HISTORY / World Books

Fontana, 1980 VG(+) 1ST IMPRESSION 1980 FONTANA PAPERBACK, STRIKING COVER ARTWORK AND INTRO. CLASSIC VOLUME IN THE FONTANA HISTORY OF ENGLAND. A LITTLE TANNING TO PAGE EDGES, INNERS UNMARKED & SPINE UNCREASED. IMMEDIATE 1st Class/Airmail dispatch fromUK COLLECTION. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. ... more information

Offered by 84 Charing Cross Road Books (Hertfordshire, United Kingdom) +/-

Pimlico, 1997 NR FINE 1997 1ST IMPRESSION PIMLICO TRADE PAPERBACK, LOVELY COVER ARTWORK AND ILLUSTRATIONS. SUPERBLY COMPREHENSIVEV COLLECTION OF MYTHS AND LEGENDS. LIGHT NATURAL AGING, UNCREASED/UNMARKED COPY. IMMEDIATE 1ST CLASS/AIRMAIL DISPATCH WORLDWIDE FROM UK SPECIALIST.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. ... more information

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London: Cassell & Co, 1919 Book limited to 1400 copies, this is number 486. Book is bright and clean 84 pages with tipped in full page colour plates. Outer covers have light stain on front sde and bottom edges, slight bump to two corners.HEAVY BOOK 1-7 Kg EXTRA POSTAGE REQUIRED FOR OVERSEAS. A pleasing copy of this book SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Limited/ Numbered Edition. Gold Embossed Boards. Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by The Crown Jewels of England. 13 x 10 Inches. Hard... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 2006. The dust jacket has a new removable mylar cover.. Book Club Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.. ... more information

Offered by Catherine O'Toole, Bookseller (Washington, United States) +/-

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Binding tight, clean, no marks. Jacket clean, no defects.. ISBN: 0394568354. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

Offered by Riverfront Books (New Jersey, United States) +/-

Simon & Schuster, New York, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Minor dust jacket edge wear, light page toning, sticker remnant on front of dust jacket, sticker & sticker remnant on back of dust jacket.. 386 pages. "In this stirring book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for ind... more information

Offered by Yesterday's Muse (New York, United States) +/-

New York: Crescent Books, 1996. Originally published in 1982, this is the First Printing Thus of a new 1996 edition, with the appropriate "number line" ending in a "1." The book is in Fine condition with a Very Good+ dust jacket (click on photo). Rebecca West captures the new century as it was in the world of politics, art and literature, music, theatre, science, philosophy, psychiatry, and major events. The book includes black-and-white period photographs throughout to highlight West'... more information

Offered by Grimalkin Books (Pennsylvania, United States) +/-

Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Readable bright copy with sunning/staining to spine, light corner edge wear/bumping & corner edge wear to dust jacket.. 278 pp. (5.5" x 8") Publisher colophon on copyright page. From the front flap: "Fascinated with the attitudes and events that prevailed in 1914, James Cameron has created a full-dimensioned portrait of that momentous year which, more than any other in our time, marked the end of the "old&quo... more information

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New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good/Good. 1966. First Printing. Hard Cover. Faint narrow sunfading at top edge; light wear at spine ends, faint tanning to edges. Jacket has one-inch tear, light edgewear w/tiny tear. 433 pp. 8vo. The first full account of the King's agony and England's crisis when Edward VIII abdicated the throne because of the woman he loved. . ... more information

Offered by NorthBooks (Illinois, United States) +/-

Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Librairie De France & Jean-Claude Nourault, 1981 Very Good + hardcover folio-size is assumed First Edition. No marks in or out; in French, lovely full color Nourault photos throughout; captions by Herve Masson; printed in France; unpaginated (about 62 pp.). Pictorial boards have mildly bumped corners, one closed tear at front upper spine area, a few scratches to front, light edgewear corners & spine. No dj as issued.. First Edition. Hard Cover with Pictorial. Very Good +/None I... more information

Offered by Scene South Books, Etc. (Georgia, United States) +/-

Very Good; 1966. First Edition. A New York times byline book. Aged, very lightly used; Paperback; Atheneum; New York; ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 167 pages; , ... more information

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New York: Vintage Books, 1984. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good. ... more information

Offered by The Published Page Bookshop (Texas, United States) +/-

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1973. 1st edition. Hard covers, no dust jacket. V.g. /No Jacket. Little used. Surveys the exploration of tropical Africa from the earliest Arab colonisations to the late Victorian exploits of self-publicists. 288 pp. ... more information

Offered by Acanthophyllum Books (Merseyside, United Kingdom) +/-

MBI, 2001. Softcover. 8.75" x 8". 128 pp. The " ... aircrafts' development, construction, and entry into service ..." More than 120 photos, most in colour. Bright clean copy. . Very Good. ... more information

Offered by Frabjous Books (Alberta, Canada) +/-

New York: Random House, 1988. First printing. Binding tight, clean, no marks. Jacket is not price clipped, 1/2" tear on top spine, very minor shelfwear. Novalization of the story of Alaska by the master of historical fiction.. ISBN: 0394551540. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Alaska, Statehood, First Edition. ... more information

Offered by Riverfront Books (New Jersey, United States) +/-

Avon, 1975. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. FIRST PRINTING. Spine lightly creased, pages slightly toned.. Includes black & white photographs. "On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitab... more information

Offered by Yesterday's Muse (New York, United States) +/-

Avon, 1975. 9th Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Spine lightly creased, light stain on bottom half of page ridge, pages slightly toned.. Includes black & white photographs. "On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most f... more information

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St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.: Webster Publishing Company, 1946 Very Good-, Hardback, No Dust Jacket, color fading, spine ends and corners frayed, 485 pages, black and white pictures . Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. ... more information

Offered by The Book House - St. Louis (Missouri, United States) +/-

Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, 1942. With 262 INDEXED glossy pages and 145 handsome illustrations this is a school text on American History. Good+ with mild wear.. Apparent First Editon. Cloth. Good+/None Issued. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. ... more information

Offered by Mill Pond Shoppe (Delaware, United States) +/-

Boni & Liveright, 1927. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 1927 HARDCOVER. 464 pages. Minor cover edge wear, pages toned, binding loosening, ink inscription on front free-end paper.. Wanted: Morea nd Cheaper Spicers; A World Unsuspected; Faith, Gold and the Indian; Tierras de Ningun Provecho; Samuel de Champlain de Brouage Learns the Noble Art of Canoeing; Dr. Calvin Surveys This World and the Next; The Heretic Turns Highjacker;Herba Sancta Indorum; The New Zion at Twenty Below Zero; Those who Despair of the... more information

Offered by Yesterday's Muse (New York, United States) +/-