Cavanaugh Gerald Editors (5 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First Printing. 411 pp. Selections from the principal historical works of 20th century writers. Brown cloth. Binding tight, text clean. Sl. edgewear to jacket, and spine is faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Printing, Volume Four. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Very clean and completely unmarked brown and gold cloth, square,with brown titles; , tight and solid with endbands, square with sharp corners. Lower corner of text block edge is lightly smudged and there is a light spot on the top edge, otherwise fine. Internals are quite clean and completely free of any markings, lightly toned pages. Jacket is sunned, clean and unmarked; not price-clipped; with a closed tear on the rear upper edge. A handsome volume. The fourth and final volume of this series is comprised of selections from the principal historical writers of the 20th century--on many historical topics-- The Eighteenth Century and the Historical World by Wilhelm Dilthey; Cosmopolitanism and the National State by Friedrich Meinecke; Tirpitz' Naval Propaganda by Eckart Kehr; ; History of Belgium by Henri Pirenne; Feudal Society by Marc Bloch; ; French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre; ; Economic History of Spain by Jaime Vicens Vives--and much more. 411 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Harper & Row Publishers, New York, 1972.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jackets have some edgewear. Volume 4 dust jacket slightly lighter than others. MIld age spotting to text blocks. Pages of text are clean, bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.***.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Complete set of four hardcovers with dustjackets, all are first printings, published between 1972-1975, The only remarkable book flaw is moderate bumping to the corners of Volume 4, all bindings are tight and clean and the contents are fine, jacket flaws are as follows: Volumes 1 & 2 are price-clipped, a couple of small tan blemishes to Volume 3, minor edge-wear to all volumes mainly confined to the spine-ends and the spines are a bit sunned, the jackets are clean and presentable overall and professional (removable) mylar covers are included, this set contains "selections from those historical writings valued for their durability," the ISBNs are as follows: 0-06-011473-8, 0-06-011472-X, 0-06-0114746, 0-06011476-2.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Dates: 1972-75. 431 pp., 406 pp., 325 pp., and 411 pp. Full two tone cloth (beige & dark purple); Vols. 3 & 4 text block fore-edges lightly soil-speckled, else near fine. Contents fine. Printed djs; lightly soil-dusted, spines sun-browned, else very good. Excerpted famed works of Western historians from ancient Greece to mid-20th century: Herodotus, Thucydides, Caesar, Augustine, Froissart, Machiavelli, Bossuet, Hume, Gibbon, von Ranke, Macaulay, Marx, Henry Adams, Maitland, Dilthey, Pirenne, Bloch, Panofsky, Beard, others. 54 historians and their works, in all.