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State Opening of Parliament Programme Queen Elizabeth 1988

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: 1988

Seller ID: 11402

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

7.5 X 10 inch program for the State Opening of Parliament. Queen Elizabeth is featured on the front cover, Prince Charles and Princess Diana on the rear cover. No date, but a newspaper article is laid in with details of the event is dated 1988. Unpaginated, 5-pages, featuring the programme for the Royal Procession and the processional route. Illustrated with black and white photos of Royal Family members, including Queen Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; Charles and Diana, Prince and Princess of Wales; Princess Anne; and the Queen Mother. The programme's condition is good overall with s...
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The Queen's Orders of Chivalry

By: De la Bere, Ivan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London, Spring Books: 1964

Seller ID: 21011402

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Previous owner bookplate. Edge wear and chipping to the dust jacket. 228 pages with Index. Black and white photos.
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Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration

By: Fraser, Antonia

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1979

Seller ID: 20100101

ISBN: 039449721X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Mild shelf wear. Bookplate and handwritten date on the front free endpaper. The dust jacket has some edge wear and chipping at the spine ends. 524 pages with References and Index. Illustrated endpapers, text illustrations and color and black and white plates.
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The Drama's Patrons: A Study of the Eighteenth-Century London Audience

By: Hughes, Leo

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press: 1971

Seller ID: 11020

ISBN: 0292700911

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Mild wear to jacket's spine ends and corners. Mild rubbing. 209 pages. Works Cited. Index. Signed on the half-tite page to the previous owner of the book. Looks like "Lee." Author?
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How to Run a Stately Home

By: John, Duke of Bedford (John Robert Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford), in Collaboration with George Mikes

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Andre Deutsch: 1971

Seller ID: 11288

ISBN: 0233958487

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Mild wear, browning to the endpapers. Price-clipped dust jacket, old price sticker on the front flap. 125 pages. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author's son, the 14th Duke of Bedford (Henry Robin Ian Russell, 1940-2003), also known as Marquess of Tavistock: "I hope you enjoy my father's book, Tavistock." Illustrations and dust jacket design by ffolkes. John Robert Russell (1917-2002), 13th duke of Bedford, succeeded to the title in 1953 and commercialized his father's estate, including Woburn Abbey, to pay the heavy duties. The venture was very successful and both he and W...
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The Queen & Her Court: A Guide to the British Monarchy Today

By: Packard, Jerrold M.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: New York, Scribners: 1989

Seller ID: 21011303

ISBN: 0684176483

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Some edge toning, corner creasing, and wear to the head of the spine. Penciled marginalia on several pages. 234 pages with Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with maps and black and white photographs.
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Romantic England: Writing and Painting 1717-1851

By: Quennell, Peter

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1970

Seller ID: 10364

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Publisher's remainder dot on the top edge of the page block. Light foxing to the top and fore-edge of the page block. Otherwise a sharp, clean copy in a price-clipped (torn) dust jacket. Protected in a Mylar sleeve. 272 with Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated.
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The English Gentleman's Wife

By: Sutherland, Douglas

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Debrett's Peerage Limited/The Viking Press: 1979

Seller ID: 11135

ISBN: 0670296805

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Price-clipped jacket, else fine. 80 pages with drawings and jacket design by Timothy Jacques. The author's follow-up volume on the habits and customs of the English Gentleman. Foreword by Diana Duchess of Newcastle. Introduction by Lady Windlesham (Prudence Glynn).
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Nancy: The Life of Lady Astor

By: Sykes, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Chicago, Academy Chicago Publishers: 1984

Seller ID: 11289

ISBN: 0897330986

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Trade paperback with a crease on the rear cover causing a bit of curl in the upper corner, otherwise a clean, Near Fine copy. 637 pages with Index.
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Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy

By: Weir, Alison

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, The Bodley Head: 1989

Seller ID: 11286

ISBN: 0370313100

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Some light smudging to the fore-edge of the page block. The jacket has just a trace of wear. A nice copy of this rare edition. Alison Weir's genealogy was commissioned by the Bodley Head as a reworking of a Royal Family dictionary that took her 22 years to complete. She organized that information into a more readable chronology, resulting in this volume-the true first edition-which has become rather scarce. OCLC locates only one institutional copy (South Africa). Subsequent printings have included updated information as it has surfaced, but this is the original work. 386 pages with Select Bibl...
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