Author Name: Mossiker, Frances
Title: The Affair of the Poisons: Louis XIV, Madame De Montespan, and One of History's Great Unsolved Mysteries
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: NY Alfred A. Knopf 1969
ISBN Number: B0006CTVKC
Seller ID: 16404
346 pages; Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Attractive blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. INSCRIBED by the author on front endpaper page. Tiny bit of shelf rub at spine tips and corner tips. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is lightly shelf rubbed at edges. Tiny chip top edge of back panel. Printing on the spine and back panel is fading. Now in protective sleeve. An excellent gift! In the massive Poisons Affair inquiry that brought the most ancient names of France to trial, the name of Montespan was by royal edict forbidden to be mentioned, and evidence was destroyed. Here, immediate and authentic, is the incredible world of Versailles. The intrique, luxury, and harshness of the life, the progression of royal mistresses, the overwhelming personality of the King.; Signed by Author
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