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New York:: Harper & Row,, (1963). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (a bit of rubbing to the dj) .. First US printing. 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… Read more about this item

New York:: Harper & Row,, (1962). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a good only dust jacket (prev owner's name stamped on bottom edge of textblock, price-clipped, sunning to spine, edgewear).. First edition. Kohn was an American historian and philosopher, who pioneered the academic study of nationalism. Born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, then… Read more about this item

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, (1974). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (a few scattered ink notations and marginal lines, price-clipped). First printing. The first thorough analysis of the growth of "the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s, and its unique role in managing Russian society. The development of… Read more about this item

New York:: W. W. Norton & Company,, (2022). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a fine dust jacket (a few corners dog-eared). First printing. "A provocative and urgent analysis of the US-China rivalry." Notes, index. xix, 275 pp.

New York:: PublicAffairs,, (2021). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a near fine dust jacket.. First printing. "On 1 August, 1990, British Airways Flight 149 departed from Heathrow airport, destined for Kuala Lumpur. It never made it there, and neither did its nearly 400 passengers and crew. Instead, Flight 149 stopped in Kuwait, as Iraqi troops… Read more about this item

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1977.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (price-clipped). First printing. 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… Read more about this item

London:: Daily Graphic / Pitkin Publishing,, n.d. (1952). Hardcover first edition -. Good only in a good dust jacket (corners bumped, some bleeding from the red cloth to upper corners of the last several leaves, edgewear to dj).. First edition. From the dust jacket: "The period covered by this record embraces the closing months of the noble… Read more about this item

New York:: Harper Collins,, (2005). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (crease to flap of dj).. First printing. A book which uses the naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805 "to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic.. . This was a battle… Read more about this item

New York:: Oxford University Press,, 1975.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A fascinating discussion of the human dimension of place names - that is who gave a place a particular name, how has it changed over the years, and why has it changed. Divided into four parts: Man, the Namer, The Mind… Read more about this item

New York:: Crowell,, (1968). Hardcover -. Good only in a good dust jacket (some dampstaining to the outer edges of the textblock, printed on the usual very thin paper, short tears to dj edges. ).. Taiwan piracy. An inexpensive printing of this detailed study not just of the events at the death camps themselves but of the… Read more about this item

New York:: Atlantic Monthly Press,, (1988). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (a bit of rubbing to the edges of the black dj).. First printing. The author's second book, based on hours of interviews with "Joseph Pallehner" (the fictitious name of a real person) which begins shortly after World War II,… Read more about this item

New York:: Summit Books,, (1991). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Kahn was two years old in 1944 when her father, a Jew and a French Resistance fighter, was murdered by Nazi Klaus Barbie, the 'Butcher of Lyon.' "Forty-three years later, as chief political reporter for the magazine Le Point , she… Read more about this item

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, 1958.. Good overall - usual toning to the pages. . Trade paperback. One of the most important books by this "angry young sociologist" - a book which presents the idea that the prevention of World War III is the most important task of the present day, but also comments that… Read more about this item

New York:: Atlantic Monthly Press,, (2006). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. 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… Read more about this item

New York:: William H. Morrow,, (1991). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. 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… Read more about this item

New York:: Tarcher Perigee / Penguin, , (2009). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A book by one of the "big picture" thinkers - an "erudite, tough-minded, and far-reaching manifesto. Never has the world seemed so completely united - in the form of communication, commerce, and culture - and so… Read more about this item

London:: George Allen & Unwin,, (1984). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in glossy white boards. . First printing. Number 5 in the London Research Series in Geography. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Notes, bibliography, index. xix, 115 pp.

New York:: Viking,, (2013). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. 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,… Read more about this item

New York:: PublicAffairs,, (2019). SIGNED first edition -. Very good in glossy white wrappers (crease to lower corner of front cover, otherwise appears unread).. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) 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… Read more about this item

New York:: Harper Collins,, (2003). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a fine dust jacket (previous owner's name). First printing. An examination of the world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano - Krakatoa - which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly… Read more about this item