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New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1964. BCE. Hardcover. A comprehensive guide to the life of the ruthless leader of the Russian Revolution, who led his forces through the subsequent Civil War and later oversaw the birth of the Soviet Union. With a section of black & white photos, holographs and endpaper maps of Saint Petersburg and of Russia, and an introduction by the author. Back matter includes end notes, bibliography, index and more. --- In a full-size book club edition. In black cloth-covered boards with facsimile signature of Lenin on cover in gilt, spine titling in gilt and orange. Cover features image of Lenin. --- A clean, firm copy though with soiling to textblock edges. Fair only dust jacket with chipping and small tears along edges and some rubbing, else intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); 672 pages .

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Fair in Fair dust jacket. [c.1965]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition presenting selections from the ancient Roman historian's famous history of Rome, which originally consisted of 142 separate books. Includes a map of the Mediterranean area. Translation and with an introduction by Moses Hadas and Joe P. Poe. Volume wrapped in green jacket with image of Romulus and Remus suckling from a she-wolf. --- In Toledano spine 10 / bright green cloth / ML hex logo blindstamped to front cover / gilt-stamped spine titling & torchbearer / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style j, verso lists ML titles, but no total number. Likely published c.1965 (though 1962 date appears in book). ML #325.1. --- With yellow highlighting and red inked underlinings on several passages in the first half of the book, discreet former owner's signatures to title page and rear endpaper, else a clean, tightly-bound, bright copy. Unclipped dust jacket with tears, chips… Leer más

London: Vintage / Random House. Very Good. 2001. Softcover. 0099422581 . A softcover UK edition of Peter Ackroyd's history of the great English capital, which has been acclaimed as THE book about London. From the earliest days with Caesar's first expedition to Britain in 54 BC, to the turn of the twenty-first century, this work carries the reader through the rich and varied life of the city. Chock full of b&w and color photos, paintings and drawings, along with maps and a chronology. Indexed. --- In stiff wraps with multiple color images to covers. --- An excellent copy: tightly-bound and sturdy, though with mild tanning to leaves.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xxiii, 822 pages .

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. Stated 3rd [U.S.] printing, July, 1970. J. V. Luce's examination of archaeological and other evidence to support the theory that an ancient land of Atlantis in the eastern Mediterranean really could have existed, as described by Plato and others. With 14 color, 100 black & white photos; and with 20 drawings. --- In full red cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Volume wrapped in jacket with color photo of a volcano in mid-eruption. --- A tightly-bound, unmarked copy, though with slight edgewear. Unclipped jacket ($9.95) with mild chafing to extremities and a little age-toning to back panel, else bright and intact.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; 224 pages .

New York: The Modern Library. Good with no dust jacket. N.D.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Stated First Modern Library Edition, 1930. Colonel G. F. Young's profile of the House of Medici, who wielded great power in Florence and Tuscany starting in the 14th century through the early 18th century. With a preface by the author and extensive end notes. --- In Toledano spine #5 / full blue balloon cloth-covered limp boards / gilt titling and grapevine decorations on spine / blindstamped torchbearer device to front cover / dark topstain / orange Kent endpapers. Lacks the dust jacket. ML #179.1. --- Conspicuous sunning to spine has turned it to a shade of brown, with prior owner's signature (dated 1931) to front paste-down, small open tear to lower edge of title page and mild age-toning to leaves, else a tightly-bound, sound copy. Note: A weakened front hinge has been repaired on this item.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xxi, [3], 824 pages .

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. [c.1952]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition of a profile of the House of Medici, who wielded great power in Florence and Tuscany starting in the 14th century through the early 18th century. With a preface by the author and extensive end notes. Jacket features striking illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso lists 362 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1952 (though 1930 date appears in book). ML #179.1. --- With prior owner's inked name to half title page, otherwise a clean, tightly-bound and unmarked copy lacking obvious damages. Unclipped dust jacket ($1.25) with some creasing, chafing to extremities, else bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xxi, [2], 824 pages .

New York: The Heritage Press. Very Good. 1959. Hardcover. A handsome, single-volume assortment of writings from the extensive diaries of Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1755), more commonly known simply as 'Saint-Simon'. The Duke was a member of the Regency Council and was familiar with the secrets of the Reign of Louis XIV. Selected, translated and edited by Desmond Flower, and with color illustrations by Pierre Brisaud. Genealogical table of the Bourbon family laid in. Sandglass flyer not present. --- In full red cloth-covered boards with gilt shield to cover, gilt spine titling and red topstain. In blue paper-covered slipcase. --- With slight sunning to spine, and with minor dulling to spine gilding & a bit of soiling to cloth, else a clean, bright, sound copy lacking damages. Slipcase with sunning and soiling, otherwise intact and structurally sound.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); xxxii, 498 pages .

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1978. Hard Cover. The erudite Henry Adams (1838-1918) takes the reader on a guided tour of Mont-Saint-Michel, Chartres and other historic sites in northern France in a deluxe leatherbound reprint edition by the Franklin Library. The author was the great-grandson of President John Adams and grandson of Pres. John Quincy Adams. With illustrations by Gonzalo Fonseca. Issued as part of the publisher's 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series. One of an unspecified number in this limited edition. Publisher's "Notes from the Editors" booklet is included. --- Bound in full maroon bonded leather covers with four raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges (AEG) all in bright gilt. Leaves made from high-quality papers. Maroon silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon bookmarks. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as… Leer más

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2006. First US Edition. Hardcover. 1400044308 . First American edition of this examination of life in Moscow during World War II. Special attention is given to the 1941 Battle of Moscow, in which more Russians were killed than Britain and America combined lost in the entire war. With several maps and two sections of black & white plates. The author served as Britain's ambassador to Moscow from 1988 to 1992. --- In off-white paper-covered boards backed in black paper, with spine titling in silver. Dust jacket with photo of volunteers patrolling near the Kremlin. --- A very nice copy, clean, bright and newish but with remainder mark to lower textblock edge. About Fine unclipped jacket is undamaged.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); (16), 398 pages .

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. [c.1957-59]. Hardcover. Emil Ludwig's popular biography of Napoleon Bonaparte in a Modern Library reprint edition. Mr. Ludwig (1881-1948) was a German Jew who emigrated to Switzerland in 1906 and later to the United States. Translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul. Indexed. Volume in jacket with silhouette of Napoleon & image of his sword and hat. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 379 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1957-59 (though 1953 publication date appears in book). ML #95.2. --- With spotting to topstain and slightly loosened binding, else a sound, unmarked copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with chipping, small tears along edges, light soiling and with sunning to spine, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xi,… Leer más

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Fair with no dust jacket. [1914]. Hardcover. Ex-library. Undated but likely first Everyman's Library edition (1914). The English economic historian Frederic Seebohm (1833-1912) focuses on the influences of University of Oxford lecturers John Colet, Erasmus, and Sir Thomas More, ". . .with relation to the religious movements at Oxford from 1496 to 1519." (per Ross, p.451). With a brief preface by the author's son, Hugh Seebohm. An entry in Everyman's Library Biography series. E.L. no. 665, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In flatback binding style 1, full grey cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, brown topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- Evidence of prior University of Chicago Library… Leer más

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1980. BCE. Hardcover. 0394500326 . Full-sized book club edition. With 24 pgs. of photos and maps. In full black cloth-covered boards w/titling in gilt on spine. Maps of Western Europe and of St. Petersburg at endpapers. With prev. owner's inked name, front free endpaper; otherwise a bright, firm, clean copy. Jacket with some rubbing and small tears; in removable archival mylar protector. ; 8vo 8" - 10" tall; 909 pages .

New York: The Modern Library. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1936, 1941. Hardcover. This review of the Italian Renaissance by John Addington Symonds was originally published from 1875 to 1886 in 7 volumes. It is presented here in two unabridged Modern Library Giant volumes. The author was an English literary critic and poet. Volumes wrapped in slightly mismatched orange jackets. --- In Toledano spine G3 / blue cloth (vol. 1), rust (vol. 2) / gilt-stamped ML torchbearer device to covers / spine titling & decorations in gilt / faded blue topstain (v.1), faded red (v.2) / jacket style Gb, versos advertise 271 titles (v.1), 245 titles (v.2) in ML catalog. ML #G20.1 & G21.1. --- A clean, tightly-bound, unmarked set, though with mild sunning to edges of both volumes. Prices are blacked-over on unclipped dust jackets; with tears & chips to extremities and sun-fading to spines, v. 2 with large open tear at head of spine; both are otherwise intact and in removable mylar protectors.;… Leer más

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1911. Hardcover. 1911 reprints of the 1906 issuances. Volumes two and three only of the 3 volume set of John Lothrop Motley's history of the establishment of a republic in the Netherlands from 1555 to 1584. Index to all 3 volumes at rear of vol. 3. Numbers 87 & 88 in Everyman's Library "History" series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In 'flatback' binding style 1, full red cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front covers, brown topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title pages, endpapers & frontis. Volumes lacks the dust jackets. --- A well-preserved, unmarked, sound set, though with mild soiling to covers.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; (6), 504, (6), 460 pages .

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1895. Hardcover. Volume I only (of two volumes). Translated from the French by Mrs. B.M. Sherman. First US Edition. In full green cloth-covered boards, which are elaborately decorated in gilt and red. With 6 engraved illustrations, each of which is tissue-protected, and the tissues bear printed information on the person in the accompanying illustration. Darkened spine w/faded but readable gilt lettering. Top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges are heavily deckled. Interior pages bear some foxing, and with prev. owner's bookplate at front pastedown, otherwise interior clean and bright. A very handsome copy of a romantic work, set in the time of Napoleon I. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 284 pages .

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1901. Hardcover. Stated First Edition, copyright page. In full green cloth-covered boards with elaborate decorations and titling in gilt on cover and spine. Interior features numerous b&w photos. Front cover a bit loose and with previous owners' signatures on front free endpaper, minor wear at cover edges; otherwise a bright, clean copy. Lacks a jacket. --- Editor has chosen descriptions by noted authors such as Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, Nathaniel Hawthorne and many others to describe some of the world's most famous castles and palaces. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 395 pages .

New York: Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 0374261946 . A first printing of Jonathan Rabb's novel, which features his Nikolai Hoffner character who is assigned to investigate a supposed suicide in seamy Weimar Republic-era Berlin. --- In black paper-covered boards with spine titling and decorations in gilt. Jacket with image of early 20th-century Berlin scene. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy lacking apparent damages. Unclipped dust jacket also in excellent shape.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); (8), 373 pages .

New York: Atheneum Publishers. Very Good. 1969. First American Edition. Hardcover. The famous battle is described in detail in this sharp copy of work first published in the U. K. With multiple black & white and color illustrations; 6 maps. In black half cloth & mustard yellow paperboard covers; interior clean, w/prev owner's embossed gold sticker ffep. DJ has back cover tear; is in mylar protector. $8.95 flap price intact. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Berlin: Neufeld & Henius Verlag. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1933. Hardcover. A tour of Germany showing notable buildings, scenic sights, monuments and people. In German language, with entries in "gothic" (Fraktur) blackletter typeface. With over 150 black & white photos by J. B. Malina. --- In linen cloth-covered boards with cover and spine titling in black. Volume has no dust jacket. --- A solid copy: clean and tightly-bound, though with inked inscription to front free endpaper, a little looseness to front cover and small tears to paper at front and rear gutters.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); 129 pages .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 0394513517 . Stated First American Edition. With bold gift inscription, half title page; otherwise a clean, bright, firm interior. Price-clipped dust jacket in great shape. --- Author examines the wide variety of women's lives in 17-century England. ; 8vo 8" - 10" tall; 544 pages .