Quo Vadis: A Tale of the Time of Nero (Altemus' Edition)
Language: English
Published by Henry Altemus, Philadelphia, PA, 1897
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Books by White/Walnut Valley Books, Winfield, KS, U.S.A.Books by White/Walnut Valley Books
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Condition: Used - Very good
£ 15.56
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Henry Altemus, Philadelphia, PA. c1897. Hardcover. Edition/Printing is not stated. Having gray boards, it is listed on the Henry Altemus Company website as a Format 1 (earlier). Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for scattered vertical pencil lines next certain passages in the book. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; light soiling to boards. No DJ. Gray cloth boards and spine with bright silver and blue lettering on the spine and front board; silver illustration on the front board. Clean internals. Tinted textblock top. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 515 pp 8vo. This book is a famous historical novel by Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, set in ancient Rome during Emperor Nero's reign (c. AD 64–68). It tells the story of a Roman patrician, Marcus Vinicius, who falls in love with a Christian woman, Lygia, and through her, comes to embrace Christianity amidst the persecution of believers, culminating in the Great Fire of Rome. The novel explores themes of love, faith, and the conflict between Roman paganism and early Christianity, and it contributed to Sienkiewicz winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905. A clean very presentable copy.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Quo Vadis: A Tale of the Time of Nero (Altemus' Edition)
- Author
- Henryk Sienkiewicz, Author; Dr. S.A. Binion and S. Malevsky, Translators
- Publisher
- Henry Altemus, Philadelphia, PA
- Publication year
- 1897
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- M. De Lipman
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Historical Fiction, Religion, The Ancient World
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