Author: ROBERTS, J. M.
Title: A History of Europe
Description: New York: Allen Lane / The Penguin Press, 1997. First US Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0713992042. A first U.S. printing of Oxford historian J. M. Roberts's in-depth telling of the history of Europe. He begins with the first Europeans and the ancient Greeks, and proceeds through both World Wars to the downfall of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The author details how people from a continent with a relatively small land area came to exert power over the entire world. With 42 black & white maps. --- In black paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Dust jacket with composite color image of paintings. --- With prior owner's circular embossed seal to front free endpaper, otherwise a bright, tightly-bound, sound copy. Intact jacket with slight rubbing and a small sticker to spine, else lacking damages and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xii, 628 pages. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: 0713992042 >>European History