Distant Mirror, First Edition (52 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear and small tears, price-clipped.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A history of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years' War. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike. Condition: Covers have edge wear, corner thumbing with markings on spine from being read. Pages are clean with light age tanning. Binding is firm.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Cover has stains and scratches. Creasing to the corners.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. BRAND NEW!

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Some spine creases but spine itself tight. Pages clean. Some shelf wear to cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; Eighth Printing. 6.75 X 1.75 X 9.75 inches; 677 pages; B&W illustrations. Color illustrations. Underlining on the foreword. Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Fading on spine and on cover edges. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition Thus; Second Printing. B&W Illustrations & Photographs; 677 pages; Creasing to covers and spine, moderate to heavy. Yellowing (light) to pages. Some light wear to spine and front cover was repaired with tape by previous owner. No markings or other noteworthy defects. ; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, 4th Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Knopf, 1978. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with toning, small nicks and tears along edges and shelf/edgewear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, 13th Printing (1984). Not price-clipped. Published by Alfred a Knopf, 1978. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, 13th Printing (1984). Not price-clipped. Published by Alfred A Knopf, Inc, 1978. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new with bookplate on first blank page. Dust jacket is like new with light shelf wear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. Illustrated (illustrator). 1st. 8vo, 677 pp., First printing of the first edition. Fine copy in very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. At Words Matter Booksellers we provide at least 4 photos of all our items in lieu of detailed, but ultimately subjective, text descriptions. These include front, side and back photos and the copyright page. We will also provide high level text information for the standard, measurable book 'dimensions' as well as any exceptions or specific items that cannot be referenced in a photo. If you have questions about any of our listings, we will be happy to answer them or provide additional information and photos. Note also that our inventory is online only. Titles are not available in a public setting. Since receipt of all items, titles were only handled 1 time for digital photographs and a condition review by this bookseller. They have been stored in a temperature and humidity-controlled home/office library and will only be handled by the bookseller to mail to the buyer (or to provide additional information or photos for the buyer). Words Matter Booksellers donates 10% of profits to The Milwaukee Center for Children and Youth (MCCY). The Milwaukee Center for Children and Youth (MCCY) was founded to address gaps in services for kids who have been abused or neglected. Through personalized services, advocacy and education--including efforts to increase literacy--the organization works to inspire multi-generational change in children and families. MCCY is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation (EIN #45-3068553).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman, hardcover in dustjacket, 1st edition Knopf, 1978. The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into chaos and spiritual agony. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike. Granting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries, and guilty passions, Tuchman re-creates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, dominating all, the knight-in all his valor and "furious follies," a "terrible worm in an iron cocoon." Praise for A Distant Mirror "Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better."-The New York Review of Books "A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer."-The Wall Street Journal "Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition."-Commentary YLWPLAS.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Ninth printing. 8vo, xx + 678pp. Illustrated with color plates and mapped endpapers. Hardcover, bound in original cloth with pictorial dustjacket. In very good plus condition. Firm binding and crisp, clean, pages. No markings or signs of prior ownership. Minor shelf-wear or rubbing to extremities. The d/j is unclipped and protected in a new clear Mylar wrapper.

Paperback. Condition: VG/VG+/ND. y 1st. Edn. 1st. Imp. SOFTBACK ?UNCOMMON OUTSIDE THE U.S.A.?, SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 1979* Publisher: Ballantyne Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing ?The Fourth Horseman of The Apocalypse, by Jean Duc de Berry. No bumps, minor rubs. Some slight shelf wear to edges & corners. No crease to spine or hinge but very lightly dished. Seems lightly-used. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, considerable tanning. Some colouration to page edges. VG* Illustrations: Two 16pp blocks of b/w photos & one 8pp block of colour illustrations. Double page b/w maps at front and rear.* Pages: 581 pp. text. c pp. epilogue, bibliography, reference notes & index at rear.* Product Description:- The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a chaos of war, fear and the Plague. Barbara Tuchman anatomizes the century, revealing both the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived.* This is a VG copy of the 1st/2nd thus with some tanning and slight shelf wear.* 1979-10-01. n.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 6.75 X 1.75 X 9.75 inches; 676 pages; illustrations and maps. Second printing before publication. Light foxing and discoloration on the top exterior edge of textblock. Minor speckles on the other edges. Wear on DJ edges, minor tears. Minor stain on DJ's spine foot. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine dust jacket. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Trade Edition (so stated). New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc, 1978. Near Fine condition in a gorgeous, bright and shiny Very Fine dust jacket. The jacket is in PERFECT condition but a mild crease to the front turn-in flap. NO chips, tears, fading or rubbing. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Square and tight. Sharp corners. The book itself would be Fine but for tiny tape residue marks on the endpapers. Pages are otherwise crisp, clean and unmarked. NO foxing. 1978 "First Trade Edition" is so stated. Well illustrated with 5 maps, 40 plates, 8 pages in full color. Illustrated endpapers. Reference notes (p. 619-654). Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped black cloth. Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher: "The prize-winning historian traces the major currents of the fourteenth century, revealing the century's great historical rhythms and events and the texture of daily life at all levels of European society." From a 2013 review by Jiang Xuegin: "Barbara Tuchman's 'A Distant Mirror' is a superb work of serious scholarship and precise prose. She is easily one of our best historians, and easily the best in terms of range and prose. Concerning itself with 14th century Europe, 'A Distant Mirror' primarily concerns itself with the Hundred Years War between France and England, and the tumultuous dynastic struggles both nations faced. Started for no particular purpose, the French-English rivalry soon developed a life of its own so that soon enough war was its own cause. Making matters much worse was the code of chivalry that the knights demanded that they live by, which essentially called for making war for war's sake, and ignored the national interest as well as the plight of the peasants (sadly enough, even if knights died long ago as a viable battlefield tactic the code of chivalry continues to the modern period, with tragic consequences -- see Tuchman's discussion of the French taste for elan in her superb 'Guns of August'). What makes the book such a fun and fascinating read is Tuchman's discussion of political intrigue, which is instantly recognizable to anyone who's read 'Game of Thrones' or ever worked in an office setting.". First Trade Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xx, 679pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman. Hardcover first edition published in 1979 by The Franklin Library. Bound in full leather. No attached bookplate. Book is in fine condition.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Limited First Edition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Borzoi Book, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1978. First (1st) Printing (no others listed) of the "First Trade Edition" (stated). Fine in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Appears Unread. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with deckled fore-edges and no markings of any kind. The Binding is full black cloth, color uniform throughout, with the author's initials in bright gilt to the front board, bright gilt title, etc., to the spine, unmarked map endpapers ("Europe in the 14th Century" in the front, and "Nicopolis and Other Castles on the Danube" in the back). The Dust Jacket is bright colors uniform throughout except for some discoloration at the top of the front panel, and intact, but price-clipped, and wear to the head of the spine. See the photos. xx, 677, [i] pages plus 8 unnumbered pages of semi-gloss color illustrations and 34 unnumbered pages of semi-gloss black and white illustrations. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2" x 2". Winner of the 1980 U.S. National Book Award in History, this history of Europe in a crucial time period recounts events from of the Hundred Years' War, the Black Plague, the Papal Schism, pillaging mercenaries, anti-Semitism, popular revolts including the Jacquerie in France, the liberation of Switzerland, the Battle of the Golden Spurs, and various peasant uprisings, and the advance of the Ottoman Empire into Europe, including the disastrous Battle of Nicopolis. NOTE: This is a heavy book, weighing 1,291 grams / 45.4 ounces, and will require extra postage for international shipment. ISBN 10: 0394400267 / ISBN 13: 9780394400266.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Trade Edtion stated. Clean, tight hardcover bound in full cloth with unmarked interior and text. The dust jacket remains unclipped ($15.95) with light toning to the panel edges, else fine. NOT ex-lib. A clean, solid copy of the first printing in original jacket; a true survivor. Indexed and with maps and illustrations. xx, 677pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xv, 125 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. A history of the University. A fine copy of a surprisingly rare book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine hardcover bound in gilt-decorative full genuine black leather with gilt spinal lettering, all edges gilt, silk endpapers, and a silk tipped-in bookmark. The First Edition Society Series. Illustrated. 735pp. A nice copy; clean text, tight binding, and clean and bright covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fourth printing. Tall octavo. 677pp. Black and white plates. Black cloth with some sunning at the top and bottom edges, near fine in a very good or better dust jacket with light tanning and wear, and a bit of soil.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. xvi, 326pp, index, bibliography, bw ills, endpaper maps. Or blue cloth in jacket. Very light foxing to page edges. Jacket with several tears, creases and edge wear. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Nicholson, Trudy (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing, Alfred a Knopf Inc. 677 numbered pages, bibliography, notes, index. Black cloth binding with spine and front board stamped in gilt. Bright, clean, tight, and square text block, no marks of any kind. Map end papers. Corners sharp. Fore-edges of the leaves are rough-cut, as issued. Unclipped DJ ($15.95) in clear archival protector, very slight edge wear but no rips or tears. Shipped in a sturdy cardboard box for added protection.

Full-Leather. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition Limited Edition In Full Black Leather. The Author's Masterpiece ofFourteenth Century and The Black Death. Gorgeous Perfect Copy.Owner's Book Plate.

Hardcover. First Edition; Sixth Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. 1/4 inch open tear at bottom of front gutter. ; 8.3 X 5.6 X 2.1 inches; 720 pages.

Leather Bound. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine copy, bound in full leather with raised bands and gilt decoration. All edges gilt, pages clean. First edition.