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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century. (The First Edition Society)
by Tuchman, Barbara W
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0394400267
- ISBN 13
- 9780394400266
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First Trade . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 677 pages, indexed. Hardcover with a white pictorial dust jacket. The jacket is worn and soiled from handling and has a chip missing at the top edge of the front panel. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Map front endpapers. Original owner's inscription on the leaf facing the half title. Text appears unmarked. Stated "First Trade Edition" on the copyright page.
Synopsis
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989) achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August —a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include Bible and Sword, The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (for which Tuchman was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize), Notes from China, A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, The March of Folly, and The First Salute .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050441
- Title
- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century. (The First Edition Society)
- Author
- Tuchman, Barbara W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Trade
- ISBN 10
- 0394400267
- ISBN 13
- 9780394400266
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- 1978; Barbara W. Tuchman; World History; Europe; European; Middle Ages; Renaissance.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Europe; World History;
- X weight
- 3.5 lb
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.