FLAMES OF EMPIRE

By Peter Bourne

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1949).

First edition, first printing.

Published in England in 1950 under the title DUPE OF DESTINY.

An adventuresome historical novel, set during the French intervention in Mexico, and during the Civil War, featuring a secret agent spying on archduke Maximilian, who is also a confederate agent, and a plantation owner in Louisiana.

Elusive in a nice dust jacket.

A touch of rubbing to the upper spine edge, else very nearly fine in red-clay linen with brown titles and flourishes to the front cover and to the spine; in a near fine dust jacket with minuscule nicks and rubs to the upper and lower spine edges; original printed $3.50 price still intact to the front inner flap.

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