Wilson Wright [William Reitzel] — The Pinnacle of Glory
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1935 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of this 1935 historical novel about Napoleon Bonaparte's exile on St. Helena. In the publisher's original dust wrapper, price clipped.The first edition, first impression of this historical novel, the work of academic William Reitzel, writing under the pseudonym Wilson Wright.A fascinating fictionalised account of the final years of Napoleon's life.With a contemporary inscription, dated 1935, to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Minor bump to back strip head, otherwise externally fine. Inscription to front free endpaper. Light edgewear to dust wrapper back strip head and tail, with significant loss to tail of rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.
