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Published by Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, London, 2006
ISBN 10: 0571228593ISBN 13: 9780571228591
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 'In 1958 - the year in which Krushchev came to power in Russia, the year after Eden's resignation over Suez, two years after John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" - the last of the debutantes, myself among them, went to the Palace to curtsey to the Queen.' Fiona MacCarthy and her fellow 'debs' were taking part in one of the final rituals of aristocratic power. The system had been in operation almost unchanged since the eighteenth-century. It was a female rite of passage, an elaborate initiation ceremony marking the emergence of the virgin out of the schoolroom and into society at the marriageable age of seventeen. But that year, in 1958, it was drawing to a close. Under pressure to shine - not least from their mothers - the girls were somewhere between teenagers and clones of the Queen herself. Still the focus for newspaper diarists and society photographers, these young women participated in a party season stretching for months among the great houses of London and the Home Counties. Yet behind all the grandeur lay anxiety and making-do, as many families struggled to maintain the splendour of former times. Filtered through some of its most colourful and eccentric inhabitants, from Lady Caroline Lamb in the eighteenth-century to Princess Diana in the twentieth, "Last Curtsey" is a riveting portrait of Britain as both empire and the customs and certainties of the old order came to an end. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, London, 2007
ISBN 10: 0571228607ISBN 13: 9780571228607
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Once upon a time the well-bred daughters of Britain's aristocracy took part in a female rite of passage: curtseying to the Queen. But in 1958 this ritual was coming to an end. Under pressure to shine - not least from their mothers - the girls became the focus for newspaper diarists and society photographers in a party season that stretched for months among the great houses of England, Ireland and Scotland. Fiona MacCarthy traces the stories of the girls who curtseyed that year, and shows how their lives were to open out in often very unexpected ways - as Britain itself changed irreversibly during the 1960s, and the certainties of the old order came to an end. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, London, 2003
ISBN 10: 0571174957ISBN 13: 9780571174959
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, the essential biography of the father of the Arts and Crafts movement. The author, Fiona MacCarthy, is the curator of the National Portrait Gallery's 2014-15 exhibition Anarchy and Beauty: William Morris and His Legacy. One of the finest biographies ever published in this country. (A. S. Byatt). Since his death in 1896, William Morris has come to be regarded as one of the giants of the Victorian era. But his genius was so many-sided and so profound that its full extent has rarely been grasped. Many people may find it hard to believe that the greatest English designer of his time, possibly of all time, could also be internationally renowned as a founder of the socialist movement, and could have been ranked as a poet together with Tennyson and Browning. With penetrating insight, Fiona MacCarthy has managed to encompass all the different facets of Morris' complex character, shedding light on his immense creative powers as artist and designer of furniture, fabrics, wallpaper, stained glass, tapestry and books, and as a poet, novelist and translator; his psychology and his emotional life; his frenetic activities as polemicist and reformer; and his remarkable circle of friends, literary, artistic and political, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones. Fiona MacCarthy's skilful drawing together of these disparate elements makes for a comprehensive and compelling biography. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Yale University Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0300074263ISBN 13: 9780300074260
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Published by London : Faber & Faber, 2019
ISBN 10: 0571295134ISBN 13: 9780571295135
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Allen & Unwin, 1979
ISBN 10: 004745007XISBN 13: 9780047450075
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
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Published by Faber & Faber 06/11/1990, 1990
ISBN 10: 0571143024ISBN 13: 9780571143023
Seller: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, United Kingdom
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Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
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Published by Faber and Faber, 1989
ISBN 10: 0571137547ISBN 13: 9780571137541
Seller: HPB-Red, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
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Published by Faber & Faber, 2004
ISBN 10: 0571179975ISBN 13: 9780571179978
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
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Published by National Portrait Gallery Public, 2014
ISBN 10: 1855144840ISBN 13: 9781855144842
Seller: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Published by Dutton Books, 1989
ISBN 10: 0525247351ISBN 13: 9780525247357
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.85.
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Published by Belknap Press, 2019
ISBN 10: 0674737857ISBN 13: 9780674737853
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.3.
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Published by Yale University Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0300073372ISBN 13: 9780300073379
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. F First Edition. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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ISBN 10: 8533144709ISBN 13: 9788533144705
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by Lund Humphries, 1981
ISBN 10: 0853314357ISBN 13: 9780853314356
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Faber & Faber, 2020
ISBN 10: 0571358756ISBN 13: 9780571358755
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, London, 2020
ISBN 10: 0571295142ISBN 13: 9780571295142
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. * A Times and New Statesman Book of the Year * * BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week * * Illustrated with over 130 colour photographs and drawings * 'A masterpiece.' Edmund de Waal 'Commanding, intelligent, gripping.' The Times From 1910 to 1930 Gropius was at the very centre of European modern art and design, as the founder of the German art school, the Bauhaus. Yet Gropius's beliefs and affiliations left him little choice but to leave Germany when Hitler came to power. In this riveting book, Fiona MacCarthy draws on new research to re-evaluate Gropius's work and life. From his shattering experiences in the First World War to his turbulent marriage to the notorious Alma Mahler and the tragic early death of their daughter, MacCarthy leads us through his disorientating years in London, to his final peaceful and productive life in America. This is biography at its finest and most vivid. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Knopf, 1995
ISBN 10: 0394585313ISBN 13: 9780394585314
Seller: ZBK Books, Carlstadt, NJ, U.S.A.
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Condition: good. Pages and cover are intact. Used book in good and clean conditions. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks.
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Published by Lund Humphries/The Royal Society of Arts, London, 1986
ISBN 10: 0853315140ISBN 13: 9780853315148
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Ex-Library.
Published by Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1986
ISBN 10: 0853315140ISBN 13: 9780853315148
Seller: Shadow Books, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Name On Back Inside Wrappers; Otherwise Unmarked. Tight Paperback, Lightly Handled.
Published by Faber & Faber, 2011
ISBN 10: 0571228615ISBN 13: 9780571228614
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A few small stains.
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Published by Biteback Publishing, 2020
ISBN 10: 1785905473ISBN 13: 9781785905476
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Used: Good.
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Published by Faber & Faber, 2012
ISBN 10: 0571228623ISBN 13: 9780571228621
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1982
ISBN 10: 0853314616ISBN 13: 9780853314615
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1150grams, ISBN:0853314616.
Published by Lund Humphries in association with the Royal Society of Arts London, 1986
Seller: J. R. Young, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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8¾"x8¾" (22x22cm). Soft cover. First edition. Published to accompany exhibition of works by the very best professional practitioners of design in Britain - the members of the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry (RDI) founded in 1936 by the Royal Society of Arts. 96pp with essays, 100 illustrations in monochrome & black-and-white, designer biographies, bibliography, and index. Black card wrappers, front with colour title design. VERY GOOD+ copy.
Seller: Claras, East Hoathly, United Kingdom
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Paperback published by Lund Humphries in association with the Royal Arts Society, 1986. In good condition.
Published by Humanities Pr, 1982
ISBN 10: 0853314470ISBN 13: 9780853314479
Seller: Neo Books, Sidcup, KENT, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners creased and worn, a few small nick on right edge of cover, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear.
Published by Putnam's Sons, 1931
Seller: Melanie Nelson Books, Livingston, NY, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. -------------Red cloth, 9" tall. 230 pages, with frontispiece and 5 other illustrations, and family tree of Hervey family.VERY GOOD CONDITION, a tight solid clean fresh book- - but, note general wear to covers- - - no dust jacket.
Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1994
ISBN 10: 0571142508ISBN 13: 9780571142507
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by University of Toronto Press, 1972
ISBN 10: 0802018696ISBN 13: 9780802018694
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition.