ISBN10: 0312027281, ISBN13: 9780312027285, [publisher: Palgrave Macmillan] Softcover A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1989]

Paperback. Acceptable. ISBN 0312027281 9780312027285 [GB]

ISBN10: 0312027281, ISBN13: 9780312027285, [publisher: New York: St. Martin's Press.] Hardcover 8vo., 187 pp., Very Good, Black Cloth, Dust Jacket with some light damage, shelf wear.
[San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]

ISBN10: 0312027281, ISBN13: 9780312027285, [publisher: St. Martin's Press] Hardcover Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85
[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1989]

ISBN10: 0312027281, ISBN13: 9780312027285, [publisher: Palgrave Macmillan] Hardcover
[Sioux Falls, SD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1989]

Palgrave Macmillan, Date: 1989-02-01. Hardcover. Good. 0.8661 8.1102 5.5906. Dust jacket and edges shows minor shelf wear and minor tanning. Former owner's name on front page. Pages shows minor tanning. 1989. Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 0312027281 9780312027285 [US]

ISBN10: 0312027281, ISBN13: 9780312027285, [publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York] Hardcover 187p. A hardcover book in good+ condition with a fine dustjacket. Owner's stamp inside, and pen notations on just a few pages. Most text clean; binding tight. The jacket is fully intact. A study of the Classical scholar Edward Gibbon, from the HISTORIANS ON HISTORIANS series.
[Dayton, OH, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]
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New York St. Martin's Press 1988 Hardcover Fair 187p. A hardcover book in good+ condition with a fine dustjacket. Owner's stamp inside, and pen notations on just a few pages. Most text clean; binding tight. The jacket is fully intact. A study of the Classical scholar Edward Gibbon, from the HISTORIANS ON HISTORIANS series.

Palgrave Macmillan. DJ in archival cover. . Fine. Hardcover. Date: 1989. 1989. Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 0312027281 9780312027285 [US]

Palgrave Macmillan 1989-02-01 Hardcover New Size: 8x5x0; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

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[Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1989]

ISBN10: 0312027281, ISBN13: 9780312027285, [publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press] Hardcover X, 187 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed jacket, annotation on endpaper, slight staining on edge, otherwise very good and clean. / Leicht beriebener Umschlag, Anmerkung auf Vorsatzblatt, leichte Anschmutzung auf Schnitt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Roy Porter’s elegant study of Edward Gibbon is the first of its kind in almost 20 years. Neither a full-length biography nor a specialist monograph, it is a study of Gibbon as historian: a product of his own time, and an enduring voice in our own. His History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is without doubt the most distinguished and best-known work of history in the English language; but how did Gibbon come to write it? Roy Porter explores the magical connotations of Rome and its Empire for the civilization of the Enlightenment, and gives an intriguing account of Gibbon’s own very odd childhood and adolescence which turned him into a solitary scholar, with deeply-held views about religion and political power. Rome, Gibbon eventually decided, would be the best challenge to his powers and his best hope of fame. Roy Porter’s incisive portrait examines the special - and controversial - qualities of Gibbon as historian, showing the man, the mind and the history as inevitably, complexly, ...
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ISBN10: 0312027281, ISBN13: 9780312027285, [publisher: Palgrave Macmillan] Hardcover
[Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1989]

ISBN10: 0312027281, ISBN13: 9780312027285, [publisher: Palgrave Macmillan] Hardcover
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1989]

Palgrave Macmillan, Date: 1989-02-01. First Edition, First American ed. Hardcover. fine/fine. NOT an ex library book. 187 pages. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, no price on endflap. 1989. Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 0312027281 9780312027285 [US]

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[Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1989]

ISBN10: 0312027281, ISBN13: 9780312027285, [publisher: Palgrave Macmillan] Hardcover Dust jacket and edges shows minor shelf wear and minor tanning. Former owner's name on front page. Pages shows minor tanning.
[Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1989]

ISBN10: 0312027281, ISBN13: 9780312027285, [publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York] Hardcover BOMC edition. Solid reading copy. BP/LitCrit
[Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1989]

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[Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1989]

Palgrave Macmillan. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 0312027281 9780312027285 [US]

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[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1989]

St. Martin's Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. Date: 1988. Hardcover. 0312027281 . Top corners are bumped. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Light discoloration to DJ spine. ; Historians on Historians; 187 pages; A study of Gibbon as historian: a product of his own time, and an enduring voice in our own. . 1988. St. Martin's Press ISBN 0312027281 9780312027285 [CA]

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988 1988 Hard cover 8vo., 187 pp., Very Good, Black Cloth, Dust Jacket with some light damage, shelf wear.