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Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth, dust jacket. xxii, 254pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Handsome first edition, boldly inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: "Best wishes / Henry Lewis Suggs / 6-28-90.
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P.B. Young, Newspaperman: Race, Politics, and Journalism in the New South, 1910-1962
by SUGGS, Henry Lewis
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P.G. Wodehouse: A Portrait of a Master
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New York: Mason/Charter, 1974. Hardcover. Small 4to. Purple cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xx, 294pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good/very good. Second printing.
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P Is for Peril
by GRAFTON, Sue
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and grey paper over boards, dust jacket. 352pp. Near fine/very good. Tight, quite attractive first edition, signed handsomely by Grafton in black fineline on an inner flyleaf.
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P. Rami, Regii Eloquentiae et Philosophiae Professori, liber de moribus veterum Gallorum, ad Carolum Lotharingum Cardinalem
by RAMUS, Petrus
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Frankfurt: Andreae Wecheli, 1584. Hardcover. 16mo. Full calf with gilt edges and spine with gilt lettering and raised bands. 142pp. Marbled endpapers. Very good. Small splitting at spine head and tail, else boards tight and sound and internally quite nice. Later German printing, entirely in Latin, of this text first published in Paris in 1559, whose title translates roughly as "P. Pami, Royal Professor of Eloquence and Philosophy, Book of the Habits of the Ancient Gauls, to Charles the Cardinal of Lorraine." Rami (1515-72) was a French educational reformer, logician and humanist who authored many influential texts on topics as far ranging as grammar, rhetoric, mathematics, philosophy and more and whose best known work is the 1543 "Aristotelicae Animadversiones." BRUNET IV, 1099.
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P.S. I Love You: An Intimate Portrait of Peter Sellers
by SELLERS, Michael
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New York: E.P. Dutton, 1982. Hardcover. With Sarah and Victoria Sellers. 8vo. Blue cloth spine and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 238pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. First U.S. edition.
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The PGA World Golf Hall of Fame Book
by ASTOR, Gerald
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New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1991. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 359pp. Extensive illustrations (some color). Near fine/near fine. Ownership signature on front flyleaf. First edition, tight and handsome.
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The Pacific
by AMBROSE, Hugh
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New York: NAL Caliber, 2010. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 489pp. Illustrations, maps. Near fine/fine. A tight, perfect and pristine first trade edition of this thick "Official Companion Book to the HBO Miniseries.
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Pacific Rim: Area of Change, Area of Opportunity
by AIKMAN, David
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1986. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xv, 193pp. Map frontispiece. Very good. Outer wrappers lightly edgeworn, with spine a bit sunned, else internally tight and near fine. Nice first edition of this "Newstour" Pacific Rim travelogue by the British-born journalist, author and foreign policy authority (born 1944).On the front flyleaf he boldly inscribes and signs in blue ballpoint: "11/26/86 / Bob: / Your broad interest in / so many things on the Newstour / was a major stimulus to this book. / Many thanks! / David." From the library of Robert Malott (1926-2018), noted Chicago businessman, CEO of FMC Corporation, Republican politico, philanthropist -- and inveterate adventurer and world traveler who Aikman thanks in the book's preface. (Interestingly, this book has been to the North Pole! It accompanied Malott the following year on a trip he took to the North Pole with astronaut Jim Lovell, and a special North Pole James A. Lovell cancellation dated…
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Pacific Passions: The European Struggle for Power in the Great Ocean in the Age of Exploration
by SHERRY, Frank
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New York: William Morrow and Company, 1994. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown clothspine and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 431pp. Very good/very good. Abrasion on front flyleaf (likely from stick er removal); faint jacket edgewear. Tight, nice first edition.
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The Package
by CONSTANTINE, Mildred, and DREXLER, Arthur
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[New York]: The Museum of Modern Art, 1959. Paperback. Fall issue (Vol. 27, No. 1). Small 4to. Pictorial wrappers. 39pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Fascinating catalogue of this exhibit of industrial design objects, ranging from disposable radioactivity suits and candy trays to perfume bottles and Army shelters.
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Paddle Wheels and Pistols
by ANTHONY, Irvin
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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Hardcover. Illustrations by Manning DeV. Lee and Lyle Justis. Small 4to. Green cloth with blue lettering and blue and white pictorial stamping, pictorial dust jacket. 329pp. Color frontispiece, 3 full-page color plates, full-page line drawings. Very good/very good. Faintest of binding edgewear, with endpapers lightly age toned; jacket rather edgeworn, with spine slightly sunned, but complete and still attractive. A tight, attractive reprint edition of this broad survey of the tumultuous heyday of Mississippi River navigation.
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Paddle Whispers
by WOOD, Douglas
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[Duluth]: Pfeifer-Hamilton Publishers, 1993. Paperback. Illustrations by Douglas Wood. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial green wrappers. 176pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this ode to nature -- part poetry, part brief observations -- nicely inscribed and signed by the author/artist in black fineline on the title page: "To Linda, / In the Spirit of the North / Douglas Wood.
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Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety: Some Aspects of Religious Experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 144pp. Near fine/near fine. Text block would rate fine but for a modest amount of pencilled and inked margin notes and front flyleaf inkstamped name/address. Tight and sharp reprint edition of the Wiles Lectures delivered at Queen's University in Belfast in 1963 -- classical studies scholar J.W. Swogger's copy, with his nominal margin comments.
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Pageant and Panorama: The Elegant World of Canaletto
by POTTERTON, Homan
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Oxford: Phaidon, 1978. Hardcover. 4to. Blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 80pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations (some color). Near fine/near fine. Handsome, tight first edition.
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The Pageant of the Press: A Survey of 125 Years of Iowa Journalism 1836-1961
by PETERSEN, William J.
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Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1962. Hardcover. Folio. Burgundy cloth. x, 118pp, (2pp). Near fine. Scarce collection of these facsimile newspaper pages, inscribed by Petersen on the title page, "Inscribed by the author-compiler -- / 'Steamboat Bill' / William J. Petersen.
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Pageant of Toys
by HILLIER, Mary
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New York: Taplinger Publishing Co, 1966. Hardcover. Small 4to. Orange cloth. 155pp. Illustrations, several tipped-in color plates, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Private library number at foot of spine. First U.S. edition. Broad overview of antique toys, from ancient Egyptian paddle dolls to 19th century wooden horses.
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Pageant of the Gun -- A Treasury of Stories of Firearms: their romance and lore, development and use through ten centuries
by PETERSON, Harold L.
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1967. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 352pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Tight, quite nice second printing of this popular survey.
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Pages: The World of Books, Writers, and Writing
by BRUCCOLI, Matthew J. (editor)
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Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1976. Hardcover. 4to. Full leatherette with gilt lettering. 304pp. Frontispiece, extensive illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Fine. Tight and lovely first edition of the first issue of this short-lived hardbound literary publication, featuring contributions from James Dickey, John Gardner, Malcolm Cowley, Larry McMurtry, Ray Bradbury, Madeleine B. Stern and other notables. Promotional literature laid in.
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Pages d'Art Chretien: Etudes d'Architecture, de Peinture, de Sculpture et d'Iconographie
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Paris: Bonne Presse, n.y.. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter brown calf with gilt lettering, decorations and raised bands and green pebble-grain cloth. vi, 634pp. Extensive illustrations, floor plans, green decorative endpapers. Near fine. Tight, quite attractive later printing ("Nouvelle Edition"), undated but circa 1920, of this well-illustrated survey, with text entirely in French.
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Paintbox on the Frontier: The Life and Times of George Caleb Bingham
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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1974. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with white spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. x, 193pp. Frontispiece, illustrations (some color). Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. Wonderfully tight and nice first edition.
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