The Fabulous Ego: Absolute Power in History
by Klonsky, Milton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0812904907
- ISBN 13
- 9780812904901
- Seller
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. 1974. Large Octavo Size. Very Good copy in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. Illustrated with Black and White plates. 436 pages. Intimate portraits of 15 of the greatest monarchs of history whose absolute power over their subjects was bounded only by their will and imagination. Includes Sardanapalus, Shih Huang Ti, Elgabalous, Harun Al-Rashid, Justinian and Theodora, Tamerlane, Pope Alexander VI, Ivan the Terrible, Akbar the Great, The Grand Signor, Charles 1, Louis XV, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB249625
- Title
- The Fabulous Ego: Absolute Power in History
- Author
- Klonsky, Milton
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0812904907
- ISBN 13
- 9780812904901
- Publisher
- Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
- Bookseller catalogs
- history-general;
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Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookseller. Member ANZAAB.Founded in 1979, Adelaide Booksellers is one of Adelaide's oldest and most respected secondhand and antiquarian booksellers. Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers [ANZAAB]. Has Adelaide's most comprehensive selection of book on military history. Also a very good range of Australiana books, Childrens's Books, Art and History books.Something for every budget. Now primarily an online/telephone seller but open to the public by arrangement.
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