About this title: A novel concerning fate, religion, and sensuality, set in Alexandria. Thais is a courtesan, enamored of Paphnuce, a hermit monk who is trying to convert her. Paphnuce is subconsciously obsessed with Thais. While Paphnuce successfully converts Thais and she becomes a female monk, he himself comes to realize his sensual love for her as a positive ...
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Edition: The Modern Library Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Modern Library, New York
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. 252 tightly bound and yellowed pages. Very nice copy with introduction by Hendrik Van Loon and translation by ernest tristan. Brown flexi-boards show only minimal shelf-wear, soilng, and bumping. Priced below like copies in similar condition. Name and dat in ink on title page. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Illustrated Editions Company, N. Y.
Date Published: 1932
Description: Illustrated. Good. No Jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The hard cover has light shelf wear...The pages has light yellowing.........The book may have minor flaws that may have gone unnoticed.... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Book League
Date Published: 1939
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Cloth over boards, . 188 p. Audience: General/trade. This sturdy copy was little used. Pages clean, unmarked and bright (cream colored). Binding is tight although the flyleaf page and the hinge a little pulled on bottom, some age tanning on pastedowns. The attractive navy blue cloth boards are clean, the gilt printing is clear but a bit faded, corners are square. This is a nice book, crisp and gently used! read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Illustrated Editions Co, New York
Date Published: 1931
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" GOOD hardcover, black spine, burgundy boards, spine is lightly faded, binding tight, interior pages clean, unmarked, no wear. Black and white illustrations. Classical Christian and Jewish religious literature. 183 pgs. LC702588. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Illustrated Editions / The World Publishing Company
Date Published: 1931
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Tight spine, some cover and edge wear and no markings, except for an older, small price on the first page (FFEP). Light soiling to the cloth covers and a bit of rubbing to the gold on the spine. No dust jacket. Fiction. (#HN100) read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Good+; The University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780226259895ISBN:0226259897
Description: Small 8vo 7½"-8" tall Creasing in some bottom page corners in text; light soiling on back cover; a little staining on bottom page edges; 183 pages. read more
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