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Published by Sphere Books, 1969
ISBN 10: 0722161336ISBN 13: 9780722161333
Seller: Housing Works Online Bookstore, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. Light general wear. May have light notes/highlighting. Shelfwear bumped/wrinkled edges Paperback.
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Published by Sphere Books, 1969
ISBN 10: 0722161409ISBN 13: 9780722161401
Seller: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: 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!.
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Published by Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 1995
ISBN 10: 0140239677ISBN 13: 9780140239676
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This work takes as its subject Louis XIV at Versailles - from the moment he decided to transform his father's hunting lodge into the greatest palace in Europe to his death there 54 years later. It covers the daily life of the king, the court and the government during the period of France's apogee in military power and artistic achievement. The book discusses the plans for and the building of the palace, and the creation of remarkable elaborate works of art with which it was filled. The book reconstructs the course of Louis's love affairs, culminating in his secret marriage to Madame de Maintenon, episodes such as the affair of the poisons, the creation of the School for Girls at Saint-Cyr, Lord Portland's embassy and the marriage of the Duchess of Bourgogne. 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 Michael Joseph Ltd, 1983
ISBN 10: 0718122054ISBN 13: 9780718122058
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 Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1966
ISBN 10: 0241908396ISBN 13: 9780241908396
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 Random House Inc, 2012
ISBN 10: 1590174917ISBN 13: 9781590174913
Seller: Magers and Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.
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Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Seller: HPB-Diamond, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
hardcover. 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 Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.65.
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.65.
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.65.
Condition: Very Good. Harper & Row New York 1966.
Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket. Bookplate inside. Short gifter's inscription on endpage. (France, History, Monarchy, Royalty).
Published by NY: Harper & Row Pub, 1960, 1960
Seller: Pepper's Old Books, Hanson, KY, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.
Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1966
Seller: A Good Read, LLC, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Edition Not Stated. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Spine faded and scuffed on edges, corner scuffs, bumps, edge and shelf wear.
Published by Harper & Row, 1966
Seller: Pomfret Street Books, Carlisle, PA, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Binding Tight Pages Clean Wraps Worn. Book.
Published by Harper & Row January 1966, 1966
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair.
Published by Harper & Row January 1966, 1966
Seller: Magus Books Seattle, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is a bit worn about the edges and somewhat scuffed, but without any serious tears. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.
Published by Harper & Row, 1966
Seller: Taos Books, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Good Plus to Very Good Minus condition, no creases in spine, no slant, text tight clean unmarked, NO age toning, small stain on fore-edge of first few pages, edge wear on covers, one small closed taped tear on front cover at fore-edge, red covers, contains reproductions.
Published by Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1966
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. 255 pages, illustrations (some colour) genealogical tables, map, portraits (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, expected browning. Profusely illustrated. Size: 4to.
Published by Hamish Hamilton, 1966
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Jacket frayed, faded on spine, missing small piece at top of back cover.
Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1966
Seller: Eric James, Lewisporte, NL, Canada
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 255 pages with "---187 illustrations, which includes 56 plates in colour---"; elegant book in royal red with a very bright and clear gilt crest to front cover and equally brilliant decoration and lettering to spine, very gently used, tight in binding, not a trace of shelf wear other than gentle bumps to spine ends, very clean and unmarked throughout, pages fresh and white; DJ in matching red with even larger crests on front and back, bright and clean but heavily chipped and numerous other tiny chips/tears, a disgrace really. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost will be requested] See also our listing for Mitford's Madame de Pompadour, and for Pierre Goubert's Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen: A New Approach, Exploring the Interrelationship Between the People of a Country and the Power of Its King (buy two or more and save on postage!).
Published by Harper & Row. NY. (c1966)., 1966
Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
255pp. small 4to Profusely illustrated in black & white + 56 color plates. Red cloth. Fine/in VG dj.
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1966
Seller: M Godding Books Ltd, Devizes, WILTS, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Jacket. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.
Published by London, Sphere Books, 1969
Seller: BOUQUINIST, München, BY, Germany
Book
Condition: Gut. Erste Auflage dieser Ausgabe. 256 Seiten mit vielen farbigen und schwarzweiß Abbildungen. 19,5 cm. Guter Zustand. Seiten papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. Aus der Bibliothek der Gräfin Ledebur. Louis XIV was during his reign the most powerful king in Europe. He presided over a golden age of military and artistic achievement in France, and deployed his charm and talents for spin and intrigue to hold his court and country within his absolute control. The Sun King's universe centred at Versailles, a glittering palace from whence Louis conducted his government and complex love affairs. Nancy Mitford describes the daily life of this splendid court in sumptuous detail, bringing the distant past to vibrant life. - Nancy Freeman-Mitford, CBE (28 November 1904, London 30 June 1973, Versailles), styled The Hon. Nancy Mitford before her marriage and The Hon. Mrs Rodd thereafter, was an English novelist and biographer, one of the Bright Young People on the London social scene in the inter-war years. She was born at 1 Graham Street (now Graham Place) in Belgravia, London, the eldest daughter of Lord Redesdale and was brought up at Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire. Biography - Novelist and biographer: She is best remembered for her series of novels about upper-class life in England and France, particularly the four published after 1945; but she also wrote four well-received, well-researched popular biographies (of Louis XIV, Madame de Pompadour, Voltaire, and Frederick the Great). She was one of the noted Mitford sisters and the first to publicise the extraordinary family life of her very English and very eccentric family, giving rise to a "Mitford industry" which continues. U and non-U: She was an essayist in Noblesse Oblige (1956), which helped to popularise the "U", or upper-class, and "non-U" classification of linguistic usage and behaviour (see U and non-U English) although this is something she saw as a tease and she certainly never took seriously. However, the media have frequently portrayed her as the snobbish inventor and main preserver of this usage. She is credited as editor of the book but in fact the project was organised by the publishers. One of her novels, The Pursuit of Love, had been used by Professor Alan Ross, the actual inventor of the phrase, as an example of upper-class linguistic usage. Letters, journalism and essays: Nancy Mitford's gift as a comic writer and her humour are evident throughout her novels and also in the many articles which she wrote for the London Sunday Times. In the 1950s and 1960s these articles made her appear to be England's expert on aspects of life across Europe. In 1986 her niece by marriage Charlotte Mosley edited some of these works in: A Talent to Annoy; Essays, Journalism and Reviews 1929 1968. She was a noted letter-writer and her correspondence has been edited by her niece as: Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford (1993) and in The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh (1996); also The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952 73 (2004). Her letters and essays are notable for their humour, irony and cultural and social breadth. Politically a moderate socialist, she somehow kept on good terms most of the time with her sisters, despite the extreme political views of Diana, Jessica and Unity, mainly by deploying her acerbic wit. Some of their letters are republished in The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters (2007). Romantic life: In 1933, after a going-nowhere romance with homosexual Scottish aristocrat Hamish St Clair-Erskine, she married The Hon. Peter Rodd, nicknamed "Prod", the youngest son of the 1st Baron Rennell. The marriage was a failure; her husband was unfaithful and couldn't keep a job; in time Nancy took over the family finances, working in the bookshop G. Heywood Hill, and was unfaithful in her turn. Though the Rodds separated in 1939, they continued to see one another on a purely friendly basis, and Rodd used her Paris flat as an occasional base. She also gave him financial assistance from time to time. They were divorced in 1958 (although Nancy is described as "the wife of Peter Rodd" on her headstone). The turning-point in Nancy's hitherto very English existence was her meeting with French soldier and politician Colonel Gaston Palewski (Charles de Gaulle's Chief of Staff), whom she always called "Colonel" and with whom she had a relationship in London during the war. At the end of the Second World War she moved to Paris to be near him. The largely one-sided affair, which inspired the romance between Linda Talbot (née Radlett) and Fabrice de Sauveterre in Mitford's novel The Pursuit of Love, lasted fitfully until Palewski's affair with and eventual 1969 marriage to Violette de Talleyrand-Périgord, the Duchess de Sagan. Life in Paris and Versailles: Based in Paris in an apartment at 7 rue Monsieur, VII, Mitford had a busy social and literary life and received countless guests visiting the city. She had a huge number of friends and acquaintances in the English, French and Italian aristocracies, as well as in the international set in Paris. She travelled frequently and established a pattern of visits to country houses in England, Ireland and France as well as annual visits to Venice. Although much of her life was spent in France, she remained English to the core in her beliefs and attitudes. Nancy Mitford's public persona was notable: she was invariably elegantly dressed (often by Dior or Lanvin), she lived a hectic social life, and was a well-known public personality in the United Kingdom even though she lived in Paris. She had a particular "Mitford" brand of humour which became well known through her novels and newspaper articles and attracted a cult following. Her "teases" were famous, including a description in a Sunday Times article of Rome as a village centred on the vicarage, one post office and one train station. The posthumous publication of her letters has enhanced her reputation. Her novels, articles and.
Published by Harper & Row, 1966
Seller: M Godding Books Ltd, Devizes, WILTS, United Kingdom
Book
hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Jacket. Same as the Hamish Hamilton Ltd version, except it is the US edition published by Harper & Row Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.
Published by Harmony Books, New York, 1982
ISBN 10: 051754783XISBN 13: 9780517547830
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book
paperback. Reprint. Illustrated profusely in black and white and color. 255 pages. 8vo, printed pictorial wrappers. New York: Harmony Books, (1982). A near fine copy.
Published by Crescent, 1982
ISBN 10: 0517388626ISBN 13: 9780517388624
Seller: Samson Books, Trenton, ON, Canada
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Edge wear to jacket and covers; some spotting to top edge of pages; dated (in blue ink) "Toronto. Dec. 21, 1982." on front of first, decorative leaf. Copyright 1966 by Nancy Mitford; Reprint by Toppan Printing Co.
Published by HAmish Hamilton, 1982
Seller: LibrairieLaLettre2, Villefranche de Lauragais, France
Relié. Condition: Etat satisfaisant. in-8 Relié, jaquette. Langue : Anglais.
Published by Harper & Row, Publishers, NY, 1966, 1966
Seller: First Choice Books, Coeurd'Alene, ID, U.S.A.
HB-VG/no DJ; red cloth with gold lettering, illustrations; photos throughout, index; previous owner label on front endpapers, some very small smudge marks on cover;
Published by Book Club Associates, London, 1966
Seller: Darkwood Online T/A BooksinBulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Some shelf wear and chipping to unclipped DJ with some sunning to spine and old price sticker to front, light foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; White cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; Photographs; 256 pages; A detailled history of Louis XIV and his fifty-four year envolvement with Versailles which he transformed from a hunting lodge to the most glittering palace of its age. Book Club Edition.