The Plebiscite: or A Miller's Story of the War by One of the 7,500,000 Who Voted "Yes"
by Erckmann, Emile and Alexandre Chatrian
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Meadows of Dan, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Later printing. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. 338 pages, illustrated with tissue protected black and white frontispiece and black and white plates. Translated from the French into English. Historical romance set in France. Blue cloth binding with imprinted border and decoration on front cover, gold titles on spine. Some spotting of cover at spine, otherwise cover is bright, some bumping of spine ends and corners, wrinking of end papers at hinge, interior pages tanning slightly, protective tissue with frontispiece intact but foxed and tanned. Former owner's stamped imprint on front free endpaper and first page of text, binding tight.
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- Bookseller
- Scraps of American History (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 01544
- Title
- The Plebiscite
- Author
- Erckmann, Emile and Alexandre Chatrian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- fiction, France, Revolution, translations
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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Scraps of American History
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Meadows of Dan, Virginia
About Scraps of American History
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.