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Alexandria, Virginia, USA: Time-Life Books, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Printing. Large Hardcover Book in Very Good +Condition. No dust jacket. One of the "Great Ages of Man" Series. Books in this series are elegantly and elaborately illustrated in full color and provide a concise history of the culture, peoples, society, religion, art, technology, demographics, and more, of various ages of civilization, from ancient, nomadic, primitive societies to more highly developed civilizations. This volume provides a comprehensive and extensive survey of the advances of the 19th and early 20th Centuries-- the automobile, aircraft, in science and technology, in health and longer lives, improvement in working conditions, in education, housing, and more. Bound in gray buckram over spine with gilt tiles, pictorial cloth boards with illustration of the highlights of the age of progress--birth of the… Read More

Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back Seventh Printing, Revised 1979. Large Hardcover Book in Very Good +Condition. No dust jacket. One of the "Great Ages of Man" Series. Books in this series are elegantly and elaborately illustrated in full color and provide a concise history of the culture, peoples, society, religion, art, technology, demographics, and more, of various ages of civilization, from ancient, nomadic, primitive societies to more highly developed civilizations. This volume provides a comprehensive and extensive survey of the advances of the 19th and early 20th Centuries-- the automobile, aircraft, in science and technology, in health and longer lives, improvement in working conditions, in education, housing, and more. Bound in brown buckram over spine with gilt tiles, pictorial cloth boards with illustration of the highlights of the age of progress--birth of the airplane… Read More

Boston, Massachusett: HBJ Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback A Gorgeous, Lavishly Illustrated Book. First Edition. Now Out-of-Print. Translated by Patrick Creagh. Large Quarto Size Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket, Mylar jacket cover, jacket not price-clipped. Illustrations, photos, photo essay, with magnificent color.Text pages are in brown tones--paper, print, and illustrations. Binding of light brown cloth w/white titles on spine and on front panel. Very clean and unmarked, handsome volume, with light rubbing to bottom edge, otherwise in Fine Condition. The Grand Tour represents 100 of the greatest architectural achievements of all time, in twelve volumes. This is one of the volumes. The splendor and magnificence of each edifice is explored through spectacular, full color photographs, with authoritative and lively text. The buildings are united by a common cause: each is a concrrete expression of… Read More

Simon & Schuster UK, 2002. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked gently used book. Faint wear to some cover edges, soundly bound, square, pages toned, completely unmarked, no creases. A classic study of international relations. 367 pages w/Notes and Index. 8" x 5". 2002, Simon & Schuster UK, London, UK

New York: Penguin Group USA Inc, 2005. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Book Club Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket As New. 24 page illustration section, Maps, Further Reading Suggestions by Chapter and Index. Black paper-wrapped boards with bright and bold titles to spine. Jared Diamond, author of Pulitzer Prize-Winning "Guns, Germs, and Steel" examines why past societies succeeded or failed. He looks at cases in some detail and then connects them to troubling scenes from the 21st century--in Rwanda and Australia, China and Montana. He provides practical lessons for a world desperately needing to redefine "progress". 575 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 2005, Penguin Group, New York.

New York, New York, U.S.A: Bonanza Books/Crown Publishers, 1986. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hard Back First Bonanza Books Printing. Large Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Clean and unmarked blue half cloth with bright and bold gilt titles, gray cloth wrappered boards. Very strong binding, tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Internals Near Fine-page 99 has a crease and slit on the fore edge, tape reinforced. Jacket is unclipped, clean, glossy, and bright, with llustrations of persons in various costumes in different centuries and in different countries. There is is slight wear to extremities. Includes costumes/clothing from all areas of the globe and from civilizations of the ancient world to present day, with accompanying text not only about the costumes but about the social times and settings. More than 650 individual entries and lavishly illustrated with 8 pages of color and over 2000 drawings of… Read More

New York, Evanston, and London: Riverhead Books/Penguin Group, 2010. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Gently used book, remainder mark lower edge, slight ripple to upper corner. Internals clean and unmarked. Binding tight and solid, square. The author weaves together the elements of history, economics, politics, and human studies, showing the ways in which governments and countries make concrete choices that determine their destinies. Giving examples of economic triumphs and disasters, he explains how some countries have gone wrong and others right, and why it is difficult to change course once you're on the path to ruin. The larger questions he discusses are about decisions countries make, why they make them, and what these choices mean for the future of the global economy. 352 pages with bibliography and index. 2010, Riverhead Books/Penguin Group, New York, New York, USA

New York: Fall River Press, 2001. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Sixth Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. Handsome volume in red and black w/silver titles, tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Spanning 500 years of political rivalry, spiritual conflict, and ancestral animosity, this book puts the reader in the middle of history's most significant human struggles--Joseph Stalin vs Leon Trotsky; J. Edgar Hoover vs John F. Kennedy; The Hatfields vs the Mc Coys; The English Parliament vs, Charles I: and more. Fascinating high stakes disputes. 242 pages w/Notes, Bibliography, and Index. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. 2001, Fall River Press, New York.

Bristol, UK: Sienna Book/Paragon, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition First Printing. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a VG Dust Jacket. Landscape size. Illustrations on every page, many full page, full color--photographs, copies of newspaper and magazine articles, drawings. Pictorial laminate binding. Titanic on front of book and jacket; fishing boat on back of book and jacket. Binding and interior very clean, no marks, no tears, no edgewear. Great Sea Disasters looks at the darker side of sea travel throughout history, when technology or seamanship failed to safeguard the crew, and tragedy occurred. It examines in words and over 80 highly charged pictures the accidents which have shocked the world. Vessels include Galleons, Historic Sailing Vessels, Steam Ships, Passenger Liners, Warships and Submarines, Ferries and Riverboats, Oil tankers and Cargo Ships, Whalers and Fishing Boats, Lifeboats and Yachts,… Read More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7. Third Edition. Large Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Volume A from Antiquity Through the Middle Ages. White illustrated cover is clean and unmarked with slight edgewear. Tight glued binding. Highlighting and underlining of text throughout but text very legible, clean. Lower edge stamped Used Book. Title page has 2 page references printed on it by a previous owner. Fully illustrated with color and b/w illustrations--many of antiquities. Cover illustration is detail of wall painting from the Tomb of Ipuy, Thebes. 504 pages plue Notes and Index. 8 x 10.25 inches. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA 1992.

, Anstey, Leicestershire, England: The MIT Press, 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Second Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in FINE Condition. Authors include writers from the United States, Switzerland, Austria, West Germany--exploring the paths to peace. The essays were chosen from the entries to "Peace 2010", a contest sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. It is an arresting and evocative compendium of scenarios that imagine a sustainable future for our planet. Clean, bright, unmarked, tight binding, solid and sqaure. Yellow cloth binding with blue lettering on spine. Jacket pink/yellow , very clean, colorful. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1986.

New York: Harpercollins, 2004. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. b/w Maps and illustrations. Clean, bright, unmarked wraps with a whisper of wear to extremities; tight and solid and square glued binding; pages are toned, more so on edges, clean, no marks of any kind. 466 pages indexed. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 2004, HarperCollins, New York.

New York, New York USA: Saturday Review Press, 1973. Hardcover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9. Hardcover Ex-Lib Book and Jacket in Good Condition. Lib markings are the only marks in the book. It is clean with tight sewn binding; 16 pages of colour plates, 100 illustrations in b/w. Beautifully illustrated. Clean, bright jacket with illustration of Portuguese attacks off a rocky coast. Ian Cameron's book is about the voyage and the man-- Magellan's early adventures, his disgrace at court in Portugal, his constant struggle against ill-luck and lack of recognition and his ultimate triumph--albeit with a sad ending--under the patronage of Spain--all vividly and movingly described. 224 pages with Bibliography and Index. 10 x 7.225 inches. Saturday Review Press. New York, 1973.

Penguin Books, 2003. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Penguin Books, 2003. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean, unmarked black wrappers with white titles, slightly rubbed edges, sound and tight glued binding. Pages lightly toned, spotless, no markings, no creases. Mark Kurlansky's kaleidoscopic and illuminating history is a multilayered masterpiece that blends economic, scientific, political, religious, and culinary records into a rich history. Take salt for example. Until about 100 years ago salt was one of the world's most sought-after commodities. It served as currency, influenced the establishment of trade routes and cities, provoked and financed wars, secured empires, and inspired revolutions--thus contributing in many ways to the history of humankind. Bibliography and Index. 496 pages. 8vo. 2003, Penguin Books.

Guilford, Connecticut, USA: Dushkin Pub Group/McGraw-Hill, 1994. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Large Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. An anthology of primary sources, choice selections from the works of the world's greatest minds. Original historical documents, illustrations, maps, and timelines arranged in chronological and geographic sections and woven around a central theme: a search for order. Blue illustrated cover is bright and clean with a touch of wear to cover edges, small crease on lower corner. Binding is tight and solid, square. Pages clean and free from any markings, no creases. 410 pages with Quick Reference Guide to Standard World History Textbooks and Glossary. 7.5 x 9.25 inches. Dushkin Pub Group/McGraw-Hill, Guilford, CT, 1994.

New York, New York, U.S.A: Doubleday, 1985. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book and Jacket in Good Condition. Eminent historian Dame Veronica Wedgwood leads the reader through the 'magnificent and appalling history of mankind'. Beginning with the first appearance of man, through early civilizations of the Middle East, through the Indus Valley to the Mediterranean, the Far East, Greece and Rome, the time of Christ, the Dark Ages, and on to the flowering of the Renaissance. And along the way the reader will learn about the cultures, governments, people, philosophy, social structures throughout the march of history. A superb, concise, informative, very readable history, told by a historian with exceptional narrative skill, bringing history alive. Ther book is bound in burgundy half cloth over spine, gilt titles, black boards, clean and unmarked; spine head compressed; lower front spine edge and lower front corner gently bumped. Tight, solid and square. Pages clean… Read More

Dell Publishing, 1974. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7?" tall. Dell Publishing, 1974. Fourth Printing of this Edition. This edition first published 1965. A Laurel edition. This is the ten-volume work in the approved two-volume abridgment by D, D, Somervell. Two Paperback Books in a bookcase. Books have black covers, Vol 1 with red and white titles, cover edgewear, solid binding, pages clean and unmarked; Vol 2 with green and white titles, cover damage, pages toned, clean and unmarked. Binding solid. Bookcase is intact, scuffed all over. These two volumes are an abridgment of volumes i-x of Toynbee's massive work. It is authorized by Arnold Toynbee. This history presents a single continuous argument as to the nature and pattern of the historical experience of the human race since the first appearance of the species of societies called civilizations. 701/448 pages, with argument and index. 7.25 x 4.25 inches. Dell Publishing, New York, 19674

USA: Time Warner, 2000. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Translated from the French by Kathryn Spink. Clean, bright, tight, solid book. Cover flares up slightly; lower corner ha a small crease, lower rear spine end is scuffed. Pages are clean and unmarked. Tight glued binding, square. Incredible stories of real adventures and encounters with peoples from diverse nations. Awarded the International Rainbow Prize by Italy for his humanitarian work, the author/journalist has roamed the globe and witnessed momentous events and incredible heroes from all walks of life--he shares these adventures and encounters with readers in this book about diverse peoples and pivotal events that have shaped our time, from the rise of Nazism to the fall of the Iron Curtain, from Golda Meir to Mother Teresa. 476 pages. 8 x 5.25 inches. Time Warner, New York, 2000.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Second Edition. Trade Paperback in NEAR FINE Condition. Clean, bright, unmarked book with a very small scuff on the fore-edge. Soundly bound, square. A remarkable book. Set within an analytical framework of the rivalry among the major nations for control of the world's resources, territories, and populations, this new edition covers recent developments such as the reduction of the East-West rivalry in the Third World, the political and economic crisis in the Soviet Union, the collapse of the Soviet satellite system in Eastern Europe--and much more. The author clearly shows the interdependence of the military, political, and economic structures of various regions of the world. Additions to the new edition include chapters on Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, 552 pages. 6 x 9.25 inches. Oxford University Press, USA, 1992.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Remainder First Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good+ Condition. Two-toned blue binding with silver titles, very clean and unmarked; lower corners gently bumped. Rem Mk on top edge. Solid, tight, and square volume. Clean, unclipped jacket with a touch of edgewear. An unusual way to look at the history of modern civilization, with the idea that everything is connected. The author investigates the nature of change and explores the unlikely origins of many aspects of contemporary life. There are twenty-five narratives in which the reader discovers how the different outcomes of an important historical event in the past often come together again in the future. For example: Boston Tea Party to Contact Lenses; Falklands War to Television; Fake Epic to Organ Transplants. Interesting concepts. 276 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Simon & Schuster, New… Read More