The Tragic Empress: A Record of Intimate Talks with the Empress Eugénie -- 1901-1919
by Paléologue, Maurice; translated by Hamish Miles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York / London: Harper & Brothers, 1928. Life of the last French empress, Spanish-born wife of Napoleon III. Hardcover, stated first edition (first printing) with K-C (October 1928) date code. Very good but for owner's name and date on the front fly leaf. Bound in full blue cloth, gilt titling. The jacket is edge-nibbled, lightly worn and spotted, with a few chips and short tears, but mostly present. Scarce in jacket. Text clean; xv, [3], 264 pages; index, 13 b/w plates, as called for. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 998797a
- Title
- The Tragic Empress: A Record of Intimate Talks with the Empress Eugénie -- 1901-1919
- Author
- Paléologue, Maurice; translated by Hamish Miles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York / London
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- Royalty, European History, France, French History
- Size
- Octavo
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
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