History from A Few Used Books

This copy of Tried by War is in very good condition. Please see seven pictures.

This is a beautiful edition of The Bounty that includes many historical diagrams, maps, photos, paintings and drawings. This copy is in very good to near fine condition; please see nine pictures.

This is a high quality, hardcover edition. Please see ten pictures. The compilation of authors in this anthology is a veritable who's who of literary greats: Helen Hunt Jackson, Mary Austin, Aldous Huxley, H.L. Mencken, Upton Sinclair, Arna Bontemps, Edmund Wilson, William Faulkner, Raymond Chandler, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bertolt Brecht, Simone de Beauvoir, Truman Capote, Evelyn Waugh, Octavio Paz, Ray Bradbury,… Read more about this item

This copy of The Modern Library's 1981 paperback edition of Democracy in America shows some exterior wear and some underlining in either pen or yellow highlighter on about 20 to 30 pages, mostly within the first chapters of the book (see pictures 6 and 7 for examples). But overall the book is still in good condition. Please see eight pictures.

This copy of The Franklin Library's 1982 edition of The Annals of Tacitus is in good to very good condition. There are some light spots on a few pages (please see pictures 8 and 9, for example), but the text is clean and clear throughout. Please see nine pictures.

This copy of the Easton Press's 1979 edition of Rights of Man by Thomas Paine is bound in genuine leather and is in very good condition. Please see nine pictures.

This copy of Sylvanus G. Morley's The Ancient Maya (3rd ed.) is in fair condition. The binding is cracked, particularly on page 285 (see picture 7) but all pages are attached. The text, drawings and photos are clean and clear throughout. Please see seven pictures.

This copy of David Webster's The Fall of the Ancient Maya is in very good condition with clean and clear pages throughout. Please see eight pictures.

This copy of Michael D. Coe's anthropology of the pre-Spanish peoples of Mexico shows signs of age but is still in good condition. Please see seven pictures.

This copy of Michael Coe's 7th edition of The Maya shows some signs of wear but is relatively crisp and is in good to very good condition. There is some highlighting in yellow in Chapter 2 (see picture 3, for example) and on page 126 there is underlining in pink under a sentence (picture 4). There are beautiful photos in… Read more about this item

This copy of HSLDA's edition of The Life of Patrick Henry is in near fine condition. Please see seven pictures.

This copy of Alexandra Popoff's The Wives (of great Russian writers) is in very good condition. Please see three pictures.

This copy of the Easton Press Collector's Edition of Volume I of The Works of John Adams is bound in genuine leather and is in very good to near fine condition. There is a name label from a previous owner on the first free front page (picture 7), and there is a slight scratch on the gilt edge of the bottom… Read more about this item

This copy has some writing and underlining in blue ink on a number of pages (in the introduction and in the first 31 pages of the Journal), but the underlining doesn't affect legibility. (See second picture, for example.)

This copy of Hugh Thomas' history of the conquest of Mexico is in fine condition. Please see four pictures. "Ringing with the fury of two great empires locked in an epic battle, Conquest captures in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish Civilizations and offers unprecedented in-depth portraits of the legendary opponents, Montezuma and Cortés. Conquest is an essential work of history… Read more about this item

The book itself is in very good condition, but the dust jacket has a couple of tears: there's a two inch tear on the upper left hand side of the back cover and a smaller tear on the upper right hand side of the back near the spine (please see pictures 3 and 4).

This copy of Kevin Phillips' American Theocracy is in fine condition. Please see five pictures. "In his two most recent bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that rule—and imperil—the United States, tracing the ever more alarming path of the emerging Republican … Read more about this item

This copy of Failed States is in very good condition. Please see three pictures. "The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against ´failed states´ around the globe. In this much-anticipated follow-up to his international bestseller Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky turns the tables, showing how the United States itself shares features with other… Read more about this item

This copy of Noam Chomsky's Reasons of State shows some wear but is still in very good condition. Please see five pictures. "An essential record of Chomsky's political and social thought as it was sharpened during the upheavals in domestic and international affairs of the early 1970s, For Reasons of State includes articles on the war in Vietnam… Read more about this item