Conscript by Erckmann Emile (181 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. No Dustjacket. First Edition. Dark Blue Cloth Covers; Covers are lightly rubbed at edges, corners and spine ends; White endpapers have tanned mostly at edges and spine gutter; front hinge has been repaired professionally; period inscription on free-front endpaper; illustrated; frontspiece, tissue separating frontspiece from Title Page and Title Page are foxed; book interior otherwise appears clean and tight; 16mo; 342 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No Edition Noted. Blue binding with gold-colored print on spine. Blind stamped edge lines and logo on cover. Translated from original French. Tight, sound and unmarked. Tan head edge. Spine is lightly darkened. 342 pages. One of broken set, see our #'s 3008 to 3012 for other volumes or #1626 for a complete set. Illustrated (illustrator).…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. . as pictured reprint edition, printing Very good condition hardcover, blue cloth gently read clean pages. gilt lettering, bright spine, war and glory etching,tissue guard frontispiece.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Waterloo: a Sequel to The Conscript of 1813. Book.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 6-7 days from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. First American edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st US edition. A Very Good or better copy. 12mo., 330 pp, with 8 pages of ads; illustrated with 8 b&w plates. Bound in the publisher's green cloth with title on the spine in gilt. Brown coated end papers. Very light shelf wear. Text is clean and bright. Hinges secure. A Very Good or better, attractive copy.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Volume two only (of six). Blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Near fine with light edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Volume three only (of six). Blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Very good with owner's name penned on front fly and the first page, light edgewear, spine slightly darker.

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Condition: New. In English.

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PF. Condition: New.

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Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 1900 Edition. 284 Pages. Copyright 1868 by Charles Scribner & Co. and by Charles Scribner's Sons 1869 and 1898. Blue cloth with very tight binding and tight, white pages. Previous owner's ex-libris pasted on front endpaper. The appearance of a book read once and stored away properly. In this historical fiction the authors take up the tragic story of Joseph Bertha, who tells the affecting and exciting story, is snatched away from his betrothed and his peaceful trade by the conscription, and his individual experiences in the campaign are interesting, from the point of view of romance. The authors begin their long, sustained, and eloquent sermon against war and war-wagers of their arraignment of Napoleon for wanton and insatiate love of conquest. The Conscript is certainly one of the most impressive statements of the darker side of the national pursuit of military glory that have ever been made. The first part of the book is taken up with a vivid and pathetic account of the passage of the grande armee through Alsace on its way to Moscow and the Beresina, of the anxious waiting for news of the battles that succeeded, of the first suspicions of disaster and their overwhelming confirmation, of the final rout and awful straggling retreat and return of the great expedition, and its demoralized and harassed entry within the national frontiers once more. The second and major portion narrates the rude surprise of the continuation of warfare and the still more fatal campaign which opened so dubiously with Lutzen and Bautzen, and culminated so disastrously in Leipsic and the capitulation of Paris. This is a story of romance in the background of war. Certainly, war, in the minutia, of its reality, has never been more graphically painted than in The Conscript of 1813. List of Illustrations: War and Glory Frontispiece covered with onion skin, Monsieur Goulden, The Dragoon Fell Heavily, Come My Children to Table, Who Goes There, They Related with Majestic Air Their Battles Their Marches and Their Duels, Look Yonder, Close Up The Ranks, Everything Gave Way Before Him, We Saw Him Standing On a Table, In the River the Dead were Floating by in Files, and Halt Stop.…