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Twilight of Splendor: The Court of Queen Victoria During Her Diamond Jubilee Year
by King, Greg
- Used
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 047004439X
- ISBN 13
- 9780470044391
- Seller
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About This Item
John Wiley and Sons, 2007. First Edition. hardcover. King, Greg : Twilight of Splendor: The Court of Queen Victoria During Her Diamond Jubilee Year. Hoboken : John Wiley and Sons, 2007. First edition/First impression. Size is octavo (8vo), 9.5"/24cm h. Bound in publisher's red paper over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Matte color pictorial dust jacket. Plain white endpapers. [i-vi], vii-xiii, [xiv], 1-337, [338] blank; plus three sections b&w photos, four coated leaves each, unpaginated. Acknowl, intro, prologue ("London, 1897"), 15 chaps, epilogue; appendix ("The Royal Household"). Notes, bibliography, index. Condition notes: a very good plus first printing with ephemera: light wear/rubbing to unclipped dust jacket; spine slightly cocked, lower spine end rolled, rear board slightly bowed; interior noticeably tanned but unmarked. Includes stapled two p letter size news release from publisher announcing release of book. We personally inspect every book we offer.
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- Bookseller
- Furrowed Brow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 240201004
- Title
- Twilight of Splendor: The Court of Queen Victoria During Her Diamond Jubilee Year
- Author
- King, Greg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 047004439X
- ISBN 13
- 9780470044391
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Place of Publication
- Hoboken, Nj
- Date Published
- 2007
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Furrowed Brow Books' goal is to offer an eclectic selection, while providing specialty offerings in Eastern Orthodoxy and Byzantine civilization, theology, Christian mysticism, science fiction/fantasy (Inklings emphasis), and military history.
We're happy to discuss making an offer on a collection in one of our specialty areas.
Dealer discount of 20%; we simply ask that you reciprocate with a discount of 20%.
Thanks for stopping by!
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- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Rolled
- rolled spine or spine rolled. Damage to a book created by pressure to the spine making it fold or crease in the cover. Damage...
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