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Two Lives and a Dream
by Marguerite Yourcenar
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374280193
- ISBN 13
- 9780374280192
- Seller
-
Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
First American hardcover edition, published by Farrar, Strais and Giroux, 1987. Translated from the French by the author with Walter Kaiser. The dust jacket is not price clipped. Not a remainder copy. A collection of three novellas, all of which are set in the late Renaissance; 'An Obscure Man', 'Anna..Soror'. Also includes a lengthy 'Postfaces' section in which the author discusses each work. Red-brown boards over black cloth covered spine, with the title and author imprinted on the spine in gold. Boards are flat and the corners are not bumped or creased. No edge wear. sewn binding is tight and square. Edges of the text block show a couple dots of staining - one to the fore edge about the size of a pencil point, one to the top edge about the size of a sesame seed. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Jacket has been protected with a clear, removable cover. Attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory, not a stock photo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21-457
- Title
- Two Lives and a Dream
- Author
- Marguerite Yourcenar
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374280193
- ISBN 13
- 9780374280192
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus And Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- LGBT, France
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature in Translation; France; LGBT;
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
Biblio member since 2015
Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
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- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Text Block
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