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Counting One's Blessings: Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
por Shawcross, William
- Usado
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- VG+/VG/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0230754961
- ISBN 13
- 9780230754966
- Livreiro
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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HARDBACK, ?ROYALTY,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2012* Publisher: Macmillan.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Back board has single diagonal crease. Rear hinge v. slightly shaken. VG* Jacket condition: B/w photo-illustrated dust wrapper, gilt, grey and white titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £25.00. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. A couple of small scrapes to rear. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Illustrated end papers (showing text of letter). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, some grubby marks to fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: Three x 8pp blocks of colour and monochrome photos.* Pages: 622 pp. text. xlvii pp., family trees, notes, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: One of the great revelations of William Shawcross?s official biography was the Queen Mother?s private correspondence. Indeed, The Sunday Times described her letters as ?wonderful ... brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness.? Now, drawing on the vast wealth of material in the Royal Archives, at Glamis Castle, and elsewhere, Shawcross has put together a selection of those letters. A prolific correspondent from her earliest childhood to the very end of her life, her letters offer readers a vivid insight into the person behind the public face. Full of wit, hilarity, acute observation and a deeply held sense of duty, Queen Elizabeth?s letters constitute a chronicle both of her long life and of the twentieth century.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/1st fnl. with some minor faults in a VG+ protected dust jacket.*
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- Livreiro
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 787
- Título
- Counting One's Blessings: Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
- Autor
- Shawcross, William
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - VG+/VG/VG+
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 0230754961
- ISBN 13
- 9780230754966
- Editorial
- Macmillan
- Local de publicação
- London UK 669
- Data de publicação
- 2012-10-11
- Dimensão
- 16.5 x 5.4 x 24.2 cm
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