New York: Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, 2009. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American Edition. Jacket edges lightly rubbed.
xxiii, 1032 pp. An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian.....
New York: Basic Books, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket faintly rubbed.
In 1992 the British Secret Intelligence Service exfiltrated from Russia a defector whose presence in the West remained a secret until the publication of The Sword and the Shield in 1999. That man was Vasili Mitrokhin.....
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
ix, 449 pp. "The story of Paris in the 1930s seems straightforward enough, with the Popular Front movement leading toward the inspiring 1936 election of.....
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institue Press, 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Light general wear to jacket.
ix, 399, [1] pp. A history of the aircraft engineered by the Supermarine Aircraft Company in England.
Melville / Pietermaritzburg: Scripta Africana / Hans Strydom Publishers / Interpak Natal. Limited Edition. Large Hardcover.
Limited edition, #746 of 1000 copies, signed by publisher on limitation page. Slipcase rubbed.
246 pp. Black-and-white photographs and illustrations in text. Includes: Prelude to Disasters: The Letters of Philip Anstruther, 1879-1880; Introduction: The.....
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Faint foxing to ridge, jacket lightly rubbed.
279 pp. A look at the political affiliations of the members of the French parliament at the beginning of the French Revolution.
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1896. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Spine lightly toned.
viii, 419 pp. A fictitious account set in Somerset Country, England.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges lightly worn.
viii, 291 pp. Edward Prince of Wales, better known as “Bertie,” was the eldest son of Queen Victoria. Charming and dissolute, he was a larger-than-life personality with king-size appetites. A lifelong womanizer, Bertie conducted.....
London: John Murrary, 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Pamphlet on Queen Victoria laid in. Jacket faded, jacket price clipped.
222 pp. The story of eight momentous years viewed from the monarchical standpoint, an account of the passing, not only of their particular world, but of the entire monarchic.....
Oberlin, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket spine toned.
ix, 166 pp. This is an introduction to the principle writers of the Enlightenment in Eighteenth Century France. French thinkers of this century made a long series of devastating attacks on old ideas.....
London: The Hambledon Press, 1984. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. Rear cover corners creased.
xi, 355 pp. While much has been written on the connections between Lollardy and the Reformation, this collection of essays is the first detailed and satisfactory interpretation of many aspects of the problem. Margaret Aston.....
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2013. 5th Printing. Hard Cover.
Fifth printing. Binding repaired.
877 pp. It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1919. Hard Cover.
Former high school library copy - usual marks. Boards soiled.
154 pp. A statistical overview of the American effort in the Great War.
UK: The Boydell Press, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Minor general wear.
xv, 355 pp. Fascinating collection of essays - Cranmer's career is set within the context of European politics and religion and his contributions to English liturgy and theology. The scope of the various essays.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1874. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Ink name on front free endpaper, pencil name on frontispiece recto, minor pencil marginalia.
485, 4 pp. With illustrations. CONTENTS: A.D. 1-100: What was in the Beginning; A.D. 100-1500: From the Primitive to the Papal; A.D. 1517-1555.....
Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1891. Hard Cover.
Marbled page ridges. Front and rear hinges starting, ink name to front endpaper.
lxii, 401 pp. With 13 maps and 20 plans. CONTENTS: Introduction: A) Belgium, B) Holland; Belgium; Luxembourg; Holland; Maps; Plans of Towns; Abbreviations.
London: The Folio Society, 1999. Hard Cover.
A fine copy in a near fine slipcase.
xxiii, 269 pp. Colonel F. M. Bailey, whose extraordinary adventures are told here, was long accused by Moscow of being a British master spy sent in 1918 to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia. As.....
New York: Madison Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1990. Ken Marschall. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Page edges and jacket flaps toned.
231 pp. This book describes the author's discovery and exploration of Nazi Germany's most magnificent battleship.
Michigan: Francis Asbury Press, 1985. Second Edition. Trade Paperback.
Second edition. Edges lightly rubbed, light smudge on rear cover.
388 pp. "A definitive biography of the intriguing and controversial Dutch thinker of the late sixteenth - early seventeenth centuries. Not merely a biography in the traditional sense, the book involves.....
New Jersey: Chartwell, 1980. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Two scratches on rear jacket panel.
64 pp. A complete history of the WWII warplane.
New York: Vintage International, 2007. 6th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Sixth printing. Pencil name on front cover verso.
445 pp. As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart of the British Empire.....
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1872. Hard Cover.
Boards of both volumes rubbed with minor split to rear board of each along spine head, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper of both volumes.
cx, 391; xiii, 555 pp. Two volume set. "Christian Friedrich Freiherr von Stockmar (22 August 1787 – 9.....
Berkeley: University of California, 1976. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Foxing to ridge.
An interpretive survey of social, political, and religious events and developments in the Carolingian empire and its successor states, centering on the emergence of the distinct institutions of medieval France, Germany, Italy, England, and other monarchies
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed.
xxvi, 334 pp. "Of all Roman emperors none, with the possible exception of Nero, surpasses Caligula's reputation for infamy. But was Caligula really the mad despot and depraved monster of popular legend or the victim.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. Hard Cover.
Edge wear.
xxvi, 334 pp. "Of all Roman emperors none, with the possible exception of Nero, surpasses Caligula's reputation for infamy. But was Caligula really the mad despot and depraved monster of popular legend or the victim of hostile ancient historians? In.....