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1915. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket. Cover is s.
Memories of Forty Years by Princess Catherine Radziwill (Catherine Kolb) - 1915
by Princess Catherine Radziwill (Catherine Kolb)
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Memories of Forty Years
by Princess Catherine Radziwill (Catherine Kolb)
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New York, NY: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1915 Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York. 1915. Hardcover. Edition not stated but possibly First US Edition since London was 1914. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; bumping and wear to head, tail, and tips; spotty stains to textblock top; small stains to textblock bottom and fore edge; finish wear to front board and spine. No DJ. Clean Internals. Internal hinges are sound and not split. Frontispiece photo present as are all photogravure illustrations listed. Original price of $3.75 in pencil on rear pastedown. 357 pp 8vo.The author was a Polish-Russian aristocrat born in Russia into the Polish-Lithuanian House of Rzewusk.Her maternal family was the Russian Dashkov-Vorontsov family. In 1873 she married the Polish-Lithuanian Prince Wilhelm Radziwiłł at age 15. Her reminiscences are in three groups and cover her experiences in the courts of England, Germany, and Russia during the reigns of Queen Victoria, Edward VII, and George V; William I, Frederick III and William II; Alexander III and Nicholas II. Kings, queens, scholars, statesmen, courtiers, and soldiers, they pass in a stately precession before the reader at the call of the memory of this Russian princess, who creates for a little while, the spell of their personalities and influence. Her recollections of the historical figures who wove the fabric of European politics and diplomacy are original and illuminating. A clean presentable copy.
- Bookseller Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
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- Book Condition Used - Good
- Jacket Condition No Jacket
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- Publisher Funk & Wagnalls Company
- Place of Publication New York, NY
- Date Published 1915
- Size 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords Russian court, German Court, British Court, Queen Victoria, Edward VII, and George V; William I, Frederick III and William II; Alexander III and Nicholas II, Russian Kings, British Kings, British Queens, German Kings, royalty, European politics,
- Size 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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Memories of Forty years
by RAdziwill, Princess Catherine
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Memories of Forty Years
by Radziwill, Princess Catherine (Catherine Kolb)
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New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1915. Not stated. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. 357 pages with index, handsome photogravure illustrations. A Russian aristrocrat who married a Polish prince and lived a life of luxury, gossip and intrigue. Original red coth binding with gilt wreath decoration on front cover and gilt titles on front cover and spine. Cover shows some wear and staining, spotting, corners and spine ends bumped and frayed, discoloration of end papers, front fixed end paper wrinkled, some foxing of first few pages, interior pages tanning with a few spots and minor stains, binding tight other a little hinge weakness.
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Memories Of Forty Years (1915)
by Princess Catherine Radziwill
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