HER HEART WAS TRUE: A STORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR FOUNDED ON FACT. By An Idle Exile [pseudonym] .. by Idle Exile, An (pseudonym of Edith E. Cuthell) - 1893

New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1893. Tall octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-134 [134-140: blank] [note: last three leaves are blanks; second and third used as rear free endpaper and rear paste-down], original decorated tan cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown, all edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. Romantic adventure novel set during the Napoleonic wars in Spain; involves press gangs and smugglers, among other things. The author also wrote children's and historical fiction, as well as stories with Indian settings. Number 21 in the "Unknown Library." No copy of a UK edition is recorded by COPAC. OCLC records two copies of this Cassell edition. Copies of these "Unknown" and "Pseudonym" Library titles are getting harder to find. Not in Wolff. Cloth just a bit dusty, a near fine copy. Very scarce. (#113577)