Historical memoirs of the duc de Saint-Simon;: A shortened version by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy

McGraw-Hill, 1968. Hardcover. Good.

Good. McGraw-Hill, 1972, 522 pages, Volume III only, Ex-libris, hardcover in a very good dust jacket, light wear, library markings.

New York: McGraw - Hill Book Company, 1972. NOT a library discard. Very Good condition in a Near Very Good dust jacket (spine sunned/edgewear/price clipped). Volume III: 1715-1723 only. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Edited and translated by Lucy Norton. Includes genealogical table, map, frontispiece and about two dozen other portaits. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine. From the dust jacket: "This third and final volume... stands on its own, for it covers the less familiar period of the French Regency... Lucy Norton's brilliantly shortened version of the Duc de Saint-Simon's intimate account of the manners, mores, and sometimes tragic intrigues in the royal corridors adds a new dimension to the Regency period and provides fresh insights into the political, social, and personal motivations of France's rulers - years before the cataclysm of… Read More