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History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s
by Ash, Timothy Garton
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375503536
- ISBN 13
- 9780375503535
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Random House Inc, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Ex-Library First Printing. Hardcover Ex-Lib Book and Jacket in Good Condition. Library markings only defect-they are minimal and neat. A history of the present, a contemporary historian writing primarily as a witness to the events he is treating, as an outside as well as an inside witness--on Bosnia, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Germany, France, Vaclav Havel, Mikhail Gorbachev, etc. The quality of writing makes it also good literature. Clean, tight and solid volume, edges rubbed. Internals very clean and free of any markings except a small pale lib stamp on the ffep, and a circular lib sticked on the rear paste-down. Stamp on top edge of text block. Jacket very clean, unclipped, no edgewear. 450 pages. 8vo. 2000, Random House, New York
Synopsis
Timothy Garton Ash is the author of The File, In Europe's Name, and three volumes of "history of the present": The Polish Revolution (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), The Uses of Adversity (for which he was awarded the Prix Européen de l'Essai), and The Magic Lantern, his personal account of the revolutions of 1989, which has now appeared in fifteen languages. A Fellow of Saint Antony's College, Oxford, he lives in Oxford with his wife and two sons. From the Hardcover edition.
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- 018771
- Title
- History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s
- Author
- Ash, Timothy Garton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375503536
- ISBN 13
- 9780375503535
- Publisher
- Random House Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- HISTORY, EUROPE; POLITICS; GOVERNMENT 1989-; BOSNIA; CROATIA; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; HAVEL, VACLAV; GORBACHEV, MIKHAIL; BULGARIA;
- Bookseller catalogs
- History. European;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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