BOOK: Front Fixed Endpaper Pulled From Removal of Previous Owner's Bookplate Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped Light Shelf Rub to Boards Spine Slightly Cocked Edges Moderately Soiled Slight Yellowing Due to Age. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. A sturdy copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing noticeable wear and several minor, cosmetic flaws.

Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Very Good- in Wraps: shows indications of careful use: moderate spine lean and s bit of concavity to the backstrip, which also shows several faint stress creases there are also a few very faint stress creases near the lower corner of the front panel shows also light wear to the extremities and a bit of rubbing and scuffing to the wrapper covers the text pages have tanned somewhat, due to aging several of the front endpapers have been creased near the upper corner tip the binding is secure the text is clean. “With grace, sensitivity and a sharp eye for detail, Lady Antonia Fraser has succeeded not only in recapturing the real Mary from the symbol but also in illuminating the chaotic age in which she lived.Mass Market Paperback. Here is her story, a queen who lost a throne for love, a monarch pampered and adored even as she was led to her beheading, the unforgettable woman who became a legend for all time.

Betrayed by those she most trusted, she would be lured into a deadly game of power, only to lose to her envious and unforgiving cousin, Elizabeth I. Instead, Mary Stuart became the victim of her own impulsive heart, scandalizing her world with a foolish passion that would lead to abduction, rape, and even murder. Her royal birth gave her claim to the thrones of two nations her marriage to the young French dauphin promised to place a third glorious crown on her noble head. She was the quintessential queen: statuesque, regal, dazzlingly beautiful.

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