World Landmark Books

"The Landmark Books are a series of non-fiction books published by Random House in the fifties and early sixties. Simply put, the Landmark series is the best collection of children's histories ever written. As a jacket blurb on an old edition stated, the reasons [for the series' popularity] are obvious: good writers and important and appealing subjects from America's past.

Writers in the Landmark series include such notable authors as:

Other writers in the series, though less well known, are generally first-rate." —Kathy Artner, Reader's Guide to American History.

Most of our Landmarksbooks are reader copies only, and are usually less than the marked price. Collectors: please call or email if you're looking for specific editions or dust jackets!

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Adventures and Discoveries of Marco Polo
World Landmark #3
by Richard Walsh
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Adventures of Ulysses
World Landmark #40
by Gerald Gottlieb
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Alexander the Great
World Landmark #2
by John Gunther
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Balboa: Swordsman and Conquistador
World Landmark #25
by Felix Riesenberg, Jr.
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Battle of Britain
World Landmark #10
by Quentin Reynolds
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Ben-Gurion and the Birth of Israel
World Landmark #62
by Joan Comay
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Captain Cook Explores the South Seas
World Landmark #19
by Armstrong Sperry
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Captain Cortés Conquers Mexico
World Landmark #45
by William Johnson
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Catherine the Great
World Landmark #29
by Katharine Scherman
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Chief of the Cossacks
World Landmark #39
by Harold Lamb
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Cleopatra of Egypt
World Landmark #50
by Leonora Hornblow
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Commandos of World War II
World Landmark #61
by Hodding Carter
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Commandos of World War II
World Landmark #61
by Hodding Carter
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World War II (1939-1945) (Location: HISA-20WW2)
Crusades, The
World Landmark #11
by Anthony West
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Exploits of Xenophon
World Landmark #18
by Geoffrey Household
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Exploring the Himalaya
World Landmark #36
by William O. Douglas
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Fall of Constantinople
World Landmark #30
by Bernadine Kielty
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Famous Pirates of the New World
World Landmark #35
by A. B. C Whipple
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Ferdinand Magellan
World Landmark #31
by Seymour Gates Pond
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
First Men in the World
World Landmark #1
by Anne Terry White
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Flight and Adventures of Charles II
World Landmark #38
by Charles Norman, illustrated by C. Walter Hodges
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Florence Nightingale
World Landmark #46
by Ruth Fox Hume
from Random House
Biography for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Flying Aces of World War I
World Landmark #60
by Gene Gurney
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
French Foreign Legion
World Landmark #22
by Wyatt Blassingame
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Garibaldi: Father of Modern Italy
World Landmark #32
by Marcia Davenport
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
General Brock and Niagra Falls
World Landmark #28
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Genghis Kahn and the Mongol Horde
World Landmark #12
by Harold Lamb
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Great Men of Medicine
World Landmark #49
by Ruth Fox Hume, illustrated by Robert Frankenberg
from Random House
Science biographies for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Hero of Trafalgar
World Landmark #55
by A. B. C. Whipple
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Hudson's Bay Company
World Landmark #24
by Richard Morenus
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Jesus of Nazareth
World Landmark #42
by Harry Emerson Fosdick
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Joan of Arc
World Landmark #4
by Nancy Ross
from Random House
Biography for 5th-8th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Julius Caesar
World Landmark #43
by John Gunther
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
King Arthur and His Knights
World Landmark #5
by Mabel Louise Robinson
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Lawrence of Arabia
World Landmark #52
by Alistair MacLean
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Leonardo da Vinci
by Emily Hahn
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Life of Saint Patrick
World Landmark #17
by Quentin Reynolds
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Life of Saint Paul
World Landmark #53
by Harry Emerson Fosdick
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Magna Charta
World Landmark #26
by James Daugherty
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Man Who Changed China
World Landmark #9
by Pearl S. Buck
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Marie Antoinette
World Landmark #20
by Bernadine Kielty
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Marquis de Lafayette
World Landmark #34
by Hodding Carter
from Random House
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Martin Luther
World Landmark #23
by Harry Emerson Fosdick
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Mary, Queen of Scots
World Landmark #6
by Emily Hahn
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Napoleon and the Battle of Waterloo
World Landmark #7
by Frances Winwar
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt
World Landmark #59
by Elizabeth Payne
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Queen Elizabeth and the Spanish Armada
World Landmark #13
by Frances Winwar
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Queen Victoria
World Landmark #37
by Noel Streatfeild
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
World Landmark #47
by William L. Shirer
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
World Landmark #8
by Richard L. Neuberger
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Simón Bolívar
World Landmark #14
by Arnold Whitridge
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Sinking of the Bismarck
World Landmark #51
by William L. Shirer
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Slave Who Freed Haiti
World Landmark #15
by Katharine Scherman
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Story of Albert Schweitzer
World Landmark #33
by Anita Daniel
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Story of Atomic Energy
World Landmark #48
by Laura Fermi
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Story of Australia
World Landmark #44
by A. Grove Day
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Story of Scotland Yard
World Landmark #16
by Laurence Thompson
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
United Nations in War and Peace
World Landmark #63
by T. R. Fehrenbach
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Voyages of Henry Hudson
World Landmark #54
by Eugene Rachlis
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Walter Raleigh: Man of Two Worlds
World Landmark #58
by Henrietta Buckmaster
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
War in Korea: 1950-1953
World Landmark #57
by Robert Leckie
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Will Shakespeare and the Globe Theater
World Landmark #21
by Anne Terry White, illustrated by C. Walter Hodges
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
William the Conqueror
World Landmark #41
by Thomas B. Costain
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Winston Churchill
World Landmark #56
by Quentin Reynolds
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)