HISTORY from Barbara Bilson Books

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1968. The third volume in Han Suyin's autobiography. Covers the years 1938 to 1948, including her unique experiences as the wife of a Chinese military attache in London during the war. Very good (somewhat sunned along the top of the covers and some foxing spots on top page edges; previous owner's stamp on first… Read more about this item

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Fine in very good dust jacket (edgewear along top). 308 pages including extensive notes and an index. Brasillach was tried and executed for treason by the French while World War II was still going on. He was a French fascist and anti-semite. Book raises questions of justice and memory.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1966. Near fine (a bit of edgewear at the corner, immaculate interior) without dust jacket. A reprint of the 1893 original, using what appear to be the original plates with the marginal keys to contents. 335 pages including index. . Hard Cover.

Ipswich: East Anglian Daily Times, 1930. Nice copy of souvenir programme from this community pageant, with a copy of the dramatic script, a few glossy black-and-white illustrations of people and scenes connected with Cardinal Wolsey, and a number of period advertisements (including one for Wolsey Underwear, Outerwear, and Footwear--"Always give satisfaction"--no, I'm not making this stuff up). Very good condition… Read more about this item

London: Bodley Head, 1983. Fine in very good dust jacket (light edgewear, lightly spotted inside flaps). A nice first edition copy of this book which tells the story of the 1596 joint English and Dutch armada that set out to attack the Spanish port of Cadiz. The ship's journal from one of the fleet's ships is included. 176 pages including… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1952. A clean ex-library copy of this book, very clean inside, a bit worn on the outside, with the usual library markings including Dewey decimal system marking on the library cover spine. No dust jacket although the original dust jacket flap has been pasted opposite page 1. 301 pages including index. Many illustrations, especially advertisements… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown, 1975. Near fine (very light edgewear) in good+ dust jacket (heavy edgewear including two small missing chips and several closed tears). Text by John Fowles, photographs by the Gibsons of Scilly. Fascinating text and photos, a number dating from the early days of photography.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs from the Gibsons of Scilly.… Read more about this item

New York: Scott and Seltzer, 1919. Very good (moderate edgewear, browning of page edges, date stamp on front pastedown--Nov 12 1920--but this is not an ex-lib, interior otherwise clean and bright, binding tight, very slightly cocked) without dust jacket. Interesting historical document written shortly after the Russian revolution. All three writers knew Lenin and spent time with him during the… Read more about this item

New York: New York Review Books, 2002. Fine paperback book. Following 9-11-2001, the New York Review of Books published a number of articles examining the background to the attacks and the U.S. response. This is an anthology of sixteen of those articles along with an updated appendix on who was responsible for the 9-11 attacks. 374 pages.. 1st Edition. Soft… Read more about this item

Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1978. Gilbert's dissertation in partial fulfillment of the PhD degree in history at UCLA, 1978. 450 pages, typescript, including extensive bibliography. Near fine condition (sunned spine). Paper bound, no dust jacket. . Soft Cover.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Very good (bumped corners, including top of spine; foxing on page edges; clean interior) without dust jacket. 534 pages including index, bibliographic essay, and notes on the extensive illustrations. The first of two volumes in The Bourgeois Experience. Includes a fascinating study of Mabel Loomis Todd, Emily Dickinson's confidant and her brother Austin's lover..… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Very good (soiled top page edges; clean interior) in very good dust jacket (edgeworn, especially at top and bottom of spine; one tiny pin hole on edge of spine; some sunning of spine). 490 pages including index, bibliographic essay, and notes on the illustrations. The second of two volumes in The Bourgeois Experience.. 1st… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1926. Good+ (interior clean and tight but cover edges worn and corners bumped; upper spine edge frayed and lower spine is missing a 1 inch piece although the binding is firm). Divided into three parts--infancy, youth, manhood--the book explores the history and the life of New York City.. Hard Cover. Illus. by Ilonka Karasz.

New York: Atheneum, 1989. Near fine (one small bump on lower back cover corner) in very good+ dust jacket (slight offsetting from sunning; some browning to the very top of the jacket; now protected in Brodart cover). Authors--and photographs--show how the Lincoln Brigade grew out of the struggle in the US for economic fairness and civil rights in the… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962. Third edition. Very good- (only defect, other than a slight dustiness to the page edges and a very slight cocking, is the noticeable chip on the bottom of the back cover, about half an inch wide) in a good only dust jacket (considerable edgewear, sunned, soiled). The subtitle on the dust jacket covers it: "How… Read more about this item

London: Robert Hale, 1975. Reprint edition of British edition (first published 1974). Very good (about 20 pages have some neat pen underlining; dusty page edges and a couple of light scuff marks on cover) in very good dust jacket (sunned, very lightly spotted). Sympathetic approach to Swiss bankers.. Hard Cover.

Washington: F & J Rives & George A. Bailey, 1868. Fair: binding secure but covers are very rubbed and edgeworn with all four corners bumped and missing a 1 inch piece of the covering (backstrip) at the bottom of the spine; pages are water-stained and lightly browned, but all clearly legible. The proceedings of the Senate's trial of President … Read more about this item

American Freedom Train Foundation, 1975. Very good (back cover has been three-hole punched but holes don't go through any of the other pages; some light rubbing to front cover) in soft cover. Heavy-weight glossy paper pamphlet, 36 pages including covers, 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Issued as part of the bicentennial celebrations and focused on the restoration of the steam… Read more about this item

New York: Granta USA and Viking Penguin, 1988. Very good (edgeworn covers) paperback book. Number 24 of Granta, Summer 1988. Contains interesting excerpts from works in progress from Philip Roth ("The Facts"), E.L. Doctorow ("Billy Bathgate"), Tobias Wolff ("This Boy's Life") and others. The lead piece that gives the title to this issue is by Anthony Cavendish, a former employee… Read more about this item

New York: Worthington, 1890. Fair condition (front beige cover decorated with leaves and designs in black is quite clean with one bumped corner; same design on spine is faded but title in gilded band is still clear; first free endpaper is separating and half title while present is completely loose; pages are browned throughout; back cover separating; hinges look secure).… Read more about this item