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Quo Vadis": A Narrative of the Time of Nero [Two Volume Set]

Quo Vadis": A Narrative of the Time of Nero [Two Volume Set]

Quo Vadis": A Narrative of the Time of Nero [Two Volume Set]
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Quo Vadis": A Narrative of the Time of Nero [Two Volume Set]

by Henryk Sienkiewicz; Jeremiah Curtin [trans.]; Howard Pyle et al [illus.]

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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1897. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1897. New Edition. Two volumes; thick octavos; publisher's pictorial gilt-stamped cloth in original dark blue cloth dust jackets, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilt, deep maroon glazed endpaper; x,355; vi,352pp.; frontispieces, twenty-nine (29) leaves of plates including colored maps (collated complete). Light shelf wear, spines slightly cocked, else a Very Good, quite brilliant set in the unusual publisher's cloth dust jackets.

First American illustrated edition of the Polish author's historical novel, adorned with maps of ancient Rome, and photogravures from paintings by Howard Pyle, Edmund H. Garrett, and Evert Van Muyden.

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Bookseller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
28531
Title
Quo Vadis": A Narrative of the Time of Nero [Two Volume Set]
Author
Henryk Sienkiewicz; Jeremiah Curtin [trans.]; Howard Pyle et al [illus.]
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Place of Publication
Boston
Date Published
1897
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May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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