Historical Text (69 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Has more than 350 pages and contains articles by George Higgins, Jonathan Yardley, Red Smith, Tom Wicker, Robert Creamer, Wilfrid Sheed, Mordecai Richler, Roy Blunt, Jr. with the historical text by David Nemec. Is filled with black and white photographs. Has the same gold cover as the hard back original. The last baseball is now 1970-1980. This was the First Revised Edition. In good condition. I have hundreds of books on the history of baseball in stock. Discounts are available on multiple purchases on the same order.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Essays by Robert Creamer, Red Smith, Roy Blount, Jr., Mordecai Richler, and George Higgins. Also a Portfolio of Baseball Art- 1876-1978:Sixteen pages of color. Has 352 pages and more than 200 color illustrations. A large tabletop book. Both the clipped Dust Jacket and the book are in very good condition. I have more than 300 Books on the History of Baseball and over 2,500 Baseball Publications in stock. Discounts available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Over-sized softbound (quarto in an oblong format). AS NEW. No wear to the covers. No spine creasing from opening. Pages tight clean no marks. No name. No musty odor. No water damage. No soiling. No sun fading.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 4to, 79 pp., color plates throughout. Wrappers a bit dull, handled and edgeworn.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Contents Include: The Meiji Period and Japan's Response to the West; Photography in Nineteenth Century Japan; Notes; Description of Photographic Processes; Index of Commercial and Amateur Photographers. Card covers. Good to good+ tight condition with slight wear to cover edges and corners. 151 pages. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Includes bibliographical references and index. The Ultimate Literary Companion to the World's Greatest Game.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Illustrated Cloth. Condition: Good+. 1966 Edition; Illustrated end pages, textblock very clean and tight; Illustrated cloth binding, worn and frayed board corners usual rubbing to tips of spine and edges, bumped corners, creasing along the spine on front cover. 224pp., including notes and indeces. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Otto Maya (food photography); George Geygan (special Oil portraits) (illustrator). Hardcover. …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 144 pages; 8 3/4 x 11 1/4" Shipping will be extra for this heavier book, please inquire. Jacket in mylar sleeve. Marlene Wisuri (photo selection and editing) (illustrator).

Condition: very good. Fifth Printing. Quarto, 352, wraps, illus. with over 800 photos, table, index, small edge tear to top margin of a few pages. Contains essays by Robert W. Creamer, Jonathan Yardley, Wilfrid Sheed, Red Smith, Roy Blount, Jr., Tom Wicker, John Leonard, Mordecai Richler, and George V. Higgins.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First edition. Oblong 8vo, 151 pp., b/w plates throughout. Head and heel of spine bumped, dampstain at heel. Interior clean and unmarked except for previous owner's blind stamp on front free endpaper. Jacket worn, chipped, stained.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 209 pages. Illustrated. Liquid stains along page ends, especially beginning around page 173 to the end. Size: 10.75 x 8.75. Tennessee Courthouses.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Fine. See scans and description. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2004 (1999 copyright). 'Greater Syracuse - a Twentieth-Century Album', by Dennis J. Connor (Onondaga Historical Association Text). Tall octavo, illustrated semi-gloss wraps, 128 pp. Fine; just short of As New, in fact. A thorough photo-recollection of the history of the Salt City from 1900 to 1999. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LG7.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in original wrappers with mailing label. Complete issue. Candice Bergen, cover photograph of Charlie and Oona Chaplin and six photographs in the text with two historical photographs (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Volume 2 only. Thick octavo. Frontispiece illustration, musical notations. Condition: ex-library copy with library markings, label and pocket; minor wear to DJ; bottom edges of front and rear covers rubbed; else good in good DJ. 1098 pages.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 9" X 12", 60 pages of photographs, names and history. SCARCE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. one page with corner crease, dust jacket lightly worn at extremities, small tear at top edge of back panel, tiny chip at bottom edge of back panel. Dust jacket in clear protector. Illustrated with vintage photographs. 246pp 2.58lb 11.3x8.8x0.8in.…

Condition: Good. Good condition. Paperback edition. (Germantown, Pennsylvania, History) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Light wear to edges of jacket. Light rubbing/bumping to edges of boards. Interior clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Softcover Edition. With inserted letterhead of Peabody Museum and ink inscription: With the compliments of Mary Allen Alonso, Joseph Fletcher: Maps, extensive illustrations. 107 pp. Catalogue of the exhibition. B & W pictorial covers. Inscribed By Editor and Author.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. First Edition, 4th Printing. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/light wear & faint creasing to upper back corner, & trace soiling to front lower edge. A study of the Anasazi civilization of vanished peoples who have left mute remains of great cities in the plateau country of American Southwest. Anasazi is a Navajo term meaning "The Ancient Ones". This narrative is made all the more eloquent by photographs of David Muench of the exquisite and awesome landscapes housing ancient dwellings at Mesa Verde, Canyon de Chelly, and Chaco Canyon, and those taken much earlier from the camera lenses of Adam Clark Vroman. Muench (Photographer); Adam Clark Vroman (Historical Photographs) (illustrator).…

MM Paperback in red wraps. Condition: VeryGood unmarked. Reprint. A classic of political literature. Solid clean tight PB copy. 518 + ix pp, index, appendixes.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Cloth. Condition: Good-. No Jacket. Post-war but not later than 1950 because of the Christmas 1950 inscription. A superb historical introduction to Britain famous and not-so-famous beauty spots with many colour photos. Spine is worn away at very bottom and top. Corners bumped. Book.

Original cloth with dustjacket, large format, spine and edge of the dustjacket discolored, edges a bit worn / damaged, minor traces of use, else a good copy. Text in English. With manuscript dedication by the author on flyleaf. Please see description or ask for photos.

Presumed first edition (no direct statement provided). 80 pages. Hardcover: H 31.25cm x L 23.25cm. Color pictorial dust jacket well rubbed with some foxing, scuffing prevalent along edges and flap folds, some bumping as well as nicks and short tears at edges too, light rippling to panels and flaps. Blue cloth with vibrant gilt stamping to spine and front board. Past owner's ink notation at front free endpaper's top right corner; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good- dust jacket. Color photos throughout. …