Author: GOMEZ CARILLO, E.,
Title: Het liefdeleven van Mata Hari en haar Dood. Translated from the french after the original spanish language edition by Bep Zody. First dutch edn. (thus).
Description: Amsterdam, Koloniale Boekcentrale, [..], 1923. Small 8°. Orig. wrappers, illustrated coloured lithographed front wrapper. 247pp. Table of contents, publ. advert. with 2 portraits on lower outer wrapper. Biography' of Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod-Zelle, 1896-1917, better known as 'Mata Hari' ('Eye of the Sun'), her staggering career as 'Indian' dancer (almost in the nude) in Paris during the First World War, her life and loves in high society. Later to be tried & executed by a French firing-squad (1917), incl. author's attempt to prove that she was wrongly accused of espionage for the germans. Good uncut copy. (some foxing to f.e.p.'s, to front-edge and very occasional to margins).

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