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Comment: Hard cover 2nd ed. Good. No dust jacket. Minor Wear 457 p., [1] leaf of plates: port.; 21 cm. Includes Portraits. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 441-450.
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The second empire Hardcover – January 1, 1923

by philip guedalla (Author)
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Condition There are 12 full-page illustrations, including the frontispiece. They are all in excellent condition. The frontispiece is protected by a tissue guard which is also in excellent condition. Neither shows any age which is perhaps quite remarkable. I looked at all of the illustrations. I saw only one with a tiny bit of foxing (two small spots) just off its top edge. The same two spots can be seen on its facing text pages. I didn't see any other foxing in the book. There are no markings anywhere. There is a tiny Brentano's label off the bottom edge of the rear cover. There are no other attachments of any kind. And with the exception of the author's signed inscription, no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. The first edition was published in 1922. This is the 'Second Edition Revised, Fifth Printing, July, 1926.' It is signed and inscribed by the author on the blank first front end paper. I've tried to identify the inscribee but the handwriting is a little difficult. There are only two other signed copies of this title for sale on the Internet. Neither is a first edition. Both are priced well above mine. 'Philip Guedalla (12 March 1889 --16 December 1944) was an English barrister, and a popular historical and travel writer and biographer. His wit and epigrams are well-known, one example being "Even reviewers read a Preface," another being "History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other." He also was the originator of a now-common theory on Henry James, writing that "The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three James I, James II, and the Old Pretender". This book was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1926.
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    English
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    Garden City Publishing,
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    January 1, 1923
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Although the actual book is good, it was clearly printed out by some OCR programme, which did not spell cheque the French (or German), eg gemütlich was printed out as if the "u" was two "i"s. Many terrible mis-spellings in the French text, and it read as if it hadn't been proof-read.
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