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First Barnes & Noble hardcover edition with complete print line. Tight, clean, unmarked. Minor surface wear to the dust jacket.

Folio Society, GB, 1976 VG/VG slipcase is clean and tidy, without blemish. sharp-cornered. inner volume is in sharp clean condition all pages present. no inscriptions or marginalia. the spine is sunned.

Folio Society, 1976. hardcover. Very Good. . Former owner's nameplate inside front cover. Pages are clean and intact.

GB: Folio Society, 1976. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. In sound slipcase whcih is a bit marked. . 1st Thus. Hardback. nrFine/No DW.

Folio Society, London 1976 (first published in 1731). 24.0 x 15.0cms, 286pp, b/w illusts, good+ hardback Voltaire revolutionised biography writing when he focused on Charles XII's character and drastically edited any material which he thought was irrelevant, tedious or unfit for his conception of this controversial monarch.

London: The Folio Society, 1976 Book. Very Good. Decorated Boards. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Voltaire's biography of Charles XII of Sweden first published in 1731, translated by Antonia White with an introduction by R M Hatton. 285pp with index, illustrated with black and white reproductions and maps to endpapers. Red and gilt crest to top board and gilt lettering on red panel to spine. Top edges tinted. Slight crushing to base of spine and tiny crease to one corner, otherwise very good/near fine copy with no inscriptions. Orange slipcase has slight fading to edges and small spot to one edge, otherwise very good..

London, UK: The Folio Society, 1976. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 286pp. Cream cloth-covered boards; gilt and red design on front, gilt titles on red spine label, housed in a peach coloured slipcase. 8vo. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Slipcase sun faded. Translated into English by Antonia White and with an introduction by R M Hatton, as Voltaire focuses dramatically on one main character.

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The Folio Society 1976. Folio hardcover (nr fine) in slip case (VG) illus; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

London: The Folio Society, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. London, The Folio Society, 1976 (first thus). Octavo, 286 pages plus 14 plates and endpaper maps. Decorated papered boards slightly sunned; an excellent copy in the slipcase (sunned and a trifle worn). Translated by Antonia White; introduction by R.M. Hatton.

London: Folio Society, 1976. 1st edition thus in the 1976 Folio Society edition, 8vo, 288pp, photo reproductions of contemporary illustrations; with an introduction by R M Hatton, translated by Antonia White, cream-flecked paper-covered boards lettered and decorated red and gilt; VG Copy in VG Slipcase with very light wear to corners. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Place_Pub: London: The Folio Society, 1976. very good in very good box. 285, illus., endpaper maps, appendix, index, slight soiling and wear to box. Introduction by R. M. Hatton. This biography of Charles XII was first published in 1731. Voltaire broke with the tradition of the biography genre of the period to focus dramatically on one main character, cutting ruthlessly all information which he judged irrelevant, tedious, or not fitting his conception of the central figure.

London: The Folio Society, 1976. Folio . Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Translated by Antonia White. Introduction by RM Hatton. Mint marble effect cream paper boards, gilt/ red heraldic emblem and titles on spine. Spotless cut edges, double green/white map across endpapers and text block. Fine b/w plates including frontispiece of subject. Binding solid. Presented in clean slipcase.

London: Alexander Lyon. Full contemporary calf. First Edition in English. Voltaire's favorable biography of Charles XII, a friend, reads like a novel. Title plate on spine missing, gift notations in ink on front free endpaper, few brief notations in red ink, Good. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1732.

London: C. Davis & A. Lyon, 1732. pp xii + 371. Portrait frontispiece & folding map. Brown leather w/only lite wear at tips; owner's plate, lite foxing. 4th. Lealther Binding. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Frontis Engraving. 12 Vo; 1 Pound.