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Boston: Boston University , 1931 Royal blue cloth; gilt title PAL. Collection of literary sketches, poems, stories, and essays. Several pages of vintage thumbnail black-and-white photographs of administrative officers, faculty members, and freshmen (all women). Page after title page illustrated with etching of a university building, presumably the College of PAL. Light rubbing to cover extremities. Bold, neat handwritten inscription and date on front endpaper. Two of the freshman portraits are underlined with simple bracket. Occasional light, small stains to text but predominantly clean. Interior unworn; binding tight.
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PAL--Directory of the College and Miscellany of Prose and Verse
by Boston University College of Practical Arts and Letters
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The Pacific
by Rogers, Stanely
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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1930 Map endpapers. Color frontispiece drawing and many black-and-white text drawings. With chapters that "skim lightly,"as the author puts it, on the subjects of navigators, privateers, Polynesia, "the literary Pacific," shipwrecks, and much more. Moderate rubbing to cover extremities. Spine sunned. Library marks: spine numbers; bookplate affixed to verso of front endpaper; "withdrawn" inkstamp to verso of frontis and rear endpapers before map; small library inkstamp to lower margins pp. 99 and 199. Otherwise clean and tight.
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Pal O' Mine: King of the Turf
by Hawkes, Clarence, Illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull
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Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Company, 1925 Very Good-/No Jacket. Pictorial cloth. Horse story for young readers, set in Kentucky. Probable first edition. Single black-and-white illustration (frontispiece). Light rubbing to cover extremities, except for 1/2 scrape/fray/bump to lower rear cover corner. Prior owner name inside front cover. Interior otherwise clean and tight.
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Papa Went to Congress
by Horan, Kenneth
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946 First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gray cloth with maroon pictorial. Prior owner address sticker lower front endpaper. Clean and tight with only very faint rubbing to cover extremities.
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Paper Figures Based on Children's Artwork
by Pauli, Anna & Mitzit, Margaret S.
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Peoria, Illinois: Chas. A. Bennet Co., Inc., 1957 Very Good-. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Staple-bound; 101 pages. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs and diagrams of hand-crafted stand-up paper decorations and figures. Cover moderately rubbed and lightly edgeworn; prior owner name in ink on cover and inside front cover. Otherwise clean and tight.
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Parasites of the Gypsy and Brown-tail Moths Introduced into Massachusetts
by Fiske, W.F.
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Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., State Printers, 1910 Moderate card covers; staple-bound text; 56 pages plus illustration plates. Subtitled: "Where They Come From--What They are Doing-- A General Survey of the Work." Fiske authored this volume as "the agent and expert in the U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Entomology, under the direction of F.W. Rane, State Forester." With black-and-white detailed drawings, photographs, tables, and diagrams. Tail of spine moderately rubbed; covers otherwise only lightly worn. Clean and tight.
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Park-Street Papers
by Perry, Bliss
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New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908 Good+/No Jacket Pictorial dark green cloth; gilt decoration and title/spine lettering; top edge gilt. A gathering of literary commentary pieces in the author's tenth year of service as editor of "The Atlantic Monthly." Cover extremities moderately rubbed. Intermittent light-to-moderate foxing to interior; lower corners of pp. 253-256 missing (careless page separation). Otherwise clean and tight.
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Part of a Man's Life
by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906 Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library. Blue cloth; gilt title and spine; top edge gilt. Second impression. With frontis portrait of author, several portraits of outstanding persons of the period, and fascimile letters. Scholarly commentary on the period by the Professor. Moderate rubbing of cover extremities; two spine label scars; small dime-size stain front cover. Internal library marks: bookplate inside front cover; blacked-out inkstamps to front and rear endpapers and copyright page; embossed library seal title page; pocket-removal scar and catalog notations to rear endpaper. Text clean and tight.
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Particle-Lung Interactions
by Peter Gehr & Joachim Heyder, Editors
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New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2000 Laminated boards. Volume 143 in the Lung Biology in Health and Disease series edited by Claude Lenfant. Wide-ranging, comprehensive reference presenting the latest developments in aerosol science and interactions between particles and the respiratory tract--utilizing an interdisciplinary approach. It contains the work of more than 40 internationally recognized experts. With black-and-white figures and illustrations. Corners lightly bumped. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.
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A Passion for Glass: The Aviva and Jack A. Robinson Studio Glass Collection
by Fike, Bonita
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Detroit, Michigan: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1988 Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at the Detroit Institute of Arts, October 11, 1998-February 14,1999. Color photograph reproductions throughout. Light rubbing to glossy rear cover. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.
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Passive Solar Homes: 91 New Award-Winning, energy-Conserving, Single-Family Homes with Specific Suggestions for Design and Construction
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Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development/ U.S. Department of Energy, 1981 Oblong format; 284 pages. With detailed diagrams, descriptions, and plans. Introduction by Martin McPhillips.
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The Paternal State in France and Germany
by Gaullieur, Henry
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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1898 Good/No Jacket. Political commentary: " . . .[M]y aim was simply to remind the reader of some facts which nobody has denied, but which in my opinion have been too much forgotten, and which were the direct result of the French and German doctrine." Moderate-to-heavy rubbing of cover extremities; spine and outer margins of cover cloth darkened, apparently by soot, but gilt spine lettering is crisp; some irregular moderate whitestains to front cover cloth. Prior owner name/date ffep; interior otherwise clean and tight.
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Paths to Conservation
by Tippett, James S.
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Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1937 Part VI of Our Animal Books, a Series in Humane Education, edited by Frances E. Clarke. Illustrated. Former school book with reinforced binding, pictorial cover, and pictorial endpapers. Cover extremities heavily worn, and 1/2" horizontal tear halfway down spine/gutter; tiny chip out of cloth at front fore edge. Few moderate stains to cover cloth. Interior clean and tight except for small school inkstamp on blank front endpaper.
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A Patriot Maid and Other Stories
by Knipe, Emilie Benson and Alden Arthur, Illustrated by W.M. Berger
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New York: The Century Company, 1928 Stories set in Colonial New England. Intended for young readers, these stories appeared previously in magazines. With black-and-white drawings. Some light-to-moderate irregular staining and wear to cover cloth. Page block edges discolored. Faint remnants of pencil erasure to front endpaper; interior otherwise clean and tight.
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Pattern for Peace: The Story of Poland and Her Relations with Germany
by Gronowicz, Antoni
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New York: Paramount Publishing Co., 1951 Very Good-/Good. SIGNED by the author on front endpaper map of Poland. Prior owner printed "This book is property of . . ." at top of half-title page. Interior otherwise clean and tight. Some sunning to cover edges. Dust jacket intact and bright, but edgeworn and torn at extremities (1/2' -3/4" closed tears), lightly rubbed, and with small brown stain on (white) spine.
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Patterson's Volunteers
by Smith, John
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New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1984 World War II aviation novel.
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Peace, Justice & Reconciliation in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Christian Perspective
by Pratt, Cranford, Baum, Gregory, Burbidge, John, et al
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New York: Friendship Press, 1979 Very Good-. Staple-bound wraps; 61 pages of text, 3 maps. Moderate wear to cover.
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The Peace Movement in America: Christian Non-Resistance, In All Its Important Bearings, Illustrated and Defended
by Ballou, Adin
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Jerome S. Ozer, Publisher, 1972 Blue cloth. A facsimile reprint, part of a collection of reprints by this publisher. This edition was reprinted from a copy in the collection of The New York Public Library. Ballou was a pacifist and founder of one of the first Utopian communities in the U.S.--Hopedale Community. He lectured widely against war, slavery, and intemperance. Front endpaper neatly excised. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.
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Pearly Kingdom
by Fletcher, Geoffrey
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London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1965 Cloth. A "tour" of London's East End. Numerous black-and-white drawings and color frontispiece. Dust jacket intact and bright, but with heavy wear to upper edge, especially spine and corner, where wear extends 1/2". Lower jacket edge lightly worn, light rubbing to rear panel.
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Penn
by Berkeley, Sara
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Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1986 Very Good. Poetry by Irish writer. Light cover edgewear. Text page margins slightly age-browned.
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