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Carlos: The King Who Would Not Die
by John Langdon-Davies
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963 Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 1963. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O name and address label on the front pastedown. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips, and spine shoulders. DJ: Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($4.95); shelfwear to head, tail, tips, and spine shoulders; light soiling to panels; light suntoning to spine. Red cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Family tree as endpapers. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 272 pp 8vo. King Carlos II, the last of the Spanish Hapsburgs reigned in the 17th Century-a cruel age, beset by violence, witchcraft, and court intrigue. Carlos lived with birth defects, was a degenerate, and could not produce an heir, and on his death Europe would plunge into the War of the Spanish Succession. This book is a lot things- an account of the Hapsburg dynasty, of Spain in her decline, of religious fanaticism, of greed and political madness, and a court that kept Carlos alive as a matter of national policy. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015007
- Title
- Carlos: The King Who Would Not Die
- Author
- John Langdon-Davies
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall
- Place of Publication
- Englewood Cliffs, NJ
- Date Published
- 1963
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- War of Spanish Succession, King Carlos II, Spanish History, Hapsburg dynasty, Spanish Hapsburgs, King Carlos II of Spain, The Age of Reason, religious fanaticism, Catholic Church, witchcraft,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Price Clipped
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- Brodart
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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