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New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 0786708549 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear. Previous owner's nameplate on FFEP. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 246 pages; "A gripping acount of Mary Tudor and her reign of terror details her ascension to the English throne in 1553, her restoration of Roman Catholicism, her marriage, and her inability to conceive a child, which led to the fires at Smithfield where hundreds of Protestants--including Hugh Latimer and Thomas Cranmer--met their fate at the stake." .

London: John Murray. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1913. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Boards show some shelf wear, short tears head and tail of spine. Previous owner has made notes on BFEP and back pastedown. Pencil underlining of text throughout book. ; A bright, solid book, dark blue cloth covered boards. Gilt edging on top page edges, gilt stamped decorations front board, gilt stamped titles and decorations on spine ; B&W Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 562 pages .

London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards show some shelf wear, foxing on top page edges. ; A tight solid book, hinges intact, text unmarked. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 288 pages; Christian VII (29 January 1749 – 13 March 1808) was a monarch of the House of Oldenburg who was King of Denmark–Norway and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein from 1766 until his death in 1808. .

Toronto: Random House Canada. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2013. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0307357546 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, previous dealers stamp on back pastedown, remainder marks on top and bottom page edges. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 436 pages; "In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi – the most important woman in Chinese history – brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like ‘death by a thousand cuts’ and put an end to foot-binding. Jung Chang comprehensively overturns the conventional view of Cixi as a diehard conservative and cruel despot andalso takes the reader into the depths of her splendid Summer Palace and the harem of Beijing’s Forbidden City,… Read More

London UK: Panther. Very Good+. 1969. Later Printing. Paperback. 0586033793 . Light shelf wear to paperback and slipcase, previous owner's name on title page ; A tight solid book. The book has a matching slipcase to protect it. ; Mass Market PB; Women in History # 2; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 720 pages .

Madison, WI: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1996. 1st Thus. Hardcover. 1569540527 . A couple of small bumps to boards, corners lightly bumped, otherwise appears unread. ; A bright, solid book. Red cloth covered boards with gilt stamped design and titles front and spine ; Spanish series No. 112; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 143 pages; "Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena (5 May 1282 – 13 June 1348) was a Spanish medieval writer, nephew of Alfonso X of Castile, son of Manuel of Castile and Beatrice of Savoy. He inherited from his father the great Seigneury of Villena, receiving the titles of Lord, Duke and lastly Prince of Villena. With the death of his mother Beatrice in 1292, Juan Manuel became duke of Peñafiel. Juan Manuel was trained in arts such as equestrianism, hunting, and fencing, and in addition learned Latin, history, law, and theology. At the age of twelve, he fought to repel the attack of the Moors from Granada… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 0345383729 . A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 287 pages; "Despite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, remain one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. Did Richard III really kill the young princes, as is commonly believed, or was the murderer someone else entirely? Carefully examining every shred of contemporary evidence as well as the dozens of modern accounts, Weir reconstructs the entire chain of events leading to the double murder to arrive at a conclusion Sherlock Holmes himself could not dispute." .

New York NY: Knopf. Very Good+. 1989. Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0670809063 . Card covers show light shelf wear, some corner curl.; A bright, solid book. Possibly an Advanced Readers Copy seeing as the ISBN is the same as on the hardcover edition. ; Trade PB; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 383 pages; 'From Britain's Queen Boadicea to Elizabeth I, from Catherine the Great to the twentieth-century triumvirate of Meir, Gandhi and Thatcher - the paradox, the politics, the legend and the lives of the sovereign women who have led their nations in war. '. .

London: Rich & Cowan Ltd.. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1938. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Boards show some shelf wear with sun-fading at top of spine area. DJ has short tears, light soiling and chipping with areas missing at top of spine, extending into front and back of DJ. Previous owner's name with dates top of front free end paper. Some soil top front page edges ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 584 pages .