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Duce! A Biography of Benito Mussolini

By: Collier, Richard

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1971

Seller ID: 2200938

ISBN: 0670286036

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Pages heavily toned. Jacket toned. 1971 Hard Cover. 447 pp. Includes black-and-white photographs. October, 1922. The Tivoli Gardens. The Blackshirts are ready for the march on Rome. So begins Richard Collier's riveting account of the rise and fall of Benito Mussolini, founder of the Fascist Party. Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (Italian pronunciation: [be'ni?to musso'li?ni]; 29 July 1883 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista; PNF), ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943. He ru...
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Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry, with Intimate Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV., in Two Volumes.

By: Comtesse du Barry [Jeanne Vaubernier]; Delahanty, George Kendal

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Rugby Press: 1903

Seller ID: 2015728

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Spine & edges toned, front hinge of vol. 1 starting, ink name & address on front endpaper. 1903 Hard Cover. xii, 228; iv, 229-454 pp. 8vo. Original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt titles, coat of arms on front boards. An autobiography by Jeanne Vaubernier, the Comtesse du Barry, mistress of Louis XV. A necklace Louis had made for her played a significant role in the French Revolution, of which she became a victim.
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The Alabama Claims: American Politics and Anglo-American Relations, 1865-1872

By: Cook, Adrian

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press: 1975

Seller ID: 2304906

ISBN: 0801408938

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Jacket stained, jacket edges rubbed with a few small tears. Ink underlining and marginalia throughout. 1975 Hard Cover. 261 pp. ...the first modern account of the settlement of the Alabama Claims--America's demands for compensation from Great Britain for the damage done by the Confederate cruisers that were allowed to escape from British ports during the Civil War.
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Twenty-Five Great Houses of France: The Story of the Noblest French Chateaux

By: Cook, Theodore Andrea; Ward, W.H.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Offices of 'Country Life' / George Newnes, Ltd.: 1916

Seller ID: 2271258

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

Tipped in photographic frontispiece loose but included. Edges faded, boards rubbed with several splits to spine cloth, with some old tape repairs to the head and foot by a previous owner, endpapers lightly foxed. Binding holding strongly, interior pages clean and unmarked. 1916 Large Hardcover. xl, 436 pp. Folio. A survey of twenty-five magnificent French chateaux, featuring a map showing their locations, reproductions of architectural drawings, and photographs showing how they appeared at the time of publication.
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A History of Philosophy: Volume 5, Part II -- Modern Philosophy: The British Philosophers, Berkeley to Hume

By: Copleston, Frederick

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Image Books/Doubleday: 1964

Seller ID: 2205997

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

Spine creased, minor ink underlining and marginalia. 1964 Mass Market Paperback. 236 pp. This fifth volume of the series covers the whole scope of British philosophy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although the main discussion is concerned with the giants of that period--Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley and Hume--other movements of far-reaching significance receive extensive treatment, among them the Cambridge, Platonists, Ethicists such as Shaftesbury, Mandeville, and Paley, the Deists, and the Scottish philosophers of common sense who succeeded Hume. Conceived originally as a serious...
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Women of the Shadows

By: Cornelisen, Ann

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1976

Seller ID: 2159306

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Personal copy of Abraham A. Rothberg with his blind stamp on the title page. Rothberg was a Jewish author whose books reimagined traditional Jewish stories and legends, and touched on themes relevant to the diaspora. Ink gift note on front endpaper. Very Good. 1976 Hard Cover. 228 pp. 8vo. A study of the lives of several women in Naples, Italy, with photographs by the author.
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An Answer to That Part of the Narrative of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, K. B.. Which Relates to the Conduct of Lieutenant-General Earl Cornwallis, During the Campaign in North-America, in the Year 1781

By: Cornwallis, Earl

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Research Reprints, Inc.: 1970

Seller ID: 2303244

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1970 reissue of 1783 original. No jacket. Top page ridge very faintly foxed. 260 pp. General Sir Henry Clinton, KB (possibly 16 April 1730 23 December 1795) was a British army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1772 and 1795. He is best known for his service as a general during the American War of Independence. First arriving in Boston in May 1775, from 1778 to 1782 he was the British Commander-in-Chief in North America. In addition to his military service, due to the influence of his cousin Henry Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, he was a Member of Parliament...
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Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed

By: Cornwell, Patricia

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 2002

Seller ID: 2285058

ISBN: 0399149325

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 387, [1] pp. 8vo. The number-one New York Times-bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell is known the world over for her brilliant storytelling, the courage of her characters, and the state-of-the-art forensic methods they employ. In this headline-making new work of nonfiction, Cornwell turns her trademark skills for meticulous research and scientific expertise on one of the most chilling cases of serial murder in the history of crime-the slayings of Jack the Ripper that terrorized 1880s London. With the masterful intu...
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Waterloo: Wellington, Napoleon, and the Battle That Saved Europe

By: Corrigan, Gordon

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Pegasus Books: 2014

Seller ID: 2307660

ISBN: 1605986526

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Top edge of jacket lightly bumped. Ink underlining throughout. 2014 Hard Cover. xxiii, 341 pp. Wellington remarked that Waterloo was a damned nice thing, meaning uncertain or finely balanced. He was right. For his part, Napoleon reckoned the English are bad troops and this affair is nothing more that eating breakfast. He was wrongand this gripping and dramatic narrative history shows just how wrong. Fought on Sunday, June 18th, 1815, by some 220,000 men over rain-sodden ground in what is now Belgium, the Battle of Waterloo brought an end to twenty-three years of almost continual...
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Poland: Land of the White Eagle

By: Corsi, Edward C.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Wyndham Press: 1933

Seller ID: 2307287

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Spine faintly toned. 1933 Hard Cover. 224 pp. UNTIL the Treaty of Versailles the Polish nation was without a country. For more than a century the buffer-state of Central Europe had no representation on the map. Today when the area, population and resources must be recognized and her strategic position taken into account, Poland remains to many people of the Western world merely the name of a country. That is the reason for this book. It is not intended as a history of Poland nor yet is it an exhaustive treatise on the cultural or economic conditions of the country. It is written rat...
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Image for Coryat's Crudities, in Two Volumes: Hastily Gobled Up in Five Moneths Travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia Commonly Called the Grisons Country, Helvetia Alias Switzerland, Some Parts of High Germany and the Netherlands; Newly Digested in the Hungry Aire of Odcombe in the County of Somerset, and Now Dispersed to the Nourishment of the Travelling Members of This Kingdome

Coryat's Crudities, in Two Volumes: Hastily Gobled Up in Five Moneths Travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia Commonly Called the Grisons Country, Helvetia Alias Switzerland, Some Parts of High Germany and the Netherlands; Newly Digested in the Hungry Aire of Odcombe in the County of Somerset, and Now Dispersed to the Nourishment of the Travelling Members of This Kingdome

By: Coryat, Thomas

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Glasgow, James MacLehose and Sons: 1905

Seller ID: 2198603

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Rear corner of second volume lightly stained, both volumes lightly foxed throughout, owner bookplate on each front endpaper, pencil notes on rear blanks but no marks in text. 1905 Hard Cover. Complete in two volumes. xx, [2], 427, [1]; xi, [1], 435, [1] pp. 8vo. 1905 reissue of the work originally published in 1611 (Pine-Coffin 608). A travel memoir of journeys through Europe and Asia by the British writer, who often traveled on foot. Among the number of interesting accomplishments to his credit are the introduction of the table fork to England, and the introduction of the word 'umbrella' to t...
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Thomas Wright's Political Songs of England: From the Reign of John to That of Edward II

By: Coss, Peter

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1996

Seller ID: 2272429

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1996 reissue of 1839 original with a new introduction and added editorial material. No jacket, remainder mark, pencil mark on rear paste-down endpaper. lxxix, 408 pp. With Latin and English text. This book contains a collection of political verses, venality satires and songs of social protest from medieval England. First edited by Thomas Wright in 1839, these so- called political songs are reissued here on behalf of the Royal Historical Society. The collection provides a fascinating insight into medieval responses to contemporary events. A new and wide-ranging introduction by Peter Coss offers...
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Queen Victoria: Her Grand Life and Reign - A Complete Story of the Career of the Marvelous Queen and Empress, and a Life of the New King, Edward VII, with a Brief History of England

By: Coulter, John; Cooper, John A.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: ., John Coulter: 1901

Seller ID: 2303157

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Gilt titles and decorations a bit rubbed. 1901 Hard Cover. 566 pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles, engraved portrait of Victoria on front board, black-and-white plates from illustrations by eminent artists. A biography of the ruler of the world's largest empire, which also includes a biography of King Edward VII and a brief history of England.
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Life of John Stuart Mill (Great Writers)

By: Courtney, W.L.; Robertson, Eric S.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: London, Walter Scott: 1889

Seller ID: 2308291

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Loss to spine head and spine base, rear board lightly soiled, ink name and date on half-title page. 1889 Hard Cover. 194, xi pp. Ten pages of publisher ads follow text. John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 7 May 1873), usually cited as J.S. Mill, was an English philosopher, political economist, and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy. Dubbed the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century, he conceived of liberty as justify...
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The Romanovs

By: Cowles, Virginia

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1971

Seller ID: 2295695

ISBN: 0060109084

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Front jacket flap price clipped. 1971 Hard Cover. 288 pp. With colour photographs specially taken in Russia by Victor Kennett. The Romanov dynasty, which ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917, included some of the most bizarre, scandalous, violent and tragic figures of history. Miss Cowles, who has already published two books on the latter days of the Tsars, presents now a portrait gallery of the outstanding members of this almost incredible family, cutting away the mass of obscure and unfamiliar historical detail which surrounds them, and studying each one individually as a human pers...
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Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Power (Princeton Legacy Library)

By: Cox, John D.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press: 1989

Seller ID: 2263725

ISBN: 0691067651

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 1989 Hard Cover. xviii, 282 pp. Ranging over all the dramatic genres in the Shakespearean canon, this book focuses on plays where medieval drama most clearly illuminates Shakespeare's treatment of political power and social privilege.
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Viaggio Nelle Province Meridionali del Regno di Napoli (A Tour Through the Southern Provinces of Naples)

By: Craven, Richard Keppel; Mozzillo, Atanasio; Carlino, Carlo

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Catanzaro, Abramo: 1996

Seller ID: 2198624

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Owner bookplate on front endpaper, 1 inch split to rear endpaper at top of hinge - binding still holding very strongly, bound in ribbon marker a bit frayed at end. 1996 Large Hardcover. xxxi, 274 pp. Italian text. A 1990 Italian translation of the work originally published in 1821 as A Tour Through the Southern Provinces of Naples (Pine-Coffin 818.2). The son of a baron, [h]e published in 1821 A Tour through the Southern Provinces of the Kingdom of Naples, and in 1838 Excursions in the Abruzzi and Northern Provinces of Naples, in 2 vols. The former of these two works is embellished with views ...
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The Regent and His Daughter

By: Creston, Dormer; Guedalla, Philip

Price: $7.00

Publisher: London, Thornton Butterworth, Ltd.: 1933

Seller ID: 2283700

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

2nd printing. Boards rubbed, two ink names on front endpapers, front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1933 Hard Cover. 320 pp. 8vo. A biography of the daughter of King George IV. Includes illustrations and portraits.
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Romanovs Revisited, 1860-1960

By: Crips, David William

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Sweden, Rosvall Royal Books: 2005

Seller ID: 2303487

ISBN: 9197567116

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. Corners of boards lightly bumped. 2005 Large Hardcover. 94 pp. A unique collection of Romanov pictures, some extracted from old and forgotten glass-plates, others from old Cabinet portraits, Postcards and private snapshots.
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The Yugoslav Drama

By: Crnobrnja, Mihailo

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Montreal & Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press: 1996

Seller ID: 2297718

ISBN: 0773514295

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Second edition. Minor sticker adhesive on rear wrapper, wrappers faintly toned, page ridges faintly foxed. 1996 Trade Paperback. xiv, 304 pp. Crnobrnja discusses in detail the part of the drama most visible to the world -- the rapid dissolution of the country following civil war and internationalization. He emphasizes the dichotomy between the lack of compromise on the part of the Yugoslav participants and the natural tendency to compromise that characterizes both the European Communities and the processes and actions of the United Nations. In a synthesis of the immediate situation, he draws t...
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Napoleon Bonaparte: An Intimate Biography

By: Cronin, Vincent

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company, Inc.: 1972

Seller ID: 2269867

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Sticker remnant on front endpaper, jacket lightly toned. 1972 Hard Cover. 480, [6] pp. 8vo. A biography of the French general and statesman incorporating newly discovered (at the time) primary sources, with 23 pages of illustrations.
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City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas

By: Crowley, Roger

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2013

Seller ID: 2305498

ISBN: 0812980220

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Sticker remnant. 2013 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. The New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea charts Venices astounding five-hundred-year voyage to the pinnacle of power in an epic story that stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. City of Fortune traces the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga, from the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminates in the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, to the Ottoman-Venetian War of 14991503, which sees the Ottoman Turks supplant the Venetians as the preeminent naval ...
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DeGaulle: The First Complete Biography

By: Crozier, Brian

Price: $10.00

Publisher: ., Charles Scribner's Sons: 1973

Seller ID: 1815034

ISBN: 0684129965

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes original jacket. First edition. Two tiny tears at head of jacket spine, jacket reverse gently toned. Very Good. 1973 Hard Cover. ix, 726 pp. A biography which discusses DeGaulle's dealings with Churchill & Roosevelt, as well as his attitude toward Communism. Crozier records the events of the period and sheds light upon DeGaulle's successes and failures.
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De Gaulle (The Library of Great Lives) [DeGaulle]

By: Crozier, Brian; Nixon, Richard

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1990

Seller ID: 2274207

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Publisher insert and bookplate laid in. 1990 Full-Leather. xiii, [3], 726 pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece portrait of De Gaulle. A biography which discusses De Gaulle's dealings with Churchill & Roosevelt, as well as his attitude toward Communism. Crozier records the events of the period and sheds light upon De Gaulle's successes and failures.
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The Treaty of Washington: It's Negotiation, Execution, and the Discussions Relating Thereto

By: Cushing, Caleb

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1873

Seller ID: 2305675

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine head and spine base and corners rubbed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1873 Hard Cover. 280 pp. The Treaty of Washington was a treaty signed and ratified by Great Britain and the United States in 1871 during the first premiership of William Gladstone and the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. It settled various disputes between the countries, including the Alabama Claims for damages to American shipping caused by British-built warships, as well as illegal fishing in Canadian waters and British civilian losses in the American Civil War. It inaugurated permanent peacef...
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The Secret Memoirs of the Duchess D'Abrantes, 1784-1838

By: D'Abrantes, The Duchess [de Pernon, Laura]; Chantemesse, Robert; Sutton, Eric

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Brentano's:

Seller ID: 2294822

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No publisher date. Jacket edges rubbed with a few chips along top edge, jacket spine lightly toned. Light stain along top page ridge. 320 pp. Laura de Pernon, Duchess D'Abrantes is the heroine of this passionate romance that has been brought to light for the first time in these memoirs. It is a moving drama of love and jealousy, darkened by the madness and tragic end of her husband, who was Napoleon's aide-de-campe.
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Columbus

By: D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Parin

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, A Dell Picture Yearling Special: 1992

Seller ID: 2308612

ISBN: 044040701X

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very minor general wear. 1992 Large Softcover. 56 pp. The story of the life and adventures of Christopher Columbus follows the Genoa-born seaman as he sails across the Atlantic Ocean in search of the treasures of the East.
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Nicholas II: The Interrupted Transition

By: d'Encausse, Helene Carrere; Holoch, George

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Holmes & Meier: 2000

Seller ID: 2290590

ISBN: 0841913978

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2000 Hard Cover. xiii, [1], 321, [1] pp. 8vo. A biography of the last Emperor of Russia, translated into English from French historian Helene Carrere d'Encausse's 1996 original by George Holoch. d'Encausse examines Nicholas's early life, and the reasons for the Romanov dynasty's decline and ultimate demise.
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The Memoirs and Correspondence of Madame d'Epinay, in Three Volumes

By: D'Epinay, Madame [Louise Florence Petronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles]; Freese, J.H.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, H.S. Nichols Ltd.: 1899

Seller ID: 2289600

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition, one of 500 copies. Boards lightly soiled, bookplate of Alexander Cochrane on each front endpaper. 1899 Hard Cover. Complete in three volumes. xlviii, 337, [3]; vii, [1], 348; viii, 356 pp. 8vo. Translated, with an introduction and notes, by J.H. Freese. Includes frontispieces of Madame d'Epinay, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Le Baron de Grimm. Madame d'Epinay was a French writer, a saloniste and woman of fashion, known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who gives unflattering reports of her in his Confessions, as well as ...
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Pregi di Pisa Compendiati da Alessandrio da Morrona, Patrizio Pisano per Utilita de Culti Cittadini e Forestieri

By: da Morrona, Alessandro

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Pisa, Dai Torchj di Ranieri Prosperi: 1816

Seller ID: 2199182

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Fold-out included. Wrapper corners slightly curled, a few faint wrapper creases, ink name on front flyleaf, faint stain to margin of a few pages. 1816 Trade Paperback. lii, 252 pp. Buff wrappers, paper spine label. Engraving precedes text, fold-out map of Pisa bound in following text. An early 19th century celebration of the city of Pisa. A street in modern-day Pisa is now named after the author.
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