Franklin Library: BARBARA TUCHMAN: THE GUNS OF AUGUST: WORLD WAR I

Description: Franklin Library leather edition Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of August," a Limited edition, Illustrated with Photographs and Maps from the period, one of the PULITZER PRIZE for GENERAL NONFICTION 1863, published in 1984. Bound in light red leather, the book has marbled paper end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, who lived from 1912---1989, was an American historian and author who twice won the PULIZER PRIZE. She was a graduate of RADCLIFFE COLLEGE and from 1933-1945 worked as a research assistant for the Institute of Pacific Relations. The book opens on the Mary morning of 1910 "when nine kings rode in the funeral of KING EDWARD VII of England. The crowd, waiting in hushed and black-clad awe, could not keep back gasps of admiration. In scarlet and blue and green and purple, three by three the sovereigns rode through the palace gates, with plumed helmets, gold braid, crimson sashes, and jeweled orders flashing in the sun. After them came five heir apparent, forty more imperial of royal highnesses, seven queens---four dowagers and three regnant--and a scattering of special ambassadors from uncrowned countries." 511 pages, including Notes and an index. I offer Combined shipping.

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