Castlereagh - Hardcover
- PublisherHarperCollins Distribution Services
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 000216308X
- ISBN 13 9780002163088
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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Book Description Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Seller Inventory # wbs4220911280
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Book Description Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. Seller Inventory # Z1-X-015-02295
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 320 pages; Some pencil markings made by Susan Mary Alsop on several pages; otherwise contents clean and secure in original cloth binding with gilt lettering at spinein very good dustjacket. This was a reference book for Alsop's research for her book The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815. From a review: "Few historic occasions lend themselves more naturally to petticoat history than the 1815 Congress of Vienna, where Tsar Alexander I, Austria's Metternich, Britain's Castlereagh & France's Talleyrand assembled to reconstruct Europe after the upheavals of the French Revolution & the Napoleonic era--where, notoriously, three international beauties--Dorothea de Talleyrand-Perigord, her sister Wilhelmina Sagan & Catherine Bragation--played prominent roles. Alsop (Lady Sackville, Yankees at the Court) sets the scene over-elaborately but animatedly: the life, character, domestic & diplomatic intrigues of all concerned; the victors' gala entrance into Paris; the truculent, anticlimactic return of Louis XVIII; Alexander's unfortunate visit to England. She's perfectly clear about what was involved--"the complex problem of establishing what Castlereagh called 'a real & permanent balance of power'"--&, in the course of the Congress, she shows how conflicts of interest (between Castlereagh's desire to strenghten the center against east & west & Talleyrand's fear of a strong Prussia, between Metternich & the tsar on Poland) threatened a new war." Though not signed, this book is from the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes (both with and without Alsop) hosted dignitaries, publishers and a variety of interesting people during the 1960s and 1970s including such luminaries as John F. Kennedy, Phil Graham, Katharine Graham, and Isaiah Berlin, earning her the nickname "the grand dame of Washington society," (to which she rather objected). Seller Inventory # 43929
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Book Description 1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if slightly edge-torn and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 320 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, map, portraits; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-307) and index. Subjects: Castlereagh, Robert Stewart Viscount 1769-1822. Statesmen Great Britain; Biography. Diplomatic relations. Politics and government. Great Britain Politics and government 1789-1820. Genre: Bibliography. Biographies. Illustrated. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 324821
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Book Description 1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if slightly edge-torn and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 320 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, map, portraits; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-307) and index. Subjects: Castlereagh, Robert Stewart Viscount 1769-1822. Statesmen Great Britain; Biography. Diplomatic relations. Politics and government. Great Britain Politics and government 1789-1820. Genre: Bibliography. Biographies. Illustrated. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 324821
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Book Description Condition: Good. Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 1.32. Seller Inventory # bk000216308Xxvz189zvxgdd
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Book Description Condition: Fair. Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within 1.32. Seller Inventory # bk000216308Xxvz189zvxacp
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ex N Yorks library, usual marks and stamps. Dust jacket is slightly cuffed and marked; pages well bound, clean and neat inside and out. Seller Inventory # 0202202313
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