Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1935, 1^st US ed.  Hard cover, 292 pages including Index.  Very good; oatmeal cloth with blue and gilt motif on front board and spine, blue lettering to spine.  Light edge and spine end wear; binding sound; gray top stain.  Dust jacket with price intact shows some wear, short edge tears and small losses; jacket protected in clear cover.  Interior clean and unmarked; black & white frontis of Marie Louise from the famous miniature by Isabey plus other black & white illustrations.  Foreword and Commentary by Charles de la Ronciere.  ‘The story of Napoleon and Marie Louise is that of a middle-aged man married to a young woman, a dynamic and egocentric man trying to create from an unformed and naïve girl the figure of an empress.  He trusted her with state secrets, even with the regency, and, in the manner of a good bourgeois husband, expected her to be both loyal and clever.  She was too weak to be either.’ (from Introduction)