Search Results: AMERICAN HISTORY from S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1988. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Following graduation, Wertheim worked as a volunteer research assistant at the Institute of Pacific Relations in New York, spending a year in Tokyo in 1934–35, including a month in China, before returning to the United States via the Trans-Siberian Railway to Moscow and on to Paris. She also contributed to The Nation as a correspondent until her father's sale of the publication in 1937, traveling to Valencia and Madrid to cover the Spanish Civil War. A first book resulted from her Spanish experience, The Lost British Policy: Britain and Spain Since 1700, published in 1938. In 1940 Wertheim married Lester R. Tuchman, an internist, medical researcher and… Read More

Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Company. Near Fine. 1966. Facsimile; 1st Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This is a Facsimile edition of the London,1624 edition. This book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket but with a traycase which is also in Near Fine condition. The book itself is bound in vellum with gilt lettering and decoration to the front cover and spine. The text pages are on thick, watermarked paper. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. Laid in is the introduction from the World Publishing Company. The tray case is in Very Good+ condition, but has several spots of discoloration, along with some wear and tear. "John Smith fell out of favor with the directors of the Virginia Company mostly due to his insistence of increasing food supply and reducing colonist numbers. Despite this, he wrote a series of publications after returning to England in October 1609[2] about the… Read More