Italy: Pontifical Sanctuary of Pompeii, 1990. Large Softcover.
Minor general wear.
202 pp. Collaboration between three friends of the Sanctuary: Msgr. Pietro Caggiano, Prof. Michele Rak and Prof. Angelo Turchini, has given us an authentic trilogy of "popular sacredness." In their own particular fields, each of them has "seen" the.....
New York: Nan A. Talese, 2008. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback.
3rd printing. Spine creased.
After the long period of decline known as the Dark Ages, medieval Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the.....
Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1999. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
2nd printing. An exceptional copy.
xvii, [1], 204 pp. The book explains how the Shannon Airport experiment originated through local effort spurred by sympathetic political leaders which developed into a multi-million pound enterprise in a remote location in the west of.....
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1963. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Former library copy - usual marks. Jacket rubbed, two tears along top edge of front jacket panel.
288 pp. "After the Carolina Whigs defeated their neighbors (the British-led Carolina Tories) at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in 1776, the Tory.....
New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc., 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Very good in good jacket. Several 1 inch jacket tears, 1/2 inch chip from rear jacket edge.
xiii, 267 pp. 8vo. Foreword by Sacheverell Sitwell. A firsthand account of European high society in the years preceding.....
Chicago, Ill. Chicago and Omaha Publishing Company, 1900. Large Hardcover.
Some soiling to boards, hinges starting.
196 pp. A presentation of the world's achievements in literature, science, industry, art and architecture, as shown at the Paris Exposition at the close of the Nineteenth Century.
Canastota, New York: Canastota - Oneida Area Italian American Committee, 1998. Large Softcover.
Spine bumped, smudge on bottom page ridge.
232 pp. Black-and-white photographs throughout. CONTENTS: Map of Italy's Regions; Family Histories; Poem "I Am an Italian"; Immigrant Photographs; Dedication; Descendant Photographs; Canastota; Business People Photographs; Railroad and Photographs; Boxing.....
New York: Harper Perennial, 2002. Trade Paperback.
Wrapper edges worn, pages lightly toned.
245, [5] pp. "The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, taking a million lives. And yet, most of what we know about it is wrong.....
New York: Harper Collins, 1994. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. Spine faded, light edge wear.
The Middle Ages comes to life in this fascinating history of the period told through the letters, essays, poems, and ballads of those who lived it.
New York: Facts on File, 1989. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Half inch tear along bottom edge of rear jacket panel, minor tear along top edge of front jacket panel, jacket spine base rubbed. Ink stamp on page base.
238 pp. "Describes life in Europe in 1492, and discusses.....
. Arnaldo Forni Editore, 1986. Hard Cover.
Owner bookplate on front endpaper.
346 pp. 8vo. Italian text. 1986 facsimile of the edition published in Pistoia in 1889-90. A guide to the Italian province of Arezzo, including several large fold-outs.
New York: Broadway Books, 2013. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Second printing. Edges slightly worn.
581 pp. In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod were quietly pursuing ordinary, separate lives in Paris. After the German invasion and occupation of France, each.....
Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1932. Candell, Victor. Reissue. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Light stain to spine base.
vi, 492 pp. Illustrations by Victor Candell. "Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life) is both the memoir and autobiography of Giacomo Casanova, a famous 18th-century Italian.....
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Ink underlining and marginalia.
xv, 747 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Secession and the Union; Recognition of Southern Belligerency; The Declaration of Paris; The Blockade and the Ports Bill; The First Year of the Great Strangulation; France and.....
New York: Dorset Press, 1988. Reissue. Hard Cover.
A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. Light general wear.
vii, 216 pp. "Portrays the life of Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke of Austria, and examines how his assassination contributed to the start of World War I."
New York: Modern Library, 1927. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus (Toledano 3.2). Flexible boards. Edges lightly rubbed, front hinge starting.
485 pp. "The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini was started in the year 1558 at the age of 58 and ended abruptly just before his last trip to Pisa around.....
![The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Written by Himself [Autobiography]. Benvenuto Cellini, John...](/pictures/thumb/2322674.jpg?v=1646883433)
London: Phaidon Press, 1960. Pope-Hennessy, John. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Jacket edges lightly rubbed, front jacket flap price-clipped. Pencil note on front free endpaper.
xiv, 498 pp. Translated by John Addington Symonds. Introduced and illustrated by John Pope-Hennessy. Benvenuto Cellini (/ˌbɛnvəˈnjuːtoʊ tʃɪˈliːni, tʃɛˈ-/, Italian: [beɱveˈnuːto tʃelˈliːni]; 3 November 1500 –.....
London: John Churchill and Sons / J.E. Adlard, 1865. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First edition in book form. Presentation copy - 'With the author's compliments' in ink on front endpaper, owner bookplate on front paste-down, faint stain to board edges.
95, [1] pp. 8vo. An examination of the health benefits.....
New York: Random House, 1952. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Light general wear.
808 pp. "First published in 1952, Witness is the true story of Soviet spies in America and the trial that captivated a nation. Part literary effort, part philosophical treatise, this intriguing autobiography recounts the famous Alger Hiss case.....
New York: Random House, 1952. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Front hinge starting, pencil name on title page.
808 pp. "First published in 1952, Witness is the true story of Soviet spies in America and the trial that captivated a nation. Part literary effort, part philosophical treatise.....
New York: Bantam Books, 1983. Sharpe, George. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket edges lightly toned.
237 pp. A storyteller in the court of King Arthur recounts the legendary tales about the adventures of the King's ancestors.
New York: John McBride Company, 1909. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Spine and boards lightly toned, boards lightly rubbed, light stain on spine and boards, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper.
320 pp. "Marguerite Georges (1787–1867) was a French stage actress. She was one of the most famous French actresses of her.....
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Small tear along bottom edge of front jacket panel.
xix, 218 pp. "How the letter was forged by a group of reckless Russian emigres in Berlin. How it was planted in the European intelligence network. How.....
. Elibron Classics / Adamant Media Corporation, 2005. Reissue. Trade Paperback.
2005 facsimile of the 1900 original.
xviii, [3], 296 pp. A biography of the Baroness de Bode, who fled France during the French Revolution, took refuge in Germany, and was later granted an estate in southern Russia by Empress.....
. Kessinger Publishing, 2007. Reissue. Trade Paperback.
Modern print-on-demand reproduced from the 1910 original.
xvi, 17-[316] pp. A biography of the daughter of King George III, which includes extracts from private and unpublished papers, and reproductions of several portraits.