quo vadis narrative time nero di henryk sienkiewicz translated jeremiah curtin (8 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Special Edition. Fair to good condition. Spine tips and cover corners are bumped and rubbed. Covers are dull. Hinges are starting to crack. 541 pages plus eight illustrations and 12 pages of publisher ads.

Cloth. Condizione: G/No Dustjacket. Not Illustrated (illustratore). Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. G/No Dustjacket. 1897. . Cloth. 8vo., 541, 4 pp., rubbed, bumped, soiled, shaken, page toning, flyleaf cut out .

hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Boston, 1897. Volume One only. Blue cloth covered boards with gold titles; edges worn; cloth jacket with paper backing, now worn and fraying at edges; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; first signature partially detached; page 15 is detached but present; toning to page edges; some spotting found on illustrations and tissue guards; all illustrations are present; 355 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Popular Edition in green cloth binding. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 541 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Quo Vaidis is Latin which means "Where are you Going?" The original work was published in 1896 in Polish. This translation is 564 pages in English with a brown leatherette binding and a red ribbon marker. There is a slight touch of wear at the head and tail of the spine and at cover corners. Interior is clean, tight and bright. I am unable to pinpoint the year of publication. A quite nice copy; available for immediate shipment, carefully packed in a sturdy box!

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated (illustratore). Very well cared for antique book; no interior writing or markings, binding is strong. Some soiling and wear to the cover. Book.

8vo. 7.75 x 5.5 inches. [viii] + 542 + [1] pp. + [1] pp. colophon. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with gilt block of cross on front board. Extremities a little worn including head and tail of spine, which has some fading, and spotting on front board. Flyleaves browned and page edges foxed; otherwise a very good copy. Gift inscription on third free endpaper. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature, protected by tissue guard, and by facsimile on verso of title. Early English translation of the internationally famous novel, by the Nobel Prize winning author, Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916), best known in his native Poland for his historical novels set in the time of the seventeenth century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Quo Vadis, first published in Warsaw in book form in 1896, takes place in ancient Rome at the time of the emperor Nero around AD 64. It relates the persecution of early Christians and features many actual historical characters, culminating in the martyrdom of St Peter. English translation by Jeremiah Curtin (1835-1906), US ethnographer and translator of several Sienkiewicz novels. FICTION NOVELS LIT. FICTION EASTERN EUROPE ANCIENT CHRISTIAN FICTION.

Hardcover. Vintage Copy. Good- in boards. Lending library edition with the usual markings. Hinge starting. Edgewear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.