Charles john vincent murphy (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 639 pages; Physical desc. : 639 p. , [24] leaves of plates : ill ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. 617-621. Subject: Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972. Windsor, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of, 1896-1986. Nobility - Great Britain - Biography. Great Britain - History - Edward VIII, 1936. Great Britain - Kings and rulers - Biography. United States - Biography. 1 Kg. …

Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 639 pages; Physical desc. : 639 p. , [24] leaves of plates : ill ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. 617-621. Subject: Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972. Windsor, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of, 1896-1986. Nobility - Great Britain - Biography. Great Britain - History - Edward VIII, 1936. Great Britain - Kings and rulers - Biography. United States - Biography. 1 Kg. …

Zustand: Very Good.

First edition, first impression, handsomely bound. The two authors knew the Windsors well - Murphy was the ghost-writer for the Duke of Windsor's autobiography, A King's Story, and for the Duchess's The Heart Has its Reasons. They reveal, absent from the ghost-written autobiographies, the fact the marriage petered out in the later years, as the Duchess increasingly snubbed her husband. Octavo (222 x 141 mm). Contemporary red half morocco by Maltbys of Oxford, twin blue morocco labels, red cloth sides, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Recent bookplate of shipping executive Michael Matantos to front pastedown. A fine copy.…