Search Results: World History from Grimalkin Books

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's insightful and stirring text. The book is bound in green covered boards with gilt spine lettering and green endpapers. There is a remainder dot on the bottom edge. The dust jacket has edge rubbing and several tiny tears, including one on the top spine tip that the former owner repaired with tape. The book measures 10 1/8 by 8 1/2 inches and includes 192 pages, with Index.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. This clean, handsome volume has never been read and the pages will require a page cutter or envelope opener. The book is in Very Good+ condition with only minimal signs of wear for its 90 years. Lt.- Col. Repington was a Commander of the Order of Leopold, Officer of the Legion of Honour, and author of an earlier book, "The First World War." This personal diary reveals his take on the condition of major (often war-scarred) cities and countries throughout Europe and the U.S. as he visited them in a diplomatic capacity. The book is bound in burgundy cloth covers with die-stamped gilt spine titles. Th ebook measures 6 by 8 7/8 inches and includes 477 pags, plus Index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. This fascinating account of the 17th Century history of the Netherlands that produced a golden age in painting is beautifully represented not only by the author's insightful text, but by the work of 77 prominent Dutch artists as seen through 178 illustrations, including 48 pages of full-color plates. The book also includes biographical sketches of all the represented artists in the rear, followed by an extensive Index. Thus, this is a book on far more that just Rembrandt and Vermeer, about whom numerous books already exist. But all 77 of these Dutch artists are placed in context to the inspiring times in which they lived that helped create such equisite work by so many. The book is bound in brown cloth with die-stamped gilt spine titles. The book is tight bound, clean and bright throughout. There is a small gift inscription on the front end paper. The price-clipped dust jacket does have several tiny chips and a few tears, repaired on the reverse… Read More

New York: Selmar Hess This heavy volume was one of a series of books on geography, history, and travel published by Selmar Hess of New York. Although undated, my research of similar volumes in this series indicates that it was published between 1866 and 1875. It's notable for hundreds of beautiful mid-19th Century illustrations, many of which are engravings with original tissue guards. However, the illustrations with tissue guards often have foxing, particularly in the margin areas, possibly as a result of acidity in the tissue guards themselves. The other illustrations and pages are mainly free of foxing. Countries and cities featured in this particular volume (Volume 4), include Norway; Tripoli; St. Petersburgh, Russia; Lebanon including Beyrut (Beirut) and the Cedars of Lebanon; Mexico; New Caledonia (French); Portugal; Athens, Greece; The Bermudas; West Indies; British Guiana; Isthmus of Panama; and Denmark. This unusual book is in Very Good - condition. The decorative brown cloth covers… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1982. This Stated First Edition (and unless it's stated, it's not) was written by President Dwight Eisenhower's son, John, himself a retired brigadier general and former ambassador. This book concentrates on the Allied effort, the military campaigns, and the personalities -- Churchill and Roosevelt, Brooke and Marshall, Eisenhower, Dill, Patton, Montgomery, and more -- who brought World War II to a successful conclusion for the Allies and how this was accomplished. The book is in Very Good condition with a Very Good, unclipped dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into a Brodart protective sleeve. The book is bound in a sky blue cloth with gilt lettering. The pages are clean and bright, with endpaper maps, plus photo inserts and other maps. The dust jacket has small tears and chips and toning or age darkening. There is a d.j tape repair made by the former owner in the spine area. The former owner's embossment is also on the… Read More

New York: William Morrow, 1987. This Stated First Edition (and if it isn't stated, it's not) is in Fine condition with a close to Fine unclipped dust jacket (click on photo). Additionally, it has the required "number line" for First Printing, starting with a "1". This definitive work on spooks who spied on the former Soviet Union makes for a compelling look at U.S. intelligence organizations, such as the C.I.A., and how they work. The book includes photos. The book has a small address sticker of the former owner on the front free endpaper. It is bound in cream-colored boards with black spine cloth and die-stamped silver spine lettering. The dust jacket has several tiny tears and rubbing at the spine tip bottom. I've placed it into a Brodart protective sleeve. The book measures 6 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches and includes 383 pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. This unusual work by one of Germany's leading Egyptologists relates the successive phases of Egypt's history to the natural characteristics of the geography itself. The book is in Very Good condition with a Poor unclipped dust jacket. The book is boun in salmon-colored cloth, with gilt spine lettering. The dust jacket has various closed tears and is missing over half the spine area. I've placed the dust jacket into a Brodart protective sleeve. The book is tightly bound and includes photo inserts and maps. The former owner has underlined in ink on a number of pages in the text. The book measures 5 3/4 by 8 3/4 inches and includes 392 pages.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

North Dighton, Mass.: JG Press, 1998. The handsome volume is in As New condition with an As New dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into a Brodart protective sleeve. The book is set up in chronological order to give a history of pharaohs from pre-dynastic times through all 30 dynasties and then through pharaohs that reigned during the Perian Macedonian, Ptolemaic, and Roman periods. The book includes a listing of pharaohs and an Index. However, it is the full-color photographs throughout that make this book a handsome addition to anyone's shelf. The book is bound in illustrated boards, which are the same as the artwork found on the dust jacket. The book measures 9 3/8 by 12 1/4 inches and includes 144 pages.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1969. This Stated First Edition (and unless it's stated, it's not) is in Fine condition with a close to Fine, unclipped dust jacket. As described on the front dust jacket: "An all-encompasing collection of pieces, may of them never before published in English, by people who were themselves victims and witnesses of the Holocaust." The book is bound in a woven red cloth, with gilt spine lettering. There is a discreet embossment from a former owner. The binding is tight and secure. The pages are clean, white, and sparkling throughout. The book is exceptionally fine except for a tiny splatter mark on the book's page edge. The dust jacket had two small closed tears and minor repairs. I've placed the dust jacket into a Brodart protective sleeve. The book measures 6 3/8 by 9 3/16 inches and includes 412 pages, which includes an Appendix section consisting of a Glossary, Biographies, and Acknowledgments. . First Edition. Hard… Read More

New York: Greystone Press, 1963. This First U.S. Printing was originally published in Germany in 1962 and translated into English for this edition by Ann E. Keep. The book is in Fine condition with a Very Good+ dust jacket. (Click on photo.) The book was part of Greystone's "Art of the World" series. The book includes numerous color illustrations, as well as line drawings. It shows the ways in which the art of ancient Egypt was so closely connected to its culture and religious beliefs. This handsome book is bound in a burgundy woven cloth with gilt and black spine lettering. The dust jacket has light edge wear, several tiny tears, and rubbing at the spine crown. The book measures 6 7/8 by 9 1/4 inches and includes 256 pages. . First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, 1980. This First U.S. Edition is in As New, unread condition, with an As New, price-unclipped dust jacket. This new translation by Anne and Peter Wiseman of Julius Caesar's classic work is complemented by illustrations throughout in color and black and white selected by Barry Cunliffe. These include photographs, portraits, maps, and artifacts. The book is bound in gray cloth with die-stamped gilt spine titles. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. The book measures 6 3/4 by 9 7/8 inches and includes 208 pages. . First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. This attractive Stated First Edition (and unless it's stated, it's not) is in Very Good+ condition. (Click on photo.) The author traces the history of Canada from the age of exploration up through the aftermath of World War I, But instead of providing just dull facts and figures, she makes the history come alive through the human-interest anecdotes about explorers, adventurers, pioneers, and great leaders. To complement the text, the book includes 18 full-page black-and-white illustrations. The book is bound in a yellow cloth with titles and a vignette illustration on both the front panel and spine. The book has top-edge blue-black stain. As for the interior, the binding is tight and secure. There are no names of former owners nor any stains or tears. The pages are clean and bright throughout. The book measures 5 1/2 by 8 1/4 inches and includes 267 pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1944. This book club edition is in Fine Condition with a Very Good dust jacket. The dust jacket has some chips and a few tears. (Click on photo.) I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. The book itself is bound in a woven mustard-colored cloth with die-stamped brown spine titles. This is a clean and bright copy, with the original owner's name on the free front endpaper. Although this is a wartime book, the pages show only minimal age toning. From the dust jacket: BRAVE MEN begins with the landing on Sicily... and ranges from Sicily, Italy and the grim days on the Anzio beachhead through the calm of those last few pre-invasion weeks in Britain, the savage climaxes of the Normandy beaches to the smashing drive through France." The book measures 5 7/8 by 8 5/8 inches and includes 474 pages with Index. . Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hauppauge, New York: Barron's, 2003. This First Edition, with a complete "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing is in New, unread condiiton. This handsome volume is bound in illustrated covers with the same artwork, titles, and blurbs as the dust jacket. The book includes numerous period photographs, maps, and drawings to complement a text that traces the conditions in old Europe that made Jews emigrate to the New World, only to discover the sordid reality of tenement life. The book also includes some famous Jewish Americans. The book measures 7 3/8 by 7 3/8 and includes 128 pages, with Index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1903. William H. Prescott's major historical writings were from the mid-1820s until the author's death from a stroke in 1859. This collection includes the final "New and Revised Edition," first published in this form in 1872, as edited by John Foster Kirk. This complete 16-volume set comes in a handsome green cloth, with decorative die-stamped gilt. The design includes the author's elaborate initials on the front panel , as well an Empire design on the spine to set off the titles. All volumes have top-edge gilt. They show signs of shelf rubbing at the spine tips and edges. All volumes have illustrations in black and white throughout, as well as a frontis. Except for one volume that has a neat stamp of a former owner's name, the other endpapers have no marks or signatures. That same volume show some light fading.The books have solid hinges. The bindings are all tight and secure, and the text pages are clean and bright. Titles include History of… Read More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1903. This handsome two-volume First edition set, first published in May, 1903, is in Very Good condition. See photo. The books have red cloth bindings with blind-stamped designs on the front panels, as well as die-stamped gilt lettering on the front panels and spines. The books also have top edge gilt. There is some spine darkening, and rubbing at the spine tips. The interiors are excellent, tightly and securely bound, with no marks or inscriptions from former owners. The pages are clean and sparkling throughout both volumes, with no stains or tears. The letters were translated from the German by J.A. Ford. A number of fold-out facsimile letters are laid in. The books include frontis portraits of William I (Wilhelm I) and Bismarck. Prince Bismarck himself had carefully arranged and selected these letters and had hoped to publish them to authenticate and supplement his autobiography. They were found after his death. Volume I contains the correspondence with… Read More

Geneva, Switzerland: Editions Ferni, 1977. This beautiful set of four volumes dealing with ancient Egypt is in As New, Fine, unread condition. Each volume is bound in a uniform turquoise pseudo-leather, with elaborate ancient Egyptian designs showing a pharaoh and hieroglyphs on the front panel as well as an illustrated spine. The colors are die-stamped gilt, black and brown. (Click on photo.) Each volume features a sewn-in ribbon bookmark as well as beautifully illustrated color endpapers, as well as black-and-white illustrations throughout. Originally written in French, the volumes are all translated into their first English appearance. Combining scholarship with beauty, these volumes would make a beautiful gift for anyone interested in ancient Egypt or Egyptology.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. As New/No Dust Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2000. This beautifully produced volume is in New condition with a New dust jacket. (Click on photo.) Illustrated with more than 90 photographs, color maps, and 3D battle maps, the largest amphibious landing operation in history on June 6, 1944, is vividly recreated by a renowned military historian. The book measures 7 1/2 by 10 1/8 inches and includes 96 pages, with Chronology. I've placed the dust jacket into a Brodart protective sleeve.. Hard Cover. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991. Released to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, this book is in As New, unread condition, with an As New, unclipped dust jacket by a skilled master at recreating history. (Walter Lord also authored "A Night to Remember," the definitive work on the sinking of the Titanic.) The book is bound in red boards iwth a black spine and silver lettering. It contains 32 pages of photo inserts, plus an Index. The book measures 5 3/4 by 8 1/2 inches and includes 243 pages.. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. This real-life story of Erich Erdstein, dubbed a "real-life James Bond," follows the adventures of the dedicated Nazi hunter who just missed capturing Martin Bormann and had a deadly confrontation with the Nazi "Angel of Death," Mengele. The book is in Fine condition (with one mildly bumped corner) and with a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Click on photo. The book measures 5 7/8 by 8 3/4 inches and includes 220 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.