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Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Published by Doubleday, 1978
ISBN 10: 038511379XISBN 13: 9780385113793
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.4.
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Published by Doubleday, 1975
ISBN 10: 0385097743ISBN 13: 9780385097741
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by J.-C. Lattïż½s, 1983
ISBN 10: 2709602512ISBN 13: 9782709602518
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Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. French. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Published by Avon Books, 1983
ISBN 10: 0380637014ISBN 13: 9780380637010
Seller: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item. book.
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Published by Book Sales, 1982
ISBN 10: 0385156359ISBN 13: 9780385156356
Seller: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
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Published by see notes for publisher info, 1984
ISBN 10: 029778367XISBN 13: 9780297783671
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Orion Publishing Group, Limited, 1978
ISBN 10: 0297774778ISBN 13: 9780297774778
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by Readers Union
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.
Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Book Club edition. (france, united states, history) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Published by Readers Union, 1979
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and has toning. DJ with some edge wear, toning and creasing.
Published by Viking, New York, 2012
ISBN 10: 0670025747ISBN 13: 9780670025749
Seller: ELK CREEK HERITAGE BOOKS (IOBA), TOMS RIVER, NJ, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. Originally published in French as "American Lady: Une reporyer en gants blanc" by Editions Robert Laffont, Paris. This is stated as First Published English by Viking. Includes complete number line including number one. Hard cover in fine condition. Gray boards with black spine cloth and silver gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Contain section of glossy black & white photographs. Dust jacket in fine condition; not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, "An American aristocrat - a descendant of founding father John Jay, first chief justice of the United States - Susan Mary Alsop (1918-2004) knew absolutely everyone and brought together the movers and shakers of not just the United States, but also the world." "In "American Lady," the first biography of Susan Mary Alsop, Caroline de Margerie reveals the complex and fascinating woman who truly witnessed, in novelist Nancy Mitford's words, "history on the boil.".
Published by Flammarion, Paris, 1981
Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. From the collection of Susan Mary Alsop, with her manuscript notes laid-in keyed to some ink markings in the text, particularly in the chapter on Le Congres de Vienne. This was a reference source for Alsop's book The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes (both with and without Alsop) hosted dignitaries, publishers and a variety of interesting people during the 1960s and 1970s including such luminaries as John F. Kennedy, Phil Graham, Katharine Graham, and Isaiah Berlin, earning her the nickname "the grand dame of Washington society," (to which she rather objected).
Published by Doubleday, Doran, New York, 1939
Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 289 pages; Owner's signature on ffep - "Susan Mary Patten / December 31st, 1939 / Cuernavaca" -- Susan Mary Jay and William Patten rented a cottage at Cuernavaca in Mexico for their honeymoon in November 1939. It had a pool, several balconies, three bedrooms and a cascade of 5 different gardens. Contents clean and secure in original red cloth binding, spine faded, endpapers foxed. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes (both with and without Alsop) hosted dignitaries, publishers and a variety of interesting people during the 1960s and 1970s including such luminaries as John F. Kennedy, Phil Graham, Katharine Graham, and Isaiah Berlin, earning her the nickname "the grand dame of Washington society," (to which she rather objected).; Signed by Notable Personage, Unrelated.
Published by Harper & Row, 1984
ISBN 10: 006015280XISBN 13: 9780060152802
Book First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. Dust jacket price clipped. With remainder mark. (congress of vienna, europe, politics).
Published by Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1925
Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. 245 pages; A few phrases underlined in text and some notes on last page, secure in original wrapper; wrappers quite worn, rubbed at spine and chipped/creased. An important work for historical and genealogical interests. avec une introduction sur 'le mirage américain". Au sommaire : "Les Huguenots dans le Nouveau Monde avant la Révocation de l'Edit de Nantes", "L'Emigration protestante après la Révocation".
hardcover. illus. 8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Harper, (1984). History of the Congress of Vienna. vg.
Published by Doubleday, Garden City, 1978
ISBN 10: 038511379XISBN 13: 9780385113793
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good(-). First. Illustrated. 273pp. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, dust wrapper; d.w. edge-worn. Garden City: Doubleday, 1978. First American Edition.
Book Club edition in near fine condition, in very good unclipped dustjacket., some wear to top edges of jacket. (Book ref 3985).
Published by Paris, JC Lattès, 1982., 1982
Seller: AUSONE, Bruxelles, Belgium
14 x 23, 312 pp., broché, bon état. traduit de l'américain par Hélène Bellour.
Published by Newton Abbot Readers Union, 1979
Seller: RIVERLEE BOOKS, Waltham Cross, HERTS, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback in good condition- with jacket.
Published by Penguin Group USA, 2013
ISBN 10: 0143124137ISBN 13: 9780143124139
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
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Condition: Good.
Published by Readers Union, Newton Abbot, Devon, 1979
Seller: Clevedon Community Bookshop Co-operative, Clevedon, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. First printing from Readers Union. In near fine turquoise cloth boards, gilt titles to back strip. The covers are very clean, straight and tight. White, bright and clear end papers. Slightly tanned cut edges. The text block is tightly bound and straight, tanned around the edges. Show little sign of use. With b/w plates. In very good dust jacket with photos of Lady Sackville on front, red and white titles; edges a little chipped. Not price clipped.
Published by l'Edition d'art H. Piazza, Paris, 1932
Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Autograph; Ownership signature of "Susan Mary Jay" [later Alsop] on front wrapper. Contents clean and secure in original decorative wrappers; quarter-size piece of ffep adhered to inside cover. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes (both with and without Alsop) hosted dignitaries, publishers and a variety of interesting people during the 1960s and 1970s including such luminaries as John F. Kennedy, Phil Graham, Katharine Graham, and Isaiah Berlin, earning her the nickname "the grand dame of Washington society," (to which she rather objected).; Signed by Notable Personage, Unrelated.
Published by Firmin Didot & Co., Paris, 1931
Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good-. Histoires de France; Autograph; 207 pages; Ownership signature of "Susan Mary Jay" [later Alsop] on front wrapper. Contents clean and secure in original printed wrappers, toned. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes (both with and without Alsop) hosted dignitaries, publishers and a variety of interesting people during the 1960s and 1970s including such luminaries as John F. Kennedy, Phil Graham, Katharine Graham, and Isaiah Berlin, earning her the nickname "the grand dame of Washington society," (to which she rather objected).; Signed by Notable Personage, Unrelated.
Published by Petit Palais, Paris, 1973
Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 161 pages; Owner's signature on first page "Susan Mary Alsop / Apt 1505 / Watergate Park", otherwise clean and secure in original glossy pictorial wrappers. Foreword by Lord Trevelyan. Illustrated with b&w and color photographs and maps. This is the first exhibition held outside China in which the greater part of her cultural history is illustrated wholly by documented material, mostly from controlled excavations. The Exhibits include: Palaeolithic and neolithic periods; The Shang dynasty; Western Chou dynasty and the period of the Spring and Autumn Annals; Period of the Warring States; Ch'in and Western Han dynasties; Kingdom of Tien; Eastern Han dynasty; Period of the Six dynasties; Textiles of the Han period to the T'ang and manuscripts and food from the T'ang period; Sui and T'ang dynasties; Period of the Five dynasties and the Sung dynasty; Liao and Yuan dynasties. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes (both with and without Alsop) hosted dignitaries, publishers and a variety of interesting people during the 1960s and 1970s including such luminaries as John F. Kennedy, Phil Graham, Katharine Graham, and Isaiah Berlin, earning her the nickname "the grand dame of Washington society," (to which she rather objected).
Published by J. M. Dent & Co., London, 1926
Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Autograph; Ownership signature of "Susan Mary Jay" [later Alsop] / "Florence April 15, 1937" Contents clean and secure in original cloth binding withgilt lettering at spine. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes (both with and without Alsop) hosted dignitaries, publishers and a variety of interesting people during the 1960s and 1970s including such luminaries as John F. Kennedy, Phil Graham, Katharine Graham, and Isaiah Berlin, earning her the nickname "the grand dame of Washington society," (to which she rather objected).; Signed by Notable Personage, Unrelated.
Published by Librairie Armand Colin, Paris, 1936
Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Stiff Boards. Condition: Very Good. Autograph; 408, (4) pages; Ownership signature of "Susan Mary Jay" [later Alsop] on front pastedown endpaper "November 7, 1938 / 435 E. 52nd St" ; her notes on rear endpapers, otherwise contents clean and secure in original decorative boards Small booksellers ticket on titlepage "French European Publications at Maison francaise in Rockefeller Center". From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes (both with and without Alsop) hosted dignitaries, publishers and a variety of interesting people during the 1960s and 1970s including such luminaries as John F. Kennedy, Phil Graham, Katharine Graham, and Isaiah Berlin, earning her the nickname "the grand dame of Washington society," (to which she rather objected).; Signed by Notable Personage, Unrelated.
Published by Spring Books, London, 1967
Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 44, (50) plates pages; Owner's signature on ffep "S.M. Alsop / Washington, 1968" Cloth faded at lower half inch edge of front board, dustjacket edgeworn and chipped. Contents clean and secure in binding. Examines the life and work of Albrecht Durer, born in 1471, and considered by many as the greatest German artist. Beautifully illustrated with 50 color full page reproductions and several b&w test illustrations. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes (both with and without Alsop) hosted dignitaries, publishers and a variety of interesting people during the 1960s and 1970s including such luminaries as John F. Kennedy, Phil Graham, Katharine Graham, and Isaiah Berlin, earning her the nickname "the grand dame of Washington society," (to which she rather objected).
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1936
Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xv, (1), 368 pages; Owner's signature on ffep - "Susan Jay [Alsop] / March 1936" otherwise clean and secure in original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and front cover; faded spot at lower corner of front board. With a Foreword by J.M.Barrie. Frontispiece portrait and 15 b/w illustrations from photographs. Edward Antony James Bulwer-Lytton, Viscount Knebworth (1903 1933) was a British pilot and Conservative politician. Knebworth was the eldest son of Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton, and his wife Pamela, daughter of Sir Trevor Chichele-Plowden. Lady Hermione Lytton was his sister. He was educated at Eton and Oxford University. He worked briefly as a stockbroker in London before taking up a post in the Education Department of the Central Conservative Office. Knebworth was returned to Parliament for Hitchin in 1931. The latter year he also joined the Royal Auxiliary Air Force and qualified as a pilot. Lord Knebworth, aged only 29, was killed in the crash of a Hawker Hart in 1933. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes (both with and without Alsop) hosted dignitaries, publishers and a variety of interesting people during the 1960s and 1970s including such luminaries as John F. Kennedy, Phil Graham, Katharine Graham, and Isaiah Berlin, earning her the nickname "the grand dame of Washington society," (to which she rather objected). ; Signed by Notable Personage, Unrelated.