Search Results: History from Lippincott Books

Clinton, N. Y.: Kirkland Press, 1899. Hardcover. GVG. [iv], 192 pp. Brown cloth, spine title gilt, top edges gilt. Wear at corners, spine edges. essays by two different authors on "The Power of the Moslem".

Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. [xviii] 110 pp with appendices. PRESENTATION COPY. "To Jonathan [Dugan - Republican Party activist] with memories of Detroit. Thomas Melady" Dated July 19, 1980. Melady was US Ambassador to Burundi, November 1969 to June 1972.

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1943. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. vi, 448, pp. Includes index. Written between July 1942 and Easter, 1943. The Western allies were just beginning to turn the tide of the war, and Borgese was exploring the shape of a post war world. An anti-Fascist, Borgese had emigrated from Italy to the United States in 1931. After the war, he taught at the University of Chicago, where he continued to work on the problem of world governance. As Secretary of the Committee to Frame a World Constitution, he was the chief author of its Chicago draft in 1947.

Tullamore, Co. Offaly: Esker Press, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. xxiv, 415 pp. Blue cloth, spine title gilt. Facsimile of first edition with a new introduction by Margaret Hogan. With 20 appendixes. One of the most important historical studies of the Irish Midlands in the 19th century. Slight foxing on top edge. VG in VG+ dust jacket.

Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 1977. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. 260 pp. grey-black cloth. Number one in the series The Montague History of Oil. A vivid social history of the early Texas oil industry and its tremendous impact on Texas and its people. With 328 black and white photographs. With index. Fine in VG+ dust jacket. Oversize: overseas customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the books will ship at cost.

London: Lawrence and Wishert, 1980. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 530 pages. With maps, 41 plates, 22 text illustrations, and indexes. A history of the National Union of Mineworkers in the South Wales area told with and through the history of the mining industry and the mining communities. Dustjacket has a few scrapes on fore-edges.

Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. 340 pp. B&W photos, appendices, index.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. Revised Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/GVG. 289 pages. In this edition, Wiggins added a new chapter addressing problems after the assasination of President Kennedy. Wiggins was Managing Editor of the Washington Post and U.S. ambassador to the United Nation under Lyndon Johnson. Includes Appendix, Notes and Index. Edges foxed. Near Fine in GVG dust jacket.

Hamburg: Junius, 1989. Soft cover. Very Good. 201, [3] Foreword by Joist Grolle, bibliography. Text in GERMAN. Illustrated with photographs and facsimilie documents.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1900. Cloth. Very Good. Fifth impression of the 1896 edition. Volume I: 377pp. Chapters on France, Italy, Germany and structure of the German Empire, and on the smaller German States. Volume II: 455 pp. Covers the German Federal Government, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland. Includes appendices and index. In 1897 Lowell became lecturer and in 1898 professor of government at Harvard, and in 1909 he succeeded Charles William Eliot as president of the university. In the same year he was president of the American Political Science Association. Maroon cloth with spine title gilt and top edge gilt. Insect damage to lower edge from ffep to p. xiii of Vol. I; water spot on spine of Vol. II; color worn away on corners and spine edges, else VG. Two volume set: overseas customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.

Cape Town: Howard B Timmins, 1952. Second Edition . Hardcover. GVG/Good. Charles D'Oyly. 272 pp, with index. Red paper-covered boards, titles stamped in black, illustrated endpapers (by Edith Stocker), 13 illustrations, color frontispiece by Dorelle. Previous owners' names on half-title, verso frontis. Wear at spine edges and along bottom edges. Dustjacket has edge wear with one large chip affecting title on front panel. The story of Cape Town's three centuries - the streets, the houses, the characters, the legends, traditions and folklore.

New York: Stein and Day, 1972. First American Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 192 pp. Red cloth backed, black paper-covered boards, spine title gilt. Previous owner's name stamped on front pastedown and tail edge. Price-intact dustjacket has light edge wear. A newspaper clipping of an aerial photo of Auschwitz taken on 25 August 1944 is laid-in.

Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1976. Cuarta [Fourth] Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/GVG. La Conquista, el emirato, y el califato; xliv, 524 pp. Includes numerous black and white illustrations, several color plates, folding time-line and indices. Dark green cloth, titles embossed gilt. Spanish language text. Light edge wear; dustjacket has heavier wear along top edge. Oversize book: overseas customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.

Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1973. Tercera [Third] Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xxiv, 838, [2] pp. With indices. Includes 3 folding plates and 3 color plates with more than 600 black and white illustrations. Dark green cloth, titles embossed gilt. Spanish language text. Light edge wear to book and dustjacket. Oversize book: overseas customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.

Haverfordwest: n.p. By Subscription, 1914. Enlarged Edition . Hardcover. GVG. [xii], 268 pp. Red cloth with titles and emblem on front panel stamped in black. 12 Illustrations, errata and addenda. Corners and edges bumped, small tear at head of spine, light foxing. Lists of Pembrokeshire words and phrases, of high sheriffs of the county of Pembroke, of mayors and sheriffs of Haverfordwest, and a list of the subscribers.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. Poortvliet, Rien. 250 pp. Tan cloth with titles stamped in red and black, illustrated endpapers. Oblong. Light wear to edges of boards. Poortvliet is well-known for his illustrations of Gnomes. Hand-written text, delightful pen & ink and color illustrations of life in Holland from the 1950s back to the early 1600s; 10 generations of grandfathers. Oversize book may require extra postage.

Boston: Meador Publishing Company, 1940. First Edition . Hardcover. GVG. 216 pp. including miscellaneous notes and references. Green cloth, title gilt. With 3 maps, one folding; 15 b&w plates; 1 illustration. Spine slant and cupped front board with just a touch of wear at spine edges; still a clean, tight copy.

Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. xix, 485pp. Green cloth, spine and title gilt. Signed by the author. Presents local and state history in the framework of national history with particular reference to the part Maine natives had in the building of the West and South. Includes historic photos, drawings, and maps. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

New York: George Braziller, 1964. Second Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/GVG. 224 pp; with index. Black cloth, titles gilt. Inscribed "for Charles and Danny lovingly Erich". From the library of Charles Bell, writer, poet, and Rhodes scholar. Bell's Greenville, Mississippi childhood included classmates Walker Percy and Shelby Foote. His first novel, The Married Land, Houghton Mifflin, 1962, was praised by William Carlos Williams. Bell's work includes three volumes of poetry, two novels, and an audio-visual opus, "Symbolic History." Bell and Kahler were close friends at Princeton. A few pages have pen notes or underlining. Bell has written "Dearest Princeton Friend - see also Man the Meaning" on the dj front flap.

New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/GVG. xx, 672 pages, with index. Book would be near fine but for red pencil underlining to several chapters. A touch of thumb soiling, name stamped on front pastedown and on tail edge. Dustjacket has edge wear particularly at spine head. "All the basic principles, current facts and history of the Money and Banking field.