A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff - April 2005

Hardcover Cloth 484 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition First printing 2005 with corresponding number line. Nice white boards with maroon buckram 1/8 spine and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear - small dents on front board. Edges have some stains. An unclipped dust jacket smooth and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few scrapes, stains, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his careerIn December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France." So begins an enthralling narrative account of how Benjamin Franklin-seventy years old, without any diplomatic training, and possessed of the most rudimentary French-convinced France, an absolute monarchy, to underwrite… Read More

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Brand: Henry Holt and Co, 2005-04-02. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

Brand: Henry Holt and Co, 2005-04-02. First Edition. hardcover. Used:Good.

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