Frederic Masson; Louis B. Frewer [trans.] — Napoleon at St. Helena, 1815-1821

New York, Medill McBride Company, 1950 . First edition. Cloth. The first US edition of this detailed and illustrated historical account of the final years of Napoleon Bonaparte's life, 1815-1821. The first US edition of Louis B. Frewer's translation of Frederic Masson's account of Napoleon Bonaparte's final years exiled on St. Helena. First published in the original French in 1912, Frewer's translation was first published in the UK in 1949, the year prior to this first US edition.  In the publisher's original dust wrapper, price unclipped.Collated, illustrated with six plates and a folding map to the rear. Lacking a portrait frontispiece of Napoleon. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to spine head and tail, with fading in these regions. Discolouration to dust wrapper back strip and wrap perimeters, as is common with this work. Chipping to back strip head and minor loss to back strip tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good/Very Good Indeed.