Madame De Pompadour
by Nancy Mitford
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Ridgeley, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Text is clean and unmarked in a bright and tight binding. Full page color plates included. Age-toning on the outer edges of the text block. DJ has moderate shelf wear. DJ is not price clipped and has no chips or closed tears. From the front DJ flap, "In a lively combination of history and character study Miss Mitford describes the life of Madame de Pompadour, her rise to power and her great talents as a patron of the arts. She paints a glittering picture of the court and untangles the complicated threads of politics at home and abroad."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grampy's Bookcase (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2bc203175
- Title
- Madame De Pompadour
- Author
- Nancy Mitford
- Format/Binding
- Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Pages
- 304
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Madame de Pompadour
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Grampy's Bookcase
Biblio member since 2018
Ridgeley, West Virginia
About Grampy's Bookcase
A private collector with over three thousand quality used books. Many books are quite old and cover many topics, particularly history and related social sciences. Included is a large collection of early and mid 20th century books on the history of the labor movement and socialist party in the United States. After a lifetime of collecting, looking for good homes for these prized editions.
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- Price Clipped
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- Shelf Wear
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- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...