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Daughter of France. The life of Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans duchesse de Montpensier 1627-1693. La Grande Mademoiselle
by Sackville-West, Vita
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Michael Joseph, 1959. With fold out lineage of the house of Bourbon bound in at rear. CONDITION Burgundy wax cloth with crisp gilt spine title (clean and unworn) 384 pages with b/w plate illus, small drip mark to one set of pages near front o/w very bright and crisp with toned eps and foxed edges, DJ is price clipped with a couple of small nick at spine ends. Overweight. 2nd Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Ariel Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16386
- Title
- Daughter of France. The life of Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans duchesse de Montpensier 1627-1693. La Grande Mademoiselle
- Author
- Sackville-West, Vita
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 2nd Impression
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography;
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Ariel Books
Biblio member since 2003
Auckland
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- Cloth
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- Crisp
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- Price Clipped
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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