The Prince

by Niccolo Machiavelli, Hill Thompson

$275 · Offered by Back Creek Books

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Limited Edition, copy #1412 of 1500. Full green Morocco. Octavo. 184 pages. Machiavelli’s masterpiece on gaining, wielding, and retaining political power, written in the form of a realistic instruction manual for rulers. It has provoked controversy from its inception, admired by some for its grasp of human nature and condemned by others for its

• Binding: Leather

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