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| DEDIJER, VLADIMIR The Battle Stalin Lost: Memoirs of Yugoslavia, 1948- 1953 NY: Viking, 1971. 1st printing of 1st edition, fine hard cover book/light edgewear otherwise very good+ dust jacket, the author served in the partisan army during WW II & was sympathetic to the Soviets, who supported the partisans against the Germans. However, Stalin tried to silently strangle Yugoslavia after the War which turned loyalists, like Dedijer, against the So. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1032] Book number: 62007 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller. | ||
| EICHENBERG, RICHARD C. Public Opinion and National Security in Western Europe Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989. 1st printing of 1st edition, fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket, Although domestic security issues remained intact at the time of writing, the author examines the increased polarization between traditional party approaches and the younger generation will alter future policy. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1290] Book number: 101639 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller. | ||
| FILIPOVIC, ZLATA Zlata's Diary NY: Viking, 1994. 1st printing of 1st edition, fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket, The war in Sarajevo as it could only be seem to the eyes of a child. Life in 1991 was filled with birthday parties and piano lessons but was transformed into bombs dropping and all out war by 1993. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 860] Book number: 62008 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller. | ||
| FLANNER, JANET Janet Flanner's World: Uncollected Writings: 1932-1975 NY: Harcourt Brace Johanovich, 1979. 1st printing of 1st edition, fine hard cover book/closed tear otherwise very good+ dust jacket, of particular interest are early dispatches from Berlin which deal with the rise of Fascism and Hitler. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1290] Book number: 62000 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller. | ||
| FRANTZEN, ALLEN J. Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 1st edition, fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket. Still in original shrinkwrap., World War I was the first truly modern war but technology did not do away with the combatants' notion of chivalric action. USD 32.00 [Appr.: EURO 21.25 | £UK 19.5 | JP¥ 2752] Book number: 104126 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller. | ||
| GAY, PETER The Naked Heart: The Bourgeois Experience (Victoria to Freud) NY: Norton, 1995. 1st printing of 1st edition, fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1204] Book number: 62001 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller. | ||
| HAMMOND, N.G.L. The Genius of Alexander the Great Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 1st printing of 1st US edition, fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket, Perhaps, Hammonds greatest contribution is to separate reliable contemporary reports from the many fictional reports of Alexander's accomplishments. But he also demonstrates Alexander's powers of statesmanship and military genius. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 774] Book number: 101354 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller. | ||
| KUCZYNSKI, JURGEN The Rise of the Working Class NY: McGraw-Hill, 1967. 1st edition thus, foxing on end papers otherwise good in decorative wrappers (soft cover book). USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4 | £UK 3.75 | JP¥ 516] Book number: 62002 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller. | ||
| KUNCEWICZ, MARIA EDITOR The Modern Polish Mind: An Anthology of Stories and Essays by Writers Living in Poland Today NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1963. Universal Library Edition, previous owner's name on front end paper & front cover separating (but soundly intact) otherwise a clean, unmarked good copy in decorative wrappers (soft cover book). USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 | £UK 4.25 | JP¥ 602] Book number: 103596 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller. | ||
| MAASS, PETER Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War NY: Knopf, 1996. 1st printing of 1st US edition, fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket. USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.75 | JP¥ 1075] Book number: 62009 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller. | ||
| DE OLIVEIRA MARGUES, A. Daily Life in Portugal in the Late Middle Ages Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971. 1st printing of 1st edition, previous owner's ink stamp along bottom edge otherwise fine hard cover book in fine price clipped dust jacket, an indepth analysis of daily life from the 12th through 15th Centuries. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3010] Book number: 62085 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller. | ||
| SAWYER, P.H. Kings and Vikings London: Metheun, 1982. 1st printing of 1st edition, fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket, A chronicle of the Age of the Vikings with emphasis on their raiding and the settlement of Western Europe. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1204] Book number: 101791 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller. | ||
| SCHOENWALD, RICHARD L. EDITOR Nineteenth Century Thought: The Discovery of Change Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1965. 2nd printing, fine in decorative wrappers (soft cover book), writings from Darwin. USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5 | £UK 4.75 | JP¥ 645] Book number: 62004 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller. | ||
| SOUTHEY, ROBERT Journal of a Tour in the Netherlands in the Autumn of 1815 Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1902. #286 of an edition of 500 numbered copies, a dampstain on the half title page and some darkening on the front end paper from a review which had been inlaid otherwise very good+ in original slipcase/no dust jacket. USD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.5 | £UK 60.5 | JP¥ 8599] Book number: 101280 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller. | ||
| STRAUSS, FRANZ JOSEF TRANSLATED BY HENRY FOX WITH A FOREWORD BY JEAN-JACQUES SERVAN-SCHREIBER Challenge & Response: A Programme for Europe NY: Antheneum, 1970. 1st printing of 1st US edition, end papers lightly foxed otherwise good/closed tears & edgewear otherwise good dust jacket, An early call for the a united European state. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 860] Book number: 104021 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller. | ||
| TUCHMAN, BARBARA W. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War: 1890-1914 NY: MacMillan, 1966. 2nd printing, fine hard cover book/dampstain on dust jacket verso otherwise near fine price clipped dust jacket. USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.75 | JP¥ 1075] Book number: 62005 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller. |
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