Meg

hardcover. New York, Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures in center. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469169


Price: $19.00 

 

Papa Spy - Love, Faith, and Betrayal in Wartime Spain


Burns, Jimmy

Hardcover. New York, Walker & Company, 1st US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 395 pages. Hardcover. 16 pages of black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613184


Price: $13.00 

 

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 Wilbur and Orville Wright - Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute - 2 Volumes


McFarland (Editor), Marvin W.

Hardcover. New York, LINST/Arno Press, Reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes. Volume 1 - 1899-1905 - Illustrated with black & white photographs, drawings, and charts. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 1906-1948 - Illustrated with black & white photographs, drawings, and charts. Clean, tight copy. Special Limited Printing of 201 Hand Numbered Copies - this Set being #188.

Record # 608229


Price: $250.00 

Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and RepresentationsReid, Donald
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Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and Representations


Reid, Donald

Softcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages. Softcover. Sunfading to spine and top edge of front wrapper. Price marking in pen to back wrapper. An otherwise clean copy with minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471434


Price: $15.00 

 

Paris to Providence - Fashion, Art, and the Tirocchi Dressmakers' Shop - 1915-1947, From


Hay (Editor), Susan

Softcover. Providence, Museum of Art/Rhode Island School of Design, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations. Covers show light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610182


Price: $25.00 

 

Paris Under the Occupation


Walter, G

Hardcover. New York, Orion Press, 1st English, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 209 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear. Cover boards bound in Red, white, and blue with white title on spine and black design on front cover. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. A look at Paris during the 4 year period in which they were occupied by German forces in WW2.

Record # 31914


Price: $19.00 

 

Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal


Karabell, Zachary

Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Blue cover boards, black, textured quarter cloth, orange title on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. In great condition. Parting the Desert is both a transporting narrative and a meditation on the origins of the modern Middle East.

Record # 32180


Price: $19.00 

 

Passage to the Golden Gate - A History of the Chinese in America to 1910


Chu, Daniel and Samuel Chu, Illust. by: Earl Thollander

Paperback. New York, Doubleday, 1st wraps, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 117 pages. Paperback. Black & white illustrations by Earl Thollander. Previous owner's signature on front end paper.

Record # 207828


Price: $15.00 

 

Passchendaele - The Untold Story


Prior, Robin & Trevor Wilson

Paperback. New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, Rep. wraps, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 237 pages. Paperback.

Record # 67105


Price: $15.00 

 

Passenger Cars 3: Solariums, Sleepers, Inspection Cars


Carstens, Hal

Softcover. New Jersey, Carstens Publication, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225-348 pages, Vol. 3 Only. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Stapled binding, black and white internal illustrations and pictures.

Record # 471879


Price: $25.00 

 

Passing and the Fictions of Identity


Ginsberg, Elaine (Editor)

Softcover. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 298 pages. Light edgewear to wrappers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453713


Price: $12.00