The Proud Prince

New York: R.H. Russell, 1903. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Boards slightly bowed, one plate loose but included, ink gift name on frontispiece recto. 1903 Hard Cover. v, 275 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles, floral decor on front board. Historical romance meets Beauty and the Beast style fable in 12th century Syracuse. Perpetua, beautiful flame haired daughter of the royal executioner of Sicily, had been raised in seclusion on tales of the Golden Age by a father who has never had to wield his axe due to a benevolent monarch.