QUEEN VICTORIA
by Strachey Lytton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chautauqua: Chatto & Windus, 1921. First Edition, early printing, December 1921. With nine black and white illustrations. 8vo, publisher’s original beige cloth, lettered in black on the spine and upper cover which also is bordered in black. 434 pp. A handsome and well preserved copy. THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF QUEEN VICTORIA. "One of the surpassingly beautiful prose achievements of our time" - Chicago Daily News
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
- Buddenbrooks, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32316
- Title
- QUEEN VICTORIA
- Author
- Strachey Lytton
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- Chautauqua
- Date Published
- 1921
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About the Seller
Buddenbrooks, Inc.
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Newburyport, Massachusetts
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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