Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
by Mary Beard
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0871404222
- ISBN 13
- 9780871404220
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2023. New. F/F. A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by a world-famous classicist. First Edition. First printing with number line starting in 1. Signed by Mary Beard on the publisher's bound-in page. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Includes illustrated endpapers, photos, maps, chronologies, and index. The dust jacket is unclipped ($39.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 512 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall. Black Friday special from Barnes and Noble.
Emperor of Rome explores the facts and fiction of these rulers of the ancient Roman world, asking what they did, why they did it, and why their stories have been told in the extravagant, sometimes lurid, ways that they have. It looks at big questions of power, corruption, and conspiracy.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4507
- Title
- Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
- Author
- Mary Beard
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0871404222
- ISBN 13
- 9780871404220
- Publisher
- Liveright Publishing Corporation
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2023
- Pages
- 512
- Size
- 6.5 x 9.5
- Keywords
- roman empire, ancient history, mary beard, julius caesat
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- First Editions; Signed Books;
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