A King's Story: The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor
by Edward, Duke of Windsor
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1951. Very Good/Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1951]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($4.50), red topstain, map endpapers; xi,[1],435pp.; frontispiece and thirty-one (31) leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos. Dust jacket heavily wrinkled, chipped and worn with numerous small losses at margins, none quite touching text, extensive old tape repair to verso, corners nudged, textblock a shade toned, else a Very Good copy in a Good only dust jacket.
Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor who served as King of the United Kingdom briefly in 1936 before abdicating in order to marry Wallis Simpson.
Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor who served as King of the United Kingdom briefly in 1936 before abdicating in order to marry Wallis Simpson.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28993
- Title
- A King's Story: The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor
- Author
- Edward, Duke of Windsor
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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Washington, District of Columbia
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