Edition: Seventh Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: A Laurel Edition
Date Published: 1973
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Water Damage On Page Ends, Corners/Edges Worn, Spine/Covers Creased, Sm. Tears On Spine, Text Is Unmarked, Reading Copy. read more
Description: Good. Ex-Library-No Date--662 pgs. Interior-Nice overall condition w/ ex-library referencing. The boards have only light signs of aging. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
Edition: Edition Unstated
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780140431896ISBN:0140431896
Description: Very Good- As issued No Jacket. Spine curl, corner bumps, reading and corner creases to the front cover, scratches/dents to the rear cover, and other light shopwear. Text is clean. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace
Date Published: 1960
Description: Good in Fair jacket. Good BOMC hardcover with fair DJ in new Brodart jacket. Top edge a little dusty and stai on back boards. Unmarked, bright and clean within. DJ looks good in new Brodart jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover-NO DUST JACKET
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company
Date Published: 1960
Description: VERY GOOD. A one-volume abridgment of Gibbon's famous work. Minor reader and shelf wear; no dust jacket; minor edge and corner wear; spine is faded and somewhat soiled from age. This rather heavy volume may require additional postage if shipped via a method other than Media Mail within the USA. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library / Random House
Date Published: 1950
Description: Good. Volume 3 only. Binding is secure. Text is clean. No names, no stickers. Pages are somewhat yellowed with age. Corners bumped. No DJ. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library, New York
Description: Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo-over 73/4"-93/4" tall blue cloth. 8vo 956 pages. Series: The Modern Library. Volume I only. (light shelfwear and dulling to cloth). read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace, New York
Date Published: 1960
Description: Fair in good dust jacket. Price clipped. Highlighting/underlining. Ex-library. DJ has a small tear, a few pen marks on page edges. xvii, 924 p. map on lining papers. 23 cm. Includes Maps. The original work was first published under title: The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. "Bibliographical note": p. 904. This is a one-volume abridgement. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Literary Classics, Inc.
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Condensed edition of Gibbon's masterwork. Issued as part of series of books, each in identical blue cloth binding, with gold lettering. 463 pages. Published by Literary Classics, Inc. Undated, but believed to have been published in the 1960s. Condition: Very good. Complete and intact, with firm hinges. Unmarked. Exterior shows some rubbing. Rubbed spot on front cover has left visible mark a couple inches long. Dust Jacket: None. 1e. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780375758119ISBN:0375758119
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Near flawless condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 1312 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Wise & Co, New York
Date Published: 1943
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Name on first page. Says Decline And Fall on spine rather than full title. Discoloring to spine and page edges. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Peter Fenelon Collier & Son
Date Published: 1898
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Nations of the World series, Fair Hardcover, with board wear, fading and soil spots. Some water spotting. Minor fray at board edges and spine. Spine bumped. Boards are red, with gold lettering. No Dust Jacket. Age toning, some soiling and foxing of pages and inside the covers. Text free of notes. Binding works, though shaken a bit and has crack at title page and page 601. Confirmation on all Domestic Orders! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Peter Fenelon Collier & Son
Date Published: 1898
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Nations of the World series, Fair Hardcover, with board wear, fading and soil spots. Some water spotting. Minor fray at board edges and spine. Spine bumped. Boards are red, with gold lettering. No Dust Jacket. Age toning, some soiling and foxing of pages and inside the covers. Text free of notes. Binding good, though shaken a bit. Crack at title page. Confirmation on all Domestic Orders! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Peter Fenelon Collier & Son
Date Published: 1898
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Nations of the World series, Fair Hardcover, with board wear, fading and soil spots. Some water spotting. Minor fray at board edges and spine. Spine bumped. Boards are red, with gold lettering. No Dust Jacket. Age toning, some soiling and foxing of pages and inside the covers. Text free of notes. Binding good, though shaken a bit. Confirmation on all Domestic Orders! read more
"Edward Gibbon is the greatest writer of history, and perhaps the best writer ever to employ the English language. Like nearly everyone, I cannot say that I read the entire text, but I say that with deep regret, and the hope that one day I can read the complete text of this awesome book all the way through. Gibbon is dead a good 200 years, but his scholarship and analysis live on now, and hopefully, forever. Of course the book is massive, but when one deals in great detail with nearly fifteen hundred years of history of the greatest empire in antiquity, one should expect nothing less. He covers the entire empire, not just the western empire, but the entire empire right to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 A.D., and provides so much thoughtful anaylsis and endless amounts of information that one takes it for granted, until one picks up any other history book. On top of the above, Gibbon showed himself to be an absolute master of the English language, and I still consider him to be the best writer of anything that ever lived. He is the absolute master of providing detailed information about a topic in lengthy, extended sentences in which one never loses the train of the author's thought: the words flow on like a clear stream, ever carrying the reader to a better understanding of the subject without being tiresome. He uses an extensive vocabulary. One just cannot find a better way to write. Gibbon is a master of the subject matter, and his analysis is faultless. The controversial attribution by him of the cause of the empire's decline to its Christianity is not the only reason he gives for the decline, but it holds up quite well if one gives Gibbon a chance to clarify it. And his famous prognostication about the rise of the then non-existent USA and of Russia as powers in the future has clearly been fulfilled. I believe that every serious history student and buff should own the complete edition of this book. Abridgments only cheat the owners of a classic of world historiography, and an awesome piece of literature in its own right."
"I believe I shall be spending the rest of my life reading Mr. Gibbon. After all, that is how a work like this should be read, dragged out in all its majesty. The man's way with words is indescripable... I haven't read it all, I probably never will, but I just enjoy the experience of reading Gibbon more than having the urge to finish him. In fact, I have the opposite of the urge to finish him. I want this book to last forever."
"Unreviewable (in the sense of priceless). I only read it in abridgement, as I figure the full six volumes can wait for my doddering old age. If you read it, in full or in abridgement, get the latest Penguin edition! It preserves Gibbon's original sentence structure, unlike the Everyman edition which chops his flowing prose into more digestible chunks."
"I read the abridged version as I wasn't up to reading 10 volumes. Gibbon has an odd way of writing direct criticism (he's a philosophical historian rather than a just-the-facts historian) but interspersing it with elliptical references. Fun to try to find out what he means in some of his more obtuse references. But you have to know your ancient geography, however, to visualize the action. Quick Summary: Analysis of the Emperors of Rome, religious quarrels between Rome and Constantinople (The Great Schism), barbarian attacks and internal rot in Rome, the Crusades, the ultimate sack of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks due to lack of assistance from Rome, and finally, the coalescing of religious power in Rome."
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