Rousseau and Revolution - a History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715, to 1789 (The Story of Civilization)
de Durant, Will; Durant, Ariel
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good+/Fair
- Librería
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, small quarto bound in brown cloth, in worn dust-jacket. 1091 pages. Bibliographical Guide, Notes, Index. Illustrated with 98 half-tones and map end-papers. Book Club edition, stated first printing. No previous ownership marks. Volume X in the Durant's "The Story of Civilization". Book is clean, square, tight and unmarked. Dust-jacket edge-worn with several chips at head of spine. Very good+ in fair dust-jacket. Media mail only. .
Sinopsis
The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant is an eleven-volume set of books. It was written over a lifetime, and it totals two million words across nearly 10,000 pages. The series is incomplete: in the first book of the series (Our Oriental Heritage, which covers the history of the East through 1933), Mr. Durant stated that he wanted to include the history of the West through the early 20th century.
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- Librería
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 019654
- Título
- Rousseau and Revolution - a History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715, to 1789 (The Story of Civilization)
- Autor
- Durant, Will; Durant, Ariel
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fair
- Edición
- Book Club Edition
- Editorial
- Simon and Schuster
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1967
- Palabras clave
- History, Modern European History
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
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Staten Island, New York
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- Good+
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Spine
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- Quarto
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...