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Marie Antoinette's Daughter [Inscribed and Signed Letterpress Note Laid in]

Marie Antoinette's Daughter [Inscribed and Signed Letterpress Note Laid in]

Marie Antoinette's Daughter [Inscribed and Signed Letterpress Note Laid in]
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Marie Antoinette's Daughter [Inscribed and Signed Letterpress Note Laid in]

by Alice Curtis Desmond

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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1967. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; xvii,[7],291pp.; sixteen leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos, facsimiles, maps, and plans throughout. Light toning and dust-soil to jacket, a hint of shelf wear, else Very Good or better. Letterpress note affixed to front free endpaper (now loose, the glue having perished) inscribed and signed by the author as "Alice and Tom Desmond."

Biography of the future "Madame Royale," daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The author Alice Curtis Desmond also tackled the lives of Martha Washington, Dolly Madison, and Elizabeth Hamilton.

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Bookseller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
9349
Title
Marie Antoinette's Daughter [Inscribed and Signed Letterpress Note Laid in]
Author
Alice Curtis Desmond
Book Condition
Used - Very Good +
Jacket Condition
Very Good +
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
Dodd, Mead & Company
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1967

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Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.

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Leaves
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Octavo
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Shelf Wear
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Jacket
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First Edition
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