The Prefaces, Proverbs, and Poems From Poor Richard's Almanacks for 1733-1758
Franklin Library, January 1984. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon place marker. More
Franklin Library, January 1984. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon place marker. More
PublicAffairs, May 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Antonia Fraser's Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain's history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller. The era, beginning with the accession..... More
Skyhorse Publishing, August 2014. Trade Paperback. George MacDonald Fraser--beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels--offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma fighting the Japanese during World War II. An excellent popular historian. --Time Magazine In this rattling-good memoir, novelist, historian, and screenwriter Fraser vividly recounts the nerve-racking..... More
The Franklin Library, January 1977. Leather. Gilt edges and cover design. Moire endpapers. Cover and edges significantly faded. Embossed stamp on title page. Limited edition. More
Holiday House, February 2009. Paper Back. A riveting account of the civil rights boycott that changed history by the foremost author of history for young people. Now a classic, Freedman's book tells the dramatic stories of the heroes who stood up against segregation and Jim Crow laws in 1950s Alabama..... More
Charles Scribners' Sons, 1970 / 1971. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo in heavily chipped & torn dustjacket. Front flap is not clipped. In black cloth covered boards with gold lettering & horizontal devices. Volume one has two inch tear in front pastedown midway in front end pages hinge. Volume two is starting..... More
Touchstone, May 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Knopf, April 1995. Hardcover. Coming of age during World War I and attaining their finest hour in World War II and the Cold War, these men--FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur--transformed America from an isolated frontier nation into a global superpower. As he tells their stories, Fromkin, author of A Peace..... More
Owl Books, September 2001. Trade Paperback. The critically acclaimed "New York Times" bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into being after World War I, and why it is in upheaval today In our time the Middle East has proven a battleground of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and..... More
Houghton Mifflin, April 1992. Hardcover. From the mysterious cave drawings at Altamira to the explosive graffiti on the walls of East Los Angeles, images in Spain and the Americas speak to us of the astonishing richness and vitality of Spanish culture. Now Fuentes, an internationally renowned novelist and diplomat, provides..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, March 2003. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A worthy heir to Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, Alexandra Fuller shares visceral memories of her childhood in Africa, and of her headstrong, unforgettable mother. "This is not a book you read just once, but a tale..... More
Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with mild edgewear. [396 pages]. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006-12-26. Trade Paperback. "Outstanding . . . The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written." --The Boston Globe "Energetically written and lucid, it makes an ideal introduction to the subject." --The New York Times The "dean of Cold War historians" (The New York Times) now presents the..... More
Penguin Books, November 2023. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Biography Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and the 43rd LA Times Book Prize in Biography Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld..... More
Knopf, October 1997. Trade Paperback. From the author of "A Gathering of Old Men" and "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't..... More
Houghton Mifflin, 1961. Cloth. The Riverside Press Cambridge Sentry Edition 10. More
Monthly Review Press, June 1998. Trade Paperback. Tracing five centuries of exploitation in Latin America, a classic in the field, now in its twenty fifth year Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also..... More
Harvard University Press, January 1916. Hardcover. Antiquity's most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner. If the work of Hippocrates is taken as representing the foundation upon which the edifice of historical Greek medicine was raised, then the work of Galen, who lived some six hundred years later, may be..... More
Butternut & Blue, January 1995. Hardcover. More
Beacon Press, 1966. Trade Paperback. Beacon press BP 35. More
National Museum of the American Indian, October 2017. Hardcover. From maps, monuments, and architectural features to stamps and currency, images of Native Americans have been used again and again on visual expressions of American national identity since before the country's founding. In the first in-depth study of this extraordinary archive..... More
Osprey Publishing (UK), November 2013. Trade Paperback. Deliver Us From Darkness is a gripping account of the paratroopers of the 3rd Battalion 506th Regiment during Operation Market Garden, drawing on years of research and more than 70 extended interviews with veterans and civilians caught up in the fighting. From the..... More
Doubleday Anchor Books, January 1958. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass Market paperback with dust stains and mild edge wear. Previous dealer's stamp on verso of front cover. [306 pages plus three page list of Anchor titles then available.]. More
Thomas Nelson, March 2001. Trade Paperback. In "THE LINCOLN NO ONE KNOWS," Webb Garrison focused his life-long study of Abraham Lincoln upon the mysteries that continue to bewilder those who try to understand the man. If Lincoln was against slavery, why did he countermand early efforts to free slaves? How..... More
William Morrow & Co. Hardcover. First edition, stated + full number line; dust jacket has small 1/2-inch to 1/4-inch tears on top of front and back, including approx. one 3/4 tear in middle of top front; notable edgewear on dust jacket at corners, spine and flap; board covers shows corner..... More