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It’s hard to pick my favorite @basicbooksartdept jackets, but this has to rank up there… James Chappel’s GOLDEN YEARS, coming this autumn from @basicbooks 😎 Gorgeous first copies of HOUSE OF LILIES: The Dynasty That Made #Medieval #France have landed at @basicbooks! THE CLEOPATRAS—all 7️⃣ of them—coming very soon from @basicbooks! #hellenisticperiod Coming this autumn from @basicbooks: VERTIGO, a kaleidoscopic new history of Weimar Germany by Harald Jähner Just arrived: galleys for Bruce Gordon’s breathtakingly sweeping THE BIBLE: A Global History, coming this autumn from @basicbooks Today is pub day for Adam Casey’s invaluable UP IN ARMS Out today from @basicbooks: an updated edition of @jonathanmmetzl’s essential modern classic, DYING OF WHITENESS Just arrived! First copies of @proftriciarose’s definitive and invaluable METARACISM, coming in March from @basicbooks