The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England
by Tinniswood, Adrian
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1594489483
- ISBN 13
- 9781594489488
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 569 pages. Bibliography, Index. First American edition, first printing with full number line. A lively and well written social history of one family from East Claydon, from the 1630's through the last decade of the seventeenth century, drawn from a trove of over 100.00 pages of letters and documents. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket. .
Synopsis
Adrian Tinniswood is the author of His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren and Visions of Power : Ambition and Architecture from Ancient Times to the Present . He is a respected author, lecturer, and broadcaster in Britain and the United States.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017238
- Title
- The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England
- Author
- Tinniswood, Adrian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1594489483
- ISBN 13
- 9781594489488
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Social History, Seventeenth Century England
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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