QUEEN VICTORIA
by LYTTON STRACHEY
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good /No Jacket
- Seller
-
THETFORD, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
LONDON: CHATTO & WINDUS. Hard cover. Green boards with gilt titles on board spine and a impressed illustration of a Phoenix on the front board. Slight wear on board edges. Previous owner inscriptions on the pastedown and front free endpaper. Lightly tanned and slightly foxed pages. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Location: B15/O . Very Good. Hardcover. REPRINT. 1931.
Synopsis
This is the definitive biography of Britain’s greatest monarch, who “was hailed at once as the mother of her people and as the embodied symbol of their imperial greatness.” “One of the surpassingly beautiful prose achievements of our time” (Chicago Daily News). Index; illustrations.
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Details
- Bookseller
- TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011919
- Title
- QUEEN VICTORIA
- Author
- LYTTON STRACHEY
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- REPRINT
- Publisher
- CHATTO & WINDUS
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1931
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Terms of Sale
TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
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About the Seller
TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
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THETFORD, Norfolk
About TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
I am a bookseller of predominantly used(second hand) books. I specialise in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, British and American comics, TV and Film books and magazines. I also sell other varieties of fiction and non-fiction. Including historical novels, poetry, history books, native american history, new age, philosophy, motivational books, classics.
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...