About this title: Flaubert's costume drama is set in Carthage in 146 B.C., at the end of the Punic Wars. A best seller in its day, it has been made into an opera and become a cult favorite.
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Edition: FirRST EDITION
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: BRENTANO'S
Date Published: 1919
Description: READING COPY. No Jacket. FICTION. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. MAROON BOARDS HAVE A 2 INCH TEAR AT SPINE AND RUBBING AT COVER EDGES. A STORY OF ANCIENT CATHAGE. BRENTANO'S PUB. EDITED BY DORA KNOWLTON RANOUS. 394 PPS. FORMER OWNERS GIFT NOTE ON FRONT END PAPER. TEXT IS CLEAN AND SECURE. read more
Edition: 1st printing.
Binding: Softcover. (7 3/8" x 5"). 394 pages.
Publisher: Albert & Charles Boni., Bonibooks, New York.
Date Published: 1930 (c1919).
Description: Good digest size paperback. Edited by Dora Knowlton Ranous. Cover art by Vera Bock. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Albert & Charles Boni, New York
Date Published: 1930
Description: Bock Vera (cover) Very Good in No Dustwrapper jacket. 12mo. A Bonibook of 394 clean unmarked pages of English language text including an appendix. Bound with bright pink endpapers and thin card covers, 7 1/4" tall, having titles and design by Vera Bock back and front. Cover dusty with a little rubbing to the spine edges. read more
Edition: FIRST THUS
Binding: TRADE PAPERBACK
Publisher: Albert and Charles Boni, New York
Date Published: 1930
Description: GOOD PLUS. Former owner's signatures inside card cover and front endpaper. Very cool art-deco cover by Vera Bock., noteworthy Russian-American artist and illustrator. A little wear to spine, but nice condition. Carthage--destroyed by the Romans in the year 6 B.C.E., to this day retains its image as the site of mass ritualistic murder of infants, a practice which the ancient Carthaginians did little to conceal. Archaeologically borne-out by repeated researchers and excavations, this center of ... read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Albert & Charles Boni, New York
Date Published: 1930
Description: Very Good. 7-1/2" x 5" Edited by Dora Knowlton Ranous. 394 pp. Tan paper wraps with brown and yellow design on covers by Vera Bock. Orange colored endpapers. Small owner's signature at top of FFEP. Spine is tanned. No creases, tears or folds to covers. Interior is clean and binding is tight. Flaubert's second book, (the first was Madame Bovary), an historical romance ragarded by many critics as his greatest work. With an appendix containing the text of Flaubert's 1862 letter responding to the ... read more
Description: Good. 4to. Buckram Hardcover, 1930. The usual ex-library treatments are present. Limited Edition, 800 copies, of which this is no. 348 pages, rebound in a brown buckram cover. The textblock is excellent, tight and square, and the pages are bright, clean and intact. Offered by the Antiquarian, Rare, and Collectable Books section at Better World Books. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed. Join the more than 2.8 million customers who have supported global literacy with their book purchases. read more
Edition: Limited Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Brown House, NY
Date Published: 1930
Description: Illustrated by King, Alexander. VG/NONE. Brown leather, silver pg edges. Limited edition #681 of 800 copies, including 18 full page plates. Pg edges are somewhat darkened, and a touch on top pg edge of front /rear fep. Lt extremity rubbing/scratches and a couple small stain spots.; Numerous illustrations; Oversized; 348 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Brown House, New York
Date Published: 1930
Description: Illustrated by Alexander King. Both boards detached and present. Internally fine.; small folio; full-leather; #66 of a limited edition of 800; can be rebound with great success. read more
Edition: Limited/Numbered
Binding: Full-Leather
Publisher: The Brown House., New York.
Date Published: 1930
Description: Quarto (12.75in x 9.5in) full calf leather with silver titling to spine. All edges silver. 348pp. 18 full page plates and marginal line drawings to most pages. A limited edition of 800 copies, of which this copy is numbered 499. Leather is scuffed and is rubbed to head and heel of spine. There are short tears to the head of the spine. A previous catalog entry for this book is pasted to the head of the endpaper. Internally clean and Vg. read more
Binding: leather
Publisher: Brown House, New York
Date Published: 1930
Description: Very Good in Very Good slipcase with some sunning on outer edge. Folio (9-1/4" x 12-1/4") bound in full brown calf, all edges silver. Illustrated by Alexander King with 18 color plates and numerous marginal drawings. Translation by J. S. Matthews. Copy #513 of 800 copies designed by George Macy, who had recently initiated the Limited Editions Club, and printed by Fred Anthoensen at The Southworth Press. Typical discoloration and rubbing to the spine which is a little dry but not very bad at ... read more
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