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, illustrated by Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
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Adventures of Ulysses
World Landmark #40
by Gerald Gottlieb, illustrated by Steele Savage
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Alexander the Great
World Landmark #2
by John Gunther, illustrated by Isa Barnett
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
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Balboa: Swordsman and Conquistador
World Landmark #25
by Felix Riesenberg, Jr., illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
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Battle of Britain
World Landmark #10
by Quentin Reynolds, illustrated by Clayton Knight
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Ben-Gurion and the Birth of Israel
World Landmark #62
by Joan Comay, illustrated with photographs
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Captain Cook Explores the South Seas
World Landmark #19
by Armstrong Sperry
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Captain Cortés Conquers Mexico
World Landmark #45
by William Johnson, illustrated by Jose Cisneros
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Catherine the Great
World Landmark #29
by Katharine Scherman, illustrator by Pranas Lapé
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Chief of the Cossacks
World Landmark #39
by Harold Lamb, illustrated by Robert Frankenberg
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Cleopatra of Egypt
World Landmark #50
by Leonora Hornblow, illustrated by W. T. Mars
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Commandos of World War II
World Landmark #61
by Hodding Carter, illustrated with photographs
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Crusades, The
World Landmark #11
by Anthony West, illustrated by Carl Rose
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Exploits of Xenophon
World Landmark #18
by Geoffrey Household, illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher
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for 4th-7th grade
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Exploring the Himalaya
World Landmark #36
by William O. Douglas, illustrated by Clarence Doore
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
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Fall of Constantinople
World Landmark #30
by Bernadine Kielty, illustrated by Douglas Gorsline
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Famous Pirates of the New World
World Landmark #35
by A. B. C Whipple, illustrated by Robert Pious
from Random House
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Ferdinand Magellan
World Landmark #31
by Seymour Gates Pond, illustrated by Jack Coggins
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First Men in the World
World Landmark #1
by Anne Terry White, illustrated by Aldren A. Watson
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Flight and Adventures of Charles II
World Landmark #38
by Charles Norman, illustrated by C. Walter Hodges
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Florence Nightingale
World Landmark #46
by Ruth Fox Hume, illustrated by Robert Frankenberg
from Random House
Biography for 5th-9th grade
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Flying Aces of World War I
World Landmark #60
by Gene Gurney, illustrated with photographs
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French Foreign Legion
World Landmark #22
by Wyatt Blassingame, illustrated by E. Harper Johnson
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Garibaldi: Father of Modern Italy
World Landmark #32
by Marcia Davenport, illustrated by Stuyvesant Van Veen
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
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General Brock and Niagra Falls
World Landmark #28
by Samuel Hopkins Adams, illustrated by Edward Shenton
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Genghis Kahn and the Mongol Horde
World Landmark #12
by Harold Lamb, illustrated by Elton C. Fax
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for 5th-8th grade
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Great Men of Medicine
World Landmark #49
by Ruth Fox Hume, illustrated by Robert Frankenberg
from Random House
Science biographies for 5th-9th grade
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Hudson's Bay Company
World Landmark #24
by Richard Morenus, illustrated by Harry Barton
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Jesus of Nazareth
World Landmark #42
by Harry Emerson Fosdick, illustrated by Steele Savage
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Joan of Arc
World Landmark #4
by Nancy Ross, illustrated by Valenti Angelo
from Random House
Biography for 4th-7th grade
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Julius Caesar
World Landmark #43
by John Gunther, illustrated by Joseph Cellini
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King Arthur and His Knights
World Landmark #5
by Mabel Louise Robinson, illustrated by Douglas Gorsline
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Lawrence of Arabia
World Landmark #52
by Alistair MacLean, illustrated by Gil Walker
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Leonardo da Vinci
by Emily Hahn, illustrated by Mimi Korach
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for 6th-9th grade
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Life of Saint Patrick
World Landmark #17
by Quentin Reynolds, illustrated by Douglas Gorsline
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Life of Saint Paul
World Landmark #53
by Harry Emerson Fosdick, illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher
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Magna Charta
World Landmark #26
by James Daugherty
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Man Who Changed China
World Landmark #9
by Pearl S. Buck, illustrated by Fred Castellon
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Marquis de Lafayette
World Landmark #34
by Hodding Carter, illustrated by Mimi Korach
from Random House
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Martin Luther
World Landmark #23
by Harry Emerson Fosdick, illustrated by Steele Savage
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Mary, Queen of Scots
World Landmark #6
by Emily Hahn, illustrated by Walter Franklin Buehr
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Napoleon and the Battle of Waterloo
World Landmark #7
by Frances Winwar, illustrated by David Stone
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Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt
World Landmark #59
by Elizabeth Payne, illustrated with photographs
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Queen Elizabeth and the Spanish Armada
World Landmark #13
by Frances Winwar, illustrated by C. Walter Hodges
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Queen Victoria
World Landmark #37
by Noel Streatfeild, illustrated by Robert Frankenberg
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Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
World Landmark #47
by William L. Shirer, illustrated with photographs
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police
World Landmark #8
by Richard L. Neuberger, illustrated by Lee J. Ames
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Simón Bolívar
World Landmark #14
by Arnold Whitridge, illustrated by
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Sinking of the Bismarck
World Landmark #51
by William L. Shirer, illustrated with photographs
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Slave Who Freed Haiti
World Landmark #15
by Katharine Scherman, illustrator by Adolf Dehn
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for 5th-9th grade
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Story of Albert Schweitzer
World Landmark #33
by Anita Daniel, illustrated by W. T. Mars with photographs by Erica Anderson
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Story of Atomic Energy
World Landmark #48
by Laura Fermi, illustrated with photographs
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Story of Australia
World Landmark #44
by A. Grove Day, illustrated by W. R. Lohse
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Story of Scotland Yard
World Landmark #16
by Laurence Thompson, illustrated with photographs
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United Nations in War and Peace
World Landmark #63
by T. R. Fehrenbach
from Random House
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Voyages of Henry Hudson
World Landmark #54
by Eugene Rachlis, illustrated by Herman B. Vestal
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Walter Raleigh: Man of Two Worlds
World Landmark #58
by Henrietta Buckmaster, illustrated by Herman B. Vestal
from Random House
for 6th-9th grade
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War in Korea: 1950-1953
World Landmark #57
by Robert Leckie, illustrated with photographs
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Will Shakespeare and the Globe Theater
World Landmark #21
by Anne Terry White, illustrated by C. Walter Hodges
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William the Conqueror
World Landmark #41
by Thomas B. Costain, illustrated by Jack Coggins
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Winston Churchill
World Landmark #56
by Quentin Reynolds, illustrated with photographs
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