Marie Antoinette's Daughter [Inscribed and Signed Letterpress Note Laid in]
by Alice Curtis Desmond
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good +
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1967. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; xvii,[7],291pp.; sixteen leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos, facsimiles, maps, and plans throughout. Light toning and dust-soil to jacket, a hint of shelf wear, else Very Good or better. Letterpress note affixed to front free endpaper (now loose, the glue having perished) inscribed and signed by the author as "Alice and Tom Desmond."
Biography of the future "Madame Royale," daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The author Alice Curtis Desmond also tackled the lives of Martha Washington, Dolly Madison, and Elizabeth Hamilton.
Biography of the future "Madame Royale," daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The author Alice Curtis Desmond also tackled the lives of Martha Washington, Dolly Madison, and Elizabeth Hamilton.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9349
- Title
- Marie Antoinette's Daughter [Inscribed and Signed Letterpress Note Laid in]
- Author
- Alice Curtis Desmond
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
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About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- Octavo
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- Inscribed
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