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Pioneers East; The Early American Experience in the Middle East by: David H. Finnie

Pioneers East; The Early American Experience in the Middle East
by: David H. Finnie

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.

Record # 385399

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Pipeline to Battle; An Engineer's Adventures with the British Eighth Army by: Rainier, Maj. Peter W.

Pipeline to Battle; An Engineer's Adventures with the British Eighth Army
by: Rainier, Maj. Peter W.

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.

Record # 384319

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Pirate of Chatham Square, The: A Story of Old New Yorkby: Sterne, Emma Gelders

Pirate of Chatham Square, The: A Story of Old New York
by: Sterne, Emma Gelders

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.

Record # 201466

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Pittsford's Second Century, 1872-1997 by: Jean S. Davies; Lois Blittersdorf; Margaret Armitage; Jean Harvie

Pittsford's Second Century, 1872-1997
by: Jean S. Davies; Lois Blittersdorf; Margaret Armitage; Jean Harvie

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.

Record # 371152

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PITTSFORD: Now and Thenby: N/A

PITTSFORD: Now and Then
by: N/A

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.

Record # 382135

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Pizarro: Conqueror of the Inca by: Stuart Stirling

Pizarro: Conqueror of the Inca
by: Stuart Stirling

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.

Record # 385773

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Place Vendomeby: Gregory, Alexis

Place Vendome
by: Gregory, Alexis

Hardcover. New York, Assouline Publishing, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Whenever the rich and famous are in Paris, they head for the city's most beautiful square, the Place Vendome. This evocatively written volume traces the square's history from its beginnings in the time of Louis XIV to its life in the twentieth century as Paris's center of fashion, jewelry, high finance, and art. From designers Chanel and Schiaparelli to European high society, Russian grand dukes, Indian maharajas, and celebrities from Lillie Langtry to Ernest Hemingway, a cast of extraordinary personalities have lent the Place Vendome an ineffable aura.

Record # 353274

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Plan for the Relief of Broadway Presented to the Common Council October 4th 1852 by John T. Dodge Street Commissioner (PRINT)by: Hayward, G.

Plan for the Relief of Broadway Presented to the Common Council October 4th 1852 by John T. Dodge Street Commissioner (PRINT)
by: Hayward, G.

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.

Record # 412168

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Plan of St. Gall, The: In Brief by: Price, Lorna

Plan of St. Gall, The: In Brief
by: Price, Lorna

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.

Record # 410565

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Plantation Homes of Louisiana and the Natchez Areaby: Gleason, David King

Plantation Homes of Louisiana and the Natchez Area
by: Gleason, David King

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.

Record # 374375

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Plantation Songsby: Stuart, Ruth McEnery

Plantation Songs
by: Stuart, Ruth McEnery

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 135 pages. Hardcover. Front cover and spine with black and white vertical stripes, and Black & white pastedown illustration. Features 6 black & white illustrations by E. W. Kemble. First edition with (1) at end of text. Dust jacket with light chipping, creasing along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 614149

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Plato's Natural Philosophy: A Study of the Timaeus-Critiasby: Johansen, Thomas Kjeller

Plato's Natural Philosophy: A Study of the Timaeus-Critias
by: Johansen, Thomas Kjeller

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 218 pages. The Timaeus-Critias is concerned with cosmology and Plato's claim that its central task is to articulate the way in which the cosmos manifests the values of goodness and beauty. This book examines this important dialogue in its entirety using current methods of Platonic scholarship. Arguing that Aristotle's physics is far closer to the Timaeus than usually realized, the study's other prominent findings reinforce the dialogue's essentially moral message, and clarify its literary character.

Record # 384011

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Platonism at the Origins of Modernity Studies on Platonism and Early Modern Philosophyby: Hedley, Douglas & Sarah Hutton (Ed.)

Platonism at the Origins of Modernity Studies on Platonism and Early Modern Philosophy
by: Hedley, Douglas & Sarah Hutton (Ed.)

Softcover. Netherlands, Springer, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 285 pages. This collection of essays offers an overview of the range and breadth of Platonic philosophy in the early modern period. It examines philosophers of Platonic tradition, such as Cusanus, Ficino, and Cudworth. The book also addresses the impact of Platonism on major philosophers of the period, especially Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Shaftesbury and Berkeley. Clean copy.

Record # 384340

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Playboy Cover to Cover -- the 50's: Searchable Digital Archive--Every Page, Every Issueby: Playboy

Playboy Cover to Cover -- the 50's: Searchable Digital Archive--Every Page, Every Issue
by: Playboy

Hardcover. Bondi Digital Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Playboy Cover to Cover--the 50s brings the magazine's entire groundbreaking first decade--every issue, every page, cover to cover--into one searchable digital archive. This exclusive box set features the Bondi Reader, powerful MAC or PC browsing software that allows you to explore, search, save and arrange multiple reading lists. Every story, feature and interview, and of course every Playmate, can be located in seconds, and then compiled and cross-referenced however you choose. Playboy Cover to Cover--the 50s also comes with a 224? page companion coffee table book chronicling the behind-the- scenes history of Playboy and filled with never-before-published letters, photos, and contact sheets of Playboy?s amazing first decade. A collector's edition reissue of the extremely rare first issue--featuring Marilyn Monroe's breathtaking cover and pictorial--is included as a special bonus. This essential collection is a must for lifelong fans and subscribers of Playboy, nostalgia seekers, history and culture buffs, as well as all lovers of beautiful women.

Record # 351406

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Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line (SIGNED COPY)by: Burgos, Adrian

Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line (SIGNED COPY)
by: Burgos, Adrian

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st pbk, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 362 pages. INSCRIBED BY BURGOS on the title page. Although largely ignored by historians of both baseball in general and the Negro leagues in particular, Latinos have been a significant presence in organized baseball from the beginning. In this benchmark study on Latinos and professional baseball from the 1880s to the present, Adrian Burgos tells a compelling story of the men who negotiated the color line at every turn-passing as "Spanish" in the major leagues or seeking respect and acceptance in the Negro leagues. Burgos draws on archival materials from the U.S., Cuba, and Puerto Rico, as well as Spanish- and English-language publications and interviews with Negro league and major league players. He demonstrates how the manipulation of racial distinctions that allowed management to recruit and sign Latino players provided a template for Brooklyn Dodgers' general manager Branch Rickey when he initiated the dismantling of the color line by signing Jackie Robinson in 1947. Burgos's extensive examination of Latino participation before and after Robinson's debut documents the ways in which inclusion did not signify equality and shows how notions of racialized difference have persisted for darker-skinned Latinos like Orestes ("Minnie") Minoso, Roberto Clemente, and Sammy Sosa. Clean copy.

Record # 380924

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Playing Cards: History of the Pack and Explanations of Its Many Secretsby: Benham, W. Gurney

Playing Cards: History of the Pack and Explanations of Its Many Secrets
by: Benham, W. Gurney

Hardcover. London, Ward, Lock and Co, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 195 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black stamped decoration with gilt lettering on front. Green cover boards with light rubbing ton edges. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 354190

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Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel by: Julie Satow

Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
by: Julie Satow

Hardcover. NY, Twelve, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Exciting 100 year history of survival of this iconic hotel. 358 pages, color and b/w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 383292

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Poisonous Affair, A: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja (SIGNED COPY)by: Hiltermann, Joost R.

Poisonous Affair, A: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja (SIGNED COPY)
by: Hiltermann, Joost R.

hardcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON FRONT FLY LEAF BY JOOST (AUTHOR) Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In March 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, thousands were killed in a chemical attack on a town in Iraqi Kurdistan. Both sides accused the other. Gradually it emerged that Saddam Hussein, with the tacit support of his western allies, was responsible. This book tells the story of the gassing of Halabja, and how Iraq amassed chemical weapons to target Iranian soldiers and Kurdish villagers as America looked the other way. Today, as the Middle East sinks further into turmoil, these policies are coming back to haunt the West.

Record # 469487

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Polish Logic 1920-1939: Papers by Ajdukiewicz, Chwistek, Jaskowski, Jordan, Lesniewski, Lukasiewicz, Slupecki, Sobocinski, and Wajsbergby: McCall, Storrs (Editor), Ta

Polish Logic 1920-1939: Papers by Ajdukiewicz, Chwistek, Jaskowski, Jordan, Lesniewski, Lukasiewicz, Slupecki, Sobocinski, and Wajsberg
by: McCall, Storrs (Editor), Ta

Hardcover. London, England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1st Edition, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 406 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Dust jacket price clipped, has some damage to top right corner of front cover, as well as agewear. Navy blue cover boards, gilt title on spine. The years between the two wars saw a rich flowering of work in formal logic in Poland. Yet the writings of Polish logicians of that time have largely remained inaccessible to English-speaking readers.

Record # 99180

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Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois; Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc.; Also, the Two Great Speeches of Mr.

Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois; Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc.; Also, the Two Great Speeches of Mr.

Hardcover. Columbus OH, Follett, Foster and Company, 1st, 1860, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth, 268 pages. Not first issue but an early printing with a "2" on page 13, line above publisher on copyright page, 2 leaves/4 pages of ads at front for The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, The Exiles of Florida; Adela the Octoroon; then a letter from Mr. Lincoln opposite title page. Contemporary transcripts of perhaps the most consequential campaign debates in American history. While campaigning against each other for the Senate seat for Illinois, Douglas and Lincoln engaged in a series of public debates on slavery that earned nationwide attention. Lincoln and the young Republican Party capitalized on the attention, partly by having the debate transcripts published-laying the foundation for his successful presidential campaign. Page 1, 104, and 105 with pencil marking, light water stain to bottom corner of some pages, 1 X 1/4" chip to spine cloth. Otherwise clean.

Record # 383836

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Political Development in Modern Japanby: Ward (Ed.), Robert E.

Political Development in Modern Japan
by: 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

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Political Discussions: Legislative, Diplomatic, and Popular 1856-1886 by: James G. Blaine

Political Discussions: Legislative, Diplomatic, and Popular 1856-1886
by: James G. Blaine

Hardcover. Norwich CT, The Henry Bill Publishing Company, 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown buckram covers with gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece portrait, 525 pages. James Gillespie Blaine (1830 -1893) was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the US House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the US House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the United States Senate from 1876 to 1881 He twice served as Secretary of State (1881, 1889-1892), one of only two persons to hold the position under three separate presidents (the other being Daniel Webster), and unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for President in 1876 and 1880 before being nominated in 1884 In the general election, he was narrowly defeated by Democrat Grover Cleveland. The original edition, here nicely rebound, previous owner's signature otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 396541

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Politics in Tokugawa Bakufu, 1600-1843by: Conrad D. Totman

Politics in Tokugawa Bakufu, 1600-1843
by: Conrad D. Totman

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket with minor tape repairs. 346 pages. A study of the bakufu, or administrative structure of the predominant ruling family in early modern Japan. The achievements of the Tokugawa family, who gave Japan 250 years of peace, are placed in a broad context through comparisons with contemporary institutional developments in other Asian countries and in Europe. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396901

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Politics of Aristotle, The (4 volume set)by: Newman, W.L.

Politics of Aristotle, The (4 volume set)
by: Newman, W.L.

Hardcover. London, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1st Edition, 1887 and 1902, Volume 1: 577 pages. Introduction to the Politics. Published 1887. Volume 2: 418 pages. Prefatory Essays, Books I and II, Text and Notes. Published 1887.nb Volume 3: 603 pages. Two Essays, Books III, IV, and V, Text and Notes. Published 1902. Volume 4: 708 pages. Essay on Constitutions, Books VI-VIII, Text and Notes. Published 1902. Previous owner's marginal notes and light underlining within. Blue cloth binding. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Black end pages in volumes 1&2. Pages have some slight tanning from age. Binding is tight. Spines straight. "With an Introduction, Two Prefatory Essays and Notes Critical and Explanatory". DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 99203

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Polynesian Seafaring:  A Disquisition on Prehistoric Celestial Navigation and the Nature of Seagoing Double Canoes with Illustrations Reproducing Original ... Observersby:

Polynesian Seafaring: A Disquisition on Prehistoric Celestial Navigation and the Nature of Seagoing Double Canoes with Illustrations Reproducing Original ... Observers
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Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages, with illustrations throughout. Dust jacket worn with rubbing and fade, price clipped, minor foxing on top edge, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 456874

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Pomfret Vermont (2 vols.)by: Vail Henry Hobart

Pomfret Vermont (2 vols.)
by: Vail Henry Hobart

Hardcover. n.p., Emma Chandler White , 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, B&W plates, folding maps. 687 pgs. Top edge gilt. Excellent condition. Two hardcover volumes, 687 pages. Illustrated with frontispiece photogravure of Vail, folding maps, photogravures, and illustrations. Dual tan and brown cloth hardcovers with gilt title block on the front covers. Gilt titles on the brown cloth spines. Top edges gilt. Untrimmed edges. Set is very clean and in very good condition. Complete.

Record # 300348

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Pompeii: Echoes from the Grand Tourby: Jay Parini, Ethan Canin, Jim Nisbet, Angelo Cannavacciuolo (Creator), Mimmo Jodice (Photographer), Marcello Fiori (Introduction

Pompeii: Echoes from the Grand Tour
by: Jay Parini, Ethan Canin, Jim Nisbet, Angelo Cannavacciuolo (Creator), Mimmo Jodice (Photographer), Marcello Fiori (Introduction

Rome, Contrasto, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 136 pages, 53 b&w plates. A collection of 53 photographs of Pompeii, never published before, shot by the master photographer Mimmo Jodice. Unique images, visions conjuring up a long-lost past tradition, coupled with texts by Ethan Canin, Jim Nisbet and Jay Parini. No dj issued.

Record # 357246

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Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758 (INSCRIBED BY ROCKWELL)by: Saunders, Richard

Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758 (INSCRIBED BY ROCKWELL)
by: Saunders, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Heritage Press, reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages. Inscribed by Normal Rockwell. Brown/tan cloth boards decorated with animal designs with gilt lettering along spine. B&w and color illustrations. Comes in slipcase. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855798

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Poor-Relief In Vermontby: K.R.B. Flint

Poor-Relief In Vermont
by: K.R.B. Flint

Hardcover. Northfield VT, Norwich University, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan cloth with black lettering on front cover, 39 pages. A study of the social conditions in the counties of Vermont in the earl part of the 20th century. Flint was Professor of Political Science at Norwich University.

Record # 397560

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PoPsie: American Popular Music Through The Camera Lens of William "PoPsie" Randolphby: Randolph, Michael

PoPsie: American Popular Music Through The Camera Lens of William "PoPsie" Randolph
by: Randolph, Michael

Hardcover. Hal Leonard Corporation, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 226 pages. Haunting the recording studios, jam sessions, concert halls, and nightclubs of New York City, William "PoPsie" Randolph chronicled the postwar transformation of American music from swing and jazz, to rhythm & blues and rock n' roll. The 100,000 negatives left behind after his death in 1978 span the giddy, glitzy heyday of swing in the 1940s, the hot and cool jazz spawned in the clubs of 52nd Street, the rumbling emergence of black R&B and doo-wop, the sudden explosion of rock n' roll in the late '50s, the rise of Brill Building pop and the British Invasion of the '60s, and the growth of rock into a multibillion-dollar industry by the '70s. PoPsie's son Michael has chosen the very best of his father's collection for inclusion in this remarkable book. Here readers will find luscious black-and-white photos of everyone from Benny Goodman and Billie Holiday to Elvis, The Beatles, Hendrix, and the Rolling Stones. Insightful text explains the time, people, and place of each captured moment.

Record # 351458

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Portobello Road: Photographed in the Sixties by: Petty, John

Portobello Road: Photographed in the Sixties
by: Petty, John

Hardcover. Suffolk, UK, ACC Publishing Group Ltd, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, fresh, unmarked copy. Black and white images throughout. A collection of photographs from the early sixties taken by John Petty. Tight copy.

Record # 352902

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Portobello Road: Photographed in the Sixtiesby: Petty, John

Portobello Road: Photographed in the Sixties
by: Petty, John

Hardcover. Suffolk, UK, ACC Publishing Group Ltd, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, fresh, unmarked copy. Black and white images throughout. A collection of photographs from the early sixties taken by John Petty. Tight copy.

Record # 352903

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Portraits of America: Coney Island: The Museum of the City of New Yorkby: John S. Berman

Portraits of America: Coney Island: The Museum of the City of New York
by: John S. Berman

Softcover. NY, Barnes & Noble, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. More than simply an escape from New York's sweltering summer streets, the strip of Brooklyn's south shore known as Coney Island embodied a new American attitude toward entertainment. Here, you'll experience the decadent delights of this magical land of ritzy hotels and penny arcades, where dance pavilions and freak shows shared space with sizzling burlesque and cooling ocean breezes. You'll meet George Tilyou, whose Steeplechase Park featured the Blowhole Theater, the Insanitarium and the Human Pool Table, and Nathan Handwerker, whose Nathan's Famous hot dogs became synonymous with summertime food. You'll ride the legendary Cyclone roller coaster and stroll through Dreamland and Luna Park, where generations of New Yorkers met and mingled in a place that came to define American fun. Clean copy.

Record # 397995

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Portraits of the Fifties/The Photographs of Sanford Rothby: Roth, Sanford

Portraits of the Fifties/The Photographs of Sanford Roth
by: Roth, Sanford

Softcover. San Francisco, Mercury House, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages, b&w photographs. Sanford Roth (d. 1962) quit an executive position in 1946 to pursue photography in Paris. His wife's anecdotal essay recalls their experiences photographing figures in the arts, including Colette, Picasso, Cocteau, and Stravinsky. Roth later became photographer to the film industry and made portraits of James Dean, Ava Gardner, and dozens of others. His photographs, which appeared in Life , Paris-Match , etc., are photojournalistic and new to today's audience.

Record # 351261

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Portraits of the Iron Horseby: Robert S. Henry / Otto Kuhler (Illustrator)

Portraits of the Iron Horse
by: Robert S. Henry / Otto Kuhler (Illustrator)

Hardcover. NY, Rand McNally & Co., 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 80 pages. Written at the height of the Steam Age, this book combines Otto Kuhler's striking dry-brush locomotive pictures with Robert Henry's clear account of the development of the American steam locomotive. This happy combination of dramatic and realistic pictures and fascinating fact makes the book entertaining reading for all who are interested in the expansion and development of the country. Illustrated with almost 40 drawings plus pictorial endpapers. No markings.

Record # 398721

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Portraits of the Sixties by: McCarthy, Justin

Portraits of the Sixties
by: McCarthy, Justin

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green clith with gilt titles on front and spine, 340 pages. Illustrated with several photographs, top edge gilt. Essays on the literary and political figures of the 1860s, including Charles Dickens, W. M. Thackery, Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Tennyson, Richard Owen, Richard Cobden, John Bright, Sir Stafford Northcote, Sir Richard Burton, Lady Burton, J.A. Blake, Sir Patrick O"Brien, Lady Russell, Lord John Russell, Garibaldi, Robert Keeley, John Arthur Roebuck, Lord Clarence Paget, Thorold Rogers, and Goldwin Smith. Justin McCarthy (1830 ? 1912) was an Irish nationalist, a Liberal historian, a novelist and a politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1879 to 1900 in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and an ardent proponent of Irish Home Rule. He is perhaps best remembered for his five volume work--A History of Our Own Times which covers the Victorian Era from Queen Victoria"s accession to her Diamond Jubilee.

Record # 371935

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Ports of Callby: Carse, Robert

Ports of Call
by: Carse, Robert

NY, Charles Scriber's Sons, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 344 pages, b&w illustrations. A history of the great colonial seaports of America. Clean copy.

Record # 382062

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Possession: Demoniacal and Other Among Primitive Races, in Antiquity, The Middle Ages, and Modern Timesby: Oesterreich, T.K.

Possession: Demoniacal and Other Among Primitive Races, in Antiquity, The Middle Ages, and Modern Times
by: Oesterreich, T.K.

Hardcover. NY, University Books, 1sr, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black, 400 pages. Discusses The Nature and State of Possession, Exorcism, and Shamanism. Looks at the history of possession, and its importance to religious psychology. With an appendix on Parapsychology. Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich [1880-1949] was a German psychologist and philosopher at the University Tubingen. He published numerous works on parapsychology and the occult. This is an ex-lib copy with stamping, residue to endpapers. No dust jacket, small sticker on spine, clean interior.

Record # 397863

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Post Roads & Iron Horses: Transportation in Connecticut from Colonial Times to the Age of Steamby: Richard DeLuca

Post Roads & Iron Horses: Transportation in Connecticut from Colonial Times to the Age of Steam
by: Richard DeLuca

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) that helped define Connecticut and shape New England. Advances in transportation technology during the nineteenth century transformed the Constitution State from a rough network of colonial towns to an industrial powerhouse of the Gilded Age. From the race to build the Farmington Canal to the shift from water to rail transport, historian and transportation engineer Richard DeLuca gives us engaging stories and traces the significant themes that emerge as American innovators and financiers, lawyers and legislators, struggle to control the movement of passengers and goods in southern New England. The book contains over fifty historical images and maps, and provides an excellent point of view from which to interpret the history of New England as a whole. Clean copy.

Record # 398828

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Post Roads & Iron Horses: Transportation in Connecticut from Colonial Times to the Age of Steamby: Richard DeLuca

Post Roads & Iron Horses: Transportation in Connecticut from Colonial Times to the Age of Steam
by: Richard DeLuca

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) that helped define Connecticut and shape New England. Advances in transportation technology during the nineteenth century transformed the Constitution State from a rough network of colonial towns to an industrial powerhouse of the Gilded Age. From the race to build the Farmington Canal to the shift from water to rail transport, historian and transportation engineer Richard DeLuca gives us engaging stories and traces the significant themes that emerge as American innovators and financiers, lawyers and legislators, struggle to control the movement of passengers and goods in southern New England. The book contains over fifty historical images and maps, and provides an excellent point of view from which to interpret the history of New England as a whole. Clean copy.

Record # 398827

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Posters of the First World Warby: Slocombe, Richard

Posters of the First World War
by: Slocombe, Richard

Softcover. London, Imperial War Museums, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Posters of the First World War collects more than one hundred posters from America, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy that showcase renewed concern among the warring nations with national character and conduct.

Record # 353070

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Postingsby: Heyward Isham

Postings
by: Heyward Isham

Hardcover. NY, privately printed, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 230 pages, b&w photos. Heyward Isham (1926-2009) chronicles his life as a Foreign Service Officer for the United States. His diplomatic postings spanned much of the Cold War from vantage points in Berlin, Moscow, Hong Kong and Paris. Clean copy. Small printing.

Record # 383499

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Pottery Primer, Aby: Jervis, W. P.

Pottery Primer, A
by: Jervis, W. P.

Hardcover. New York, O'Gorman Publishing, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 188 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Black & white photographs and illustrations. Swipe of white paint at top of spine, and stamp label beneath. Covers show light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609296

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Powder Keg: Northern Opposition to the Antislavery Movement, 1831-1840 by: Lorman Ratner

Powder Keg: Northern Opposition to the Antislavery Movement, 1831-1840
by: Lorman Ratner

Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 172 pages. This study examines the realities that the Free North held a substantial population who opposed the abolition of slavery, describing the history of this phenomenon and the attendant aspects of racism towards Black Americans during this period. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387890

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Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977-1981 (SIGNED COPY)by: Brzezinski, Zbigniew

Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977-1981 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Brzezinski, Zbigniew

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st Ltd Ed., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Burgundy cloth, gilt spine and front facsimile signature; signed by author in black ink to limitation page, copy #310/500; 2 sections of black & white photographs; tan paper covered slipcase. Zbigniew Brzezinski was a political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as a counselor to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966-1968 and held the position of United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. Clean, bight copy.

Record # 387775

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Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature, The. Essays 1962-2002by:  BayleyJohn

Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature, The. Essays 1962-2002
by: BayleyJohn

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 676 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Nice copy.

Record # 4450227

Price: $15.00 
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Power of Photography, The: How Photographs Changed Our Lives (SIGNED COPY)by: Goldberg, Vicki

Power of Photography, The: How Photographs Changed Our Lives (SIGNED COPY)
by: Goldberg, Vicki

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Mild wear to dust jacket top edge. Light fading to top boards. Foxing and faint soiling to text block. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951326

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Power of Pictures, The: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Filmby: Goodman, Susan Tumarkin

Power of Pictures, The: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film
by: Goodman, Susan Tumarkin

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 238 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Covering the period from the Revolution to the beginning of World War II, this book considers Soviet avant-garde photography and film in the context of political history and culture. Three essays trace this generation of artists, their experiments with new media, and their pursuit of a new political order. A wealth of stunning photographs, film stills, and film posters, as well as magazine and book designs, demonstrate that their output encompassed a spectacular range of style, content, and perspective, and an extraordinary sense of the power of the photograph to change the world.

Record # 352142

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Powerful Days - The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Mooreby: Moore, Charles/Michael S. Durham

Powerful Days - The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
by: Moore, Charles/Michael S. Durham

Softcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2nd printing, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Charles Moore. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610287

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Powerful Days - The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Mooreby: Moore, Charles/Michael S. Durham

Powerful Days - The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
by: Moore, Charles/Michael S. Durham

Softcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Charles Moore. With photographs throughout at the Selma March of 1965, of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina, of voter registration in Mississippi and more. With text by Michael S. Durham and an introduction by Andrew Young. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 398301

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