The Story of Civilization 13 Volume Set

Will and Ariel Durant

Published by Simon and Schuster

ELEVEN Volumes I to XI - ALL VOLUMES VERY GOOD WITH NO DUST JACKETS BUNDLED WITH The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant and Heroes of History by Will Durant Our Oriental Heritage 1049 pages. 1963 BOMC edition. The Life of Greece 754 pages. 1966 BOMC edition. Caesar and Christ 751 pages. 1972 BOMC edition. The Age of Faith 1196 pages. 1950 BOMC edition. The Renaissance 776 pages. 1953 BOMC edition The Reformation 1025 pages. 1957 BOMC edition. The Age of Reason Begins 729 pages. 1961 BOMC edition. The Age of Louis XIV 802 pages. 1963 BOMC edition. The Age of Voltaire 898 pages. 1965 BOMC edition. Rousseau and Revolution 1091 pages. 1967 BOMC edition. The Age of Napoleon 872 pages 1975 BOMC edition Inventory ID 658139. Nice brick red boards and gold embossing shows off this tight and sound mixed set with no marks or highlights. No Dust Jackets. Red topstains. Books have the usual shelf wear with a few bumped corners, some spotting to edges, stains and slight wear to boards. Spines are not faded. BOMC dot on back cover. None are ex-library or remainder books. BUNDLED WITH The Lessons of History Hardcover Cloth 117 pages. Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1968. Handsome black boards and silver embossing shows off this tight and sound copy with no highlights or bookplates. Slight shelf wear. Black topstain. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned with the usual minor signs of wear and/or age. Not an ex-library or remainder copy. BUNDLED WITH Heroes of History by Will Durant Hardcover Cloth 348 pages Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Ex-library First edition Fourth printing 2001 with corresponding number line. Nice tan boards with blue buckram spine and gilt embossing spotlights this Clean tight square copy with no marks highlights or bookplates. Slight shelf wear. Bumped corners. Tight binding with good hinges. Library stamp on title page with scanner codes inside rear cover and on front dust jacket. An unclipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover glued to boards. Dust jacket smooth clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear. SPECIAL PACKAGING for INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS. RHB has sold this set to customers in Australia, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom. Very good reading copy of this famous book set, INCLUDING the companion volume 'The Lessons of History' and Will Durant's 'Heroes of History'. Illustrated end papers (maps). Volumes are massively illustrated, with bibliographies, indexes, and notes. The Story of Civilization, by husband and wife Will and Ariel Durant, is an eleven-volume set of books covering Western history for the general reader. The series was written over a span of more than four decades. It totals four million words across nearly 10,000 pages. Durant said his purpose in writing the series was not to create a definitive scholarly production but to make a large amount of information accessible and comprehensible to the educated public in the form of a comprehensive "composite history". Given the massive undertaking in creating 11 volumes over 50 years, errors and incompleteness were inevitable by Durant's own reckoning; but no other historical survey matches let alone exceeds the breadth and depth of his project, he claimed. Volume 10 won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. In "The Lessons of History,". Seller Inventory # 658139

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Story of Civilization 13 Volume Set
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good