Titles starting with P from Donald Magee Fine and Rare Books, ABAA

London: Gay & Bird, 1900. Small 8 Vo. Red cloth, paper cover and spine labels. 288 pgs incl index, numerous b&w photos, untrimmed edges. Owner's name in ink, no other marks. By an American expatriate, is "less a guide book then a dream book." Spine very slightly sunned, ow a Very Good copy. ... more information

Springfield MA: Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, 1964. 1st printing. 8 Vo. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, 95 pgs incl bibliography and footnotes. Lyman, 1715-1774, lawyer, statesman, warrior and loyalist. Active in Colonial Wars and the West and a distinguished citizen largely forgotten today. Private bookplate, ow a good copy. Scarce ... more information

Salem MA: Essex Institute, 1905. 4To. Facsimile printing, no date or other information. Very good, handsome maroon cloth binding, library style, gilt spine title. 418 pgs incl index and appendices. 209 illustrations. This facsimile does not have a large folding map, nor is there any pocket for same. A very good copy + to fine copy with no markings. ... more information

NY: AB Burdick, 1859. 1st edition. 12Mo. Recently rebound in a handsome library style black cloth, gilt spine title, new end papers. 456 pgs, with 3 plates. Small damp stain to top edge, affecting about one inch of most pages at top left margin, ow is a mostly bright, clean copy. No markings. Scarce. Howes G-248; Field #615; Klein, New York in the American Revolution Bibliog #645. Klein states "Much of this study is devoted to the fighting between Indians and whites on the New York frontier. ... more information

Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1931. 1st Edition (Zempel). Colorful paper dust jacket, several very small closed tears at edges, 130 pgs. Eight short plays incl: The Blizzard, Silent Struggle, Sheep and Blind. A Very Good copy, No ISBN. Quite Scarce! ... more information

(Haverford, PA): Privately Printed, April 15, 1946. 4To. Red cloth, gilt cover title, AEG, 80 pgs plus 16 pages blank with ruled lines for taking notes. Several illustrations including a handsome family chart with 17 small chromo coats of arms. Ancestry of Joseph Hudson Plumb, born Dec 1944, back to 1655 with the arrival of John Plumbe in CT in his own vessel. Includes Hegeman, Peck, Kimball, Hall, Foster, Hopkins, Carroll, Middleton, Rumsey, Hudson, Phelps, Borton, Griswold, Branson, Melyn, as well as ... more information

Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1862. 8Vo. Maroon, blind stamped buckram, bright giled spine. 492 pgs, engraved frontis, title page (by Phillips and Sampson.) Most scholars today agree that thes Scots poems were actually written by MacPherson himself, passing them off in 1760-1763 as coming from ancient times. The did have an influence on Scot and English Bards and in Germany (Klopstock.) Cap and tail of spine frayed with slight loss of cloth, owners stamp, ow a Good+ copy. No markings. ... more information

Boston: Little Brown, 1900. First Separate edition (from a Garland for Girls 1888). Small 8Vo, green cloth, black spine title, gilt cover lettering around a colorful decoration of wheat and red poppies, 54 (2)pgs + 2 pgs of ads. Spine ends, corners slight bumped, one small cover spot, frontis without tissue guard, two other illustrations. Ow is a Good and bright, tight copy. No markings. BAL #230 ... more information

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Microfilms, 1984. 8Vo. Authorized facsimile, paper bound. 253 pgs. PhD thesis submitted to Brown University in 1978. Field research on Festas in New Bedford and in the Axores describing feasts as vehicles involving change rather than cultural persistance. A Very Good copy, no markings, No ISBN ... more information

Fall River, MA: R.E. Smith Co, 1973. 8Vo. Green cloth, gilt lettering, 178 pgs. Much on New Bedford and Fall River Portuguese including brief histories of seven Fall River parishes, with short biographies of many families. A Very Good copy. Very uncommon. No ISBN. No markings. ... more information

London: Macmillan, 1905. 1st Edition. 8Vo. Two volumes. Green cloth, gilt spine titles, 512 and 493 pgs. Ex library copies, no spine numbers, but with one pocket and remains of a pocket, library bookplates. With 40 photogravure plates and numerous other illustrations. Volumes shaken but still tight. No other markings. OP, rather uncommon. Edges and covers rubbed, spine end frayed. Hunt, 1827-1910, was one of the principal founders of the school along with Rossetti and Milais, although not as well k... more information

San Diego, CA: Windward Enterprises, 1998. 1st edition. 8 Vo. Paper bound, 228 pgs incl index, bibliography and glossary. Numerous photos, charts, equations, and formulas, mathematical models, aerodynamics, invaraints, convergence. A brand new copy. ISBN 0-9671566-0-2 ... more information

London: Hutchinson, 1961. 12Mo. Revised edition of 1919 and 1960. Good dust jacket. 192 pgs. Applied geography proposing a new scheme of a dozen provinces for England. A good copy. Fold out map. No markings. ... more information