Art for America
by Partridge, William Ordway
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1895. Second Edition. Cloth Boards. Very Good/No Dustjacket. Copy owned by one M. Langdon, Jr and inscribed to him by the author and sculpture Partridge: "A souvenir of our meeting in Washington and the night we spendt with Browning at Afterhouse in Norwood. In the hope that we three may meet again the sooner the... Read More
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FIRST WILL AND TESTMANT
by Patchen, Kenneth
Norfolk: New Directions, 1939. 1st Edition. No Binding. Very Good. Unbound sheets, fully collated. Some corners dog-eared. 800 copies printed.
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A NARRATIVE OF THE CAMPAIGN IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHENANDOAH
by Patterson, Robert
Philadelphia: John Campbell, 1865. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by the author on the half title page. First edition, 8vo blue cloth over boards, with gilt title on spine and embossed motif on front and back cover. Robert Patterson (1792-1881) was an Irish-born American military officer. He served as a United States Army major general during the... Read More
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The Dance, Art, & Ritual of Africa
by Paudrat, Jean-Louis; Laude, Jean; Huet, Michel
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 1978. First Edition. Cloth. As New/Almost As New. Price-clipped dw, else as new.
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THE AMAZON
by Paul, Elliot
BY: Horace Licerright, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Lacking dustjacket, slightly cocked, moderately soiled, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the verso ffe and dated by him Auguts 8, 1930. Neat ownername on the ffe.
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Verra La Morte e Avra I Tuoi Occhi
by Pavese, Cesare
Turino: Einaudi, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good. Presumed second edition, this being 1952. Printed covers a little soiled, stapled spine, errata slip bound in.
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Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants. (Volume 2)
by Paxton, J.
London: Orr and Smith, 1836. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, xxii, 270 (6). 49 colored plates, each measuring approx. 6.25 x 9", tissue guards laid-in. 19thC binding of full green leather with elaborate gilt perimeter by W.H.Parker, Bregon with his bookbinder ticket upper left corner front pastedown, 6 raised bands. Leather on spine darkened and drying and... Read More
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Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants. (Volume 3)
by Paxton, J.
London: W. S. Orr & Co, 1837. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, vii, 289, 41 colored plates, each measuring approx. 6.25 x 9" colored plant illustrations,with tissue guards laid-in, plus 30 woodcuts of garden tools, plants and diagrams. 19thC binding of full green leather with elaborate gilt perimeter by W.H.Parker, Bregon with his bookbinder ticket upper left... Read More
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Of the Imitation of Christ: In Three Books
by Payne, John; A Kemps, Thomas (translated by)
New-Bedford: Abraham Shearman, 1805. Mottled Calf. Good. Spine and cover edges rubbed, ends and cover corners heavily worn. Small piece missing lower spine end. Rear cover cracked lower right edge, still firm. Flight scuffing, scratches, and darkening to covers. PON at ffe. Toning and some darkening and spotting to free endpapers and pastedowns. Fre infirm with lower right... Read More
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Snowland Folk
by Peary, Robert E.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1904. First American edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine -/No Dustjacket. Operti, Albert. slightly scuffed at edges, front panel decorated with purple and white stamped pictorial as well as pastedown photographs, ex-lib but in great shape, plentiful b&w drawings and photographs.
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Compendium latino-hispanum utriusque lingvae veluti lumen : quo calepini thesauri enrici stephani, Antonij Nebrisensis, Nizolij, Patris Bartholomaei Bravo atque omnium optimae notae authorum labores & lucubrationes
by Pedro de Salas, Bartolome Bravo
Antuerpiae: Apud Henricum & Cornelium Verdussen, 1724. Early Printing. Hardcover. Good. 1724 edition of the oldest Latin-Spanish dictionary attributed to de Salas, which first appeared in 1671; Worldcat records editions in 1695 and 1714, and identifies only 3 libraries (all in Spain) with this 1724 printing attributed to two publishers, Apud Henricum and Cornelium Verdussen. (There were many... Read More
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THE FEASTS OF AUTOLYCUS: The Diary of a Greedy Woman
by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
Chicago: Saafield Publishing Company, 1900. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good +. Early reprint (1900) after the first edition published by Lane in London and Merriam in NY (1896). 8vo, green cloth, stamped in red and black front and gilt titles to spine, 264p. Food essays first published in the Pall Mall Gazette in London under the title "Wares... Read More
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The Graphic Arts: Modern Men and Modern Methods
by Pennell, Joseph
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1921. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo., brown cloth,. gilt titles, moderately soiled covers. First edition of the Scammon Lectures for 1920. Signed by Pennell on the half title with the stamp of the Print Club of Philadelphia on the ffe.
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NO CROSS, NO CROWN. A DISCOURSE SHOWING THE NATURE AND DISCIPLINE OF THE HOLY CROSS OF CHRIST....IN TWO PARTS
by Penn, William. (Quakers)
Philadelphia: (Society of Friends), 1877. Hardcover. Near Fine. Later reprint, undated, circa 1877. 8vo. brown cloth, triple blind ruled coves, gilt rules and titles to spine, beveled edges, 480. Neat, older ownership name Philadelphia address handwritten on ffe. Newer ownership address label on pastedown. Solid, clean copy.
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JACQUES PEPIN'S ART OF COOKING (and) JACQUES PEPIN'S ART OF COOKING VOLUME 2
by Jacques Pepin
NY: Knopf, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A pairing of Pepin's two volumes (1987, 1988) on kitchen technique, both first editions, the later a review copy with promotional materials laid-in, both INSCRIBED BY PEPIN. Dustjacket spines sunned a tad.
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EVERYDAY COOKING WITH JACQUES PEPIN
by Pepin, Jacques
NY: Harper & Row, 1982. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. First edition, trade paperback. Review copy with publisher's promotional material laid-in. INSCRIBED 'HAPPY COOKING' BY PEPIN.
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THE MOVIEGOER
by Percy, Walker
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG-/VG-. First edition. Unclipped dusthjacket has some thin scratches cover and some shallow chipping at spine ends and corners. The bottom third of fly in the book has been torn away. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. Despiite its flaws, still a presentable copy.
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Histoire du Roy Henry Le Grand. angebunden: Lettres du Roy Henry IV. und Recueil de Quelques belles actions et paroles Memorables du Roy
by HARDOVIN de PEREFIXE
Amsterdam: Chez Louys & Daniel Elzevier, 1661. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Needs rebinding (lacking spine and covers). Front endpaper present then engraved title page, another title page, (viii) 522.
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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORYOF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS (4 volume, boxed set)
by Perkins, Bradford. Cohen, Warren I. Iriye, Akira. LeFeber, Walter
Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. Unread copies, as new. In black, cloth-covered slipcase.
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THE FRENCH TWINS
by Perkins, Lucy Fitch
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940. Later Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Copyright 1918, but all appearance and list of complete titles, likely 1940s printing. Solid near fine copy, tan cloth stamped in blue and yellow in multi-color, price-clipped dustjacket depicting children in a range of ethnicities about whom Perkins wrote in her books.
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THE SWIMMER
by Perry, Eleanor (screenplay, based on a story by John Cheever)
NY: Stein & Day, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The Swimmer is a 1968 American surrealist-drama film starring Burt Lancaster, written and directed by Academy Award-nominated husband-and-wife team of Eleanor Perry (screenplay adaptation) and Frank Perry (director). The story is based on the 1964 short story "The Swimmer" by John Cheever, which appeared in the July... Read More
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MY EXPERIENCES IN THE WORLD WAR
by Pershing, John J.
NY: Frederick A. Stokes, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. Biography of the Commander-in-Chief, American Expeditionary Forces, WWI. Two volume set, original dustjackets, lacking publisher's box. Books apparently unused, unread. Dustjacket has some modest chipping here and there. No previous owner names or bookplates.
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CONVERSATIONS REGARDING THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE (and) THE ORAL HISTORY OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE : INTERVIEWS WITH THE GREATEST ARCHITECTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
by Peter, John (editor) Ernest Kump, Gordon Bunshaft, Eero Saarinen, Mies Van Der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Philip Johnson, Richard Neutra. et al)
Louisville (and) NY: Reynolds Metal Company (and) Harry N. Abrams, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. Vinyl LP of conversations with 7 leading modernist architects recorded in 1956 and a copy of the 1994 illustrated book published by Abrams which incorporates much of those interviews, plus 50 other architects interviewed as part of editor John Peters' oral history... Read More
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CONVERSATIONS REGARDING THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE
by Peter, John (editor). Ernest Kump, Gordon Bunshaft, Eero Saarinen, Mies Van Der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Philip Johnson, Richard Neutra. et al)
Louisville: Reynolds Metal Company, 1956. No Binding. Very Good. Vinyl LP of conversations with 7 leading modernist architects recorded in 1956, as part of editor John Peters oral history project on modern architecture that he conducted from 1953 to 1989. The edges of the LP sleeve, in an apparent attempt by a previous owner to preserve the sleeve,... Read More
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Kilims, Flat-Woven Tapestry Rugs
by Petsopoulos, Yanni
NY: Rizzoli, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. An apparently unused copy still in publisher's cardboard slipcase. No names, insciptions or bookplates.
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