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Peloponnesian War, The


Kagan, Donald

Softcover. New York, NY, Viking, Uncorrected Proof, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 498 pages. Softcover, advance uncorrected proof with illustrated wraps. Light wear to edges. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670044


Price: $13.00 

Pen Of Fire: John Moncure Daniel (SIGNED)Bridges, Peter

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 

 

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 

 

Penelope's Progress: Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton as Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland


Wiggin, Kate Douglas

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, reprint, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages, plaid pattern cloth cover with gilt titles. Corner and edge fray, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 853329


Price: $25.00 

 

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 Butter Tools and Processes


Powell, Elizabeth A.

Softcover. Doylestown, PA, The Bucks County Historical Society, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Guide to butter-making in Pennsylvania; yellow and green covers, minor rubbing. Staple wrappers. Numerous b/w plates of tools used in butter-making. Text on history, process, and decoration. Captions for each tool shown. Several line diagrams showing the butter-making process. 28 pages. Tight, clean copy.

Record # 808545


Price: $18.00 

 

Pennsylvania Dutch Cookery - Their History, Art, Accomplishments. Also a Broad Collection of Their Food Recipes


Frederick, J.George

Hardcover. Louisville, KY, Favorite Recipes Press, Rep., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A reprint of the 1935 ed. 275 pages.

Record # 61662


Price: $15.00 

 

Pennsylvania German Society: Proceedings and Addresses, Volume LIII


Pennsylvania German Society

Softcover. Norristown, PA, Pennsylvania German Society, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 171 pages, b&w illustrations. Blue paper wrappers faded, w/ chipping and tears on edges. Rought-cut and some uncut pages; slightly musty odor, otherwise clean and tight.

Record # 809002


Price: $28.00 

 

Pennsylvania Pottery: Tools and Processes


Powell, Elizabeth A.

Softcover. Doylestown, PA, The Bucks County Historical Society, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, White and red cover; slight rubbing. Staple wrappers. Numerous b/w plates of ceramic pieces and line drawings. Text on history and the tools and processes used. 20 pages. Tight, clean copy.

Record # 808383


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

Pennsylvania's Decorative Arts in the Age of Handcraft


Richman, Irwin and Mark H. Dorfman

Softcover. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical Association, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 76 pages. Pennsylvania History Studies: No. 13. White wrappers with color and b&w illustration, perfect binding, profusely illustrated with b&w photography by Mark Dorfman. Light rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 808120


Price: $12.00 

Pentagon, The: A HistoryVogel, Steve

Pentagon, The: A History


Vogel, Steve

Hardcover. Random House, 1st, June 5, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 626 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edge wear to pictorial dust jacket, else a very neat, clean copy.

Record # 452864


Price: $15.00 

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

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 From the Horizon, The: An Illustrated History


Snow, Philip

Hardcover. 1st, January 1, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages, b&w and color photographs and illustrations. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 452925


Price: $20.00 

People of Georgia - An Illustrated Social HistoryLane, Mills

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 Land of Flint, The


Campbell, Richard Dean

Softcover. Lanham, University Press of America, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages. Softcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Previous owners stamp on inside front cover. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612833


Price: $11.00 

 

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 Armies, The


Cobb, Richard

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, reprint, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 776 page. Some pencil underlining. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855585


Price: $13.00 

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

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 

people's history of the Supreme Court, A: the men and women whose cases and decisions have shaped our ConstitutionIrons, Peter H.

people's history of the Supreme Court, A: the men and women whose cases and decisions have shaped our Constitution


Irons, Peter H.

Softcover. New York, Penguin Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, New York, Penguin Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Good, Dust jacket: None, Light edge wear to top edge and corners, otherwise clean, tight copy.. 588 pages. Record # 467693

Record # 467693


Price: $11.00 

 

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 

 

People, Places and Things: American Paintings 1750-1980


Kennedy Galleries

Softcover. New York, NY, Kennedy Galleries, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with illustrated covers; slight marking. Paper wrappers. 60 color plates of paintings from various American artists. Short introduction on several of the artists. Tight, clean copy.

Record # 808374


Price: $8.00 

 

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 

 

Per La Nuova Vita Dell'Italia: Scritti E Discorsi 1943-1944


Croce, Benedetto

Softcover. Napoli, Riccardo Ricciardi, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages, softcover, text in Italian.

Record # 405641


Price: $25.00 

 

Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation


Allgor, Catherine

Hardcover. US, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2006-04-04, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 493 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462397


Price: $11.00 

 

Performances


Dening, Greg

Softcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 1st paperback edition, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding good. Spine is slightly faded (shelfwear, see image). Pages clean. "With elegance and candor, (the author) offers a panoramic collection of rich and densely textured essays that demonstrate how we can only understand our present through our consciousness of the past..."

Record # 33497


Price: $35.00 

Perils of Perestroika: Viewpoints from the Soviet Press, 1989-1991Tarasulo, Isaac J.

Perils of Perestroika: Viewpoints from the Soviet Press, 1989-1991


Tarasulo, Isaac J.

Softcover. Wilmington, Del., Sr Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 355 pags. Minor wear to pictorial stiff wrappers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453301


Price: $12.00 

 

Period Finishes and Effects


Miller, Judith & Martin

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 178 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket. Color photographs throughout by James Merrell.

Record # 804444


Price: $13.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Perry's Victory Centenary, The: Report of the Perry's Victory Centennial Commission State of New York


Emerson (Secretary), George D.

Hardcover. Albany, J.B. Lyon Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Tissue guard. Foxing on front preliminary pages, rear final pages, edges, otherwise clean inside.

Record # 30377


Price: $25.00 

 

Persecution Exposed, in some Memoirs Relating to the Sufferings of John Whiting, and Many others of the People called Quakers, For Conscience Sake, in the West of England, etc. - Second Edition


Whiting, John

Hardcover. London, John Whiting, 2nd, 1791, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 520 pages plus index. Leather covers. Title in gilt on spine. Previous owners inscription on preliminary page, and opposite preface. Minor foxing to some pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610510


Price: $375.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Perspective of the World, The - Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century (Vol. 3)


Braudel, Fernand

Paperback. New York, Harper & Row, Rep. wraps, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 699 pages, B&W illustrations. Paperback.

Record # 303708


Price: $20.00 

Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution from the Hoover Institution ArchivesLewis, Beth Irwin & Peter Paret

Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution from the Hoover Institution Archives


Lewis, Beth Irwin & Peter Paret

Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton Univ Pr, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with light sun-fade to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459999


Price: $50.00 

Peru: Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon Bondil, Nathalie

Peru: Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon


Bondil, Nathalie

Hardcover. Milan , 5Continents, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 379 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color and b&w photographs, maps and illustrations throughout. Illustrated chapter headings. Gilt to all three edges. Gilt decoration to spine and cover. Clean tight copy.

Record # 468123


Price: $63.00 

 

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 

 

Peter the Great


Stanley, Diane, Illust. by: Diane Stanley

Hard Back . NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. in color by Stanley. Dust jacket with chip, light soil to rear.

Record # 63356


Price: $8.00 

 

Peterborough Chronicle, The


Rositzke (Translator/Introduction), Harry A.

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 193 pages. Hardcover. covers bound in dark green, top edge dyed. Gilt title on spine, still quite bright. Spine has a touch of fraying/fading at top and bottom. Very tight binding, edges and pages have some age-yellowing, but otherwise very clean inside.

Record # 30812


Price: $25.00 

Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural RevolutionClark, Katerina

Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution


Clark, Katerina

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint , 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 468772


Price: $19.00 

 

Peterson's Magazine - January to June 1867


N/A

N.P., Peterson, 1st, 1867, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 hand colored fold-out fashion plates, b&w steel & wood engravings. Spine cover gone, hinges cracked but internally VG.

Record # 53258


Price: $50.00 

 

Petite Histoire de France


Bainville, Jacques and JOB

Hardcover. Paris, Maison Alred Mame, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by JOB, featuring 16 gorgeous color plates. Blue cloth spine, color illustrated boards. French text. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 402617


Price: $60.00 

 

Petrasevskij Circle, The


Evans, John L.

Hardcover. Hague, Mouton, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 114 pages. Ex-library copy with minimal stamping or marking. Dust jacket shows standard wear with light fading and small tears at edges. Clean, tight text.

Record # 607920


Price: $20.00 

 

Petticoat Affair, The : Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House


Marszalek, John F.

Hardcover. US, The Free Press, 1st, 1997-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Faint foxing to edges, light rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 462151


Price: $10.00 

 

Pfalz: The First Detailed Story of the Company and Its Famous Plane


Grosz, Peter and Egon Kruger

Softcover. West Roxbury MA, World War I Aero Publishers, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages, b&w illustrations, illustrated stapled wrappers. Clean.

Record # 406551


Price: $13.00 

 

PGA Tour '90


Golf

Hardcover. Charlotte NC, UMI Publications, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Over 300 pgs in color, recapping the year with final standings, scores of all tournaments. First official PGA Tour yearbook. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket and tape repair to inch-sized tear on rear dust jacket.

Record # 101069


Price: $38.00 

 

Phantom Empire, The


O'Brien, Geoffrey

Hardcover. New York , W.W. Norton and Company, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 281 pages. B/W photographs. Front fly leaf missing. Dust jacket scuffed otherwise very clean.

Record # 802672


Price: $8.00 

 

Pharmacy on the Niagara Frontier: The Past and Present


Lockie, Laurence D.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Stuart Incorporated, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 264 pages, hardcover. An illustrated history of the pharmaceutical industry in western New York state. Bumping to spine. Light edgewear to boards. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951445


Price: $24.00 

 

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 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 

 

Philadelphia on the River


Smith, Philip Chadwick Foster

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Maritime Museum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. An illustrated history of Philadelphia's waterfront from the Revolutionary War to the 1980's Many black & white plates, 4 black & white photos of ships, boats laid-in. 176 pages. Light wear and soiling to dust jacket. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 66320


Price: $16.00 

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

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 

 

Philistines, The : Their History and Civilization


Macalister, R. A. S.

Hardcover. Chicago, Argonaut, Inc., 1st Am, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 136 pages, b&w illustrations. Light foxing to top edge. Dust jacket slightly soiled w/ light edgewear. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851555


Price: $18.00 

 

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 

 

Philosophy in the Middle Ages: The Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Traditions


Hyman, (edited by), Arthur & James J. Walsh

Softcover. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing Company, Reprint, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 761 pages. Some sun-fading and edge wear along spine. Previous owner's signature on front cover and flyleaf. Slight creasing on corners of first 10 pages. Minor staining on fore edge. Small scratch on bottom edge. Good, tight copy.

Record # 856122


Price: $25.00 

 

Philosophy of Art History, The


Hauser, Arnold

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A Knopf , 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 427 pages. Gilt title on the spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 857154


Price: $19.00 

 

Philosophy of Film, The: Introductory Text and Readings


Wartenberg (Editors), Thomas E./Angela Curran

Softcover. Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishing, First Edition, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Softcover with only faint, marginal wear to edges. Features essays by Noel Carroll, Malcolm Turvey, Gilles Deleuze, Hugo Munsterberg, Rudolph Arnheim among many others. Black & white illustrations throughout. Faint (erasable) pencil to last two chapters by previous owner. Otherwise, clean and unmarked copy.

Record # 751600


Price: $23.00 

 

Philosophy of Mass Art, A


Carroll , Noel

Softcover. New York, Oxford University Press, Inc. , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 425 pages. Minimal (erasable) pencil amrkings throughout. Bright illustrated wraps with only light wear to edges. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Tight copy.

Record # 751623


Price: $25.00 

Photo Fakery: The History and Techniques of Photographic Deception and Manipulation [ILLUSTRATED]Brugioni, Dino A.

Photo Fakery: The History and Techniques of Photographic Deception and Manipulation [ILLUSTRATED]


Brugioni, Dino A.

Softcover. Dulles, Va., Brassey's Inc, 1st, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. Light wear to edges of cover. Many b&w photographs throughout. A nice, clean copy.

Record # 455557


Price: $12.00 

 

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)

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 

 

Photographs for the Tsar: The Pioneering Color Photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II


Allshouse (editor), Robert H.

Hardcover. New York, The Dial Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only light rubbing to edges. Color photographs throughout.

Record # 750043


Price: $23.00 

 

Photography and the American Scene


Taft, Robert

NY, Dover, Rep. pbk, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A reprint of the 1938 book. 322 black & white illust. 546 pages. Paperback.

Record # 66881


Price: $15.00 

 

Photography: Venice '79


Palazzoli (editor), Daniela/Vittorio Sgarbi & Italo Zannier

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 404 pages. Hardcover catalogue published to mark the occasion of Photography/Venezia '79, arranged by the Municipality of Venice and UNESCO. Full color & black & white illustrations throughout. Binding cracked at page 144. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750091


Price: $19.00 

 

Photojournalist - The Career of Jimmy Hare


Gould, Lewis L./Richard Greffe

Hardcover. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 157 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Red remainder mark very tight to spine on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610217


Price: $15.00 

 

Photoplay Scenarios: How to Write and Sell Them


Ball, Eustace Hale

Hardcover. New York , Hearst's International Library, reprint, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 186 pages, light beige cloth covers with black lettering. An early guide to writing for silent films. Date on copyright page is 1915, but title page is 1917. Light cover wear, soil.

Record # 406054


Price: $50.00 

 

Physical Conditions of the Elizabethan Public Playhouse, The


Lawrence, William J.

Hardcover. New York, Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., Reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 129 pages. Hardcover with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750823


Price: $15.00 

 

Physician and the Slave Trade, The - John Kirk, the Livingstone Expeditions and the Crusade Against Slavery in East Africa


Liebowitz, Daniel

Hardcover. NY, W.H. Freeman and Co., 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 60060


Price: $10.00 

 

Piano Roles: Three Hundred Years of Life with the Piano


Parakilas, James

Softcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 461 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent, very little wear. Pages clean, binding tight. Looks nearly new. Piano Roles is a lively and up-to-date history of the piano that examines both its evolution in classical and popular musical cultures around the world, and its every-changing social roles over the past three centuries.

Record # 32041


Price: $19.00 

 

Picasso & The Weeping Women


Rizzoli

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Calif., Rizzoli, March 15, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 215 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 455369


Price: $20.00 

Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York CityNagle, Robin

Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City


Nagle, Robin

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy. Slight curling to dust jacket flaps. Otherwise tight copy. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471009


Price: $23.00 

 

Pictorial and Family History of Waterville, Kansas, A


N/A

Hardcover. Waterville KS, Bicentennial Committee, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Illustrated endpapers and fly leaves. Illustrated front cover. Faint odor, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857295


Price: $25.00 

 

Pictorial History of Architecture in America, A


Kidder Smith, G. E., Illust. by: G. E. Kidder Smith

Hardcover. New York, American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, A set of 2 volumes that strive to create a comprehensive account of American architecture as a whole. Includes buildings from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, all of which the author personally visited. Fully illustrated with hundreds of black/white photographs. Both volumes are in fine condition; hardcover slipcase has very slight wear to the corners and slight rubbing.

Record # 804823


Price: $18.00 

 

Pictorial History of Bennington, New Hampshire, A


Glynn, David A./Erving A. LeCain/Joy Levesque/Elizabeth Cashion/Bennington Historical Society

Hardcover. Bennington, Bennington Historical Society, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 178 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613018


Price: $44.00 

 

Pictorial History of Costume, A


Bruhn, Wolfgang/Max Tilke

Hardcover. New York, Arch Cape Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Illustrated with full color examples of costumes/dress from around the world. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 603705


Price: $19.00 

 

Pictorial History of Jazz, A - People and Places from New Orleans to Modern Jazz


Keepnews, Orrin and Bill Graves, Jr.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 5th pr., 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 625 black & white illust. 282 pages. Dj edgeworn, spine faded.

Record # 61530


Price: $18.00 

 

Pictorial History of Jazz, A - People and Places from New Orleans to Modern Jazz


Keepnews, Orrin, and Bill Grauer, Jr.

New York, Crown Publishers, Revised, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 297 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in b&w. Very good condition. Light wrinkling to dust jacket laminate.

Record # 602774


Price: $25.00 

Pictorial History of Sea Monsters and Other Dangerous Marine Life (SIGNED COPY)Sweeney, James B

Pictorial History of Sea Monsters and Other Dangerous Marine Life (SIGNED COPY)


Sweeney, James B

Hardcover. New York , Crown Publishers, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 314 pages, b&w illustrations. Bright dust jacket with light edgewear. INSCRIBED BY SWEENEY on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Record # 411677


Price: $38.00 

 

Pictorial History of the American Circus


Durant, John/Alice Durant

Hardcover. New York, A.S. Barnes, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 328 pages. Illustrated with mainly black & white photographs. Dust jacket has interior tape repair at bottom of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608585


Price: $50.00 

 

Pictorial History of the American Theatre 100 years 1860-1960


Blum, Daniel

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chilton, Revised Ed., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, New enlarged edition with added years: 1860-1900, 1956-1960. Over 5,000 photographs. A terrific book with one major fault - it smells musty

Record # 61534


Price: $40.00 

 

Pictorial History of the German Air Service 1914-1918


Imrie, Alex

Hardcover. Chicago, Henry Regnery, 1st US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176, b&w illustrations. maroon cloth covers in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean.

Record # 406464


Price: $19.00 

 

Pictorial History of the Western Reserve 1792-1860


Butler, Margaret Manor

Cleveland, OH, Western Reserve Hist. Society, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Many black & white illust. 151 pages plus bibliography and index. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 68941


Price: $25.00 

 

Pictorial Life of General Washington: Embracing a Complete History of the Seven Years' War, the Revolutionary War, the Formation of the Federal Constitution, and the Administration of Washington


Frost, John, L.L.D.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, W.A. Leary & Co., 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 588 pages w/ appendix. Brown leather w/ raised bands on spine, outlined in gilding. Spine cracking and worn. Edge wear. Colorful marbled end pages. Engraving of G. Washington pictured on frontispiece. Inscription in pencil on prelim page dated 1954. Blue design on top/bottom/sides of pages. Corners of boards have gilt design. B/W sketches throughout. Some tissue guards.

Record # 803716


Price: $64.00 

 

Picture Gallery Pioneers: 1850 to 1875


Andrews, Ralph W.

Hardcover. New York, Bonanza Books, 1st, 1964, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages with index, b&w photographs. Photo-history of the development of photography in the west. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Very good and clean copy minor tear and edge wear on dust jacket.

Record # 512355


Price: $8.00 

 

Picture History of New England Passenger Vessels


Cram, W. Bartlett

Hardcover. Maine, Burntcoat Corporation, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 414 pages, illustrated throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear and price clipped, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853380


Price: $35.00 

 

Picture History of Photography - From the Earliest Beginnings to the Present Day


Pollack, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Abrams, Concise Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 176 pages. Illustrated primarily with black & white photographs - one section in color. Dust jacket shows standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610917


Price: $15.00 

 

Picture History of the Brooklyn Bridge, A


Shapiro, Mary J.

Paperback. NY, Dover, 1st wraps, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 black & white illustrations, 122 pages.Paperback.

Record # 175855


Price: $18.00 

 

Picture History of the U.S. Navy - From Old Navy to New, 1776 to 1897


Roscoe, Theodore/Fred Freeman

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. illustrated with black & white photographs, drawings and paintings. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 219984


Price: $19.00 

 

Picture Story and Biography of Marquette and Joliet, The


Kelly, Regine Z., Illust. by: W. T. Mars

Chicago, LoFollett, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illust. by W. T. Mars. SIGNED BY KELLY on title-page. Lives of Father Jacques Marquett,a Jesuit priest and Frenchman Louis Jolit met in New France and explored the Mississippi River in the 1670's.

Record # 65846


Price: $18.00 

 

Picture Universe, The - 25th Anniversary U. S. Camera 1961


Maloney (editor), Tom

Hardcover. New York, U. S. Camera Publishing Corp., 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 306 pages. Hardcover with age toning to cover edge. Dust jacket with wear & darkened tone to edges and spine. Full page black & white illustrations throughout. Four foot lift up and pull out, full color panoramic insert of central Switzerland. Clean unmarked copy.

Record # 750084


Price: $31.00 

 

Pictures and Legends from Normany and Brittany


Macquoid, Thomas & Katharine, Illust. by: Thomas R. Macquoid

Hardcover. Piccadilly, Chatto and Windus, 1st, 1879, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages, plus 36 pages of list of books from publisher. Gilt decorated cover, title on spine and top edge. With 34 illustrations by Thomas R. Macquoid. Previous owner's signature on front front fly leaf, corner and edge wear. Slight foxing throughout and faded spine. Otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 852829


Price: $50.00 

 

Pictures Of Health - A Photographic History Of Health Care In Philadelphia 1860-1945


Golden, Janet and Charles E. Rosenberg

Paperback. Philadelphia , University of Pennsylvania, 1st in Wraps, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Paperback, 197 pages. Light edgewear.

Record # 201171


Price: $15.00 

 

Picturesque Burlington: A Handbook of Burlington, Vermont and Lake Champlain.


Auld, Joseph

Hardcover. Burlington VT , Free Press Association , 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. 143 b&w illustrations. Decorated endpapers and flyleaves. Gilt titles on cover. Illustrated frontispiece. Previous owner's inscription. Light edge wear, else clean, tight copy.

Record # 857259


Price: $50.00 

 

Picturesque Tale of Progress, A - 9 Vols.


Miller, Olive Beaupre

Hardcover. Chicago, Book House for Children, 6th pr., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, In 9 volumes. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Black cloth with color illustrations on front cover labels,(except for volume 9 which is the index). color endpapers. All fresh and clean with only minor bumps to two volumes. Cover labels clean, unchipped.

Record # 600495


Price: $200.00 

Picturing Old New England: Image and MemoryTruettner, William H./Roger B. Stein

Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory


Truettner, William H./Roger B. Stein

Hardcover. Washington, National Museum of American Art, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Full color and black & white illustrations throughout. Clean unmarked text.

Record # 750077


Price: $25.00 

Piers Plowman, a Reference GuideDiMarco,Vincent

Piers Plowman, a Reference Guide


DiMarco,Vincent

Hardcover. Boston, MA, G.K. Hall & Co., 1st Edition, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages. Hardcover. Maroon cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight. excellent condition.

Record # 33547


Price: $63.00 

 

Piety Promoted: In Brief Biographical Memorials of Some of the Religious Society of Friends Commonly Called Quakers: The Eleventh Part


Forster, Josiah

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Thomas Kite, 2nd Ed., 1830, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 368 pages, brown leather covers with chipped spine label. Pages with light foxing.

Record # 404849


Price: $25.00 

 

Piggy Foxy and the Sword of Revolution: Bolshevik Self-Portraits


Vatlin, Alexander, Larisa Malashenko

Hardcover. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages, illustrated throughout. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852524


Price: $30.00 

 

Piggy Foxy and the Sword of Revolution: Bolshevik Self-Portraits


Vatlin, Alexander, Larisa Malashenko

Hardcover. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages, illustrated throughout. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852525


Price: $30.00 

 

Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa -From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh


Elder, John

Hardcover. Chrarlottesville, University of Virginia Press, First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. Mustard cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated dust jacket with only light marginal wear to edges. Clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751201


Price: $19.00 

 

Pilgrims, The


Noble, Frederick A.

Hardcover. Boston, Pilgrim Pr, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 483 pages, with b&w illustrations. Gilt titles and top edge. Ex-library residue on rear fly leaf and sticker on spine, light spine edge fray, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 4779


Price: $13.00 

 

Piltdown - A Scientific Forgery


Spencer, Frank

London, Oxford University Press , 1st U.K., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 272 pages. B&W illustrations, photos. Dust jacket price clipped at bottom, spine with fading.

Record # 303113


Price: $15.00 

 

Pin Up, The: A Modest History


Gabor, Mark

Hardcover. New York, 1st thus, August 19, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 271 pages, b&w and color photographs. Edge wear, light soiling to dust jacket; small tear to front flap. Light foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451614


Price: $30.00 

 

Pin-Up - from 1852 to Now, The


Stein, Ralph

Hardcover. London, Ridge Press/Hamlyn, 1st , 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611902


Price: $25.00 

 

Pindar's Victory Songs


Nisetich, Frank J.

Softcover. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st Edition, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Softcover with bright covers, black & white printed titles & decoration to cover & spine. Title page b/w illustration, Inside of red-figured cup showing a running figure in bronze, Musee de Louvre, Paris. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750378


Price: $15.00 

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.)

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 

 

Pioneer in Northwest America, A


Unonius, Gustaf

Hardcover. Minneapolis, University of Minn, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, memoirs of a Swedish pioneer in Minn. 1841-1858 ex-lib, vol 1 only

Record # 1647


Price: $15.00 

 

PIONEER IRON WORKS


Clarks, Mary Stetson, Illust. by: Joshua Tolford

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chilton Book Co., 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 85 pages. History of Saugus Iron Works of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Illustrated in b/w by Joshua Tolford. 8vo. Color pictorial and white cloth. Minor foxing to endpapers. Brown spotting in small section of spine. Very Good. Matching pictorial dust jacket. Tear in front near top of spine. Minor browning. Some wear and small tears around edges.

Record # 219860


Price: $13.00 

Pioneering the Helicopter by: Morris, Charles Lester

Pioneering the Helicopter


by: Morris, Charles Lester

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 161 pages, hardcover. Covers are in very good condition, despite some minor sunning to the spine. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Includes B&W photography and illustrations throughout. This is a comprehensive book that details the history of helicopter development, from the earliest attempts to create a flying machine that could take off and land vertically, to the modern helicopters of today. Morris explores the many challenges and obstacles that were faced by pioneers in the field, including technical limitations, safety concerns, and financial constraints. Inscription by previous owner on the first front end page, otherwise clean copy.

Record # 33904


Price: $28.00 

 

Piracy & the Decline of Venice 1580-1615


Tenenti, Alberto

Hardcover. Berkley, University of California Press, reprint, 1967, 210 pages, 8 b&w illustrations. Price-clipped, previous owner's embossed stamp on title page, slight wear evident to dust jacket; a tight, clean copy.

Record # 603848


Price: $13.00 

 

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 

Pirates Terror on the High Seas from the Caribbean to the South China SeaCordingly, David

Pirates Terror on the High Seas from the Caribbean to the South China Sea


Cordingly, David

hardcover. North Digthon MA, JG Press, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color and b&w photographs and illustrations by various artists throughout. Includes appendix of pirate terms.

Record # 469605


Price: $13.00 

 

Pitcairn Island


Silverman, David

Hardcover. Cleveland, Ohio, The World Publishing Company, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 258 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear and crease, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 854400


Price: $12.00 

Pittsburgh Glass 1797-1891: A History and Guide for CollectorsInnes, Lowell

Pittsburgh Glass 1797-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors


Innes, Lowell

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 522 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor wear on jacket, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230531


Price: $100.00 

 

Place in Legal History of Sir William Shareshull, The: Chief Justice of the King's Bench 1350-1361


Putnam, Bertha Haven

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. 328 pages. Light soiling to covers. Soiling, small closed tear to dust jacket.

Record # 507067


Price: $40.00 

 

Place of Iceland in the History of European Institutions, The


Conybeare, C.A. Vansittart

Hardcover. New York, AMS, reprint, nd, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 148 pages, a reprint of the 1877 edition. Tight, clean copy. Appears to circa 1970-1980.

Record # 403272


Price: $20.00 

 

Place of the Pretend People - Gifts from a Yup'ik Eskimo Village


Kremers, Carolyn

Anchorage, Alaska Northwest Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, 238 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear to spine.

Record # 176223


Price: $18.00 

 

Place of the Pretend People: Gifts from a Yup'ik Eskimo Village


Kremers, Carolyn

Hardcover. Anchorage, Alaska Northwest, 1st, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages, b&w photograph on dust jacket. Color dust jacked with very minimal wear to edges and tear on rear. Book in excellent condition

Record # 603755


Price: $10.00 

 

Place: Neon Rose


N/A

Paperback. San Francisco CA, Stecher-Traung-Schmidt, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 215 pages. Edgewear. Vol. 3, No. 1.

Record # 511127


Price: $13.00 

 

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 

 

Plain and Fancy: Vermont's People and Their Quilts As a Reflection of America


Cleveland, Richard L., Donna Bister

Softcover. Gualala, CA, Quilt Digest Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. Softcover. Wrapper excellent. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Pages and edges clean. In great shape. Through quilt masterpieces, the life of America is reflected in this nostalgic look at the lives and creative work of a spirited, freedom-loving people.

Record # 31897


Price: $23.00 

 

Plain and Ornamental: Delaware Furniture 1740-1890


Waters, Deborah Dependahl

Softcover. Wilmington, The Historical Society of Delaware, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 60 pages. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Textured wrappers. Small smudges on front cover; else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 808811


Price: $120.00 

 

Plain Dealer, The: One hundred Years in Cleveland


Shaw, Archer H.

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 402 pages. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Green cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. No dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856813


Price: $19.00 

 

Plain Mr. Knox


Whitley, Elizabeth

Hardcover. London, Skeffington, 2nd, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Color postcard of Knox's house laid-in. 223 pages. Dj with light edgewear.

Record # 61259


Price: $20.00 

 

Plains Indians of the Twentieth Century, The


Iverson (Ed), Peter

Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 277 pages. Light rubbing to corners. Dust jacket with very light soiling.

Record # 506398


Price: $13.00 

 

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 

Platonic production: theme and variations: the Gilson lecturesRosen, Stanley

Platonic production: theme and variations: the Gilson lectures


Rosen, Stanley

Hardcover. South Bend, Indiana, St. Augustines Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages. Hardcover. Silver gilt titles on spine. Includes extensive bibliography and index of abbreviations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469532


Price: $38.00 

 

Play of the World, The


Hans, James S.

Softcover. Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, First Edition, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 210 pages. Scarce. Softcover with foxing top edge, small spots to right edge. Light wear to edges & one inch tear to heel of spine. Faint soil to preliminary pages. Else clean copy. Hans explores the cultural importance of play among a wide variety of fields, including language, history, aesthetics, socioeconomics and ethics.

Record # 751555


Price: $50.00 

Play the Devil: A History of Gambling in the United States from 1492 to 1955Chafetz, Henry

Play the Devil: A History of Gambling in the United States from 1492 to 1955


Chafetz, Henry

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 475 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Very minor normal wear to cover, otherwise clean and tight copy. Inscription from previous owner on front end papers. "Library of George Murphy" impressed into front end paper.

Record # 2230852


Price: $15.00 

Playboy's illustrated treasury of gamblingCarroll, David

Playboy's illustrated treasury of gambling


Carroll, David

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460024


Price: $15.00 

 

Playing Cards


Tilley, Roger

New York, Putnam, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with color and black & white reproductions of playing cards throughout history. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 511529


Price: $8.00 

 

Playing with the Toy Theatre: An Essay on the Toy and the Theatre it Illustrates


Viscomi, Joseph

Softcover. Privately Printed, 2nd Printing, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 94 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Scarce. Wrapper has some tanning from age, otherwise no rips or tears, intact. Pages clean, edges have some light tanning. Binding (staple) tight. In very good condition. A historical look at toy theatre with many illustrations.

Record # 32364


Price: $38.00 

 

Plays, Players & Playwrights - An Illustrated History of the Theatre


Geisinger, Marion

Hardcover. NY, Hart Pub, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, b&w illustrations, dj spine faded, edgewear

Record # 20600


Price: $35.00 

 

Playships of the World - The Naval Diaries of Admiral Dan Gallery 1920-1924


Shenk (Editor), Robert

Hardcover. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover. Remainder dot on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613179


Price: $25.00 

 

Playships of the World: The Naval Diaries of Admiral Dan Gallery 1920-1924


Shenk, Robert (Ed.)

Hardcover. Columbia, SC, University of South Carolina Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover. Small remainder mark on bottom edge. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Indicative of the adventurous, carefree, and relatively risk-free period between the world wars was the early career of a young navel office, Dan Gallery. He would eventually achieve the rank of admiral and garner international fame for capturing a German submarine during World War II.

Record # 32220


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 

 

Pleasures of Paris: Daumier to Picasso


Shapiro, Barbara Stern

Softcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Color and b&w photos throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855741


Price: $23.00 

 

Plimoth Colony Samplers


Davidson, Mary M.

Softcover. Marion, MA, The Channings, 1st, 1975, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Collection of drawings and text on various samplers from the 17th century onward. Purple covers, minor sunning and small previous price mark, but otherwise very clean. Staple wrappers tight. Pages clean and crisp, whole work very nice and tight. Numerous line drawings and occasional photographs of sampler design. Extensive text on history and individual samplers. Index of artists included. 58 pages.

Record # 808066


Price: $130.00 

 

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 

 

Pobre Raza! Violence, Justce, and Mobilization Among Mexico Lindo Immigrants 1900-1936


Rosales, F. Arturo

Softcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 281 pages, b&w illustrations.

Record # 602803


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

Poe Shadow, The Pearl, Matthew

Poe Shadow, The


Pearl, Matthew

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 2006-05-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 370 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466338


Price: $10.00 

Poetics of Gardens, TheMoore, Charles W.

Poetics of Gardens, The


Moore, Charles W.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA , The MIT Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 258 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Includes extensive bibliography. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468460


Price: $44.00 

Poetry, Narrative, HistoryKermode, Frank

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

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 

Poison King, The: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest EnemyMayor, Adrienne

Poison King, The: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy


Mayor, Adrienne

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 472 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge of textblock. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Tight copy.

Record # 471700


Price: $25.00 

 

Poisoned Chalice, The : Being the Second Journal of Sir Roger Shallot Concerning Wicked Conspiracies and Horrible Murders Perpetrated in the Reign of


Clynes, Michael

Hardcover. US, Otto Penzler Books, 1st, 1994-07-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462160


Price: $10.00 

Poisons of the Past: Molds, Epidemics, and HistoryMatossian, Mary Kilbourne

Poisons of the Past: Molds, Epidemics, and History


Matossian, Mary Kilbourne

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages. Hardcover. B&w illustrations and maps throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468100


Price: $15.00 

 

Poland--nation and art: A history of the nations awareness and its expression in art


Suchodolska, Maria

Hardcover. Warszawa, Arkady, 1st English, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 477 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 454613


Price: $15.00 

Polar Whaling: A Sea-Letter Narrative of a Cruise in the Okhotsk Sea in 1849Holmes, William Henry

Polar Whaling: A Sea-Letter Narrative of a Cruise in the Okhotsk Sea in 1849


Holmes, William Henry

Softcover. Mystic CT, Marine Historical Association, reprint, 1953, Softcover, pastel green wraps stapled, 16 pages. Author was first mate of the Bark Sheperdess of Mystic, Connecticut. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 411919


Price: $16.00 

 

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 

 

Poles on the High Seas


Pertek, Jerzy

Hardcover. Warsaw, Zaklad Narodwy im. Ossolinskich, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 372 pages. Translated from 1957 edition by Alexander T. Jordan. B/W illustrations. Dust jacket edges soiled. Price sticker on back cover.

Record # 802229


Price: $13.00 

 

Political and Social History of Modern Europe, A - Volume 2 1815-1924


Hayes, Carlton J. H.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, Revised Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 905 pages. Color maps, tight, clean, hardcover copy.

Record # 301876


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

Political Economy of Mountain Java, The: An Interpretive HistoryHefner, Robert W.

Political Economy of Mountain Java, The: An Interpretive History


Hefner, Robert W.

Softcover. University of California Press, 1st, May 12, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages, b&w photographs. Light edgewear to wrappers. Else clean and tight.

Record # 454582


Price: $12.00 

 

Political Parties in French-Speaking West Africa


Morgenthau, Ruth S.

Hardcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 445 pages. Light wear to dj. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 60082


Price: $20.00 

 

Political Partisanship in the American Middle Colonies 1700-1776


Newcomb, Benjamin H.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Really nice, clean condition. Dust jacket, hardbound, 258 pgs.

Record # 109153


Price: $25.00 

 

Political Theories of the Middle Age


Gierke, Otto

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages, translated with an introduction by Frederic William Maitland, gilt title on spine on blue cover. Minor corner bump and edge wear, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 854727


Price: $20.00 

 

Political Woman


Kirkpatrick, Jeane J.

New York, Basic Books, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 274 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 67575


Price: $12.00 

 

Politics and Religion during the English Revolution: The Scots and the Long Parliament 1643-1645


Kaplan, Lawrence

Hardcover. New York, New York University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 176 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457204


Price: $20.00 

Politics and Religious Consciousness in AmericaKelly, George Armstrong

Politics and Religious Consciousness in America


Kelly, George Armstrong

Hardcover. New Brunswick, Transaction Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. Edge wear to dust jacket. Internally clean. Binding structurally sound. Overall very good copy.

Record # 809218


Price: $15.00 

 

Politics and Society in Provincial Russia - Saratov 1590-1970


Wade, Rex A. and Scott J. Seregny (Ed.)

Hardcover. Columbus, Oh., Ohio Univ. Press, 1st , 1989, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 54623


Price: $25.00 

 

Politics and Society in Provincial Russia: Saratov, 1590-1917


Wade, Rex A.

Hardcover. Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 468 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear and two small tear to upper edge of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453382


Price: $18.00 

 

Politics in Russia, second edition


Remington, Thomas

Softcover. New York, Longman Publishers, 2nd, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 288 pages, b & w maps and charts, 1st printing of revised edition, very clean, tight copy.

Record # 800543


Price: $10.00 

 

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 

 

Politics of Evolution, The : Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London


Desmond, Adrian

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, May 15, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 503 pages, b&w illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, light markings in pencil through text. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 458155


Price: $38.00 

Politics of Punishment, The : Prison Reform in Russia, 1863-1917Adams, Bruce Friend

Politics of Punishment, The : Prison Reform in Russia, 1863-1917


Adams, Bruce Friend

Hardcover. DeKalb, Ill., Northern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Minor wear to upper edge of dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 453357


Price: $25.00 

 

Politics of Torch, The: The Allied Landings and the Algiers Putsch 1942


Funk, Arthur Layton

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 322 pages. No dust jacket issued. The Allied invasion and occupation of North Africa, one of the most important and complex operations in World War II, is described from a unique viewpoint in this volume. Clean copy.

Record # 411289


Price: $15.00 

 

Politics, Society, and Nationality Inside Gorbachev's Russia


Bialer, Seweryn (Editor)

Softcover. Boulder, Westview Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Minor wear to edges. Pages 235-241 underlined, thus Good only.

Record # 453308


Price: $10.00 

Politics, The Aristotle

Politics, The


Aristotle

Softcover. Chicago, Univ of Chicago Pr, 1st paperback, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Softcover with slight edgewear. Gray wrapper with white lettering. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 470773


Price: $19.00 

 

Pollen Wasps


Gess, Sarah

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Fine, 340 pages. Illustrated w/color and B/W photgraphs. New.

Record # 801892


Price: $19.00 

 

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 

 

Pontiff


Thomas, Gordon and Max

London, Granada, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The recent history of the Catholic Church and the last three Popes: Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II. 499 pages

Record # 175592


Price: $13.00 

Pool: History, Strategies, and LegendsShamos, Michael

Pool: History, Strategies, and Legends


Shamos, Michael

Softcover. New York, Friedman/Fairfax Publishing, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Light wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 459969


Price: $13.00 

 

Pop - The Genuis of Andy Warhol


Scherman, Tony/David Dalton

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, HarperCollins Publishers, First Edition, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 509 pages. Hardcover. Bright illustrate dust jacket, crisp, clean. Tight binding, clean inside and out with only light marginal wear, 16 pages of illustrations in full color.

Record # 751480


Price: $25.00 

 

Pop Art: A Continuing History


Livingstone, Marco

Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 404954


Price: $44.00 

 

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 

 

Popular Home Remedies and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans


Aurand, Jr., A Monroe

Paperback. Harrisburg, Aurand Press, unk. wraps, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Foreward by Logan Clendening. 32 pages + wraps

Record # 56263


Price: $15.00 

 

Popular Images of the Presidency from Washington to Lincoln


Cunningham, Noble E.

Hardcover. Columbia, MO, University of Missouri, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 312 pages. Paintings & Drawings of Presidents from Washington to Lincoln. 265 b&w, 26 color Illustrations. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.

Record # 304


Price: $30.00 

 

Porcelain


Patterson, Jerry E.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages, b & w and color photos, part of The Smithsonian Illustrated Library of Antiques, prepared by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 800834


Price: $6.00 

 

Port of Caernarfon, 1793-1900, The


Lloyd, Lewis

Softcover. US, L.Lloyd, 1st, 1989-01-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 274 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Heavy sun discoloration to wrappers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 465894


Price: $23.00 

 

Port of Gloucester, The


Connolly, James B., Illust. by: Max Kuehne

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 333 pages, hardcover. Blue cloth boards. With etchings by Max Kuehne. A history of the famous Massachusetts port. Mild bowing to front panel. Light rubbing and edgewear to boards. Rough cut fore edge. Mild age toning to text block edges. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951955


Price: $25.00 

 

Port of Portsmouth Ships and the Cotton Trade 1783 - 1829


Brighton, Ray

Hardcover. Portsmouth, NY, Portsmouth Maine Society, First Edition, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Red boards with gilt titles to spine. Slightly cocked. Maps to endpapers. 16 pages of illustrations in full page, full color to center. Dust jacket with light wear. Else clean, unmarked.

Record # 751560


Price: $38.00 

 

Porte Crayon's Mexico: David Hunter Strother's Diaries in the Early Porfirian Era, 1879-1885


Stealey III, John E. (Editor)

Hardcover. Kent, OH, The Kent State University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1200 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink wrap. Tight copy.

Record # 471250


Price: $25.00 


  

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