World History
2984 Aron, Raymond The Dawn of Universal History Perseus Books Group 2002 0465004075 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Unread, as new in like DJ with a slight bump to boards at top corners. 518 pp. $20 Add to Cart
1511 Asprey, Robert Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte Basic/Perseus 2000 046504879X Hardcover First Edition Shelfwear to DJ, some minor soil to top edge. All else very good+. 580 pp. $15 Add to Cart
9448 Bates, J. Douglas The Pulitzer Prize: The Inside Story of America's Most Prestigious Award Birch Lane Pr 1991 1559720700 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Black cloth spine over cream boards, gilt titles. Center photo supplement on coated paper. A fine copy in like DJ with slight rubbing. 291 pp. $30 Add to Cart
6808 Blanning, Tim The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 Viking Press 2007 97800670063208 Soft Cover First Edition Advance uncorrected softcover proof. The new volume in the Penguin History of Europe series. Unread, as new. 688 pp. $45 Add to Cart
353 Brown, Cecil Suez to Singapore Random House 1942 Hardcover First Edition Fourth printing. Book has minor spotting but text block clean, binding tight. DJ has edgewear, a couple of taped tears. 545 pp. $15 Add to Cart
2577 Clapp, Nicholas Sheba: Through the Desert in Search of the Legendary Queen Houghton Mifflin 2001 0618149856 Soft Cover First Edition Advance reader's softcover edition. Unread, as new, with a slight warp due to improper storage. 360 pp. $15 Add to Cart
2096 Cronin, Vincent Louis XIV Harper & Row 1990 1860460925 Soft Cover First Edition First pb printing. Creases to cover, front, back & on spine. Clean inside. 384 pp. $10 Add to Cart
7280 Djilas, Milovan Montenegro Harcourt, Brace & World 1963 Hardcover Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Red cloth, black titles to spine, blindstamping to front board, dark teal endpapers, teal topstain. Stated first edition but no price on DJ flap. Book near fine. DJ very good with sunning at spine. 367 pp. $40 Add to Cart
9763 Durant, Will The Renaissance (Story of Civilization V) Simon and Schuster 1953 Hardcover Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Red cloth binding, gilt titles and insignia to front board, red topstain, map endsheets. Fourteenth book club printing. Book very good and unread, with a few spots at foreedge, other edge soil. DJ also very good with stain to reverse, rubbing. 776 pp. $35 Add to Cart
10042 Durant, Will The Reformation The Story of Civilization VI Simon & Schuster 1957 0671610503 Hardcover BOMC Edition Fourteenth printing. Red cloth binding, gilt titles to spine, blindstamp to front board, map endsheets, red topstain. Very good with spotting to foreedge, bump to front board at top corner foreedge. DJ likewise very good with very small chip at heel of spine, rubbing, light spotting to flaps. 1025 pp. $35 Add to Cart
10003 Durant, Will and Arial The Age of Louis XIV - The Story of Civilization VIII Simon & Schuster 1963 Hardcover BOMC Edition Fourth BOMC printing. Maroon cloth binding, gilt titles/portrait stamped to front board. Map endsheets, maroon topstain. Book unread, near fine. DJ moderately rubbed, one 1/2" tear at head of spine. 802 pp. $35 Add to Cart
6312 Durant, Will and Ariel Rousseau and Revolution (The Story of Civilization X) Simon & Schuster 1967 Hardcover Book Club Edition Seventh printing. A History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789. Reddish-brown cloth, gilt titles & decoration, red topstain, map endpapers. Book unread, near fine with faint spotting at foreedge. DJ very good plus with scratches, rubbing. 1091 pp. $20 Add to Cart
7676 Durant, Will and Ariel The Story of Civilization III: Caesar and Christ Simon & Schuster 1944 Hardcover Book Club Edition A History of Roman Civilization and of Christianity from their Beginnings to A.D. 325. Book club, 19th printing. Maroon cloth binding, gilt titles to spine and front board, red topstain, map endpapers. Book unread and near fine with a few spots at edges. Bound-in map unopened. DJ in Mylar also very good with some rubbing/fading at spine, minor edgewear. 751 pp. $85 Add to Cart
7677 Durant, Will and Ariel The Story of Civilization IV: The Age of Faith Simon & Schuster 1950 Hardcover Book Club Edition A History of Medieval Civilization -- Christian, Islamic and Judaic -- from Constantine to Dante: A.D. 325-1300. Book club, 16th printing. Maroon cloth binding, gilt titles to spine & front board, maroon topstain, map endpapers. Book near fine with slight bumping to boards at foreedge corners and slight fading to topstain. DJ also very good with some rubbing and one 1/2" tear at front fold. 1196 pp. $75 Add to Cart
10000 Durant, Will and Ariel The Age of Voltaire -The Story of Civilization IX Simon & Schuster 1965 Hardcover BOMC Edition Sixth BOMC printing. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt titles and portrait stamped to front board. Map endsheets, maroon topstain. Book unread, very good plus with some spotting to foreedge and minor bleeding of topstain at foreedge. DJ also very good with rubbing, one small wrinkle-tear, light spotting to back panel. 897 pp. $35 Add to Cart
1513 Erickson, Carolly Alexandra: The Last Tsarina St. Martin's/Bloomsbury 2001 0312253079 Hardcover Book Club Edition Unread, near new with small puncture rip to front of DJ. 372 pp. $15 Add to Cart
3507 Fenster, Julie Race Of The Century: The Heroic True Story of the 1908 New York-to-Paris Auto Race Crown Publishers 2005 0609610961 Soft Cover First Edition Advance uncorrected softcover proof. Unread, as new. 385 pp. $15 Add to Cart
438 Field, Norma In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: A Portrait of Japan at the Century's End Pantheon 1991 0679405046 Hardcover First Edition First edition, first printing. Tiny stain on bottom edge; else as new. In Mylar. 273 pp. $15 Add to Cart
1715 Fleming, Thomas The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I Perseus Book Group 2003 046502467X Soft Cover First Edition Advance reader's softcover edition. Unread, as new. 509 pp. $20 Add to Cart
10148 Foreman, Laura Alexander: The Conqueror The Epic Story of the Warrior King Da Capo Press 2004 0306812932 Hardcover First Edition Black binding, titles in blindstamping. An illustrated history on coated paper with graphics in color. Book unread, fine. DJ has slight shelfwear. 211 pp. $30 Add to Cart
7955 Forester, C.S. The Barbary Pirates Charles J. Mazoujian Random House/Landmark 1953 Hardcover Reprint Landmark #31, seventh Landmark printing. Green cloth binding, red/grey titles & illustration, green topstain. Landmark Books pictorial endpapers. Largish type accompanied by Mazoujian's 2-color illustrations throughout (black/brown). Book near fine. DJ in Mylar with other Landmark titles on reverse also near fine with slight edgewear. Price code of 195. Very attractive edition. 187 pp. $25 Add to Cart
7463 Halberstam, David The Next Century William Morrow & Co 1991 068810391X Hardcover First Edition First printing. Black cloth spine, teal boards, gilt titles. Unread, as new in like DJ with slight rubbing. 126 pp. $15 Add to Cart
462 Hamilton, Edith The Ever-Present Past W W Norton & Co 1964 Hardcover 1st Edition Third printing. Black cloth binding. Some edge spotting, DJ has edgewear, rubbed & faded but generally whole. Binding tight. 189 pp. $15 Add to Cart
6032 Hoffman, Eva Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews Houghton Mifflin 1997 0395822955 Hardcover First Edition First edition, first printing. Brown cloth spine, beige boards, map endpapers, photo supplement. Near fine, unread copy in very good DJ in Mylar with slight shelfwear. 269 pp. $45 Add to Cart
2093 Hosking, Geoffrey Russia and the Russians: A History Harvard Univ Press, 2001 0674004736 Hardcover First Edition Near new with some minor soil to DJ and shelfwear. 718 pp, $25 Add to Cart
3501 Huler, Scott Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scales, and How a Nineteenth-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry Crown Pub 2004 1400048842 Soft Cover First Edition Advance copy, softcover. Unread, as new. 278 pp. $15 Add to Cart
9464 Lee, Laurie To War in Spain Penguin Books 1996 0146002067 Soft Cover 1st Edition A Penguin 60s book. First printing. Contains excerpts from his memoirs and autobiography. Unread, near fine with some aging to paper. 54 pp. $12 Add to Cart
2508 Lefebvre, Georges Great Fear of 1789: The: Rural Panic in Revolutionary France Vintage Books 1973 Mass Market Paperback First Thus Unread copy with aging to paper. 234 pp. $10 Add to Cart
1529 Lever, Evelyne Marie Antoinette Farrar, Straus 2000 1131348443 Soft Cover Book Club Edition 1/16" rip to cover at top of spine; else very good + 357 pp. $10 Add to Cart
9949 Lewis, David Levering God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 W W Norton & Co 2008 9780393064728 Hardcover First Edition Signed by Author(s) First printing and stated first edition. Author is Pulitzer Prizewinner. Black and tan binding, gilt titles. Inscribed anonymously with "best wishes" and dated on title page. Center photo supplement of artifacts in color and on coated paper. Chapter notes included. Unread, as new in like DJ with an Autographed sticker to front panel. 473 pp. $65 Add to Cart
4685 Lewis, Oscar Pedro Martinez: A Mexican Peasant and His Family Alberto Beltran Random House 1964 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Black cloth boards, red cloth spine, black/gilt titles, red topstain. Unread copy with some spotting to foreedge and a waterstain to top edge that has seeped down about 1" onto some pages. DJ very good with some edgewear, minor age soil. 507 pp. $20 Add to Cart
1504 Lincoln, W. Bruce Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia Basic/Perseus 2001 0465083234 Hardcover First Edition Shelfwear to DJ, one small rip at back fold; else near fine. 404 pp. $15 Add to Cart
1209 Lippmann, Walter The Communist World and Ours Little Brown 1959 Hardcover Sixth Printing Blue cloth, gilt titles. Book near fine. DJ rubbed, wrinkle-tear at bottom edge, one stain. 56 pp. $20 Add to Cart
2988 Logan, William Bryant Oak: The Frame of Civilization W W Norton & Co 2005 0393047733 Soft Cover First Edition Advance uncorrected softcover proof. An historical biography of the wood. Unread, as new in glossy wraps. 304 pp. $15 Add to Cart
479 Ludwig, Emil On Mediterranean Shores Robert M. McBride & Co. 1941 Hardcover Reprint Wartime reprint edition, with $1 reduced price stated on DJ. No printing date given. Green cloth binding, gilt titles, deckled foreedge, blindstamping to front board, green topstain, photo endsheets with location captions. DJ has striking deco design by 'Mel.' Book very good plus. DJ sunned at spine, taped edge tears at spine-ends, top. 268 pp $45 Add to Cart
2991 Mango, Andrew The Turks Today Overlook 2005 1585676152 Soft Cover First Edition Advance uncorrected proof. Interprets the "latest academic research (on current-day Turkey) for a broader audience" Unread, as new with new pub date inked in on back cover by pub. 292 pp. $15 Add to Cart
2526 Marshall, Andrew The Trouser People: Colonial Shadows in Modern-Day Burma Counterpoint 2002 1582431205 Soft Cover First Edition Bound softcover galley. Unread, as new but tiny stain on back of cover. 258 pp. $20 Add to Cart
486 Marti, Jose The America of Jose Marti: Selected Writings Minerva Press 1968 Soft Cover First Thus Translated by Juan de Onis. Remainder mark to top edge, cover shows shelfwear; else very good. 335 pp. $15 Add to Cart
2533 Mattingly, Garrett The Armada Houghton Mifflin 1959 Hardcover Book Club Edition Full cloth binding, map endpapers. Book near fine but for faintest spotting of top edge. DJ also very good with rubbing, some edgewear and one 1/2" closed tear at top. In Mylar. 443 pp. $35 Add to Cart
3153 Medvedev, Roy A. & Zhores A. medvedev Khrushchev: The Years in Power Norton 1978 0393008797 Soft Cover 1st Edition Sixth printing. Unread, as new with remainder mark to bottom edge and slight rubbing to cover. 198 pp. $10 Add to Cart
490 Meyer, Karl E. The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastering the Asian Heartland Public Affairs 2003 1586482416 Soft Cover First Edition Advance reader's copy, softcover. Unread, as new. 237 pp. $15 Add to Cart
7109 Norwich, John Julius Paradise of Cities: Venice in the 19th Century Doubleday & Co. 2003 0385509049 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Nice production job with faux-leather spine and gold-patterned endpapers. Photos (color & B&W) on coated paper. Unread, as new in like DJ. 336 pp. $25 Add to Cart
9444 Orsenna, Erik Andre Le Notre: Gardener to the Sun King George Braziller 2001 0807614874 Hardcover First Edition Translated by Moishe Black. Spot illustrations in B&W. A fine copy in like DJ. Scarce. 151 pp. $30 Add to Cart
2520 Smith Adam The Wealth of Nations Prometheus Books 1991 0879757051 Soft Cover First Thus This edition reprinted from original plates. The classic study of world economies and still the prima facie work in defense of capitalism. An unread, near-new copy. 590 pp. $15 Add to Cart
9476 Strathern, Paul Napoleon in Egypt Bantam Dell 2008 1844139174 Soft Cover First Edition Advance softcover proof. Unread, as new with slight shelfwear. Contains Notes, Bibliography, Index. 480 pp. $15 Add to Cart
532 Terrill, Ross The New Chinese Empire: Beijing's Coming Confrontation with an Emerging China Basic Books 2003 0465084133 Soft Cover First Edition Advance uncorrected softcover proof. Small stain to top edge, else unread, as new. 366 pp. $12 Add to Cart
2497 Toland, John Captured by History: One Man's Vision of our Tumultuous Century St. Martin's/Bloomsbury 1997 0312154909 Hardcover First Edition First edition, first printing. New, unread copy in like DJ with a slight bump to bottom corner. 413 pp. $20 Add to Cart
537 Tuchman, Barbara W. Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 Macmillan 1971 0026202905 Hardcover BOMC Edition Very good. DJ rubbed, creased. In Mylar. 621 pp. $20 Add to Cart
9483 Tzouliadis, Timotheos The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia Penguin Press 2008 1594201684 Soft Cover First Edition Advance uncorrected softcover bound manuscript. Depression-era tale of a group of American emigres to Russia, their subsequent arrests and fates. Notes, included, Bibliography and Index TK. 399 pp. $15 Add to Cart
540 Van Loon, Hendrik Willem The Story of Mankind Pocket Books 1940 Mass Market Paperback 1st Edition PB 15, .25 cover price. Seventh PB printing. Cover lamination peeling, surface-chipped at binding folds, creased vertically, front and back. Owner's name & address on title page. 425 pp. $12 Add to Cart
6985 Washington, Booker T. The Man Farthest Down: A Record of Observation and Study in Europe Doubleday, Page and Co. 1912 Hardcover First Edition First edition (SD). Red cloth, gilt titles/decoration. Washington's international study of the poor. Book solid and sound with waterstain to bottom 2-3" front to back and consequent bleeding of cloth dye onto some pages, rippling at bottom edge. Fold-out map of UK intact. Most interesting bookplate on front pastedown reads: "Compliments of Booker T. Washington," with the first two words hand-written and the name engraved. 390 pp. $350 Add to Cart
6488 Wilentz, Amy The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier Simon & Schuster 1989 0671641867 Hardcover First Edition First printing. Maroon cloth spine, cream boards, gilt titles. Book near fine with faint edge soil. DJ also very good with some rubbing and scratches. 427 pp. $20 Add to Cart
8478 Wills, Garry What the Gospels Meant Viking Press 2008 0670018716 Soft Cover First Edition Softcover proof. Unread and fine in glossy wraps. 209 pp. $15 Add to Cart