For Sale Reprint

First Edition 1st edition, [vi] + 123 pp., original gilt lettered blue cloth, all edges gilt. Minor foxing to edges. Armorial bookplate of one Sir Philip Rose. A very good copy with only minor rubbing.

Condition: Near Fine - in Near Fine DJ. :: Further Information: This novel is based on people known to have lived in Pompeii at the time of the earthquake. The houses of Diomedes, Pansa, Calenus and Sallust have been excavated and can still be seen.Illustrated with B&W photographs, maps and drawings. (Out of Print) Weighs 0.625 Kg. which exceeds standard rates. ::

ID 44790 Tipo de encadernação: brochura Estado de conservação: regular Capas e lombada um pouco gastas. Dano na junção da capa com a lombada. Lombada com reforço de fita adesiva. Margens escurecidas pelo tempo. Algumas páginas com manchas do tempo. Miolo em bom estado.Literatura estrangeira: Romance épico.

London - s/data - 408 págs.

Cloth, VG. 448pp, b/w frontis, cloth a little rubbed, a nice copy. ~ reprint. ~ Early moralistic novel by the owner of Knebworth estate. He later said that out of his study of metaphysics and ethics 'grew the character of Algernon Mordaunt . . . as a type of the Heroism of Christian Philosophy -- an union of love and knowledge placed in the midst of sorrow, and laboring on through the pilgrimage of life, strong in the fortitude that comes from belief in heaven'.

ID 160954 Tipo de encadernação: capa dura Estado de conservação: bom Capas e lombada um pouco gastas. Dano na junção da capa com a lombada. Miolo em bom estado. Manchas do tempo no corte. Literatura inglesa: Romance histórico. Pompéia.