Search Results: History from Furrowed Brow Books

Yale University Press, 1981. paperback. Huang, Ray : 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline. New Haven (CT) : Yale University Press, 1981. 17th printing. Size is octavo (8vo), 9.25"/23.3 cm h. Bound in publisher's glossy color pictorial wrappers. [i-vi], vii-xii, [xiii-xiv] prelim material, 1-278, [279] related titles, [280] blank. Contents, list of illus, foreword (by L. Carrington Goodrich), seven chaps, appendices. Notes, bibliography, index. Condition notes: a solid reading copy: light wear, no spine crease to wrappers/spine; interior shows extensive blue pen underlining/marginalia 1-49, 64, 82-86, 148-150, 278-inside rear cover. We personally inspect every book we offer.

University Press of Mississippi, 1999. paperback. Kubik, Gerhard : Africa and the Blues (American Made Music Series). Jackson (MS) : University Press of Mississippi, 1999. Size is octavo (8vo), 9"/23cm h. Bound in publisher's matte color pictorial wrappers. Xx pp prelim material, 240 numbered pp, plus four blank. Contents, list of musical examples, list of figures, list of photos, author's preface; Part I ("Out of Africa" - intro plus 10 chaps), Part II ("Return to Africa" - intro and two chaps); summary/conclusions, bibliography, indices (of artists/authors, African ethnic-linguistic terms, and general). Condition notes: this is an ex-library copy with the typical array of stamps and stickers indicating such. Moderate wear to wrappers, light soiling to edges. Interior shows scattered pencil notes/marginalia, else unmarked. "In 1969 [the author] chanced to encounter a Mozambican labor migrant, a miner in Transvaal, South Africa, tapping a cipendani, a mouth-resonated musical bow. A comparable… Read More

Info Net Publishing, 1997. paperback. Macha, Gary P. : Aircraft Wrecks in the Mountains and Deserts of California, 1909-1996: A guidebook to locating historical aircraft crash sites in California. San Clemente : Info Net Publishing, 1997. Second edition. Size is octavo (8vo), 9"/23cm h. Bound in publisher's glossy color pictorial wrappers. [Xviii] pp prelim material, 213 numbered pp, [214] ad. Fifteen regions, resources, Project Tomahawk. Condition notes: light wear to wrappers, interior clean, no notes/highlighting; binding tight and sound. Includes 11x17 flier promoting the book. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1998. paperback. James, Will : All in a Day's Riding. Missoula (MT) : Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1998. First printing (of a reprint edition). Size is octavo (8vo), 9.125"/23cm h. Bound in publisher's glossy color pictorial wrappers. Xviii pp prelim material, 282 numbered pp, plus four w/o nos. List of Will James' books, publishers note on the reprint, list of illus, 12 sections covering from "The Cowboy Today" to "Horseflesh" (!), list of publisher's other books in print. Heavily illus, charmingly, in b&w w author's illus. Condition notes: a nice copy, marred only by a discreet pen gift inscription to the half-title page. Lovely western Americana illus. We personally inspect every book we offer.

The World Publishing Company. hardcover. Alkim, U. Bahadir : Anatolia 1 : From the Beginnings to the End of the 2nd Millennium B.C.. Cleveland : World Publishing, 1968. James Hogarth, translator. Part fo the Archaeologia Mundi series. Size is octavo (8vo), 9.5"/24cm h. Bound in publisher's gray leatherette, gilt lettering to spine. Glossy color photographic dj. Endpapers: front - world map with Anatolia highlighted; rear - detail map Anatolia. 278 numbered pp, [279] last p index, [280] colophon. Series editor's preface, author's intro, five chaps covering from prehistory to the Hittites; detailed bibliography, foldout chronological table, list of illus, index. 61 illus color/97 b&w. Condition notes: dj mylar covered, volume unmarked, tight and square. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Osprey Publishing, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Stevens, Norman : Antietam 1862: The Civil War's Bloodiest Day (Campaign). London : Osprey, 1994. First edition. Series general editor David G. Chandler. Birds' eye illustrations by Peter Harper. Crown quarto (4to) size, 9.75"/25cm h. Bound in publisher's glossy paper wrappers. 96 numbered pp. Military unit symbology, chronology, heavily illustrated with maps/illus/photos in both b&w and color, the battlefield today, orders of battle, bibliography. Note that this is the first edition, WITH wargaming Antietam (by Ian Drury) but w/o index. Condition notes: a clean, tight, square copy, not ex library, no notes or highlighting, light wear to wrappers. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000. hardcover. Jean-Paul Kauffmann; Patricia Clancy [Translator] : The Arch of Kerguelen: Voyage to the Islands of Desolation. New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000. First English language edition/printing. Size is octavo (8vo), 8.5"/22cm h. Bound in publisher's paper over boards. Glossy color pictorial dj. Plain white endpapers. Xiv pp prelim material, 206 numbered pp, plus four blank. Acknowl, story in four parts; endnotes, bibliography. Map. Condition notes: very good copy, light wear to mylar-sheathed dj. Binding sound and square, interior unmarked. A quirky little book about the author's visit to the Islands of Desolation - and much more - he is a man with a vivid imagination and a way with words. I found myself wanting more pictures, but not much else. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Stackpole Books, 2021. First Edition. hardcover. McMillan, Tom : Armistead and Hancock: Behind the Gettysburg Legend of Two Friends at the Turning Point of the Civil War. Guilford (CT) : Stackpole Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. First edition/First impression. Size is octavo (8vo), 9.375"/24cm h. Glossy color photographic dj. Bound in publisher's green paper boards, bright silver lettering to spine. Plain white endpapers. Vi pp prelim material, 320 numbered pp, plus two blank. 17 chaps, appendix ("Lo" and Behold. Notes, bibliography, index. B&w photos/documents. Condition notes: lovely, gift-appropriate copy, signed by author on title page. Unmarked, square, tight, light wear to dj. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Buechervertriebsanstalt, 1987. hardcover. Florovsky, Georges : Aspects of Church History (Collected Works of Georges Florovsky, Vol 4). Vaduz : Notable & Academic / B??chervertriebsanstalt, 1987. Series edited by Richard S. Haugh. Translators: not credited. ISBN 3905238047. Size is octavo (8vo), 8.75"/22cm h. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Plain white endpapers. 231 numbered pp (pp [i]- [xii] use Roman numerals; Arabic numbering starts (erroneously) at [11]; [232-234] blank). In Memoriam (about author), Aspects of Patristic Thought and History (including a brief essay on "The Hagia Sophia Churches"; Aspects of Russian Church History; notes and references. Condition notes: a clean, tight, unmarked copy with bumped corners/rolled spine ends, moderate wear to boards and the remains of a sticker to back. Interior shows light tanning. Lacking dust-jacket, possibly issued without. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Longmans, Green and Co, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Nedoncelle, Maurice : Baron Friedrich von Hugel: A Study of his Life and Thought. London : Longmans, Green and Co, 1937. Marjorie Vernon, Translator. First edition/First impression. Size is octavo (8vo), 8.75"/22cm h. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Matte color dust jacket. Plain white endpapers. [i-vi], vii-xii prelim material, 1-213, [214] blank; unpaginated frontispiece b&w photo of subject. Author's foreword, seven chapters, bibliographical index. Condition notes: a solid but rather heavily worn copy: clipped dust jacket heavily worn with numerous chips and tears, protected with mylar. Spine ends rolled and corners bumped; edges lightly soiled. Former owner's name, neatly in pen, to front free endpaper. Green Foyle's book label, circa 1940s/50s, to front pastedown. Binding sound, slightly cocked. Pages clean and unmarked, with tanning/foxing throughout, more pronounced in opening and closing pages. We personally… Read More

Oxford University Press, 1968. First Edition. hardcover. Sproat, John G. : "The Best Men": Liberal Reformers in the Gilded Age. New York : Oxford University Press, 1968. First edition/First impression. Size is octavo (8vo), 8.5"/22cm h. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt lettering and black ornamentation to spine and front board. Glossy color dustjacket. Plain white endpapers. [I-vi], vii-ix, [x-xii] pp prelim material, 0 [1-2], 3-356 numbered pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Condition notes: a very good first edition, tight and sharp, warmly inscribed by the author on the ffep. Flaws noted: several small closed tears/chips to dj, with several small spots to front where perhaps tape removal has pulled away the glossy coating, revealing the white paper beneath; light soiling to edges; light tanning to pages. Else lovely. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Warner, 1975. Mass Market Paperback. Nash, Jay Robert : Bloodletters and Bad Men: Book 3: Lucky Luciano to Charles Mason. Abridged. New York : Warner Bros, 1975. 5th PB printing. Duodecimo size (12mo), 7"/17.7cm h. Bound in publisher's glossy color pictorial wrappers. [1-6], 7-448 Foreword (author), acknowledgements, entries (from Burton W. Abbott, murderer, to Abner Zwillman, gangster; bibliography. B&w photos. Condition notes: Not ex library. No notes or highlighting. Pages tanned but clean, spine creased/binding sound. Moderate wear and creasing to cover. Quite the motley collection from the pre-internet era when such information was harder to come by. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Pen and Sword Maritime, 2004. hardcover. Blackmore, David : Blunders and Disasters at Sea. Barnsley (UK) : Pen & Sword Maritime, 2004. Size is octavo (8vo), 9.5"/24cm h. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Glossy color pictorial dj. Plain white endpapers. X pp prelim material, 246 numbered pp, plus 16 pp glossy b&w illus to center w/o nos. Prologue, sections on: Antiquity (1176 BCE to 549 CE), Medieval and Renaissance (1084 to 1678), Early Modern Times (1707 to 1852), Late Nineteenth Century (1855 to 1898), Recent Times (1904 to 1923), Second World War (Axis Ascendant, 1937 to 1942; Allies Strike Back, 1944-45), Current Period (1948-2002), epilogue, appendices (19 of 'em!), notes, index. Condition notes: bottom spine end rolled, light soiling to edges, light wear to dj, interior clean and bright. A remarkable set of mishaps, well documented and illustrated. We personally inspect every book we offer.

The Syracuse University Bookstore. hardcover. Weston, Harry E. : A Book on "Paper". Syracuse (NY) : The Syracuse University Bookstore, 1927. First edition/First impression. Small octavo (8vo), 8"/20.1cm h x 5.5". Quarterbound in publisher's light green paper boards and dark green cloth spine, gilt lettering and ornamental bands to latter. Plain white endpapers. Xiv pp prelim material, 77 numbered pp, plus three blank; additionally 21 coated leaves w b&w photos inserted throughout. Author's preface, acknowl, list of illus, seven chapters. Condition notes: lacks dj, possibly issued without. Binding square, spine ends rolled, corners bumped and frayed. Front free endpaper inscribed generically ("With my best wishes") by author, plus a few pencil notes and a rough patch where a label was removed; pastedown has a former owner's elegant signature. Pages tanned but generally clean, one small marginal note observed. All illus confirmed in place. Charming primer on paper making, making use of poetry to tell… Read More

Northeastern University Press, 1979. paperback. Labaree, Benjamin Woods : The Boston Tea Party (Northeastern Classics Edition). Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1979 printing. Size is octavo (8vo), 8.25"/21cm h. Bound in publisher's matte color pictorial wrappers. Xiv pp prelim material, 347 numbered pp, plus one blank. Prefaces to the 1979 and 1964 editions; 13 chapters. Notes, appendix (tea data tables), bibliography, index. Condition notes: a fragile copy, with textblock separated at p 96 and separating at 166; delicate handling required and rebinding would be beneficial. Spine creased, small tears to head and tail; sunning to spine and head of wrappers. Edges lightly soiled, top edge moderately foxed. Author inscription on title page to the late Robert D. ("Bud") Foulke - scholar of Joseph Conrad, and travel writer - from whose library this copy comes; Foulke's return address label is affixed to the head of first page. Else, interior unmarked. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Potomac Books Inc, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Laffin, John : Brassey's Battles: 3,500 Years of Conflict, Campaigns, and Wars from A-Z. London : Brassey's Defence Publications, 1986. First edition/first printing. Size is octavo (8vo), 10.125"/25.5cm h. Bound in publisher's glossy color (marbled white background) pictorial paper boards, lettering to spine and front board. Lacks dj, likely published wo. Front endpaper features map of Allied Air War Theater in Europe, WWII; back Hannibal's campaigns to pastedown and SE Asia during Vietnam conflict to free side. Xiv pp prelim material, 484 numbered pp, plus two blank. List of maps, author's intro, list of major wars covered, beginning with Greek-Persian Wars of Antiquity, up through Iran-Iraq, Grenada, and other 80s wars; list of Axis and Allied codenames of WWII; entries arranged by alphabet; maps. Condition notes: light wear to boards with corners bumped and spine ends rolled. Inside all clean, tight and bright. A nice copy of an impressive… Read More

Stackpole Books, 2014. paperback. Doughty, Robert A. : The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940. Mechanicsburg (PA) : Stackpole Books, 2014. First Stackpole paperback printing. Size is octavo (8vo), 9"/23cm h. [i-viii], ix-xix, [xx] prelim material, 1-387, [388-392] publisher ads. B&w maps and photos. List of maps, foreword (Crosbie E. Saint), preface, intro, 11 chaps. Notes, bibliography, index. Condition notes: a very good plus, tight clean copy with no spine crease. light wear/curling to wrappers. Detailed study of the critical fight at Sedan in May 1940 that decided the campaign. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Overlook Books, 1996. First Edition. paperback. Lewis, David; Contis, Peter; Contis, Helen; Armstrong, Richard [Foreword] : Byzantine Butterflies: The Folk Paintings of Peter Contis and Helen Contis, Greek Immigrants to America. Woodstock (NY) : Overlook Press, 1995. First edition/printing. Size is (approximately) octavo (8vo), 9.75"/24.8cm h, square. Bound in publisher's glossy color pictorial wrappers. 160 numbered pp. B&w photos/illus, color plates, travelog, sources. Condition notes: moderate wear to cover, corners beginning to curl, a hint of foxing to top edge; gift inscription to title page, discreetly. A wondrous book, extremely well organized, with obvious love by the author for the artists, their communities and families. And a Greek folk art rendering of Hagia Sophia! We personally inspect every book we offer.

Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius. paperback. Hackel, Sergei [ed] : The Byzantine Saint: University of Birmingham Fourteenth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. London : Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius, 1981. A Special Number of Sobornost incorporating Eastern Churches Review [Studies Supplementary to Sobornost 5]. Size is octavo (8vo), 8.25"/2m h. Bound in publisher's b&w glossy wrappers. Unusual for a pb, illus to 'endpapers' (inside covers and adjacent p)- "Company of the Saints" icon by the hand of a member of the school of Theophanes the Greek, late 14th cent, located in Moscow. X pp prelim material, 245 numbered pp, plus one lacking no. List of illus, abbrev, acknowl, editor's intro, symposium overview by Anthony Bryer, sections on: Origins, Saint and Society, Life as Genre, Saint in Cult and Art, contributors, index. Notes, b&w photos/maps/illus. Condition notes: nice, solid copy, former owner's name in pen to top of title page, else unmarked. Fascinating collection of papers… Read More

Liturgical Press, 1992. paperback. Taft SJ, Robert F. : The Byzantine Rite: A Short History (American Essays in Liturgy). Collegeville (MN) : Liturgical Press, 1992. First printing of this stapled pamphlet of high quality. Size is octavo (8vo), 8.25"/21cm h. Bound in publisher's glossy color pictorial wrappers. 84 numbered pp, plus four blank. Abbrev, author intro, chaps on the Byzantine Rite, Paleo-Byzantine Liturgy, the Rite becomes Imperial, Dark Ages and Iconoclasm, Middle-Byzantine Synthesis, and Neo-Sabaitic Ascendancy; notes passim. Condition notes: quite a very good, unmarked and sound. We personally inspect every book we offer.