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GREGORY**, PHILIPPA: : THE LAST TUDOR

LONDON.SIMON & SCHUSTER UK Ltd.,2017.

ISBN 9781471133053.

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,gilt+colour pictorial illustratedfront panel of dw/dj with gilt single line border and capitalised,embossed,bright white-lettered title and captalised,embossed gilt-lettered author name and other capitalised, glossy white lettering; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author name+title as front panel but flat printed,thumbnail colour illustration from front and capitalised, publisher's white-lettered+illustrated colophon to foot of same; rear panel  with front illustration's detail and gold coloured decorated border and critics' white+gold coloured lettered reviews.Negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without foxing or spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original,pale cream cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip, and immaculate facsimile medieval manuscript/ letter illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-519pp [paginated] includes Books I-III (Jane, Katherine and Mary),Author's Note,a Bibliography; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication page with Tudor and Stuart Houses in 1550 genealogical tree,The Seymour Family in 1550 genealogical tree with The Dudley Family in 1550 genealogical tree to its reverse,individual Book separator pages and author's potted biography and charity work - Gardens for Gambia. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional, exemplary copy for its cleanliness and brightness. Seventeen-year-old Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king's half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner's block, where Jane transformed her father's greedy power-grab into tragic martyrdom.                                         "Learn you to die," was the advice Jane wrote to her younger sister Katherine, who has no intention of dying. She intends to enjoy her beauty and her youth and fall in love. But she is heir to the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and then to her sister Queen Elizabeth, who will never allow Katherine to marry and produce a Tudor son. When Katherine's pregnancy betrays her secret marriage she faces imprisonment in the Tower, only yards from her sister's scaffold.                                        "Farewell, my sister," writes Katherine to the youngest Grey sister, Mary. A beautiful dwarf, disregarded by the court, Mary keeps family secrets, especially her own, while avoiding Elizabeth's suspicious glare. After seeing her sisters defy the queen, Mary is acutely aware of her own danger, but determined to command her own life. What will happen when the last Tudor defies her ruthless and unforgiving cousin Queen Elizabeth?                                      'THE LAST TUDOR' is Gregory's final novel based on the Tudor family.In it,she brings a lifetime of study and love of her subject to this story of three young women finding their way in a world of deceit and danger.                      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,that 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 any inexpensive 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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