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Frederick the Great
by Nancy Mitford
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0241019222
- ISBN 13
- 9780241019221
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1970 Book. Good. Black Cloth Boards. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Illuminating and moving biography of the King of Prussia, Frederick the Great (1712-86). 304pp with index, illustrated with 48 colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations and maps. Silver silhouette in circular border to top board, silver lettering to spine and dark blue endpapers. Slight bumping and fading to spine and top edges and minor marking to fore-edges, otherwise good copy. Unclipped DJ has some edge and surface wear, otherwise fair. From the collection of art historian Ingrid Roscoe, with her signature to the title page..
Synopsis
Nancy Mitford (1904–1973) was born into the British aristocracy and, by her own account, brought up without an education, except in riding and French. She managed a London bookshop during the Second World War, then moved to Paris, where she began to write her celebrated and successful novels, among them The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate , about the foibles of the English upper class. Mitford was also the author of four biographies: Madame de Pompadour (1954), Voltaire in Love (1957), The Sun King (1966), and Frederick the Great (1970)—all available as NYRB classics. In 1967 Mitford moved from Paris to Versailles, where she lived until her death from Hodgkin’s disease. Liesl Schillinger is a journalist, critic, and translator. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review and has written on literature, culture, theater, politics, and travel for many publications, including The New York Times , The New Yorker , The Daily Beast , and The Independent on Sunday . Among her translations are The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas ( fils ) and Every Day, Every Hour by Nataša Dragnić. Her illustrated book of neologisms, Wordbirds , will be published in October 2013.
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- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015803
- Title
- Frederick the Great
- Author
- Nancy Mitford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0241019222
- ISBN 13
- 9780241019221
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1970
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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