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Broadway Books, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W drawings & art repros throughout. Loaded. CONDITION: NEW 2008 Broadway Books trade paperback, first edition, first printing. Beautiful book: B&W drawings & art reproductions throughout; decorated end pages; deckle edges; and chapter decorations. CONTENT: Illicit love, madness, betrayal--it isn't always good to be the queen Marie Antoinette, Anne Boleyn, and Mary, Queen of Scots. What did they have in common? For a while they were crowned in gold, cosseted in silk, and flattered by courtiers. But in the end, they spent long nights in dark prison towers and were marched to the scaffold where they surrendered their heads to the executioner. And they are hardly alone in their undignified demises. Throughout history, royal women have had a distressing way of meeting bad ends--dying of starvation, being burned at the stake, or expiring in childbirth while trying desperately to produce an heir. They always had to be on… Read More

Harvard University Press, 1978. Revised Printing Unknown. Hardcover. New/As New. B&W photos (very few) . CONDITION: What makes this book "As New?" The DJ shows short "cuts" - one at the top front edge and one at the top back edge. What caused this? No idea. UNREAD 1978 Harvard Univ. Press hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), supposedly the "revised" edition. There are only 2 B&W photos that I have found. CONTENT: The story of that amazingly influential and still somewhat mysterious woman, Eleanor of Aquitaine, has the dramatic interest of a novel. She was at the very center of the rich culture and clashing politics of the 12th century. Richest marriage prize of the Middle Ages, she was Queen of France as the wife of Louis VII, and went with him on the exciting and disastrous Second Crusade. Inspiration of troubadours and trouveres, she played a large part in rendering fashionable the Courts of Love and in establishing the whole courtly tradition of medieval times. Divorced from… Read More

Ballantine, 2017. 1st American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Color photo section. CONDITION: NEW 2017 Ballantine hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first US edition, first printing. Color photo section. CONTENT: Many are familiar with the story of the much-married King Henry VIII of England and the celebrated reign of his daughter, Elizabeth I. But it is often forgotten that the life of the first Tudor queen, Elizabeth of York, Henry's mother and Elizabeth's grandmother, spanned one of England's most dramatic and perilous periods. Now New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir presents the first modern biography of this extraordinary woman, whose very existence united the realm and ensured the survival of the Plantagenet bloodline. Her birth was greeted with as much pomp and ceremony as that of a male heir. The first child of King Edward IV, Elizabeth enjoyed all the glittering trappings of royalty. But after the death of her father; the disappearance and… Read More

Clarendon Press, 1993. 1st Edition 7th printing. Soft cover. Very Good+/No Jacket Issued. No Illustrations. CONDITION: Very Good+ 1993 Clarendon Press trade paperback, first edition, 7th printing. PROBLEM: some underlining from page 1 through page 57 and then appears abandoned. No spine crease - outwardly appears perfect. CONTENT: This book takes a refreshing new approach to the study of the Reformation in England. Christopher Haigh's lively and readable study disproves any facile assumption that the triumph of Protestantism was inevitable, and goes beyond the surface of official political policy to explore the religious views and practices of ordinary English people. With the benefit of hindsight, other historians have traced the course of the Reformation as a series of events inescapably culminating in the creation of the English Protestant establishment. Haigh sets out to recreate the sixteenth century as a time of excitement and insecurity, with each new policy or ruler causing the reversal of… Read More

Schwartz & Wade Books, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. B&W Chapter Decorations . CONDITION: What makes this book "As New?" Small red remainder mark bottom edges at spine. UNREAD 2018 Schwartz & Wade hardcover (red boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. B&W chapter decorations. CONTENT: Perfect for anyone fascinated by the Royal Wedding, Netflix's The Crown, or Wolf Hall, this is a pitch-perfect reimagining of the romance and tragedy of Henry VIII and his six wives, told from multiple points of view by some of your favorite authors. If you were one of King Henry VIII's six wives, who would you be? Would you be Anne Boleyn, who literally lost her head? Would you be the subject of rumor and scandal like Catherine Howard? Or would you get away and survive like Anna of Cleves? Meet them and Henry's other queens--each bound for divorce or death--in this epic and thrilling novel that reads like fantasy but really happened. Watch spellbound as each of these women attempts… Read More

St. Martin's Press, 2001. 1st American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W era photo section. CONDITION: UNREAD 2001 St. Martin's Press hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first American edition, first printing. B&W era photo section. CONTENT: Queen Victoria's death in January 1901 shook Britain to its core, and reverberated not just throughout the Commonwealth, but around the world. She was a woman in her eighties, and yet it seems no one could contemplate the end of a reign that had lasted so long. Most could not remember a time when she was not Queen, and the very stability of everyday life seemed to depend on her regency. The anxiety of the government and the royal family about the prospect of the Queen's death was such that the news of her illness was deliberately concealed from the public for more than a week. When it came, people from England to Jamaica wept in the streets, and this grief was surpassed only by fear for the future. "God help us" was the standard… Read More

United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson, 2015. 1st Paperback Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Susan Herbert color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2015 Thames & Hudson large paperback, first PB edition, 2nd printing. The original was released in HB in 1996 and into paperback 2014. Simply beautiful color illustrations by Susan Herbert. CONTENT: For her latest book of cats in costume, Susan Herbert turns from masterpieces of the fine arts to the masterpieces of Shakespeare. Painting in her familiar and highly popular style, this imaginative artist presents an irresistible array of well-known characters in the great Shakespearean plays, from the tragic Romeo and Juliet, to the mischievous Titania; from the beautiful Cleopatra to the roguish Falstaff. In thirty-two entrancing paintings, Susan Herbert opens up an unsuspected world of Shakespeare interpreted by cats with all their winning ways. Her many devoted admirers will find this new collection full of the charm, humor and sensitivity of… Read More