Taipei: Office of Military History, 1970. Octavo; 381 pp. Maps at back, some folding. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Photostatic copy of the text published in Moscow in 1964. Boards are square with light edgewear, along with some small spots of staining along edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked..... More
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New York: Harper & Row, 1964. Stated First Edition. Octavo. 213 pages. Signed by Bette Lord on half title with inscription, "To Bob and Janice / Curry, / I shall always / remember you for / making my happiest / day into a perfect / one. / Affectionately, / Bette..... More
New York: The John Day Company, 1968. First Edition. Signed by author without inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo. 253 pages. Black and white photographs. Price-clipped photographic dust jacket over green boards with black lettering. Jacket is worn along edges with a couple small nicks and some general..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; xxix, 617pp. Maps and illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket over shell-colored cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly edgeworn with no chips or tears; a bit faded down spine and at flap folds. Binding is sound and..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970. First Edition. Octavo; 173pp. Clear vinyl dust jacket with green printed inner flaps. Book in half green and brown cloth with gilt lettering. Jacket shows a few smudges, along with some chipping to color at top of inner flap, but no..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1931. First Edition. Octavo; xi, 166 pp. Fold-out map. Red cloth-covered boards with stamped lettering to spine. Missing dust jacket. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends with some general fading / smudging to surface and soiling down spine. Stamping to spine lettering rubbed away..... More
Esslingen: Paul Neff Verlag, 1910-1912. First Edition. Two volumes; oversize octavos (26cm.); recent full brown cloth, black paper spine labels lettered in tan; xiii,[3],350; xxi,[1],500pp.; color frontispiece, thirty-six color plates, half-tone illus. throughout text. Front hinge of Vol. I a bit loose, else a Very Good or better set in..... More
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. First Edition. Octavo. 260 pages. Signed by author to William Safire on half title page with inscription, "To Bill Safire, / In friendship and / admiration. / Richard Bernstein / 11/15/85[?]" Bernstein's first book helped establish his reputation as an expert on..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. First Edition. Octavo; xxiv + 336pp, including bibliography and index. A map, calligraphic reproduction, or historical novel illustration opens each chapter. White dust jacket of laid paper with blue and black lettering and cover illustration. Blue boards with silver lettering on spine. Dustjacket..... More
First Edition. New York: Harper and Row, 1972. First Edition. Signed by author to William Safire on half title page with inscription, "For Bill - / In admiration and / delight for the / excitement he has brought / to the Times world. / Top / New York, Nov 17..... More
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1982, 1984, 1986. First Editions. Three separate ISBNs: 0835110036; 0835111938; 0835113647. Octavo; Vol I [xxx] + 575pp; Vol II [viii] + 630pp; Vol III [viii] + 647pp. Each volume has 13 full-page illustrations reproducing lithographs made for an 1888 edition of the novel; in addition, Vol..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Volume 2 only of a four volume set. First English translation and published in the United Kingdom. Octavo, 622pp. Maroon dust jacket. Maroon textured paper over boards with lettering stamped in gold on spine and cover. Full-color illustrations throughout. Top of dust jacket has edgewear..... More