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Matthews, John (Selected and Edited By)
An Arthurian Reader: Selections from Arthurian Legend Scholarships and Story
Northamptonshire England: The Aquarian Press/Thorsons Publishing Group 1989. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. The Aquarian Press/Thorsons Publishing Group 1989. Hardback Second Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Very clean and unmarked brown cloth binding with gilt titles. Lower front corner gently bumped the top inch of the cloth of spine head is wrinkled; top edge is dust dulled with one spot; light line on fore edge of text block. Internals are very clean no marks no creases moderately toned pages. Frontis: an interesting title page from a 17th century edition of Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur. Clean and bright jacket is lightly wrinkled around spine head else fine. Quite a handsome volume. 351 pages with bibliography. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. The Aquarian Press/Thorsons Publishing Group Northamptonshire England 1989. The Aquarian Press/Thorsons Publishing Group hardcover
Référence libraire : 013892 ISBN : 0850307783 9780850307788
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Buchan, John (Editor)
FRANCE: The Nations of To-Day A New History of the World
USA: Houghton Mifflin 1923. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Type: Hardback 1923 Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt outlined panel gilt titled on spine gilt titles. Very clean and unmarked with just a touch of rubbing on corners; spine sunned. In remarkably good condition. Tight solid square volume. Bookplate on paste-down. Interior is clean no markings no tears ligtly toned. Fold-out map of France-1923 after Introduction by John Buchan. Preface by Andre Tardieu. Other maps include: The Empire of Charlemagne and the Partition of Verdun A.D. 843; France in 1429; in 1610-1715; Central Europe 1815; two of the Western front 1914-1918. 306 pages. 8vo. Houghton Mifflin USA Houghton Mifflin hardcover
Référence libraire : 014089
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Judson, Harry Pratt
Europe In The Nineteenth Century
New York: Charles Scribners Sons 1901. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall. Type: Hardback A look at 19th Century Europe the century of the most achievement compared to any one other century in human history. Hardcover Book published in 1901 in Good Condition. No jacket as issued. Over 80 illustrations/maps. Olive-green cloth binding with black outlined title box on front black lettering and gilt title on spine. Clean with no markings corners and spine head/tail scuffed edges rubbed. Tight and solid sewn binding. Inner hinge cracked. Text-block fore edge with pencilled initials. Prev owner names on endpaper. Pencilled list on flyleaf. Frontispiece: portrait of William Ewart Gladstone. Pages clean with pencil underlining of text. Topic headings in margins as reading/study guide. Rear ep with pencilled notes. Good solid summary of 19th Century Europe--France Germany Austria Russia Italy England the smaller Central States The Empire of the Turks and the Expulsion of the Turks from Europe. 342 pages with bibliography and index. 7.75 x 5.5 inches. Charles Scribners Sons New York 1901. Charles Scribners Sons hardcover
Référence libraire : 014160
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Cunliffe, Marcus
The Age of Expansion 1848-1917
Springfield MA: G. & C. Merriam Co 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. G. & C. Merriam Co 1974. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket in Mylar Cover. 16 pages of full color illustration plates 8 maps and 90 b/w illustrations. Binding of full grey cloth with gilt titles clean and unmarked tight and solid and square. Internals very clean no underlining no highlighting no marginalia no creases. Jacket is clean and unmarked clipped with chipping and small tears around spine ends tear to lower rear edge. Focuses on three major themes of the age: the transforming element of technology; the effect of the population explosion; and nationalism the major ideological force for change in the 1800s. 336 pages including Bibliography Chronological Tables and Index. 9.75" x 7". Publisher: G & C Merriam Springfield MA 1974. G. & C. Merriam Co hardcover
Référence libraire : 012876 ISBN : 0877790604 9780877790600
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Gay, Peter
Schnitzler's Century : The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914
London England: Allen Lane The Penguin Press 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. Fine black cloth binding with gilt titles; tight & solid square with sharp titles. Internals as new. Fine Dust Jacket is unclipped; cover painting by W. P. Frith: The Railway Station. A major historical look at 19th and 20th century culture by an eminent historian. 334 pages with Page Notes Bibliography and Index. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 2001 Allen Lane/The Penguin Press London England. Allen Lane, The Penguin Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 013131 ISBN : 0713994487 9780713994483
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Stephens, John N
The Italian Renaissance: The Orgins of Intellectual and Artistic Change Before the Reformation
United Kingdom: Longman Group 1991. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Second Impression 1991. First published 1990. TRADE PAPERBACK IN NEAR FINE CONDITION. Just a touch of corner wear. Clean tight unmarked; heavy glossy cover with a reproduction of a Botticelli fresco. Highlighting on a few pages. Illustrations include 8 plates and 13 illustrative figures. Bibliography and Index. 248 pages. 8vo - over 7" - 9" Tall.1991 Longman Group UK Longman Group paperback
Référence libraire : 013136 ISBN : 0582493374 9780582493377
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Blitzer, Charles and The Editors of Time -Life Books
Age of Kings: Great Ages of Man A History of World's Cultures
Alexandria Virginia: Time-Life Books 1979. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back Sixth Printing Revised 1979. Large Hardcover Book in Fine Condition. No jacket. One of the "Great Ages of Man" Series. Books in this series are elegantly and elaborately illustrated in full color and provide a concise history of the culture peoples society religion art technology demographics and more of various ages of civilization from ancient nomadic primitive societies to more highly developed civilizations. This volume provides a comprehensive and extensive survey of The Age of Kings a great age of monarchies largely in the 17th century sometimes called the Age of Baroque. This is the age of Louis XIV and Peter the Great who achieved monarchial absolutism which was eventually destroyed and the epoch of the secular state. such as England France and Russia who finally won independence from ecclesiastical supervision and interference. It was an age of a new experience that of power--of the mind over nature of the army of the state over man of new art forms. Bound in brown Buckram over spine gilt titles. Clean tight solid heavy unmarked book. Pictorial boards with illustration of the dominant personality of the 17th centurty the French King Louis XIV. Lavishly illustrated. Internals as New. 192 pages with Chronological Chart of the significant events during the Age of Kings 1603-1715. 11 x 9 inches. Bibliography and Index. Time-Life Books Alexandria VA 1979. Time-Life Books hardcover
Référence libraire : 013316
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Duff, Chris
On Celtic Tides: One Man's Journey Around Ireland by Sea Kayak
New York: St Martins Press 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. A sea trip in huge cold seas in a very small boat a solo trip around Ireland by sea kayak in the summer of 1998--at maybe 4 miles per hour. On Celtic Tides is a memoir of two journeys: one of the sea with its moments of tranquility and contrasting terror; the other an inner exploration a spiritual awakening born of the haunting beauty and rich history that Duff discovers among the stone ruins of island monasteries and coastal cottages Sixteen pages of black-and-white illustrations on coated paper. Forest-green cloth binding with white titles to spine. Very clean and unmarked with very slight bumping to lower front cover spine head compressed a bit. Endpapers with a map of the journey around Ireland. Internals as new. Bright and clean unclipped jacket with a small chip to the upper edge and a closed tear to the front spine edge. 269 pages. 6.75 x 9.6 inches. St. Martin's Press New York 1999. St Martins Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 013458 ISBN : 0312205082 9780312205089
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Cornwell, John
Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
New York: Viking Press 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Third Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Archival protective jacket cover. Eight page b/w illustration section on coated paper. "The career of Eugenio Pacelli-Pope Pius XII from the beginning of the century is the story of a bid for unprecedented papal power that by 1933 had drawn the Catholic Church into complicity with the darkest forces of the era--" from the Preface. The untold story of the man who was arguably the most dangerous churchman in modern history: Eugenio Pacelli Pius XII Pontiff from 1939-1958 and long controversial as the Pope who failed to speak out against Hitler's Final Solution. Bound in black half cloth gilt titled red boards very clean and unmarked; light wear around spine heel a touch of rubbing to lower corners. Tight solid square. Former owner name on paste-down. Internals are very clean and free from any markings. Jacket clean and unmarked with slight wear around spine tail and upper edge turns up slightly. 430 pages with Notes Bibliography and Index. 10 x 6.5 inches. 1999 Viking Press New York New York U.S.A. Viking Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 013636 ISBN : 0670886939 9780670886937
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Bernier, Olivier
Fireworks at Dusk: Paris in the Thirties
Boston Massachusetts U.S.A: Little Brown & Co 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Fine. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket in FINE Condition. 351 pp. 28 b/w photographs on plates. Very clean unmarked tight and solid volume. A portrait of Paris in the thirties--art culture and society reached spectacular achievements considered to be the center of civilization. At the same time it was spiralling downward to the disaster of World War II. Bernier paints a brilliant portrait of Paris during these times of vibrant hysteria. 1993 Little Brown & Co Little Brown & Co hardcover
Référence libraire : 012729 ISBN : 0316092754 9780316092753
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Mahoney, Rosemary
Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish Women Coming of Age
U.S.A: Houghton Mifflin College Div 1993. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Cleanm bright unmarked green illustrated cover small crease to lower corne. Tight and soild square. Pages clean ans unmarked. 307 pages. 6 x 9.25" tall. 307 pp. Houghton Mifflin College Division Boston MA 1993. Houghton Mifflin College Div paperback
Référence libraire : 012807 ISBN : 0395602017 9780395602010
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Tyler, Samuel Lyman
Two Worlds
University of Utah Press 1988. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo. x 258 pp. Bound in full red cloth in cream dust jacket with title and illustration in black and red on cover and spine. Illustrated with two black and white maps. Fine bright crisp copy in Very Good dust jacket with creasing and short tears to head of spine 1/2" tear to lower edge of front cover light soiling to spine and extremities. <br/><br/> University of Utah Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 000661 ISBN : 0874802970 9780874802979
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Nicol, Mark
Last Round
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. 302 pp. Bound in maroon boards in illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated with black and white maps and full-color photographs. Near Fine stain to top edge otherwise bright clean copy in Near Fine dust jacket with light wear to extremities. <br/><br/> Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardcover
Référence libraire : 000636 ISBN : 0297846418 9780297846413
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Cornwell, John
Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
U.S.A: Viking Press 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Third Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in FINE Condition. Archival protective jacket cover. Eight page b/w illustration section on coated paper. Very clean and unmarked tight and solid book in black half cloth with gilt titles red boards no edgewear. Internals are immaculate. "The career of Eugenio Pacelli-Pope Pius XII from the beginning of the century is the story of a bid for unprecedented papal power that by 1933 had drawn the Catholic Church into complicity with the darkest forces of the era--" from the Preface. The untold story of the man who was arguably the most dangerous churchman in modern history. His story is one of a conflict between high spiritual aspirations and ambition for power and control. 430 pages with Notes Bibliography and Index. 10 x 6.5 inches. 1999 Viking Press New York New York U.S.A. Viking Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 011951 ISBN : 0670886939 9780670886937
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Addison, Joseph, Steele, Richard and Budgell, Eustace
The Sir Roger De Coverley Papers: From THE SPECTATOR London: 1711-1712 With Some Prefatory Notes By W.M.Thackeray and Illustrations Drawn for This Edition By Gordon Ross
New York New York USA: The Heritage Press 1945. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Gordon Ross. Type: Hardback The Heritage Press 1945. Hardcover Book in As New Condition. No Jacket or slipcase. Illustrated by Gordon Ross. Beautiful burgundy full cloth with golden-brown panel gilt outlined decorated with title within on front and spine. Very clean and unmarked square with sharp corners tight & solid with endbands. Frontis: full color illustration by Gordon Ross; eleven additional color plates. Interior is pristine. Sir Roger de Coverley is a delightful country squire created by Richard Steele as a chief character in the imaginary club that supposedly wrote The Spectator. He is a character described in The Spectator as a member of the Spectator Club a gentleman of Worcestershire of ancient descent a baronet to all "intents and purposes an actual country gentleman"His character was further developed by Joseph Addison as the perfect English gentleman in the reign of Queen Anne 1702-1714. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 198 pages. 1945 The Heritage Press New York New York USA The Heritage Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 011980
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Tipton, Frank B. And Aldrich, Robert
An Economic and Social History of Europe 1890-1939
Baltimore Maryland U.S.A. And London England: Johns Hopkins Univ Press 1987. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. A John Hopkins University Press Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Heavy glossy clean cover with a bare touch of edgewear. Square tight binding. Internals are very clean and unmarked lightly toned around edges of pages. The economic and social developments and also the political structures of the times in Europe from the last decade of the 19th century to the outbreak of World War II. 323 pages. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. 1987 Johns Hopkins Univ Press Baltimore Maryland U.S.A. And London England Johns Hopkins Univ Press paperback
Référence libraire : 012015 ISBN : 0801835674 9780801835674
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Dillon, Martin
God and the Gun: The Church and Irish Terrorism
New York New York USA: Routledge 1998. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Hardcover Book As New with Very Good Dust Jacket. Martin Dillon shows how historical injustices and religious divisions have led to the current 1998 Irish situation. He charts the history of the paramilitary forces on both sides of the political divide as well as the wavering attitudes of religious leaders and politicians towards them. Binding of black half cloth with gilt titles with tan speckled boards. Very clean and unmarked tight and solid square with sharp corners. Jacket is clean and bright slightly rumpled along top and lower edges. IRISH HISTORY; CHURCH HISTORY NORTHERN IRELAND; IRISH TERRORISM. 5 x 9" tall. 244 pages. Routledge New York NY 1998. First published by Orion London 1997. Routledge hardcover
Référence libraire : 012051 ISBN : 0415920604 9780415920605
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Hoffer, William
Volcano: The Search for Vesuvius
USA: Summit Books/Simon & Schuster 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. The story of a true adventure taking the reader through the dramatic life of the most renowned volcano in history and its legacy of destruction and of its survivors who continually rebuild new cities and villages on the ruins of the old. Binding of clean and unmarked black half-cloth with silver titles dark red boards clean and unmarked with upper corner gently bumped. Tight solid and square. Publisher's stamp on bottom edge of page block. Interior is in Fine Condition. 189 pages with bibliography. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. Summit Books/Simon & Schuster New York 1982. Summit Books/Simon & Schuster hardcover
Référence libraire : 012300 ISBN : 0671400797 9780671400798
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Nicolson, Harold (Editor: Nigel Nicolson)
Harold Nicolson The War Years 1939-1945 Volume II of Diaries and Letters
New Yorlk New York USA: Atheneum 1967. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back Hardcover BCE in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Jacket. Archival protective cover. "A brilliant record of a tragic decade" " an evocation of the intellectual and cultural atmosphere of London in the last years of the British Empire" "an unrivaled picture of the intelligent British upper classes during the years that immediately preceded the war."--A book well worth reading perusing. Binding of grqy textured cloth is very clean unmarked tight solid and square. Lower edges of front board rubbed. Clean jacket has slight edgewear is sunned on spine and fold-over edges. 511 pages with index. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. 1967 Atheneum New York New York USA Atheneum hardcover
Référence libraire : 012292
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Harline, Craig
The Burdens of Sister Margaret: Private Lives In A Seventeenth-Century Convent
New York: Doubleday 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket AS NEW. Historian Craig Harline discovered in Belgian archives bundles of correspondence that Franciscan Grey Sisters of a convent in Louvain penned more than three centuries earlier-details hopes concerns of the nuns in the community. He has used this research to write this tale of life in the convent during the tumultuous times of the Reformation. Handsome binding of gray half cloth with sharp and bright gilt titles green boards spotless soundly bound square with sharp corners. Internals as new. Unclipped jacket with illustration by Marco Ventura. 359 pages including Bibliographical Notes and Index. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Doubleday New York 1994. Doubleday hardcover
Référence libraire : 012343 ISBN : 0385473958 9780385473958
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Owen, David
Balkan Odyssey
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1996. Remainder First Edition. Hardcover in Very Good Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Archival protective cover. Remainder mark on bottom edge else Fine. clean and unmarked tight solid & square. Internals Fine--very clean completely free from any marks no creases not clipped. David Owen's personal chronicle of the struggle to bring an end to the wars in the former Yugoslavia wars marked by brutal campaigns of ethnic cleansing war crimes ultranationalism religious bigotry and racism. 389 pages with index. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich New York 1996 USA Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover
Référence libraire : 012435 ISBN : 0151002215 9780151002214
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Levenson, Leah; Natterstad, Jerry H.
Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 8vo. x 2 228 pp. Bound in full orange cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Fine bright clean copy in Near Fine dust jacket with minor scuffing. <br/><br/> Syracuse University Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 000600 ISBN : 0815601999 9780815601999
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McCrum, Robert; Cran, William; MacNeil, Robert
The Story of English
USA: Viking Penguin 1986. First US Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Viking Penguin 1986. Hardcover Large Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Jacket with clear archival protective cover. A companion to the PBS television series. An extraordinary tale of a language that came out of nowhere to conquer the world and its progression through the ages. Blue cloth binding with silver bold titles on spine very clean and unmarked. Tight and solid sewn binding square with sharp corners. Prev owner name on half-title page. 156 full color illustrations and maps. Internals are very clean and unmarked. Jacket is clean and bright and unmarked light chipping to spine head and heel small closed tear on lower front corner near spine heel and rear lower edge. An extraordinary tale of a language that came out of nowhere to conquer the world and its progression through the ages. 8" x 10" tall. 384 pages with Notes and Sources Table of Maps Picture Credits and Index. 10 x 8 inches. Elizabeth Sifton Books/Viking Penguin New York 1986. Viking Penguin hardcover
Référence libraire : 011750 ISBN : 0670804673 9780670804672
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Duke of Wellington
My Dear Mrs. Jones--The Letters of the First Duke of Wellington to Mrs. Jones of Pantglas 1851-1852
London England: Miniature Books-The Rodale Press 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Type: Hardback Collectible FirstEdition. Hardcover Small Book As New with a Near Fine Jacket. 7.75 x 5 inches. 58 pages. Prints of Apsley House and Strathfieldsaye in full color; full color full portraits of The Duke and of Margaret Charoltte Jones. The Duke's Arthur Wellesley-The Iron Duke letters during the last two years of his life to Mrs.Jones a young society woman nearly sixty years younger than Wellesley. In cream cloth over spine and burgundy boards with script in cream across burgundy front. Very clean and unmarked. No edgewear. Internals pristine. Red jacket is unclipped with black lettering and design and has just slight wear on the upper edge and smudges near the corners on the back side. MiniatureBooks/The Rodale Press London England 1954. Miniature Books-The Rodale Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 011786
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Solterer, Helen
The Master and Minerva: Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture
Berkeley CA: Univ of California Press 1995. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked tight binding. Slight wear to cover corners. Pages and page edges clean and white no markings. Cover illustration: Masolino da Panicale detail St. Catherine Disputing with the Philosophers of Alexandria 1425. The beginning of the history of libel Solterer investigates the verbal injury of women in the context of the medieval disputation and recasts an early decisive history of defamation. 301 pages. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. University of California Press Berkeley CA 1995. Univ of California Press paperback
Référence libraire : 011289 ISBN : 0520088352 9780520088351
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Dezell, Maureen
Irish America: Coming into Clover
USA: Anchor Books/ Random House 2002. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Bright and clean gold cover no wear to edges Tight glued binding. Internals as new. Maureen Dezell takes a new look at Americans of Irish Catholic ancestry-who they are and how they got that way; includes history reporting and the observations of more than one hundred men and women of Irish descent on both sides of the Atlantic. A highly readable portrait of a people and a culture. 261 pages with index. 5.2 x 8 inches. Anchor Books/Random House NY 2002. Anchor Books/ Random House paperback
Référence libraire : 011379 ISBN : 038549596X 9780385495967
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Cory-Jones, Keith
War Dogs: Mercenaries in Bosnia Tell Their Own Story
London: Century 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. viii 262 pp. Bound in black boards title in gilt on spine in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Very Good clean tight copy in Very Good dust jacket with creasing and wear to extremities. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. <br/><br/> Century hardcover
Référence libraire : 000345 ISBN : 0712676317 9780712676311
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Tauras, K. V.
Guerilla Warfare on the Amber Coast
New York: Voyages Press 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo. xii 110 pp. Bound in yellow cloth stamped in gilt on cover and spine in dark yellow dust jacket printed in black. True account of the Lithuanian underground resistance activities that successfully thwarted the Soviets from 1944-1952. Very Good clean solid copy in Very Good- dust jacket with light soiling overall chipping and wear to extremities tape repair to 1/2" tear at head of spine. <br/><br/> Voyages Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 000342
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Wharton, Edith
The Cruise of the Vanadis
New York: Rizzoli 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to. 222 2 pp. Bound in blue boards in tan dust jacket printed in blue color cover photograph. Illustrated with color photographs by Jonas Dovydenas. Near Fine with light rubbing to head and tail of spine otherwise tight clean copy in Very Good dust jacket with minor soiling. <br/><br/> Rizzoli hardcover
Référence libraire : 000121 ISBN : 0847826090 9780847826094
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Ignatieff, Michael
Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond
New York: Henry Holt and Company 2000. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 6 246 pp. Bound in Half gray over blue boards in blue dust jacket printed in yellow. Black and white illustrations. Very Good bright clean copy in Very Good dust jacket with crease to rear flap minor wear to extremities. <br/><br/> Henry Holt and Company hardcover
Référence libraire : 000386 ISBN : 0805064907 9780805064902
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Young, John Robert
The French Foreign Legion
London: Thames and Hudson 1988. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good /very good. Folio. 212 pp. Bound in blue cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in full color and black and white. Very Good previous owner's name and address stamped on front free endpaper in Very Good dust jacket with minor wear to extremities and overall age-toning. <br/><br/> [Thames and Hudson] hardcover
Référence libraire : 000521 ISBN : 0517654474 9780517654477
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Clarke, A. F. N.
Contact
New York: Schocken Books 1984. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good . 8vo. xiv 160 pp. Bound in black boards in red dust jacket printed in black and white. Very Good previous owner's blind stamp to front free endpaper and half title gift inscription to front free endpaper in Very Good dust jacket with light scuffing. <br/><br/> Schocken Books hardcover
Référence libraire : 000502 ISBN : 0805238794 9780805238792
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Stearns, Peter N
The European Experience since 1815
U.S.A: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1972. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Trade Paperback Book in Very Good Condition. Clean unmarked no underlining or highlighting. Tight and solid. Upper corner of cover has a small crease. Maps and Illustrations. 6" x 9" tall. 476 pp. Includes Index Chronological Tables and Suggestions for Further Reading. 1972 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich USA Harcourt Brace Jovanovich paperback
Référence libraire : 010237 ISBN : 0155247654 9780155247659
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Kelly, James, ed.
St. Patrick's College Drumcondra 1875-2000
Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo. xvi 280 pp. Bound in black boards in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. Near Fine bright clean copy bumping to corners in Near Fine dust jacket with light scuffing. <br/><br/> Four Courts Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 000525 ISBN : 184682009x 9781846820090
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Brady, Ciaran and Jane Ohlmeyer
British Interventions In Early Modern Ireland
New York: Cambridge University Press 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. xx 371 pp. Bound in black boards in illustrated dust jacket. Fine bright clean copy in Fine dust jacket. <br/><br/> Cambridge University Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 000527 ISBN : 0521835305 9780521835305
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Perkins, James Breck
France Under Louis XV--VOLUME 2
Boston Massachusetts USA: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1897. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Type: Ex-Library 1897 Hardcover Retired Library Book in Good Condition. No jacket. Library re-bound olive green cloth gilt lettered on spine. Clean tight solid. Rubbed on edges and corners. Fore edge and lower edge of text block speckled. Free endpaper is missing. Stain on table of contents pages up to page 4 like a grease mark. Pages 89-92 lower corners are folded up because when cut they were a bit too long. Rest of pages are clean unmarked untorn. 488 pages. 5 x 7.75 inches. 1897 Houghton Mifflin and Company Boston Massachusetts USA Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
Référence libraire : 010466
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Bibby, Geoffrey
The Testimony of the Spade: Life in Northern Europe from 15000 B.C. to the Time of the Vikings424
New York: Alfred A Knopf 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover in Near Fine Condition with a Fair Dust Jacket. Illustrated with photographs line drawings and maps. Very clean and unmarked blue cloth wrapped boards with red cloth spine unique design blind-stamp on front sharp and bright gilt design and lettering on spine. No cover edgewear; upper edge of boards are lightly sunned. Rough cut. Interior is Fine. Clean burgundy jacket with gold and green prehistoric artifacts designs; very worn around all edges chipping around spine head/tail wear of fold over flap edges. Now with mylar protective cover. The first complete story of the slow spread of a succession of 'barbarian' tribes north of the Alps showing prehistory turning into history in the heartland of Europe. Geoffrey Bibby is from the staff of the Prehistoric Museum at Aarhus Denmark. 414 pages plus x page index. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Alfred A Knopf New York 1956. Alfred A Knopf hardcover
Référence libraire : 010585
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Jacobsen, Helge Seidelin
An Outline History of Denmark
Forlag Kobenhavn Denmark: Host & Son 1986. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean bright cover with light wear to cover edges. French flap--stiff glossy paper cover fold over like a flap on a dust jacket. Inside front cover is map of Denmark before 1645. Inside rear cover is map of Denmark today. Interior is clean and unmarked. Illustrated. From the prehistory of Denmark through the Viking Period the Middle Ages Reformation Renaissance Aristocratic Rule Absolute Monarchy to Denmark under a Democratic Constitution. 120 pages. 8.75 x 5.5 inches. Host & Son Publishers Forlag Kobenhavn 1986. Host & Son paperback
Référence libraire : 009450
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MAYES, FRANCES
Under the Tuscan Sun
USA: Broadway Books/Random House 1997. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked wrappers a touch of wear to corners soundly bound and square pages quite clean no marks no creases. A beautiful memoir about taking chances living in Italy loving a house and the pleasures of food. Discover the beauty and simplicity of living in Italy. 291 pages. 5.25 x 8 inches. New York. Broadway Books/Random House 1997. Broadway Books/Random House paperback
Référence libraire : 002311 ISBN : 0767900383 9780767900386
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Shirer, William L
The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940
New York New York USA: Simon and Schuster 1969. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Hardcover Book Club Edition in Good Condition. No Jacket. Solid tight large volume in blue cloth binding with red panel on front and spine gilt titles. Rubbed on edges lightly scuffed at corners and spine ends; on front around the lower part of the red title panel the blue is faded. Lower edge of text block is spotted. Former owner name on endpaper. Flyleaf in front is wrinkled. Internals clean unmarked untorn--no highlighting or underlining. This is the story of how France fell before Hitler's armies in 1940 told against the background of French history and World War II which helps explain in some measure the fall and occupation. 1082 pages. 6 x 9.25 inches. 1969 Simon and Schuster New York New York USA Simon and Schuster hardcover
Référence libraire : 009792
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Henzler, Herbert
Europreneurs : The Men Who Are Shaping Europe
USA: Bantam Press/Transworld Publishers 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition First Printing Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. A thought-provoking study of current and future European business practices and an emerging generation of fifty or more "Europreneurs" all outstanding leaders of large corporations. Handsome & immaculate blue cloth binding w/gilt titles tight & solid volume. Interior pristine. 308 pages. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. Bantam Press/Transworld Publishers Bantam Press/Transworld Publishers hardcover
Référence libraire : 008354 ISBN : 0593035224 9780593035221
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Jackson, Robert
The Berlin Airlift
Great Britain: Patrick Stephens 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. First Printing. Fine in a Fine Jacket. Bound in blue-grey cloth w/gilt titles. Numerous b/w photographs throughout. In this graphic account former RAFVR Squadron Leader Robert Jackson recreates vividly those tense days forty years ago when the Iron Curtain came down with a vengeance. All links between Berlin and the West were severed. The Berlin Airlift began a vital lifeline for the people of Berlin. For ten months the RAF the USA Air Force and many chartered airlines supplied food fuel household goods etc. operating round the clock in all weather being constantly harrassed by Russian fighters. Included in this book are detailed appendices of aircraft and crew casualties tables of individual aircraft performances monthly tonnages. A story of true courage and ingenuity. 160 pages with glossary and index. 9.5 x 6.75 inches. Patrick Stephens Pub. Great Britain 1988. Patrick Stephens hardcover
Référence libraire : 008785 ISBN : 0850598818 9780850598810
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Guerard, Albert
France A Modern History
Ann Arbor Michigan: The University of Michigan 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No Jacket. Seven Maps. Bound in blue/gray cloth with gilt concentric circles on front and spine and silver titles clean and unmarked. Boards have just a touch of edgewear. Tight and solid sewn binding square with sharp corners. Interior is clean unmarked no creases A handsome well-preserved heavy volume. A complete history of France; The Origins Medieval France Classical France The Bourgeois-Liberal Revolution 1750-1848 Modern France The Fourth Republic in the Perspective of a Thousand Years. xxiv 563 xxvii pages with Notes Appendix Suggested Reading List and Index. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. The University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 1959 The University of Michigan hardcover
Référence libraire : 007719
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GOPNIK, ADAM
Paris To The Moon
USA: Random House 2000. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked very minimal edgewear light crease down center of cover. Penciled in questions on page prior to half title page. AMERICANS IN PARIS--Adam Gopnik and his wife and their infant son leave the familiarity of New York City for the urbane glamour of Paris--a funny and tender account of navigating in a foreign city learning to be a parent new languages new rules--a delightful book. 342 pages with Reader's Guide. 5.25 x 8.2 inches. Random House NY 2000. Random House paperback
Référence libraire : 004881 ISBN : 0375758232 9780375758232
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Parks, Tim
Italian Neighbors or a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona
U.S.A: Grove Weidenfield 1992. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Glossy clean bright unmarked wrappers with illustration of Verona Italy. Cover has slight edgewear and a crese down the hinge. Pages very clean no markings. Glued binding tight and solid. A delightful travelogue; an amusing and loving tribute to the country British author Tim Parks has embraced. With an Italian-born wife an Italian made family and a whole Italian condominium bubbling around him he collects a gallery full of splendid characters who initiate the reader into all the foibles and delights of provincial Italy. He shares his secrets of survival tales of the unexpected and of new-found friends and neighbors. 272 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 1992 Grove Weidenfield New York New York USA Grove Weidenfield paperback
Référence libraire : 005789 ISBN : 0802115314 9780802115317
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Sheean, Vincent
This House Against This House
New York: Random House 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Random House 1946. Hardback First Edition Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. Clean & tight solid volume. Blue cloth with black panel on spine silver titles. The upper spine edge has a yellow mark and the lower spine has a light stain mark. Text clean and unmarked no tears lightly toned. Attractive bookplate on paste-down. Vincent Sheean American journalist and foreign correspondent in Europe in th 1930s examines two major war fronts Africa and Italy. He is critical on the policies in Italy and provides an analysis and defense of the policies of North Africa and deGauole. He also covered the years before the war and after in France and Germany. EUROPEAN HISTORY. WORLD WAR II. 420 pages. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. 1946 Random House. Random House hardcover
Référence libraire : 003689
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Savant, Jean
Napoleon In His Time
London England: Putnam and Co 1958. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Type: Hardback First English Lamguage Edition. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No Jacket. Translated from the French by Katherine John. Crimson cloth binding with gilt stamped title and decoration on spine. Clean tight solid unmarked except for initials on endpapers in pencil. Corners lightly bumped. Eight Illustrations -- Napoleon at Arcole At Malmaison At Jaffa etc. Begins with the First Stage: From Ajaccio to Castiglione and goes to the Eighth Stage: From Waterloo to the End. 440 pages with Index of Sources and General Index. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. Putnam and Co London England 1958. Putnam and Co hardcover
Référence libraire : 003507
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Keegan, John (Editor)
Churchill's Generals
USA: ABACUS/Little Brown and Co 1999. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Photographic illustrations. Clean tight and unmarked book with a touch of cover edgewear and a small closed tear on lower edge of back cover. Internals very clean and free from any markings. Essays by eminent historians on twenty generals whose reputations were made or broken by Churchill and the Second World War. 368 pages with index. 5 x 7.75 inches. ABACUS/Little Brown and Co. London England 1999. ABACUS/Little Brown and Co paperback
Référence libraire : 003552 ISBN : 0349113173 9780349113173
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Golden, Richard M
Social History Of Western Civilization Volume II: Readings From The Seventeenth Century To The Present
New York: St. Martin's Press 1988. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Trade Paperback in Fine Condition. Volume 2 of 2 in the Social History of Western Civilization two volume series. Clean orange illustrated cover soundly bound page edges clean and white pages spotless no creasing. A collection of readings designed to help the reader to understand and appreciate the conditions and concerns in the everyday lives of people throughout history. They deal with such significant topics as disease sports food crime violence the role of women and the nature of family life. 325 pages. 6 x 9 inches. St. Martin's Press New York 1988. St. Martin's Press paperback
Référence libraire : 003566 ISBN : 0312004311 9780312004316
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Kosovo: Contending Voices on Balkan Interventions
Grand Rapids Michigan U.S.A.: Eerdmans Pub Co 2000. 528pp maps. The first book in any language to bring together opposing viewpoints fromWesternand Balkan authors: Slobodan Milosevic Kofi Annan Vaclav Havel Hans Kung Wesley Clark and over sixty others give insight to the challenge of helping and not hindering what Kosovars need to do to insure their future. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Eerdmans Pub Co hardcover
Référence libraire : 006431 ISBN : 0802838898 9780802838896
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