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Marius, the Epicurean (Everyman's Library #903)
by PATER, Walter
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
London/ New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd./E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. A 1966 reprint of the 1934 issuance. An Everyman's Library reprint edition of Walter Pater's novel of ancient Rome, first published in 1885. With an introduction by Osbert Burdett. Everyman's Library #903, an entry in EL's Fiction series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full green cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling and gilt interlocked "EL" in script at tail of spine; orange topstain. Volume wrapped in green dust jacket with Paul Hogarth drawing to front panel. --- With prior owner's signature to front free endpaper and faint diagonal streaking to front cover cloth, otherwise a clean, tightly-bound copy. Jacket with very slight chafing to edges, else bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall) ; xviii, 267 pages .
Synopsis
Marius the Epicurean is a philosophical novel by Walter Pater (published 1885), set in the Rome of the Antonines. It elaborates Pater's ideal of the aesthetic life, his cult of beauty tempered by asceticism, and his theory of the stimulating effect of the pursuit of beauty as an ideal in itself.
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85354
- Title
- Marius, the Epicurean (Everyman's Library #903)
- Author
- PATER, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd./E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- London/ New York
- Date Published
- 1966
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About Bluebird Books
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
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- New
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- Good+
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Gilt
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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