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Some Women Loving or Luckless
by de Wyzewa, Teodor; translated by C. H. Jeaffreson
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London & New York: John Lane, 1909. Accounts of princesses, queens, great ladies, author's wives & literary women; subjects include Princess Sophia Dorothea, Queen Caroline Matilda, Henry VIII's wives, Mary Stuart, Mary of Modena, Queeb\n of Etruria, Lady Jane Douglas, Maria von Herbert & Kant, poet Vincenzo Monti's daughter, the Marquise de V. & Chateaubriand, Christina of Northumberland, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jeanne Eckermann & Goethe, Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Caroline von Gunderode & Creuzer. Hardcover, full blue cloth, gilt titling. Light wear, faint stains, corners slightly frayed; ink name & date on free endsheet. Text clean; vi, [4], 303 pages + 4 pages publisher's ads dated Autumn 1908; 11 b/w plates as called for.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- r0243
- Title
- Some Women Loving or Luckless
- Author
- de Wyzewa, Teodor; translated by C. H. Jeaffreson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Lane
- Place of Publication
- London & New York
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- Royalty, Queens, Ladies, Wives, Women's Studies
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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