New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. 289 pages. A small book measuring 7 3/8 inches tall by just over 5 inches wide. Hardcover bound in blue cloth. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. The binding is slightly cocked but is sturdy. The endpapers are foxed, as well as some places in the text, especially around the illustrated plates. Signed on the title page by Dred Peacock (one of the best names ever). Illustrated with about nine full-page plates. Publisher's descriptive label pasted to the rear pastedown. The book is a novel set in late 18th century France. Dred Peacock (1864-1934) was a professor of Latin at Greensboro College. He went on to become President of the college. After he retired from this he practiced law, and at his death was the member of the board of trustees for Duke University and Greensboro College. He was an avid book collector, and his collecting focused on American and French history, especially on the revolutionary period of the late 18th century.

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Bookseller: Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 041046
Title: Madame Therese Or, the Volunteers of '92. (National Novels)
Author: Erckmann-Chatrian, MM
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1900
Keywords: 1900; MM Erckmann-Chatrian; Dred Peacock; Greensboro College; North Carolina; France; French Revolution; War; Literature; 19th century.
Bookseller catalogs: Literature & Fiction; World History;

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Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Cocked: Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...