World History from RC Books

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1943. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The story of a daring escape by three men from Japanese-occupied Java in 1942. 166 pages with eight pages of black and white photographs. A few page edges affected by rough opening but not having any effects… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Intimate and interesting account of Stalin, Russia, and the second front of World War II. Age-toning and light soiling to boards and paper. Unclipped dust jacket, now protected in an archival plastic cover, has edge wear and a sticker removal… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 2005. Cloth. Fine/None as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Autobiography/memoirs of the Admiral Lord Cochrane (1775-1860), naval hero of the United Kingdom. Introduction by Brian Vale. 311 pages with more than 30 illustrations, many in color. 5 pages of maps. Color frontispiece of the Admiral. No names or marks. A beautiful… Read more about this item

College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Insightful and scholarly essays by Steven G. Reinhardt, Clarke Garrett, Roderick Phillips, Nancy Fitch, and Donald Sutherland. Introduction by Robert Forster. 130 pages. An immaculate unused copy.

Connecticut: The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences , 1955. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Paper Wraps. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Volume 39, September 1955, Pages 1-175 of The Transactions of the Academy. Full title reads Lord Hastings' Indentured Retainers 1461-1483 The Lawfulness of Livery and Retaining Under the Yorkists and Tudors. Previous… Read more about this item

London: The Seizen Press Deya Morjorca and Constable & Co., Ltd., 1936. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good -/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Memoir reflecting society, the arts, farming, and being Jewish in pre-World War II Germany. The author was an associate of the famous writer Robert Graves who translated the book with… Read more about this item

New York: New York University Press, 1976. First U. S. Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Scholarly study of medieval literature. Some light shelf wear and soiling to dust jacket. 245 pages with 36 illustrations.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967. Decorative Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Scholarly biography of Morris. Foreword by Allan Temko. 388 indexed pages with 84 black and white illustrations and eight color plates. Beautifully printed covers in the Morris/Kelmscott style. Fine, unclipped dust jacket protected in an archival plastic cover.

New York: Walker Publishing Company, Inc. , 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Highly readable and scholarly narrative of the real First World War. Light shelf wear to book and jacket. 332 pages

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1972. Second Printing . Full-Leather. Very Good -/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Historical/sociological look at China in 1972. Translated from the German. Full, brown leather with gilt designs on front cover and spine. Some soiling to edges of text block. Binding tight with no names or… Read more about this item

Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines: Benigno S. Aquino Jr. Foundation, 1993. First Printing . Paper Covered Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. Oblong 4 to (about 10" x 12"). No ISBN listed. "A rare collection of photographs of the late Senator Benigno S. Aquino Jr. highlighted by his famous quotations, his thoughts, his principles and the ideals he fought, lived, and… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1894. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. With Portrait and Twenty-Six Illustrations." Blue cloth with gilt vignette on front cover and gilt titles on spine. Cloth and gilt clean and bright. Frontispiece portrait with tissue-guard. xiv, 480 pp. plus (2) ads. Very mild foxing to endpapers. A… Read more about this item