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Softcover. Durham NC, Historic Preservation Society of Durham, reprint, 2001, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 229 pages, mild shelf wear. Piedmont Plantation tells the history of a unique plantation complex in North Carolina and of the Bennehan and Cameron families that owned and developed it. The narrative covers one hundred and fifty years and is based primarily on research in the many thousands of family papers deposited in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Interwoven with the family history of four generations are descriptions of their slaves and overseers and of the buildings they erected and lived or worked in, all correlated with the agricultural enterprise that underpinned this 30,000-acre domain. Carefully researched, Piedmont Plantation will appeal to the specialist and general reader alike. Scholars looking for primary material will discover here much useful information as well as guideposts to additional sources. Originally published in hardcover in 1985. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Florence, Italy, Cantini, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket in SLIPCASE cover. ITALIAN TEXT. Color pictures. Previous owner's bookplate on end paper, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Slipcase has some tape repair on bottom edge. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 283 pages. This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the philosophical system of the seventeenth-century philosopher Pierre Gassendi. Gassendi's importance is widely recognized and is essential for understanding early modern philosophers and scientists such as Locke, Leibniz and Newton. Offering a systematic overview of his contributions, LoLordo situates Gassendi's views within the context of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century natural philosophy as represented by a variety of intellectual traditions, including scholastic Aristotelianism, Renaissance Neo-Platonism, and the emerging mechanical philosophy. LoLordo's work will be essential reading for historians of early modern philosophy and science. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Company, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 461 pages. Laval began his career as a socialist, but over time drifted far to the right. Following France's defeat and armistice with Germany in 1940, he served in prominent roles in Philippe Petain's Vichy Regime, first as the vice-president of the Council of Ministers from 11 July 1940 to 13 December 1940, and later as the head of government from 18 April 1942 to 20 August 1944. After the liberation of France in 1944, Laval was arrested by the French government under General Charles de Gaulle. In what was widely regarded as a flawed trial, Laval was found guilty of plotting against the security of the State and collaboration with the enemy, and after a thwarted suicide attempt, he was executed by firing squad. His manifold political activities left a complicated and controversial legacy, resulting in more than a dozen conflicting biographies of him. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 722 pages, b&w illustrations. Ex-lib with residue and stamping to front endpapers, otherwise a clean, bright copy. One of the finest business histories ever written by an author who won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes for History. A detailed account of how Pierre S. du Pont transformed a family gunpowder factory into the Du Pont Company and revitalized General Motors into a highly prosperous corporation.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 183 pages. This beautiful book examines the art of Pieter de Hooch, one of the most famous and innovative painters of Holland's Golden Age. It discusses de Hooch's position in Dutch genre painting, his favorite themes and their cultural context, his artistic development, and his approach to narration. The book was the catalogue for an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford. A 75-page text covering the artist's life and techniques and themes of his work is followed by nearly 100 pages presenting plates of works in the show; eight entries bring the catalog raisonne up to date. Sutton has achieved the rare feat of creating a work that is both a significant addition to scholarship and a reader-friendly introduction for those not already familiar with the artist. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st Edition, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages including publisher advertisements. B/w illustrations throughout, including frontispiece. Decorated ribbon bookmark, no longer attached, but laid in. Black cloth cover boards, gilight title on spine. Tanning to pages and edges, otherwise unmarked.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has a little bit of chipping at top of spine, patched with tape. Otherwise great. Clean and unmarked inside. Gilt endpapers.

Hardcover. New York, Neale Publishing Co., 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 324 pages, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. An account of a Civil War battle fought in Missouri. Tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 2nd, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. ames Oberg (Red Star in Orbit, Mission to Mars, etc.) is a spaceflight engineer at Houston Mission Control; Alcestis Oberg is the author of Spacefarers of the 80s and 90s. Here they offer an engrossing and vivid account of what life is like in an earth-orbiting spacecraft. Because relatively few American space-travelers have published tales of their experiences, the Obergs lean heavily on the diaries and memoirspublished in Russia and little known hereof pioneering Soviet astronauts, notably veterans of long-term Salyut missions like Ryumin and Berezovoy. Here is the human side of life in orbit. Few readers can fail to be grippedand occasionally amusedby revelations of the immediate problems (how astronauts contend with toilets, hygiene, sleeping), their technical perils (e.g., air contamination) and the psychological hazards they face, from crewmate incompatibility to depression and homesickness for Earth. Photos.

Hardcover. Springfield MA, Milton Bradley Co., 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in worn, frayed black cloth with yellow lettering. The best reason to buy this book are the 12 bright color plates by Riesenberg. They include The Explorers Lewis & Clarke, The Pioneer Daniel Boone, The Trapper Kit Carson, The Riverboat Pilot Mark Twain right up to The Aviator Charles Lindbergh. Internally clean, very good, the outside, not so much.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on spine. Maps as endpapers. 333 pages, b&w illustrations. This book covers the first contacts between the United States and the Middle East from the earliest times (1800s) to the mid-nineteenth century. The author describes exotic people and places in the Middle East and how American interests there were far from marginal although centered around the American Protestant missionary activity during that period. Clean copy.

Softcover. Washington DC/NY, Infantry Journal and Penguin Books, reprint, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, 305 pages. Frontis map. The author became the oldest Junior Subaltern (Second Lieutenant) in the British forces and became known later as the "water bloke" by building an ever-extending pipeline to furnish filtered fresh-water to the British troops pursuing Rommel's army into Tunisia. From the very beginning and especially from the Battle of El Alamein onwards, he traveled the whole 2,000 mile mine-ridden way providing life-sustaining water to the British Eighth Army who spearheaded the allied Tunisian Campaign in a dozen bitter battles that ended in victory on 13 May 1943. The Sappers retired Peter William Rainier as a Major in June 1943 just after the hostilities in Africa had ended. He is remembered as one of the few original members of The Army of the Nile (General Wavell's "thirty thousand") who survived the three long years of fighting allowing him to witness the final victory over the Axis powers in Africa. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Comapny, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 213 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has moderate chipping and tears. Clean and tight internally. Illustrated by Marc Simont. A story of 1939 New York, climaxing with a race between a steam engine and a team of horses, with appearances by Walt Whitman, Horace Greeley, Peter Cooper, Samuel Morse, and other luminaries of the age.

Hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 28 pages. Color illustrations by author. Dust jacket has a large tear at spine. Based on the history and legend of Grania O'Malley.

Hardcover. New York , Rizzoli, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering, no dust jacket. The complete history of the legendary Pirelli Calendar. Launched in 1963 to a privileged shortlist of customers, the quality and creativity of Pirelli's photographers have made the limited-edition calendar a paradigm of the genre and a coveted collector's item. This volume contains all the calendars published since 1964--including the 1997 edition photographed by Richard Avedon--for a total of 264 full color images. 407 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Rizzoli, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Gilt stamped black cloth. The complete history of the legendary Pirelli Calendar. Launched in 1963 to a privileged shortlist of customers, the quality and creativity of Pirelli's photographers have made the limited-edition calendar a paradigm of the genre and a coveted collector's item. This volume contains all the calendars published since 1964--including the 1997 edition photographed by Richard Avedon--for a total of 264 full color images. Small chunk gone from rear of dust jacket. 407 pages.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages, B&W photos. In original shrink wrap. For almost sixty years Pirkle Jones has chronicled the people, politics, and landscape of Northern California-a "promised land" which has long held sway in the American cultural imagination. Within the confines of that locale, he has unearthed a universe of beauty and meaning, photographing everything from flea-market finds to some of the most important American social movements of the second half of the twentieth century. Operating primarily within a social-documentary framework, Jones has made images characterized by sensitivity and acute observation. With uncanny prescience, a sense of urgency, and a sympathetic eye, Jones often plays the dual roles of artist and witness, combining portraiture, landscapes, and architectural photographs to create thorough documents of social structure and upheaval. Among the photo-essays included in Pirkle Jones: California Photographs are a compassionate and controversial piece on the Black Panther Party in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jones's portraits of the Sausalito houseboat community known as Gate 5, and a notable 1956 photo-essay done in collaboration with Dorothea Lange photographing the destruction and dislocation of the Berryessa Valley before it was flooded on completion of the Monticello Dam. Produced as a single issue of Aperture magazine in 1960 under the name "Death of a Valley", this essay remains a powerful testament to the price of progress. The book also includes Jones's work from the last few decades, in which he shifted his focus to an extended series of elegant, contemplative landscapes. A biographical essay by curator Tim B. Wride frames Jones and his work within the context of photographic history, the people he collaborated with-including Ansel Adams as well as Lange-and the great scope of Californian life.

Hardcover. West Kennebunk, Phoenix Publishing , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, gold lettering, no dj, pictorial paste-down on cover. Fold-out maps.

Softcover. Pittsford VT, Pittsford Historical Society, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages, A pictorial history of the town, many b&w vintage photos. Light shelf wear, no marking.

Hardcover. UK, Sutton, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 243 pages, 16 pages of b&w photos. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, D.T. Valentine, N/A, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&w lithographic print of New York street scene for a proposed pedestrian overpass on Broadway, allowing horse-drawn vehicles to pass underneath. Image size 9 1/2" X 6 1/2", with matte 10 X 12". Two vertical creases where it was once folded. Matte has light soiling.

Softcover. Los Angeles, University of California Press , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Large softcover, 100 pages; many illustrations. Clean and tight; fairly unblemished. Stiff card wraps with wraparound jacket. Following the publication of the 3-volume Plan of St. Gall an exhibition was mounted which used selected text, drawings, models, etc. that were used to produce the large work This shorter volume grew out of that exhibition.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge LA, Louisiana State University Press., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, large oblong book. Contains 134 printed pages of text with color photographs throughout. From the Greek Revival grandeur of Belle Helene, to the Moorish fantasy of Longwood, to the simplicity of Rosella, the plantation homes of Louisiana and the Natchez was powerfully recall the brief flowering of the unique civilization of the Old South. Clean copy in a bright dust jacket.