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LETTERS OF A DIPLOMAT'S WIFE 1883-1900
by WADDINGTON, Mary King
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Tunbridge Wells , Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1903. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 14 Cms x 20 Cms. f/piece (orange portrait photo(?) of author with tissue guard)+viii+417, 24 ills.ex-pagination, light green floral endpapers, author's sig. verso tissue guard but suspect it is a printed facsimile; lib.stamp 'The Property of the Boots Booklovers Library' recto f/piece, loan sheet to back pastedown with six stamps 1911-1913 overstamped 'Purchased from the Library', long tear to half-title somewhat crudely closed on verso, close tear & crease bottom f/piece, a few faint marks to rear endpaper, a number of slight gutter openings and minor corner and marginal creases, top edge of textblock has a scatter of small reddish brown spots,and textblock slightly cocked, covers clean bar a label removal ghost bottom front, spine a tad dull with ends slightly rubbed. Am unclear if this is original binding or librarey binding, gilt spine lettering a bit too good for lib.binding but no pub.imprint and end-gutters have stitched brown cloth strips which are a little odd. Internally clean and unmarked and a good reference/working copy despite faults. Author was U.S. born wife of French diplomat, ambassador to both Russia and U.K., dying in 1893. There is a slipped in newspaper clipping of the author's later 'My War Diary' (1918) about the First World War (no source given), recently much reprinted.
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- Bookseller
- Douglas Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011549
- Title
- LETTERS OF A DIPLOMAT'S WIFE 1883-1900
- Author
- WADDINGTON, Mary King
- Format/Binding
- Blue Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1903
- Size
- 14 Cms x 20 Cms
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 19th century history plotics diplomacy Russia French diplomacy
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Tunbridge Wells , Kent
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