Search Results: History - European History from Texas Star Books

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 540 pp. Bright, crisp and clean copy. Dust jacket is gright and crisp with one small (less than 1/4") slip on front flap fold near bottom. Slight creasing at spine ends. Nice book club copy.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Very Good++/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 312 pp. Crisp and bright copy with clean interior. Light wear to boards. Foxing on top page edge. Dust jacket has minor wear with one small tear on top front edge near corner. Some age yellowing on rear and inside flap folds.

New York: Atheneum, 1994. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Soft cover. Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 648 pp. Crisp, bright and tight. Very minor edgewear and very light spotting on page edges. Appears unread. Very nice copy.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1976. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 180 pp. Tight copy with wear and spotting on top and bottom edges, on hinges and on top of rear board. Slight foxing on page edges, but interior is clean. Dust jacket has edgewear with 1/2" closed tear on top front near corner and 1 in. cut in middle of front. Yellowing on flap folds.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atheneum, 1979. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Ed., 2nd Ptg. 190 pp. Tight copy with light wear to corners and spine ends. Some spotting on page edges and occasionally on pages. Dust jacket has creasing, especially on top edge with chipping on corners and spine ends. Spotting on rear white panel and inside rear flap fold is damp stain.

New York, NY: Atheneum, 1979. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Ed., 2nd Ptg. 190 pp. Tight copy with damage on base of spine and light edgewear. Clean interior. Dust jacket is bright but has missing portion on base of spine. Slight corner chipping and light edgewear with a little tearing.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Ed., 1st Ptg. 381 pp. Bright orange cloth with black embossed print. Some uncut pages. Previous owner's name on front free end paper - else clean interior. No dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2nd Ptg. Book is tight with minimum wear. Numberous instances of comments and underlining throughout book. P. 223 has tape on it which has yellowed. Still, nice copy for study or reference.

New York: Dial Press, 1974. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 347 pp. Bright, crisp and clean copy with light wear to boards. Clean interior. Dust jacket has light wear. Scuffed marks/chipping on spine ends and rear top edge and flap fold. Spine is darkened. Slight creasing and rubbing.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Quill, 1999. 1st PB Ptg. . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 364 pp. Trade paperback is tight with minor wear to wrapper. Previous owner's bookplate on half-title page. Red page numbers on reverse of front wrap, and noted pages have small red check marks in text.

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1981. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Tight, crisp copy with slight bumping to corners and edges. Light colored linen on spine has some darkening on top and bottom. Dust jacket has some shelfwear and curling along edges. 1st Ptg.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. 1st Thus . Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback is tight with clean interior. Rubbing and edgewear on cover with cover corners and spine ends bumped. Slight spotting and marking to page ends.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Noted historian Antonia Fraser gives the biographies of the rulers of England from the Normans (William the Conqueror) to the Windsors (Queen Elizabeth !!). Well illustrated. Book is clean and crisp with slight bumping to corners. Dust jacket is bright and crisp with very slight chipping and edgewear with a small tear on bottom edge of spine at back hinge. Very pretty book.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1967. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Memoirs of ambassador to Russia during WWII. Tight and clean copy with minor wear and yellowing pages. Dust jacket has some chipping and tearing along spine and edges. Two tape repaired tears along top edge.

New York: Congdon & Lattes, Inc., 1982. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Subtitled, "150 Years Later, Modern Forensic Medicine Discovers One of History's Greatest Crimes". 266 pp. Tight copy with bumped corners else light edgewear. Clean interior. Dust jacket is bright and crisp and has light wear long edges and corners.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1976. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Bright and tight copy without evident wear. Front and back pasted down papers are discolored, presumedly from the glue used. Dust jacket is bright and crisp with very light creasing. Interior has foxing which does not come through. Book appears unread.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Ed., 1st Ptg. 423 pp. Crisp and bright copy with light edgewear and rubbing to blue cloth boards. Rear top corner bumped with a little fraying. Bright silver design and print. Light foxing on top page edge.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. EX-LIB with usual library markings, stamps and card pocket. A little slight soiling on page ends. Dust jacket is not in library cover and has very little shelfwear, but has index number on spine. Overall nice copy.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998. Second Impression . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2nd Impression of Revised Edition (Original, 1969), 2nd Ptg.. From front cover: "For anyone who wishes to understand the essence of the Irish Troubles, "'The Year of Liberty" is compulsory reading', The Times". Bright and crisp and clean with colorful end paper art, front and rear, "The Battle of Ballynahinch" by Tom Robinson. Dust jacket is also clean, crisp and colorful. Fine copy.