New York: Harper & Row, 1970. Cloth/dust jacket Small Quarto. Hardcover. Very good/very good. black cloth, silver lettering, 304 pp

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Nancy Mitford (1904–1973) was born into the British aristocracy and, by her own account, brought up without an education, except in riding and French. She managed a London bookshop during the Second World War, then moved to Paris, where she began to write her celebrated and successful novels, among them The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate , about the foibles of the English upper class. Mitford was also the author of four biographies: Madame de Pompadour (1954), Voltaire in Love (1957), The Sun King (1966), and Frederick the Great (1970)—all available as NYRB classics. In 1967 Mitford moved from Paris to Versailles, where she lived until her death from Hodgkin’s disease. Liesl Schillinger is a journalist, critic, and translator. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review and has written on literature, culture, theater, politics, and travel for many publications, including The New York Times , The New Yorker , The Daily Beast , and The Independent on Sunday . Among her translations are The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas ( fils ) and Every Day, Every Hour by Nataša Dragnić. Her illustrated book of neologisms, Wordbirds , will be published in October 2013.

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Bookseller: San Francisco Book Company (FR)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 82589
Title: Frederick the Great
Author: Mitford, Nancy
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: very good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Cloth/dust jacket Small Quarto
ISBN 10: 0060129867
ISBN 13: 9780060129866
Publisher: Harper & Row
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1970
Keywords: germany, prussia,
Bookseller catalogs: Biography;

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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