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London: Macmillan, 1946. Hardcover. 2nd impression. 8vo (222 x 140mm). Pp xi + 402 + frontis and 7pp monochrome half-tone plates. Puce cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Spine a touch faded else Very Good without dust-jacket.

London: Readers Union, 1947. Sound publication with clean pages and clear content. Slight sunning of the spine. Yellowing os FEP and BEP.. hardcover. Good.

London, 1945. First edition. 402p; frontis. Purple cloth. A very good copy. The story of Napoleon and the King of Rome.

London:: Readers Union w/ Macmillan. G/VG, unmarked hardback; no DJ.. 1947. ISBN: 402 pp.. Catalogs: History. Keywords: Napoleon.

Readers Union, 1947. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Good 1947 Readers Union hardback without DJ, impressive study of Napoleon and son. A little waviness to outer edges of pages, name to fly-leaf, light spine rub, else good and unmarked. More Napoleon books available. Sent Airmail at no extra cost; Worldwide Shipping IMMEDIATE 1ST CLASS/AIRMAIL DISPATCH First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 030585..

London: Macmillan & Co. G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover faded. Inscribed by previous owner. 1945. First Edition. Pink hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 402pp. b&w plates. .

Reader""s Union / Macmillan ., 1947-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1947 RU edition without jacket on yellow cloth will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 402 pages, b/w plates, index, 8vo, blue cloth. Very good, spine ends slightly worn, text slightly toned; dust jacket fair, worn, small pieces missing. Biography of Napoleon and his son, King of Rome. Serving the antiquarien and used book world since 1980.

Macmillan. Macmillan &co., 1945 Hardcover First Edition, story of Napoleon and his son. Very good condition in red boards and gilt lettering. No dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. 1945.

Good copy with some marks and wear to cover. Tanned endpapers and binding slightly detached to lower spine interior. Very minor foxing and tanning.

Macmillan 1945,. 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 404pp, illustrated, owner's gift inscription on endpaper, slight browning, text clean and sound, mauve cloth, Good / no dustwrapper .

London: Readers Union with Macmillan, 1947. Book Club Edition. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. Fair. viii, [4], 402, [2] pages. Synopsis of Napoleon's Career. Authorities and Works Consulted. Index. Endpapers discolored. Some cover wear and soiling. Some page creasing and discoloration. Dormer Creston was the penname of Dorothy Julia Colston-Baynes, the daughter of an English baronet. Enter a Child is her autobiography; she was an unusually sensitive child who had to please impossibly demanding Victorian parents. She had strong aesthetic urges that were completely misunderstood and ignored by her relatives, much like Lord Berners in his own memoir First Childhood. Everything their daughter does is wrong by their lights, and she rarely understands why. Baynes does a good job of pulling you into the viewpoint of a innocent child placed in the middle of rigid, dictatorial adults who labor under a maelstrom of neurosis. In many ways, Enter a Child is a book about a daughter of a baronet who… Read More

London: Readers Union, 1947 A well written and very readable exploration into the characters of the Napoleons, father and son. In the mind of each to an extraordinary degree lay the reflection of the other: the father's every ambition and vanity centring in the son: the son's whole inspiration drawn from the father. Covers a bit scruffy but otherwise a very good reading copy.

London: Readers Union with MacMillan. Very Good. 1947. Cloth. ix, 402pp; information about the author & illusts of Napoleon and his Empresses have been pasted onto front endpapers. ; 220 x 140mm .

Some minor rubbing. VG. French Political History Readers' Union / Macmillan London 1947 orig. cloth 23x14cm, xi,402 pp. Contents: At the Permons'; Europe is Astounded; The Permons Give a Dance; Josephine Superceded; The King of Rome Arrives; Metamorphosis of Napoleon' s Son; St. Helena; The Duke of Reichstadt.