Mayflower-Dell, London, 1966, 1^st pr thus.  #2707.  MMPB, 317 pages including Acknowledgments.  Very good; very light edge and cover wear, a bit of colour chipping from scratches on spine; binding tight; light creases on spine; interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  “Simon Bolivar was known as the ‘Liberator of South America’ – the astounding statesman-soldier whose life was dedicated to overthrowing the Spanish conquerors.  The woman behind him – Manuela Saenz – was no less remarkable; beautiful, dynamic, adventurous, wildly unconventional, wilfully passionate.  This fascinating true-novel captures not just the torrid love-story of Manuela and Bolivar; but the whole vivid, battle-torn, politically-dangerous, sometimes courtly, sometimes brutal flavor of the most exciting period in the history of the Americas.” (from rear wrap)