A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century INSCRIBED
by Tuchman, Barbara W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
New York: A. Knopf, 1978. Stated First edition. HC w DJ. PC VG/VG+. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Clean black cloth boards, minor shelfwear, some fading to top edge, illustrated endpapers, FO plate to FFEP recto. Unclipped ($15.95) DJ minor wear to edges, in mylar protector. INSCRIBED by author (to late Vanderbilt Engineering professor, Ernest Freudenthal) to half-title page. Illustrated.Two newspaper book review clippings, and Orange County Register newspaper author obituary laid in. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.
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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- Bookseller
- Refuge Books: Used & Rare
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 210407
- Title
- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century INSCRIBED
- Author
- Tuchman, Barbara W
- Format/Binding
- HC w DJ
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Stated First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Pages
- 677
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- Plate
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- Inscribed
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- PC
- Partially chipped (dustjacket)
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