Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Wise & Co., with a copyright date of 1943, New York
Description: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Assume First Edition thus since there is no indication otherwise. Somewhat worn & soiled with owner's name & address FFE, but binding is tight, a Good Condition Reading Copy in blue boards with gilt lettering over spine somewhat faded, no DJ, probably as issued. 462 pages plus a list of Emperors. Bound in the distinctive blue boards with gilt lettering used by the Book League of America that set these book club editions apart, and that make a nice matched set. 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: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York
Date Published: 1962
Description: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Probably a Later Printing. One corner bumped, else Near Fine Condition in a very lightly rubbed DJ with an English price 320 pages with indexed chronology. "The aim...is to present the essential Gibbon and his central theme, not to reduce him to a text-book of later Roman history. " 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: Modern Library, New York
Description: Book: Good. DJ: Good. 8vo. 956 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4. Red and black cloth covered boards, stamped in gold on spine. Light wear. Black dj, edgeworn. 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
"This book should more realistically be called, the decline of the roman empire and the rise of Christianity. Much of the book is focused on the early history of the church, which makes for interesting reading if you are at all interested in that period of time. What is also interesting is the ideas Gibbon's expresses in the book. As it was written in the late 1700's before footnotes and needing to back the sources you use, it is very interestingly written with his views on politics, religion, and different parts of the world not hidden but floating on the surface. Should you read this book? That is a great question, one that I would answer yes to only if you a) were interested in the history of the church b) interested in the history of the romans and their politics and culture c) were interested in intellectual english thought in the late 1700's d) have a lot of free time on your hands or e) are a massacist. Thankfully I meet a few of those. I am glad I read it, but dont feel you need to read it to fully understand what is being asked in the book."
"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."
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