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First edition

Napoleon Self-Revealed in 300 Selected Letters

Edited by J. M. Thompson
Houghton Mifflin, 1934. First edition, first printing.
$70One copy · this copy
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Book
Very Good
Jacket
Good
Jacket note
The dust jacket grades Good.
Our ref
RCB-7546d69dfc15
What we checked, and where to see itRCB-7546d69dfc15 · 10 photographs of this copy
✓
Title page dated 1934, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York
examined on the copy in hand
✓
Copyright verso shows only 'PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.', no later-printing statement visible
examined on the copy in hand
✓
Dust jacket front flap priced $3.00 (not a book club copy)
examined on the copy in hand
✓
Cloth boards with gilt Napoleonic signet-ring device; no blind stamp on rear board
examined on the copy in hand
Flaws, each one named
1
chipping and loss to jacket spine head
see it — photograph 8
2
closed tears and heavy creasing to jacket at top of front panel
see it — photograph 1
3
overall toning, soiling and edge wear to jacket
see it — photograph 1
4
chips to jacket corners/foot
see it — photograph 7
5
two ink ownership signatures and pencilled '10-' on front free endpaper
see it — photograph 2
6
tanning/toning to page-block edges
see it — photograph 9
This copy
First edition

What a true first shows: Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York, 1934, cloth in jacket (US issue); Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1934 (UK issue)

Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.