Europe from Books of the World

New York: Grand Central Publishing, March 2015. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine tail lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xii + 370 pages. The story of the feckless Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, his American wife Wallis Simpson,… Read more

London: Victor Gollancz, 2000. Good book in a Good jacket. Ex-Library (Edinburgh City Libraries). 274 pages.

New York: Random House, November 2011. Paperback. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 356 pages, including reader's guide. In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather's recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of… Read more

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1945. Hardcover. Dark green buckram over boards with color lithograph of Chinese Emperor w/nightingale to front board and gilt-blocked lettering to spine. Endpapers illustrated in brilliant color with montage of characters. Eight color plates and many monochrome illustrations. Good book / no jacket. Front hinge cracked. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise unmarked. Spine… Read more

New York: Random House, 1957. Book-Dividend Book Club. Heavier book. Light blue paper with dark blue flowerets and gilt decoration over boards with one-quarter dark blue cloth spine with gilt flowerets and title. Deckle edges. Heavy pink paper jacket with color-illustration of couple at masked ball. Very Good+ book in a Very Good- jacket. Prior owner's name and date inked… Read more

New York: Kodansha International, 1996. Trade Paperback. 2nd Printing. New. Not a remainder. Not damaged. xviii + 546 pages. Over the course of three decades, Sven Hedin traveled the ancient Silk Road, discovered long-lost cities, mapped previously uncharted rivers, and saw more of "the roof of the world" than any European before him. This epic memoir captures the splendor… Read more

New York: HarperCollins / William Morrow, June 2008. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Quarter-bound in red buckram with black paper sides. Gilt lettering to spine. Map endpapers. Near Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Covers clean and bright with slight edgewear. No tears. Not from a library. No remainder… Read more

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, June 1977 [c1934]. Hardcover. Quarter-bound in black cloth with black paper sides and gilt lettering to spine. An As New book in a Fine jacket. Slight rubbing to jacket, otherwise pristine inside and out. Very tight. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 315 pages. Set in the South of France in… Read more

Los Angeles & New York: Disney-Hyperion, October 2015, 2016, 2017. Hardcover. First Editions (stated) / full number lines. Complete matching set of Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series. As New books in As New jackets. No slipcase. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped.

New York: Random House / Modern Library, 1946. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards with gilt torchbearer and gilt titles in black rectangle on front cover and spine. Gray Kent Modern Library endpapers. Good book / no jacket. Notes and underlining in pencil. Rear hinge cracked. Spine straight and sound. Corners and ends frayed and bumped. Small hole in rear hinge.… Read more

New York: Pyramid. February 1961. Mass Market Paperback. First Printing. Spine cocked and cracked, but uncreased. Pages tanned but unmarked. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 191 pages. Caricature of the British and American colony in Italy.

New York: Signet Classics. February 1966. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 510 pages. Based on a series of letters Mark Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, The… Read more

New York: Bantam Classics. February 1959. Mass Market Paperback. JC 136. Ninth printing. Very Good. Text unmarked. Name to inside front cover. Doodle to inside rear cover. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light wear to cover with sunning and price label ghost to top corner. Crease to front hinge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 196 pages.… Read more

New York: Bantam Books, August 1961. Mass Market Paperback. Eighth printing, December 1965. Q3192. Very Good. Unmarked. Lightly tanned. Spine creased and slightly curved. Reading creases to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 705 pages. The author discusses the treatment of women throughout history.

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1954. Paperback. L34. Second Printing, 1955. Very Good. Lightly tanned. Prior owner's name on first page. Occasional underlining in pencil. Spine creased. Light edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 599 pages.

New York: Bantam Books, 1971. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light wear to cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 306 pages. Here, in a single volume, are four major plays by the first modern playwright, Henrick Ibsen: A Doll's House—The play that scandalized the Victorian world with its… Read more

New York: Scribner, July 2010. Trade Paperback. The Restored Edition. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xvi + 240 pages. 16 pages of plates. ill., facsims., ports. ; 23 cm. Hemingway's classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott… Read more

New York: Liberal Arts Press, September 1948. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. First Edition, fifth printing, May 1953. Good. Prior owner's name inked to first page. Underlining and a few notes in pencil. Securely bound with two staples. Sun shadow to cover. xviii + 68 pages. 21 cm. In these four superb "dialogues", Plato provides the classic account of the trial and death… Read more

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Compnay, 2008. DVD. Thirty-six 30-minute lectures on six Fine DVDs in the original case along with a Very Good 172-page paperback Course Guidebook. Disks show only slight signs of prior use; no scratches. Slight shelfwear to case. Guidebook has two pages of vocabulary written in the "notes" pages at the end, otherwise Fine. Not from a library.… Read more

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company, DVD. 2007. Thirty-six 30-minute lectures on six As New DVDs in three original cases along with an As New 265-page paperback Course Guidebook. No shrink-wrap, otherwise As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. The Peloponnesian War pitted Athens and its allies against a league of city-states headed by Sparta. The ancient Greek historian… Read more