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Prisoners of War (British and American) 1778 by: Ford, Worthington Chauncey 1858-1941 (Creator)
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Prisoners of War (British and American) 1778
by: Ford, Worthington Chauncey 1858-1941 (Creator)

Softcover. Philadelphia, privately printed, 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover booklet, 26 pages. Not a reprint. Pages uncut along top edge. Bright copy.

Record # 353627

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Private Diaries of Stendhal, The by: Sage, Robert (Ed.)
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Private Diaries of Stendhal, The
by: Sage, Robert (Ed.)

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 570 pages, b&w illustrations and frontispiece. Black cloth covers w/ edgewear, chipping. Previous owner's signature inside front cover. Else clean and tight.

Record # 852107

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Private View, A: American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection by: Neill, Mary Gardner and Samuel Sachs Ii
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Private View, A: American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection
by: Neill, Mary Gardner and Samuel Sachs Ii

Hardcover. Detroit MI, Detroit Institute of Arts , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 147 pages. In coordination with an exhibition held at Yale, Detroit Institute of Arts and The High Museum in Atlanta during 1993-1994, similar to an earlier exhibition but focuses on the art the Manoogian's had in their home.

Record # 363451

Price: $30.00
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Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 by: Davis, David Brion
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Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
by: Davis, David Brion

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 2nd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, rubbed dust jacket, 576 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396505

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Problems in Titian - Mostly Iconographic - The Wrightsman Lectures by: Panofsky, Erwin
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Problems in Titian - Mostly Iconographic - The Wrightsman Lectures
by: Panofsky, Erwin

Hardcover. New York, NYUP, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 208 pages of text followed by a ection of corresponding black & white illustrations. Titian's fame as the greatest colorist in the history of painting has led students of his art to concentrate on problems of style and authenticity rather than on problems of content and meaning. Dr. Panofsky treats this neglected aspect of the Venetian master's work with a wealth of humanistic scholarship, exploring such varied topics as Titian's relationship to the philosophy and literature of his time, his attitude toward the antique, and the reasons behind his unrivaled acclaim as a portraitist. These studies show Titian to have been a man of far richer and more complex culture than hitherto assumed, possessed not only of the supremely gifted hand but of a subtle and poetic mind.Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611839

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Proceedings in Congress upon the Acceptance of the Statues of John Stark and Daniel Webster, Presented by the State of New Hampshire by: N/A
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Proceedings in Congress upon the Acceptance of the Statues of John Stark and Daniel Webster, Presented by the State of New Hampshire
by: N/A

Hardcover. Washington D.C., Government Printing Office, 1st, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 263 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations with tissue guards. Some age wear throughout. Foxing, page and edge yellowing, binding a bit loose in some places. Still in great shape for its age.

Record # 372804

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Proceedings of the American Anti-Slavery Society at Its Third Decade-Philadelphia Dec. 3rd and 4th 1864 by: Parkhurst, Henry M.
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Proceedings of the American Anti-Slavery Society at Its Third Decade-Philadelphia Dec. 3rd and 4th 1864
by: Parkhurst, Henry M.

Hardcover. NY, Negro Universities Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 175 pages. Brown cloth covers with gilt lettering. Originally published in 1864 by the American Anti-Slavery Society. Introduction by William Lloyd Garrison, President. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396462

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Proceedings of the American Anti-Slavery Society, At its Second Decade, Held in the City of Philadelphia, Dec. 3d, 4th and 5th, 1853 by: N/A
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Proceedings of the American Anti-Slavery Society, At its Second Decade, Held in the City of Philadelphia, Dec. 3d, 4th and 5th, 1853
by: N/A

Hardcover. Westport CT, Negro Universities Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, 176 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396478

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Proceedings of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar 28th Triennial Conclave Louisville, Kentucky by: John A. Gerow /Henry Bates Stoddard
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Proceedings of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar 28th Triennial Conclave Louisville, Kentucky
by: John A. Gerow /Henry Bates Stoddard

Hardcover. Knights Templar, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed black cloth with gilt stamping, 304 pages. Mild wear to covers, clean, tight copy.

Record # 399293

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

Proceedings of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar 31st Triennial Conclave Chicago by: John A. Gerow /William B. Melish
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Proceedings of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar 31st Triennial Conclave Chicago by: John A. Gerow /William B. MelishProceedings of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar 31st Triennial Conclave Chicago by: John A. Gerow /William B. Melish

Proceedings of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar 31st Triennial Conclave Chicago
by: John A. Gerow /William B. Melish

Hardcover. Knights Templar, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: 100.00, Hardcover, embossed black cloth with gilt stamping, 327 pages. Mild wear to covers, clean, tight copy.

Record # 399295

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Procopius and the Sixth Century by: Cameron, Averil
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Procopius and the Sixth Century
by: Cameron, Averil

Hardcover. London, Duckworth, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to spine. A magisterial assessment of the major historian of early Byzantium, by one of today's leading historians of late antiquity. Most of our understanding of the age of Justinian is based on the works of Procopius of Caesarea, the most important Greek historian of late antiquity. Many modern histories of the period virtually paraphrase his major work, the Wars. Today, questions of how we are to reconcile the Wars with Procopius' two minor works-the panegyrical Building and the sensational Secret History, still dominates current scholarship. 297 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 386279

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Proctor; the Story of a Marble Town by: David C. Gale
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Proctor; the Story of a Marble Town
by: David C. Gale

Hardcover. Brattleboro VT, Vermont Printing Co., 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt stamping, 260 pages, b&w illustrations. Related ephemera laid in. Name stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise a super clean, bright copy.

Record # 387655

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century by: John Frederick Martin
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Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century
by: John Frederick Martin

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 363 pages. In examining the founding of New England towns during the seventeenth century, John Frederick Martin investigates an old subject with fresh insight. Whereas most historians emphasize communalism and absence of commerce in the seventeenth century, Martin demonstrates that colonists sought profits in town-founding, that town founders used business corporations to organize themselves into landholding bodies, and that multiple and absentee landholding was common. In reviewing some sixty towns and the activities of one hundred town founders, Martin finds that many town residents were excluded from owning common lands and from voting. It was not until the end of the seventeenth century, when proprietors separated from towns, that town institutions emerged as fully public entities for the first time. Name on front endpaper, otherwise clean.

Record # 387787

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Progress of Four Hundred Years in the Great Republic of the West, The by: Lossing, Benson J.
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Progress of Four Hundred Years in the Great Republic of the West, The
by: Lossing, Benson J.

Hardcover. NY, Interstate M'f'g Company, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 536 pages, illustrated with many b&w engravings. Green cloth with black and gilt decoration. First half of book covers the great cities and features many detailed illustrations of buildings and cityscapes. The second half covers the West with many personalities sketched in line cuts. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Solid copy. Cover gilt partially faded.

Record # 602505

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age by: Nichols, Christopher McKnight
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Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age
by: Nichols, Christopher McKnight

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tracing the history of isolationist and internationalist ideas from the 1890s through the 1930s, Nichols reveals unexpected connections among individuals and groups from across the political spectrum who developed new visions for America's place in the world. From Henry Cabot Lodge and William James to W. E. B. Du Bois and Jane Addams to Randolph Bourne, William Borah, and Emily Balch, Nichols shows how reformers, thinkers, and politicians confronted the challenges of modern society--and then grappled with urgent pressures to balance domestic priorities and foreign commitments.

Record # 378782

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Propaganda and Dreams: Photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US by: Bendavid-Val, Leah
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Propaganda and Dreams: Photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US
by: Bendavid-Val, Leah

Hardcover. Zurich/NY, Edition Stemmle, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket. 223 pages. Foreword by James H. Billington. Text by Leah Bendavid-Val. Includes images by Max Alpert, Dmitri Debakov, Georgy Lipskerov, Max Penson, Leonid Shokin, Esther Burley, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Gordon Parks, Marion Post Wolcott, Ben Shahn, and numerous others. Afterword by Philip Brookman and with biographies of the photographers. Clean copy.

Record # 385826

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Public Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900-1962 by: Joseph E. Slater
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Public Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900-1962
by: Joseph E. Slater

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 260 pages. From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers is the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did, separate from and much more restrictive than private-sector labor law, and what effect this law had on public-sector unions, organized labor as a whole, and by extension all of American politics. Joseph E. Slater shows how public-sector unions survived, represented their members, and set the stage for the most remarkable growth of worker organization in American history. Slater examines the battles of public-sector unions in the workplace, courts, and political arena, from the infamous Boston police strike of 1919, to teachers in Seattle fighting a yellow-dog rule, to the BSEIU in the 1930s representing public-sector janitors, to the fate of the powerful Transit Workers Union after New York City purchased the subways, to the long struggle by AFSCME that produced the nation's first public-sector labor law in Wisconsin in 1959. Slater introduces readers to a determined and often-ignored segment of the union movement and expands our knowledge of working men and women, the institutions they formed, and the organizational obstacles they faced.

Record # 396318

Price: $38.00
Price: $38.00 

Punishments in the Olden Time by: Andrews, William
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Punishments in the Olden Time
by: Andrews, William

Softcover. London, W. Stewart & Co., 1st, 1881, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Scarce. 76 pages plus index, b&w illustrations. Covered in brown protective paper wrapper. Previous owner's signature inside original front cover. Top right corner torn from original title page; bottom right corners missing from index pages. Original rear wrapper missing. Else pages clean and tight.

Record # 850956

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Pure Heart: The Faith of a Father and Son in the War for a More Perfect Union (SIGNED COPY) by: William F. Quigley
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Pure Heart: The Faith of a Father and Son in the War for a More Perfect Union (SIGNED COPY)
by: William F. Quigley

Hardcover. Kent State University Press, 2nd pr., 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 381 pages. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. In the summer of 1862, as Union morale ebbed low with home front division over war costs, coming emancipation, and demoralizing battlefield losses, 24-year-old William White Dorr enlisted as a lieutenant in the 121st Pennsylvania Volunteers, a new Union regiment organizing in Philadelphia. His father, the Reverend Benjamin Dorr, rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia, strived to prevent divisions in his congregation from sundering that Episcopal church historically tied to the nation's founding. William F. Quigley Jr. presents a narrative that remarkably encapsulates much of the North's experience of the war. Reverend Benjamin Dorr was one of the most important clergymen of the era, who strived to hold his warring parishioners intact. His efforts paralleled Lincoln's far greater but comparable challenge to preserve the Union. Clean copy.

Record # 472279

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Puritanism and the Wilderness: The Intellectual Significance of the New England Frontier 1629-1700 by: Peter N. Carroll
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Puritanism and the Wilderness: The Intellectual Significance of the New England Frontier 1629-1700
by: Peter N. Carroll

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth stamped with gilt title. 243 pages. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket.

Record # 472145

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Put the Vermonters Ahead: The First Vermont Brigade in the Civil War by: Parsons, George W.
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Put the Vermonters Ahead: The First Vermont Brigade in the Civil War
by: Parsons, George W.

Hardcover. Shippensburg PA, White Mane, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 216 pages, b/w illustration, maps. The regiment defended Washington, DC from Jubal Early's raid and served in the Shenandoah Valley among other campaigns. Clean copy.

Record # 382448

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 
 

Qajar Iran and the Rise of Reza Khan 1796-1925 by: Nikki R. Keddie
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Qajar Iran and the Rise of Reza Khan 1796-1925
by: Nikki R. Keddie

Softcover. Costa Mesa CA, Mazda Publishers, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 134 pages. The history of Iran is a subject attracting increasing interest, and in it the history of the Qajar period, here dated 1796-1925, occupies a pivotal transitional place. The Qajar rulers reunited Iran after a century of weakness and division, and helped create modern Iran and its response to western power. Although the Qajars were not great reformers, their period saw the development of many new trends of thought, ranging from new religious ideas and groups to the adapting of modern ideas to Iranian circumstances. This book covers intellectual trends and equally it covers the political and socioeconomic history of Iran, including the growth of western incursions and control, which led to social, economic, and political disruptions and helped lead to a major revolution that gave Iran a modern constitution. Later developments culminated in a modernizing central government under the Pahlavi shahs. The period 1796-1925 saw a flowering of Iran's visual arts, politically oriented literature, popular culture, and crafts and carpets, and the beginnings of photography and film. The book interprets all these developments as part of a readable and comprehensible history of a period that helped bring Iran into the modern world while continuing its cultural greatness. Clean copy.

Record # 385331

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Quaint Corners in Philadelphia by: N.A.
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Quaint Corners in Philadelphia
by: N.A.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , John Wanamaker, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt and black decoration, 147 illustrations by Joseph Pennell and others. Folded Map laid In. Covers with light edgewear and chipping. Top edge gilt.

Record # 202081

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Quaint Nantucket by: William Root Bliss
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Quaint Nantucket
by: William Root Bliss

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1896, Book: Good, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black with gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. 225 pages. A history of old Nantucket before the island was discovered by "the summer boarders", as the author explains in his Preface. Gutter partially cracked at title page, owner's small embossed stamp on the front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Record # 383646

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00