The Sun King: Louis XIV at Versailles [14, 14th, Fourteenth]
by Mitford, Nancy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good ++/Good
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1966. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 255 pages with "---187 illustrations, which includes 56 plates in colour---"; elegant book in royal red with a very bright and clear gilt crest to front cover and equally brilliant decoration and lettering to spine, very gently used, tight in binding, not a trace of shelf wear other than gentle bumps to spine ends, very clean and unmarked throughout, pages fresh and white; DJ in matching red with even larger crests on front and back, bright and clean but heavily chipped and numerous other tiny chips/tears, a disgrace really. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost will be requested] See also our listing for Mitford's Madame de Pompadour, and for Pierre Goubert's Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen: A New Approach, Exploring the Interrelationship Between the People of a Country and the Power of Its King (buy two or more and save on postage!).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Good.
Synopsis
Nancy Mitford (1904–1973) was born into the British aristocracy and, by her own account, brought up without an education, except in riding and French. She managed a London bookshop during the Second World War, then moved to Paris, where she began to write her celebrated and successful novels, among them The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate , about the foibles of the English upper class. Nancy Mitford was also the author of four biographies: Madame de Pompadour (1954; available as an NYRB Classic), Voltaire in Love (1957), The Sun King (1966), and Frederick the Great (1970). In 1967 Mitford moved from Paris to Versailles, where she lived until her death from Hodgkin’s disease. Philip Mansel is the author of six books dealing with French history, including a life of Louis XVIII (1981), The Court of France, 1789–1830 (1989) and Paris Between Empires (2001). He is currently at work on a life of Louis XIV.
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- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044763
- Title
- The Sun King: Louis XIV at Versailles [14, 14th, Fourteenth]
- Author
- Mitford, Nancy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good ++
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- FRENCH King Royalty Aristocracy Social History Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Biography;
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