The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
by Tuchman, Barbara W
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- fair to good, fair
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Item Price
NZ$34.41NZ$25.81
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966. Book Club Edition. First Printing. fair to good, fair. 528, illus., endpaper illus., references, index, fore-edge foxed, DJ foxed and small chips/tears, boards slightly warped
Synopsis
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 is a 1966 book by Barbara Tuchman, collecting essays she had published in various periodicals during the mid 1960s. Each chapter deals with a different country, theme, and time (although all relate to the approximately 25 years preceding World War I).
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- Seller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 39082
- Title
- The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
- Author
- Tuchman, Barbara W
- Book Condition
- Used - fair to good, fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- European History, Pre-WW1, Aristocracy, Anarchists, Thomas Reed, Alfred Mahan, Dreyfus Affair, Hague Peace Conf., Richard Strauss
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....