Seraglio - first US edition

by Janet Wallach

The true story of the kidnapping of Aimee du Buc de Rivery by Algerian pirates enroute to Martinique. An heiress to the Martinique de Rivery plantation family, she was a valuable commodity, ending up in the Seraglio of the Sultan in Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. Surviving by learning and adapting, she is ultimately awarded control of the harem as the 'valide', mother of the sultan. Well-researched account of a unique life.

Book has purple boards quarter bound with ivory cloth, title and author printed in gold on the cloth spine; clean inside and out, no bumps, rough-cut page edges; 

Jacket is fine, price intact at $24.95; front panel features the painting 'Leila', 1892, by Sir Frank Dicksee.