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Queen Victoria
by Strachey, Lytton
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
USA: Harcourt, Brace, 1921. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Ninth Printing Dec 1921. (First Printing May 1921). Hardcover Book in Good COndition. No jacket. Navy cloth, title on spine with gilt rubbed off. Tight and solid sewn binding. Pages quite clean, no markings, lightly toned. Front panel has partial ring on front; light rubbing of cover edges; spine head scuffed. Frontispiece: Portrait of the royal family; eight illustrations plates. A detailed biography of Queen Victoria, Queen on England for 63 years, 1837-1901. 434 pages with bibliography and index. .6 x 8.25 inches. 1921, Harcourt, Brace, 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 #
- 014800
- Title
- Queen Victoria
- Author
- Strachey, Lytton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - 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
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography. Autobiography;
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- Gilt
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