Queen Victoria.
by STRACHEY, Lytton
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus, London., 1921. First edition. Octavo. pp [xii], 314. Plates. Pages unopened.Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: ''With the Author's kind regards. Lytton Strachey.''Covers a bit bumped at corners and head and tail of spine. Very good in the dustwrapper which is faded at the spine, chipped at the head of the spine, has a short closed tear to rear panel and is split the length of the front joint.
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
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- STRACHEY015079
- Title
- Queen Victoria.
- Author
- STRACHEY, Lytton
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus, London.
- Date Published
- 1921
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....