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GREGORY**, PHILIPPA; BALDWIN, DAVID & JONES, MICHAEL: : The Women of the Cousin's War: The DUCHESS, THE QUEEN and the KING'S MOTHER

LONDON.SIMON & SCHUSTER UK LTD.,2011.

ISBN 9780857201775.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE-/FINE-. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around cream background with glossy,gold border decorated panels with bright,crisp,embossed gilt-lettered part-title and capitalised,embossed,gilt-lettered sub-title and capitalised,glossy,embossed,red-lettered authors' names on front panel; spine/backstrip  with similarly coloured+lettered but flat printed,part-title and,authors' names as the front and publisher's capitalised black-lettered and illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with repeated border design decorated panel with black+gold-lettered strap lines. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - one small nick with some minimal loss of paper to front top corner tip as a result of bumped/creased tip,both rear corner tips with minor bump+ creasing - but no other tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright, crisp,clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,unblemished sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering,a red+yellow striped headband and clean repeated coloured mediaeval 15thC tapestry colour illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-334pp [paginated] includes Gregory's lengthy Introduction [pp3-36],Notes and Sources,a Bibliography,Online Sources,individual historical biographies of the 3 women: Gregory on Jacquetta of Luxembourg 1415/16 - 1472, Baldwin on Elizabeth Woodville 1437/38 - 1492, and Jones on Margaret Beaufort 1443- 1509 respectively and each accompanied with a family tree,b/w illustrations,Notes+sources,a Bibliography,8pp colour plates,illustration acknowledgements and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a Contents list/table,a genealogical tree, with list of Battles in the Cousin's War to its reverse,a b/w map of the battles,individual title separator page, Introduction separator page,individual women's biography separator pages and to the rear,potted biographies of the 3 authors and 2pp blanks.                                          Visually the exterior appearance is still more than acceptable,and particularly internally,the book is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the exterior faults described that prevents a slightly higher overall grading.Despite that,it really is still an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of any other detracting faults.                          Philippa Gregory was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tudor period and wrote the internationally bestselling novel 'The Other Boleyn Girl'. Her 'Cousin's War' novels,reaching their dramatic conclusion with 'The King's Curse',were the basis for the highly successful BBC series,'The White Queen'.       Here,she teams up with two leading historians of the period to explore the real lives of these women, who loom large in her popular Cousins' War series of historical novels; in a murderous medieval power struggle known as the Wars of the Roses,three formidable women were key players: Jacquetta,Duchess of Bedford, Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV, and the Tudor matriarch Margaret Beaufort. Jacquetta was a royal duchess who married beneath her for love and became mother of a queenGregory uses original documents,site visits and even archaeology to create the first biography ever written of the young duchess who survived two reigns and two wars to be the first lady at two rival courts.                        Elizabeth Woodville was a widowed mother when she married the young King Edward IV.Her two sons are infamous as 'the princes in the Tower', but little is known of her own life.Baldwin tells her story,that of the first commoner to marry a King of England for love.         Jones writes about Margaret Beaufort,whose official story is powerfully bland.Yet she committed treason against an ordained King of England and her son,Henry VII,became the first Tudor to take the throne. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!          N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE.    ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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