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The Proud Tower: A Portrait Of The World Before The War, 1890-1914
by Barbara W. Tuchman
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Oswestry, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966. 1st. Hardback. Very Good. First edition hardback, 1966, with no jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards just a touch rubbed to edges but remain clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; toning to page-ends but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Hall of Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 221609
- Title
- The Proud Tower: A Portrait Of The World Before The War, 1890-1914
- Author
- Barbara W. Tuchman
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Bookseller catalogs
- History / International;
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About the Seller
Hall of Books
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Oswestry, Shropshire
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Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- Crisp
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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