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Maurice Collis.
Cortés and Montezuma.
Published London: Faber and Faber, 1954.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Latimer Trend & Co., Plymouth.
Size: 136x196x25mm.
Page count: text 251pp; plates 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: original dustjacket has been replaced with plain textured paper, its title strip pasted onto the spine; boards and spine rather discoloured with age, some foxing on the page edges; an ex‑libris stamp on the front board and previous owner’s gift inscription on the front endpaper, but the main text appears to be free of marking.

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[New Directions paperback in print at $15.95]
Weight without packaging: 430g.

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Contents: Cortés in the West Indies; Discovery of Mexico; Cortés sets out -- arrives in Mexico; Montezuma; Landing of Cortés-Quetzalcoatl; Cortés tricks Velázquez; Cortés prepares -- marches on Mexico -- at Tlaxcala -- at Cholula; Montezuma & Cortés meet; Montezuma converses with Cortés ; Cortés confines Montezuma; Montezuma bows to his fate; Montezuma's treasure; Installation of the Virgin; The Smoking Mirror demands Cortés ' death; Velázquez's counterstroke is defeated; Mexicans rise against Cortés ; Death of Montezuma; Cortés flees from Mexico City; Magical battle of Otumba; Cortés recuperates at Tlaxcala; Cortés beleaguers & storms Mexico City.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: 3 text illustrations and 8 pages of plates, all monochrome
Maps & plans: 2
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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