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St Martins Press, 2000. First US Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. St Martins Press. First published in the U.S. in 2000; Originally published in Great Britain, 2000. Hardcover Ex-Lib Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. 11 color and 120 b/w illustrations. Frontispiece: Le Baron De Niewhoff; except for few library… Read more about this item

Penguin Books, 2003. Soft cover. Very Good. Clean, unmarked black wrappers with white titles, slightly rubbed edges, sound and tight glued binding. Pages lightly toned, spotless, no markings, no creases. Mark Kurlansky's kaleidoscopic and illuminating history is a multilayered masterpiece that blends economic, scientific, political, religious, and culinary records into a rich history. Take salt for example. Until about 100… Read more about this item

Dell Publishing, 1974. Two Paperback Books in a bookcase, in Good Condition. 12mo - over 6? - 7?" tall. Fourth Printing of this Edition. This edition first published 1965. A Laurel edition. This is the ten-volume work in the approved two-volume abridgment by D, D, Somervell. Books have black covers, Vol 1 with red and white titles, cover edgewear, solid… Read more about this item

Simon & Schuster UK, 2002. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked gently used book. Faint wear to some cover edges, soundly bound, square, pages toned, completely unmarked, no creases. A classic study of international relations. 367 pages w/Notes and Index. 8" x 5". 2002, Simon & Schuster… Read more about this item

New York: Fall River Press, 2001. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Sixth Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. Handsome volume in red and black w/silver titles, tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Spanning 500 years of political rivalry, spiritual conflict, and ancestral animosity, this book puts the reader in the… Read more about this item

New York: Harpercollins, 2004. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. b/w Maps and illustrations. Clean, bright, unmarked wraps with a whisper of wear to extremities; tight and solid and square glued binding; pages are toned, more so on edges, clean, no marks of any kind. 466 pages… Read more about this item

New York: Riverhead Books/Penguin Group, 2013. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Clean and unmarked with light wear to cover corners and lower edge. Solid and tight binding. Pages quite clean, no marks of any kind. The true story of eleven airmen missing in action at the end of World War II,… Read more about this item

New York: Penguin Group USA Inc, 2005. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Book Club Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket As New. 24 page illustration section, Maps, Further Reading Suggestions by Chapter and Index. Black paper-wrapped boards with bright and bold titles to spine. Jared Diamond, author of Pulitzer Prize-Winning "Guns, Germs, and Steel"… Read more about this item

New York, Evanston, and London: Riverhead Books/Penguin Group, 2010. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Gently used book, remainder mark lower edge, slight ripple to upper corner. Internals clean and unmarked. Binding tight and solid, square. The author weaves together the elements of history, economics, politics, and… Read more about this item

USA: Vintage Books/Random House, 2000. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked wraps with slight corner wear. Tight & solid, square. Pages clean, toned. Humanity's past, present and future. David Fromkin argues that human history is a story of progress. He reveals how human culture… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A: Bonanza Books/Crown Publishers, 1986. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hard Back First Bonanza Books Printing. Large Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Clean and unmarked blue half cloth with bright and bold gilt titles, gray cloth wrappered boards. Very… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Remainder First Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good+ Condition. Two-toned blue binding with silver titles, very clean and unmarked; lower corners gently bumped. Rem Mk on top edge. Solid, tight, and… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Second Edition. Trade Paperback in NEAR FINE Condition. Clean, bright, unmarked book with a very small scuff on the fore-edge. Soundly bound, square. A remarkable book. Set within an analytical framework of the rivalry among the major nations for… Read more about this item

Boston, Massachusett: HBJ Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback A Gorgeous, Lavishly Illustrated Book. First Edition. Now Out-of-Print. Translated by Patrick Creagh. Large Quarto Size Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket, Mylar jacket cover, jacket not price-clipped. Illustrations, photos, photo essay, with magnificent… Read more about this item

Bristol, UK: Sienna Book/Paragon, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition First Printing. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a VG Dust Jacket. Landscape size. Illustrations on every page, many full page, full color--photographs, copies of newspaper and magazine articles, drawings. Pictorial laminate binding. Titanic on… Read more about this item

New York: McKinlay, Stone & MacKenzie, 1910. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Good Condition. No jacket, as issued. 1910 Publication of "The World's Greatest Books" Volume XII, of 20 volume set, is a compendium of the world's best literature in a form accessible to everyone and still faithful to its originals.… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A: Doubleday, 1985. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book and Jacket in Good Condition. Eminent historian Dame Veronica Wedgwood leads the reader through the 'magnificent and appalling history of mankind'. Beginning with the first appearance of man, through early civilizations of the Middle East, through the Indus Valley to the… Read more about this item

Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back Seventh Printing, Revised 1979. Large Hardcover Book in Very Good +Condition. No dust jacket. One of the "Great Ages of Man" Series. Books in this series are elegantly and elaborately illustrated in full color and provide a… Read more about this item

Guilford, Connecticut, USA: Dushkin Pub Group/McGraw-Hill, 1994. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Large Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. An anthology of primary sources, choice selections from the works of the world's greatest minds. Original historical documents, illustrations, maps, and timelines arranged in chronological and geographic sections and woven around a central… Read more about this item

New York, New York USA: Saturday Review Press, 1973. Hardcover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9. Hardcover Ex-Lib Book and Jacket in Good Condition. Lib markings are the only marks in the book. It is clean with tight sewn binding; 16 pages of colour plates, 100 illustrations in b/w. Beautifully illustrated. Clean, bright jacket with illustration of Portuguese attacks… Read more about this item