ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE: A BIOGRAPHY
by Hugh Brogan
Published by Profile Books Ltd.. 1st. 2006
Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper. Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the greatest political thinkers of all time. Born a French aristocrat, he lost nearly his entire family in the Reign of Terror, and he spent most of his adult life struggling for liberty under the unsuccessful regimes of nineteenth-century France. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Cream pictorial endpapers, a few b/w plates. 724 pages including index.
Light shelf wear to base of spine. Text block browned and has a few minor marks. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned/faded to spine and is lightly scuffed.
ISBN: 9781861975096
Stock no. 1831417
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- BIOGRAPHY
- POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY
