The Boy Life of Napoleon : Afterwards Emperor of the French : Adapted and Extended for American Boys and Girls
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1895.
Illustrated by Vesper L George. Later Printing. Hardcover. Good in Good dust jacket. Item #15005
Rear cover stained, toned, a few roughly opened pages, bookplate on front paste-down, Xmas 1929 gift inscription on front free endpaper, light wear; Dust Jacket dampstained spine, 1" tail chip, 1" chip rear panel, smaller edge tears, wear. Solid hardcover. ; "Eugénie Foa (1796-1852) was, to our knowledge, the first Jewish woman to support herself professionally as a literary writer." - Lisa Moses Leff; The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. Later printing of this juvenile biography of the childhood of Napoleon Bonaparte, uncommon in dust jacket. ; 251 pages.
Price: $39.95