Add this copy of Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies to cart. $20.99, good condition, Sold by JWMah rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1933 by Liveright Publishing Corporation.
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Seller's Description:
Majeska. Good in Fair jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" (USA) Presumed 1st edition. Owner's bookplate to the end paper, no markings, but coffee(? ) stain to the bottom edge of pages, and with two spots of this possible coffee to the lower edge of back cover cloth, thus Good in Fair dust jacket with tears and cteases to head of spine and snall chip to top edge of rear panel; crease down length of back panel. DJ is in mylar sleeve. Black cloth, xxxv, 528pp, 5 B&W illus. This is an intimate account of court and love life in the reign of the Valois kings in 16th century France. This is the two volumes in one edition. "Other women...do smother themselves in bed with cape and mufflers...until they do look more like old witches than young women....Others again be rouged and painted up. fine enough by day; but a-nights the paint is off, and they are as ugly as sin." (2.0 JM HOZ 402/b1.
