Author: Gustave Flaubert
Title: Salammbo
Description: Paris, Editions de Cluny , 1937. Leather. A lovely copy of Flaubert's incendiary historical novel in charming half morocco binding. A violent and sensual novel set in Carthage during the third century BC, before and during the Mercenary Revolt shortly after the First Punic War. The novel was enormously popular when first published and is credited to have renewed interest in the history of the Roman Republic's conflict with the North African Phoenician outpost of Carthage.Originally published in 1862. This is a modern 1937 edition from Editions de Cluny of Paris, volume four in the 'Bibliotheque de Cluny' series. Gustave Flaubert was an influential French novelist in the nineteenth century, considered to be a leading exponents of literary realism. Original publisher's wraps bound in with the volume. Rebound in quarter straight up grain morocco over paper covered boards, new marbled endpapers. Externally lovely with only light fading to back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .
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Title: Salammbo
Description: Paris, Editions de Cluny , 1937. Leather. A lovely copy of Flaubert's incendiary historical novel in charming half morocco binding. A violent and sensual novel set in Carthage during the third century BC, before and during the Mercenary Revolt shortly after the First Punic War. The novel was enormously popular when first published and is credited to have renewed interest in the history of the Roman Republic's conflict with the North African Phoenician outpost of Carthage.Originally published in 1862. This is a modern 1937 edition from Editions de Cluny of Paris, volume four in the 'Bibliotheque de Cluny' series. Gustave Flaubert was an influential French novelist in the nineteenth century, considered to be a leading exponents of literary realism. Original publisher's wraps bound in with the volume. Rebound in quarter straight up grain morocco over paper covered boards, new marbled endpapers. Externally lovely with only light fading to back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .
Keywords: gustave flaubert french literature rebound world literature french literature None
Price: GBP 60.00 = appr. US$ 85.68 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 860A49
- Book number: 860A49
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