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Patrol Into Yesterday: My New Guinea Yearsby: McCarthy, J. K.

Patrol Into Yesterday: My New Guinea Years
by: McCarthy, J. K.

Hardcover. Melbourne AU, F. W. Cheshire, reprint, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a poor, chipped and worn dust jacket, 252 pages, illustrated with b/w photos, drawings, and two maps in the text. End-papers feature double-page maps of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, index. The author was a Patrol Officer in New Guinea and later became a member of the Papua-New Guinea Legislative Council. The book covers three periods: 1927-1937; 1938-1942; and 1942-1962. There is pencil underlining to many pages. Still an attractive copy of a fairly scarce book.

Record # 396548

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Patterns on the Wallby: Elizabeth Yates

Patterns on the Wall
by: Elizabeth Yates

Hardcover. NY, Aladdin Books, reprint, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, red cloth with decoration stamped in black. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w decorations by Warren Chappell. a young adult novel set in post-colonial New Hampshire featuring Jared Austin, a journeyman painter. First published in 1943 by Knopf.

Record # 371782

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Paul Klee: Figures and Facesby: Plant, Margaret

Paul Klee: Figures and Faces
by: Plant, Margaret

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardcover with gilt titles to spine. Full page, full color & black & white illustrations throughout. Features 131 illustrations, 31 in full color. Dust jacket with age toning to edges, tears to corners one closed tear (2 inches) to back of jacket. Otherwise clean, bright & unmarked.

Record # 750999

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Paul Revere Artisan Businessman and Patriot: The Man Behind the Myth by: N/A

Paul Revere Artisan Businessman and Patriot: The Man Behind the Myth
by: N/A

Softcover. Boston, The Paul Revere Memorial Association, 1st pbk, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial black wrappers, 191 pages. Issued in conjunction with a 1988-1989 exhibition featuring the silver work of Paul Revere (1735-1818). With illustrated essays by Patrick M. Leehey, Janine E. Skerry, Deborah A. Federhen, Edgard Moreno, and Edith J. Steblecki. Includes a bibliography and many views of Revere's silversmithing capabilities. 236 b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 383837

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Pax Americanaby: Ronald Steel

Pax Americana
by: Ronald Steel

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 371 pages. After WW II the US acquired an empire - one that embraces much of the world in a network of military pacts, economic ties, and political commitments. Steel describes how this empire originated, how it grew, and why is has been incapable of defending America's real interests, or of spreading her humanitarian ideals to other nations. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396610

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Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World by: Goldsworthy, Adrian

Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
by: Goldsworthy, Adrian

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 528 pages, b&w illustrations. A groundbreaking and comprehensive history of the Roman Peace from one of the leading historians of the ancient world, Clean copy

Record # 379111

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Peace-Making and the Settlement with Japan by: Frederick S. Dunn

Peace-Making and the Settlement with Japan
by: Frederick S. Dunn

Hardcover. Westport CT, Greenwood Press, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 210 pages. Professor Dunn presents an account of the making of the Japanese peace treaty. He discusses the international environment from the outbreak of World War II to 1950, the San Francisco conference of September 1951 and the security arrangements which the United States helped to create in the Pacific and Asian area. Originally published in 1963 by Princeton. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396756

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Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage, and Final Appraisal by: Wallin, V. Adm. Homer

Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage, and Final Appraisal
by: Wallin, V. Adm. Homer

Hardcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, title in gilt on spine and insignia in gilt on front. B&w illustrations, 377 pages. First printing of first edition. Related article pasted to front endpapers, Book covers and interior bright and clean. Foreword by Rear Admiral Ernest McNeill Eller. Homer Norman Wallin (December 6, 1893 - March 6, 1984) was a vice admiral in the United States Navy, best known for his salvage of ships sunk in the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1941, Captain Wallin became material officer for commander, Battle Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, and was serving in that position when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. He was placed in charge of the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard's Salvage Division. Through most of 1942, he directed the Pearl Harbor ship salvage effort, a huge task that enabled the navy to recover the use of three sunken battleships.

Record # 374157

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Peasant Russia Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution 1917-1921by: Figes, Orlando

Peasant Russia Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution 1917-1921
by: Figes, Orlando

Softcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 391 pages. Light pencil underlining in introduction. Some fading to covers. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855536

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Peckinpah: THE WESTERN FILMS - A RECONSIDERATIONby: Paul Seydor

Peckinpah: THE WESTERN FILMS - A RECONSIDERATION
by: Paul Seydor

Hardcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st revised, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 410 pages. The book that re-established Peckinpah's reputation--now thoroughly revised and updated! When critics hailed the 1995 re-release of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece, The Wild Bunch, it was a recognition of Paul Seydor's earlier claim that this was a milestone in American film, perhaps the most important since Citizen Kane. Peckinpah: The Western Films first appeared in 1980, when the director's reputation was at low ebb. The book helped lead a generation of readers and filmgoers to a full and enduring appreciation of Peckinpah's landmark films, locating his work in the central tradition of American art that goes all the way back to Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville. In addition to a new section on the personal significance of The Wild Bunch to Peckinpah, Seydor has added to this expanded, revised edition a complete account of the successful, but troubled, efforts to get a fully authorized director's cut released. He describes how an initial NC-17 rating of the film by the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings board nearly aborted the entire project. He also adds a great wealth of newly discovered biographical detail that has surfaced since the director's death and includes a new chapter on Noon Wine, credited with bringing Peckinpah's television work to a fitting resolution and preparing his way for The Wild Bunch. This edition stands alone in offering full treatment of all versions of Peckinpah's Westerns. It also includes discussion of all fourteen episodes of Peckinpah's television series, The Westerner, and a full description of the versions of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid now (or formerly) in circulation, including an argument that the label "director's cut" on the version in release by Turner is misleading. Additionally, the book's final chapter has been substantially rewritten and now includes new information about Peckinpah's background and sources.

Record # 378930

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Peeps at Parliament: Taken from Behind the Speaker's Chair by: Henry W. Lucy, F Carruthers Gould (illustrator)

Peeps at Parliament: Taken from Behind the Speaker's Chair
by: Henry W. Lucy, F Carruthers Gould (illustrator)

Hardcover. London, George Newnes Ltd., 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth, black, white and gilt decoration with Speaker of the house in profile on cover, 378 pages. Illustrated with text cartoons throughout and a color frontis by Gould. Sir Henry William Lucy JP, (1842 -1924) was one of the most famous English political journalists of the Victorian era. He was widely known on both sides of the Atlantic. Known as serious commentator of parliamentary affairs, he was also an accomplished humorist, and a parliamentary sketch-writer; acknowledged as the first great lobby correspondent. Owner's signature on blank prelim page, cloth is worn at spine edges with some fraying, title on spine faded. Binding is sound, tight.

Record # 374330

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Peepshows: A Visual Historyby: Balzer, Richard

Peepshows: A Visual History
by: Balzer, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Long before the movies were created, peepshows were appealing to a public eager for entertainment and enlightenment. The peepshowman and his box were a common sight on bustling city streets and quiet village greens. The book includes nearly 200 annotated images, many never before published.

Record # 351692

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Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century by: Peter N. Miller

Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century
by: Peter N. Miller

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 234 pages, b&w illustrations. Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) was, during his lifetime, one of Europe's most famous men. A friend of Pope Urban VIII and Galileo, of Peter-Paul Rubens and Hugo Grotius, of Tommaso Campanella and Marin Mersenne, Peiresc played an important role in the intellectual culture of his time. This book is the first study in English of this extraordinary man, as well as a vivid portrait of his whole circle. Looking through the lens of Peiresc's life, Peter N. Miller brings into focus the early-seventeenth-century world of learning-its people, places, and ideas. Drawing on the extensive Peiresc archive (more than 50,000 pieces of paper), Miller brilliantly evokes the lives of antiquaries, philosophers, theologians, and politicians of Peiresc's day, only some of whom remain known today. He explores the age in which Peiresc's toleration and sociability, his political action and cosmopolitanism, and his serious scholarship without dogmatism were identified as a set of virtues and practices by which to live. Peiresc's notion of scholarship as a moral exercise, the sweep of his interests, and the cross-Continental reach of his intellectual life show with new clarity what it meant to be a man of learning during the decades around 1600. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean copy.

Record # 386770

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Peking Dustby: La Motte, Ellen N.

Peking Dust
by: La Motte, Ellen N.

Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 1st, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped with black design, 240 pages illustrated with b&w photos. A book that covers many aspects of life in China through the eyes of an extraordinary woman: "Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873 - 1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author. After WW1, LaMotte travelled to Asia, where she witnessed the horrors of opium addiction. These travels provided her with material for six books, three of them explicitly dealing with the opium problem, this being the first. Covers show shelf wear, soil.

Record # 373216

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Pelts and Palisades: The Story of Fur and Rivalry for Pelts in Early America by: Nathaniel C. Hale

Pelts and Palisades: The Story of Fur and Rivalry for Pelts in Early America
by: Nathaniel C. Hale

Hardcover. Richmind VA, Dietz Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 219 pages. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and marks. No dust jacket. Tan cloth covers with gilt stamping.Primarily covers the era of the early American fur trader, as typified by the white trader and the Indian beaver hunter. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 385622

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Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limitedby: Joe Welsh

Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited
by: Joe Welsh

Hardcover. St Paul MN, Voyageur Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This authoritative, illustrated history tells the story of one of the country?s premier passenger trains, Pennsylvania Railroad?s Broadway Limited, an institution in New York-to-Chicago rail travel from 1902 to 1955. Text and pictures introduce readers to the posh cars and powerful engines, the luxuries and amenities on board, the stations, terminals, and timetables?everything that made the train the pride of the Pennsylvania. Clean copy.

Record # 382121

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Pentagon Propaganda Machineby: Fulbright, Senator J.W.

Pentagon Propaganda Machine
by: Fulbright, Senator J.W.

Hardcover. New York, Liveright, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamp. Clean copy.

Record # 51081

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People Get Ready ?– The Future of Jazz Is Now! by: Heble, Ajay; Wallace, Rob (Editors)

People Get Ready ?– The Future of Jazz Is Now!
by: Heble, Ajay; Wallace, Rob (Editors)

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press , 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 312 pages, b&w illustrations. In People Get Ready, musicians, scholars, and journalists write about jazz since 1965, the year that Curtis Mayfield composed the famous civil rights anthem that gives this collection its title. The contributors emphasize how the political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and early 1970s has informed jazz in the years since then. They bring nuance to historical accounts of the avant-garde, the New Thing, Free Jazz, "non-idiomatic" improvisation, fusion, and other forms of jazz that have flourished since the 1960s, and they reveal the contemporary relevance of those musical practices. Many of the participants in the jazz scenes discussed are still active performers. A photographic essay captures some of them in candid moments before performances. Clean copy. like new.

Record # 383594

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People Get Ready: ?–The Future of Jazz Is Now! by: Heble, Ajay; Wallace, Rob (Editors)

People Get Ready: ?–The Future of Jazz Is Now!
by: Heble, Ajay; Wallace, Rob (Editors)

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press , 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 312 pages, b&w illustrations. In People Get Ready, musicians, scholars, and journalists write about jazz since 1965, the year that Curtis Mayfield composed the famous civil rights anthem that gives this collection its title. The contributors emphasize how the political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and early 1970s has informed jazz in the years since then. They bring nuance to historical accounts of the avant-garde, the New Thing, Free Jazz, "non-idiomatic" improvisation, fusion, and other forms of jazz that have flourished since the 1960s, and they reveal the contemporary relevance of those musical practices. Many of the participants in the jazz scenes discussed are still active performers. A photographic essay captures some of them in candid moments before performances. Clean copy. like new.

Record # 384783

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Peoples of Ireland, The - From Prehistory to Modern Timesby: de Paor, Liam

Peoples of Ireland, The - From Prehistory to Modern Times
by: de Paor, Liam

Softcover. Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, First Thus, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations throughout including maps, photographs. Bright front cover, sunfade to rear cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750501

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Perceval's Narrative: A Patient's Account of His Psychosis, 1830-1832by: John Perceval; Gregory Bateson

Perceval's Narrative: A Patient's Account of His Psychosis, 1830-1832
by: John Perceval; Gregory Bateson

Softcover. NY, Morrow, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 331 pages. A remarkable pre-Freudian account of schizophrenia written by the son of a prime minister of England. Certifiably insane from 1830 to 1831, he wrote the autobiography of his illness and recovery with vigor and insight. Clean copy.

Record # 384854

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Perfect Scent, The : A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New Yorkby: Burr, Chandler

Perfect Scent, The : A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York
by: Burr, Chandler

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, January 22, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 306 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket. Small remainder mark on bottom edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454441

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Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Centuryby: Shapiro, Laura

Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century
by: Shapiro, Laura

Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 280 pages. This entertaining and social history of women and cooking at the turn of the 20th century is laced with sly humor and lucid insight. The author uncovers our ancestors' widespread obsession with food, and tells readers why we think as we do about food today. The most memorable of the culinary movers was Fannie Farmer, whose cookbook was published in a modest 3000-copy edition in 1896. Stories about Farmer and other domestic scientists of the period add strong appeal to Shapiro's report. So do the parallels between early feminists and today's advocates of equal rights. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397411

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Perfume: Joy, Scandal, Sin - A Cultural History of Fragrance from 1750 to the Presentby: Stamelman, Richard

Perfume: Joy, Scandal, Sin - A Cultural History of Fragrance from 1750 to the Present
by: Stamelman, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 384 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This thought-provoking volume transports readers to France of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, beginning with Napoleon's love of perfume and the erotic importance he attached to it, through the lore and symbolism fragrance enjoyed in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe. By the early twentieth century, perfume's place as one of France's most important luxury industries was recognized and celebrated, and timeless fragrances--such as Chanel No. 5, Shalimar, Arpeges, and Joy--were launched. The distinctive bottles for these new essences and the art movements that inspired their design are detailed throughout the book, as are paintings, poetry, and literature that reveal the power of perfume and its ability to recall the past and evoke sensuality. According to nineteenth-century perfumer Eugene Rimmel, "the history of perfume is, in some manner, the history of civilization." Through fascinating text accompanied by gorgeous imagery, including packaging, labels, and advertisements, Perfume: Joy, Scandal, Sin explores perfume's impact on history, culture, society, art, and attitudes.

Record # 360900

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Peril on the Royal Train (The Railway Detective Series)by: Edward Marston

Peril on the Royal Train (The Railway Detective Series)
by: Edward Marston

Hardcover. London, Allison and Busby, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Spring, 1858. The route of the Caledonian Railway through the southern uplands of the Scottish countryside is disrupted by a fatal crash. Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming are called from the crime of London to investigate, and must contend with old enemy Superintendent Rory McTurk to uncover the criminals behind the disaster. Clean copy.

Record # 378826

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Perish the Thought: Intellectual Women in Romantic America 1830-1860 by: Susan P. Conrad

Perish the Thought: Intellectual Women in Romantic America 1830-1860
by: Susan P. Conrad

Softcover. NJ, Citadel Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 292 pages. Studies the distinctive personalities, problems, and cultural contributions of such women as Margaret Fuller, Lydia Maria Child, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, examining the extent to which romanticism encouraged intellectualism among women during the three decades prior to the Civil War. Clean copy.

Record # 397503

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Persistence of Sail in the Age of Steam: Underwater Archaeological Evidence from the Dry Tortugasby: Souza, Donna J.

Persistence of Sail in the Age of Steam: Underwater Archaeological Evidence from the Dry Tortugas
by: Souza, Donna J.

Hardcover. New York, Plenum Press, rep, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Previous owner's stamp in front fly leaf, otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 369289

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Persona Non Grata: A Novel of the Roman Empireby: Ruth Downie

Persona Non Grata: A Novel of the Roman Empire
by: Ruth Downie

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury USA, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third installment to Downie's Roman Empire series--the second-century saga of a witty and courageous army surgeon, Gaius Ruso, and his smart and loyal lover, Tilla, a barbarian woman from Britannia--continues in gripping fashion. Ruso returns to his family home in southern Gaul, summoned by a forged letter pleading for his immediate return. Once Ruso and Tilla return, Ruso is thrust into a dangerous quagmire involving a missing ship, huge family debts and, before long, the murder of the family's principal creditor--a crafty phony named Severus--who is poisoned in Ruso's home. While Ruso and his family are quickly suspected of the murder, Ruso and Tilla's attempts to solve the crime are hampered by interfering family members, a lying politician, a greedy banker and a pair of too-eager investigators sent from Rome. Ruso and Tilla must also deal with prejudice, envy and a new religion, Christianity. The plotting is clever and suspenseful, with subtle clues and lots of action, while the setting and supporting cast are vividly drawn. Clean copy.

Record # 378881

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Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, Aby: Scorsese, Martin And Wilson, Michael Henry

Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, A
by: Scorsese, Martin And Wilson, Michael Henry

Hardcover. NY, Miramax/Hyperion, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Profusely illustrated with black and white film stills. With a knowledgeable text by the director and film historian. Clean.

Record # 358592

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Personal Recollections of a Cavalry Man (Collector's Library of the Civil War)by: Kidd, J. H.

Personal Recollections of a Cavalry Man (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by: Kidd, J. H.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 476 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 372376

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Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Rankin, Henry B./ Newton Joseph Fort (Introduction);

Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Rankin, Henry B./ Newton Joseph Fort (Introduction);

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with portraits. Top edge gilt. 412 pages + ads. INSCRIBED BY RANKIN to Livingston C. Lord, President of Eastern Illinois University in 1917. Rankin, who died at 90 in 1927, was an early colleague and friend of Lincoln's from his Springfield days. Small ink number on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 383746

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Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture: The Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum - Volume 12by: Pamela Simpson (editors) Jennings, Jan (Author)

Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture: The Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum - Volume 12
by: Pamela Simpson (editors) Jennings, Jan (Author)

Softcover. Washington and Lee University, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages. The 2005 issue, Volume 12, of Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture: The Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum contains the articles: "Selling Domestic Space: The Boarding House in the Southern Mountains" by Michael Ann Williams; "La Casa Alamense: The Mexican Hacienda as Urban Dwelling" by John Messina; "Unraveling the Benjamin Deyerle Legend: An Analysis of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Brickwork in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia" by Michael J. Pulice; "Orson S. Fowler and a Home for All: The Octagon House in the Midwest" by Rebecca Lawin McCarley; and "Roadside Shrines and Granite Sketches: Diversifying the Vernacular Landscape of Memory" by David Charles Sloane.

Record # 374033

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Peru: Art from the Chavin to the Incas (Collections Du Petit Palais, Musee Des Beaux-Arts de la VILL)by: Lemasson, Patrick

Peru: Art from the Chavin to the Incas (Collections Du Petit Palais, Musee Des Beaux-Arts de la VILL)
by: Lemasson, Patrick

Hardcover. New York , Skira, 1st, 2006-09-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. 224 pages profusely illustrated in color. This book describes the grandeur and richness of the numerous civilizations predating the Incas, including the Paracas, Nazca, Recuay, Sican-Lambayeque, Moche-Sipan, and Chimu cultures, as well as the great Inca civilization. Included in the book are the important sites and landscapes representative of the three major ecological levels of Peru, as well as a general view and a historical perspective of the pre-Columbian cultures of Peru.

Record # 350031

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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. 1846-1920by:

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
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Hardcover. London, B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 169 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth edition. Top edge stained red. Illustrated with 126 black & white photographs and a few in color. 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

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Peter Keetman: Volkswagenwerk 1953by: Keetman, Peter (Photographer)

Peter Keetman: Volkswagenwerk 1953
by: Keetman, Peter (Photographer)

Hardcover. Kerber, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. In 1953, Peter Keetman spent a week at the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg. The result was a series of exceptionally clear, almost abstractly detailed photographs that document the entire production process of the VW Beetle. Storage stacks of shiny metal bumpers look like so many Modernist sculptures; car bodies hovering above the assembly line retrospectively form a surreal Pop art montage. This oversize publication reproduces the Volkswagenwerk series in full, in their original size, together with texts that refer both to this series and to Keetman's greater oeuvre. Keetman was known throughout his career as photographer of systemically conceived picture series on themes that included close-ups of water and oil drops, a style of working he developed as a member of Fotoform. Fotoform, a German movement of the 1950s of which Keetman was a primary proponent, was critical in the development of German photography as it is today: the group's "subjective photography" combined scientific objectivity with abstraction. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 351371

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Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawingsby: Logan, Anne-Marie

Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings
by: Logan, Anne-Marie

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 332 pages with 145 color plates, 151 b&w illustrations. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 351707

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Peter the Greatby: Stanley, Diane

Peter the Great
by: Stanley, Diane

Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Illust. in color by Stanley. Dust jacket with chip, light soil to rear. Tight copy.

Record # 63356

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Peterborough Chronicle, 1070-1154 by: Clark, Cecily (Ed.)

Peterborough Chronicle, 1070-1154
by: Clark, Cecily (Ed.)

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 2nd Ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. Based on the 1958 edition, this printing has extensive changes and additional material. Fold-out map, 136 pages. No marking.

Record # 379167

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Petite Histoire de Franceby: Bainville, Jacques and JOB

Petite Histoire de France
by: 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

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Petrarch: The First Modern Scholar and Man of Lettersby: James Harvey Robinson

Petrarch: The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters
by: James Harvey Robinson

Hardcover. NY, Greenwood Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 477 pages, two b&w plates. A reprint of the 1913 revised Second Edition. A selection from his correspondence with Boccaccio and other friends, designed to illustrate the beginnings of the Renaissance. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean

Record # 386621

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Petrashevtsy, The: - A Study of the Russian Revolutionaries of 1848by: Seddon, J. H.

Petrashevtsy, The: - A Study of the Russian Revolutionaries of 1848
by: Seddon, J. H.

Hardcover. Manchester UK, Manchester University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 312 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610672

Price: $60.00 
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Peyton Place Comes Home to Maine:The Making of the Iconic Film by: Smith, Mac

Peyton Place Comes Home to Maine:The Making of the Iconic Film
by: Smith, Mac

Hardcover. Down East Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 110 pages, b&w illustrations. It is a well-known fact, perhaps legend now, that Peyton Place, the controversial, scandalous blockbuster was filmed in Camden, Maine and the surrounding towns in 1957. But how did the movie come to be filmed in Maine, who was involved in getting it here, and what did the locals think about 20th Century Fox shooting a big-budget film in their front yards? Historian Mac Smith has done the research and conducted the interviews and presents a fascinating account of events and key players. Beginning with the arrival of film crews, he traces the making of the movie, what happened after the crews left, and the premiere of the film, which was held in Camden. Clean copy.

Record # 383337

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Phantom Sundays Archive, The: Full Size Half Pages 1939-1942 by: Falk, Lee

Phantom Sundays Archive, The: Full Size Half Pages 1939-1942
by: Falk, Lee

Hardcover. Neshannock PA , Hermes Press, Reprint , 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Imagine waking up in 1939 and reading the first Phantom Sunday strip in the newspaper. Now, for the first time, these rare Phantom Sundays are being collected in their full size in an archival reprint of the first six Phantom stories! The stories for these Sundays was created by Lee Falk with artwork by Ray Moore in a half page format, so this reprint is faithful to the originals and reproduces every detail of these Sundays as seen in Sunday sections of newspapers. These Sunday pages have the same look and feel of the originals only now they're collected in a high quality art book format that will last forever.

Record # 352138

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Phantom, The: The Complete Sundays: Volume Four 1950-1953by: Falk, Lee and Wilson McCoy

Phantom, The: The Complete Sundays: Volume Four 1950-1953
by: Falk, Lee and Wilson McCoy

Hardcover. Neshannock PA, Hermes Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color throughout.

Record # 353230

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Pharaoh to Faroukby: Jarvis, H. Wood

Pharaoh to Farouk
by: Jarvis, H. Wood

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 299 pages. A history of Egypt beginning with the early Dynasties from 3000 BC, with very readable and detailed accounts of the more dramatic episodes, including the battles of Napoleon's invasion, the siege of Khartoum, and Kitchener's battles. Bookplate on inside front cover, small blank sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387820

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Philadelphia Merchant: The Diary of Thomas P. Cope, 1800-1851 by: Thomas P. Cope/Eliza Cope Harrison (Editor)

Philadelphia Merchant: The Diary of Thomas P. Cope, 1800-1851
by: Thomas P. Cope/Eliza Cope Harrison (Editor)

Hardcover. South Bend IN, Gateway Editions, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY EDITOR HARRISON on the title page. 628 pages, b&w illustrations. Thomas Cope was a wealthy merchant and ship owner, a force in city and state government, a philanthropist and--by no means least--a Quaker. He is best described in his own words about his writing and himself: "I have laid down no regular plan and I follow none. My diary is like myself, a chequered maze." He was committed to the service of others--the poor, the sick, the insane--and labored to improve the civic life of Philadelphia in far-sighted ways. He was a moving force behind the water system, a founder of the Mercantile Library, an advocate for the Penn. Railroad, and a supporter of poorhouses, among many other civic and philanthropic activities. He was also a deeply passionate man, whose fluent style at times seethes with emotion. Even into his eighties he struggled to control his temper. Perceptive and intelligently engaged, Cope comments on all the major historical events of his time, such as the yellow fever epidemics, the War of 1812, and the looming Civil War, as well as the more personal dramas of his own life. Some tape repairs ro dj, clean copy.

Record # 387374

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Philosophes and Post-Revolutionary France, Theby: Lough, John

Philosophes and Post-Revolutionary France, The
by: Lough, John

Hardcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1st , 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 284 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Slight foxing to top edge. Dust jacket has price clipped from front flap. Dust jacket also shows minor shelf wear and fading to spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855451

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Philosophical Writings of Etienne Bonnot, Abbe De Condillac:by: Franklin Philip/ Harlan Lane

Philosophical Writings of Etienne Bonnot, Abbe De Condillac:
by: Franklin Philip/ Harlan Lane

Hardcover. Hillsdale NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with light blue stamping, 422 pages. This highly readable translation of the major works of the 18th- century philosopher Etienne Bonnot, Abbe de Condillac, a disciple of Locke and a contemporary of Rousseau, Voltaire, and Diderot, shows his influence on psychiatric diagnosis as well as on the education of the deaf, the retarded, and the preschool child. Published two hundred years after Condillac's death, this translation contains treatises which were, until now, virtually unavailable in English: A Treatise on Systems, A Treatise of the Sensations, Logic. Name on front fly leaf, light bumps to cover corners.

Record # 384212

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Philosophy, Religion and Science in the 17th and 18th Centuries by: Yolton, John. W. / Editor

Philosophy, Religion and Science in the 17th and 18th Centuries
by: Yolton, John. W. / Editor

Softcover. Rochester NY, University of Rochester Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 539 pages. The essays in this collection illustrate the interdisciplinary approach to the history of ideas fostered by the Journal of the History of Ideas. Science, philosophy and religion were closely connected in the 17th and 18th centuries, and common threads run through all the articles. A number of essays revolve around Locke: the implications of his doctrines for religion, and their relation to and support of the new science; several of these articles refer to Descartes, Leibniz andHume. There are essays on optics and vision in the work of Berkeley, Reid and Newton, and on the relation between biology and physiology, especially as these disciplines contribute to the science of man. The authors include HENRY GUERLAC, MARGARET C. JACOB, SHIRLEY ROE, L. LAUDAN, NICHOLAS JOLLEY, JAMES FORCE, G. A. J. ROGERS and CATHERINE WILSON. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387394

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Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England 1640-1700 by: Kroll, Richard, Richard Ashcraft and Perez Zagorin

Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England 1640-1700
by: Kroll, Richard, Richard Ashcraft and Perez Zagorin

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages. This collection of essays looks at the distinctively English intellectual, social and political phenomenon of Latitudinarianism, which emerged during the Civil War and Interregnum and came into its own after the Restoration, becoming a virtual orthodoxy after 1688. Dividing into two parts, it first examines the importance of the Cambridge Platonists, who sought to embrace the newest philosophical and scientific movements within Church of England orthodoxy, and then moves into the later seventeenth century, from the Restoration onwards, culminating in essays on the philosopher John Locke. These contributions establish a firmly interdisciplinary basis for the subject, while collectively gravitating towards the importance of discourse and language as the medium for cultural exchange. The variety of approaches serves to illuminate the cultural indeterminacy of the period, in which inherited models and vocabularies were forced to undergo revisions, coinciding with the formation of many cultural institutions still governing English society. Name on front fly, pencil marking to about 20 pages.

Record # 386515

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