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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 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 

 

Pen To Paper: Artists' Handwritten Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art


Savig, Mary

Hardcover. NewYork, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Very clean inside and out. Dust jacket unclipped. In great shape.

Record # 30625


Price: $23.00 

 

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 

 

Pennsylvania's Architecture


Richman, Irwin

Softcover. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical Association, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Pennsylvania History Studies: No. 10. White stapled wrappers, small color photographic plate to front cover, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Very slight wear to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 807747


Price: $18.00 

People Adrift, A: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in AmericaSteinfels, Peter
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People Adrift, A: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America


Steinfels, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 850095


Price: $12.00 

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 of the First Man: Life Among the Plains Indians and Their Final Final Days of Glory


Thomas, Davis and Karen Ronnefeldt, Illust. by: watercolors by Karl Bodmer

Hardcover. New York, Promontory Press, reprint, 1982, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 page coffee-table-sized book; endpapers decorated with maps; text and captioned color and b&w drawings and sketches of Native American life; frontispiece has color painting of natives at war. Tastefully presented, in very good condition.

Record # 803155


Price: $26.00 

 

People of the Sun - Some Out-of-Fashion Southwesterners


Simmons, Marc

Hardcover. Albuqerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&W photographs by Buddy Mays. 142 pages, in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket .

Record # 601469


Price: $33.00 

 

People's War - Original Voices of the American Revolution, The


Rae, Noel

Hardcover. Guilford, Lyons Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 614 pages. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613178


Price: $15.00 

 

PEPPERELL'S PROGRESS: HISTORY OF A COTTON TEXTILE COMPANY 1844-1945.


Knowlton, Evelyn H.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st ed, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, History of Biddeford, Maine famous blanket manufacturing company. 511 pages. Illustrated with plates. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt. Scarce. Spine faded. No dust jacket.

Record # 220611


Price: $38.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Personal Reminiscences


Chittenden, L.E.

Hardcover. NY, Richmond, Croscup & Co., 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ex-library with stamping and bookplates. Front hinge cracked. Spine a bit faded.

Record # 202394


Price: $50.00 

 

Philadelphia - Portrait of an American City


Wolf 2nd, Edwin

Harrisburg, PA, Stackpole, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages. Color, B&W illustrations.

Record # 305418


Price: $20.00 

Philadelphia Preserved: Catalog of the Historic American Buildings SurveySurvey, Historic American Buildings
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Philadelphia Preserved: Catalog of the Historic American Buildings Survey


Survey, Historic American Buildings

Softcover. 2nd, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 445 pages. Wrinkle to spine, else a nice, tight copy.

Record # 450198


Price: $10.00 

 

Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art


Philadelphia Museum of Art

Softcover. Philadelphia, Pa. , Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 160 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and soiling to pictorial stiff wrappers, faint foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 401373


Price: $12.00 

 

Philco Political Radio Atlas 1936: Election Edition


N/A

Softcover. Philadelphia, Philco Radio & Television Corp., 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 page guide to the Presidential election of 1936 with electoral maps, platforms. biographies. Also includes Philco radio ads. Light wear.

Record # 404353


Price: $15.00 

 

Philip Johnson Writings.


Stern, Robert A. M., Vincent Sully, Peter Eisenman,

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 292 pages. White cloth cover, with very little wear, but has some smudges. Dust jacket has a small tear and general fraying on edges. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Frontispiece is an Andy Warhol print of Philip Johnson. Inside is bright and clean, with many b&w illustrations and photographs throughout.

Record # 852590


Price: $40.00 

 

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 

 

Photographic History of the Civil War - Volume 2


Rodenbough, Theo F.

Hardcover. Seacaucus, NJ, Blue & Grey Press, Rep., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two Volumes in one: The Decisive Battles - The Cavalry. 352, 336 pages. Many B&W photos. Light foxing to edges. Else very good.

Record # 301665


Price: $13.00 

Photographic History of the Civil War, The, Volume 4: Soldier Life and Secret ServiceOppel, Frank (Editor)
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Photographic History of the Civil War, The, Volume 4: Soldier Life and Secret Service


Oppel, Frank (Editor)

Hardcover. BookSales Inc, 1st, August 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 2 Volumes in 1. 352 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Minor rubbing to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454485


Price: $20.00 

 

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