ISBN10: 0717146111, ISBN13: 9780717146116, [publisher: Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, Eire] Hardcover First Edition Hardback. The story -- of love and cruelty, from riches to relative povery -- of Cork born Irish woman E liza Lynch who became "Queen of Paraguay", the 19th century lover of Paraguayan dictator, Lopez. She buried him and her son in the jungle with her bare hands. Black cloth boards with bright gilt lettering to spine. 298 pages, incl. index, biblio., notes, appendix, + 4 maps & 25 illus. Dj unclipped, with only very slight wear around edges,corners and joints. Book tight and clean.
[West Looe Cornwall, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009]

ISBN10: 0717146111, ISBN13: 9780717146116, [publisher: Gill & MacMillan, Limited] Hardcover Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within
[Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2009]

ISBN10: 0717146111, ISBN13: 9780717146116, [publisher: Gill & MacMillan, Limited, Dublin] Hardcover First Edition A unique copy of this First edition, first printing volume inscribed by both authors to the late Mrs Bulge Clissman (see biography note below) on the title page. In black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. White stain top right corner (see photo). Corners bumped and shelf wear to spine ends. Internally clean bright and tight. Small stain to page block edge and rear endpaper. Contains one batch of colour and black and white photos. Unclipped dust jacket has edge wear to spine top and corners but no cuts tears or chips. Please examine all seller photos. BORN IN SLIGO on August 5th, 1913, 'Budge' was the eldest of four daughters of Denis Mulcahy and Mary Murray, both teachers at Sligo Technical College.The Mulcahys were a fiercely republican family and Denis was interned in Newbridge camp during the War of Independence for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to the crown. While he was interned his wife ran Sligo Technical College. During the Civil War, nine-year-old Budge acted as a courier for anti-treaty IRA men on the run. After attending school at Sligo's Ursuline Convent, she studied Irish and French at University College Galway. After graduating in 1933, she spent a year studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. By the time of her 1938 marriage to German academic Helmut Clissmann (1911-1997), German military ...