Queen Victoria
by Strachey, Lytton
- Used
- Condition
- very good: age wear to boards and spine, toning and offset to endpapers, bookplate on front paste down, text clean, binding tigh/no DJ
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1921. hardcover. very good: age wear to boards and spine, toning and offset to endpapers, bookplate on front paste down, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 434pp. Biography of Queen Victoria by member of the Bloomsbury Group and innovator in the practice of writing biography, known for his Eminent Victorians. #01095.
Synopsis
This is the definitive biography of Britain’s greatest monarch, who “was hailed at once as the mother of her people and as the embodied symbol of their imperial greatness.” “One of the surpassingly beautiful prose achievements of our time” (Chicago Daily News). Index; illustrations.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1019
- Title
- Queen Victoria
- Author
- Strachey, Lytton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good: age wear to boards and spine, toning and offset to endpapers, bookplate on front paste down, text clean, binding tigh
- Jacket Condition
- no DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- biography, victoriania, victorian age, queen victoria, england, united kingdom, nonfiction
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...