Inquisition: Hammer of Heresy (Revised)
Barnes & Noble Inc, June 1992. Hardcover. More
Barnes & Noble Inc, June 1992. Hardcover. More
Easton Press, January 1989. Leather. Gilt-decorative brown leather binding with raised spine bands. Silk endapers and ribbon marker. All edges gilt. Unread; near flawless. More
Vintage, April 2012. Trade Paperback. A spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case that powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crimes and its aftermath. - A must-read after watching Ava DuVernay's When They See Us On April 20th, 1989, two passersby discovered..... More
HarperOne, December 2003. Hardcover. More than a biography, To the Mountaintop is the history of a turbulent epoch that changed the course of American and world history. Moral warrior and nonviolent apostle; man of God rocked by fury, fear, and guilt; rational thinker driven by emotional and spiritual truth --..... More
Penguin Books, July 2004. Hardcover. Acclaimed "Vanity Fair" contributor Bryan Burrough brings to life the most spectacular crime wave in American history: the two-year battle between J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barkers. In 1933, police jurisdictions ended..... More
Basic Books, February 2008. Trade Paperback. Washington Irving-author, ambassador, Manhattanite, and international celebrity-has largely slipped from America's memory, and yet, his creations are still very well known. With a historian's eye for scope and significance, Andrew Burstein returns Irving to the context of his native nineteenth century where he was..... More
Crown, March 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has authored a personal biography of his father, George H. W. Bush, the 41st President. Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. Countless books have..... More
Crown, March 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has authored a personal biography of his father, George H. W. Bush, the 41st President. Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. Countless books have..... More
Crown, April 2021. Limited. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A deluxe, signed edition of President George W. Bush's powerful collection of oil paintings and stories spotlighting the journeys of America's immigrants and the contributions they make to the life and prosperity of our nation. The issue of immigration..... More
Cambridge University Press, June 1984. First Thus. Paper Back. Cambridge English Prose Texts consists of volumes devoted to selections of non-fictional English prose of the late sixteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries. The series provides students, primarily though not exclusively those of English literature, with the opportunity of reading significant..... More
Beacon Press, February 2004. Trade Paperback. Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. ("You have to read them.") From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur "Genius" Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female..... More
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., January 1930. Reprint. Cloth. {6 & 1/2' x 9& 1/2'} Navy blue cloth covered boards with coat of arms embossed front panel. Gold lettering along spine. Board edges worn. Cloth is slightly loose at top of spine both volumes. Library markings/stamps front end pages and..... More
I R Butts, January 1856. Hardcover. 1857 Edition; Solid binding; Clean, sturdy boards, not without general age wear, wrapped in clear archival mylar; Mild foxing present; Pencil markings present at front free end-page, text free of markings; An excellent copy, considering age. More
Penguin Classics, 1984. Mass Market PaperBack. A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with incomparable immediacy and power. The Civil War is a tense and gripping depiction of his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome -..... More
Nan A. Talese, February 1995. Book Club. Hardcover. A book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware..... More
Random House Inc, July 2004. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on a journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. "A triumph of popularization: extraordinarily knowledgeable, informal in tone, amusing, wide..... More
Nan A. Talese, October 2003. Book Club. Hardcover. The Greeks invented everything from Western warfare to mystical prayer, from logic to statecraft. Many of their achievements, particularly in art and philosophy, are widely celebrated; other important innovations and accomplishments, however, are unknown or underappreciated. In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Thomas..... More
Sourcebooks, January 2024. Hardcover. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER ?Part history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republicans. Clay Cane lays out how Black Republicanism has been mangled by opportunists who are apologists for racism. After the Civil War, the..... More
Batam, January, 1967. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with darkened margins within internal pages. [325 pages]. More
Vintage, May 2003. Trade Paperback. Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of..... More
Random House Inc, March 1990. Book Club. Hardcover. In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years. Here, Johnson's almost mythic personality--part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating--is seen at its most..... More
Knopf, May 2012. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZE Book Four of Robert A. Caro's monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led..... More
Vintage, February 1990. Trade Paperback. The story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill country. Reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy and ambition that set LBJ apart. More
Vintage, July 1975. Trade Paperback. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library's..... More
Vintage, July 1975. Trade Paperback. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library's..... More
Vintage, October 1983. Paper Back. More
Harper Torchbooks / The Academy Library / Harper & Row, 1964. Soft Cover. Octavo. Darkening/soiling to cover front and back. Heavily darkened spine. Internior pages curled from moisture exposure. Cover design by Ted Bernstein. [242 pages plus ten page list of Harper Torchbook titles.]. More
Bloomsbury Academic, April 2019. Hardcover. Victims of Nazi Persecution from the Channel Islands explores the fight and claims for recognition and legitimacy of those from the only part of the British Isles to be occupied during the Second World War. The struggle to have resistance recognised by the local governments..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, October 1996. Hardcover. "Le Carre remains far in front in his field, a startlingly up-to-date storyteller who writes as well about the shadows around the power elite as anyone alive." -Publishers Weekly Le Carre's Panama is a Casablanca without heroes, a hotbed of drugs, laundered money and..... More
Easton Press, January 1992. Leather. Brown leather bound with gold lettering and gold decorations. with raised Kit Carson portrait front in gold tooled oval. Gold textblock edges. Silk ribbon marker. Moire end pages. 250 pages. More
Simon & Schuster, November 2003. Hardcover. The first work of fiction by a President of the United States -- a sweeping novel of the American South and the War of Independence In his ambitious and deeply rewarding novel, Jimmy Carter brings to life the Revolutionary War as it was fought..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 2001. Reprint. Hardcover. In an American story of enduring importance, Jimmy Carter re-creates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm, before the civil rights movement that changed it and the country. In what is sure to become a classic, the bestselling author of "Living Faith" and..... More
Crown, October 1996. Reprint. Hardcover. For almost three decades, President Carter has regularly spent part of each Sunday reading from scripture and sharing his personal faith with neighbors, friends, and visitors at his Baptist church in Plains, Georgia. In "Living Faith," he draws on this experience, exploring the values closest..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. The former president shares his personal views on moral values as they relate to key issues today, evaluating the controversial and increasing intersection between religious and political arenas. First printing. Includes a Carter Presidential Library bookplate on front free endpaper with a...... More
Crown, November 1997. Hardcover. "I think the audio version brings a human touch..It permits me to communicate in a much more intimate fashion." --President Jimmy Carter For decades, President Jimmy Carter has been an avid student and teacher of the Bible. In recent years, the adult Sunday school classes he..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. In this urgent, balanced, and passionate book, Nobel Peace Laureate and former President Jimmy Carter argues that the present moment is a unique time for achieving peace in the Middle East -- and he offers a bold and comprehensive plan to do..... More
Random House, May 1987. Reprint. Hardcover. Second printing signed on the title page by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. More
B&H Books, August 2017. Hardcover. Thomas Johnson and Charles Spurgeon lived worlds apart. Johnson, an American slave, born into captivity and longing for freedom--- Spurgeon, an Englishman born into relative ease and comfort, but, longing too for a freedom of his own. Their respective journeys led to an unlikely meeting..... More
Picador, October 2019. Trade Paperback. The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother's extraordinary life She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine..... More
Harvard University Press, January 1924. Hardcover. Atomic atheism in verse. Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) lived ca. 99-ca. 55 BC, but the details of his career are unknown. He is the author of the great didactic poem in hexameters, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things). In six books compounded..... More
Vintage Books USA, January 2007. Trade Paperback. As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents. But the story of his rise to greatness is as complex as it is compelling. In..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, March 1991. Hardcover. In a strong, often funny, and revealing narrative, Lorene Cary recounts how she found herself suddenly catapulted into a world of privilege, when she left a black section of Philadelphia to attend a New Hampshire boarding school in 1971. Cary also describes returning to..... More
J.M. Richardson, 1826. First Edition. Cloth. First English language edition (U.K.) edition, translated from the French of Niccolao Manucci (1638–1720) and 'founded on the memoirs of Signore Manouchi, a Venetian'; according to title page of this volume. I would be guessing to assume 'Manouchi' is alternate spelling of 'Manucci', another..... More
Mariner Books, December 2004. Trade Paperback. "Nothing in our time makes the Civil War as alive as the writings of Bruce Catton." --Baltimore Sun Infinitely readable and absorbing, Pulitzer Prize-winner Bruce Catton's The Civil War is one of the most widely read general histories of the war available in a...... More
Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1989. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Sparse pencil markings present; An excellent copy. More
The Kent State University Press, November 2022. Paper Back. Signed on the title page. More
Ecco, October 2018. Trade Paperback. "Drawing upon his unique and deep academic work and policy experience, Victor Cha has produced one of the most astute, insightful, and lucid texts on North Korea. Simply put, this book is a must-read for all--experts and casual observers alike--interested in developments on the Korean..... More
Dial Press, January 1974. First Edition. Cloth. First/first. Octavo in sun-bleached dustjacket with darkening of margins. Maroon cloth covered boards with silver lettering along spine. Burgundy end pages. Moderately duststained top edge. Foxed fore-edge. [347 pages]. More
Anchor, November 2006. Trade Paperback. The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before -- and with virtually everyone outside China who..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2023. Hardcover. One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots--three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de' Medici endured..... More
Minnesota Historical Society Press, September 1993. Paper Back. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, this is Lindbergh's own account of his historic transatlantic flight in 1927. Chosen as one of the "100 Greatest Adventure Books" of all time by National Geographic Adventure magazine. More
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2023. Hardcover. In After Eden, prominent Latin American historian John Charles Chasteen provided a concise history of the world, in which he explores the origins and persistence of the timeless phenomena of humanity's inhumanity to itself. Where did it come from? Why has it..... More
Penguin Press HC, The, April 2004. Hardcover. The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation. "Grand-scale biography at its..... More
Penguin Books, March 2005. Trade Paperback. The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation. "Grand-scale biography at its best--thorough..... More
Yale University Press, September 1981. First Edition. Cloth. An authorized account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy. First/first. {9 & 1/2' x 6 & 1/2'} In tattered, torn and darkened at spine and margins. Tanned..... More
Mnemosyne, January 1969. Hardcover. No jacket as issued. Ink underlining and previous owner's name inked on f.f.e.p. More
Puffin Books, November 1985. Trade Paperback. More
Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Two corners bumped. Otherwise unmarked. More
West Virginia University Library, January 1967. Hardcover. More
W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1995. Cloth. These portraits of the emperors form the building blocks of an invaluable and highly readable popular history of Imperial Rome, brought to life using the colorful testimony of contemporary authors. Very light shelf wear on the jacket. More
Ace, January 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with curved textblock. Leaning & bowed spine. [159 pages]. More
Harvard University Press, January 1913. Hardcover. The ethics of a statesman. Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering..... More
Harvard University Press, January 1928. Hardcover. The statesman on statecraft. Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic..... More
Penguin Classics, 1987. Mass Market PaperBack. Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics. Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his pure..... More
Oxford University Press, May 2001. Paper Back. Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world. He dominated the Roman courts, usually appearing for the defense. His speeches are masterpieces of persuasion. They are compellingly written, emotionally powerful, and sometimes hilariously funny. This book presents five of his..... More
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering. In stiff cardstock slipcase wrapped in black cloth. 'Of this first edition of Submarine three hundred copies, specially bound, have been signed by the author and numbered.' 203/300. Signed by Clancy on limitation page. [328..... More
Viking Adult, September 1985. Cloth. Nice red cloth binding lettered in silver along the spine. More
Penguin Books, December 2010. Trade Paperback. 2013 is the 50th Anniversary of JFK's assassination. A narrative of Kennedy's quest to create a speech that would distill American dreams and empower a new generation, Ask Not is a beautifully detailed account of the inauguration and the weeks preceding it. During a...... More
Scribner Book Company, January 1997. Hardcover. He is the highest ranking American spy directly and personally involved in espionage, war, counterterrorism, and intrigue to make public his life. Dashing and flamboyant, with mettle akin to the granite for which his home state of New Hampshire is known, Duane "Dewey" Clarridge..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 2011. Hardcover. "I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." So said the young George Washington, something no veteran soldier would say. He had not been the target of enemy fire. Instead, he was papering over the fact that..... More
St. Martin's Press, November 2023. Hardcover. The definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multiple New York Times bestselling author. The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of one of the greatest outlaw gangs. The dreaded Dalton..... More
Vintage, 1969. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. First Vintage Edition. Well-worn paperback. More
Dell/ A Ramparts Book, February 1976. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Clean, sound mass market with light shelfwear. Textblock edges tinted turquoise with fading and dark splotches along top & fore-edge. 14th printing. [192 pages]. More
Saqi Books, April 2005. Trade Paperback. "The Shadow of God on Earth," Suleiman presided over an empire of over thirty million inhabitants representing nearly all races and religions. Since God had invested him with power, he felt obliged to ensure justice and see to the well-being of his subjects. André..... More
Spiegel & Grau, October 2015. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - ONE OF OPRAH'S "BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH" - NOW..... More
One World, October 2017. Hardcover. In this "urgently relevant"* collection featuring the landmark essay "The Case for Reparations," the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"*--including the election of Donald Trump. New York Times Bestseller - Finalist..... More
Longman Publishing Group, January 1995. Trade Paperback. More
Viking, February 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN NPR CONCIERGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "In her form-shattering and myth-crushing book....Coe examines myths with mirth, and writes history with humor... [You Never Forget Your First] is an accessible look at a president who always finishes..... More
Penguin Books, February 2021. Paper Back. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN NPR CONCIERGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "In her form-shattering and myth-crushing book....Coe examines myths with mirth, and writes history with humor... [You Never Forget Your First] is an accessible look at a president who always finishes..... More
Simon & Schuster, February 2024. Hardcover. New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most powerful job in the world: President of the United States. Former presidents have an unusual place in American life. King George III believed that George Washington's departure after two terms..... More
Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, July 1977. Oversize Softcover. No gold rush in history could match the Klondike Rush of 1896-99 in the almost insane drive of people to conquer distance and weather conditions to reach the rich deposits of placer gold in the frozen, barren area of the Klondike River..... More
AK Press, February 2015. Trade Paperback. "There is, quite literally, nothing like this book available. Various studies of anarchist culture do exist, some quite good, but none approach the breadth or depth of Jesse Cohn's study. He is able to do something different: explore what forms of anarchist resistance culture..... More
Henry Clay Press, January 1967. Hardcover. Third printing; December, 1968; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy green cloth boards with gilt lettering at front cover and spine; Clean text w/ brief inscription by previous owner present at front free end-page; Near fine dust jacket has been price-clipped w/ some very mild edge..... More
Penguin Press, February 2024. Hardcover. "Excellent . . . A more intimate picture of the dictator's thinking about world politics, local power and his relationship to the United States than has been seen before." --The New York Times "Another triumph from one of our best journalists." --The Washington Post "Voluminously..... More
C. Cacoulides, No date listed. Cloth. 12mo. In heavily worn, chipped & tattered dustjacket. Jacket damp stained in large area at bottom of spine and spreading outward onto both front and rear front panel. Large chip at head of jacket spine. Two inch by one-half inch chunk of front flap..... More
Galaxy Books, 1965. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo with creasing and dust stains. Previous owner's name in ballpoint upper right corner of half title page. Dust stains/foxing & a dark spot on fore-edge. [339 pages]. More
Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Christmas, 1970. Cloth. 12mo. {4 & 1/2' x 6'} Dustjacket missing. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine and gold emblem stamped center of front panel. Heavily dust stained with off color blotches. Fold out map at end of book. [252..... More
Oxford University Press, July 2015. Hardcover. This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete. In exile on the island of Saint-Helena, the deposed Emperor of the French mused about a great treatise on the art of war, but in the end..... More
Victor Gollancz, January 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Solid binding, gently worn at spine; Green cloth boards gently edge-worn w/ mild scuffing and soiling present; Pages free of markings; A solid copy w/o jacket. More
Backeddy Books, June 2003. Trade Paperback. More
The Johns Hopkins University Press, March 1994. Hardcover. This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. At once a reference work, a bibliographic guide, a literary study, and a reader's..... More
Macmillan Pub Co, March 1982. Hardcover. More
Harper, September 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. A NPR Best Book of the Year The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a...... More
Faber & Faber, July 2012. Trade Paperback. 'The Queen's Agent' is a story of secret agents, cryptic codes and ingenious plots, set in a turbulent period of England's history. It is also the story of a man devoted to his queen, sacrificing his every waking hour to save the threatened..... More
Simon & Schuster, August 1974. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with mild edgewear with one-half inch tear at base of spine. Darkening to jacket margins & spine. Flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering upon spine. Boards worn at bottom edge of spine. Tiny tear (one-eighth..... More
Harvest Books, September 1997. Trade Paperback. "This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read." -- Patrick O'Brian Pirates are so much a part of legend that it is easy to forget they actually existed. UNDER THE BLACK FLAG tells their..... More
Modern Library, January 1959. Cloth. In mildly edgeworn dust jacket. More
Harper Paperbacks, May 2016. Trade Paperback. From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought--a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's last stand. On June 18, 1815 the armies..... More
Duke University Press Books, May 1992. Hardcover. Irina H. Corten's Vocabulary of Soviet Society and Culture is an experiment in what Soviet scholars call lingvostranovedenie--the study of a country and its culture through the peculiarities of its language. Not a conventional dictionary, Corten's lexicon is selective, offering a broad sampling..... More
Scribner, January 1980. Hardcover. More