THE LAST CASTLE:
The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home

By Denise Kiernan.

New York: Touchstone, (2017).

First edition, first printing.

First printing number code sequence 1 through 10 to the copyright page, $28.00 printed price to the jacket's flap.

SIGNED by the North Carolina journalist, producer, and author of THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY to the title page.

Illustrated with photographs on glossy black-and-white plates.

The story, and inside back-stories, of George's Biltmore House in North Carolina, created by architect Richard Morris Hunt, and peopled by several very wealthy families who preserved the castle, and visited throughout history by significant Americans including Theodore Roosevelt, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Whistler, Edith Wharton, John Singer Sargent, Henry James, and more.

Fine, square, firm and tight in black linen over smoke-gray boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine, yellow headband and tail-band, blue-print design illustrated end-papers; in a fine dust jacket; original printed $28.00 price still intact to the front inner flap.

Octavo; 388 pages; notes and sources; index; plus prologue; plus about the author page to the rear.

PLEASE VIEW

OUR STORE

FOR MORE GREAT SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKS

THANKS!




Created by Seller's Assistant Basic.