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Vintage, 1996. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. First Vintage Departures Edition. 1996. Trade Paperback in Good+ Condition. Cover photograph by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert; design by Kathleen DiGrado. Black and white in-text photos. History and culture of the Roma, feared, reviled, romanticized, and among the least understood people on earth. Isabel Fonseca offers Insights into… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cambridge University Press, 1988. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Cambridge University Press, 1988, First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good Condition. Clean, tight, solid book with faint marks on page fore-edge, internals completely unmarked. Drawing on the published writings and unpublished correspondence of hundreds of American historians from J. Franklin Jameson and Charles… Saber más sobre este artículo

Three Rivers Press, 2009. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 5x0x7. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Slight wear to extremities, otherwise clean and unmarked; tight sewn binding. A true story, part history, part detective story, about a bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson, and sold for $156,000 at auction. Where it had spent its… Saber más sobre este artículo

France: Cambridge (England) at the University Press, New York, 1916. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5?" - 6?" tall. Type: Ex-Library Small Hardcover 1916 Ex-Library Book in Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. The old English Grammar Schools, before replacement by modern Secondary Schools with new curriculum --science, mathematics, modern languages replacing the old classics. Topics dealt with… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. 658 psges. Bright and clean gold and cream wraps; tight, solid and square volume. Upper corner of cover and first 16 pages faintly compressed. Internals spotlessly clean. An historic survey of the great successes… Saber más sobre este artículo

Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2004. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Bright and colorful illustrated glossy wraps, sligfht wear to corners, tight glued binding, first few pages have pale stain to upper corner tips. otherwise pages very clean and unmarked. From the cover: Prepare yourself for the horror… Saber más sobre este artículo

Dulles, Virginia, USA: Brassey's, 2002. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7. First Printing of First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback in Fine Condition. Glossy, bright, illustrated wraps in shades of black with white lettering. Solid, tight, square binding. Monotone illustrations. Cultural anthropologist David E. Jones takes the reader back through history around trhe world to explore… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper Collins, 1994. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Second Edition. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Clean, bright, unmarked wraps, no edgewear, no creases. Internals in Fine Condition. HISTORIOGRAPHY. MODES OF HISTORICAL WRITING. QUESTIONING SOURCES. RESEARCH. DOCUMENTATION. 205 pages, indexed. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. Harper Collins, New York.

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 illustrated on the cover. Remarkable first=hand accounts of the events that shaped civilization: from the siege of Jerusalem (AD 70) to the fall… Saber más sobre este artículo

Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2012. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Paperback Journal. This issue of The Historian is in Very Good Condition and has many and varied interesting articles by eminent historians and others in their respective fields. Glossy, clean blue cover with white titles, slight wear to edges, tight and solid… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York, New York: HarperCollins, 1995. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean, bright, burgundy illustrated wraps, whisper of wear to lower corner, no creases, cover flares up a bit. Tight, solid and square binding. Internals very clean, no markings of any kind, no creases. This book… Saber más sobre este artículo

London, UK: Constable & Robinson/Little, Brown Book Group, 2009. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. The Extraordinary Story of the World's Favourite Drink. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. No defects, just a very nice gently used book. Tea has a strange and murky past, as this history elucidates. Imported into the West… Saber más sobre este artículo

San Diego, California, USA: Maritime Museum of San Diego, 2011. First Edition. Journal. As New/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7?" tall. First Edition Oversize Journals As New. Exhibit volume featuring Three Voyages to Paradise: Cook, Melville & Gauguin. Pictorial heavy, glossy, bright illustrated cover with "Nave Nave Faruru" woodcarving attributed to Paul Gauguin on front. Articles… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York, New York, USA: Chartwell Books/Book Sales, Inc, 2011. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Terry Popkin. Type: Hardback Sixth Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Fine Condition. Laminated illustrated binding; tight, solid and square; pages of coated paper. Fully and elaborately illustrated with full color photographs on every page, detailing over 1500 firearms.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Alexandria, Virginia, USA: Time-Life Books, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover in Near Fine Condition. No Jacket, as issued. All about airborne balloons, their history and development and famous races. Letter from the editor laid in. Brown leatherette pasdded binding with gilt debossed title in… Saber más sobre este artículo

Alexandria, Virginia, USA: Time-Life Books, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Second Printing, revised 1985. . Hardcover in Near Fine Condition. No Jacket, as issued. Brown leatherette pasdded binding with gilt debossed title in script on front, gilt titles on spine, very clean and unmarked, whisper of wear to some… Saber más sobre este artículo

Alexandria, Virginia, USA: Time-Life Books, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Second Printing, revised 1979. Large Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket, as issued. A Seafarers Series book marvelously illustrated in monochrome and full colour historic illustrations. Black leatherette binding with full colour illustration pasted in on front… Saber más sobre este artículo

U.S.A: Three Rivers Press, 2009. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Slight wear to extremities, otherwise clean and unmarked; tight sewn binding. A ture story, part history, part detective story, about a bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson, and sold for $156,000… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Kelly O'Neill. First Edition. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Illustrations by Kelly O'Neill. Clean and colorful pictorial wraps, slight upturn to corners, no other wear, tight and solid and square; internals clean and completely unmarked. This book is… Saber más sobre este artículo

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 illustrated on the cover. Remarkable first=hand accounts of the events that shaped civilization: from the siege of Jerusalem (AD 70) to the fall… Saber más sobre este artículo