Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress
by Morris, James
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 015139900X
- ISBN 13
- 9780151399000
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 7x5x1. First American edition; previously published in the UK by Faber. 554 pages. Red cloth with gilt spine titles, very good with light rubbing, gilt slightly dulled but clear and legible. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket toned, lightly edgeworn, very good in Mylar.
Synopsis
The opening volume of Morris’s “Pax Britannica Trilogy,” this richly detailed work traces the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the throne in 1837 to the celebration of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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- Bookseller
- The Book Bin (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BBS-2015063
- Title
- Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress
- Author
- Morris, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 015139900X
- ISBN 13
- 9780151399000
- Publisher
- A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 7x5x1
- X weight
- 6 oz
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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