Phantom Crown: The Story of Maximilian and Carlota of Mexico
by Harding, Bertita
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fair condition/No dust jacket
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1934. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Fair condition/No dust jacket. 381 pages. 23 cm. Endpaper maps. Illustrations, Portraits, Plates, Music. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed and signed by the author on a slip of paper pasted on the Prologue page. Cover has some wear, soiling, and fraying at spine edges. The complete romantic story of Maximilian, Archduke of Austria, of Carlota, his beautiful wife, and of the fantastic, ill-starred empire which Napoleon III founded in 19th century Mexico.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57409
- Title
- Phantom Crown: The Story of Maximilian and Carlota of Mexico
- Author
- Harding, Bertita
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair condition
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Presumed first edition/first printing
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis, IN
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- Bazaine, Chapultepec, Mariano Escobedo, Benito Juarez, Empress Eugenie, Franz Joseph, Tomas Mejia, Napoleon III, Queretaro, Salm-Salm
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- Inscribed
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