FS: $7 EUROPEAN HISTORY
jshorb
Dear Friends:
We have the following books on European history for sale at $7 each. All
hardbacks. Add postage (see end of message). Thanks.
A EUROPEAN PAST: MEMOIRS 1905-1945, 1988, Norton, first edition
(stated), 229 pages, VG/VG, very light chipping. (A German Jew growing
up in Germany 1905-33).
SPACE, TIME AND ARCHITECTURE: THE GROWTH OF A NEW TRADITION (The Charles
Elliot Norton Lectures for 1938-39) by Sigfried Giedion, 1952, (9th
printing), Harvard University Press, 665 pages, 321 illustrations. A
very good copy but no dj.
SPECIAL TREATMENT: THE UNTOLD STORY OF HITLER'S THIRD RACE by Alan
Abrams, 1985, Lyle Stuart, stated first edition, 261 pages, a very good
copy (remainder mark) in a very good dust jacket very light edge wear),
clean, bright & tight.
HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS: ORDINARY GERMANS AND THE HOLOCAUST by
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, 1996, Knopf, 622 pages, a very good copy in a
very good dust jacket (crease on inner flap, light edgewear on front).
Clean, bright & tight. This book lists for $21 plus postage on
Amazon.com.
THE ARMADA by Garrett Mattingly (Professor at Columbia University),
1959, Houghton Mifflin, stated first edition, a very good+ copy in a
very good+ dust jacket (price clipped, small edge tear on rear dj, same
to edge of spine). Clean, bright and tight - very nice. The story of the
sinking of the Spanish Fleet by the British (and some bad weather).
WINSTON CHURCHILL AND HIS INNER CIRCLE by John Colville (Winston
Churchill's private secretary), 1981, Simon & Schuster, first edition,
287 pages, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket (crease on inner
flap of rear of dj, light edge wear to dj, remainder stamp on bottom
edge of pages. A clean, bright and tight copy of this memoir of
Churchill's secretary in the 1940's and 1950s.
A RUSSIAN PRINCESS REMEMBERS: THE JOURNEY FROM TSARS TO GLASNOST by
Ekaterina Meshcherskaya, 1988, Doubleday, first edition (stated), 228
pages, VG/VG (previous owner's name on ffep).
WILLIAM THE SILENT by Nina Brown Baker, 1947, Vanguard, 271 pages, a
very good copy (hinge a little loose) in a very good dust jacket (price
clipped, light edge wear, lightly chipped). A clean & bright copy. A
young person's biography of the liberator of the Netherlands from the
hands of the Spanish.
CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL by Arnold Toynbee, 1948, Oxford University Press,
263 pages, a very good copy in a good dust jacket (moderate edge wear,
small tears and chips, moderate shelf wear). Interior is clean
throughout. A series of papers on the condition of our civilization by
the famous historian. He also examines the role of the historian in
analyzing the present state of affairs.
THE GERMANIC PEOPLE: THEIR ORIGIN, EXPANSION & CULTURE by Francis Owen
(University of Alberta), 1990, Dorset Press, 317 pages, a very good copy
(previous owners inscription on ffep) in a near fine dust jacket. There
is no price on the dust jacket but there is no indication of book club
status - and no blind stamp. ISBN 0-88029-579-1
RUSSIA TRANSFORMED: BREAKTHROUGH TO HOPE by James H. Billington, 1992,
The Free Press, first edition, 202 pages, a near fine copy in a near
fine dj, clean bright and tight. James Billington is the Librarian of
Congress and a noted Russian scholar. This book documents the failed
coup of 1991 and the revolutionary events that followed. Billington was
in Russia when these events took place.
BALKAN GHOSTS: A JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY by Robert D. Kaplan, 1993, St.
Martin's Press, first edition (stated), 307 pages, NF/NF, a very nice
copy, (BALKAN HISTORY).
MEMOIRS OF HOPE: RENEWAL AND ENDEAVOR by Charles De Gaulle, 1971, Simon
& Schuster, 392 pages, a very good copy (remainder dot) in a very good
dust jacket (one chip), clean and bright.
ELIZABETH AND PHILLIP: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT by Geoffrey Bocca, 1953,
Henry Holt, first edition (stated), 248 pages, VG/VG (price marked rear
inner board in red marker, dj has minor rubbing but overall nice copy,
(ROYAL FAMILY)
THE GEORGIAN GENTLEMAN (high life and low life in 18th century Britain)
by Michael Brander, Saxon House, 223 pages, a near fine copy in a near
fine dust jacket. A clean, bright and tight copy of this close-up
examination of the 18th century English gentleman, his manners, habits,
etc.
THE ROTHSCHILDS: A FAMILY PORTRAIT by Frederic Morton, 1962, Curtis
Publishing, 305 pages, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket
(shelf wear, protective Mylar cover over dj). A very nice copy of this
history of the great financiers of Europe.
SOVIET WOMEN: WALKING THE TIGHTROPE by Francine Du Plessix Gray, 1993,
Doubleday, 213 pages, a near fine copy in a near fine dj. Clean, bright
and tight
RIDING THE STORM: 1956 - 1959 by Harold Macmillan (British Prime
Minister), Harper & Rowe, stated first US edition, 786 pages, a very
good copy in a very good dust jacket, clean, bright & tight.
Please let me know if you are interested.
Sincerely,
Gerard
Gerard and JoEllen Shorb
3119 Dillon St.
Baltimore, MD 21224
U.S.A.
410-342-7721
email: jsh...@worldnet.att.net
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