- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: CurvedLineVintage, Stockport, United KingdomCurvedLineVintage
AbeBooks seller since February 6, 2018
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 22.50
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
1st penguin version with full number line. Bought in Cambridge. Scarece signed copy. It is inscribed. "To Matilda with best wishes A.N.Wilson. Thanks for my welcome at St. Matthew's" Slight rubbing to the edges of the cover but an excellent copy from smoke free home. y.
Seller Inventory # ABE-1639239525716
- Title
- Victoria: A Life
- Author
- Wilson, A N
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- Very Good
- Signed
- Inscribed by Author
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 014312787X
- ISBN 13
- 9780143127871
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was the mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two and the matriarch of royal Europe through her children's marriages. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique, an aging, stiff widow paraded as the figurehead to an all-male imperial enterprise. But in truth, Britain's longest-reigning monarch was one of the most passionate, expressive, humorous, and unconventional women who ever lived, and the story of her life continues to fascinate.
A. N. Wilson's exhaustively researched and definitive biography includes a wealth of new material from previously unseen sources to show us Queen Victoria as she's never been seen before. Wilson explores the curious set of circumstances that led to Victoria's coronation, her strange and isolated childhood, her passionate marriage to Prince Albert and his pivotal influence even after death, and her widowhood and subsequent intimate friendship with her Highland servant John Brown, all set against the backdrop of this momentous epoch in Britain's history--and the world's.
Born at the very moment of the expansion of British political and commercial power across the globe, Victoria went on to chart a unique course for her country even as she became the matriarch of nearly every great dynasty of Europe. Her destiny was thus interwoven with those of millions of people--not just in Europe but in the ever-expanding empire that Britain was becoming throughout the nineteenth century. The famed queen had a face that adorned postage stamps, banners, statues, and busts all over the known world.
Wilson's Victoria is a towering achievement, a masterpiece of biography by a writer at the height of his powers.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
CurvedLineVintage
Stockport, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since February 6, 2018
Shipping rates from United Kingdom to U.S.A.
| Item | 14 to 45 business days | 5 to 10 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 19.99 | £ 25.00 |
Payment methods
Store description
A range of quality fiction books from 20th and 21st century, including vintage editions, also a selection of non fiction on a range of topics including sport, showbusiness and music and associated magazine titles.
Seller's business information
CurvedLineVintage
United Kingdom
Terms of sale
Seller details: operating as CurvedLineVintage
Sole trader David Stearn
16 Bower Avenue
Stockport
SK76LG
davidastearn@gmail.com
tel: 07484274439
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to CurvedLineVintage, Stockport, United Kingdom, without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.
Shipping terms
I will ship orders within 2 business days.
In the Uk Standard shipping covers all books up to 2kg. They will be sent 2nd class with proof of postage obtained. For First class postage please select Priority.
For the rest of the world... standard postage is for books up to 800g.. for lighter paperbacks cheaper postage may be available, please ask. .
For larger books / hardbacked books please select Priority postage rates. This postage figure is based on orders up to 1KG.
If your book order is heavy or oversized, I may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required.