About this title: First published in French in 1974 under the title 'Souvenirs Pieux', DEAR DEPARTED is the first volume of a trilogy by Marguerite Yourcenar, one of the most celebrated French writers of the century, devoted to her own origins and background. Yourcenar describes the events surrounding her birth in 1903, then takes us back through the centuries to meet her mother's forebears: soldiers, essayists, idealists, heroines, even ambassadors. Throughout, the history of the family serves as a window on the history of a rapidly-changing Europe.Using memoirs, letters and momentos, Yourcenar richly evokes ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Book has some water damage, but book is still completely readable. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. VG/VG. Very Good Hardcover book with Very Good Dust Jacket. Binding tight and straight. Pages clean and unmarked. read more
Description: Royal octavo, hardcover, near fine quarter-bound in two tone avocado green boards and cloth in near fine green pictorial dj. Translated fromt he French by Maria Louise Archer. 332 pp. plus author's notes and translator's notes. She brings long dead people to life and vanished milieux--historical and literary imagination. The history of a family gives the history of Europe. read more
Description: Very Good. 0374135541 Fine/Fine in Mylar DJ, First Edition, B000E8DDB6 (Edition: )...All books are packaged with care to protect the corners. Ships same or next bussness day. read more
Description: Very Good. 0374135541 Fine/Fine in Mylar DJ, First Edition, Price intact, Not a remainder (Edition: First Edition)...All books are packaged with care to protect the corners. Ships same or next bussness day. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780374135546ISBN:0374135541
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 346 p. Audience: General/trade. Stated first edition. Includes photographs. The pages are clean with no damage. The cover is light green with darker green spine. At one time the dust jacket was glued to the inside of the cover. There is damage at all to the jacket, but you can see some glue residue inside the cover. The jacket has light surface wear and a little wrinkling at the spine ends. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
ISBN-13:9780374135546ISBN:0374135541
Description: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in NF DJ. Price Intact. Light shelf wear to DJ. Overall a clean and tight copy to add to a collection or to read and enjoy. Dust jacket protected with a new archival cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991. read more
Description: Like New. Hardcover w / dustjacket. Like new; no internal markings; has lost its "Brand New" shine but no obvious defects. DJ is nearly fine. No remainder mark; no pricing stickers. In sealed plastic protection. 1991. Hardcover w / dustjacket. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1991
Description: Good. Good +/Very Good 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall c. 1991, olive bds. w/d.j., illus., 346pp., (lt. wear to head+heel of spine+edges+corners bumped, bds. somewhat bowed, previous, price written inside front cover, spine somewhat cocked, d.j. : lt. rubbed, book store sticker on lower spine) read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780374135546ISBN:0374135541
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-8"-9" Tall. Quarter green cloth binding. Clean, sharp, no markings. 346 pp. Photos. Translated by Maria Louise Ascher. Dust jacket in fresh protective mylar. read more
Edition: First Edition Thus; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, NY
Date Published: c. 1991
Description: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. Brief gift note on ffep, else Binding, DJ and Contents are almost like new.; Green cloth spine, bright gold lettering. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Originally published in French as SOUVENIRS PIEUX in 1974. This translation is by Maria Louise Ascher. The autobiograhy of one of the most celebrated French writers of the 20th century. "An autobiography? Yes, but an unexpeced one-less a chronicle of the author's life than an inquiry into time, change, and the meaning of the ... read more
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