Anne Boleyn Hardcover - 1957

New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1957 Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York. 1957. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O address label on the front pastedown. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to top of front board and lower tips. DJ: Near Fine; slight edge bumps; light toning to spine and top edge of DJ. Khaki grained paper over boards and spine with bright blue lettering on the spine. 310 pp 8vo. Set against the intrigue and pageantry of the sixteenth-century English court, Evelyn Anthony’s novel tells the love story of Henry Tudor and Anne Boleyn, who would become his wife, his queen, and the mother of one of Britain’s greatest monarchs. On a lovely midsummer afternoon, Henry Tudor rides to Hever Castle. There, he feasts his eyes on Anne Boleyn, who caught his roving attention at court a few months earlier. Anne is in no mood to receive her king. He has torn from her the one man she loved: Harry Percy, who was forced to marry another. But King Henry VIII is not a man who gives up—the thrill of the chase only excites him more. Yet the woman he desires so passionately is no fool. Educated at the French court, Anne vows that she will not share the fate of her naive younger sister, Mary, who after bearing Henry a bastard son was cast away and married off to a country squire. No, Anne will settle for nothing less than the crown of England, even if Henry has to break with Rome in order to marry her. History comes thrillingly alive in a novel that features a teeming canvas of iconic real-life characters: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the enemy Anne vows to destroy; Henry’s first wife, the proud and pious Queen Catherine of Aragon; and Thomas Cromwell, who engineers Anne’s downfall. From the halcyon early days of courtship to her imprisonment in the palace tower for treason, this is a tale of love, ambition, and the tragic destiny of Anne of the Thousand Days. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.