[HISTORY] MAXIMILIAN AND CHARLOTTE OF MEXICO [2 VOLUMES]

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Two large 8vo volumes; in the publisher’s gray cloth with titling and decoration in light blue to the spines, with dustjackets; the two volumes are through paginated;xix, [2], 3-406; x, 407-967 including the Appendix and Index; there are no marks in either book; an attractive set.~~The headline in the New York Times when the book came out in 1928: “Maximilian Was the Catspaw of European Ambitions; Count Corti Unravels the Sordid Intrigue which Led to his Fatal Mexican Adventure.”~~The headlines in the New York Times are rather different today. Near Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.