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Anastasia's Album
by Brewster, Hugh
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 067087163X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670871636
- Seller
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Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: A Penguin Studio Madison Press Book BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Boards Lightly Marked (White Marks). DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. The last tsar's youngest daughter tells her own story. DESIGN AND ART DIRECTION: Gordon Sibley Design. EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Hugh M. Brewster. PROJECT EDITOR: Mireille Majoor. TEXT EDITOR: Shelley Tanaka. RESEARCH AND TRANSLATION: Alla Savranskaia. MAP: Jack McMaster. PRODUCTION DIRECTOR: Susan Barrable. PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR: Donna Chong. PICTURE CREDITS: The endpapers of this book and all black-and-white and hand-colored photographs, album pages and quotes from the letters of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaievna, unless otherwise designated, are courtesy of the State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow. All color photographs, unless otherwise designated, are by Peter Christopher. SYNOPSIS: "She was the imp of the whole house...it was impossible to resist her jokes and nonsense."--French tutor, Pierre Gilliard. Anastasia made everyone laugh. Even her father, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, could not resist her hilarious imitations of pompous visitors to the palace. The tsar and his children loved to take photographs and they spent many cozy evenings pasting snapshots of their trips and activities into albums. Anastasia like to paint flowers on the pages of her albums or add color to the black-and-white photos. Sometimes she would color an entire picture--at other times she would simply highlight a favorite hat or dress. Anastasia also wrote letters to her father and to friends that reveal her lively personality. Even after the tsar's downfall and the imperial family's imprisonment in Siberia, Anastasia's photographs and letters continued, providing a record of their lives until almost the very end. Drawing on these precious personal keepsakes--long hidden in Soviet archives--Anastasia's Album offers a unique glimpse into the private world of the last Romanovs. Here is the fascinating true story of a remarkable young girl's life and an unforgettable portrait of the last days of imperial Russia. Hugh Brewster is a Canadian editor and writer. While viewing the imperial family's albums at the State Archive in Moscow, he realized that Anastasia's story, as told through her own photographs and letters, would make a wonderful illustrated book for readers of all ages. Peter Christopher's color photography complements the period photographs taken by Anastasia and her family. - and - Enter the world behind the palace gates...Anastasia's Album. She was the family comic, full of fun and pranks. She was also the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaievna, fourth daughter of the tsar of Russia. Anastasia loved to take photographs of all her family's activities and paste them into hand-decorated albums. Published here for the first time, Anastasia's photographs, drawings and letters tell a story that will enthrall readers of all ages. From the splendors of St. Petersburg's great palaces to the family's exile and imprisonment in Siberia, here is an unforgettable portrait of Anastasia's life and the lost world of imperial Russia.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Fully Booked
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003948
- Title
- Anastasia's Album
- Author
- Brewster, Hugh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 067087163X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670871636
- Publisher
- A Penguin Studio Madison Press Book
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- This edition first published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Royalty,Russian
- Bookseller catalogs
- Royalty - Russian;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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cardboard boxes or cardboard shipping wraps
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bubble wrap
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While we often re-use shipping materials, we only do so with clean materials that are worthy of the job. We believe in the second "R" in "Reduce, Re-use, Recycle" when it comes to shipping, but only if it does not compromise your purchase.
Choosing the most appropriate materials suited to your purchase, we package up your parcel, taking the time to do everything we can to ensure its safe and secure delivery to you. Attention is paid to protecting corners and boards of hardcover books and ensuring that paperback books cannot be curled or folded while in transit. To ensure that no moisture damage occurs while in transit, we make sure that a plastic, protective barrier is a part of your package, either by using a Poly Mailer or by plastic bagging/wrapping your book(s) if a cardboard box is to be used for shipping. No loose edges or flaps are left on the outside of packages to ensure smooth flow and safe journey through postal system sorting and scanning equipment. An Invoice and Packing Slip are always safely enclosed with your book(s), so that should an unfortunate incident occur to exterior labelling and/or packaging, postal employees can identify the rightful owner of the contents and complete delivery. We try to think of everything!
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For a good portion of the 1990's, our family was interested in the idea of entering the used book business. We are all avid readers, book lovers, and book collectors who cannot pass a bookstore without popping in. Family trips to the library and our local used bookstore were a regularity while growing up. With each of us having interests in different genres (with a little overlapping here and there), we cover a lot of bases. The thought of having a store of our own was appealing, and the hunt was on - both for stock and a location.
We thought to combine under one roof many different things that would appeal to readers and book lovers. Not only used books, but some new items as well. Bookmarks (to ward off dog-eared pages), bookends (to keep those out-of-control collections under control), bookplates (to label books on the "Can I borrow that?" circuit to ensure that they always found their way home), book repair tape (to lend a helping hand to collectors with tattered favourites in their collections), and so on. With an interest in book-themed knick knacks as well, we had two sides to our would-be business: books and knick-knacks. Hence the business was born.
In the early part of 1998 we bought a commercial property, and in the summer we first opened our doors in a storefront in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. With start-up stock consisting of a garage full of books hand-picked for just such a venture that we purchased from someone who changed their plans, we were in business.
For several years we operated in this storefront, growing our business and learning about the industry and the backbone of it - the customers. It was very satisfying to be present at the end of someone's book quest, as we were quite often. Many a time we heard shouts of joy from somewhere in the shop as customers happened upon just what they'd been looking for (oftentimes for quite a while). At other times, people would approach us with bits and pieces of information that they remembered from long ago favourites in hopes that we could at least help them come up with an author or title to help in their search, which we often times did, with the book in hand. And when we couldn't come up with anything on our own, we would pick the brains of other customers in conversation, or turn to the internet for help for them. For us, quality and selection of stock go hand-in-hand with customer service. One isn't much good without the other.
But times, people, places, and lives change and after several years in our storefront we made a change of our own - in 2004 we relocated to the internet. Now a home-based business in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, we are gradually bringing our inventory online here.
We carry used paperbacks, hardbacks, and magazines for both adults and children. We have thousands upon thousands of books that are not yet listed for sale on the internet, but are gradually making their way there.Fully Booked sells on Biblio.com, as well as on other online venues: abebooks.com (as Past Pages), alibris.com (under Lisa Van Munster), amazon.ca (as resurrectedreads), Etsy.com (as OutOfOurHands), and from time to time on ebay.ca (as littleredreadinghood or thebigbadbookseller).
We thought to combine under one roof many different things that would appeal to readers and book lovers. Not only used books, but some new items as well. Bookmarks (to ward off dog-eared pages), bookends (to keep those out-of-control collections under control), bookplates (to label books on the "Can I borrow that?" circuit to ensure that they always found their way home), book repair tape (to lend a helping hand to collectors with tattered favourites in their collections), and so on. With an interest in book-themed knick knacks as well, we had two sides to our would-be business: books and knick-knacks. Hence the business was born.
In the early part of 1998 we bought a commercial property, and in the summer we first opened our doors in a storefront in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. With start-up stock consisting of a garage full of books hand-picked for just such a venture that we purchased from someone who changed their plans, we were in business.
For several years we operated in this storefront, growing our business and learning about the industry and the backbone of it - the customers. It was very satisfying to be present at the end of someone's book quest, as we were quite often. Many a time we heard shouts of joy from somewhere in the shop as customers happened upon just what they'd been looking for (oftentimes for quite a while). At other times, people would approach us with bits and pieces of information that they remembered from long ago favourites in hopes that we could at least help them come up with an author or title to help in their search, which we often times did, with the book in hand. And when we couldn't come up with anything on our own, we would pick the brains of other customers in conversation, or turn to the internet for help for them. For us, quality and selection of stock go hand-in-hand with customer service. One isn't much good without the other.
But times, people, places, and lives change and after several years in our storefront we made a change of our own - in 2004 we relocated to the internet. Now a home-based business in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, we are gradually bringing our inventory online here.
We carry used paperbacks, hardbacks, and magazines for both adults and children. We have thousands upon thousands of books that are not yet listed for sale on the internet, but are gradually making their way there.Fully Booked sells on Biblio.com, as well as on other online venues: abebooks.com (as Past Pages), alibris.com (under Lisa Van Munster), amazon.ca (as resurrectedreads), Etsy.com (as OutOfOurHands), and from time to time on ebay.ca (as littleredreadinghood or thebigbadbookseller).
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