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PETER THE GREAT: HIS LIFE AND HIS WORLD
by Robert K. Massie
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394500326
- ISBN 13
- 9780394500324
- Seller
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Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York, United States: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed and inscribed by author. Pages are clean except for previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover. Binding is tight and square. Rubbing to edges, corners and ends of spine. Text block is soiled. Dust jacket has rubbing, creasing, chips, soiling, and closed tears. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.
Synopsis
Robert K. Massie was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and studied American history at Yale and European history at Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He was president of the Authors Guild from 1987 to 1991. His books include Nicholas and Alexandra, Peter the Great: His Life and World (for which he won a Pulitzer Prize for biography) , The Romanovs: The Final Chapter, Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War, Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea, and Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71173
- Title
- PETER THE GREAT: HIS LIFE AND HIS WORLD
- Author
- Robert K. Massie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0394500326
- ISBN 13
- 9780394500324
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, United States
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Russia/USSR, Biography: General, Biography: Royalty, General & World History
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
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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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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