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355 pages, photos, Very good hardcover first edition. Inside Front hinge broken o/w tightly bound nice copy. Original bright green cloth with gold stamping.

Includes illustrations. Book Condition: very good. DJ Condition: no dj. lightly soiled cover boards. Tight binding. Interior pages are clean. Illustrated with b/w photos.

355 p., illus. Letters from the American Embassy at Mexico City, covering the dramatic period between October 8, 1913, and the breaking off of diplomatic relations on April 23, 1914, together with an account of the occupation of Vera Cruz. Very good condition; bookplate, owner stamp & name

(1st, G-Q) Slightly smaller, heavier book, dark green cloth, gilt title with gilt eagle and serpent symbol all near fine on front, gilt facsimile signature at bottom front, green embossed lettering and symbol very good on spine, several very small drops of pink paint at bottom back, 356 lightly browned pages, top-edge gilt, photos throughout, tiny brown stain at hinge at bottom inside front cover and first front end paper at bottom and along top inside back cover as well. Near Very Good.

Letters from the American Embassy at Mexico City covering the dramatic period between Oct. 8, 1913-April 23, 1914. Black & white illustrations. 356 pages. Previous ownerÕs bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean, very good. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering and design. Record # 61397

Black cloth binding with gilt eagle and snake to front board and spine. Top page edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Spine dulled and lightly creased. Good solid binding. Light browning to pages, a few pencilled notes. Some pages unopened. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 5.75 x 8.25 inches (15 x 21 cm).

Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; [11], 355 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm. Subjects; Mexico History 1910-1946. United States Foreign relations Mexico. 1 Kg.

Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 356 pages; Physical desc. : 356p. , [11] leaves of plates : front, ill. , photos, ports. ; 22cm. Subjects: Mexico. Description and Travel. 1 Kg.

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.