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Title: The Blockade at Phalsburg: An Episode of the End of the Empire
Author: Emile Erckmann & Alexande Chatrian
Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York
Published: 1901
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 300
Catalogs: French History, Historical Fiction, Judaism
: Illustrated. Blue binding with gold-colored print on spine. Blind stamped edge lines and logo on cover. Cover has some spotting and dirt, back binding slightly cracked. Missing blank free front endpaper, stamped “Margaret,” no other marking or marginalia. Translated from original French. Originally part of a six-volume series by the partnership of French authors Émile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian that wrote together between the 1850s and 1880s. This installment follows a Jewish patriarch, his family and community during the siege of Phalsbourg, in Alsace, France, during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. The book ends with the surrender of the French at Phalsbourg. The book is written with a slightly instructive tone, as if for adolescent readers. Hardcover, good condition, 12mo.
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