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The Young Archduchess

William Le Queux

William Tufnell Le Queux (1864-1927) was a prolific Anglo-French journalist and writer. This is one of two novels by Le Queux published by Ward Lock in 1922; he published three others in the same year.




First edition and paperback

Bibliography code: WAR-22.2b

Publisher: Ward Lock and Company

Series: none

Year: 1922

Format: 8vo

Pages: pp 361

Binding: red cloth with title, author and publishers logo in black with black rim; title, author and publisher in black on spine

Size: paperback, 217 x 142 mm

Dust and cover jacket signed: faintly, Blam, below woman in grass

Internal illustrations: none

Price: 1st issue 7s 6d; paperback 6d (No 237 on spine)

Printing history: not known

Printed by: Butler & Tanner Ltd., Frome and London

Notes: The copy shown left is the paperback, number 237, priced at 6d. The first edition was priced 7s 6d and when it is obtained will be coded WAR-22.2a. The jacket of the first edition has the same design.

Image of dust jacket

Cover of paperback (click to enlarge)