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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ralph Myles, Publisher, Inc., Published 1968. Hardcover, lxxxvi, 884 pp.; 23 cm; First Edition (dated 1968 on title page, no later printings noted); color frontispiece portrait of Barnes by Virginia True, and nine sections of black-and-white photographs. In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on black panels on front cover and spine. Mild shelf and edge wear. Binding tight. Previous owner's rubber stamp (a professional geologist's registration seal) on front and rear pastedowns, and the same seal embossed on title page, copyright page and two following preliminary leaves. Otherwise, pages clean and unmarked. Illustrated dust jacket with pen-and-ink portrait of Barnes on front panel, tributes by Joseph Wood Krutch, Merle Curti, Harold U. Faulkner and others on rear panel; jacket design by Fredrick L. Dodd; not price-clipped ($10.00). 1.5-inch tear to top edge at front hinge and a few smaller nicks and tears. Heavy staining across rear panel and onto edge of rear flap, and moderate overall spotting and soiling. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Testimonial volume for historian and sociologist Harry Elmer Barnes (1889-1968), published just after his death. Students, colleagues and friends assess each side of his career: the New History, World War I and World War II revisionism, sociology, criminology and penology, the history of social thought, religion, journalism and public lecturing, with memoirs of his teaching at Clark, the New School, Smith, Amherst and elsewhere. Contributors include Harold U. Faulkner, Merle Curti, Murray N. Rothbard, James J. Martin, former student Leo Huberman, Frank Hamilton Hankins and Clyde R. Miller. Photographs cover Barnes' family, schooling and homes (Cooperstown, Keuka Lake, the Malibu ranch lost to the 1956 fire), his mentors, hunting and fishing, and a portrait gallery headed Leading Revisionists, including George Kennan, Liddell Hart, A. J. P. Taylor and George Orwell. Includes a personalia and bibliography of Barnes' writings. Contents: Preface; Harry Elmer Barnes: An Overall Preview; A Contemporary Encyclopedist; Intellectual and Literary Stimulant; Reminiscences and Appraisal of Harry Elmer Barnes as a Teacher by Some Former Students; Teacher and Benefactor of Students; Historian: The Range, Scope and Nature of His Writings; History and Social Intelligence; World War I Revisionist; World War II Revisionist; Revisionist of the Cold War; Historical Critic; Integration of the Social Sciences; Contributions to the History of Social Thought; Student of Social Problems; Criminologist and Penal Historian Malgre Lui; Social Critic; Sociologist; The Learned Crusader; Public Lecturer; The Impact on American Educational Theory and Practice; Contributions to Religious Knowledge and Discussion; Barnes' Experience in Journalism; The Man, His Interests and His Methods of Work: Personal Reminiscences; Outdoor Life as a Bucolic Sportsman and Frustrated Athlete; Personalia and Bibliography; The Contributors; Index.…

Paperback. Condition: Very good(+). x, 512 pages: illustrations, facsimiles, portraits; 22 cm. "This Dover edition is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published in 1929." // ?Lorenzo Da Ponte (n? Emanuele Conegliano; 1749 ? 1838) was an Italian, later American, opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest. He wrote the libretti for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's most celebrated operas: The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Cos? fan tutte (1790). He was the first professor of Italian literature at Columbia University, and with Manuel Garcia, the first to introduce Italian opera to America. Da Ponte was also a close friend of Mozart and Casanova.??Wikipedia. Very good(+). Tight and clean with minor wear to wraps.…

Hardcover. lxxxvi, 884p., cloth-covered boards, frontis. portrait of Barnes, illus., very good condition in like dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Used - Near Fine. Book and price clipped dust jacket appear new, unread. "Harry Elmer Barnes (1889-1968), American historian and sociologist, was one of the 20th century's most influential scholars. During the final decades of his life, he came under ever more stern rebuke for his adroit debunking of official claims about World War II and the Cold War." review. DJ is in protective cover top pagination shows 2 small brown marks, (not remainders) binding is tight, pages clean, additional images upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. NOTE: International orders will not be accepted for this item. First American edition. In publisher's pale-green cloth with silver lettering stamped on the spine. Very good with some tanning to the edges of the boards. A touch of softening at the head and tail of the spine. Contents showing some moderate tanning. In a very good unclipped and lightly soiled dust jacket with sunning to the fore edge of the front panel. Light tanning to the spine and extremities. 8vo. x, 207pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. "Barnes died just before this massive 'festschrift' was published. This great tome represents a tribute to his encyclopedic scholarship by his students and colleagues, many of whom are outstanding Revisionists in their own right today." - Stimely in 1981 Revisionist Bibliography, p.23. "The subjects covered and the personalities mentioned make this one of the most valuable insights into many of the controversies and contests of [the twentieth] century, centered around the figure of one of those personally involved in most of them. Barnes has been characterized over the years as 'the last of the universal scholars' and 'the grand monarch of the anti-liars of the twentieth century.'" - dust jacket. lxxxvi, 884 pp. Numerous black and white photographic plates. Personalia and Bibliography. Details of Contributors. Index. Moderate wear. Former library copy with usual markings. Dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival Brodart. A sound copy of this superb Barnes reference.; 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Unmarked copy, with original dust jacket. A little yellowing of pages from age.