norton lucy selected translated memoirs (1 Ergebnisse)

Red Brown Cloth. Zustand: Good+. No Jacket. Reprint, (c) UK 1958. Red Brown Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Reprint, (c) UK 1958. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 312 pages; 8 p. index; illustrated with reproductions of 17th & 18th C. art works, mainly portraits; with a Preface by Nancy Mitford; from the translator's note: ".what is included is the best of all: Saint-Simon's life at the Court, in the extraordinary, terrifying world of Louis XIV at Versailles and Marly, some most brilliant portraits of the men and women who were its inhabitants, some of the historical scenes here Saint-Simon becomes most absorbing, and some of the gossip." Book condition: Spine cover is faded a bit; one cover corner is worn so that a little board shodws, the other three have some rubbing; spine top eddge hass a little wear in the middle; book edges have darkened slightly, text is little off-white, otherwise VG.