Andalus: Spain Under The Muslims Hole, Edwyn Book Number: 65826 ISBN: Robert Hale, London 1958. 8vo. hardcover. 189pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Fair chipped d/w. Price: $12.00
Catherine de Medici: A Biography Frieda, Leonie Book Number: 65039 ISBN: 184212725X Weidenfeld & Nicolson, UK, 2003. 8vo. hardcover. 440pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Very good, light toning to page edges. / Very good d/w. Price: $20.00
THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE A Portrait in Photographs Obolensky, Chloe: Book Number: 2218 ISBN: Jonathan Cape, London, 1980. 31x24cm(4to), maroon cloth spine gilt, beige boards gilt dec, xvii + 345pp, map, chronology. 1st ed. Compilation covering the years c1855-c1914. A very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. Price: $30.00
The King: A Life of King Juan Carlos of Spain Vilallonga, Jose Luis De Book Number: 33408 ISBN: 0297813587 London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1994 8vo hardcover 194pp, b/w illus. very good+ / very good+ d/w. This is a biography of Juan Carlos who became king of Spain in 1975, on the death of Franco in whose shadow he grew up. A man of calm personality and sharp political perception, King Juan Carlos starved off the 1981 military coup and went on to become the architect of the modern Spanish state. The author is a long-time friend of the king and has build up, through long hours of discussion with Juan Carlos, an objective view of the man, his motives, doubts and desires. Price: $25.00
Germany and the Germans Ardagh, John Book Number: 25379 ISBN: 0241121167 London Hamish Hamilton New Rev 8vo hardcover 478pp very good, pages browned. / very good d/w. Bibliography: p. 465-467. b/w map. Includes index. Price: $15.00
Napolean and Josephine: The Improbable Marriage Bruce, Evangeline Book Number: 39524 ISBN: 0297816098 Wiedenfeld & Nicolson 1995 8vo. hardcover. 555pp. index, b/w illus. very good, owner's name verso fep. / very good d/w. Price: $25.00
Bonaparte Barnett, Correlli Book Number: 37240 ISBN: 004944011X London Allen and Unwin 1978 4to hardcover 224pp index, colour & b/w illus. very good / good+ d/w. Price: $12.00
The Lions of July: Prelude to War, 1914 Jannen, William Jr. Book Number: 60779 ISBN: 0891416374 Presidio 1997 Trade paperback. 456pp. Very good. Index. Jannen provides good insight into the gory details of the last days of diplomacy before the war erupted. Price: $16.00
The Return of History and the End of Dreams Kagan, Robert Book Number: 52795 ISBN: 9781843548126 Atlantic Books, London, 2008 8vo. Softcover. 115pp. near fine. Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once again competing for honor and influence. Nation-states remain as strong as ever, as do the old, explosive forces of ambitious nationalism. The world remains “unipolar,” but international competition among the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raise new threats of regional conflict. Communism is dead, but a new contest between western liberalism and the great eastern autocracies of Russia and China has reinjected ideology into geopolitics. Finally, radical Islamists are waging a violent struggle against the modern secular cultures and powers that, in their view, have dominated, penetrated, and polluted their Islamic world. The grand expectation that after the Cold War the world would enter an era of international geopolitical convergence has proven wrong.
For the past few years, the liberal world has been internally divided and distracted by issues both profound and petty. Now, in The Return of History and the End of Dreams, Robert Kagan masterfully poses the most important questions facing the liberal democratic countries, challenging them to choose whether they want to shape history or let others shape it for them. Price: $8.00
Uncovered Editions - Tragic Journeys: The Loss of the Titanic, 1912/R.101 : The Airship Disaster, 1930/the Munich Air Crash, 1958 Coates, Tim (Editor) Book Number: 46587 ISBN: 0117024651 Uncovered Editions. The Stationery Office 2001 8vo softcover 343pp very good. Uncoverd Editions are historic official papers which have not previously been available in a popular form. The series has been created directly from the archive of The Stationery Office in London and the books have been chosen for the quality of their story-telling. Price: $16.00
The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire Wheatcroft, Andrew Book Number: 58916 ISBN: Folio Society, London 2004. 8vo. hardcover. 548pp. Top edge gilt. colour illus. Near Fine, spine slightly faded. / Very good+ slipcase. Price: $18.00
Phares Ouest: Les phares majeurs de l'arc Atlantique (French Edition) Lighthouses Plisson, Philip and Guillaume Plisson and Text by Daniel Charles Book Number: 59543 ISBN: 0842771168 Editions Du Chene 1999 Folio Hardcover in d/w. Very good. Maps. Illustrated throughout with photographs of Lighthouses of the Atlantic. Text is in French. Includes Portugal, Spain, France, Ports of Industry and Commerce ( in Britain I think), Ireland, Scotland. Price: $45.00
THE TRAGEDY OF LEON TROTSKY. SEGAL, Ronald Book Number: 5482 ISBN: 0091385008 London, Hutchinson & Company, 1979. First edition. Black cloth, 445pp, illustrated. An important intellectual biography of the great revolutionary. Very good. / Very good d/w. Po name on fep. Price: $12.00
The Wall Came Tumbling Down Bornstein, Jerry Book Number: 4794 ISBN: New York, New York: Arch Cape Press, 1990 First edition. 4to. Hardcover. 93pp. Colour & b/w illus. Very good / very good d/w. Price: $12.00
Venice 697-1797. A City, A Republic, An Empire. Zorzi, Alvise Book Number: 58889 ISBN: 1585671320 The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers 2001 4to. hardcover. 302pp. index, colour illus. Near Fione, remainder dot on bottom edge. / Very good+ d/w Price: $25.00
Galileo: Heretic Redondi, Pietro Book Number: 37271 ISBN: 0713990074 London Allen Lane 1988 8vo hardcover 356pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w with creased front flap. A look at the politics surrounding the persecution of Galileo. Price: $25.00
FIVE YEARS OF MY LIFE Dreyfus, Alfred Book Number: 3852 ISBN: New York, N.Y. Peebles Press 1977. 253pp.b/w illus. Near fine/good price clipped d/w Price: $12.00
The Fair Face Of Flanders. Carson, Patricia. Book Number: 21659 ISBN: Ghent: E. Story-Scientia, 1978. Large 8vo. hardcover. 282pp. index. two fold-out maps at rear, (one has minor damage). b/w illus. very good. / good d/w with chipped top edge. Price: $18.00
Benito Mussolini Hibbert, Christopher Book Number: 27550 ISBN: London: The Reprint Soc, 1962. 8vo. hardcover. 415pp. index, b/w illus. very good, outer page edges browned. / good, lightly chipped d/w. Price: $15.00
Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence Brucker, Gene Adam Book Number: 34156 ISBN: 0520056558 Berkeley University of California Press 1986 8vo hardcover 138pp b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. In 1455, Lusanna, the beautiful widow of an artisan, brought an ultimately un successful suit against Giovanni, an aristocrat, seeking legal recognition of their clandestine marriage. The author skillfully reconstructs the story of these former lovers. Their dispute, and affair, is amply documented in the sometimes seamy witness testimony contained in Florentine court records. While this case is a highly atypical example of one woman's determined challenge to the social norm, the resultant court battle sheds additional light on Renaissance Florence's class system as well as con temporary legal, moral, and sexual con ventions. This work is a fine example of microhistory, which emphasizes the story of specific events or ordinary peo ple hitherto ignored. Recommended particularly for academic history and women's studies collections. William F. Young, SUNY at Albany Lib. Price: $15.00
The Other Europe Rupnik, Jacques Book Number: 32229 ISBN: 0297794655 London Weidenfeld and Nicolson in association with Channel Four Television Co. Ltd 1988 8vo hardcover 279pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Price: $12.00
Seven days of freedom: The Hungarian uprising 1956 Barber, Noel Book Number: 32369 ISBN: 0812817303 New York Stein and Day 1974 8vo hardcover 266pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Price: $15.00
Hannibal Bradford, Ernle Book Number: 34254 ISBN: 0333281918 Macmillan, London 1981 8vo hardcover 223pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Price: $22.00
The French Revolution in Two Volumes Carlyle, Thomas Book Number: 34387 ISBN: UK: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1967. Everyman''s Library. 8vo. hardcovers. pp.351,399. index. very good. / very good d/ws Price: $25.00
METTERNICH 1773-1859. A Study of his Period and Personality. CECIL, Algernon. Book Number: 35068 ISBN: Eyre and Spottiswoode, London.1947 8vo. hardcover. 324pp. index, b/w frontis. good, owner's name and stamp on fep. / no d/w. Price: $15.00