Memoirs of Hadrian
by Yourcenar, Marguerite
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Dust jacket in fair condition, price clipped; tears and small sections missing, marked and shelf tanned. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Binding tight, clean pages with light tanning and minimal foxing throughout. Previous owners name and date in pen.
Memoirs of Hadrian is a novel by the Belgian-born French writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of the Roman Emperor Hadrian.
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Synopsis
Memoirs of Hadrian is a novel by the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of Roman Emperor Hadrian. The book was first published in France in French in 1951 as Mémoires d'Hadrien, and was an immediate success, meeting with enormous critical acclaim. The historical Hadrian did write an autobiography, but it has been lost. The book takes the form of a letter to Hadrian's cousin and eventual successor "Mark".
Reviews
On Nov 10 2014, a reader said:
This book was first published in the early 1950s. I bought it because I found a copy published in 1963 that is beautifully made - laid paper, full cloth binding with a vellum spine and I wondered what a copy from 10 years earlier was like. The writing is excellent, a creative approach to the subject.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book Warren (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10000311
- Title
- Memoirs of Hadrian
- Author
- Yourcenar, Marguerite
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 0.88 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Book Warren
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Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway
About The Book Warren
Located near to Mennock Pass, The Book Warren Bothy is now an online and by appointment, bricks and mortar shop. We sell vintage and antique titles as well as a curated selection of new books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.