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Queen Victoria
by Strachey, Lytton
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
USA: Harcourt, Brace, 1921. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Copyright 1921. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition No jacket. Nine illustration plates. Navy cloth, w/ gilt titles on spine. Clean and unmarked with trace wear to extremities. Spine has a light crease. Tight and solid sewn binding. Former owner bookplate on paste-down . Pages clean and unmarked, evenly toned. A detailed biography of Queen Victoria, Queen on England for 63 years, 1837-1901. 434 pages with Bibliography and Index. 5.6 x 8.25 inches. 1921, Harcourt Brace Publishers, New York, New York, USA
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
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024034
- Title
- Queen Victoria
- Author
- Strachey, Lytton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1921
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- HISTORY, GREAT BRITAIN ROYALTY, ENGLAND LORD PALMERSTON PRINCE LEOPOLD DISRAELI ALBERT SIR ROBERT PEEL
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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