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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1ST Edition, EARLY Printing, 1930, VG+/GOOD+ , 175 TITLES ON BACK OF DUSTJACKET WITH Pre Zip Code Coupon UNDATED but indicating a 1930 printing & 95 CENTS. , Here is an attractive VERY early copy of a highly collectible title. Bound in GREEN flexible cloth with gold Gilt Streamer Man on front (spine #5) the book is in VG+ condition with minor wear to spine extremities. Solid binding, very bright gilt, attractive, matching topstain FADE. Contents are clean with SLIGHT yellowing to pages. DUSTJACKET is GOOD+ with chipping at spine extremities and corners & edges. A few small chips at top edge. Partial split to the rear endflap has been internally repaired with acid-free archival tape. Small 4 1/4 X 6 1/2 in. SPINE CVR SHOWS GOLD GILT TITLE At Top & Grape Vine Plant at Btm, 384 PGS ,Historical and philosophical novel by Walter Pater (his only completed full-length fiction), set in 161-177 AD, in the Rome of the Antonines. Explores the intellectual development of its protagonist, a young Roman of integrity, in his pursuit of a congenial religion or philosophy at a time of change and uncertainty that Pater likened to his own era , The narration is third-person, slanted from Marius's point of view, added to which are various interpolated discourses, ranging from adaptations of classical and early Christian writings to Marius's diary and authorial comment.