Queen Victoria
by Strachey, Lytton
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Cooperstown, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1922. Tenth Printing. Hardcover. Spine has a small split to the lower end with loose edges. Covers have spots of discoloration. Front inner hinge is mostly cracked, rear inner hinge is starting to split. Outer corners of some pages are creased. ; Signed C. L. Carmer on the front free endpaper [author Carl Carmer]. .
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
- Willis Monie Books - ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 278400
- Title
- Queen Victoria
- Author
- Strachey, Lytton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Tenth Printing
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- Queen Victoria, English Royalty
Terms of Sale
Willis Monie Books - ABAA
All items are returnable within 14 days of receipt if not satisfied. NY residents will also be charged sales tax.
About the Seller
Willis Monie Books - ABAA
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Cooperstown, New York
About Willis Monie Books - ABAA
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- 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....
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...