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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 

 

Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies


Carnes, Mark C. (Editor)

Hardcover. 1st, September 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Light wear to dust jacket, else a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 450521


Price: $15.00 

Past in French History, TheGildea, Robert
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Past in French History, The


Gildea, Robert

Softcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages. Softcover. Sunfading to spine. Previous owner's inscription to front end paper. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471498


Price: $13.00 

 

Patagonia Revisited


Chatwin, Bruce/Paul Theroux

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 62 pages. Black & white illustrations by Kyffin Williams. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610829


Price: $25.00 

 

Patches - A Wyoming Cow Pony


Hawkes, Clarence

Hardcover. Springfield, Milton Bradley Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Griswold Tying. Previous owners last name at top right corner of front endpaper. Blue cloth covers with spots of glue, and areas of darkening to front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611068


Price: $25.00 

 

Path of No Resistance, The - The Story of the Revolution in Superconductivity


Schechter, Bruce

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 200 pages. Black & white photos. Silver gilt titles on spine. Some underlining, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 57487


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 

 

Patriots, Pistols, and Petticoats


Fraser, Jr., Walter J.

Charleston, SC, Charleston County/The Citadel, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 154 pages. The history of Charleston and the surrounding area during the American Revolution.

Record # 68655


Price: $15.00 

 

Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States


Glassie, Henry

Philadelphia, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pges + index. Illustrated with black & white photos, drawings, floor plans. Ex-lib with library bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, stamping to edges, endpapers, label on spine - otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 502597


Price: $18.00 

 

Paul Klee: Figures and Faces


Plant, Margaret

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, First Edition, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 207 pages. Hardcover with gilt titles to spine. Full page, full color & black & white illustrations throughout. Features 131 illustrations, 31 in full color. Dust jacket with age toning to edges, tears to corners one longer tear (2 inches) to back of jacket. Toning to edges throughout. Otherwise clean, bright & unmarked.

Record # 750999


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

Pavlowa (Ballet Program)Sol Hurok
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Pavlowa (Ballet Program)


Sol Hurok

Softcover. New York , Arthur Klar, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages, heavy gray paper wraps, string-bound at center fold.Program for her farewell tour for the United States. Many black-and-white photographic illustrations of Pavlova in various ballets. This brochure and Hurok's publicity uses the inconsistently transliterated Pavlowa rather than the usual Pavlova or German Pawlowa. Light soil to covers.

Record # 408245


Price: $31.00 

 

Peeps At The World's Dolls


Canning-Wright, H. W.

Hardcover. London, A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 87 pages. Hardcover. Rebound. Features 12 photographic illustrations - 4 in color. Light foxing throughout. Cloth covers with standard wear.

Record # 610872


Price: $23.00 

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 

 

Pennsylvania 1776


Secor (Ed.), Robert

University Park, PA, Pennsylvania State Univ., 2nd, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 380 pages. Black & white, 2-color illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Record # 68068


Price: $25.00 

People of Georgia - An Illustrated Social HistoryLane, Mills
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People of Georgia - An Illustrated Social History


Lane, Mills

Hardcover. Savannah, Beehive Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 351 pages. 1st edition - 1975. Hardcover with slipcase. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, unmarked pages. Slipcase with moderate wear.

Record # 613991


Price: $48.00 

People's Choice, The: A History of Albany County in Art and ArchitectureBennett, Allison P.
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People's Choice, The: A History of Albany County in Art and Architecture


Bennett, Allison P.

softcover. Fleischmanns, New York, Purple Mountain Press, Limited, fifth printing, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages. Softcover. Black and white photographs. Light edgewear to wrappers.

Record # 468055


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Perpetual Mirage - Photographic Narratives of the Desert West


Ross, David A./May Castleberry/Martha A. Sandweiss

Hardcover. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Illustrated with mostly black & white photographs. Lower right cover corners lightly bumped. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 609380


Price: $30.00 

 

Personal Journey, A: Central African Art from the Lawrence Gussman Collection


Clarke, Christa

Softcover. Washington, DC, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy. Some gutter cracks throughout. Color photographs.

Record # 2230378


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Peter Carl Faberge - Goldsmith and Jeweller to the Russian Imperial Court and the Principal Crowned Heads of Europe - An Illustrated Record and Review of his Life and Work, A.D. 1846-1920


Bainbridge, Henry Charles

Hardcover. New York, B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 169 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth edition. Top edge stained red. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners name embossed at top of rear interior dust jacket flap. Dust jacket with darkening to spine, minor smudges at upper left corner - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611531


Price: $75.00 

 

Peter Freuchen's Book of the Eskimos


Freuchen, Peter

Hardcover. Cleveland, OH, The World Publishing Company, First Edition, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 441 pages. Blue cloth covered boards with navy printed illustration to cover & silver printed titles to cover & spine. Light toning throughout. Section of black & white illustrations to center. Original dust jacket is bright, with shelfwear, small tears to edges, price clipped. Tight binding, tight signatures.

Record # 6670077


Price: $25.00 

 

Philadelphia Art Alliance - Fifty Years 1915-1965, The


White, Theo B.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 144 pages of text followed by section of black & white plates. Dust jacket with chunk of paper missing at bottom corner of rear cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610214


Price: $15.00