NEW HARDBACK BOOK IN DUSTWRAP. THIS BOOK IS A TRIBUTE TO THE AUTHORS AND TO OTHERS WHO HAD THE STAMINA AND DETERMINATION TO PERSEVERE WITH THE PUBLICATION OF THEIR WORKS. EXTRA POSTAGE FOR OVERSEAS.
Author:
DESMOND RAY
Place, Publisher, Date:
2003 THE BRITISH LIBRARY AND OAK KNOLL PRESS, LONDON
LARGE FORMAT. VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP. A LITTLE FOXING ON F.E.P. THE ROYAL HOUSES OF FOURTEEN COUNTRIES – CASTLES FORTS COUNTRY-HOUSES AND PALACES – ARE THE SUBJECT OF THIS SUPERB BOOK. THEY PROVIDE A RICH AND EXOTIC PICTURE OF THE AWESOME SPLENDOUR WHICH ONCE SURROUNDED THE ROYAL FAMILIES OF EUROPE AND WHICH STILL LINGERS IN THE DESERTED THRONE ROOMS STATE BEDCHAMBERS COURTYARDS AND GARDENS OF VERSAILLES SCHONBRUNN THE ESCORIAL OR THE WINTER PALACE.
FIRST U.S. EDITION CARD COVERS pp x 308. A POOR BINDING WITH LOSS TO THE TOP OF THE SPINE WEAK HINGES LOSS OF FEP. CONTENTS AGE-TONED THROUGHOUT. A WORKING COPY. VERY SCARCE.
