Napoleon's Letters to Marie Louise
by Napoleon Bonaparte; Charles de la Ronciere [fwd.]
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1935. Very Good/Good. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1935. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue decorative price-clipped dust jacket, black topstain; xxviii,292pp.; frontispiece, sixteen leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos. Jacket extremities rather chipped and worn at extremities with coin-sized loss at top margin of front jacket panel affecting text with brief loss of meaning, rear panel dust-soiled, light toning to textblock, else Very Good in a Good copy of the uncommon jacket.
The first published appearance of a trove of some 300 letters only recently discovered in the archives of an Austrian family, auctioned off in December, 1934, and purchased by the Bibliothèque Nationale with the aide of the French government.
The first published appearance of a trove of some 300 letters only recently discovered in the archives of an Austrian family, auctioned off in December, 1934, and purchased by the Bibliothèque Nationale with the aide of the French government.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10836
- Title
- Napoleon's Letters to Marie Louise
- Author
- Napoleon Bonaparte; Charles de la Ronciere [fwd.]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
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About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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Washington, District of Columbia
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