“Catherine may have been unscrupulous, but she was rarely cruel.”
Haslip’s story of how a German-born princess, through craft and ambition, came to be one of Russia's greatest ruler, engrossing the reader in a seemingly escapist fiction that is Catherine the Great's life.
Author: Joan Haslip
Title: Catherine the Great: A Biography
Edition: First American Edition, first printing
Published: New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1977
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 382p
Condition: Good condition dust jacket with edge wear, mild rubbing to surfaces, and toning—in new dust jacket cover. Boards and spine very clean with mild edge wear and crushing at spine ends. Binding sturdy and square. Pages toned. Owner’s inscription on front free end-paper.
Comments: Collectible copy
