Search Results: History & Historiography from Uncommon Works

Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1984. First Thus. Leather bound. Fine. A fine first thus edition. Brown leather boards with gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Map end papers. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled at edge of half title. Black and white drawings, tables. 74 pp. including index. Octavo, 7 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches tall. .

New York: Harper and Row, 1990. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A fine first American printing in a fine dust jacket. Green cloth boards. Pages are white and bright. Fine dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. 338 pp. including index. Octavo, 6 x 9 1/2 inches tall.

[n.p]: [unpublished], 1933. Cloth. Good/none as issued. Handwritten journal, heavily cocked. Good. Burgundy boards with gilt title stamping and a counting-house calendar on front pastedown for the year 1933. Stained boards. Complete. Handwritten journal of a grandfather in 1933 including notes on activities, weather, and an egg record. Sutter Co., California. Given to him by Medora Edna [Laux] & Shirley Lou.

New York: W.W. Norton, 1957. Book of the Month Club Edition. Cloth. Fine/missing. A fine Book of the Month Club hardcover edition of a classic work. Missing dust jacket. Black cloth boards with gold spine lettering. Bookplate on front pastedown. Jacket's rear flap laid in on rear pastedown. 224 pp. Octavo. Fourth-century Athens has a special claim on our attention apart from the great men it produced," writes Hamilton, "for it is the prelude to the end of Greece...The kind of events that took place in the great free government of the ancient world may, by reason of unchanging human nature, be repeated in the modern world. The course that Athens followed can be to us not only a record of old unhappy far-off things, but a blueprint of what may happen again." With the clarity and grace for which she is admired, Edith Hamilton writes of Plato and Aristotle, of Demosthenes and Alexander the Great...

New York: Macmillan, 1893. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A very good first edition in one volume. Blue cloth boards with gilt title-stamping. Shelf wear to head and tail of spine.Stain to front cover plus waterstain at base of book. Bookplate and missing label on front pastedown. Previous owner's signature from 1897 on first free endpaper. Book is cocked. 300 pp. plus catalogue [4pp.]. 5 x 8 inches tall.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980. Hardcover. Very good +/fine. A very good plus copy in a fine dust jacket. Russet cloth boards with gold foil title stamping on cover and spine. Previous owner's book plate on front pastedown, and embossed owner's seal on title page. Otherwise fine. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket showing original price. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. A lovely, well-cared for copy. 224 pp. including index. Quarto, 9 1/2 x 12 inches tall. Due to size and weight, may require additional shipping.

London: Cassell and Company, 1956. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/fine. A very good plus/near-fine four volume first edition set, all in original very good dust jackets. 1956-1958. Binding is excellent with no tears or loose pages. Red cloth boards with gilt-stamped spines. Each volume states "first published" and the year. Each volume is about 400 pp. Octavo. Volume I: The BIrth of Britain: Clean and bright. Red painted top edge. Dust jacket has a tear on the front cover and wear to jacket at crown, and loss at top edge of rear panel of jacket.Volume II: The New World: Clean and bright. Red painted top edge. Dust jacket showing a 1.5" tear at top spine edge; pencil marking on jacket at spine.Volume III: The Age of Revolution: Hevay foxing to page edges and interior of book. Dust Jacket is price clipped, foxed on interior and has a crease on the spine of jacket. Jacket has minor loss at foot and tear at rear edge near crown. Volume IV: The Great… Read More

Halifax: A.& W. Mackinlay, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A very good 1898 edition, with copyright and title date matching. Orange cloth boards with fading. Map end papers in front. Rear end papers heavily toned across most of page. Color plate of Canadian flag. B/W photos. Binding is sturdy and square. xv, 448 pp. including index. Duodecimo, 5 x 7 1/4

London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820. New Edition. Full leather. Very good. A very good "New edition." Full leather boards. Gilt trim. 5 raised bands. Shelfwear to head and tail of spine. Corners are rubbed. 4 cm x 3 mm loss on back of book. Binding is sturdy, square, and tight. Marbled endpapers. Both hinges have been expertly repaired and covered with matching marbled paper strips (see photos). Page 570 is bent at top left corner. 570 pp. 5 x 8 1/2 inches tall, octavo. His History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies and Conquests was published in 1786; it was translated into French and German. This work was written with a strong monarchist bias. See for instance the opening 'dedication to the king': 'The history of Greece exposes the dangerous turbulence of democracy, and arraigns the despotism of tyrants. By describing the incurable evils inherent in every form of Republican policy, it evinces the inestimable benefits resulting to liberty itself from the lawful dominion of… Read More

New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007. Glossy pictorial cover. Near fine/fine. Mark Millmore. A near fine first printing in a fine dust jacket. Glossy pictorial boards, top corner bumped. Otherwise fine. Fine, unclipped dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Not remaindered. 192 pp. Quarto, 9 x 11 1/2 inches tall.

Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1969. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. A near fine, limited edition, number 39 of 338 issued. Maroon leather boards with gilt title stamping. Andorra paper. Pictorial end papers. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled at inner edge of half-title page. 8, lxxviii, 79, 24, 6, [2] pp. Octavo, 7 x 10 1/4 inches tall. Originally issued in 1929 as The journal of Duncan M'Gillivray of the North West Company at Fort George on the Saskatchewan, 1794-5, with introduction, notes and appendix by Arthur S. Morton. The introduction gives a sketch of the development of the fur trade, with special reference to the Saskatchewan River. An appendix traces the later history of Fort George and of M'Gillivray.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. As new/as new. An as new, first edition with complete number line in an as new dust jacket. xiii, 234 pages, 41 pages of plates : illustrations. Octavo. Denis Judd tells the fascinating story of the remarkable British impact upon India, capturing the essence of what the Raj really meant both for the British and their Indian subjects. All aspects of this long and controversial relationship are discussed: the first tentative contacts between East and West, the foundation of the East India Company in 1600, the Victorian Raj in all its pomp and splendour, Gandhi's revolutionary tactics to overthrow the Raj and restore India to the Indians, and Lord Mountbatten's 'swift surgery of Partition' in 1947, creating the independent Commonwealth states of India and Pakistan."-- worldcatFrom the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L. Soske Jr.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A fine first edition, first printing, in a fine dust jacket. Charcoal paper boards with gold foil stamping on spine. No flaws. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. 424 pp. Octavo, 6 x 9 1/2 inches tall. Livia (58 BC-29 AD), the wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius, wielded power at the centre of Roman politics for most of her long life. Livia has been portrayed as a cunning and sinister schemer, but in this biography (the first in English devoted to her) Livia emerges as a much more complex individual. Achieving influence unprecedented for a woman, she won support and even affection from her contemporaries and was widely revered after her death. Anthony A. Barrett, author of acclaimed biographies of Caligula and Agrippina, here examines Livia's life and her role in Roman politics. He recounts the events of her life, from her… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1951-1952. Early Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good +. All near fine with very good dust jackets. Navy blue cloth with gilt title stamping on spine and cover. [v. 1] Years of adventure, 1874-1920: Third printing (1951). Near fine book, sturdy and square binding. Sky blue endpapers. Mild bump on front top right corner. A few volume notes in pencil on half-title. Dust jacket is price-clipped at the bottom and creased on back cover.[v. 2] The Cabinet and the Presidency, 1920-1933: Second printing (1952). Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Volume note in pencil on half-title. Round label covering price on inside flap. [v. 3] The great depression, 1929-1941: First printing [Burns 0079, ](1952). Bumped front bottom corner, price-clipped dust jacket, showing Loss of about 1" on of top and bottom of jacket on spine.Octavo. 496, 405, 503 pp. respectively. Indexed. From the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L.… Read More

Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1991. First Thus. Leather bound. Fine. A fine first thus. Brown leather boards with gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Frederick Remington end papers. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled at edge of half title. 67 pp. including index. Octavo, 6 x 9 1/4 inches tall. .

New York: Basic Books, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/fine. A near fine first edition, first printing in a fine dust jacket. Black paper boards under quarter cloth. Gilt title stamping on spine. Russet endpapers. Deckled page edges. Remainder mark bottom edge, otherwise fine. Dust jacket is not price-clipped and without flaws. xii, 628 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits. Octavo. ...Franklin Roosevelt has been lauded by most historians—most brilliantly by Eric Larrabee in his book Commander in Chief (1987)—as a shrewd political and military strategist who conducted both aspects of WWII with great guile, wit and efficiency. Fleming, however, portrays FDR as an inefficient and oafish warmonger spoiling for battle amid world political, economic and social tensions he did not understand. Fleming revives the well-worn canard that FDR wanted, needed and invited the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Then he quibbles with the notions of… Read More

Sacramento: California State University, Sacramento, 1996. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/none as issued. A fine first edition, fondly inscribed on FFE by the author, Molly Miyako Kimura. Blue cloth boards with gilt title stamping. Illustrated. 42 [6] pp. Folio. Nisei woman, born March 1, 1924 (d. 2015) in Yuba City, California to a business family. From the age of three until she was eighteen, Molly attended Japanese language school Monday through Friday after her public school classes. In 1942, the family was interred to Tule Lake, California. While bitter about internment she saw opportunities to learn. She continued Japanese language, flower arrangement, tea ceremony, knitting and sewing. Her family returned to Marysville in 1945. Molly attended design schools in San Jose and Los Angeles for four years. After her marriage she continued her quest of Japanese cultural arts and was active in the promotion of international cultural and educational exchanges between Japan and America, and China and… Read More

Radcliffe, Iowa: Radcliffe Publication Committee, 1978. 1st Edition. Leatherette. As new. Near fine first edition. Embossed leatherette, rear top corner bumped. Previous owner's bookplate in front pastedown. Illustrated enpapers. Local history and genealogy research of interest to Scandinavian and Iowan families. 360 pp. Folio, 9 1/2 x 12 inches tall.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. Hardcover. Very good +/fine. A very good plus copy in a fine dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with gold foil title stamping on cover and spine. Previous owner's book plate on front pastedown, and embossed owner's seal on title page. Otherwise fine. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket showing original price. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. A lovely, well-cared for copy. 320 pp. including index. Quarto, 10 x 12 inches tall. Due to size and weight, may require additional shipping.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First American Edition. Cloth. Very good +/near fine. A very good plus first American edition, as stated, in a very near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Sunning to bottom edge of cloth 1/8". xviii, 524 pages, 18 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, Octavo. A biography of Charles II, 17th century British king whose reign after Cromwell's death brought about a return to peace and order.TOC:pt. I. The hopeful prince. Heaven was liberal'I fear them not!'Present miseriesDependenceThe King's sonpt. II. Nothing but the name. A candle to the devilRavished at WorcesterHeroical figureA difficult gameThe courtesies and the injuriesAt the watersidept. III. This golden age. Noah's doveThe best of queensThe Dutch businessBlack dayThis revolutionA very near allianceVirtues and imperfectionspt. IV. The monarchy in danger. Subsisting together?The knot… Read More