Queen Victoria by Richard Holmes (105 results)

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Slight weakness to inside front hinge.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Serviceable, but the spine has been repaired with archive tape. There is some foxing. Previous owner's ink inscription. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

PF. Condition: New.

PF. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Minimal wear to very large soft cover book. 195 plus pages. Pages are clean,bright and tight. No name or inscription.Heavy item.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Poor. In original dark red hardback halfbound leather binding, Cover torn along the length of the backstrip, but only just still intact by a small amount of binding at the top. Backstrip and covers very scuffed, with some of the leather torn off from the corners of the covers. Binding split in the middle of the book, but the two halves are still attached. Pageblock in poor condition, with a liquid stain extending from the bottom to halfway up on the majority of pages. Otherwise, there are no other markings or annotations in the text.This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,2650grams, ISBN:

Condition: Fair. 1901. No edition remarks. 330 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are mildly tanned with minor foxing, heavy in places. Notable cracking to rear hinge. Mild thumb-marking present. Notable water staining to pages throughout. Boards have mild edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Mild water stains and droplets to boards.

Condition: New. In.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Queen Victoria is a celebrated biography of the famous English monarch. She reigned for 63 years during what many consider was the apex of the British Empire. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: Good. First edition (softcover). 4to (32cm by 25cm), title, ii, 200pp. Colour frontispiece, 8 plates, 32 text illustrations. Original binding of printed grey card wrappers, printed red paper dustwrapper. Light chafing to the extremities of the covers, some scattered foxing; overall, the book is in good plus condition. The dustwrapper is in tatty condition (stained, chipped and torn). It is unusual to find a copy in the original soft covers - most copies of this book were rebound in hard covers.

Condition: New.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. First edition. Boussod, Valadon & Co, London, 1897. First edition. Book condition: very good. Front cover has several small chips and an area (approx 2cms x 2.5cms) that appears to be damge perhaps from something with adhesive qualities. A little light scratching to the rear board. Binding tight. Internally: light crease to top corner of half title page, tissue guard to colour frontispiece all but lost, occasional creasing to other tissue guards (all of which are titled), tipped in photograph with associated tissue guard loose at p136, some light spotting here and there. Full blue/black leather binding with gilt coat of arms to front cover. Gilt decoration around front & rear cover edges on both outer & inner surfaces. Five raised bands to spine with gilt decoration and titles. Marbled end papers and teg. The author was librarian to Queen Victoria and this is presented as an accurate account of her childhood and youth. Many illustrations & colour frontispiece. This is a heavy book - no added postal charges for UK but overseas buyers please ask us for a rate first. Book.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. New Edition. Small octavo; frontispiece portrait of the Queen, 330pp. In a fine binding by Riviere of half brown crushed morocco over cream boards. Top compartment of spine with a closed crack and slightly darkened, edges sl rubbed, the cream cloth sides a trifle blemished. Good used copy.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 252 pages. 8.50x5.99x0.57 inches. In Stock.

Disbound. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Disbound copy of interesting scarce antiquarian book, usually high-priced because of fine binding. 12.6 x 10 x 1.4 inches (32 x 25.5 x 3.5 cm). Textblock tight. Lacks both boards and spine, and the colour frontispiece. 200pp. Includes the 39 original engravings, about 24 are full-plate, the rest some halfsize and some small; condition most vg regarding the plate, margins varying from lightly foxed to watermarked; only the last 3 full-page plates are watermarked down the inner margin and partway into the engraving. Overall most pages are tanned and there is watermarking from the back affecting the upper corner and part of the upper margin. the front several pages are chipped at upper fore-edge, and there are a few small tears/holes in the back and second-back pages, but these are supplemental pages (Contents and List of Illustrations) and not part of the text. A biography of Queen Victoria written by the Royal Librarian, (to celebrate the 60th anniversary of her accession), and illustrated with artwork from Windsor Castle. Weight 1.7 kg before packaging. (Biography, Royal, Victoria, History, Art, Painting, Europe, Windsor) Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. Beautifully illustrated Biography by the Queen's Librarian. Frontis illus. is a lovely Chromolithograph portrait of the Queen with her son. 24 other full-page Monochrome illustrations, protected by tissue guards. Also other In-Text illustrations. Brown Morocco Half-Leather Binding with 5 Raised Bands to spine. Gilt Lettering in 2 compartments and Gilt National Crowned Emblems in others. Vellum covered Boards with Gilt Royal Coat of Arms on front. Large Leather corners. Top page edges Gilt, other edges untrimmed. 200 Pages, 13" Tall, 3 Kilos. Boards detached but present. 3 raised bands have pieces missing. Some edge wear. Previous owner's name on blank preliminary page. No other inscriptions. Light water stain on bottom corner of 2 pages ( mostly marginal, just affecting the corner of one plate. ). Otherwise Pages and Plates in nice, clean condition. Heavy book, weighs 3 Kilos so Shipping outside UK will be extra. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Oversize folio, boards covered in dark brown library binding. Former Port Jervis Free Library, Port Jervis, NY. Binding cover chipped at top of spine. Two inch closed tear at center front edge of spine binding. Edges rubbed, corners lightly bumped. Many plates protected with tissue cover. Two or three tissues missing. Color frontpiece, a miniature of Queen Victoria with the Prince of Wales is present but separated from the binding. Photos on request. Media Mail only. No International shipping. ; 12.50 X 9.50 X 1.75 inches; 200 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 130 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.33 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 122 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.28 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Limited edition, copy #164/350. Hardcover case is damaged, with side panels split and the ribbon closure detached. Spine cracked. (Great Britain, Queens, Biography) NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Rebound in grey leather over blue coth with raised bands at the spine and gold embossed black label. No limitation stated. Frontis is chipped around edges but not affecting the image. Illustrations discreetely blindstamped toward left margin of the page grazing the images but barely visible. Large folio. Careful packing and fast, efficient shipping including delivery confirmation. Please note: International and Domestic Priority orders for this item will require additional shipping.

Leather Binding. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Red leather shows some wear at edges. Top edges are gilt. #96 of 100 copies printed for the United States initialed by D. C. Thompson. This 201 page book with illustrations takes information about the more domestic and personal events in Queen Victoria's life. This book weighs 6 pounds and will require additional postage.

ii, 200 [1] pp. Illustrated in color and black and white. Folio, publisher's half morocco and cloth, t.e.g. First edition. Some occasional inoffensive spotting; some soiling to the cloth and a few scuffs to the leather, which is rubbed at the joints but still quite strong. Additional postage applicable.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. limited edition paperback, good+ no 114 of limited edition of 350, coloured frontispiece, card covers, 201 pages, all illustrations complete, in very good order, plus folder of an extra set of 15 of the plates.

Paperback. Red wraps with black lettering; ii, 200 pp. (mostly unopened) ; richly illustrated; plates, portraits, facsimiles. Beautiful color frontispiece with a facsimile of Victoria's signature underneath at the front of this book. Good (Wraps are heavily worn, with some tearing/chipping/scuffing/smudging overall; textblock edges were toned/scuffed/smudged/foxed; interior is clean, with light toning at the very outer edges; textblock is solid.).

Hardcover. Folio case in red cloth with gilt lettering and illustration; bound book and additional collection of plates; 200 pp.; richly illustrated; color frontspiece. From cover of inner book: "Illustrations from the Royal Collections; Copy on Japanese Paper with Two Series of Plates." Hand-numbered 99 of 350 printed for distribution in the UK. Good- (Boards are heavily damaged with front cover nearly detached, and generally, overall heavily worn/scuffed/smudged; spine strip is almost torn at front end; interior is better; pages are toned and lightly foxed; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; wraps of book are chewed a bit; some tissue guards are chewed.) Number 99 of 350 printed for distribution in the UK.