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H.R.H. The Man Who Will Be King
by Heald, Tim and Mohs, Mayo
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0877952124
- ISBN 13
- 9780877952121
- Seller
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Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Arbor House Publishing Company BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. JACKET DESIGN: Antler & Baldwin, Inc. PHOTO: Carole Cutner/Sygma. CONTENTS: Author's Note; Prologue; CHAPTER ONE A Day in the Principality; CHAPTER TWO Born to Rule; CHAPTER THREE Schooldays: Cheam, Gordonstoun and Timbertop; CHAPTER FOUR Cambridge, Trinity - The Windows Open; CHAPTER FIVE The Mantle of the Black Prince; CHAPTER SIX Golden Eagle, Red Dragon, Blue Sea: "From Boy to Man"; CHAPTER SEVEN H. R. H.: The Woman Who Will Be Queen; CHAPTER EIGHT A Princely Fortune (And How It Grew); CHAPTER NINE Noblesse Oblige; CHAPTER TEN The Sporting Prince; EPILOGUE Wither Charles...? SYNOPSIS: "I'm not much conscious of being a monarch-to-be. I'm much more conscious of being a Prince of Wales as-is. I have got a life of my own and I like it." - Prince Charles. Consider Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor, coming into his own after three decades of elaborate preparations for kingship. He is as comfortable in a palace ballroom or addressing Parliament as he is flying a jet fighter, handling a polo pony ('my one extravagance") or skippering a Royal Navy minesweeper through North Atlantic gales, and equally at home at the wheel of his sports car or at the reins of a coach-and-pair at Windsor. His income is estimated at a half-million dollars a year and he is heir to the grandest preserve of royal pomp and privilege left on earth: the British throne. Here is the first revealing, in-depth portrait of the monarch-to-be, drawn by British journalist Tim Heald and veteran Time editor May Mohs, based on many personal interviews with Prince Charles, his friends, teachers and coaches, fellow naval officers and members of the Royal Family, and illustrated with over seventy photographs. It is the story behind the official life of the will-be world leader: his childhood in Buckingham palace; the Spartan, cold-shower grammar schools; his years at Cambridge as the first Prince of Wales to earn a university degree; his stunts flying helicopters and diving under the ice for the Royal Navy; his 3,000-acre estate in Kent, which he calls "the most desirable bachelor pad in Europe," his royal - and not so royal - tours to Africa, Asia and the Americas; his rarely disclosed insights into the peculiarities of his office ("I should remind you that in company with convicts, lunatics and peers of the realm, I am ineligible to vote."). Here, too, is another, private story: the real, rumored and hoped-for romances - Lady Jane Wellesley, Lady Sarah Spencer, Princess Marie-Astrid of Luxembourg, Tricia Nixon, Margaret Trudeau, Davina Sheffield, Farrah Fawcett-Majors - ("I've fallen in love with all sorts of girls and I fully intend to go on doing so."); his relationship to the Queen, and the courtly pleasures of the highborn-riding, hunting, gaming with the aristocracy of Europe. Once "Windsor" to his army drill sergeant, still "Sir" - at least in public - even to his girlfriends, he is the world's most eligible bachelor ("I would never recommend getting married too young. You miss so much.") and, to many people, the most engaging member of the Royal Family to emerge on the international scene in many and many a generation. H. R. H. puts Prince Charles in clear perspective, with wide-ranging insight into the traditions of his predecessors, and points the way for all "Charles watchers" in assessing and appreciating the future of The Man Who Will Be King. Mayo Mohs is associate editor of Time, where he has worked for over twelve years. His many Time cover stories include one on Prince Charles and one on Mother Teresa of Calcutta, which earned him the Overseas Press Club award. Tim Heald recently returned to London from Weekend magazine in Toronto, for which he wrote a widely syndicated cover story on Prince Charles . . .. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Ben Stahl. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Fully Booked
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- H.R.H. The Man Who Will Be King
- Author
- Heald, Tim and Mohs, Mayo
- Illustrator
- Ben Stahl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0877952124
- ISBN 13
- 9780877952121
- Publisher
- Arbor House Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Royalty,British
- Bookseller catalogs
- Royalty - British;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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For a good portion of the 1990's, our family was interested in the idea of entering the used book business. We are all avid readers, book lovers, and book collectors who cannot pass a bookstore without popping in. Family trips to the library and our local used bookstore were a regularity while growing up. With each of us having interests in different genres (with a little overlapping here and there), we cover a lot of bases. The thought of having a store of our own was appealing, and the hunt was on - both for stock and a location.
We thought to combine under one roof many different things that would appeal to readers and book lovers. Not only used books, but some new items as well. Bookmarks (to ward off dog-eared pages), bookends (to keep those out-of-control collections under control), bookplates (to label books on the "Can I borrow that?" circuit to ensure that they always found their way home), book repair tape (to lend a helping hand to collectors with tattered favourites in their collections), and so on. With an interest in book-themed knick knacks as well, we had two sides to our would-be business: books and knick-knacks. Hence the business was born.
In the early part of 1998 we bought a commercial property, and in the summer we first opened our doors in a storefront in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. With start-up stock consisting of a garage full of books hand-picked for just such a venture that we purchased from someone who changed their plans, we were in business.
For several years we operated in this storefront, growing our business and learning about the industry and the backbone of it - the customers. It was very satisfying to be present at the end of someone's book quest, as we were quite often. Many a time we heard shouts of joy from somewhere in the shop as customers happened upon just what they'd been looking for (oftentimes for quite a while). At other times, people would approach us with bits and pieces of information that they remembered from long ago favourites in hopes that we could at least help them come up with an author or title to help in their search, which we often times did, with the book in hand. And when we couldn't come up with anything on our own, we would pick the brains of other customers in conversation, or turn to the internet for help for them. For us, quality and selection of stock go hand-in-hand with customer service. One isn't much good without the other.
But times, people, places, and lives change and after several years in our storefront we made a change of our own - in 2004 we relocated to the internet. Now a home-based business in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, we are gradually bringing our inventory online here.
We carry used paperbacks, hardbacks, and magazines for both adults and children. We have thousands upon thousands of books that are not yet listed for sale on the internet, but are gradually making their way there.Fully Booked sells on Biblio.com, as well as on other online venues: abebooks.com (as Past Pages), alibris.com (under Lisa Van Munster), amazon.ca (as resurrectedreads), Etsy.com (as OutOfOurHands), and from time to time on ebay.ca (as littleredreadinghood or thebigbadbookseller).
We thought to combine under one roof many different things that would appeal to readers and book lovers. Not only used books, but some new items as well. Bookmarks (to ward off dog-eared pages), bookends (to keep those out-of-control collections under control), bookplates (to label books on the "Can I borrow that?" circuit to ensure that they always found their way home), book repair tape (to lend a helping hand to collectors with tattered favourites in their collections), and so on. With an interest in book-themed knick knacks as well, we had two sides to our would-be business: books and knick-knacks. Hence the business was born.
In the early part of 1998 we bought a commercial property, and in the summer we first opened our doors in a storefront in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. With start-up stock consisting of a garage full of books hand-picked for just such a venture that we purchased from someone who changed their plans, we were in business.
For several years we operated in this storefront, growing our business and learning about the industry and the backbone of it - the customers. It was very satisfying to be present at the end of someone's book quest, as we were quite often. Many a time we heard shouts of joy from somewhere in the shop as customers happened upon just what they'd been looking for (oftentimes for quite a while). At other times, people would approach us with bits and pieces of information that they remembered from long ago favourites in hopes that we could at least help them come up with an author or title to help in their search, which we often times did, with the book in hand. And when we couldn't come up with anything on our own, we would pick the brains of other customers in conversation, or turn to the internet for help for them. For us, quality and selection of stock go hand-in-hand with customer service. One isn't much good without the other.
But times, people, places, and lives change and after several years in our storefront we made a change of our own - in 2004 we relocated to the internet. Now a home-based business in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, we are gradually bringing our inventory online here.
We carry used paperbacks, hardbacks, and magazines for both adults and children. We have thousands upon thousands of books that are not yet listed for sale on the internet, but are gradually making their way there.Fully Booked sells on Biblio.com, as well as on other online venues: abebooks.com (as Past Pages), alibris.com (under Lisa Van Munster), amazon.ca (as resurrectedreads), Etsy.com (as OutOfOurHands), and from time to time on ebay.ca (as littleredreadinghood or thebigbadbookseller).
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