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U.S.A: Penguin Books, 2000. First US Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Clean and bright cream and orange wrappers with sailing ship illustration, a touch of corner wear, binding tight and square. Pages lightly toned, otherwise internals are as new. An exciting account of the battles of the Spice Wars in the 17th Century, when a tiny island in the Indonesian archipelago, Run Island, became the most lucrative of the Spine Islands, precipitating a fierce and bloody war between the all-powerful Dutch East India Company and a small band of ragtag British adventurers led by Nathaniel Courthope. A spectacular battle, a brilliant adventure story. xi, 388 pages with bibliography and index. 5 x 7.75. 2000, Penguin Books, USA

Pleasantville, New York, USA: Reader's Digest Association, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Quarto in Fine Condition. Clean brown binding with Aztec Calendar on front, gilt lettered on darker brown spine. Light wear to spine heel, small chip to spine. Tight and solid. Brown endpapers. Internals Fine. Beautiful full colour and b/w illustrations and informative text and descriptions of wondrous places and searches for fabled lands--Atlantis, the land of the Queen of Sheba, the giants of Easter Island, the lost Empire of the Indus Valley, the Incas last refuge, Pyramids of the pharaohs, and many more places to see and explore. 319 pages with index. 8.75 x 11.5 inches. 1978, Reader's Digest Association, Pleasantville, New York, USA

USA: Harper & Row, 1989. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Very clean tan cover with illustration by Roger-Viollet: Seamstresses on strike in Paris, 1910. Bare touch of cover edge wear. Soundly bound. B/w historical photographs. Internals clean and free from any markings, more toned than would be expected in 1989 book. This second volume of "A History of Their Own" is a complete history of European women from the Renaissance to the present. The central thesis of this book is that throughout the recorded history of Europe, women's lives have been shaped more by their gender than by any other factor, whether class, religion, ethnicity or nationality. 572 pages with Notes, Bibliography and Index. 8 x 5.4 inches. Harper & Row, USA, 1989.

Beverly, Massachusetts: Fair Winds Press, 2009. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. First US Printing. Large Paperback In Very Good Condition. Heavy, glossy, hinged, black cover with French flap, image on front of cover is: Nero, 37-68 AD, Fifth Roman Emperor, marble bust. Quite striking inside cover image: The Fire of Rome, 18 July, 64 AD (oil on canvas), Hubert Robert (1733 - 1808). Cover is quite clean and unmarked, faint crease to upper corner, no spine creasing. Sound and tight binding. Internals as new. Illustrated throughout--art reproductions, historical photos, drawings. William Weir sets the record straight through a fascinating examination of historical lies and myths and the true story behind them. Each chapter points out a misconception held as common truth in history. For example: As far as prisons go, the Bastille wasn't all that bad; Emperor Nero did not fiddle as Rome burned; Jesse James: American Robin Hood or Serial Murderer?;… Leer más

U.S.A: Scott, Foresman and Co, 1973. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good+ Condition. Lightly worn, clean, green cover with light wear around edges, no creasing, binding tight & solid, square spine. Text block edges and pages quite clean and free from any markings. The primary focus of th is study is the interaction of the women's suffrage and prohibition movements in history. He contends that the woman question of the 19th and early 20th centuries was an aspect of the debate on the meaning of equality and that the temperance and prohibition movements involved questions concerning the nature of democracy and the means of social control within a society. He uses the comparative method in studying historical problems and has restricted his studies to the countries that experienced significant interactions between the two movements -- the U.S. England, Australia, New Zealand, and the Scandinavian countries, and modern India - or to those that… Leer más

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1966. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Pictorial wrappers are clean, with illustrations of various periods in history; trace wear around edges; no creasing; soundly bound. Pages quite clean and free from any markings of any kind, faintly toned. 105 pages. 8 x 5.5 inches. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1966.

New York: Avon Books, 1990. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Designed to make a history buff out of anyone. Several historical ages illutrated on the cover. Remarkable first=hand accounts of the events that shaped civilization: from the siege of Jerusalem (AD 70) to the fall of Ferdinand Marcos (1986), from a dinner with Attila the Hun (AD 450) to an afternoon in a Turkish bath (1717). Book is clean, unmarked, slight wear to extremities. Rear cover creased at lower corner. Soundly bound, all pages intact. Pages toned, clean and free from any markings. 706 pages. 8 x 5.25 x 1.25 inches. Avon Books, New York, 1990.

New York, New York, USA: Bramhall House/Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Second Printing. Large Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. More than 100 illustrations. Bright orange full cloth binding with big, bold black titles on spine. Only wear is slight wear to two front corners. Tight and solid and square. Internals very clean and free from any markings. Bright, colorful, unclipped, clean jacket is rubbed, quarter inch closed tear to top edge. Hundreds of authentic firsts are recorded--not just scientific discoveries and technical inventions--its purpose is to provide a wide range of firsts that have contributed to the life we have today: the first toothbrushes, the first canned beer, the first department store, the first motel, the first jet airpland, the first jigsaw puzzle--you get the idea. There is a chronology of some 6000 items that places not only the firsts described in the text but also many… Leer más

United States: Horace Liveright, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Hendrik Willem Van Loon. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Printing. 1928 Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. Binding of burnt-orange cloth with paper paste-on color illustration inset on the front and bold gilt titles on front and spine. Quite clean, no marks, light wear to corners and spine head, spine heel lightly scuffed. Tight and solid sewn binding. Rough cut on fore edge and bottom edge. Former owner inscription on endpaper. Contents page signature loose from binding. Frontis: colour illustration "Multiplex Man". Seven full color illustrations. Over 100 b/w illustrations throughout, by van Loon. Pages are clean, unmarked, no creases-heavy paper. A handsome volume. In his own inimitable style, van Loon tells and illustrates the history of inventions and its relation to man's progress on earth. Such a delightful treasure of a book! 252 pages. 9.6 x 6,25 inches.… Leer más

New York, New York, U.S.A: Smithmark Pub, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back Large Folio Hardcover Book with Jacket, in Very Good Condition. Mylar Jacket Cover. Binding of black cloth with gilt titles; light scuffing to corners and edges. Tight and solid binding. Very small light mark near upper edge. Pages clean and bright, completely unmarked, wavy on upper corner. Jacket is bright and clean, rubbed, a touch of wear to spine ends. Full color illustrations of tractors of all sorts and sizes with descriptive text, historical background. comparisons. This is a pictorial record of the evolution of farm tractors from the beginnings through the 1950s when the era of conglomeration so reduced the numbers of manufacturers that tractor enthusiasts began to look backward from there for the golden era of the classic American farm tractor. Interesting, descriptive and informative text. Quite a striking, interesting book. 112 pages with… Leer más

Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hard Back First Printing Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket AS NEW. Binding of gray cloth w/black titles, very clean, unmarked, tight & solid volume. The story of a grandfather and grandson at odds--a brigadier general's commitment to the fight and a grandson disowned after he was discharged from the Army as an Army Infantry Lieutenant in Vietnam. as a conscientious objector--the famous grandfather was brigadier general and historian General S.L.A. Marshall and his grandson, John Marshall. When a national controversy a decade after Marshall's death called his reputation into question for falsifying his past, grandson John Douglas Marshall began an odyssey across America in search of the truth about his grandfather and the roots of their bitter split. Part memoir, part mystery, part road saga, part biography. 296 pages with Epilogue, Notes and Bibliography. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. Syracuse… Leer más

New York, New York, USA: Delacorte Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hard Back First Edition Handsome Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. . Heavy solid book, 7" x 2.5" x 9.75", 599 pages. Navy textured quarter cloth with gilt double line panel, gilt circle within, gilt titles-very nice design; boards with brown tweed-like cloth with double gilt border, gilt outlined navy circle with gilt titles within. Bright and sharp and spotless. Endpapers in swirl design on browns. Rough cut. Tight sewn binding. Only defects are former owner brief inscription on back of endpaper, slight scuffing of lower front corner and minimal spotting on top and bottom edge of textblock. The whole marvelous story of the Glorious Age of passenger ships, beginning in 1818 and ending 150 years later. All the liners whose histories endowed them with the charisma of personalities are here: The Ile de France, The… Leer más

New York, New York, USA: HarperCollins, 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Large Trade paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and bright, tight binding, pages clean, no markings, no underling, no highlighting. Slight cover edgewear. Pale stain on bottom of text block near spine. The author shows how it is possible for individuals to form a fresh view both of their own personal history and of humanity's whole record of cruelty, misunderstanding, and joy. To have a new vision of the future, it has always been necessary to have a new vision of the past--and this is what he explores. 488 pages with Index. 9.5 x 6 inches. 1995, HarperCollins, New York, New York, USA

U.S.A: William Morrow & Co, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover and Dust Jacket in VG Condition. One of America's most influential economists provides his dynamic assessment of the emerging economic landscape: the rules of the three-way competition, the strength and weaknesses of the players; the information we need to win. Clean, bright red half cloth gilt titled with green boards; light rubbing to bottom edges; tight and solid. Internals Fine-clean, no markings, no tears, no dog-eared pages. Unclipped jacket has light wrinkling at spine ends, white is graying along fold over edge and spine hinge. 336 pages, inc Chapter Notes and Index. 9.6 x 6.6 inches. Wm Morrow & Co., New York, 1992.

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Printing, Volume Four. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Very clean and completely unmarked brown and gold cloth, square,with brown titles; , tight and solid with endbands, square with sharp corners. Lower corner of text block edge is lightly smudged and there is a light spot on the top edge, otherwise fine. Internals are quite clean and completely free of any markings, lightly toned pages. Jacket is sunned, clean and unmarked; not price-clipped; with a closed tear on the rear upper edge. A handsome volume. The fourth and final volume of this series is comprised of selections from the principal historical writers of the 20th century--on many historical topics-- The Eighteenth Century and the Historical World by Wilhelm Dilthey; Cosmopolitanism and the National State by Friedrich Meinecke; Tirpitz' Naval… Leer más

Cleveland, Ohio: The Press of Western Reserve University, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Out-of-Print Book in Good Condition, w/o jacket. 205 pages. 6.25x9.5" tall. Burgundy cloth, clean with a few very small white scratches, gilt titled; corners and spine ends rubbed; upper front corner is scuffed with cloth torn less than a half inch. Sewn binding tight and solid. Occasional page with small marks to mark text, in margin, otherwise pages very clean. Laid in copy of remarks about the book by Prof Donald Treadgold, Dept of History, dated 14 June 1961: Eleven wide-ranging papers presented between 1914 and 1959 by America's best scholar on the origins of the war of 1914 show his Thucydidean penetration of this revolutionary century, many sage observations on history, and zest for his profession: " If I were a young man looking for a professional career, I would ask for nothing better than to be as historian."… Leer más

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1962. Hardcover Out-of-Print Book and Dust Jacket in VG Condition. Archival protective jacket cover. Carnegie Series in American Education. The first comprehensive study of the graduate education of American historians. Blue cloth with black lettering on front and spine, very clean and unmarked with light rubbing to bottom edge and spine head and heel. Binding is tight and solid. Internals very clean, lightly toned, no markings, no underlining or highlighting. Cream jacket has wear to spine head and rear upper edge has a chip and a closed tear. 244 pages with index. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. McGraw Hill Book Company, New York, 1962.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Second Printing. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition. No Dust Jacket. Gray half- cloth with golden-brown cloth-over boards, black and white lettering. Very clean and unmarked, tight and solid. No edgewear, lower corner very slightly bumped. Internals in Fine Condition. The authors focus on how historical work is done in diverse countries, with a brief history of historical study by Boyd Shafer. 239 pages. 1968, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc

New York: Facts on File Publications, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback A Compact reference guide to political, diplomatic, military, social, economic, and religious affairs from 1900-1978. Over 500 articles by noted historian Alan Palmer, from the Boer War to Vietnam, the Wright Brothers to the first landing on the moon. First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket AS NEW. Mylar jacket cover. 403 pages. Publisher: Facts On File, NY 1980.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A: Macrae Smith Company, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback The Nature of Man Series. An exploration of the advantages and disadvantages of the various means of transportation used by man from prehistory to the present day. OUT-OF-PRINT HARDCOVER BOOK AND JACKET IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. Mylar jacket cover. Illustrated. Binding of green cloth with sharp and bright gilt lettering, very clean and unmarked. No wear to extremities. Sewn binding tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Bottom edge of text block has a few very tiny dots. Internals are spotless, no markings, no creasing. Interesting illustrations of various modes of transportation, from the days of the earliest travels. Green jacket is clean and unmarked with light edgewear. The Earliest Travelers; Wheels: And the Roads to Roll them on; Engines; Water Travel; The Great Iron Horse; The Automobile; The Age of Flight; Urban Transportation; The Future of… Leer más