Harper & Row, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Very good + oversized cloth hardcover shows some light shelf and trace wear including a blindstamp at top corner of title page, in else tight and clean, in very good + dust jacket (price at flap) that shows mild shelf wear and a stain visible at spine tail area of jacket reverse. 304 pages nicely illustrated. Still an attractive copy of this noted biography of the Prussian King from the author of The Sun King and others.

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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: Barker Books & Vintage (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 30188
Title: Frederick the Great
Author: Mitford, Nancy
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good DJ
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0060129867
ISBN 13: 9780060129866
Publisher: Harper & Row
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1970
Keywords: Antiques; Collectibles; Rare Books; Spokane, WA; Used Books ; ; ;

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Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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Blindstamp: A blindstamp is a stamped impression, usually an image, logo, words, or design on the cover or spine of a book, without color or...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Tail: The heel of the spine.
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Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...