The Wild Muse

The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield: A Tragedy of the Gilded Age (American Portraits, 1)

Brands, H. W. · 2011

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Anchor First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Anchor, 2011, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 207pp., illustrated. As new. Book 1 of 2 - American Portraits. The two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War traces the extrao...

Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia

Meyer, Karl E.; Brysac, Shareen Blair · 1999

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Counterpoint First edition, trade softcover. Published Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999, first printing. Large 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", xxv+646pp., illustrated with b/w plates, maps. Clean, bright, near fine. The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle b...

The Honoured Society: The Sicilian Mafia Observed

Norman Lewis · 1984

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Hippocrene Books First edition, trade softcover. Published NY:Hippocrene Books, 1984, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 274pp., illustrated with b/w photos. Tiny ding on edge of last few sheets, else fine. Traces the history of the Sicilian mafia, looks at their feuds, customs,...

America's Constitutional Soul (The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought)

Mansfield ,Jr., Jr Harvey C. C. · 1993

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Johns Hopkins University Press First edition, trade softcover. Published Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, first printing. Large 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", xi+236pp. Fine. In America's Constitutional Soul, one of America's leading political theorists and most pen...

Ill Met By Moonlight

Moss, W. Stanley · 2010

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Paul Dry First edition thus, trade softcover. Published Philadelphia: Paul Dry, 2010, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 212pp., illustrated. As new. Ill Met By Moonlight is the gripping account of the audacious World War II abduction of a German general from the island of Cret...

Holy Russia: An Historical Companiion to European Russia

MacLean, F. · 1985

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Century Publishing Trade softcover. Published London: Century Publishing, 1982, second printing (1985). 8vo. wrappers, 347pp. Fine. Traces Russia's blood-stained and tumultuous history from the earliest times and describes the magnificent countryside, the splendid cities and ...

The Siege at Peking (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks)

Fleming, Peter · 1986

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Oxford University Press First edition, trade softcover. Published Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1986, second printing. 8vo. wrappers, 273pp., illustrated. Fine. In June 1900, the foreign Legations at Peking were attacked by Imperial Chinese troops, with the support of...

Operation Sea Lion - An account of the German preparations and the British counter-measures

Peter Fleming · 2003

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Pan Books Trade softcover. Published London: Pan Books, 2003, second printing. 8vo. wrappers, 333pp., illustrated. Near fine. In the summer of 1940 the Germans prepared to launch Operation Sea Lion, the invasion of England. The British, barely recovered from Dunkirk, rallied ...

On Horseback Through Asia Minor

Burnaby, Frederick · 1996

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Oxford University Press First edition, trade softcover. Published Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, x+366pp. Age tone to the paper, mild stain on flyleaf. Very good. In the savage winter of 1876 Captain Frederick Burnaby rode 1,000 miles e...

The Pathfinders: The Saga of Exploration in Southern Africa

Becker, Peter · 1987

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Penguin Books First edition thus, trade softcover. Published London: Penguin Books, 1987, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 282pp., illustrated. Some age toning to the paper. Very good. Describes the early hunters, traders, sailors, prospectors, missionaries, scientists, and a...

House with Wisteria: Memoirs of Turkey Old and New

Edib, Halide · 2009

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Transaction First edition thus, trade softcover. Published New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2009, first printing. Introduction by Sibel Erol. Large 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", xxxvii+407pp. As new. This edition of Halide Edib Adivar's Memoirs, prefaced with Sibel Erol's excellent...

The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi

Leone Modena · 1988

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Princeton University Press First edition thus, trade softcover. Published Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988. Large 8vo wrappers., 6" x 9 1/4", xxv+308pp., illustrated. Very good plus, clean bright. Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major intellectual figure of th...

My Ears Are Bent

Mitchell, Joseph · 2001

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Pantheon First edition thus, revised edition. First printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Pantheon, 2001. 8vo., xiii+299pp., illustrated As new in as new dust jacket. Joseph Mitchell worked first at The World, then as a district man at The Herald Tribune, and th...

On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)

Mencken, H. L. · 1996

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Johns Hopkins University Press First edition thus, first printing. Trade softcover. Published Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 8vo. wrappers, xxii+ 375pp. Near fine. Near Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing Baltimore 8vo 377

Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style inAmerican Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956-1965 (LOA #330) (Library of America)

Hofstadter, Richard · 2020

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Library of America First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Library of America, 2020. 8vo., 1047pp. Small spot at front edge of four sheets, else fine in fine dust jacket. Together for the first time: two masterworks on the undercurrents of the...

Latitude Zero: Tales of the Equator

Guadalupi, Gianni · 2001

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Carroll & Graf First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Carroll & Graf, 2001. 8vo., xiii+258pp. As new in as new dust jacket. It extends 24,000 miles, farther and longer than any other measure on earth. Yet the equator is a wholly imaginary con...

O Albany!: An Urban Tapestry

Kennedy, William · 1984

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Viking Sixth printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Viking, 1984. 8vo., xii+402pp., illustreated with b/w photos. Very good in very good dust jacket. An historical profile of the capital of New York documents the neighborhoods, ethicity, culture, society, and col...

Ray Farabee: Making It Through the Night and Beyond [SIGNED}

Farabee, Ray · 2008

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Rockingham Books Signed first edition, first printing. Softcover. Published Rockingham Books, 2008. 8vo. wrappers, illustrated with b/w photos. xi+322pp. Inscribed by author on title page. Mild cover curl, else fine. Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 1st Printing 8vo 336

The Fate of Admiral Kolchak

Fleming, Peter · 1963

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Rupert Hart-Davis First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963. 8vo., xvi+253pp., illustrated with b/w photos. Minor bump at top front corner, else near fine in very good dust jacket. Near Fine Very Good 1st Edition 1st Pr...

Century of Moses Montefiore (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

Lipman, Vivian D.; Lipman, Sonia · 1985

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Published for the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with the Jewish Historical Society of England First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with the Jewish Historical S...