Schom, Alan — Napoleon Bonaparte

New York, HarperCollins , 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Near Fine condition copy in Imperial octavo hardcover format in a like condition dust jacket. Stated First Edition, First Printing. xxii + 888 pp. and augmented with a colorful pictorial dust jacket. Bound handsomely in gunmetal grey paper over boards, black cloth-backed, sharp and distinct silver lettering to spine. Augmented further with map endpapers front and rear, with extensive frontis matter, a Preface, Acknowledgments by the author, a Bonaparte family tree, and with plentiful black-and-white and full-color plates. Maps, notes, battle plans, references, index, an Epilogue, Appendixes. The author's remarkable one-volume biography of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte includes his childhood in Corsica and runs to his death in exile on the island of St. Helena.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Near Fine,