New York, NY Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. Hardcover First Edition (2002); First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. First Edition (2002); First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ: The Book shows only a hint of shelving wear to the lower extremities; ba tiny very faint coffee-like spot at the top edge of the text block; the binding shows the slightest lean, but remains secure; the text is clean. The DJ has been attached to the book at the inside flaps; there is some sticker residue from a bookplate (or library plate or such) at the rear free endpaper. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, or stamps. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing the very mildest wear and minor flaws. Bright and Clean. Corners sharp. Close to 'As New'. The DJ shows very mild rubbing to the panels; the price is unclipped. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. ( 7.8 x 5.55 x 0.9 inches). 206 pages. Language: English. Weight: 13.5 ounces. Hardback with DJ.

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Versailles is the story of an expansive spirit locked in a pretty body and an impossible moment in history. As the novel begins, fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette is traveling from Austria to France to meet her fiancé, the mild, abstracted Louis. He will become the sixteenth Louis to reign in France, and Antoinette will be his queen, hemmed in by towering hairdos, the xenophobic suspicion of her subjects, the misogyny of her detractors, the larger-than-life figures of Mirabeau, Du Barry, Robespierre, and the manifold twists and turns of the palace she calls home. The novel moves from room to room, from garden to fountain, occasionally breaking into playlets in which we glimpse characters struggling to mind their step in the great ballroom of the world. Driving our tour is the relentless engine of time, that friend to youth, for whom anything is possible. Antoinette gives birth to four children, two of whom will outlive her; she falls in love; she dies at the guillotine. A meditation on time and the soul’s true journey within it, Versailles is at once wittily entertaining and astonishingly wise.

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Seller: Black Cat Hill Books (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 56560
Title: Versailles: A Novel.
Author: Davis, Kathryn
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition (2002); First Printing indicated by a complete num
ISBN 10: 0618221360
ISBN 13: 9780618221363
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company,
Place of Publication: New York, NY
Date Published: 2002.
Bookseller catalogs: Modern Fiction First Editions;

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