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THE INVENTION OF YESTERDAY: A 50,000-Year History Of Human Culture, Conflict, And Connection.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: PublicAffairs, (2019). SIGNED first edition - An exploration of the nature of history by this Afghanistan-born author. "From language to culture to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2019. Maps, bibliography. 418 pp.
Condition: Very good in glossy white wrappers (crease to lower corner of front cover, otherwise appears unread).
Book ID: 78416More details Price: $30.00 -
RED FAMINE: Stalin's War on Ukraine.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Anchor Books/Penguin Random, (2018). A history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes by this Pulitzer award winning writer: "The consequences of which still resonate today. In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization - in effect a second Russian revolution - which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. . . Applebaum argues that more than three million of those dead were Ukrainians who perished not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy but because the state deliberately set out to kill them." Maps. Extensive notes, selected bibliography, index. xxxiii, 544 pp. ISBN: 978-0804170888.
Condition: Fine (as new)
Book ID: 90281More details Price: $16.50 -
THE CONQUEST OF FAMINE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at major famines over the years - in China, India, Ireland, and Russia - and of attempts to prevent them, including the Indian Famine Code of 1887 and more recently the role of the United Nations - but even as it acknowledges the activities of the rulers of India in pre-colonial days to ameliorate conditions when drought caused a shortage of food, it downplays the role of British colonialism in ignoring the plight of the people and in putting in place policies that caused massive death tolls. Photographs, references, index. vii, 216 pp. ISBN: 0-701120479.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64714More details Price: $17.50 -
HUMAN SMOKE: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dust jacket - a "deeply moving indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and '40s. Incorporating meticulous research and well-documented sources -- including newspaper and magazine articles, radio speeches, memoirs, and diaries -- the book juxtaposes hundreds of interrelated moments of decision, brutality, suffering, and mercy. Vivid glimpses of political leaders and their dissenters illuminate and examine the gradual, horrifying advance toward overt global war and Holocaust." Extensive notes, index. 566 pp. ISBN: 1416567844.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 50941More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BATTLE OF BOSWORTH.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: St Martin's, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Book published on the 400th anniversary of the Battle of Bosworth, where Richard III was slain, and Henry became the first of the Tudor kings. A well-produced and written work, illustrated with many photographs, and with an extensive appendix on sources, notes, index. 199 pgs, slightly oversized format, printed on heavy stock, bound in black cloth with gold lettering on spine. ISBN: 0-312-069723.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (embossed seal of previous owner.)
Book ID: 49152More details Price: $25.00 -
QUEEN VICTORIAÕS DAUGHTERS.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Appleton-Century, 1938. Hardcover - Photographs, index. 315 pp.
Condition: Very good in lavender cloth (spine faded), lacking the dj.
Book ID: 23816More details Price: $15.00 -
THE VILDE AFFAIR: Beginnings of the French Resistance.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Boris Vilde and the beginnings of the French Resistance in Paris, after the fall of France to the Nazis in June 1940, by this noted World War II historian. Based on access to documents not previously accessible, and interviews with the survivors and families of those who were executed. Illustrated with photographs. Author's note, index. xiv, 287 pp. ISBN: 0-395253500.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (price-clipped)
Book ID: 88205More details Price: $21.50 -
GUESTS OF THE AYATOLLAH: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2006). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle with militant Islam. "On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days" - a crisis which changed the world. Illustrated with photographs and maps. SIGNED on the title page. Appendix, source notes, index. 680 pp. ISBN: 978-0871139252.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83482More details Price: $35.00 -
DANGER ZONE: The Coming Conflict with China.
Edition: First printing.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A provocative and urgent analysis of the US-China rivalry." Notes, index. xix, 275 pp. ISBN: 978-1324021308.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (a few corners dog-eared)
Book ID: 88451More details Price: $20.00 -
THE AXEMAKER'S GIFT: A Double-Edged History of Human Culture.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the history of mankind from the first stone axe to the supercomputers of today, and how those with the genius to invent, lead, design, heal have brought the earth to the brink of destruction. Illustrated with drawings by Ted Dewan. Bibliography, index. 348 pp. ISBN: 0-399140883.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket. (tear at lower corner of dj flap)
Book ID: 40753More details Price: $18.00 -
EARTHLY POWERS: The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe, from the French Revolution to the Great War.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A sweeping history covering two hundred years of the battles between religion and politics. Illustrated with both full color and black and white plates. Notes, an extensive bibliography and index. 530 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0580933.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 47359More details Price: $25.00 -
A BOOK OF SMUGGLERS.
Edition: 1st edition.
New York: Scribner's, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - A history of smuggling in the British Isles and in the early years of America. Illustrated.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 2587More details Price: $18.00 -
THE TURBULENT CITY: PARIS 1783 TO 1871.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1963) dj. Hardcover first edition - A history of Paris in the years immediately preceding the French Revolution of 1798 and of most of the century following it. Translated from the French by Denise Folliot. 330 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (a bit of rubbing to the dj) .
Book ID: 88876More details Price: $24.50 -
PACK OF THIEVES: How Hitler and Europe Plundered the Jews and Committed the Greatest Theft in History.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Prize-winning journalist's expose of the 'detailed systematic looting' of Europe's Jews - by the Nazis, their collaborators, the neutrals, and even the Allies, to steal billions form the Jews of Europe before, during, and after the Holocaust - even 50 years later, assets are still being held in Swiss banks. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-385487630.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (slight spine slant.)
Book ID: 38151More details Price: $14.00 -
TRADE NEGOTIATIONS IN THE TOKYO ROUND: A Quantitative Assessment.
Edition: First printing.
Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - A discussion of the expansion of international trade after World War II, and especially of the effects of the reduction of trade barriers, including protective tariffs and the economics of future trade liberalization. Includes many charts, appendices and graphs. Index. xiv, 314 pp. ISBN: 0-815714726.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (some wear to the ends of the dj spine)
Book ID: 90400More details Price: $25.00 -
COMMUNISM, FACISM, & DEMOCRACY: The Theoretical Foundations.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Random House, 1969. 704 page, including index.
Condition: Fair condition only. (edge wear, front cover creased, creased spine)
Book ID: 14504More details Price: $8.50 -
ELIZABETHANS ERRANT: The Strange Fortunes of Sir Thomas Sherley and His Three Sons As Well in the Dutch Wars as in Muscovy, Morocco, Persia, Spain and the Indies.
Edition: First printing.
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - A reconstruction of the lives of 4 unconventional Elizabethan rogues, gentlemen on the make, ambassadors and secret agents, world travelers, pirates, goverment officials, and debtors, and also a picture of the society of the time. Illustrated, extensive notes, index. 337 pages.
Condition: Fine in a very good dustjacket (some edgewear at the bottom of the spine.)
Book ID: 16279More details Price: $25.00 -
FLIGHT 149: A Hostage Crisis, a Secret Special Forces Unit, and the Origins of the Gulf War.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88448More details Price: $18.50 -
THE WORLD UNTIL YESTERDAY: What Can Learn from Traditional Societies?
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - This Pulitzer Prize-winning author returns to the past in search of a better future. Based in large part upon his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Illustrated with both full color and black and white photographs. Further readings, index. xi, 499. ISBN: 978-0670024810.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 78423More details Price: $25.00 -
BOMBS BEARDS AND BARRICADES: 150 Years of Youth in Revolt
Edition: First printing.
New York: Stein & Day, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Written at the height of the student movement in the late 60's, this is an attempt to place it in historical perspective - topics range from student revolutionaries in Germany in 1815 to the beats in the 50's.
Condition: VG/G (worn and chipped edges of dj.)
Book ID: 6324More details Price: $15.00 -
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: an Almanac.
Edition: First edition.
New York: World Almanac Publications, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - This provides a panoramic view of the issues, the personalities, the astounding progress and the appalling tragedies that have overtaken the world since the epochal year of 1900. Includes black-and-white photographs and index.
Condition: Good only in likedust jacket (book- edge wear, corners slightly bumped, dj- edge wear, 1-inch tear bottom front cover)
Book ID: 14485More details Price: $12.50 -
A START IN FREEDOM.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - An "account of Sir Hugh Foot's career as a British diplomat in some of the most troubled spots around the world" - including Palestine, Nigeria, Jamaica and Cyprus- in "an era when colonies are cutting loose from dependency to become fully fledged nations in their own right, and the bitterness of nationalism has erupted throughout the world along with the idealistic call to freedom." Illustrated with four cartoons and an inserted section of black-and-white photographs. Index. 256 pp.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (R stamped on front endpaper, partially price-clipped, edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 90209More details Price: $16.50 -
COAL: A Human History.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Perseus Books, (2003.). First edition - A fascinating look at the history and uses of coal from the days of the Romans and ancient Brits and 12th China to its role in fueling the industrial revolution - with an emphasis on the social costs of coal, including the exploitation of miners, the deadly smoke that hung over the cities and the continuing contribution to global warming. Photographs, notes, bibliography. 295 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 30454More details Price: $15.00 -
RISKS OF UNINTENTIONAL NUCLEAR WAR.
Edition: 2nd printing, a trade paperback.
Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, (1983). Published in cooperation with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. A sudy which is still relevant in our world today. From the summary: rather than a nuclear war being caused accidentally (the Dr Strangelove scenario), it is more like that "an acute international crisis may act as a catalyst to trigger a nuclear war not in fact intended by the Governments concerned." Glossary, Bibliography. xxxi, 255 pp. ISBN: 0-86598106X.
Condition: Nea fine in glossy wrappers.
Book ID: 90734More details Price: $21.50 -
THE WORLD IS FLAT: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2005). Hardcover first edition - A " concise history of globalization, discussing a wide range of topics, from the 9/11 attacks to the growth of the middle class in both China and India" by this Pulitzer prize winning author. Index. viii, 488 pp. ISBN: 978-0374292881.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71850More details Price: $20.00 -
AN HONOURABLE DEFEAT: A History of German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-1945.
Edition: Full size book club edition.
New York: Henry Holt, (1995.) dj. Hardcover - Based on interviews with the few survivors and their families, this is a comprehensive look at those who resisted the power of Hitler and the Nazis from inside Germany. "The numbers are small. Scattered across the landscape that was Nazi Germany, the Resistance looks puny: too little, too late. And yet, in the context of a police state, it assumes larger proportions. For those who have never known life under such a regime, it is hard to grasp the daily terror that makes an act of political graffiti a capital offense, that labels resistance 'treason.' " Illustrated with maps and photographs, with a chart of resistance groups. Includes chronology, a 'who's who', notes, bibliography and index. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-805035141.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 39530More details Price: $12.50 -
A THREAD ACROSS THE OCEAN: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A fascinating account of an epic struggle, lasting over 40 years, and one of the most extraordinary engineering feats of the 19th century, which culminated in 1866 when the Old and New Worlds were united by the successful laying of a telegraph cable that spanned the Atlantic. Photographs, Notes, bibliography, index. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-802713645.
Condition: Very good in a fine dust jacket (gift inscription on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 37363More details Price: $12.50 -
SOVIET LAND: The Country, Its People and Their Work.
Edition: First edition.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1947. dj. Hardcover first edition - A "comprehensive, non-political account of the land and its people" Illustrate with eighty-five photographs and 141 maps, diagrams and drawings. Index. 324 pp. Map on rear endpapers.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (previous owner's name on front endpapers, dj is price-clipped, has several short tears).
Book ID: 67015More details Price: $15.00 -
THE WOMEN OF THE COUSINS' WAR: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52762More details Price: $20.00 -
THE NEXT CENTURY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1991). Hardcover first edition - A book which reflects on the recent past and offers a wide-ranging perspective on the startling changes now reshaping the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and an analysis of Japan's rise to its present position in the world's economy. I don't think he could have imagined how prophetic he was being when he said the American century is over! 126 pp. ISBN: 0-68810391X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79640More details Price: $15.00