New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. [c.1957-59]. Hardcover. Emil Ludwig's popular biography of Napoleon Bonaparte in a Modern Library reprint edition. Mr. Ludwig (1881-1948) was a German Jew who emigrated to Switzerland in 1906 and later to the United States. Translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul. Indexed. Volume in jacket with silhouette of Napoleon & image of his sword and hat. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 379 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1957-59 (though 1953 publication date appears in book). ML #95.2. --- With spotting to topstain and slightly loosened binding, else a sound, unmarked copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with chipping, small tears along edges, light soiling and with sunning to spine, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xi, 703, [2, ads] pages .

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Bookseller: Bluebird Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 88406
Title: Napoleon (Modern Library #95.2)
Author: LUDWIG, Emil
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
Publisher: The Modern Library / Random House
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: [c.1957-59]
Bookseller catalogs: >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir; >>European History;

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Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
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...
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Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....

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