ISBN10: 0192122002, ISBN13: 9780192122001, [publisher: Oxford University Press, London] Hardcover First Edition This copy is in FINE unmarked condition bound in brown cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square, there is a small neat label to the f.e.p. The unclipped dustwrapper is in fine condition International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. We have to believe the historians when they say that there was "almost certainly" no physical relationship between the British Prime Minister Asquith and the love of his life Venetia Stanley. In 1912 when the letters start he was 59,married with children, and she was 25. They wrote to each other every day (and sometimes more than once a day) for about three years, until Venetia disappointed him by announcing her engagement to a family friend in 1915. By today's standards the tone of his letters (hers have not survived) would certainly lead one to disbelieve the historians: unambiguous declarations of love, secret assignations, rows of dots for unwritten words (of endearment?). Did they really slake their lust with the occasional game of bridge or round of golf? One would have thought that today the letters alone would have given Asquith's wife (who was fully aware of ...

ISBN10: 0192122002, ISBN13: 9780192122001, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover First Edition First edition, 1982. 676 pages. Illustrated. Original cloth. Dust wrapper. Near Fine.
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Oxford University Press, New York, 1982. Royal 8vo.pp.xix + 676 plus 16 black & white photographs, 3 drawings in text, 2 maps. Original brown cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. A Very Good Copy. ISBN 0192122002. Oxford University Press, New York, 1982 ISBN 0192122002 9780192122001 [AU]

London: Oxford University Press. Date: 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0192122002 . Near Fine in a Near Fine price clipped dust jacket. ; 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches; 696 pages . 1983. Oxford University Press ISBN 0192122002 9780192122001 [US]