London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Limited, 1910. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Tall Octavo. 304 pages. Hardcover bound in red cloth with spine titles in gilt. The binding is worn and bumped and shows some pale spotting. Gilt on the spine is dulled. Text is browned. A solid reading copy.

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Bookseller: Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 034969
Title: Napoleon's Mother
Author: Tschudi, Clara. Translated By E. M. Cope
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Limited
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1910
Keywords: 1910; NAPOLEON; COLORED FRONTIS; WOMEN'S INTERESTS; 18TH CENTURY; FRANCE; FRENCH; REVOLUTION; HISTORY; BIOGRAPHY; Clara Tschudi; E. M. Cope.
Bookseller catalogs: Europe; 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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Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Reading Copy: Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
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....