A Princess Writes About Queens and Tzars
Some Royalties and a Prime Minister: Portraits from Life
Notes: Accounts of Edward, Prince of Wales; Empress Maria-Feodorowna, Sophie of Albania, Michael of Rumania, Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith of England, and other European royalty written by a Romanian princess.
This is one of Bibesco's scarcer books.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing, with a 1 on the last text page—the method Appleton used to denote first printings). Spine faded, erased child's pencil scribbling on the front free endpapers, hinges starting, thus only a hardcover bound in purple cloth stamped in gild. Lacking the scarce dust jacket.
Publication: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1930.
Item No: #361618
Price: $100
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