Search Results: History - European from Riverwood's Books

New York: Routledge. Very Good. 1995. First Edition. Softcover. 0415904412 . Retired library book but still in very good condition - laminated cover and usual ex-lib type markings. Interior clean and tight, light soiling outer edge of pages, light edgewear to cover. ; 8vo; Reviews: "Auschwitz and After represents a truly notable step toward providing substantial insights into...Jewish identity in post-war France.." Beginning with Marcel Ophus's documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1970) there has been an attempt to question the idea of a totally unified, courageous and resistant wartime France. Even more startling have been the increasingly shocking revelations that the politics of collaboration were a mere extension of a deep-seated French anti-semitic tradition. In the shadow of these developments French writers and philosophers today are reflecting on the meaning of Jewish identity in the contemporary world. Auschwitz and After analyses for the first time how the memory of… Read More

W. W. Norton & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0393029700 . Hardcover has light soiling outer edge of pages - interior pages are clean & unmarked. Jacket has very light edgewear and scuffing/light scratching of jacket, not price clipped. B/w photos.... With a united Germany now a a part of our political landscape, it is easy to forget that this event was the culmination of one of the most remarkable revolutions in modern history. But in 1989-90 millions of East Germans courageously reclaimed authority from a pervasive dictatorship of party and state... ; 8vo .

Edinburgh: Mainstream. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0906391725 . Hardcover clean & unmarked. Jacket has slight edgewear, light scuffing and a 2" closed cut on the front, not price clipped. b/w illustrations.The rotter (or villain) has long been one of the fascinating phenomena of human nature and shows no evidence of decline in modern times. The authors have compiled an entertaining and informative companion to rotters and dig up the dirt on statesmen, spies, literary thieves, murders, mobsters, swindlers, quacks etc. Including: Bonnie & Clyde, Burke & Hare, Emil Savundra, axe woman Lizzie Borden, Ruth Ellis, Anthony Blunt, Deacon Brodie, Al Capone, Henry Faultleroy, John Hatfield, Tom Keating, John Logan etc, etc.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall .

Oxford University Press. Very Good. 1969. First Edition. Softcover. 0195002601 . Earlier 1969 printing, Oxford Press. Pages clean and intact, age tanning to page edges and inside covers. Cover has light wear to edges/corners and some light creasing, light soiling to rear cover. (322osl? ) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages .

Prentice Hall. Good+. 1992. First Edition. Softcover. 0132770474 . Ex-library book, but still in good condition - laminated cover and usual ex-lib type markings. Light edge and corner wear to cover, light soiling outer edge of pages. Interior very good - occasional light wrinkling or earmarks. 260 pages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; "This thoroughly researched, highly readable volume has biographies of famous--and infamous--spies and cryptographers, illustrations of codes and cipher devices with explanations of how they work, and fascinating examples of how covert communications have changed the course of history, from ancient times through World War II and beyond. 50 photos and illustrations; tables and graphs throughout. (500) .

Univ. of Alberta. Near Fine. 2004. First Edition. Softcover. 0921490151 . Excellent condition. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked, other than one small spot to an outer edge. Cover has light scuffing and very light edge/corner wear. Contents: Serbs and Identity Issues; Serbian Churches and Folk Culture; Serbian Arts and Literature; New Perspectives in Serbian Identity; Western Policy and Serbian Immigration; Appendix. [420-osl? ]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Penguin. Fine. 1989. First Edition. Softcover. 0140097007 . Near new condition, clean & tight, no markings. 263 pages. b/w illus. (*Shipping will be reduced, depending on your location.)Through the archives of the Dogsbody family, discovered in the 1950s and painstakingly researched and collated over 30 years, the rich pageant of history comes alive. Letters, journals, household accounts, even hieroglyphics, chart the lives and loves, hope and failures, travel and quarrels of one extraordinary family, whose members have stamped their character on some of the greatest events in history....and whose personal recollections of them often differe sharply from previously accepted views. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

London: Adam & Charles Black. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover has illustrated boards, light wear to outer edge & corners. Interior pages clean, tight & unmarked other than name & pencilled price on endpage. Jacket has age tanning, moderate edgewear and a few small tears/chips, price clipped. 112 pages. The book discusses how Edinburgh grew from a small settlement on the castle rock to the fine city which it has become. Dr. Barclay also tells of the people of Edinburgh, from the early days of Celts and Romans, as well the lives of famous citizens such as Robert Burns, James Watt etc. Over 200 illus. & photos, & reproductions of contemporary prints & drawings. From the Black's Junior Reference Books series. (*shipping will be reduced to some locations) [osl-423]; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

New York: Longman. Good. 1991. Second Edition. Softcover. 0801304067 . Second edition 1991. Light edge/corner wear to cover, a bit moreso on bottom edge, corner curling bottom corner. Pages are intact and clean, however there is some yellow highlighting. Light soiling bottom edge of pages. This text examines European political institutions in both Western and Eastern Europe. It takes a comparative approach which crosses national and political boundaries and, wherever possible, likens the European to the American situation. (410os-3-24) ; 8vo .

London: Pan Books. Very Good. 1968. First Edition. Softcover. 0330020366 . Light edgewear, creasing to spine, age tanning to cover edges and pages. Interior pages clean, tight and unmarked. B/w illus. This indepth portrayal of the fall and siege of Paris begins with the military operations from the beginning of the Siege in September, 1870, to the last resistance of the Commune during May Week, 1871... (220-noto) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 606 pages .

British Broadcasting Corporation. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 0563128682 . Clean, tight condition. Ex-library book but still in quite good condition - brodart cover and usual ex-lib type markings. Pages clean, brodart has some scuffing and light edgewear. Jacket is taped to book. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Covers the same material as in the BBC2 dramatised documentary of the same name. "Reports of abolitionists like John Newton stimulated opposition to the barberous & immoral slave trade, but initially it was only a small band who fought to end the system, including William Wilberforce, Pitt the Younger & Charles James Fox. They conducted a long campaign, which led to the end of the infamous trade in which Britian had made vast profits and Africa had lost 40 million men, women & children..." [460]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 144 pages .

Ontario: Canadian Gas Association. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover is clean, tight and unmarked. One indent on top edge. Jacket has light edgewear, a little scuffing, and three small tears to top edge. Oblong (8.5 x 10"). The author examines the first 100 years of the Canadian Gas Association, providing a history not only of the association but of the gas industry and Canadian energy policy during that time as well. Profusely illustrated. (*Due to heavy weight, there will be an addt'l ship charge to some locations) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Pocket Books. Very Good. 1966. Softcover. Light edge & corner wear, light creasing, light age yellowing. Interior clean & unmarked, age tanning to pages & inside covers. Description: Perhaps the most vitriolic attack ever launched on the American way of living, from politicians to professors to businessmen to Mom to sexual mores to religion. Generation of Vipers ranks with the works of De Tocqueville and Emerson in defining the American character and malaise. Wylie's classic, written with devastating wit and a pen as sharp as a barber's razor, wages war on all forms of American hypocrisy.... (osl) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

England: Gower. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0566021609 . Hardcover is very clean, with minimal wear, previous owner's name written on endpage, but otherwise no markings. DJ has light edgewear and one small tear, very clean. 228 pages. British Trade Unions. Despite widespread interest in the trade union movement and its history, it has never been easy to trace the development of individual unions, especially those now defunct, or where name changes or mergers have confused the trail. This directory set out to answer these questions. Entries are arranged according to a standard plan: 1. Name of Union, 2. Foundation Date (name changes, amalgamations, transfers, cessation, reasons where appropriate & available) 3. Characteristics of: membership, leadership, policy, outstanding events and membership (numbers). 4. Souces of InformationThe present volume, covering non-manual unions, contains more than 1,000 entries. (400-noto) ; 8vo .

London: J. M. Dent & Son's. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1906. Second Printing. Hardcover. 2nd printing 1906. Small red hardcover with gilt decoration on spine in very nice condition for it's age. Slight edge/corner wear, light soiling outer edge of pages, slight darkening to cover edges. Pages clean and intact other than a couple small ink markings inside rear cover, light age tanning to pages and inside covers. Paper split at spine by title page but no loose pages. 295 pages. Originally published in 1868, covers the landing of Augustine; the murder of Becket; Edward the Black Prince; Becket's shrine. Useful to the antiquary or historian, who may wish to examine these events more fully. (400noto) ; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall .

U.S.A.: Marshall Cavendish. Very Good. 1973. Softcover. Published in magazine format, 96 weekly parts. Included here is Parts 1 thru 16 in a black binder format (11.5 x 9"). Magazine interiors are one after another in the binder, with the front covers at the rear of the binder. Very good condition, some pages have light edgewear, occasional light soiling. Binder cover has some wear, light scuffing, markings to front (looks like a few small heat marks) , light soiling, otherwise very good. Included are: Part 1 - Blitzkrieg! Part 2 - Hitler: the New Messiah, The Hunting of the Graf SpeePart 3 - The Germans Strike NorthPart 4 - Glider Strike on World's Strongest Fort, Hitler's Troops Crush NorwayPart 5 - The Panzers Break Through at Sedan, Invasion of Holland & BelgiumPart 6 - Dunkirkand so on, through issue 16, which is titled: The Sinking of the Bismarck. (*Due to weight, there will be an addt'l ship charge to some locations); 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .

Toronto: Tundra Books. Fine. 2005. First Edition. Softcover. 0887767095 . Excellent, as new condition other than a crease across back cover. Clean, no markings. 120 pages. B/w photos & illustrations. "Thousands of mothers carried their babies to the gates of the Foundling Hospital desperate to save them from the cruel streets of eighteenth-century London. Each baby was left with a personal token identification if a repentant mother ever returned to reclaim her child. Captain Thomas Coram, himself childless, was inspired by the sight of babies abandoned on dung heaps to petition the king for support in building a home for England's poorest children. Coram's vision saved countless children's lives. A Home for Foundlings describes the hospital Captain Coram founded, the luminaries involved including Handel, Hogarth, and Dickens and the daily lives of the foundlings themselves...." [295-osl]; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Henry Holt. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 0805075372 . Only light wear overall. Slight soiling outer edge of pages. Light wrinkling to edge of jacket. Interior pages clean & unmarked. B/w photos. From Publishers Weekly: British historian Wise's well-written first book explores the grisly underbelly of pre-Victorian London by examining the trial of three "body snatchers, " John Bishop, James May and Thomas Williams, who were arrested in 1831 while attempting to sell the suspiciously fresh cadaver of a teenage boy to a medical college. Drawing on astonishingly detailed research, Wise places the crime in context by describing how a shadowy "resurrection" trade in exhumed bodies had grown up to meet the rising demand of the new science of anatomy...... ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

New York: Berkley Books. Very Good. 1947. Softcover. Cover has light edgewear, light creasing and soiling. Pages clean and intact, age tanning to pages, tiny upper edge tear last few pages. Late in 1945, Trevor-Roper was appointed by British Intelligence in Germany to investigate conflicting evidence surrounding Hitler's final days and to produce a definitive report on his death. The author, who had access to American counterintelligence files and to German prisoners, focuses on the last ten days of Hitler's life, April 20-29, 1945, in the underground bunker in Berlin--a bizarre and gripping episode punctuated by power play and competition among Hitler's potential successors. (120) ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

Truman Talley Books / Plume. Very Good+. 1995. First Edition. Softcover. 0452270634 . Ex-library book, but still in very good condition - laminated cover and usual ex-lib type of markings. Cover has light edge/corner wear, a small amount of soiling to outer edge of pages. Interior is clean and intact, a couple lightly wrinkled pages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 730 pages; "From the inner councils of the Japanese to the fateful decisions to atom-bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Stanley Weintraub brings to life this watershed month in which empires fell, old orders passed away, and a new age began. "The best account yet of the war's final month". --Newsweek". .