ELEVEN Volumes I to XI - ALL VOLUMES VERY GOOD WITH NO DUST JACKETS
Our Oriental Heritage 1049 pages. 1954 BOMC edition.
The Life of Greece 754 pages. 1939 BOMC edition.
Caesar and Christ 751 pages. 1944 BOMC edition.
The Age of Faith 1196 pages. 1950 BOMC edition.
The Renaissance 776 pages. 1953 BOMC edition
The Reformation 1025 pages. 1957 standard edition.
The Age of Reason Begins 729 pages. 1961 BOMC edition.
The Age of Louis XIV 802 pages. 1963 BOMC edition.
The Age of Voltaire 898 pages. 1965 BOMC edition.
Rousseau and Revolution 1091 pages. 1967 BOMC edition.
The Age of Napoleon 870 pages 1975 BOMC edition
Nice brick red boards and gold embossing shows off this tight and sound mixed set with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Red topstains in superior condition. Books have the usual shelf wear with a few bumped corners, some spotting to edges, stains and slight wear to boards. Spines are not faded. NO Dust jackets. Not a remainder copy.
Much heavier than standard book; set weights 44 pounds (20 kg) so there is a considerable shipping cost. For INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS the weight and size of these volumes will require more than $150 shipping (As of May 2024).
A great reading copy of this famous book set, INCLUDING a matching copy of the hard-to-find Volume 11 'The Age of Napoleon'.
Illustrated end papers (maps). Volumes are massively illustrated, with bibliographies, indexes, and notes.
The Story of Civilization, by husband and wife Will and Ariel Durant, is an eleven-volume set of books covering Western history for the general reader. The series was written over a span of more than four decades. It totals four million words across nearly 10,000 pages. Durant said his purpose in writing the series was not to create a definitive scholarly production but to make a large amount of information accessible and comprehensible to the educated public in the form of a comprehensive "composite history".
Given the massive undertaking in creating 11 volumes over 50 years, errors and incompleteness were inevitable by Durant's own reckoning; but no other historical survey matches let alone exceeds the breadth and depth of his project, he claimed. Volume 10 won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction.