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Pine and the Palm Greeting, The; or, The Trip of the Northern Editors to the South in 1871, and The Return Visit of the Southern Editors in 1872Hotchkiss, Maj. N. H., N. J. Watkins,(Ed.)
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Pine and the Palm Greeting, The; or, The Trip of the Northern Editors to the South in 1871, and The Return Visit of the Southern Editors in 1872


Hotchkiss, Maj. N. H., N. J. Watkins,(Ed.)

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, J. D. Ehlers & Co's Engraving and Printing, 1st, 1873, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt design stamped to front cover, 144 pages. B&w frontispiece of Hotchkiss, 2 folding railroad maps. The first map is of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, the second is another, larger map of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad a radius map covering 600 miles from Jordan Alum Springs in color, and advertisement for the Jordon Alum Springs in Rockbridge County, Virginia on the back. Probably rebound as it appears the original cloth has been pasted to matching pebbled cloth covers. A few nicks to the edges of the front otherwise tight and clean. Maps in very good condition.

Record # 411957


Price: $235.00 

 

Pioneer Days in the Catskill High Peaks: Tannersville and the Region Around


Dunn, Shirley W. (Author, Editor)

Softcover. Hensonville, NY, Black Dome Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Minor wear on edges of cover. Many b&w photographs and illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy.

Record # 455579


Price: $50.00 

 

Pirate Coast, The: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805


Zacks, Richard

Hardcover. New York, Hachette Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471093


Price: $15.00 

 

PIRATES AND BUCCANEERS OF THE ATLANTIC COAST


Snow, Edward Rowe

Hardcover. Boston, Yankee Publishing, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial end papers, 350 pages. Illustrated with color tint and black and white plates. 8vo. There is a faint red stain at very bottom edge of first three pages and last page of the book. Also, there is a dull faded spot at right and lower left corners of the red cloth covers. Some minor pencil marks throughout. Previous owner's inscription. Frontispiece illustration. Gilt titles.

Record # 220646


Price: $26.00 

 

Plague and the Fire, The


Leaser, James

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Books, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 290 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows heavy wear on top and bottom edges, chipping and cracking to the rear fold. Internally, very good. Black and white illustrations throughout.

Record # 613974


Price: $13.00 

 

Plagues in World History (Exploring World History Series)


Aberth, John

Hardcover. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., First Edition, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Grey boards with silver titles to spine. Bright dust jacket, clean with light, marginal wear to edges. Some illustrations in black & white. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 5560147


Price: $44.00 

 

Plantation Negro As a Freeman - Observations on His Character, Condition, and Prospects in Virginia, The


Bruce, Philip A.

Hardcover. Williamstown, Corner House Publishers, Reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 262 pages. Hardcover. Light foxing to edges. Dust jacket with fading, moderate wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612490


Price: $19.00 

 

Plaza - Its Life and Times, The


Brown, Eve

Hardcover. New York, Meredith Press, 2nd printing, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with stickers on dust jacket spine, envelope removed from rear endpaper. Black & white photographs. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, unmarked text. Good reading copy.

Record # 613636


Price: $23.00 

 

Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of the German Resistance


Fest, Joachim

Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 1st us, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 419 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 2233788


Price: $19.00 

 

Plowshares to Bayonets...In the Defense of the Heartland - A History of the 27th Regiment Mississippi Infantry, CSA - (Excerpts from the Civil War Memoirs and Diary of 1st Sergeant Roberto Amos Jarman, Company K, "Enfield Rifles", Aberdeen,

Softcover. Jackson, Trafford Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Softcover. Features black & white maps and illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613564


Price: $23.00 

 

Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend


Mossiker, Frances

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 383 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear, but in good shape. Red boards, with black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Deckled edges. Some foxing to edges, however pages clean.

Record # 31443


Price: $15.00 

 

Pocahontas


Mossiker, Frances

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white plates. Dj with light edgewear, price clipped. Remainder stamp bottom edge 383 pages

Record # 55642


Price: $20.00 

Poetry, Narrative, HistoryKermode, Frank
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Poetry, Narrative, History


Kermode, Frank

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Blackwell Pub, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear to dust jacket. Large scratch to dust jacket rear. Previous owner's inscription within. Otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 471457


Price: $10.00 

Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio beyond the NetworksRusso, Alexander
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Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio beyond the Networks


Russo, Alexander

Softcover. Durham, UK, Duke University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 292 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white illustrations throughout.

Record # 471715


Price: $19.00 

 

Poles on the Frontlines of World War II 1939-1945


Baluk, Stefan Starba

Warsaw, ARS Print Pub., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Thousands of black & white glossy photos. 638 pages. (Extra postage for priority mailing on this very heavy volume.)

Record # 500063


Price: $51.00 

 

Political Development in Modern Japan


Ward (Ed.), Robert E.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 637 pages, black cloth covers with red and gilt design on spine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Bright, price-clipped dust jacket.

Record # 403089


Price: $160.00 

 

Politics of Architecture, The: A Perspective on Nelson A. Rockefeller


Bleecker, Samuel E., Illust. by: Ezra Stoller

Hardcover. New York, The Rutledge Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The relationship between architecture and politics in the life and projects of Nelson A. Rockefeller. 255 pages, illustrated with photographs and drawings (both color and black/white). Very good condition; only wear appears on the dust jacket as light rubbing.

Record # 804816


Price: $16.00 

 

Polynesian Triangle, The


Berry, Erick/Herbert Best

Hardcover. New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 143 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription opposite half title page. 16 pages of black & white photographs. Dust jacket with darkening to edges, chipping. Clean, Tight copy.

Record # 613570


Price: $15.00 

 

Poppie Nongena: The Internationally Acclaimed Story of One Woman's Struggle Against Apartheid


Joubert, Elsa

Hardcover. New York, NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st U.S.A., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustration (map). Gray cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. A small bump to top edge of front cover board. Deckled foreedge. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning from age, otherwise very good. Previous bookstore's price tag on back cover. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In great shape. A story of a woman's struggle to keep her family together in the teeth of a system that makes life a series of uprootings.

Record # 32163


Price: $15.00 

 

Popular History of the Dominion of Canada, A


Withrow, William H.

Hardcover. Boston, B. B. Russell, 1st, 1878, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 616 pages, illustrated with 3 steel engraved portraits, one double page map in color and over 100 woodcut engravings in the text. Terra-cotta cloth with black and gilt design, beveled edges, rear hinge cracked. Light wear and rubbing to cloth otherwise very good. Clean, tight binding.

Record # 401777


Price: $150.00 

 

Popular History Of The Great War, A ( Volumes 1 to 6 )


Hammerton, Sir J. A.

Hardcover. London, The Fleetway House, N/A, n/a, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six hardcovers, beige boards, black leather gilt embossed spines, slightly rubbed. A smaller, 'Popular' collection of Hammerton's epic thirteen volume 'History of the Great War'. It consists of six crown octavo size volumes rewritten and re-edited in the '20s to meet the public thirst for knowledge of the war-in a manageable and affordable form. The volumes are entitled: 'The First Phase 1914'(I), 'Extension of the Struggle 1915' (II), 'The Allies at Bay 1916' (III), 'A Year of Attrition 1917' (IV), 'The Year of Victory 1918' (V) and 'The Armistice and After' (VI). Previous owner's stamp, signature on all volumes, otherwise clean.

Record # 411771


Price: $94.00 

 

Portrait of jane Austen, A


Cecil, David

Hardcover. New York, Hill and Wang, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations. Spine cocked. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609338


Price: $28.00 

 

Portrait of T. E. Lawrence: The Lawrence of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom


Richards, Vyvyan

Hardcover. London, UK, Jonathan Cape, First Edition, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 254 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Illustrations in black & white throughout. Light toning throughout. Previous owner's pencil marks have been erased, light marks remain in some spots. Original dust jacket with small chips, tears to edges, now protected in a plastic cover. Tight binding, sharp corners, a nice copy.

Record # 751457


Price: $250.00 

 

Portrait of Tsarist Russia - Unknown Photographs from the Soviet Archives, A


Barchatova, Y./T. Saburova/G. Mirolubova/T. Petrova/E. Norkute/T. Shipova/A. Golovina/A. Yuskin

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 260 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with some creasing along top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612366


Price: $31.00