Author Name: McClintock, Marshall (Ed) ; Morley, Sylvanus G. (Intro)
Title: Prescott's The Conquest Of Mexico, Designed For Modern Reading
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Edition: First Thus; First Printing
Publisher: NY Julian Messner, Inc. 1948
ISBN Number: 0671324098 / 9780671324094
Seller ID: 13773
360 pages; Very Good/No Jacket. Black boards with red and black title. Gilt on spine faded. Tiny name to inside front board. Soft bump to corner tips. Outside page edges lightly age tanned. Binding and hinges strong. Great mapped end papers. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. Tight, strong binding and hinges. Marshall McClintock's fascinating abridgment of W. H. Prescott's immortal classic, The Conquest of Mexico, will fill a longfelt need. The editor with rare judgment and great skill has produced a close knit, fast-moving, stirring drama of one of the greatest events in human history, the conquest of Montezuma's vast Aztec Empire in central Mexico in the early sixteenth century, by Hernando Cortes and a bare handful of Europeans.
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