History from Veery Books

442 pp. Large 8vo, (2 lbs, 3 oz), first edition, first printing. Very good book in very good dj with only slight wear. Signed by PO with date: June 27, 1968. "Each nation liberated is a step for the liberation of one's own country."

London: Maggs Bros. Ltd., 1961. 200 pp. 765 items. Addenda 8 pp. laid in (five more items and picures). 24 pages of bw plates hors text plus frontis plate. Supplement 1, and 2. Index of subjects, index of owners, index of authors, translators, and editors. A fantastic selection of items relating to hundreds of topics. Numerous artists and composers represented.… Read more about this item

Bethesda, Maryland: Adler & Adler, 1987. 380 pp. Jacket is complete but has rubbing, some small tears and a price sticker. Book nearly perfect but for a bit of dust atop the pages. Jacques Attali was the financial advisor to Mitterand. He is the author of Bruits : essai sur l’économie politique de la musique (Noise: The Political Economy… Read more about this item

Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xi, 220 pp., map, genealogical charts. Uomo che si credeva re di Francia translated by William McCuaig. Fine in a very good dj with only slight wear. Contents: Preface (2005); Preface to the American Edition (2008); Translator's note; Map of Europe in 1360; Chapter I: At Rome; II: At Siena;… Read more about this item

New York: Christie's: New York, 2004. 179 pp. 435 lots. Lots 233-348: 'The Civil War remains the pivotal event in American history. . . . The following extensive trove of letters presents the war in all its aspects. The collection was amassed largely by an industrious private collector between 1945 and 1965 with the invaluable guidance of the legendary Ralph… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 443 & 445 Broadway, 1867. 255 pp. Four illustrations including frontis.Translation by Nathaniel Greene of Die Tochter einer Kaiserin first published in Berlin by M. Simon in 1848. First American edition. Nice blindstamped red cloth, spine gilt lettered, with some loss at top and bottom of spine, rubbing to corners. Endpapers split. Good. Handsome,… Read more about this item

Andover, UK: Pitkin Pictorials, 1980. 32 pp. A rub to the rear wrap, and a price sticker. Many unusual photographs and illustrations. ''Mavis Batey tells the story of Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, and the immortal friendship with 'Lewis Carroll', the mathematics don, which inspired the Alice books. Mrs Batey, who is married to… Read more about this item