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Marie-Antoinette et les Pamphlets Royalistes et Revolutionnaires Avec une bibliographie de ces Pamphlets Les Amoureux de la Reine (Victoria Sackville West's copy)
by D'Almeras, Henri
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued
- Seller
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Paris: La Librairie Mondiale No date, circa 1907-1908. Finely bound in contemporary full black morocco, five raised bands with gilt ruled borders, top edge gilt, gilt floral dentelles, marbled end pages. Very Good, spine sunned to gray, light rubbing at edges of spine and tips, prior owner name 2nd title page. The bookplate front paste down of Victoria Sackville-West, mother of novelist and poet Vita Sackville-West. SIGNED Victoria Sackville-West and dated by her 1908 on first title page. Additionally inscribed and SIGNED V.S. West by her in pencil and in French, at blank page facing title page, That inscription denotes 2 pages in the book where she has found relatives mentioned ( " mon arriere grandpere", my great grandfather, a "duc de Dorset" and "Lord DeLawarr"(?).. Additional inscriptions by her in pencil at those two pages. She has also pasted in 5 cut-out portraits of Marie-Antoinette taken from other books at front end pages. Victoria's daughter Vita became the lover of Virginia Woolf and she was the basis for Woolf's character Orlando in the novel of the same name. Virginia Woolf traced her direct ancestry to one of the attendants of Marie-Antoinette and was known to be well aware of her connection to Marie-Antoinette. And the circle is completed with this RARE book showing the Sackville-West's interest in and connection to Marie-Antoinette. Books bearing the Sackville-West bookplate are RARE. . First Edition. Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007766
- Title
- Marie-Antoinette et les Pamphlets Royalistes et Revolutionnaires Avec une bibliographie de ces Pamphlets Les Amoureux de la Reine (Victoria Sackville West's copy)
- Author
- D'Almeras, Henri
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- La Librairie Mondiale
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Bindings; Nineteenth Century;
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About the Seller
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Bloomington, Indiana
About Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Inscribed
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- First Edition
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Morocco
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- Title Page
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- Jacket
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