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The Age of Revolution: A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume 3

CHURCHILL, WINSTON S · 1957

$33.00 (€29.94 | £24.97 | ¥5,270)

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. Stated First [American] Edition, 1957. Sir Winston Churchill's definitive history of Britain and her language-sharing offspring was begun in the 1930s but had to be delayed until the 1950s as the author w...

The Birth of Britain: A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume 1

CHURCHILL, WINSTON S · 1956

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1956. BCE. Hardcover. An American book club edition. Sir Winston Churchill's definitive history of Britain and her language-sharing offspring was begun in the 1930s but had to be delayed until the 1950s as the author was fully engaged in his dut...

The New World: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Volume 2

CHURCHILL, WINSTON S. · 1966

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1966. BCE. Hardcover. Stated Tenth Printing, 1966, of an American book club edition. Sir Winston Churchill's definitive history of Britain and her language-sharing offspring was begun in the 1930s but had to be delayed until the 1950s as the aut...

Modern Library Price Guide 1917-2000; (Second Revised Edition 1999, in Hardcover)

TOLEDANO, HENRY · 1999

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,631)

San Francisco: Books Etc, 1999. Hardcover. A second, revised hardcover edition of Mr. Toledano's indispensable guide. A must for any Modern Library collector, this guide covers the reprinted classic works published by Boni & Liveright and later by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopf...

The Tragedies of Shakespeare in Two Volumes, Volumes One and Two; (Modern Library #2. 7 & 3. 6)

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. · 1960

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1960 & 1961]. Hardcover. A complete Modern Library 2-volume hardcover set, presenting all 13 of Shakespeare's tragedies. These are two of six volumes of Shakespeare's complete works, as published by the Modern Library. Complete a...

The Best American Humorous Short Stories; (Modern Library #87. 2)

LINSCOTT, ROBERT N. (EDITOR) · 1945

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1945-63]. Hardcover. A collection of humorous stories by 31 noted American authors such as Mark Twain, S. J. Perelman, Dorothy Parker and O. Henry (43 stories in all) in a Modern Library edition. Edited and with an introductory n...

Sons and Lovers; (in Limp Leatherette Spine 3, Modern Library #109. 1)

LAWRENCE, D. H. · 1923

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York: The Modern Library / Boni and Liveright, [c.1923-25]. Hardcover. D. H. Lawrence's third novel made its appearance in 1913, and is centered around the author's Paul Morel character, whose attachment to his mother affects his relationships with women. With an introduct...

Penguin Island; (Modern Library #210. 1)

FRANCE, ANATOLE · 1952

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1952]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of Anatole France's satirical fantasy novel which was cited as a major factor in his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. Includes an introduction by H. R. Steev...

The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, Being a Collection of Essays Written in Support of the Constitution Agreed Upon September 17, 1787, by the Federal Convention; (Modern Library #139. 3)

HAMILTON, ALEXANDER; JAY, JOHN; MADISON, JAMES · 1945

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,631)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1945]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition offering the text of the "The Federalist" papers; a series of 85 essays by American founders Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison. The Federalist was influential in per...

Great German Short Novels and Stories: An Anthology (Revised Edition); (Modern Library #108. 3)

LANGE, VICTOR (EDITOR) · 1953

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1953]. Hardcover. 17 novelettes and stories by famous German writers such as Goethe (including his hugely popular "The Sorrows of Young Werther"), Heine, Hauptmann, Schnitzler, Rilke, Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann and Kafka are pres...

The Child of Pleasure; (Modern Library #98. 1)

D'ANNUNZIO, GABRIELE · 1927

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

New York: The Modern Library, [c.1927]. Flexible Leatherette. A Modern Library reprint edition of the first novel by Italy's Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938). This the story of Andrea Sperelli, a Roman aristocrat whose devotion to beauty, erotic conquest and sensation leaves hi...

Aristotle's Politics: In the Complete and Unabridged Jowett Translation; (Modern Library #228. 1)

ARISTOTLE · 1944

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1944]. Hardcover. The essential tenets of the science and art of government are described by the famous philosopher of ancient Greece. In this work Aristotle presents his basic principles of order in society in 8 books, each subd...

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Unexpurgated English Version; (First Modern Library Edition #188. 1)

SUETONIUS (GAIUS SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS) · 1931

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

New York: The Modern Library, 1931. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Stated First Modern Library Edition, 1931. The histories of the famous Roman emperors, from Julius Caesar to Domitian, have been carried forward from ancient times to the modern era largely through the efforts ...

The Wisdom of Confucius; (Modern Library #7. 2)

CONFUCIUS; LIN YUTANG (EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR) · 1959

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1959]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition offering stories and aphorisms of the great Chinese philosopher, as well as an approximately 50-page "Life of Confucius" by Szema Ch'ien. Edited and translated with notes on Confucius an...

The Complete Writings of Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War, (with Fold-out Color Map); (Modern Library #58. 2)

THUCYDIDES · 1944

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.24 | ¥5,749)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1944]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition of the famed account of the 5th and 4th Century B.C. war between Sparta and Athens. With an introduction by Joseph Gavorse, in an unabridged translation from the Greek by Richard Crawley...

The War in Outline, 1914-1918; (Modern Library #16. 2)

HART, LIDDELL · 1942

$39.00 (€35.38 | £29.52 | ¥6,229)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1942]. Hardcover. British military historian Liddell Hart's acclaimed summation of World War I in a Modern Library reprint edition. The author provides insight into the looming Second World War as well. With a brief biographical ...

God's Little Acre; (Modern Library #51. 2)

CALDWELL, ERSKINE · 1947

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1947]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of Mr. Caldwell's rollicking, humorous novel, featuring eccentric Southern farmers. This work was so controversial that it was banned in Boston and New York, and the author was a...

Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Milton; (Modern Library #132. 3)

MILTON, JOHN · 1959

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,631)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1959-60]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition presenting of all of the poetry and some of the more important prose works by the noted 17th Century British poet and advocate of free speech and freedom of the press. Includes "Parad...

The Best American Humorous Short Stories, an Anthology; (Modern Library #87. 1)

JESSUP, ALEXANDER (EDITOR) · 1962

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1962]. Hardcover. A collection of 18 humorous stories by noted American authors such as Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe and O. Henry in a Modern Library edition. These stories first appeared between the years 1839 and 1914 and were f...

Oracles of Nostradamus; (Modern Library #81. 3)

WARD, CHARLES A. (EDITOR) · 1945

$13.00 (€11.79 | £9.84 | ¥2,076)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1945]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition offering a guide to the predictions of the French astrologer, physician and prophet Michel de Nostredame (1503-1566), best known as "Nostradamus." Many historic events are believed to ha...