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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books
by John Milton
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Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History
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New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/fine. Fine first printing in a fine dust jacket. Red paper boards under black quarter cloth. Previous owner's embossed stamp on FFE. Illustrated. 699 pp. Octavo. In this superb sequel to At Dawn We Slept, the authors examine meticulously the circumstances surrounding the December 7, 1941 disaster and turn up " -- neither villain nor scapegoat. In their analysis of the roles of the president and key cabinet members, of the chiefs of staff, military commanders and war plans officers, they draw the conclusion that much was taken for granted, principally that the Japanese would not attack Pearl Harbor. On the basis of their solid scholarship, the authors refute the revisionist view that Roosevelt deliberately withheld information from the military commanders in Hawaii to ensure that the attack would come unopposed. Included is a discussion of concurrent events and attitudes in the U.S. Philippine command and explanations…
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Pedro Martinez: A Mexican Peasant and His Family
by Oscar Lewis
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New York: Random House, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Very good +/very good. Alberto Beltrán. A very good plus first edition, first printing, as stated, in a very good, price clipped dust jacket. Red quarter cloth under black cloth boards with sun insignia on front cover and black and gold titling on spine. Previous owner's name stamped on pastedown. Binding is sturdy, tight and square. Smudge to bottom page edges, not affecting text. Text is clean and bright. Dust staining and a smudge to rear cover of dust jacket. lvii, 507 pp., illustrated. Octavo. Pedro Martínez is Oscar Lewis newest contribution to our knowledge of the culture of Mexican poverty. The book tries to do for the village scene what the earlier volume, The Children of Sanchez, did for the urban slum. In that both works are multi-biographical in nature, they are quite similar. However, this new one contains a number of features that make it distinctive from the first and, perhaps, more…
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Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademiens sekreterare och astronom, 1749-1783. Av N.V.E. Nordenmark. Avec un résumé français
by N. V. E. [Nils Viktor Emanuel] Nordenmark
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Uppsala: Almqvist & Wirsells Boktryckeri, 1939. Early Printing. Original wraps. Near fine/very good. First published in 1935, this is an excellent early printing of the biography of the astronomer Wargentin.In original paper wraps with wax/glassine dust wrapper intact. Very near fine with many unopened pages. A few stains to cover, especially at unprotected edges. (see photo). Text in Swedis and French. Frontis., illustrations, 464 pp., 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches tall, octavo. Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin (Sunne parish, Jämtlands län 11 September 1717 (OS) Stockholm 13 December 1783), Swedish astronomer and demographer. Wargentin made studies on the moons of Jupiter and published his first paper on the topic in 1741 in the Acta of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala. The crater Wargentin on the Moon is named after him, as is the secondary school Wargentinsskolan in Östersund, Jämtland, with a historical continuity going back to the school Wargentin himself attended on…
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A Personal Odyssey
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New York: The Free Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/fine. A near fine first edition, first printing in a very good plus / near fine dust jacket. Complete number line. Parchment covered boards over blue quarter cloth. Remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise fine. illus, 308 pp. "This is the gritty story of one man's life-long education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place. The vignettes of the people and places that made an impression on Thomas Sowell at various stages of his life range from the poor and the powerless to the mighty and the wealthy, from a home for homeless boys to the White House, as well as ranging across the United States and around the world. It also includes Sowell's…
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The Photographic History of the Civil War In Ten Volumes [Complete set]
by Francis Trevelyan Miller
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New York: Review of Reviews Company, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A very good first edition, complete ten volume set. Blue cloth with gilt title stamping on spine. Shelf wear on head and tail of all volumes. Top edges gilt. Bindings slightly shaken, otherwise a very good set with minimal wear. Portrait endpapers. Pages are clean and bright. Small tear to page 32 of volume one; long tear to photo on page 37 of volume two. Maps and thousands of period black and white photographs. 8 x 11, quarto. Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities. Foreword by President William Howard Taft. Part I - The First of the Great Campaigns. Part II - Down The Mississippi Valley. Part III - The Struggle for Richmond. Part IV - Engagements of the Civil War Up to July, 1862. A vital primary resource for anyone interested in the "War between the States."This multi-volume set requires extra postage, billed at actual cost.
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Physician's Daily Memorandum
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New York: M.J. Breitenbach Company, 1912. Cloth. Very good +/none as issued. A mostly blank, very good, physician's annual notebook with abstracts, conditions and cures. Burgundy boards with black title stamping. Portrait frontis, obstetrical tables and ads. Stained cover and bumped corners. Complete. 32mo. From anemia to malaria, Pepto-mangan is the cure!
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Physician's Daily Memorandum
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New York: M.J. Breitenbach Company, 1906. Cloth. Very good +/none as issued. A mostly filled, very good, hand-written physician's annual notebook with abstracts, conditions and cures. Burgundy boards with black title stamping. Portrait frontis, obstetrical tables and ads. Bumped corners. Rear endpaper quite proud. Strung bead metal page marker intact. Complete. 32mo. From anemia to malaria, Pepto-mangan is the cure!
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Pierpont Morgan and Friends: The Anatomy of a Myth
by George Wheeler
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Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/fine. A fine, unread first edition, first printing in a fine dust jacket. Complete number line. 338 [16] pages, illustrations. Octavo. One of the most powerful bankers of his era, J.P. (John Pierpont) Morgan (1837-1913) financed railroads and helped organize U.S. Steel, General Electric and other major corporations. The Connecticut native followed his wealthy father into the banking business in the late 1850s, and in 1871 formed a partnership with Philadelphia banker Anthony Drexel. In 1895, their firm was reorganized as J.P. Morgan & Company, a predecessor of the modern-day financial giant JPMorgan Chase. Morgan used his influence to help stabilize American financial markets during several economic crises, including the panic of 1907. However, he faced criticism that he had too much power and was accused of manipulating the nations financial system for his own gain. The Gilded Age titan spent a…
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A Pitcher of Cream
by Bud Robinson
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Louisville: Pentecostal Herald Print, 1906. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +/none as issued. A very good first edition. Blue cloth boards with gilt title stamping on cover. Small spot on front cover. Two bumped corners. Previous owner's name pencilled on first free endpaper. Minor foxing to a couple of pages. One signature a bit proud. 160 pp. 5&1/2 x 6&1/2 inches tall, twelvemo. Reuben "Uncle Bud" Robinson (1860-1942), was a Methodist Episcopal evangelist, who would later become a part of the Church of the Nazarene. Known for his folk wisdom and colorful phrases, his preaching focused on the message of entire sanctification. His father made whiskey and ran a bar in the hills of White County, Tennessee. "Uncle Bud" grew up in a poor family, one of thirteen children, and did not get an education. After his father's death, his mother moved the family to Texas, where he fell into a wild life of drinking and gambling. In 1880, he attended a tent revival, was…
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The Poetical Works of Bret Harte Including Some Later Verses
by Bret Harte
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London: Chatto and Windus, 1911. Early Printing. Cloth. Very good +/none as issued. A very good plus "fine paper edition." Red cloth boards with gillt title stamping on spine. Gilt top edge. Previous owner's name in ink on first free endpaper. Toning to endpapers. No other flaws. 388 pp. 4&1/4 x 6&1/2 inches tall, 18mo. Bret Harte (born Francis Brett Hart; August 25, 1836 May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush.In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials and magazine sketches." --- Wikipedia
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The Poets Laureate Anthology
by Elizabeth Hun Schmidt ed.; foreword by Billy Collins, in association with the Library of Congress
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New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 paper. Fine/near fine. A fine/as new first edition (review copy), appears unread. Red 1/4 paper over buckram boards in a near fine dustjacket with a small 1/4 inch nick at top right corner of jacket. Publisher's errata laid in. 762 pp. including index. Octavo The first anthology to gather poems by the forty-three poets laureate of the United States, with works by Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Maxine Kuman, Robert Lowell, William Meredith. William Carlos Williams, and by all the other poets laureate to 2010.."As a record of poetry, The Poets Laureate Anthology is groundbreaking, charting the course of American poetry over the last seventy-five years, while being, at the same time, a pleasure to read, full of some of the world's best-known poems and many new surprises. Elizabeth Hun Schmidt has gathered and introduced poems by each of the forty-three poets who have been named our…
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Portrait of the Old West; with a biographical check list of western artists
by Harold McCracken
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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1952. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/missing. Near Fine/missing dust jacket. A near fine, stated first edition hardcover in teal boards with gilt stamp of cow skull on cover and title on spine. With photos, color plates, b/w plates, sketches, and other illustrations throughout by Frederic Remington, Paul Kane, George Caitlin, John Mix Stanley, and others. 232 pp. including index. Small quarto, 8 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches tall.
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Power of a Navajo : Carl Gorman : the man and his life [signed]
by Henry Greenberg and Georgia Greenberg; R.C Gorman (introd.)
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Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishers, 1996. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first edition in a fine dustjacket, inscribed by Navajo code talker, artist, and professor, the late Dr. Carl (Kin-Ya-Onny Beyeh) Gorman, on the frontis in 1996. Rare with this signature. x, 202 pages : illustrations. Octavo. Dr. Carl Nelson Gorman, ... Kin-Ya-Onny-Beyeh (19071998) was a Navajo code talker, visual artist, painter, illustrator, and professor. He was faculty at the University of California, Davis, from 1950 until 1973. During World War II, Gorman served as a code talker with the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific. ... Gorman died from cancer on January 29, 1998, in Gallup, New Mexico. ...In 1990, Gorman was awarded a doctor of humane letters from the University of New Mexico. Shortly after his retirement in 1973, UC Davis named their new museum, the C.N. Gorman Museum in his honor, and Gorman donated to the collection. In 1995, Northern Arizona University unveiled a code talker…
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Pre-Columbian Cities
by Jorge E. Hardoy; Judith Thorne, trans.
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New York: Walker & Company, 1973. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. A fine, first English translation of an important work on the cities and monumental architecture of the Maya, Inca, Toltec, and Olmec. Binding is tight and sound, pages are clean and bright with no tears or markings. Immaculate orange cloth boards with title stamped in black on spine. Very good dust jacket, price-clipped with moderate chipping, curling and closed tears, and one scuff on front. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated with maps and sketches. 602 pp. Large octavo, 7 x 10 inches tall. A scholarly examination of Teotihuacán, Tula, Monte Albán, Uxmal, Chichen Itzá, Tikal, Palenque, Pachacamác and Machu Picchu
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Primitive heritage : an anthropological anthology
by Margaret Mead, Nicolas Calas, ed. & intro.
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New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good +/very good. A very good plus first edition, first printing, as stated, in a very good dust jacket. Buckram boards with brown and gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Toning to endpapers. Dust jacket a bit brittle at the edges and showing moderate loss and wear (now protected in a clear archival cover). xxx, 592 pages, including bibliography. Octavo. A collection by some of the world's most eminent anthropologists. The restoration of wonder / Margaret MeadThe world as stage / Nicolas CalasThe Egyptians and their cats / HerodotusCambyses and the defeated king / HerodotusTroglodytes / StraboGerman tribes: public and private life / TacitusThe first societies / Jean Jacques Rousseau (1726)The gens, its simplicity / Friedrich Engels (1884)Blood and cruelty as the foundation of all good things / Friedrich Nietzsche (1887)The totemic feast / Sigmund Freud…
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Prince William Sound, Alaska earthquake of 1964 and aftershocks (Volume I-III, complete)
by Fergus J. Wood, ed.
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Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near fine hardcover first edition, complete: volumes I-III in four parts. Blue cloth boards, gilt stamping. Map and photo endpapers. Mild dust soiling to edges, otherwise near fine. Profusely illustrated from photographs, maps and charts including all 8 folded maps in rear pocket of Vol I, a folded map and pristine 33 1/3 rpm small vinyl recording of the earthquake in rear pocket of Vol II, A. 263, 392, 350, and 155 pp, respectively. Quarto, 9 x 11 1/2 inches tall. Volume I: Operational Phases of the Coast & Geodetic Surveyincluding an account of Seismicity and Brief history of the coast and geodetic survey in this area. Volume II: (A) Research Studies: Seismology and marine geology, Engineering Seismology, (B) Seismology (C) Marine Geology. Vol III: Research Studies and interpretive results (A) Geodosy (B) Photogrammetry"Large and heavy set will be billed at actual postage.
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Prisoners & Other Stories
by Ed Gorman; Dean R. Koontz, afterword
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Baltimore: Cemetery Dance, 1992. First Edition; Limited Edition; Signed Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Bob Korn. An as new (fine) first edition, SIGNED by Gorman on the limitation page. In an equally fine dust jacket and slipcase. This is number 61 of 250 signed copies. 300 pp. Octavo. In a recent interview, Ed Gorman said that his work is essentially about "outsiders trying to strike some sort of weary bargain with a hostile world."The prize-winning stories collected here certainly reflect that theme.From the young man visiting his father in prison to the teenage girl trying to escape the grip of her mother's boyfriend to the father searching for his daughter's murderer... these are people we see every day, yet we did not know intimately until now."As Reflections noted, "Ed Gorman is a serious writer with a voice and vision all his own..." And, in the words of The San Francisco Chronicle, "Ed Gorman has a wonderful style…
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Publishing and Bookselling: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
by Frank Mumby
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London: Jonathan Cape & R.R. Bowker Co, 1954. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/fair. A very good plus, first thus, new and revised edition (Third edition) from 1954 of this seminal work in bookselling. Brown cloth covers. Binding is sturdy and square. Foxing and toning to endpapers. Dust jacket has a large closed tear. 438 pp. including index. Octavo. This book discusses the history of the written word in Britain, spanning a time period from Roman Britain, through the Dark Ages, to the Modern Day.
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Puget Sound: Sea Between the Mountains
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Hong Kong: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. Black cloth board, black endpapers. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated with full color photographs on glossy paper. 112 pp. Quarto, 9 1/2 x 12 inches tall. An award-winning journalist, Scigliano has written for Harper's, Outside, Discover, and many other publications.
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