first edition
[1916 & 1917] · New York
by [MEXICAN REVOLUTION] O'SHAUGHNESSY, Edith
New York: Harper and Brothers, [1916 & 1917]. First Editions. First printings, with correct letter codes on versos of title pages. Octavo. First title in deep green cloth; gilt titles; top edge gilt; x,356pp; frontis; 11 unnumbered leaves of plates. Second title in brick red cloth, decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; x,338pp; frontispiece and fifteen unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Both volumes tight and square with; "Diplomat's Wife" with small stain to upper corner of front board, both Very Good or better.
O'Shaughnessy was the wife of Nelson O'Shaughnessy, Chargé d'Affaires to Mexico during the Presidencies of Porfirio Díaz and Francisco Madero (1911-1913), through the coup of Victoriano Huerta and the assassination of Madero - events to which O'Shaughnessy was a real-time witness. These two works of epistolary memoir, extracted from O'Shaughnessy's letters home to her mother, established O'Shaughnessy's reputation. Her writing is brisk and insightful, and her work provides valuable first-hand observations of the first years of the Mexican Revolution. (Inventory #: 62198)
O'Shaughnessy was the wife of Nelson O'Shaughnessy, Chargé d'Affaires to Mexico during the Presidencies of Porfirio Díaz and Francisco Madero (1911-1913), through the coup of Victoriano Huerta and the assassination of Madero - events to which O'Shaughnessy was a real-time witness. These two works of epistolary memoir, extracted from O'Shaughnessy's letters home to her mother, established O'Shaughnessy's reputation. Her writing is brisk and insightful, and her work provides valuable first-hand observations of the first years of the Mexican Revolution. (Inventory #: 62198)