Search Results: History from Great Expectations Rare Books

New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 388pp., Bibliographic References, Bibliography, Index. Illustrated. First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. A brilliant social history of the life of a major metropolitan city three hundred years ago. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy in like dust-jacket, which has retail upc sticker on lower rear panel. Very fine in a very fine dust-jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Basic Books, 2009. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 324 pages. Bibliographical References, Index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Dust-jacket has old Border's retail price sticker on lower rear panel. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket. .

Lola, WI: Krause Publications, 2009. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. arge format paperback, quarto size volume bound in stiff pictorial wraps. 256 pages. Foreword by Artie Kornfeld. Profusely illustrated throughout with color photographs. No printing date extant, copyright 2009, presumed first edition. No previous ownership marks. No remainder mark. No spine crease. A clean, tight, fresh, unmarked and sharp-corned copy of this memorial tribute to the iconic rock & roll concert of the 1960's. Fine. Large book, Priority and International order may require additional postage. .

Da Capo Press, 2001. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 478 pages. Bibliography, Index. First Da Capo Press edition, first printing with full number line. An homage to the New Yorker, the urban and sophisticated magazine that defined the new intelligentsia of the post-war United States. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. No remainder marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine. .

Boston: Little Brown & Co (Juv), 1976. Hardcover, blue cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 448 pages. Selected Bibliography, Index. Illustrated throughout with monochrome and color images and maps. Stated first edition. No previous ownership marks. A family history, culled mainly from letters and diaries, of four generations of one of the most influential dynasty's in the history of the nascent United States of America. From their numbers came two presidents, a cabinet officer, a railroad magnate, a congressman, a diplomat a soldier and a muckraking journalist. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Mild edge-wear to dust-jacket. Very good+ in a very good dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Citadel Press, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, red cloth, no dust-jacket. 388 pages. Index. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Milo Milton Quaife. Reprint edition, first printing thus. A republication of the title first published in London in 1849, recounting a narrative of an expedition fitted out by John Jacob Astor to establish the Pacific Fur Company. Includes n account of some of the Indian tribes of the Pacific Coast. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good. .

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Printing. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, small quarto bound in red cloth, lacking dust-jacket. 802 pages. Bibliographical Guide, Notes, Index. Illustrated with 59 half-tones and map end-papers. Book Club edition, second printing. No previous ownership marks. Volume VIII in the Durant's "The Story of Civilization". Book is clean, square, tight and unmarked with occasional mild creasing to some pages. Spine faded to light brown. Very good. Media mail only. .

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, small quarto bound in brown cloth, in publisher's dust-jacket. 898 pages. Bibliographical Guide, Notes, Index. Illustrated with 90 half-tones and map end-papers. Book Club edition, third printing. No previous ownership marks. Volume IX in the Durant's "The Story of Civilization". Book is clean, square, tight and unmarked. Mild old vertical crease to several leaves at front of book Dust-jacket edge-worn with several chips at head of spine. Else Very good+ in a moderately worn, good dust-jacket. Media mail only. .

New York: HarperCollins, 1990. Tall trade papaerback. 210pp., Bibliography, Index. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh copy in near as new condition. Fine.. Sixth Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Later Printing. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 352 pages. Index. Illustrated with photographs. Eighth printing. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. .

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Trade paperback. 211 pages. Bibliography, Index. Illustrated. First edition in paperback, two years after the hardcover edition. An intellectual history of the middle ages, predominately, though not exclusively, from English medieval sources. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Very good+. . First Edition Thus. Softcover. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Edison, New Jersey: Castle Books Inc, 2005. Hardcover in glossy pictorial dust-jacket. 228pp., Notes and Sources, Index. Illustrated with phtographs. Originally published in 2003 this is the first edition thus by this publisher. No previous ownership marks. Over fifty little known stories about the home front during World War II: military actions, espionage, spies, saboteus, secret operations, draft dodgers. A very clean, square, fresh unmarked copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket.. Second Edition. Boards. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Dar Sader, 1976. Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, blue cloth worn at extremities. Ex library copy originally published as a paperback, now recased in blue cloth covers, retaining original wrappers. Text entirely in Arabic. 519 pages. Edited and verified by Abdul Aziz Al-Khowaiter. First printing thus. The present title represents one of the surviving works of the Egyptian historian and poet Ibn Abd al-Zahir (1223-1292 AD) written during the early years of the Mamluk period, and deals with the life and reign of the Mamluk Sultan al-Zahir Baybars who reigned from 1260 to 1277. Ex Library of Congress copy with several stamps, albeit text remains unmarred. A solid, tight, internally clean copy. Text in Arabic. Near very good. .

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1941. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, oblong octavo bound in blue cloth lettered in silver, lacking dust-jacket. 122 pages. Index. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and a map. First edition, with no other printings indicated on copyright page. A compendium of fifty-one civilian, commercial and military aircraft representing the state of American aviation just prior our entry into World War II. An early Gann title. He was "an American aviator, author, sailor, and conservationist. He is best known for his novels and memoirs about early aviation and nautical adventures. Some of his more famous aviation novels include The High and the Mighty and Island in the Sky, both of which were turned into Hollywood movies". No previous ownership marks. Light scuffing to front cover and somewhat heavier marking to rear cover. A clean, sound, internally unmarked copy, hinges strong, no… Read More

Washington, D. C.: National Geographic, 2018. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 464 pages. Bibliographical References, Selected Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photographs and several maps. No publishing statement on copyright page, presumed first edition. No previous ownership marks. No remainder marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .

New York: Carroll & Graf, 2001. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 354 pages. Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs. First edition, first printing. The result of the BBC/PBS television series, the book examines the serious Anglo-American French rift during the war years and De Gaulle's later determined opposition to "Anglo-Saxon" policy. No previous ownership marks. Small red unobtrusive remainder mark on bottom edge and mild soiling to rear dust-jacket panel, else a fine copy. Book is clean, square, fresh and unmarked. Dust-jacket near as new with fault noted above. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. .

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, no dust-jacket. 1089 pages. Index. Illustrated with map end-papers, maps and half-tones. American history from the beginning of the twentieth century to World War I. Two pages show brief pen marks in marks, else no previous ownership marks. A clean, sound used copy. Good. Media mail only. .

New York: Doubleday, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 372 pages. Appendix, Index. Illustrated with drawings. Early printing. A history of the US presidency from George Washington to Lyndon Baines Johnson, with short, scholarly biographies of all 35 men who occupied the White House. No previous ownership marks. Book is clean, sound and unmarked, with no underlining or highlighting. Dust-jacket is worn and chipped, but intact. A nice reading copy. Very good in a fair dust-jacket. .

New York: Hill & Wang , 1996. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's dust-jacket. 294 pages. Book Club edition. Book Club edition, first printing thus. Previous owner's initials on upper front free end-paper. American social history told through the variegated lens of multiple racial and ethic groups. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. .

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1987. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, full genuine red leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 717 pages. All edges gilt. Sewn in silk book-mark, marbled paper end-sheets and smyth sewn book block complete this work as a quality Franklin Library production, "privately printed and bound exclusively for subscribers to The Franklin Library of Pulitzer Prize Classics." Illustrated by Mark Summers. First edition thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1974. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and as new copy. As new. .