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The lessons of history
de William and Ariel Durant
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very good/very good
- Librería
-
Gridley, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968. Later printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. A very good plus fifth printing in a very good dust jacket. Black cloth boards with midnight blue topstain. Previous owner's name stamp in red on first free endpaper. Jacket shows mild loss at crown of spine of jacket extending down to a short tear, and shelfwear at edges. Toning to edges of inner flaps on DJ. 117 pages, Octavo. The companion volume to the Durants' epic "Story of Civilization." Surveys the history of human culture and civilization, identifying key themes from throughout five thousand years, with discussion of race, character, morals, religion, economics, government, war, and other topics, and addressing the question of whether progress is real. TOC: Hesitations History and the earth Biology and history Race and history Character and history Morals and history Religion and history Economics and history Socialism and history Government and history History and war Growth and decay Is progress real?
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Detalles
- Librería
- Uncommon Works
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1378
- Título
- The lessons of history
- Autor
- William and Ariel Durant
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- very good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Later printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Simon and Schuster
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1968
- Catálogos del vendedor
- History & Historiography;
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Sobre el vendedor
Uncommon Works
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Gridley, California
Sobre Uncommon Works
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
